Monthly Archive: April 2021

FRANKENTHALER TRANSPARENCY 0

FRANKENTHALER TRANSPARENCY

Helen Frankenthaler painted transparently. She diluted oil paint with turpentine. This resulted in the paint acting more like a stain on the canvas, as it soaked in. The result was her breakthru into a...

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SURVIVAL IN THE LANDSCAPE

Jay Appleton wrote, in 1975, an absolutely great meditation about how we interpret a visual landscape. He centers his thesis on what he terms Prospect-Refuge theory. -Prospect is the ability to see without being...