Michael Brady
Mar 25, 2018
The flaw of “idea” or “political” art
The unavoidable trap of ”idea” art is several-fold: once the idea is conveyed and grasped, the actual work of art is left pretty much...
Michael Brady
Mar 25, 2018
Canons, guides, and rules
Perhaps it's like this aesthetics : canon : art :: rhetoric : grammar : language Both pictorial art and language are "free creative"...
Michael Brady
Mar 25, 2018
Art moralizes Nature; Nature demoralizes Art
There is no harmony, no discord, no visual balance, no fugual order, no split complementaries in Nature. There is just what is there. The...