Lee Barry Composition (And Photo) Diary

Just the Clouds From a J.M.W. Turner Painting (2017) Photo collage (48x12 inches) License this image Source: Valley of Aosta: Snowstorm, Avalanche, and Thunderstorm , 1836/37 The "Just" Series: Just the Clouds in Dutch Painting Just the Red Garments Just the Clouds in a Turner Painting #texture #tan #atmosphere

Cloud 17 (Just the Clouds in 17th-Century Dutch Painting) Conceptual/Multi-Media/Photography 12"x72" Habotai (China Silk)  (Edition of 1) Blockchain: https://opensea.io/assets/0x495f947276749ce646f68ac8c248420045cb7b5e/65481996295672763069708977931626981535906173317863536864357634663236130308097 As a part of the "Just" Series, Cloud 17 is a photo collage of just cloud elements from 17th Century Dutch painting, printed from a digital file in the Cloud on 12"x72" Habotai (China Silk) Some of the artists: Jan Both, Meindert Hobbema, Jacob van Ruisdael, Jan van de Cappelle, Jan van Goyen. The primary conceptual element of the work is that the pristine original resides in the Cloud (image is currently on a Google server), and that it can be worn as a garment with attributes that exist on the internet as a digital object. The current digital fingerprint is: b5b19bf6269c811b850c6dc78e822b7f55fbae66306d5b9ce313fe44503e2ae3 Another variant in ...

JUST THE RED (2014) Conceptual/Multi-Media 10800x1800 pixels, 36x6 inches at 300ppi Reproduction licensing available. Contact me. A photo study in red: A photo montage of photographs of just red garments in 16th and 17th-century paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago--swatches of history that contain some of its essences, memorialized through its use in photographs. Essentially, it is a "remix" of art history using samples, similar to samples from sound recordings. It provokes contemplation of its ontological aspects: what the original cloth was made of, the sitter that wore the garment, and so on. Technology facilitates the continual re-contextualization of art and music history at the micro-level: just one note or one bar in music, or one element in a painting. Over time, new metaphors emerge, and older ones are resurrected. One example would be Tennyson's phrase "nature, red in tooth and claw'"--a reference to the sometimes violent nat...