Eyes & Art

Apples and Oranges

Glass­es are offi­cial­ly IN! I don’t think any­one would dis­agree with that point. Frame styles from yes­ter­year are mount­ing huge come­backs (kind of like those golf shirts with the lit­tle croc­o­diles on them). For­tu­nate­ly, the lens optics of yes­ter­year are history.….……or maybe not.….…… Pre­scrip­tion glass­es are heav­i­ly adver­tised at extreme­ly cheap prices on TV, the inter­net, and on bill­boards. There are, … Con­tin­ue read­ing

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You’re Talking To Me With Your Eyes

It’s been said that eyes have an abil­i­ty to speak with­out the need for words. This con­cept was pop­u­lar in the art genre even pri­or to the Renais­sance prop­er, when artists made great strides in mas­ter­ing the eyes of their sub­jects to con­vey desired emo­tions. The Mona Lisa is the quin­tes­sen­tial “smirk­er” as she eyes you as … Con­tin­ue read­ing

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da Vinci

The eyes are the gate­way to the soul.” Was Her­man Melville sim­ply stat­ing the obvi­ous with this famous quote, or was he onto some­thing a bit more — for lack of a less Woody Allen-esque term – meta­phys­i­cal? What­ev­er the case may be, star­ing at the Mona Lisa today prob­a­bly has an equal­ly stir­ring yet hyp­not­ic effect as it … Con­tin­ue read­ing

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