The duck-rabbit uncertainty has to do with our paradoxical justifications of something we feel it's wrong for everyone except us to see it as an ambiguously funny artwork.
In the internet, where paradigms and paradoxes mingle, beauty is not the difference between art and science. The female figure as an ambidextrous signifier: of motherhood, of sexuality, of comfort, of capability.
Not a duck, nor a rabbit, but a curious hybrid that looks like nothing less than itself.
Wittgenstein; Art is necessary for life.
Ken Gun Min, who settled in Los Angeles after living in Asia and Europe, creates imagined landscapes rooted in specific local sites: Buena Vista Park, Runyon Canyon, and Silverlake have all appeared in his canvases, transformed into queer utopias.
Perception is a product of mental activity, because we see more with the mind than the eye.
Art curricula need to include more natural science with women reclining on a vividly upholstered wooden chair.
Scientific artist is a genre of artist that contains scientific content.
Objecthood is an issue for sculpture.
As an example, Curcio cited the paintings of gallery artist Daniel Gibson, a local, whose “lush, psychedelic landscapes” feature imaginary deserts and very real, embedded concerns about migration and borders.
Seth Curcio, partner at Shulamit Nazarian, believes the pandemic has inspired local artists to move away from the figure, but in a different direction—towards landscape.
The problem is too difficult.
Looking carefully is scopophilia. Contradictions, ambiguities and multiple meanings are the bones of art.
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