Tag: philosophy
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Connecting Dots: Installment 7
RELATIONAL PROPERTY: a property that depends on a thing’s relationship to other things. While taking philosophy at Rice, I was intrigued with the concept of relational properties, and later used it in my thesis to describe what I created for my MFA show. In 1983 I was ready to take the images which I thought…
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Still The Beginning (second installment)
At Rice my interests outside of art were developing. Among them were classical music and philosophy. I also had wonderful art history classes, and during these lectures I became fascinated with the thick, gloppy paint areas of the impressionists, the precise color theory, layering and order of the pointillists, the boundless imaginings of the surrealists,…