Mark Rothko: The Essence of Color

Mark Rothko’s works are some of the great achievements of how I think of  “abstract expressionism”.  If we think literally about these two terms in artistic terms we could define them as something like: Abstract = distilling, distorting, removing references to living things or objects. Highlighting the materials, shapes, colors

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Jazz
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Stuart Davis: “Hot Stillscape for Six Colors”

Stuart Davis Stuart Davis once remarked that he liked to paint to jazz, and Earl Hines was among his favorites. Once when he was painting to Hines, he realized he had been painting to the jazz improvisation! Here is an opportunity to reverse and repeat that exercise: to ‘paint music’

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Van Gogh IR Village
Immersive
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Immersive Van Gogh

This is a powerful, evocative and at times mind-blowing exhibit/artwork/set of immersive environments. It advances the audio-visual vocabulary of art, animation and musical narrative considerably, while also popularizing new tools and frameworks for artistic expression and group sharing. I liked a LOT of things about this show, and a lot

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Multimedia
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WELCOME On a Journey of Artistic DISCOVERY!

Welcome to Discover Arts, a site and evolving community of interest about new ways to perceive the arts.  We will be providing multimedia renderings, musical arrangements, and many other ways to experience and understand art forms.  Artistic gestures can inform each other when they occur together, so here we will

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