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Hal Gould (February 29, 1920 – June 25, 2015) was an American photographer and gallery curator. [1] He was an advocate of fine art photography and created a venue which eventually became the Camera Obscura gallery at the Denver Art Museum.
A camera obscura (pl. camerae obscurae or camera obscuras; from Latin camera obscūra 'dark chamber') [1] is the natural phenomenon in which the rays of light passing through a small hole into a dark space form an image where they strike a surface, resulting in an inverted (upside down) and reversed (left to right) projection of the view outside.
The hypothesis that technology was used in the production of Renaissance Art was not much in dispute in early studies and literature. [4]In his treatise on perspective, early Baroque painter Cigoli (1559 – 1613) expressed his belief that a more likely explanation of the origin of painting lies in people conserving the image of the camera obscura by applying colours and tracing the contours ...
This is a list of public art in Washington, D.C. organized by neighborhood wards. Ward 1 – Neighborhoods such as Adams Morgan , Columbia Heights , Howard University and the U Street Corridor . Ward 2 – Neighborhoods such as Downtown , Dupont Circle , Foggy Bottom , Georgetown , parts of Shaw and cultural areas like the National Mall and the ...
Lisa Diane Wedgeworth (born 20 November 1969) is an African-American visual artist, curator, and writer. Her work encompasses abstract painting, video, and performance works. She has been a teaching artist at several Los Angeles-area museums, including the California African American Museum, the Craft and Folk Art Museum, and LACMA. [1]
Shirley Aley Campbell (March 26, 1925 – August 13, 2018) was a figurative realist painter, called "Cleveland’s own artistic blend of Alice Neel and Lucien Freud". [1]Two Red Tulips by Shirley Aley Campbell Vietnamese Family by Shirley Aley Campbell Portrait of Mary Rose Oakar by Shirley Aley Campbell
Tony Oursler is known for his fractured-narrative handmade videotapes, including The Loner (1980) and EVOL (1984). Billy Rubin describes EVOL as "(charting) the territory between our passion-charged personal narratives and the near impossibility of representing that desire visually or linguistically, the end result often being nothing more than banal cultural cliches."
Abelardo Morell (born 1948, Havana, Cuba) is a contemporary artist widely known for turning rooms into camera obscuras and then capturing the marriage of interior and exterior in large format photographs. He is also known for his 'tent-camera,' a device he invented to merge landscapes with the texture and composition of the ground where he ...