Tag Archives: Art Reviews

Scoring skies, scoring ice, scoring wax

Posted on December 19, 2013 by AnnIsikArts

This You Tube video is of artist Ben Hecht creating encaustic artworks, sharing his methods and his philosophy. When he is scoring into his surface, he reminds me of the scoring made by ice skates on ice. I’ve blogged already about how, when I used to do ice dance, I was always excited if first on the rink and thus first to score marks into the pristine surface of the ice. Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Encaustic Art, Inspiration, Mixed Media, Photography, Reviews, spirituality | Tagged Art Reviews, encaustic collage, encaustic landscapes, Encaustic painting, glider flying, hang gliding, ice dance, Ice dancing, landscape art, landscape painting, Peter Lanyon | Leave a comment

NaBloPoMo XVII: The Virtue of the Virtual

Posted on November 17, 2013 by AnnIsikArts

I visit a lot of artists and galleries, every week. This is due to the Internet. This is one of the Internet’s greatest achievements, I think: that creative people all round the world can make virtual visits to, share, each other’s work and philosophies. Such interaction would be impossible, physically. Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Inspiration, Painting, spirituality, Writing | Tagged Art, Art Reviews, Cubism, Dora Maar, Internet, NaBloPoMo, online art, online art galleries, Picasso, Spanish Civil War, Tate Britain, virtual reality, Weeping Woman | Leave a comment

NaBloPoMo VI: What is Art?

Posted on November 6, 2013 by AnnIsikArts

Art is a line around your thoughts. Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)

Aargh! Not the What is art? question again! Well, a few years it was posed (again) by (I think) The Guardian Online. I think it was a forum discussing that year’s (as usual, controversial) short list for The Turner Prize. As you can imagine, there were a lot of answers to the question. Some flowery ones which talked about agonies and ecstasies, some philosophical ones (questioning whether there is a painting in the gallery if there’s nobody there to look at it, and so forth). A lot of striking of poses. I decided to have my say and a couple of years later, prowling the Internet for one reason or another, I turned up the web page again and my answer: Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Inspiration, spirituality | Tagged Art Reviews, Byzantine art, Charles Johnson, Gustav Klimt, NaBloPoMo, Turner Prize, Vienna Secession | 8 Comments

Below the Line Project Study: Carrier of Light

Posted on October 14, 2013 by AnnIsikArts

“… the kind of art we shall need in the future is one that actualises the life of the soul…” Cecil Collins. Here’s another small (7″x5″) mixed media encaustic board I’ve been working on as part of my Below the … Continue reading →

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Art in Progress: A Birthday Card

Posted on September 18, 2013 by AnnIsikArts

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Art in Progress: Carrier

Posted on September 5, 2013 by AnnIsikArts

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Artist Review: Daevid Mendivil

Posted on August 19, 2013 by AnnIsikArts

I was recently commissioned (wearing my freelance writing hat) to write a review of the work of the young New York City based multi-disciplined artist Daevid Mendivil. His disciplines include dance, painting, photography, film & design. As a dancer, Daevid Mendivil … Continue reading →