Recent content by brianvds

Mannequin. Pencil sketch, 20 x 15 cm. Saw this wonderfully creepy clothing mannequin in a local mall, and simply had to take a reference photo for a sketch... :-)

Not a good week or two for famous musicians... Pianist Alfred Brendel dies aged 94 https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjmmmrl4mz7o

StLuke is truly a master of Artspeak. :-)

The early patrons would have been perfectly happy with AI-generated art... My own philosophy as well. I find the whole debate rather silly and pointless.

So what has been deleted: photography or its shadow?

''Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.'' --Ludwig Wittgenstein

What is a recorder other than a small organ pipe? :-) Just one more thing one can now watch on YouTube for free, that thirty years ago you would have been very lucky to see anywhere at all.

Rather like this one, though I think it would look better on a wall than on canvas... :-) Lady Pink (b Sandra Fabara, 1964) - Malcolm X, 1992. Spray enamel and acrylic on canvas, 127 x 116 cm. From the information at Gandalf's Gallery: Lady Pink, (born Sandra Fabara, in Ambato, 1964), is an...

One can always do a bit of both. I suppose there might also be a market for single pages of quotes, illuminated with decorations and illustrations; sort of a hybrid between a book and a painting. :-)

Indeed. I have tried to market hand-painted cards, at the same or even lower price than mass-produced ones, but it appears there's virtually no market. People now insist on a printed one. I admire anyone who can do poetry. My own attempts to even just understand it, let alone write any, have...

As do I: I download videos of live performances from YouTube, and watch/listen before sleep - very relaxing. :-)

As far as I am concerned, "fine art" is "art for art's sake", i.e. things like paintings intended to be hung on a wall, as opposed to illustration, in which pictures explain or enhance books, posters or advertisements. Obviously, there will be some grey areas and overlap in between, and one is...

I have seen it and read it, but decided to let the topic go, as the moderator requested we avoid falling down a political hole. So back to scammers I go. Artists seem to be uniquely vulnerable. My late uncle was an artist, long before the days of internet marketing and scamming. He had to work...

Yup, that's the problem: before long you won't necessarily even be able to tell whether it's a friend or family member. But systems to control this kind of thing also evolve; one may soon see AIs trained to control other AIs! Anyway, if needs be we can always switch off, tune out and return to...