{"id":4433,"date":"2011-06-21T08:49:19","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T15:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ryskamp.org\/brain\/?p=4433"},"modified":"2012-06-13T17:18:12","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T17:18:12","slug":"innovate-in-the-fuzziness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/innovate-in-the-fuzziness\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative in the fuzziness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At [the excellent Franz Gertsch exhibition at the Kunsthaus](http:\/\/www.kunsthaus.ch\/gertsch\/en\/gallery.php?id=set1) last weekend, I was impressed by how his paintings were so photo-realistic from a distance, but almost abstract up close. Gertsch works from large projections of photographs, and where the photos get fuzzy, he gets creative.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-gaxtzxlfMGE\/TgC7gh7XEmI\/AAAAAAAAE70\/CtD9dgWyXOo\/s800\/005_Gertsch_Winter.png?ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-Tb2rnzOleg0\/TgC8iog3jmI\/AAAAAAAAE8Y\/a_xYjDTlIUU\/Screen%252520shot%2525202011-06-21%252520at%2525205.44.48%252520PM.png?ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Especially in contrast to the high-concept, low-craft art in other exhibits, it reminded me that when you are designing, or portraying, a relatively staid or well-known idea, you can always innovate in the details. And when you do so consistently across a work, the overall experience is markedly different from someone who worked differently at the small scale.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-p1zjLbt4GJs\/TgC-BW5IpUI\/AAAAAAAAE8k\/sMeQ5XUwyrQ\/s640\/002_Graeser_II.png?ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-mtXsr6vMHeQ\/TgC-Ty78smI\/AAAAAAAAE8s\/3u1NXq2dzxw\/s800\/Untitled.png?ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At [the excellent Franz Gertsch exhibition at the Kunsthaus](http:\/\/www.kunsthaus.ch\/gertsch\/en\/gallery.php?id=set1) last weekend, I was impressed by how his paintings were so photo-realistic from a distance, but almost abstract up close. Gertsch works from large projections of photographs, and where the photos get fuzzy, he gets creative. Especially in contrast to the high-concept, low-craft art in other&#8230;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/innovate-in-the-fuzziness\/\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[363,31,376],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-design","category-nature-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wjHJ-19v","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4811,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4433\/revisions\/4811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}