Daniel Sroka Open Studio : on art

Bach said it best

I was just browsing through Ted Orland’s excellent book Art and Fear, and came apon this great quote from Johann Sebastian Bach. After he wrote a set of training pieces,… read more

May 16, 2012

Artistically, I am inspired by a broad range of artists, cartoonists, and writers. Alexander Calder: I love the whimsy and technical brilliance of Alexander Calder’s wire sculptures. And there’s that… read more

January 20, 2012

art for the eyes and ears

In my last post, I ranted a bit about how artists are expected to be “deep”, while musicians are allowed to just play. Zak commented that he thought this could… read more

April 03, 2008

art is not essential

I’m in an online class with a group of artists, and the other day someone mentioned that they believed that art was essential part of society. Everyone agreed, but of… read more

March 17, 2007

a tree falls in the forest

Today on her blog, Alyson Stanfield coyly asked: If you create something and no one else ever sees it, is it art? I think some of the best art are… read more

February 28, 2007

seeing the world through someone else’s eyes

I believe that people buy art so that they can see the world through someone else’s eyes. Most people are used to seeing the world in only one way: through… read more

February 27, 2007

The morality of a photo

There is a conversation happening over at The Online Photographer about a Daguerreotype that Jerry Spagnoli took of 9/11. It is a haunting, spooky, and unsettling look at a scene… read more

September 22, 2006

Nearsighted art from a nearsighted artist

I have been nearsighted since the age of 8. Nothing out of the ordinary, but definitely a defining characteristic of my life. I can’t remember what it felt like to… read more

September 21, 2006

Take a number

You have to applaud this guy for originality. We’ve all seen art as performance. Now witness art as web business. He paints 1000 small canvases, each with a number from… read more

May 31, 2006

Einstein on art and science

“Where the world ceases to be the stage for personal hopes and desires, where we, as free beings, behold it in wonder, to question and to contemplate, there we enter… read more

May 11, 2006

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