Dog Ear

A few weeks ago, I saw an ad on Instagram for an R&B duo, Dog Ear. There was an incredible animation in the advertisement that led me to their page, where there were many more interesting animations. They reminded me of the How to Make Sushi animation that we had watched in class. They released…

Vija Celmins: To Fix the Image in Memory

Over the weekend, I took a bus up to New York and was able to make it out to the Vija Celmins retrospective at The Met Breuer. I was previously only familiar with her works depicting ocean waves, I was pleasantly surprised to see some of her other works, which contained depictions of war planes,…

Robert Henke: CBM 8032 AV

I saw a post on Instagram today showing a short clip of Robert Henke’s audio/visual performance CBM 8032, and I was incredibly intrigued by the concept. Having never heard of the artist before, I looked him up and found his website, which includes a lot of detail about the production and performance of this piece….

The Metaphysics of Notation

I came across a very interesting TED talk recently by Mark Applebaum, an experimental composer who sought to push the boundaries of the musical discipline and the way that we understand it. He briefly mentions his work, The Metaphysics of Notation, which is a piece of music that is notated using massive sheets of paper…

Music Inspired by Pointilism

As both a Radiohead and Blue Planet fan, this video immediately caught my eye. It discusses how Bloom from The King of Limbs was deconstructed and re-orchestrated in order to fit into a soundtrack for the documentary series. They used a technique they refer to as the “Tidal Orchestra”, which is inspired by Pointilism, the…

Pointilism

This past Saturday, I made a trip to the Barnes Foundation in Center City. I was particularly struck by the Georges Seurat works that were on display, especially The Ladies’ Man (L’Homme à femmes). Seurat is known for a painting technique that he developed called Pointilism, which utilizes many small dots of varying colors in…

Abstract: The Art of Design

Abstract: The Art of Design is a Netflix original series that highlights various modern designers and their artistic processes. I started watching a couple episodes this past weekend and find the show to be not only interesting but greatly inspiring as well. One episode that I found particularly awe-inspiring was the one on Olafur Eliasson,…

David Spriggs

David Spriggs is a contemporary artist that I discovered through Instagram this past summer. He creates with an original technique that utilizes transparent images layered on top of one another to create 3D installations. I find his work incredibly interesting because of the 3D textures he is able to create out of a multitude of…

Horace Pippin: From War to Peace

This weekend, I made a trip to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and discovered an artist with whom I had not yet been familiar with. Horace Pippin was a self-taught African-American painter who addressed topics such as war, race and politics. I was particularly drawn to his piece, The Getaway (pictured below), which depicts a…