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  2. Heather Dewey-Hagborg - Wikipedia

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    Heather Dewey-Hagborg (born June 4, 1982, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an information artist and bio-hacker. [1] She is best known for her project Stranger Visions, a series of portraits created from DNA she recovered from discarded items, such as hair, cigarettes and chewing gum while living in Brooklyn, New York. [2]

  3. Light in painting - Wikipedia

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    Port with the disembarkation of Cleopatra in Tarsus (1642), by Claude Lorrain, Musée du Louvre, Paris. Light in painting fulfills several objectives like, both plastic and aesthetic: on the one hand, it is a fundamental factor in the technical representation of the work, since its presence determines the vision of the projected image, as it affects certain values such as color, texture and ...

  4. Visionary art - Wikipedia

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    Visionary artist Laurence Caruana with visionary art paintings.. Visionary art often carries themes of spiritual, mystical or inner awareness. [1] Despite this broad definition, there does seem to be emerging some definition to what constitutes the contemporary visionary art 'scene' and which artists can be considered especially influential.

  5. Flatness (art) - Wikipedia

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    This period of art is identified by art forms consisting of an image on a flat two-dimensional surface. This art evolution began in the 1860s and culminated 50 years later. By this time almost all three-dimensional works had been eliminated. This new approach to painting was to create a visual appearance of realism.

  6. Theosophy and visual arts - Wikipedia

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    In his opinion, the neoplastic art will in future replace religion. And artist's role – "as priest of this religious art – will consist in helping the common man reach the desired after inner balance." [84] [note 15] Mondrian chose for his "monumental triptych" Evolution, a theme which is one of the main doctrines in the Theosophical teaching.

  7. Three Worlds (Escher) - Wikipedia

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    Three Worlds is a lithograph print by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher first printed in December 1955.. Three Worlds depicts a large pool or lake during the autumn or winter months, the title referring to the three visible perspectives in the picture: the surface of the water on which leaves float, the world above the surface, observable by the water's reflection of a forest, and the world below ...

  8. Supports/Surfaces - Wikipedia

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    Supports/Surfaces was an art movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s which came out of the south of France. [1] [2] It has significantly impacted contemporary art.The group combined a material examination of the formal elements of painting with a rigorous political and philosophical stance.

  9. Jason Seife - Wikipedia

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    Jason Seife was born in 1989 in Miami, Florida. He was born in Miami, Florida to a Cuban mother and a Syrian father. [2] [3] [4]To expand his study and research of traditional textiles, he also made trips to Morocco, Turkey, Iran and Syria to meet with carpet-weavers and local artists.