Art Imitating Life,,,
Art Imitating Life,,,

Author: Ed Kramer

Publisher: theresmymind

Published: 2023-07-04

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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Artists and Critics have it backwards. Actually Art imitates Life. This debate has been ongoing for decades. The examples in the following pages will take a whimsical approach to the inspirations of works of art and try to recreate the feelings that the artist must have thought as he created his piece.This debate has a long history. In 1889, Oscar Wilde stated "Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life." Michelle Gaugy, art gallery owner and art critic has argued the same.I don't believe it does. Today, lets take a look at the concepts of art in general in a whole new light, and with a whimsical touch to the creativity of others.Art can be viewed in many ways. It has the power to inspire people to think, feel and act. It can express social issues, cultural values, and lead to changes in society. It can display human emotions in a creative manner. This relationship between art and life is interdependent and dynamic, and whimsical. "Art Imitating Life Imitating Art" is a dynamic and continual experience that is photographically portrayed in this work.

The Heebie-Jeebie Girl
The Heebie-Jeebie Girl

Author: Susan Petrone

Publisher:

Published: 2021-08

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9781611883091

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Youngstown, Ohio, 1977. After the closing of the city's largest steel mill and the worst blizzard in more than 40 years, unemployed Bobby Wayland tries to help his family. This means he needs to break the law. On the other side of town, a little girl named Hope keeps her ability to move things with her mind to herself. Watching over them is the city herself - and she has something to say and do about all of this.

The Decay of Lying
The Decay of Lying

Author: Oscar Wilde

Publisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof

Published: 2022-04-18

Total Pages: 39

ISBN-13: 8728104005

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Could it be that people who never lie are devoid of creativity? If that’s true, then all creative art must be founded in lies. ‘The Decay of Lying’ is a beguiling essay on the nature of art, in all its forms. Set in the library of a country house in Nottinghamshire, and written as a dialogue between Cyril and Vivian, ‘The Decay of Lying’ sets out to prove just how creative we can all be, as long as we defy societal conventions. Referencing everyone from the Ancient Greeks to Shakespeare, this is Wilde at his most thoughtful and mischievous. For anyone interested in art or witty debate. Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900) was an Irish novelist, poet, playwright, and wit. He was an advocate of the Aesthetic movement, which extolled the virtues of art for the sake of art. During his career, Wilde wrote nine plays, including ‘The Importance of Being Earnest,’ ‘Lady Windermere’s Fan,’ and ‘A Woman of No Importance,’ many of which are still performed today. His only novel, ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ was adapted for the silver screen, in the film, ‘Dorian Gray,’ starring Ben Barnes and Colin Firth. In addition, Wilde wrote forty-three poems, and seven essays. His life was the subject of a film, starring Stephen Fry.

How Life Imitates Chess
How Life Imitates Chess

Author: Garry Kasparov

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2010-08-10

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1596918276

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Garry Kasparov was the highest-rated chess player in the world for over twenty years and is widely considered the greatest player that ever lived. In How Life Imitates Chess Kasparov distills the lessons he learned over a lifetime as a Grandmaster to offer a primer on successful decision-making: how to evaluate opportunities, anticipate the future, devise winning strategies. He relates in a lively, original way all the fundamentals, from the nuts and bolts of strategy, evaluation, and preparation to the subtler, more human arts of developing a personal style and using memory, intuition, imagination and even fantasy. Kasparov takes us through the great matches of his career, including legendary duels against both man (Grandmaster Anatoly Karpov) and machine (IBM chess supercomputer Deep Blue), enhancing the lessons of his many experiences with examples from politics, literature, sports and military history. With candor, wisdom, and humor, Kasparov recounts his victories and his blunders, both from his years as a world-class competitor as well as his new life as a political leader in Russia. An inspiring book that combines unique strategic insight with personal memoir, How Life Imitates Chess is a glimpse inside the mind of one of today's greatest and most innovative thinkers.

Colored Pencil Painting Portraits
Colored Pencil Painting Portraits

Author: Alyona Nickelsen

Publisher: Watson-Guptill

Published: 2017-06-20

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 038534628X

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Colored pencil painter Alyona Nickelsen reveals how to use the medium to push the limits of realistic portraiture. Colored Pencil Painting Portraits provides straightforward solutions to the problems that artists face in creating lifelike images, and will prime readers on the intricacies of color, texture, shadow, and light as they interplay with the human form. In this truly comprehensive guide packed with step-by-step demonstrations, Nickelsen considers working from photo references versus live models; provides guidance on posing and lighting, as well as planning and composing a work; discusses tools, materials, and revolutionary layering techniques; and offers lessons on capturing gesture and expression and on rendering facial and body features of people of all age groups and skin tones.

On Art and Life
On Art and Life

Author: John Ruskin

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2005-09-06

Total Pages: 74

ISBN-13: 1101651148

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Includes two of John Ruskin's famous essays: "The Nature of the Gothic" and "The Work of Iron" from his book The Stones of Venice. Ruskin's insights into the need for individual artistic freedom, and his disdain for the mass-production art of the Victorian era, radically altered society's perception of creative design and remain powerfully relevant to our ideas of beauty today.

The Mirror of Pharos
The Mirror of Pharos

Author: J S Landor

Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd

Published: 2017-11-28

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 1788034155

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An action-packed, high concept, time-travelling adventure. Full of animal magic and with an epic wolf character. Linked to a website with ‘Meet the Character’ profiles, book excerpt and background stories

Heightened Genre and Women's Filmmaking in Hollywood
Heightened Genre and Women's Filmmaking in Hollywood

Author: Mary Harrod

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-05-24

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 3030709949

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Despite the widely publicised prejudice faced by women in Hollywood, since around 1990 a significant minority of female directors have been making commercially and culturally impactful films there across the full range of genres. This book explores movies by filmmakers Amy Heckerling, Nora Ephron, Nancy Meyers, Catherine Hardwicke, Sofia Coppola, Kimberly Peirce, Kathryn Bigelow and Greta Gerwig, including many which are still critically neglected or derided, seeing them as offering a new understanding of genre filmmaking. That is, like many other contemporary films but in a striking proportion within the smaller set of mainstream movies by women, this body of work revels in a heightened genre status that allows its authors to simultaneously address ‘intellectual’ cinephilic pleasures and bodily-emotive ones. Arguing through close analysis that these films demonstrate the inseparability of such strategies of engagement in contemporary genre cinema, Heightened Genre reclaims women’s mainstream filmmaking for feminism through a recalibration of genre theory itself.

The Paper Garden
The Paper Garden

Author: Molly Peacock

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2011-04-12

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 1608195236

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Traces the life and accomplishments of septuagenarian artist Mary Delany, describing her invention of the art of collage late in life after two heart-breaking marriages, in an account that also evaluates the roles of her relationships with such figures as Jonathan Swift, the Duchess of Portland and King George III. 35,000 first printing.