Tag Archive | digital

“Whose Afraid of Modern Art?” Art History – The Städel Course on Modern Art

April 19, 2017. The Book and Fine Art in the New Media by Jack Dziamba. New Post Every Wednesday. The Städel Course On Modern Art “This is the best digital tool that I have ever seen and used. It is a great delight to learn more about art with this course. User of the course. […]

Children’s Books in the Digital Age

April 12, 2017 by Jack Dziamba. New Post Goes Up Every Wednesday. The Book in the New Media We have never written before about books for children. Indeed, as Kate Rix has written for Open Culture, “For all of the free literature and essays available online, a surprisingly small amount is geared toward children. Even […]

Photoshop Before Photoshop: Ansel Adams and James Dean

March 8, 2017 by Jack Dziamba. New Post Goes Up Every Wednesday.   Photoshop Before Photoshop Our post, ANSEL ADAMS, AND PHOTOGRAPHY BEFORE PHOTOSHOP ,(2013), has been a perennial favorite since its publication in February, 2013. The popularity of the post is epitomized by the Before and After prints of Adams’ iconic image, “Moonrise,” which […]

VERMEER in the NEW MEDIA – DOWNLOAD HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGES – A VERMEER for YOU

Jan or Johannes Vermeer van Delft, b. October 1632, d. December 1675, a Dutch genre painter who lived and worked in Delft, created some of the most exquisite paintings in Western art.(webmuseumparis) Then Vermeer was forgotten for 200 years. “The “rediscovery” of Vermeer is predominantly attributed to scholar, collector, French Salon critic and co-founder of […]

Majority of Americans are still reading print books | Pew Research Center Report

September 7, 2016, by Jack Dziamba – New Post Every Wednesday. WHITHER THE BOOK? On September 1, 2016, the Pew Research Center released a Surevy Report titled “Book Reading 2016,” by Andrew Perrin. THE OVERALL CONCLUSION: “The share of Americans who have read a book in the last year is largely unchanged since 2012; more […]

CAN YOU REALLY CUT-UP FINE ART? RIJKSSTUDO by Rikjs Museum, Amsterdam

August 24, 2016. New Posts For July and August go up bi-weekly on Wednesdays by Jack Dziamba.                                                                                                        CHECK IT OUT Vacation Edition:                                                                                              FINE ART in the NEW MEDIA Rijksstudio is a great example of the use of New Media tools for Fine Art, and fulfills the mission of a museum to make art […]

FINE ART IN THE NEW MEDIA – WILL THIS BE THE ART OF THE 21st CENTURY?

August  10, 2016, by Jack Dziamba. New Posts for July and August go up bi-weekly  every Wednesday.   ART IN THE 21st CENTURY* Below is a summary of Art in the 20th Century, with a timeline of the major developments from 1900 to 1945. It is not too early to look for what may become […]

Download 336 Issues of the Avant-Garde Magazine The Storm (1910-1932), Featuring the Work of Kandinsky, Klee, Moholy-Nagy & More

June 8, 2016. New Post Goes Up Every Wednesday, by Jack Dziamba  Whither the Book? While e-book publishing remains in a static state and the sale and use of e-readers has declined, the  “Old New Media” of the internet has makes available, for free, an immense trove of both Literature and Art which we have […]

WHERE HAVE ALL THE DARKROOMS GONE?

March 30, 2016. New Post Goes Up Every Wednesday, by Jack Dziamba        Image printed by Pablo Inirio, with printing notations . How Iconic Images Were Made in the Darkroom “Want to see what kind of work goes into turning a masterful photograph into an iconic print? Pablo Inirio, the master darkroom printer who works […]

E- Museums: The Museum of Modern Art Puts 65,000 Works of Modern Art Online. So, How is this Different?

March 23, 2016. New Post Goes Up Every Wednesday, by Jack Dziamba Upload/Download It seems that one can hardly turnaround before another museum or institution has posted a huge number of art works online. For example, Download 35,000 Works of Art from the National Gallery, Including Masterpieces by Van Gogh, Gauguin, Rembrandt & More, The […]