Fun fact.. google up yourself a periodic table and find Krypton on It.. now look at the two elements above and the next in line...
The three elements are Chlorine, Argon and potassum. The chemical symbols are Cl, Ar, and K. squish em together you get ClArk. Which is the name of superman's alter ego. Superman being from Krypton of course.. :)
Sandi, the point is similar to the blank canvasses and white cubes of the minimalist art of the 1960s: to erase the hand, or identifying marks of the maker, from the art. It's a kind of artistic suicide. By rendering the drawing indistinguishable from a photograph, the artist removes any evidence of himself from the work. Chuck close did this kind of drawing in the 60s. This is a continuation of the modernist tradition beginning with painters like Piet Mondrian and Walter Gropius.
The three elements are Chlorine, Argon and potassum. The chemical symbols are Cl, Ar, and K. squish em together you get ClArk. Which is the name of superman's alter ego. Superman being from Krypton of course.. :)
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(edit: they just passed into night as I typed this.)
the point is similar to the blank canvasses and white cubes of the minimalist art of the 1960s: to erase the hand, or identifying marks of the maker, from the art. It's a kind of artistic suicide. By rendering the drawing indistinguishable from a photograph, the artist removes any evidence of himself from the work. Chuck close did this kind of drawing in the 60s. This is a continuation of the modernist tradition beginning with painters like Piet Mondrian and Walter Gropius.