BLACK AMERICANS The portrait photographer James VanDer Zee operating from his Studio on 125th – 135th street, is renowned for his visual documentation of Black New Yorkers. Especially revealing are the images during the Harlem Renaissance. The photographs of Van Der Zee offers evidence and glimpse into the soul of Black America. The Identity of […]
If the commercialism of cultures continue relentlessly unabated, with the objects of vision, foresight, spirituality and creativity becoming mere commodities. What are the possible results, implications, and consequences? I am not only referring to individuals or communities, but on every levels of daily social living. Way beyond the usual confrontations with ideologies of Capitalist verse
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NOW Twenty-six years into the twenty-first century, everyone, everywhere, around the world can be a competent photographer. Making images for the fun of it, and much more. They consider themselves to be image makers, if only through the use of a smartphone, and new digital technology. Apart from the world becoming more visually literate, the
AFRICANFUTURIST This post relates directly to the global movements Africanfuturist and Afrosurrealist. Within the communities of African creatives, there are many artists who are engaged with the complex work, of decolonising the African Mind. State of mind is where everything new begins. A thought, an idea, a reason, with a true purpose. Like minded people
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STREEET ART Street Art is a visual art form, created in public locations for public visibility and viewing. Generally, the works are displayed on public buildings, on streets, or any publicly viewed surfaces. At the very beginning of the practice, Street Art is rebellious by nature, and illegal in practice. The artists utilised public spaces
Why Art & Artists are important, in relation to Culture, Heritage & Legacy, are well documented in European Fine Art Traditions. Today, in the twenty- first century, the claim is, anything can be art! I fully accept this statement, with clarity. All things can be viewed from the standpoint, perspective, and perspicuity of art.
ABSTRACTION The tendency towards abstraction, is when something is too complex, or too traumatic, to be represented as a single specific example. In Visual Art, we abstract when the qualities of ideas are too fragmented, too dramatic, to reproduce as a formal figurative representation. Abstraction as a Movement in the Visual Arts, was made
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WEALTH OF NATIONS With influences and extractions drawn from cultures around the world, Western European Art Traditions in a variety of movements, became the dominant factor in Fine Art Concepts, Aesthetics, and Representation. Establishing over 3 hundred years, the modern structures, frameworks, patterns, and systems of administrations in the world of Fine Arts. In
NEW YORK – NEW YORK “So Nice, We Named It Twice.” I arrived in the Borough of Queens, towards the end of 1970s. I was cerified A Legal Alien, a Jamaican living in New York. Full of Hope, seeking opportunities to progress with new desires, towards Graphic Design, Lens Media, or Visual Communication. I had
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SIGNS SYMBOLS & SIGNIFIERS When we Survey & Research the 6th Region of our Diaspora, and higher echelons of the Arts & Culture Establishment. What is Revealed can be Horrific, Bitter, and Contentious. The Best of Us through higher Virtues, God given Talents, Courage, Stamina, and Will Power, refuse to be reduced, force to surrender,
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