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Reflecting on Abstract Art
29, Mar 2012Reflecting on Abstract Art
by Lorette C. Luzajic
It’s a question that has vexed me for decades now, but I’ve come to I accept it won’t be answered. If you are an artist or an art aficionado, it has probably plagued you, too: “Why am I profoundly drawn to some works of abstract art, and not at [...]
Confessions of an Accidental Photographer
7, Mar 2012Confessions of an Accidental Photographer
by Lorette C. Luzajic
My photography is full of mistakes. And I use the most basic, generic of cameras. I don’t know how to use Photoshop. I do use some touchup and cropping tools in iPhoto. I’m not philosophically opposed to alteration or technology as part of art. I’m all for it. [...]
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- Tags: article, composition, images, lorette c. luzajic, Photography
“A History of Women Photographers” Book Review
8, Feb 2012A Great Book About Women Photographers
by Lorette C. Luzajic
Photography is a way of seeing with a third eye, of looking at that which is not before you. Who has not spent a part of their youth, chopping and gluing with stubby fingers images from National Geographic? Reassembling these strange pictures, we created panoramas in dreamtime. [...]
Article: The Speed of Life at the Speed of Light
10, Jan 2012The Speed of Life at the Speed of Light
By Lorette C. Luzajic
Where has the year gone? Today is already the tenth of January, the week already a blur. I was hoping “focus” would magically come a little easier for me this year, but I concede already that its unlikely. Focus on what? My poetry? My [...]
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- Tags: Art, articles, artist creativity, lorette c. luzajic, speed of life
Book Review: Cutting Edges: A Few Reflections on Contemporary Collage
By Lorette C. Luzajic
(Cutting Edges, Gestalten Books, 2011, ed. by James Gallagher et al.)
“Nothing is original,” said Jim Jarmusch, director of Down By Law. He took the words right out of my mouth.
“You’ve written about this theme numerous times,” said the friend who recently passed this [...]
Lewis Blackwell’s “Photo Wisdom” Book Review
11, Nov 2011Lewis Blackwell’s Photo Wisdom: Master Photographers on Their Art
By Lorette C. Luzajic
What strikes me first is the colour, a brilliant turquoise offset by a wide arc of pale and feathery purple and white ripples. It takes a few seconds to make sense of what is happening, of the giant elephant splayed out across the middle [...]
General Idea’s Retrospective at the Art Gallery of Ontario
By Lorette C. Luzajic
The Art Gallery of Ontario really outdid itself this time, devoting two of its four floors of prime cultural real estate to the “art” of General Idea. It should have been called “No Clue.”
Given the breathless gushing about this Canadian train wreck trilogy of [...]
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