Google+ is often the last on my social media check-out-what’s-happening list. Today I found a treasure on Mediha Halce’s post. Click here for the URL Have a soothing weekend. Julaina Kleist-Corwin Editor of Written Across the Genres Author of Hada’s Fog
Octavio Ocampo’s Surrealist Paintings Offer Two In One Optical Illusions
Octavio Ocampo is a Mexican surrealist painter born on February 28, 1943 in Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico. He also has studied acting, dancing, film and theater. Since 1976, Ocampo works only in painting and sculpture and at present primarily in the metamorphic style. He superimposes and juxtaposes “realistic and figurative details within the images […]
Edvard Munch's "The Scream"
Edvard Munch created four versions of “The Scream” in various media, three painted and one pastel. The latter was sold at a Modern Art action on May 2, 2012 for $119,922,600, the second highest price paid for a painting at auction. “The Scream” has been the target of several high-profile art thefts. In 1994, the […]
Edvard Munch’s “The Scream”
Edvard Munch created four versions of “The Scream” in various media, three painted and one pastel. The latter was sold at a Modern Art action on May 2, 2012 for $119,922,600, the second highest price paid for a painting at auction. “The Scream” has been the target of several high-profile art thefts. In 1994, the […]
The Rhetorical Device Ekphrasis
Ekphrasis is a rhetorical device in which one medium of art tries to relate to another medium by defining and describing its essence and form, and in doing so, relates more directly to the audience, through its illuminative liveliness. Any of the visual arts can be used to highlight the vividness of what is happening, […]
Quote by Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead said, “Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience.” Do you agree? Why or why not?
Pineterest Break
Taxes are done. I like to take quick breaks with Pineterest. If you like swans, check out my new pins on my Beauty Board at: http://pinterest.com/jkleistc/ Sample is from: peregrineprints.com and thank you to follower Kirsty Anderson on Pineterest for her Swan Board.