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8.00" x 5.00"
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10.00" x 7.00"
Tea Ceremony Art Print
by John Ressler
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Tea Ceremony art print by John Ressler. Our art prints are produced on acid-free papers using archival inks to guarantee that they last a lifetime without fading or loss of color. All art prints include a 1" white border around the image to allow for future framing and matting, if desired.
Design Details
Although I am principally, and enthusiastically, a watercolorist, I'm interested in a lot of other stuff as well. Fibonacci numbers and their... more
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Artist's Description
Although I am principally, and enthusiastically, a watercolorist, I'm interested in a lot of other stuff as well. Fibonacci numbers and their relationship to the classical Golden Section (or Golden Rectangle) have long interested me. They provide interesting possibilities for graphic manipulation in a vector-based program like Adobe Illustrator, used to create this image. Color was introduced using a couple of photo processing programs. The Japanese woodcut-like motifs revealed themselves as I worked with the image in Pixelmator. It's all sort of magical....
This piece works really well as Metal Print.
About John Ressler
"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is." --Sir Francis Bacon * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * My basic premise about art is: Every painting should imply a story. For as long as humans have had language, they have enjoyed stories. Scratchings on cave walls and peckings on rock faces are almost certainly story-related. Art, in whatever form, comprises a framework upon which hangs a story of some sort. Sometimes the framework IS the story, as is often the case with depictions of landscape or figure studies. Depictions of people doing things--even...
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Shoal Hollingsworth
Gorgeous work here, I love it
John Ressler replied:
...as are your cheetahs and those incredible bees. Thank you.
Anthony Jones
Nice work John. L/F.
John Ressler replied:
Thank you, Anthony. The rather formalized design and composition of this piece reminded me more and more of the formalities of the Japanese tea ceremony as I developed it, hence the title.