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Understanding Art
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06.11.10THE GEOMETRICAL TRACING OF A PAINTINGFIGURE 1 : THE ALPHA WOMAN FIGURE 2: AFRICA SERIES 828 FIGURE 3: AFRICA SERIES 829 FIGURE 4: AFRICA SERIES 830 FIGURE 5: THE GEOMETRIC TRACING OF FIGURE 3 FIGURE 6: THE BLACK AND WHITE TRACING OF FIGURE 2. FIGURE 7: THE BLACK AND WHITE GEOMETRICAL TRACING OF REMBRANDT'S THE NIGHT WATCH. FIGURE 9: THE BLACK AND WHITE GEOMETRICAL TRACING OF ADREAN BROUWER'S THE FLAUTIST.
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02.07.10COMPARING TWO CALLIGRAPHERSNothing is more effective as a pointer, or more nourishing to the soul, than exposing a child to calligraphic greatness before he can understand what artistic greatness is. According to the academics, the "conventional wisdom" claims that a sense of beauty with regard to art is non-relative and non-objective. They claim that everything about art is so abstract! They claim that art is never specific, nor concrete. Such "conventional wisdom" may indeed hold true if you don't know who to ask about artistic greatness! At an academic setting, the art professor, who is essentially a blind man himself, -- hee, ...., ...
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06.03.09The assistant principalEither the Alpha Seer had never had any luck with the assistant principals in the world or they probably would say the same thing about me. It may seem like gross generalization to say all assistant principals in the world are the same,-- but wait, my friend : an assistant principal is an assistant principal! The person who assumes that role must be a perfect first jailer of your life. Then the High Priest in the guise of Confucius/Manus/Plato/Jesus/Jehovah/ Mohammad asserts his influence. Like gestapos in perfect coordination, the assistant principals conspired to build a prison to house ...
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05.31.09NOBEL PRIZE JOB: DRAWING WITH GEOMETRIC GROUND PLANFigure 1: SUMMER HILL SERIES 7 BRUSH AND INK THE ALPHA SEER Figure 2:LINOCUT WITH GEOMETRIC GROUND PLAN THE ALPHA SEER (Click on the picture to see the natural state of the linocut.) more on Nobel job Ben Lau Actually there is a story that goes with this work. One day an elementary sch... 12:12 PM (18 hours ago) Ben LauLoading... 12:12 PM (18 hours ago) show details 12:12 PM (18 hours ago) Reply Actually there is a story that goes with this work. One day an elementary school Assistant Principal saw this drawing and was she so very much thrown off her balance and thoroughly displeased! She ...
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05.10.09UNDERSTANDING ART THROUGH B&W COMPARISON( Click on ALL pictures in order to see their natural states ) Calligraphy by Master Mai, Master Fu, and Master Suen ( from top ) Master Suen: metaphor: 10 compactness: 10 form dignity: 10 precision: 10 orchestration 10 Master Mai: Metaphor: 8 compactness: 7.5 form dignity: 6.9 precision: 7 orchestration: 6 Master Fu: Metaphor: 7 compactness: 8.5 form dignity: 7 precision: 5 orchestration: 4.8 Tiziano Vecellio metaphor: 10 compactness: 10 form dignity: 10 complexity: 10 color: 6 humor: 7 Frans Hals metaphor: 9 compactness: 10 form dignity: 8 complexity: 6 humor: 7 Paul Cezanne metaphor: 9.5 Compactness: 10 form dignity: 10 invention: 10 complexity:10 humor: 6 Edvard Munch He offers you ...
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05.05.09WAHYANONEFAMILY FOUNDATION: understanding true art, . . .The Alpha Seer has set up a “million dollar job” by Picasso Versus one “2 million dollar job” by Knox Martin. Let’s "eyeball" each work set up side by side in Figure 2 below. SCORES Line quality scores: Picasso’s m Vs. Knox Martin’s 2m Alpha Seer's comment: Knox Martin’s lines come alive like black flames. They have come alive with such songs,-- dancing with such energy! Picasso’s lines are indeed strong, sturdy and wholesome but they are too somber–-like the weeping woman he is depicting,--those lines lack gaiety or humor. Composition scores: Picasso’s m Vs. Knox Martin’s 2m Alpha Seer's comment: This Picasso is figuro-centric, which means Picasso has placed a ton of attention ...
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04.21.09Wahyanonefamily Foundation’s latest endowment: geometric ground plan and integrity in Knox Martin’s artKnox's art can be traced back to the European tradition, which in turn inherits from ancient Egyptian and Greek Art, whereby a composition is built from the ground up, with the adoption of a geometric ground plan. Here I am trying to use curves and straights to indicate how that device works in the superb compositions of some of the greatest European Alpha Seers in the past. The constructions shown in the diagrams below are self-evident and self- explanatory enough,-- so any further thesis from me on this topic will be counter- productive. Additional theories or analysis can inevitably reinforce ...
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04.21.09WAHYANONEFAMILY FOUNDATION’S LATEST ENDOWMENT: 8 fine prints from the great Knox MartinKnox's art can be traced back to the European tradition, which in turn inherits from ancient Egyptian and Greek Art, whereby a composition is built from the ground up, with the adoption of a geometric ground plan. Here I am trying to use curves and straights to indicate how that device works in the superb compositions of some of the greatest European Alpha Seers in the past. The constructions shown in the diagrams below are self-evident and self- explanatory enough,-- so any further thesis from me on this topic will be counter- productive. Additional theories or analysis can inevitably reinforce ...
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04.17.09REPLY TO WAHYANONEFAMILY FOUNDATION C.E.O. MONTY F.Dear Monty, Your beautiful questions are answered as follows: first off, such a connotation as "concept in creation" is an imaginery event. There is no reality to it. The postmodernists and all the "ism" folks (impressionism, expressionism, pointilism, photo-realism, Pop art, Op art) are dead wrong precisely along that line of thinking. It is easy to fall into that trap because man have a well developed brain with the associative movement of the mind. The mind is not a thing but an electrical current-induced movement. It has a life of its own, computer like. This movement is pretty much quite independent of the ...
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03.28.09ESSAY BY THE GREAT KNOX MARTIN, in praise of the Alpha SeerShortly after teaching at the Yale Graduate School—I left because of interim politics—I find myself teaching at the Art Students League, my alma mater, with hilarity in kiddo plangent ricochets. Meeting with an extraordinary cross-section of so-called artists, painters, sculptors, poets, and people like others. Seeing a thousand people, gigs at other universities and schools—I meet Mr. Ben Lau at the Art Students League—sort of like James Joyce meeting Svevo-—in his classroom, reading his effort and proclaiming “Sir, you are a genius”—I let fall this intelligence on Ben. I have said of Ben, “If you fell off a ladder—and your brush hit the wall—it would be beautiful.”What gives me the status, position, altitude to ...
