Archives for category: •CREATIVE PROCESS

Optical illusions: Art?

I am not sure if I can explain why Optical Illusions are considered Art.

Perhaps,
because Optical Illusions make us to look at things from different points of view.

They help us to discover something new, unexpected and most of the time beautiful things.

So, I think that most of the Optical Illusions are considered Art because
they visually symbolize the broad meaning of -making- Art:

Categories art, OPTICAL ILLUSIONS, Uncategorized, •CREATIVE PROCESS

Change the dimensions /3

Simply by changing the scale (larger or smaller) of an object, you can make art…

How is Art made?

Categories art, dimension, SUBSTITUTE, •CREATIVE PROCESS

Attenzioni. From Venice.

We cannot know how the person next to you sees the world.

We are surrounded by endless visual stimuli.
Almost without realizing it
we (our senses + brain) arrange these images in order,
based on our experience
and
rejecting those that do not interest us.

Senses are like extensions of the brain:
sensors receptor ran by the brain.

Senses are our windows towards the world.

Some people’s job is to expand our windows,
highlighting interesting things in our everyday life,
making the world,
our lives
more interesting.

Have you ever tried to observe carefully the doorphones?

This what artist Blandine Minot has been investigating in her series of graphics ATTENZIONI,
inviting us to observe our daily life with curiosity,
going beyond the first impression.

“Because beauty can be anywhere, even where you least expect it.”

Exhibition in Corraini’s book shop until 08/11
121+
Via Savona 17/5
Milan

Tags Blandine Minot

Categories art, MIX, Uncategorized, •CREATIVE PROCESS

Constructing an object out of surprising materials: making art

Making art – sometimes – is very simple:

You can change the material of an object
or
You can change the scale (larger or smaller)
or
place the same object in a different context (“decontextualize” is how the art-cultured people called it).

It it quite funny if you think that for example children are doing this while learning from the “mistakes”.

And similar “mistakes” are called
art
by the same people who talk about decontextualization.

I’m not surprised if this makes contemporary art less attractive and enjoyable for the general public not in confidence with the art world.

Categories art, material, SUBSTITUTE, •CREATIVE PROCESS

Creativity and art

The dictionary has all the words to create poems, but it doesn’t contain any.

People with more general knowledge are not necessary more creative than others. A creative person is who makes connections.

Creativity is the ability to make relationship between two (or more) things.

Combining existing things in new ways is a mere expression of creativity, and it is what most of the artists (and children) do.

If everybody could have more free time to use (and express) their creativity, our definitions of art and artists would be completely different.

Categories art, ASSEMBLE-REPEAT, different parts, •CREATIVE PROCESS