Yes, But
Is it Art?
Gallery
An
Eclectic Adventure
into the Meaning of Art
Artist .| Philosophy.
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Drawings
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ComputerArt. | Photography.
This
is the result of many years of planning. Here I present for you:
The AllThingsMike Art Gallery. The artist, Michael F. Nyiri, of
course is also the webmaster of AllThingsMike, and originally
did put up a "joke" art gallery on the Komedy Page of
the AllThingsMike website. 
But
now, he (I) wish to further expand the capabilities of the medium.
Just recently, I received the Adobe Pagemill website authoring
tool, and am going to use it to create this first of what I hope
are many pages on AllThingsMike. It will, of course, take a while
to learn how to use the program, and until I know exactly what
I am doing, the pickins will be rather lean, but then, as I slowly
figure everything out, art will create itself, and my ongoing
"electronic experiment in art" will unfold in these
pages.
The
first page here will introduce me. My photo (A composite using
Micrografx Picture Publisher, and the background is an old self
portrait in pencil, my old medium of choice.
This
is only the beginning, and is the first site, by the way, created
solely on my home computer, and not created with the Homestead
Editor online. The site will be uploaded via Cute FTP and this
should be the index page to my FortuneCity web account, if every
thing works, which we shall see if it does or not.
Art is only an illusion
of life
and
life is only an illusion of art.....
The
image to the right could be called an example of actual, or "real"
art. It is a jpeg of a print (Kokopelli) by Ellisor, a real artist,
and not a two bit comedian like myself. Throughout the years,
I have questioned the ability to create art, and of course am
using the computer to engage in a semblance of this creativity.
But under no circumstances do I dare to call myself a real artist.
That's why I will include some real art as well as what passes
for my scribblings.
My
passion is words. Read me at my Poetry website:
Well, It's
been a couple of hours, and I'll have to figure out how to get
this page onto the web next, but first, I want to publicly thank
the artist Ellisor for being my muse in this endeavor, and inspiring
me to create these pages.
MFN Oct.2,2000