Transform, Don't Replicate
Painting is our gravitational pull, grounding us, focussing us, accelerating us and draws us together by compelling us to work inside...
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stephen HORNSBY-SMITH
- Jul 17
The Opposite Of Deconstruction Is A Dialectic
It was created to contrast with absolutism but became itself a dogma that stifled debate by dissolute relativism ad infinitum....
- Jul 17
Paint is organic in contrast with ‘art pesticide’ of AI tech!
AI tech is advanced airbrushed poison to human imperfection and enlightenment. If you impose the frame and not emphasise what’s inside...
- Jul 17
Instinct And Freedom Enables Us To Look At Visual Things Creatively
Indeed, instinct and freedom allow us to look at great Paintings from stela Painters and ask our own set of questions: where did they...
- Jul 17
Free will by deviation and accident cannot be ironed out or legislated for!
Painters are the very best of imperfection and human disproportionality, and even if they could restrict it, they would fail to even...
- Jul 17
Let’s borrow an economic phrase. The Painter’s brush is the invisible hand of the Art world?
We're producers, developers and not just creators by mutual encouragement and open competition, guided by mutual endorsement and...
- Jul 17
This isn't a portrait, but it is ‘portraiture for our age’ in the 21st century?
Surrealism in the 20" century was largely disposed to experiencing the fictional in both hallucinatory and dystopian and utopian dreams. ...
- Jun 18
You can't stop change but you can stop progress
You can't stop change but you can stop progress, either by stasis or by regression, but only temporarily! People lose their way, either...
- Jun 18
Painting Is Still An Act Of The Metaphysical, Non-Linear Transference By Instant Contact
When from hand to brush to paint applied to canvas, a process of resistance from the canvas is engaged, literally and metaphorically. ...
- Jun 18
The Changing state of Painting by the adaptable migration of Paint
The changing state of Painting is transformative from its source as rock, to being processed into liquid and then after application onto...
- Jun 3
If Painting is a metaphor, let me explain why I'll use a metaphor to describe the Painting metaphor
Let me try to explain 'Painting Modernism' for today, as both in the 21s century and as a movement for the last 3 centuries: It has...
- Jun 3
Painting is the first thought, an attempt to upgrade the initial use of drawing with colour
Painting can tackle the sensorial and the sensual and can express the overload of visual information and the minimalist extraction of...
- May 23
There Is No Room
A canvas is normally open and offering possibilities without subject matter or stylistic imposition or dogmatic state (or anti-state...
- May 23
Welcome to all victims of Art over-definition.
Welcome to all victims of Art over-definition and embrace the pluralism and the magnitude of all Paintings made under the sun the moon,...
- May 8
Resistance of the Canvas
How or why do we choose to risk legitimacy or our Painting medium's insight and knowledge? By acknowledging that our medium is...
- May 1
Ashes and Dust - The Human Contact
Literally ashes to ashes, dust to dust we convert to paint that we daub on cloth and canvas etc as our connection to our ancestry in the...
- Apr 25
The contemporary disassociation and isolation of Art
Painting as an identity to solve the contemporary disassociation and isolation of Art and in Life a collaborative experience to share and...
- Mar 15
25 Points to Register
To distinguish between the concepts of a theoretical political thinker and an experimental political thinker: the former as a designer...
- Jan 20
Proportionality, the key to unlock pragmatism and not cynicism
Here's a reminder, don't wait until you're out of time on the last of the 7 stages in life (King Lear) to understand the purpose of life...
- Jan 18
Rethinking the Past to Removing the carnage of the future
Russian Marxist-Leninism clearly failed or was failed by its linear 'Dialectical Materialism' based upon a 'definitive' interpretation of...
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