i can see for miles and miles / 30″ x 36″ / on canvas / landscape / janet bright
Tag: art
too much honesty
The most honest piece of art I’ve created is offensive and I’m not sure if it’s offensive because of it’s absolute honesty or because of the big fat expletive at the end. And as I ponder the offensive nature of this art I’ve begun to wonder, have honesty and ‘bad’ language become equally offensive in our society? […]
please please me
“You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time”. -John Lydgate In 1995 Russian artists Vitaly Komar and Alex Melamid embarked on a project to discover what art would look like […]
crappy art
What makes art ‘good’? Is ‘good’ determined by how real a painting looks, by a pleasing combination of colour tones, by the subject of a painting? Or is ‘good’ simply and only about how you feel when you look at one particular piece of art? Does it matter how long it takes an artist to create […]
i like it. i hate it.
What is it that makes you like something or not? Regardless of what an artist has to say about their work, people will like or dislike something based solely on how they are feeling the exact moment they see it. Reactions can’t be controlled, and an artist can talk until they’re blue in the face about […]
connect
Have you ever felt your day improve the moment the barista at your local coffee shop looked you in the eye and said, “What can I get you today?”. What is it that feels so great about that? Is it pure excitement, at the promise of the halfcaffgrandenonfatextrahotvanilllalatte on the way? Is it something more; is it […]
how to create
Ever wonder where the ability to create comes from? Is it talent, education, awareness (something else)? Or, is ‘art ability’ a state of mind? So many times I’ve heard people say (about any work of art), “I could never do that; I can’t even draw a stick person; I’m not creative”. And I wonder, could that really be […]
plein air painting in canada / rain fall
click the image below to watch the video / 4.58 min plein air painting in canada / rain fall / 48″ x 48″ / 2014 janet bright
commodity of colour 01 014 1824 14 / #014 / 18″ x 24″
commodity of colour 01 014 1824 14 / 14th in series / 18″ x 24″ / on panel The human experience of colour is generic. Yellow from any source is yellow, red is red and blue is blue. It is the visual commodity of our everyday; un-branded, ubiquitous and essential. It is a […]
commodity of colour 01 013 1248 14 / #012 / 12″ x 48″
commodity of colour 01 013 1248 14 / 13th in series / 12″ x 48″ / on panel The human experience of colour is generic. Yellow from any source is yellow, red is red and blue is blue. It is the visual commodity of our everyday; un-branded, ubiquitous and essential. It is a […]
commodity of colour 01 012 1248 14 / #012 / 12″ x 48″
commodity of colour 01 012 1248 14 / 12th in series / 12″ x 48″ / on panel The human experience of colour is generic. Yellow from any source is yellow, red is red and blue is blue. It is the visual commodity of our everyday; un-branded, ubiquitous and essential. It […]
you don’t know me / installation / 3 panels
you don’t know me / installation / 3 panels, each: W 3.5′ x H 5′