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I couldn't stop thinking about a painting technique, about the use of over-painting and seeing underneath,  that I remembered reading in a Basquiat book I have, however I couldn't remember what it was called. Rather than searching through the pages of the book, i decided to first go to google and ended up finding a lot of other techniques. Repoussoir ☆ it is an object along the right or left of the foreground that directs the viewers eye into the composition by bracketing/framing the edge. ☆  it became popular with Mannerist & Baroque artists and is frequently found in Dutch 17th Century landscape paintings. ☆  Jacob Van Ruisdael often included a tree along one side to enclose the scene. mannerism: known as late renaissance. emerged around 1520 and lasted until around the end of the 16th century italy. baroque: is a highly ornate/extravagant style of architecture, art & music that emerged early 17th century til the late 18th century.  The Je...
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books from library

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I decided that one of the main things I wanted to do this summer was get more into physical art and painting again after, what was possibly, a year long (or maybe even longer) hiatus.  Other than sketches and a few good painting pieces, I felt like i hadn't really ever developed my style and felt lost in terms of what I wanted to paint and how I wanted to do it, so I knew I needed to find inspiration and look into other works.  Digging through the depths of artists online was difficult, as I found I was redirected to the same few famous artists and I couldn't really find anything visually I liked this way, so I decided to go down the traditional route and go to the library. This way I could find a good base and maybe then go on to research deeper and find other crevices online. There wasn't tons of art books at my local library, but I did manage to find some good books. ____________________________________________________ BOOK ONE I picked up this book as I ...
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Ben Vautier, Fluxus, Mail art

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decided to look for the author of this quote and found it was Ben Vautier He was born on the 18th July 1935, known as Ben. He discovered Yves Klein and the Nouveau Realisme in the 50s Joined the Fluxus art movemement. Active in mail art started text based paintings known as ' é critures' In 1981 he came up with the term 'Figuration Libre' for the French art movement during the 80s. Yves Klein - nouveau realisme, performance art, pop art, minimal art. Nouveau Realisme - saw the world as something they could take parts from and incorporate them into works Fluxus was an international, interdisciplinary community of artists, composers, & poets during the 1960s and 70s who engaged in experimental art performances which emphasised the artistic process over the finished product. Fluxus is known for experimental contributions to different artistic media. They produced performance events that included noise/dada music, concrete poetry, visua...
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