This is what the wind and snow has been laying down in front of me all day…
Tags: window geology
Archive for the ‘Art’ Category
December 5, 2009
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An Example of Intentional Design
By Robert Minto in Appreciation, Art, Blogging, DesignWhilst googling recipes for bacon-wrapped sirloin and listening to Leonard Cohen’s “Democracy,” I took a break (out of frustration that I have no mustard on hand…) and did some blog-design browsing. (Blog-design browsing involves surfing around one’s favorite blogs and the blogs they link to, mainly ignoring content in order to examine their layout, color, [...]
Tags: 1930s, 1950s, Aesthetic, Blog-design, colophon, current design, Desoeuvre, grid layout, hawley, leonard cohen, modernism, mustard, Pete Hawley, plan59, sans serif font
December 3, 2009
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Design Envy
By Robert Minto in Art, Blogging, DesignHaving personally gone through several dozen site redesigns in my (relatively) short stay in cyberspace—most of them prompted by comparing the appearance of my site to the much better appearance of other sites—I consider myself something of an authority on design envy.
I’m not yet an authority on design itself; but I consider my envy in [...]
Tags: abundance, chopin, coherence, critical mass, dysfunctionality, envy, good taste, jeremy denk, minimalism, minimalists, model design, national book critics, national book critics circle, simplicity, unfogged, utilitarianism, webpagesthatsuck
November 26, 2009
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The Spine as the “Seat of Artistic Delight”
By Robert Minto in Appreciation, Art, MusicAnother gem from Desiring the Kingdom. Smith quotes Vladimir Nabokov on reading Bleak House, for the purpose of demonstrating how embodied our imaginations are:
All we have to do when reading Bleak House is to relax and let our spines take over. Although we read with our minds, the seat of artistic delight is between the [...]
Tags: allusive, chromaticism, clementines, leonard cohen, melodic style, record player, shiver, shivers, shoulder blades, spines, vertebrates, vladimir nabokov
October 23, 2009
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Thoughts About “God in the Gallery” (Pt. 1)
By Robert Minto in Appreciation, Art, BooksIn some ways, Chapter 5 of Siedell’s God in the Gallery, entitled “Art Criticism” is prescriptively central to the book. One of Siedell’s foremost desires for concrete change involves replacing the Schaefferian and Rookmakerian vision of the Christian artist with a robust general engagement by Christians of art as it is. He argues that we [...]
Tags: art criticism, art world, biblical narrative, christian art, christian artist, christians, concrete change, contemporary art, Daniel Siedell, desires, god, God in the Gallery, liturgy, provocative ideas, sacrament, sacramentality, spiritual power, transformative
