Comments for vince's ear http://www.vincesear.com Sat, 20 Sep 2008 08:59:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 Comment on 10 Ways To Boost Your Creativity by Rich Life Carnival #11 | Your Finish Rich Plan - A Personal Finance Blog http://www.vincesear.com/10-ways-to-boost-your-creativity/comment-page-1/#comment-3238 Rich Life Carnival #11 | Your Finish Rich Plan - A Personal Finance Blog Sat, 20 Sep 2008 08:59:02 +0000 http://www.vincesear.com/10-ways-to-boost-your-creativity/#comment-3238 [...] Kretschmer presents 10 Ways To Boost Your Creativity posted at vince’s ear, saying, “Looking for a creative edge? Use these 10 tips to [...] [...] Kretschmer presents 10 Ways To Boost Your Creativity posted at vince’s ear, saying, “Looking for a creative edge? Use these 10 tips to [...]

]]> Comment on 10 Scariest Paintings: #9, The Isenheim Altarpiece by michael alexander http://www.vincesear.com/scariest-paintings-isenheim-alterpiece/comment-page-1/#comment-2180 michael alexander Thu, 04 Sep 2008 10:13:17 +0000 http://www.vincesear.com/scariest-paintings-isenheim-alterpiece/#comment-2180 wow, i have been looking for a place like this for some time a very interesting place to hang out and soak up knowledge and opinions that go where i want to go, i love art in the way others love food, it feeds something in us all and as for this particular piece. Spooky man..spooky. You have to wonder just what the artist really saw in his minds eye. I wonder if we could who would have the heart to look inside at his mindscape. hell i would!!! just to say i have been there. wow, i have been looking for a place like this for some time a very interesting place to hang out and soak up knowledge and opinions that go where i want to go, i love art in the way others love food, it feeds something in us all and as for this particular piece. Spooky man..spooky. You have to wonder just what the artist really saw in his minds eye. I wonder if we could who would have the heart to look inside at his mindscape. hell i would!!! just to say i have been there.

]]> Comment on Paintings of Hell by Hell Quiz http://www.vincesear.com/paintings-of-hell/comment-page-1/#comment-1162 Hell Quiz Tue, 12 Aug 2008 06:44:23 +0000 http://www.vincesear.com/paintings-of-hell/#comment-1162 great post with some awesome hellish paintings! If you're interested in Hell you should check out the Hell Quiz at: http://www.thehellquiz.com great post with some awesome hellish paintings! If you’re interested in Hell you should check out the Hell Quiz at: http://www.thehellquiz.com

]]> Comment on How To Paint: People by admin http://www.vincesear.com/how-to-paint-people/comment-page-1/#comment-1153 admin Tue, 05 Aug 2008 21:07:33 +0000 http://www.vincesear.com/?p=660#comment-1153 Fifi, be spontaneous! Arranging palettes just robs you of valuable painting time- you can add the colors to the palette as you need them. I find when I get overly prepared my paintings end up looking laborious and academic. Painting should never be a chore. Save the hard core brush cleaning until the very end. Just keep some odorless thinner nearby when going from color to color- you won't get every last bit out of the brush, so don't worry. (I saw a video of an artist who never cleaned her brushes- ever!) And yes, some people treat painting as a technical science, but it really isn't- there are only suggestions and recommendations. Some of the finest art has come out of innovation and improvisation. Make your paintings however you want. Fifi, be spontaneous! Arranging palettes just robs you of valuable painting time- you can add the colors to the palette as you need them. I find when I get overly prepared my paintings end up looking laborious and academic. Painting should never be a chore.

Save the hard core brush cleaning until the very end. Just keep some odorless thinner nearby when going from color to color- you won’t get every last bit out of the brush, so don’t worry. (I saw a video of an artist who never cleaned her brushes- ever!)

And yes, some people treat painting as a technical science, but it really isn’t- there are only suggestions and recommendations. Some of the finest art has come out of innovation and improvisation. Make your paintings however you want.

]]> Comment on How To Paint: People by fifi http://www.vincesear.com/how-to-paint-people/comment-page-1/#comment-1150 fifi Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:18:38 +0000 http://www.vincesear.com/?p=660#comment-1150 at last! the coded secret world of painting people is shared with everyday folk instead of being elevated into a mystic scientific language that keeps art separate from the masses. My visual arts degree is worthless because I still don't know how to paint and thats due to lecturers keeping the secret code of oil painting to themselves. Great article...look forward to more. I'm still getting in a mess with paint, arranging a palette, cleaning my brushes, using mediums (what the f is poppy oil?!) etc. Do I work on all the bits that are one colour then clean the brushes or dance around on the bits I fancy which means more cleaning...oil painting doesn't seem, so far, to be a spontaneous artform. at last! the coded secret world of painting people is shared with everyday folk instead of being elevated into a mystic scientific language that keeps art separate from the masses.

My visual arts degree is worthless because I still don’t know how to paint and thats due to lecturers keeping the secret code of oil painting to themselves.

Great article…look forward to more. I’m still getting in a mess with paint, arranging a palette, cleaning my brushes, using mediums (what the f is poppy oil?!) etc. Do I work on all the bits that are one colour then clean the brushes or dance around on the bits I fancy which means more cleaning…oil painting doesn’t seem, so far, to be a spontaneous artform.

]]> Comment on 10 Scariest Paintings: #6, Study of Innocent X by Renu Bariwal http://www.vincesear.com/10-scariest-paintings-6-study-of-innocent-x/comment-page-1/#comment-1140 Renu Bariwal Fri, 01 Aug 2008 04:27:49 +0000 http://www.vincesear.com/10-scariest-paintings-6-study-of-innocent-x/#comment-1140 impressed with the art works impressed with the art works

]]> Comment on 10 Ways To Boost Your Creativity by brain exercises http://www.vincesear.com/10-ways-to-boost-your-creativity/comment-page-1/#comment-1104 brain exercises Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:33:47 +0000 http://www.vincesear.com/10-ways-to-boost-your-creativity/#comment-1104 Sound advice. I'm a musician and composer and I've used meditation and visualization which works wonderfully. I've also been fascinated by the new idea that the brain is plastic and responds to specific training. If you haven't seen Susanne Jaeggi and Martin Buschkuehl's study on Training Working Memory (PNAS April 2008), you should check it out. Jaeggi and Buschkuehl's team recorded increases in mental agility (fluid intelligence) with a dual n-back progressive method. I've been using the training and I've found it's great for musical cognition, too. martin Sound advice.

I’m a musician and composer and I’ve used meditation and visualization which works wonderfully.

I’ve also been fascinated by the new idea that the brain is plastic and responds to specific training. If you haven’t seen Susanne Jaeggi and Martin Buschkuehl’s study on Training Working Memory (PNAS April 2008), you should check it out. Jaeggi and Buschkuehl’s team recorded increases in mental agility (fluid intelligence) with a dual n-back progressive method. I’ve been using the training and I’ve found it’s great for musical cognition, too.

martin

]]> Comment on 10 Scariest Paintings: #1, Saturn Devouring His Sons by Vik Muniz’s Caviar Bela Legosi… | Cherrybombed http://www.vincesear.com/10-scariest-paintings-1-saturn-devouring-his-sons/comment-page-1/#comment-1095 Vik Muniz’s Caviar Bela Legosi… | Cherrybombed Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:31:21 +0000 http://www.vincesear.com/10-scariest-paintings-1-saturn-devouring-his-sons/#comment-1095 [...] In the case of Saturn (above), Muniz used junk to create his own interpretation of Fransisco Goya’s original 1820 work. [...] [...] In the case of Saturn (above), Muniz used junk to create his own interpretation of Fransisco Goya’s original 1820 work. [...]

]]> Comment on Amazing Abstract Art by fergal http://www.vincesear.com/amazing-abstract-art/comment-page-1/#comment-1023 fergal Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:24:02 +0000 http://www.vincesear.com/amazing-abstract-art/#comment-1023 read Suzi Gablik's book 'Has Modernism Failed', you'll really enjoy it! oh and clement greenberg's 'Avant-garde and kitsch' these'll provide probably the best arguments for both sides of the discussion, with both making really really good points each, neither wins! read Suzi Gablik’s book ‘Has Modernism Failed’, you’ll really enjoy it!
oh and clement greenberg’s ‘Avant-garde and kitsch’
these’ll provide probably the best arguments for both sides of the discussion, with both making really really good points each, neither wins!

]]> Comment on 10 Scariest Paintings: #10, Adoration of the Magi by admin http://www.vincesear.com/scariest-paintings-bosch/comment-page-1/#comment-950 admin Sun, 18 May 2008 10:47:14 +0000 http://www.vincesear.com/scariest-paintings-bosch/#comment-950 Hey Teo, I definitely see what you mean about the two warring groups, and a likely reference to religious wars. Also of some interest is the whole painting which is actually a <a href="http://www.vincesear.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/bosch_prado_triptych_adoration_magi.jpg" rel="nofollow">triptych</a> (which I hadn't known before) and helps to show a little more landscape with people, as one commentator puts it, going about vain pursuits while ignoring the main event. As for the donkey and other characters I wouldn't say it's over thinking at all- it seems each one is very peculiar (see also Christ Carrying The Cross by Bosch). Hey Teo,

I definitely see what you mean about the two warring groups, and a likely reference to religious wars.

Also of some interest is the whole painting which is actually a triptych (which I hadn’t known before) and helps to show a little more landscape with people, as one commentator puts it, going about vain pursuits while ignoring the main event.

As for the donkey and other characters I wouldn’t say it’s over thinking at all- it seems each one is very peculiar (see also Christ Carrying The Cross by Bosch).

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