Here are a few talking point suggestions for those New Year’s Eve party “art discussions.”!
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All representational drawing and painting is from memory.
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If the Old Masters really had legitimate “secrets”, no one today would know what they were.
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Color is not a property of the environment.
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Mixing colors is physically impossible.
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A good deal of the oldest known “painting” involved tracing and stencils.
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What we understand colloquially (and functionally) as “art” is not limited to humans. It is also found among other species like Japanese Pufferfish, Bower Birds, and Bengalese Finches.
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The left-right/logical-creative brain divide is a myth.
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“Mindless copying” is not possible within a representational endeavor.
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The rule of thirds came from a guy that thought it was cool that a Rembrandt painting he liked consisted of 2/3rds shadow. It had absolutely nothing to do with points along intersecting lines.
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Images do not exist independent of a mind.
Enjoy!
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