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Can we over-cook a dialog about formal concerns in art; run headlong into dense jargon? Certainly.

Does this mean that any discussion of visual mechanics (or anything relating to art) is...

I enjoy your analogy, as long as we acknowledge that the visual mechanics of art might present as someone riding a bicycle in an unorthodox, perhaps even perplexing, manner.

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My experience in teaching photography has been that, whatever the reason, students tend to think about composition as 'framing', almost exclusively. (And in this way, rule of thirds or...

Ted does a pretty good job here presenting figure/ground relationship(s) and the general effect of 'simplification' in an approachable, conversational tone. As an academic with years addressing the...

@Docno
Certainly the polemic evidenced in Duchamp (and many other artists of the time) is not in dispute - this work was instrumental in shaping new ways to look at art. Postmodernism and...

Ultan you write: "The aim of these people and their patrons is to destroy the idea of beauty itself, of objectivity, of standards, of Western culture. It is a mode of warfare designed to atomize,...