This guy has a hole in his hand! Well, not really, because he is the king of illusions. He can create art that will make you question your own eyes and brain. For instance, in this clip, he starts painting his hand with pitch-black color, and in just a matter of seconds, it looks like his hand is being squeezed by some threads. His best work till date is this one where he paints his fingers to make them disappear and then adds red paint to make it look like his fingers have been cut. Yet, he still gets only 2 likes. #shortsfeed #shorts #illusion #art #artwork #satisfying #trending

Mark Alice Durant is an artist, writer, and publisher living in Baltimore. He is author of Maya Deren, Choreographed for Camera, 27 Contexts: An Anecdotal History in Photography, Robert Heinecken: A Material History, and co-author of Blur of the Otherworldly: Contemporary Art, Technology, and the Paranormal. His essays have appeared in numerous journals such as Aperture, Art in America, Photograph Magazine, Dear Dave, and many catalogs, monographs, and anthologies including Rania Matar: She, Seeing Science: How Photography Reveals the Universe, and Vik Muniz Seeing is Believing. He has served on the faculties of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, UCLA, the University of New Mexico, Syracuse University, and the Milton Avery Graduate School for the Arts at Bard College. Currently he teaches in the Visual Arts Department at the University of Maryland and is publisher / editor of Saint Lucy Books.

This video looks at how art is evaluated and gives four main approaches to conceptual critique, using Kara Walker's "A Subtlety" as an example.

Film and Visual Art - Lecture 2 - APOL 5360

Art is often used as a narrative device or even the central plot element in motion pictures. The focus of this course will be to see how art, artists and artworks have become the themes and driving forces in popular movies over time. It begins with an introduction to the reciprocal influence between the two art forms, including a look at artists who have made popular commercial films and filmmakers who have attempted to have their movies seen as art. The narrative and thematic importance of art in the genres of the biopic and film noir will be examined and illustrated. The last two lectures will consider, on the one hand, cinema’s stereotyping of the art world and, on the other, its power to honour and celebrate a central work of art.

Film & Visual Art Lecture 3 APOL 5360

The first lecture for APOL 5360: The Image.