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How To Look At Art: Design Principles
Design principles are terms to communicate how the formal elements are used, and what kind of effect that has on the work and the viewer: balance, rhythm, proportion and scale, emphasis, unity and variety.
How To Look At Art: Formal Elements
Moving past the basics of visual analysis, we can look into the work for the formal elements and the principles of design. The formal elements of art are basic terms we use to communicate visually; line, light, color, texture and pattern, shape, space, and time.
Keeping The Faith, November 2023
The Trops presents community paintings created live in NYC’s public spaces, representative of the sort of pieces that were done on the walls, streets, and trains that manifested into a global movement. Mark making attached a figurative significance to the individual spirit that guides self-expression in these exhibitive spaces; however, in their original contexts, the art of writing was not necessarily intended as a painting in the western sense of the word. These works, painted by legendary living writers, are contemporary developments of the Style Writing tradition that bring the vitality of the culture into canvas.
August Serenade
August 23rd was a very special Bohemian Wednesday, featuring music and poetry and various festivities at Nublu.
EROICA VARIATIONS, July 2023
The Trops takes pride in standing behind emerging artists, whom you may not have heard of- yet- but you should, and likely soon will. By naming this survey after the Beethoven compositions we are putting forth a bold claim that these voices are heroically breaking through as a force to be reckoned with on the world stage.
Bohemian Wednesdays, June 2023
An Interview With Barron Claiborne (Part 3)
“I think it’s good to see how other people interpret your work, because usually it’s completely different than you.”
An Interview with Barron Claiborne (Part 2)
“I usually want it to be beautiful. Whatever that is to me, that’s the thing. I always want my photos to look timeless, so you don’t know when they were taken.”
Moon Mixer 6/21
This week, we had the honor of hosting three master musicians.