<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link><image><url>http://direct.ecency.com/logo512.png</url><title>RSS Feed</title><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 23:28:33 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://direct.ecency.com/created/arttheory/rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[COLOUR MIXING for Beginners]]></title><description><![CDATA[The subject of colour theory can seem daunting and a bit dry but it doesn’t need to be. Just learning a few basic principles of colour theory and values can help you to set an easy to remember structure]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-148675/@samuel-earp-art/lwompvxt</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-148675/@samuel-earp-art/lwompvxt</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-148675]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[samuel-earp-art]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:05:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/99pyU5Ga1kwr5bsMXthzYLbcngN4W2P8NtU9TWTdHC3HaQbjuuRfKKVdjVeWoGwunEuM8wEDjrJgVtUMbSr5cazimC5pVM8AJYTu6BX4WszFtd7UbqDSiNwRbCLq2cAxSJ?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Physical places for network Art - Some thoughts [SndBox]]]></title><description><![CDATA[I tried to think about a subject I recalled recently listening to the first video chat of the @sndbox project  I guess everyone knows the amazing Sndbox Project (->website)  created and managed]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/art/@paolobeneforti/physical-places-for-network-art-some-thoughts-sndbox</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/art/@paolobeneforti/physical-places-for-network-art-some-thoughts-sndbox</guid><category><![CDATA[art]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[paolobeneforti]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 25 Oct 2017 16:09:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/2bP4pJr4wVimqCWjYimXJe2cnCgnL8SagHPPo4eoWsY?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Painting improvisation - How the creative process in painting works]]></title><description><![CDATA[Watch it on Viewly end-preview Here is a short video of a painting I did without sketching or even thinking about it before. I did thousands of painting in 40 years of work as an artist, so some subjects]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/artist/@paolobeneforti/d6c3--2017-08-27--painting-improvisation-how-the-creative-process-in-painting-works</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/artist/@paolobeneforti/d6c3--2017-08-27--painting-improvisation-how-the-creative-process-in-painting-works</guid><category><![CDATA[artist]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[paolobeneforti]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 27 Aug 2017 11:07:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/RGgukq5E6HBNw7tB5obmMyErDdZYsu7dVpzYbnMNizVnebGhWMEgvEYowhHfBa83KorqTUaPuKnV4df7ugGuBaC9yAPLEtyGKzaibDQDBjMjhPJHy223F4Xiv3dd17k?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stories hidden inside artworks]]></title><description><![CDATA[Narration, in my humble opinion, is the natural way our thinking works. We learn things creating and knowing stories. Music and Literature were born to remember and transmit knowledge, in the Western]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/art/@paolobeneforti/stories-hidden-inside-artworks</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/art/@paolobeneforti/stories-hidden-inside-artworks</guid><category><![CDATA[art]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[paolobeneforti]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2017 21:04:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/C3TZR1g81UNchGPKLQuxAL7oEwDJ42cT977qXjChUsczVqbhjj69bgXUskWZcTUnZhtHs6pbBcGV68RfDY6RDLtq9VmFgfAv18Gv8C64TMRSjEDXqJE68Ea?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[How to become an artist in just a lifetime]]></title><description><![CDATA[How do you become an artist? Being an artist is a job OR a way to communicate. Or BOTH. Here I talk about the "both" part. As a child, you fastly learn something about art and artists. By chance, while]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/art/@paolobeneforti/how-to-become-an-artist-in-just-a-lifetime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/art/@paolobeneforti/how-to-become-an-artist-in-just-a-lifetime</guid><category><![CDATA[art]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[paolobeneforti]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 17 Mar 2017 23:53:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/MvwLKy3SfvJwXFKCRMDAFrt961YTVBDSNbrSdNkzA?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The unknow language of the Artworks -]]></title><description><![CDATA[It's always a good idea for me to let my artworks talk for me. They are smarter. Unfortunately, they talk their own language, that is something not easy to understand, I think. Not even I can understand]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/art/@paolobeneforti/the-unknow-language-of-the-artworks</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/art/@paolobeneforti/the-unknow-language-of-the-artworks</guid><category><![CDATA[art]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[paolobeneforti]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 17 Mar 2017 00:40:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/MvwLKy3SfvJwXFKCRMDAFrt961TiJxfBuHvB4ihav?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some more art sketches to put your brains elsewhere]]></title><description><![CDATA[One of the purposes of  modern Art (and of ancient Art too, mostly) is to put in front of our eyes things we can't find elsewhere, so that our brains have to create stories to describe them. Artists]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/art/@paolobeneforti/some-more-art-sketches-to-put-your-brains-elsewhere</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/art/@paolobeneforti/some-more-art-sketches-to-put-your-brains-elsewhere</guid><category><![CDATA[art]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[paolobeneforti]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 14 Mar 2017 11:30:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/MvwLKy3SfvJwXFKCRMDAFrt961QGEv25DE6xBMJKG?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Put your art in timelines. (Cryptospeaking, perhaps)]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is a post about art. It will not be so long. It's about how a work of art needs today to be linked to some events, to be understood and to leave a mark in the brain of the viewer.  Our brains]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/art/@paolobeneforti/put-your-art-in-timelines-cryptospeaking-perhaps</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/art/@paolobeneforti/put-your-art-in-timelines-cryptospeaking-perhaps</guid><category><![CDATA[art]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[paolobeneforti]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 13 Mar 2017 15:20:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/MvwLKy3SfvJwXFKCRMDAFrt961KHUazymS5zZzuca?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why am I supposed to have just one style, as an artist?]]></title><description><![CDATA[I paint, draw and sculpt using different styles. I have always done this way.  For the Art Market, it is bad.  So it goes. But I think - and hope - things will change, becouse styles, in art,]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/art/@paolobeneforti/why-am-i-supposed-to-have-just-one-style-as-an-artist</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/art/@paolobeneforti/why-am-i-supposed-to-have-just-one-style-as-an-artist</guid><category><![CDATA[art]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[paolobeneforti]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 02 Mar 2017 20:32:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/MvwLKy3SfvJwXFKCRMDAFrt961GL7RnpzhHyB4j7C?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Lion, a Sleeping Child, a Book]]></title><description><![CDATA[Images are often symbols. Images are always clusters of meanings. That's the peculiar way images communicate informations: by a concretion of meanings. So, when artists create images, or objects, they]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/art/@paolobeneforti/a-lion-a-sleeping-child-a-book</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/art/@paolobeneforti/a-lion-a-sleeping-child-a-book</guid><category><![CDATA[art]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[paolobeneforti]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2017 19:47:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/MvwLKy3SfvJwXFKCRMDAFrt961YxCvxWk1TYbNTZx?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little Street Art I did last year - and now it's gone.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Street Art and its official sanction are the biggest innovations in Art History of the last 30 years. Ok, and Digital Art too. Street Art has been assimilated by the art market and now street artists are]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/art/@paolobeneforti/little-street-art-i-did-last-year-and-now-it-s-gone</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/art/@paolobeneforti/little-street-art-i-did-last-year-and-now-it-s-gone</guid><category><![CDATA[art]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[paolobeneforti]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2017 21:31:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/C3TZR1g81UNchGPKLQuxAL7oEwDJ42cT977qXjChRm7dbysJtiZH3FRHNTUrWzecere1MRmYZ1uwkfRPmraWeDKwSZ1dKvdzYeRXvWT1xqhqXTJEeXRSPB4?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[100 artworks in 25 sec. (video)]]></title><description><![CDATA[I did a video with a sampling of artworks I made in 2016. It's a very fast round up of a year of work. 100 artworks in about 25 seconds. A work of art needs time from people to enjoy it. So a rapid series]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/art/@paolobeneforti/100-artworks-in-25-sec-video</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/art/@paolobeneforti/100-artworks-in-25-sec-video</guid><category><![CDATA[art]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[paolobeneforti]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2017 20:37:12 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/S5Eokt4BcQdk7EHeT1aYjzebg2hC7hkthT45e6k7MphXEtu1vkXWGCbeENuJDbowZoR15W6?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The words to describe an artwork and how they changed]]></title><description><![CDATA[How do you descrive a work of art using words? As of yesterday, you would have listed the technique, the historical style that you think  is closest to that work of art or the group or art movement]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/art/@paolobeneforti/the-words-to-describe-an-artwork-and-how-they-changed</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/art/@paolobeneforti/the-words-to-describe-an-artwork-and-how-they-changed</guid><category><![CDATA[art]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[paolobeneforti]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2017 22:27:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/MvwLKy3SfvJwXFKCRMDAFrt961FJLMuv2gZq3VmQ2?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some artworks of mine about mankind and doubts - I think so. Not sure.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Here are some more artworks I did during the last months. I think the subject is something like "human doubts in a sea of oddity". I spreaded these images around the web and exhibited them in public rooms]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/art/@paolobeneforti/some-artworks-of-mine-about-mankind-and-doubts-i-think-so-not-sure</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/art/@paolobeneforti/some-artworks-of-mine-about-mankind-and-doubts-i-think-so-not-sure</guid><category><![CDATA[art]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[paolobeneforti]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2017 15:18:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/99pyU4b7LiNVGreTcd9HqcJa59Kphz8Ra6E5wn8x2jB1M1QDTCbKMBfcw833q1itKwmB5yc9eTapYCfLRMkHsCYE3k6GvWnVDGaZ1R4w1YMczXwEhp9262SMRCeuEtysX4?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item></channel></rss>