Inspiration and Creativity in Art
Dr. Gil Dekel “This 20- minute lecture by Dr. Gil Dekel is worth a listen. The feeling at the end is, “How awesome creativity is!” What is the artist really saying in each and every painting? Dr. Dekel tells us.” – Mary Gwyn Bowen, nurse and art...
Knowing Tools: Knowledge-Extraction Methods.
Dr. Gil Dekel. The Knowing Tools™ were designed to help you become aware of intuitive knowledge and information which already ‘exist’ in you. The tools will help you use your inner-knowledge to enhance your creativity, write articles, or develop art and design...
Learning to See: What to look for when taking photographs.
With Dr. Gil Dekel. Examples of photography concepts: Scale (Small, Spacious) – Space (Realistic, Conceptual, Empty, Crowded) – Layers – View point (High angle, Low angle) – Composition (Centred, Distributed) – Depth of Field (Small,...
Dr. Dekel’s 10 most important rules for Graphic Designers
Dr. Gil Dekel. 1. Break the Rules: Learn the rules, and then break them. Invent new rules. But remember to first learn the existing rules, and only then to break them. 2. Listen: You have two ears and only one mouth, so listen twice than speaking. Listen, look, and...
‘A-Learning’ method to retrieve angelic academic data.
By Dr. Gil Dekel and Dr. Loykie Lominé. Drawing from the Platonic idea of anamnesis, and Carl Jung’s practical experiments, Dr. Dekel and Dr. Lominé link creativity, pedagogy and spirituality. Facilitating a guided meditation within academic context, they explore...
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Portrait of a Line
by Dr. Gil Dekel. ‘…a drawing of a person in not a real person, but a drawing of a line is a real line’ – Sol LeWitt [1]. Following this declaration by artist Sol Lewitt, I decided to paint a portrait – a portrait of a line… I was guided to use inks for the...
The Colour Wheel
Dr. Gil Dekel (Art, Design & Media). Buy hi-resolution print-ready Colour Wheel JPG and PDF files. Examples of Colour Sets (Schemes): Monochromes – any single colour, on the colour wheel: Complementary – any two...
Streaming Knowledge / Words into Objects: a research method
By Dr. Gil Dekel. Download empty Template of the method. How does it work?1. Focus on what interests you (learn to ‘listen to yourself’). Words will then ‘come up’ to you.2. Complete the template table with the words.3. Use the words to conduct...
Introduction to Innovation in the 21st century
By Dr. Gil Dekel, and Natalie Dekel (MPhil) Our society is constantly evolving, and with it comes an on-going need for new ideas and products that are different, sustainable, and useful for daily life. With technological and scientific developments the process of...
תגלית מסר אזוטרי במשולש פסקל
(גרסה אנגלית English) (Paul Hartal) פול זאב הרטל התחלתי לצייר ציורים בהשפעת הקבלה בשנות ה1990. לתדהמתי הגמורה, ניסיונותיי אלו הובילו לתגלית בלתי צפויה ומרגשת של תקשורת טרנסצנדנטלית. באלף-בית העברי, כל אות מייצגת ערך מספרי. כשהחלפתי את המספרים במשולש פסקל באותיות...
The shift in the role of museums following the mass-reproduction of images of artworks
by Gil Dekel, PhD. (About Gil. Contact) Introduction In this paper I will follow the evolution of art museums through the effect of the use of images of artworks. I will argue that the use of images of artworks has contributed to a shift in the role of museums from...
Lessons from John Dewey’s ‘How We Think: A restatement of the relation of reflective thinking to the educative process’ (summary/review by Gil Dekel, PhD.)
by Gil Dekel, PhD. Review: Dewey argues that thinking is a natural automated act, just like breathing and heartbeat are, and therefore it is impossible to teach someone to think. However, it is possible to help develop someone’s thinking, by helping develop a...
Key Lessons from Edward de Bono’s ‘Parallel Thinking: From Socratic to de Bono Thinking’ (a short summary by Gil Dekel, PhD).
by Gil Dekel Edward de Bono argues that the way people think is governed by pre-set patterns, such as the use of analysis and judgment, which limit our faculty to comprehend data and information, and process ideas into truly creative results. de Bono offers...
From Sight to Vision: a review of Maurice Bowra’s book ‘The Romantic Imagination’ (reviewed by Dr. Gil Dekel).
by Gil Dekel, PhD. This book offers an important insight into the power of imagination by clearing a prevailing mistake about the English Romantics poets. The author shows that the poets were not indulged in imaginary states ‘removed’ from this world, rather they saw...
Felice Varini Year-By-Year
Chronology of Felice Varini’s works. Most works are shown here from the vantage point, as well as from outside the vantage point. All works were created with resin paint on landscapes. There is no Photoshop or image manipulations here. To learn from Felice why...
Mathematics and Reality: Is Mathematics a symbolic Universe Invented by the Human Mind? (part 5 of 5)
Part 5 of 5. Read Part 1… Read previous part, 4… by Paul Hartal. Chapter 5: A Magical Land of Infinite Worlds A gentle soul and highly poetic mathematician, Georg Cantor (1845-1918), upset thoroughly the applecart of arithmetic with his Set Theory of Infinity....
Mathematics and Reality: Is Mathematics a symbolic Universe Invented by the Human Mind? (part 4 of 5)
Part 4 of 5. Read the previous part… by Paul Hartal. Chapter 4: Unverifiable Theories Although Einstein had made major contributions to the development of quantum theory, in his eyes the new branch of physics was incomplete. He could not accept the idea that on the...
Mathematics and Reality: Is Mathematics a symbolic Universe Invented by the Human Mind? (part 3 of 5)
Part 3 of 5. Read the previous part… by Paul Hartal. Chapter 3: A Leap of Imagination Einstein’s theories rely on innovative mathematical models of space. For more than two millennia the magnificent geometrical axioms of Euclid of Alexandria were regarded as...
Mathematics and Reality: Is Mathematics a symbolic Universe Invented by the Human Mind? (part 2 of 5)
Part 2 of 5. Read the previous part… by Paul Hartal. Chapter 2: Zero is something The mysterious irrationality of the nullity: zero equaling plenty– arising from the bewildering mathematical complex of the concise and elegantly wrapped Euler Identity—had...
Mathematics and Reality: Is Mathematics a symbolic Universe Invented by the Human Mind? (part 1 of 5)
by Paul Hartal. Introduction Mathematics is a model of exact reasoning, the most precise branch of human knowledge. Using logic as its main instrument, mathematics probes the numerical and spatial relations of axiomatic systems by means of strict rules and careful...Representation and Narrative in Popular Two-Dimensional Animation: A Critical and Practical Investigation.
MPhil thesis by Natalie Dekel. Can self-observation of an artist/researcher on her work stand as an academic tool of investigation? I would argue that the process of moving from theoretical analysis to practical exploration of one’s own art work can challenge...Engaged practice and authorship: Inquiry into the process of animation filmmaking as a practitioner and critical researcher.
MPhil thesis by Natalie Dekel. I would argue that artistic ‘information’ is rushing through one’s body and mind, driving one to express in animated language of symbols and images what is ultimately a personal interpretation of subjective authorial nature....
Lines of the Self: artistic choices while creating art works.
In this paper I will reflect on the connection between lines in art works, the artist’s personality and the choices they make in the creative process. I will offer examples from my work as a painter/animator and a researcher.
The Silence of the Paper: Embodiment of ‘Artistic Personality’ in the Process of Art-making.
by Natalie Dekel. How artists embody their distinct personality, emotions and experiences, in the process of making an art work? The literature in art does not sufficiently discuss this point, where the literature often refers to the final product from which views...
“Waterised Words”: Exhibition exploring self-knowledge through art practice.
By Gil Dekel, University of Portsmouth. First published in Consciousness, Literature and the Arts. ISSN 1470-5648. Volume 9 Number 1, April 2008. Plato’s suggestion ‘know yourself’ raises the question: How can one know oneself? What are the tools available for...
Who is the Author of my Poems?: Art Practice Based PhD Exploring Knowledge Gained in the Process of Creativity.
By Gil Dekel. It is a prevailing assumption that poetry is closely linked to the times in which it is created, and that the poet is influenced by his/her surroundings. For example, the English Romantic poetry is seen as a direct result of the French and American...
Illuminating the Word: Visualisation of Poetic Experiences Through Filmmaking.
By Gil Dekel. Freud acknowledged that poets have explored the unconscious much before he himself developed it into his psychological theories (Jay, 1984: 23). Visionary poets such as Blake and William Wordsworth suggested the psychoanalytic process much before Freud...
Wordless Silence of Poetic Mind: Outlining and Visualising Poetic Experiences through Artmaking.
By Gil Dekel. This paper approaches visionary poetry from the point of view of an experiential observer. The paper explores the “poetic silence” that occurs in the moments before the poem is written, attempting to capture the moments in which a thought of...
Conceptual Graphic Design: the abstract space of the creative process.
Black Circle That is Going to Be. Animation Flash Artwork. 2008. Converted to GIF animation (2019). Gil Dekel. “What interests me is not the square or the circle, but what is in betweenthe two: the artistic process by which one becomes the other.”...
The Discovery of an Esoteric Message in Pascal’s Triangle.
By Paul Hartal. (לגרסה העברית Hebrew version) I began to experiment with Kabala inspired paintings in the 1990s. To my utter astonishment these experiments led to a totally unexpected and most exciting discovery of a transcendent communication. In the Hebrew alphabet...
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