Findings While Browsing Art

  Most Colombian artisans, some of them remain anonymous, sell their creations in plazas (public square in a city or town). Most clay sculptures are made and painted by hand. The clay sculptures, photographed for this project, portray Colombian Christian (Catholic) Churches' facades from different Colombian cities.  T hese sculptures were bought at the Plaza Santander in  Bogotá, C olombia, South America.  The sculptures sizes are from 3-4 ½ inches wide to 3-5½ inches high to ½-1 inch deep. t he sculpture images (16 in total) were set, one at a time, in a similar stage, lighting and taken with an iPhone camera at the same distance and eye level.  The images were transferred from the iPhone to the computer and then were edited by Adobe Photoshop. Each image underwent the process of cropping and reducing the image size to 875 x 875 pixels. The resolution of the images are 72 pixels according to the iPhone camera. The canvas size was set as 4000 pixels x 4000 pix...

  From the “Scavenger Hunt” slideshow, uploaded in the blog on February 4, 2021, two photographs, that were taken one minute apart on February 2, 2021, were chosen to undergo further edit. I was at the South bank of the Maumee River in downtown Toledo, Ohio. I took both photographs standing in the same place but aiming the camera to opposite directions: to the East (at 6:27 pm) and to the West (at 6:28 pm). I have chosen these two images, from a group of ten, because there is a sense of continuity of the scenery and in the compositional narrative. Both images face each other, two different bridges, crossing the Maumee River, sharing the same sky. The two photographs show a  city image devoid of human figures but with plenty of clues of their existence. Toledo, Ohio is inviting the viewer to enjoy in our own exploring and looking for art forms or “findings while browsing art” of the city’s landscape. The unedited photographs were taken with an iPhone camera for the slidesho...

  Toledo, Ohio Slideshow... Go to... Read More ...where you will find the slideshow ... Try to Find the Elements of Art:  Line, Shape: geometric and organic; Color: primary and secondary; Texture: smooth and rough; Space: positive and negative; and Form, and the Principles of Design:  Pattern: Contrast; Emphasis; Balance: symmetrical and asymmetrical; Rhythm: random and even; Movement; Unity; Variety; Scale; Harmony; and Proportion. Music: "Some Like it Fun" by Benny Sky

The above phrase is a quote from Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)  who wrote about the relationship between concept and form in regards to the philosophy of language. Joseph Kosuth borrowed this phrase to create his artwork.  Toledo, Ohio born artist Joseph Kosuth (1945), a pioneer of conceptual art, has been creating neon light words/phrase/sentence installations since the 1960s. "The Way in Which Language Signifies is Mirrored in Its Use" was installed at the Toledo Museum of Art (TMA), at the Libbey Court, in 2019 (TMA# 2019.69A-R).  What is our understanding of the artwork? Joseph Kosuth has used the walls of the museum as a canvas, where he wrote in neon white lights a phrase that contains, among others, three important words: way, language and mirror. The phrase is written in the South wall of the main meeting room of the second floor of the art museum. The artwork is hardly noticed unless one looks up towards the ceiling of the room.  What ...