Commentary by Kendall Whitehouse
Category: Art Commentary
At a gallery show of a noted street artist a few years ago, an attendee explained to me how he'd acquire pieces he'd find on the street. He was clearly proud of his clever technique for stripping away the works with minimal visible damage. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-u3SpZ3jy4&w=360&h=510&r=0 I'm embarrassed to confess that, despite my annoyance, I didn't … Continue reading The Living World of Art on the Street
The Writing on the Wall: New York and Philly in the Early 1970s Before the politically adroit stencils of Banksy, the beautiful calligraphic designs of Retna, and the clever humanoid figures of stikman, most graffiti consisted of simple tagging. Writing your name -- or, more commonly, your nickname -- on as many locations as possible … Continue reading Wall Writers: Graffiti in its Innocence
Art Exhibitions by Madeline Rile Smith and Morgan Gilbreath If one of the aims of art is to allow us to see our world differently, two recent exhibitions at Impact Hub Philadelphia -- Madeline Rile Smith's Chromesthesia and Morgan Gilbreath's Consecration -- achieve that goal. Both artists are completing their Bachelor of Fine Arts at Temple … Continue reading Seeing the World Differently
Typography is shaped by the physical medium in which it is rendered. Clay tablets and styli gave rise to cuniform. The sinuous curves of serif typefaces were refined by carving letter shapes into stone. When typography entered the digital age, font designers faced the challenge representing font glyphs by an array of pixels. At high resolutions, … Continue reading Victorian Font Rasterization
