JWD ART http://www.jdw-art.com Thu, 05 Apr 2012 04:07:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 5th Year Printmakers – Works of Art! http://www.jdw-art.com/5th-year-printmakers-works-of-art.html http://www.jdw-art.com/5th-year-printmakers-works-of-art.html#comments Thu, 05 Apr 2012 04:06:35 +0000 http://www.jdw-art.com/?p=510

 

]]> http://www.jdw-art.com/5th-year-printmakers-works-of-art.html/feed 0 The opening of this year’s 4th Togart Contemporary Art Award http://www.jdw-art.com/the-opening-of-this-years-4th-togart-contemporary-art-award.html http://www.jdw-art.com/the-opening-of-this-years-4th-togart-contemporary-art-award.html#comments Wed, 14 Mar 2012 04:00:23 +0000 http://www.jdw-art.com/?p=506 The opening of this year’s 4th Togart Contemporary Art Award

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]]> http://www.jdw-art.com/art-background.html/feed 0 Julian Beever: Fountain of Youth http://www.jdw-art.com/julian-beever-fountain-of-youth.html http://www.jdw-art.com/julian-beever-fountain-of-youth.html#comments Tue, 28 Feb 2012 08:13:58 +0000 http://www.jdw-art.com/?p=498 Fountain of Youth

A behind-the-scenes look athe Julian Beever, renowned 3D sidewalk chalk artist, creating one of his amazing pieces.

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20 Essential Works of Lego Art and Design

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]]> http://www.jdw-art.com/kid-painter.html/feed 0 Mario and Pacman on a pixelated playground http://www.jdw-art.com/mario-and-pacman-on-a-pixelated-playground.html http://www.jdw-art.com/mario-and-pacman-on-a-pixelated-playground.html#comments Sat, 01 Oct 2011 07:20:30 +0000 http://www.jdw-art.com/?p=475 Playground

Space Invaders, Mario and Pacman on a pixelated playground. The black cat is pretty sweet, too.

]]> http://www.jdw-art.com/mario-and-pacman-on-a-pixelated-playground.html/feed 0 Paul Robertson’s Pixel Art http://www.jdw-art.com/paul-robertson%e2%80%99s-pixel-art.html http://www.jdw-art.com/paul-robertson%e2%80%99s-pixel-art.html#comments Sat, 01 Oct 2011 07:14:27 +0000 http://www.jdw-art.com/?p=471 Paul Robertson’s Pixel Art

Space battles, Super Robot Wars style. Roberson has his own style in the pixel artwork.

]]> http://www.jdw-art.com/paul-robertson%e2%80%99s-pixel-art.html/feed 0 What is Art? http://www.jdw-art.com/what-is-art.html http://www.jdw-art.com/what-is-art.html#comments Fri, 01 Jul 2011 03:00:17 +0000 http://www.jdw-art.com/?p=458

The word art itself means ‘the quality, production and expression in according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful and appealing, or of more than ordinary significance’. With this in mind art can be related to a many number of genres from drawing and painting through to dance and sculpture. As beauty is in the eye of the beholder so is art, one man’s idea of art may not be another’s so to rigidly define what is art is near enough impossible.

The main areas of art that most people think of include drawing, painting, illustrations, fine art, collages, mosaics and sculptures. However dance is a form of art and so is photography, whether it is digital or traditional. Films are also another more modern form of art as is cosmetics. Tapestry, embroidery and various other textile forms are also are encompassed within the field of art, so it is easy to see why defining art is not a simple process.
Earliest forms of art came from the Stone Age and were rock carvings known as petroglyphs. Subsequent developments include engraving, sculpture and cave paintings. While the earliest artists would have lived somewhere between 300,000 and 1 million BCE and would have been descendants of Homo erectus. The later Stone Age artists would have lived around 100,000 to 400,000 BCE and were types of Homo sapiens such as Neanderthals.

From there on in the realm of art has grown and expanded to what we have today. To some when they are asked what is art they think mainly of famous painting such as Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa and Vincent Van Gough’s Starry Night or Sunflowers. While others may immediately think of sculptures such as Auguste Rodin’s The Thinker Statue or the stunning Venus de Milo re-created by Canova. There again a mother may well claim that her child’s first finger painting qualifies.

Through varying art forms people have the chance to express themselves, whether it is generally considerd in good or bad taste it is neither here nor there. Art is a visual form of internal expression and allows people to convey messages, ideas and places in a way that works for them.

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