US 8,669,325 B1 · Compositions image making mediums and images

A method for making a fine-artist's image-making canvas support medium as a new reinvented version of the conventional utilitarian fine artist's canvas, wherein the reinvented image support medium facilitates artistic expression and the creation and display of art, design or architecture made therewith, thereupon or therefrom, which method comprises:

making the image support using at least one conductive polymer and at least one additional ingredient in a form that is woven, non-woven and/or a textile, with means of having and using energy from a source that is part of it or separate from it, so that the work has distinct edges or boundaries, and so that the work has means for showing a two or three-dimensional artwork, picture or design that can be seen from one or more sides or angles, and also making the work as or developing it into an aesthetic work
with a conductive polymer that:
is capable of conducting electricity that flows or is non-static, emits light, and/or is in a device, so that this conductive polymer is separate from any photographic film or paper that might also be part of the work,
with at least one additional ingredients that provides or enhances support, transparency or translucency of the work;
and
creating or developing at least one artwork, design or pictorial element on or with the aesthetic work that can be seen from one or more sides or angles,
creating a visible overall aesthetic, and
making the work so that it has a visible purpose for visual observation or display, integrating all of the aesthetic work's elements visibly into the work as one whole, and
creating the aesthetic work as or developing it into two or three-dimensional art wherein:
the aesthetic work is free of being a purely commercial or informational, and
the aesthetic work is free of a computer, or it has a computer that serves the purpose described in this claim and the aesthetic work is other than a conventional computer and free of a conductive polymer OLED touch screen, and
the aesthetic work is either free of a camera, or it has a part that is a camera that is subsidiary or that is subordinate in proportion to the visible work as a whole or hidden from view;
and
the aesthetic work is free of any e-material device;
it has conductive polymer separate from its e-material device;
or it has an e-material device with its conductive polymer part of it and the aesthetic work is fine art, it is architecture, or it is a work of design for viewing or display apart from being worn directly upon the human body as jewelry design, clothing design or watch design;
and
the aesthetic work is other than a conventional phone, personal digital assistant device or portable media player device and if the aesthetic work's at least one ingredient and its form are both opaque:
(a) most or all of the aesthetic work's utilitarian elements including any wiring, batteries, switches and utilitarian mount parts are integrated into the visible aesthetic of the work as a whole by being hidden from view and/or by being made entirely or predominantly visually unobvious or unapparent to viewers looking at the whole work;
and
(b) the aesthetic work is:
pictorial;
a sculpture, a mural, a kinetic work, a mobile, an openwork art form, furniture, jewelry, table cloth or runner, with one or more shades, shutters, window treatments or placemats, fashion design, a fashion accessory, a costume, a stage set, a partition, stairs, a door, a wall, a ceiling, a floor, a case, a container, interior design, architecture, a work with a visible element indicating its religious or spiritual function, a work of fine art for visual observation that is free or nearly free of utilitarian function, or a book;
it has means of display as art from, on or in the ceiling or an overhead structure;
it shows a figure, an animal, a still life, landscape, nature, the sky, a part or aspect of any of these, subject matter that is not physically present, drawing, collage, pattern, a visual effect resembling that in an art by a well-established artist, or a combination of these.

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A method for making a fine-artist's image-making canvas support medium as a new reinvented version of the conventional utilitarian fine artist's canvas, wherein the reinvented image support medium facilitates artistic expression and the creation and display of art, design or architecture made therewith, thereupon or therefrom, which method comprises:

making the image support with means for creating and showing a two or three-dimensional artwork, picture or design capable of visible aesthetic change that can be seen from one or more sides or angles, using one or more non-light-emissive aesthetic e-material image-making display devices;
making this work with means of having and using energy from a source that is part of it or separate from it;
making the work with distinct edges or boundaries, and making it as or developing it into an aesthetic work,
creating a visible overall aesthetic, and
making the work so that it has a visible purpose for visual observation or display,
integrating all of the aesthetic work's elements visibly into the work as one whole, and
creating the aesthetic work as or developing it into two or three-dimensional art capable of visible aesthetic change using its non-light-emissive aesthetic e-material image-making display device or devices, and this art is:
pictorial;
a sculpture, a mural, a kinetic work, a mobile or an openwork art form;
a design;
with means of display as art;
showing a figure, an animal, a still life, landscape, nature, the sky, a part or aspect of any of these, subject matter that is not physically present, drawing, collage or a pattern;
or a combination of these, thus,
the aesthetic work is free of being purely commercial or informational, and the aesthetic work is free of a computer, or it has a computer that serves the purpose described in this claim and the aesthetic work is other than a conventional computer, and
the aesthetic work is either free of a camera, or it has a camera that is subsidiary or that is subordinate in proportion to the visible work as a whole or hidden from view;
the aesthetic work is other than a conventional phone, personal digital assistant device, portable media player device, electronic reader device or e-reader, and
the aesthetic work is:
fine art;
it is architecture;
it is a work of fashion design that is clothing;
it is jewelry design as a necklace, a pin or earrings;
or it is a work of design for viewing or display apart from being worn directly upon the human body as jewelry design, clothing design or watch design.

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A method for making a fine-artist's image-making canvas support medium as a new reinvented version of the conventional utilitarian fine artist's canvas, wherein the reinvented image support medium facilitates artistic expression and the creation and display of art, design or architecture made therewith, thereupon or therefrom, which method comprises:

making the image support with means for creating and showing a two or three-dimensional artwork, picture or design that can be seen from one or more sides or angles, using light it emits from one or more image-making display devices that use energy, one or more of which have their light-emitting display screen and their form partially or entirely transparent or translucent, and preparing the work with means of having and using energy from a source that is part of it or separate from it, and
making the work as or developing it into an aesthetic work with distinct edges or boundaries, that is other than:
an installed window or group of windows with simple geometric shapes that look like conventional windows and that can change reversibly from being entirely transparent to entirely emitting uniform white or colorless light, and that might change with a conventional on/off switch and/or dimmer;
and
creating a visible overall aesthetic and a visible purpose for visual observation or display,
integrating all of the aesthetic work's elements visibly into the work as one whole,
creating the aesthetic work as or developing it into two or three-dimensional art employing its emitted light and this art is:
pictorial;
a sculpture, a mural, a kinetic work, a mobile or an openwork art form;
a design;
with means of display as art;
showing a figure, an animal, a still life, landscape, nature, the sky, a part or aspect of any of these, subject matter that is not physically present, drawing, collage or a pattern;
or a combination of these, thus,
the aesthetic work is free of being purely commercial or informational, the aesthetic work is free of a computer, or it has a computer that serves the purpose described in this claim and the aesthetic work is other than a conventional computer and free of a conductive polymer OLED touch screen, and
the aesthetic work is either free of a camera, or it has a part that is a camera that is subsidiary or that is subordinate in proportion to the visible work as a whole, or hidden from view, and
the aesthetic work is other than a conventional phone, personal digital assistant device or portable media player device.

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A method for making a fine-artist's image-making canvas support medium as a new reinvented version of the conventional utilitarian fine artist's canvas, wherein the reinvented image support medium facilitates artistic expression and the creation and display of art, design or architecture made therewith, thereupon or therefrom, which method comprises:

preparing the image support with means for creating and showing a two or three-dimensional artwork, picture or design that can be seen from one or more sides or angles using light it emits from an organic light-emitting diode (OLED);
preparing the work with means of having and using energy from a source that is part of it or separate from it, so that the work has distinct edges or boundaries and making it as or developing it into an aesthetic work according to one or more of (A)-(E):
(A) preparing the OLED with an overall shape that is non-geometric, irregular or more complex than a simple geometric shape;
(B) preparing the OLED with a form that is non-planar, curved, angled or more than slightly uneven;
or preparing the OLED with a discontinuous form that has at least one area within it that is open space or that is made of a different composition;
(C) preparing the aesthetic work with means of being kinetic so that it has visible physical movement initiated using any means that continues free of human physical contact,
(D) preparing the aesthetic work with the visible signature or distinguishing mark identifying the artist, designer or group of artists and/or designers who created it as art, which is other than the mark of an industrial or commercial manufacturer or scientific organization;
or preparing the aesthetic work with a title as art which is free of being purely commercial or informational;
and/or
(E) preparing the aesthetic work with an additional light emitter made with a different technology, with an e-material, or both;
and
the aesthetic work made according to one or more of (A)-(E) above is made with a visible overall aesthetic and with a visible purpose for visual observation or display,
integrating all of the aesthetic work's elements visibly into the work as one whole, and
creating the aesthetic work as or developing it into two or three-dimensional art employing its OLED light and this art is:
pictorial;
a sculpture, a mural, a kinetic work, a mobile or an openwork art form;
a design;
with means of display as art;
showing a figure, an animal, a still life, landscape, nature, the sky, a part or aspect of any of these, subject matter that is not physically present, drawing, collage or a pattern;
or a combination of these, therefore,
the aesthetic work is free of being purely commercial or informational.

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A method for making a fine-artist's image-making canvas support medium as a new reinvented version of the conventional utilitarian fine artist's canvas, wherein the reinvented image support medium facilitates artistic expression and the creation and display of art, design or architecture made therewith, thereupon or therefrom, which method comprises:

making the image support as a compositional arrangement of parts that is a work with distinct edges or boundaries and means for showing a two or three-dimensional artwork, picture or design that can be seen from one or more sides or angles using light emitted from one or more organic light-emitting diode (OLED)s;
and
making this work with one or more other parts that are entirely or partially transparent and/or translucent, and with means of having and using energy from a source that is part of the work or separate from it, so that:
(i) the OLED or OLEDs can emit light free of its other part or parts that are entirely or partially transparent and/or translucent, or
(ii) the part or parts that are entirely or partially transparent and/or translucent provide energy, and/or are part of means of having or using energy, and
making this work as or developing it into an aesthetic work,
creating a visible overall aesthetic, and
making the work so that it has a visible purpose for visual observation or display,
integrating all of the aesthetic work's elements visibly into the work as one whole,
creating the aesthetic work as or developing it into two or three-dimensional art employing its emitted OLED light and this art is:
pictorial;
a sculpture, a mural, a kinetic work, a mobile or an openwork art form;
a design;
with means of display as art;
showing a figure, an animal, a still life, landscape, nature, the sky, a part or aspect of any of these, subject matter that is not physically present, drawing, collage or a pattern;
or a combination of these, therefore,
the aesthetic work is free of being purely commercial or informational.

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A method for making a fine-artist's image-making canvas support medium as a new reinvented version of the conventional utilitarian fine artist's canvas, wherein the reinvented image support medium facilitates artistic expression and the creation and display of art, design or architecture made therewith, thereupon or therefrom, which method comprises:

making the image support with means for creating and showing a two or three-dimensional artwork, picture or design that can be seen from one or more sides or angles, using light it emits from one or more image-making display devices,
preparing the work with means of having and using energy from a source that is part of it or separate from it, so that it has distinct edges or boundaries and also making the work as or developing it into an aesthetic work according to (A) or (B):
(A) preparing the aesthetic work with at least one image-making display device that has a thin light-emitting screen or form that is about 6 mm thick or less, and/or that is made so that its continuous light-emitting display screen is capable of flexing or folding;
(B) preparing the aesthetic work with means for creating and showing a two or three-dimensional artwork, picture or design that can be seen from one or more sides or angles, using light it emits from one or more organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), and creating at least one artwork, design or pictorial element using this emitted OLED light that can be seen from one or more of the work's sides or angles, and
the aesthetic work prepared according to (A) and/or (B) above is made with a visible overall aesthetic and a visible purpose for visual observation or display, and making the aesthetic work other than a single light-emitting display in a simple geometric shape, emitting uniform white or colorless light which might have a conventional on/off switch and/or dimmer;
and which is either:
(i) the entire form of a discrete object with an extreme minimal frame or unframed, or (ii) a light-emitting device installed directly on a wall, a ceiling or on the entire transparent surface of a conventional window, and
integrating all of the aesthetic work's elements visibly into the work as one whole,
creating the aesthetic work as or developing it into two or three-dimensional art employing its emitting light and this art is:
pictorial;
a sculpture, a mural, a kinetic work, a mobile or an openwork art form;
a design;
with means of display as art;
showing a figure, an animal, a still life, landscape, nature, the sky, a part or aspect of any of these, subject matter that is not physically present, drawing, collage or a pattern;
or a combination of these, thus,
the aesthetic work is free of being purely commercial or informational, and
the aesthetic work is free of a computer, or it has a computer that serves the purpose described in this claim and the aesthetic work is other than a conventional computer, and
the aesthetic work is either free of a camera, or it has a part that is a camera that is subsidiary or that is subordinate in proportion to the visible work as a whole or hidden from view, and
the aesthetic work is other than a conventional phone, personal digital assistant device or portable media player device.

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A method for making a fine-artist's image-making canvas support medium as a new reinvented version of the conventional utilitarian fine artist's canvas or drawing pad, wherein the reinvented image-making support facilitates artistic expression and the creation and display of art, design or architecture made therewith, thereupon or therefrom, which method comprises:

making the image-making support with means for creating and showing a two or three-dimensional artwork, picture or design capable of visible aesthetic change that can be seen from one or more sides or angles, using light it emits from at least one organic light-emitting diode (OLED),
preparing the image-making support with means of having and using energy from a source that is part of it or separate from it, in a form that has distinct edges or boundaries, and
preparing this image-making support with at least one interactive feature that enables the creation, development and/or change of a visible artwork, pictorial or design element using OLED light on one or more of the work's sides or viewable areas in a process in which the work is active, with this interactive feature more complex than or other than a conventional on/off switch or dimmer, and
creating a visible overall aesthetic,
making the aesthetic image-making support so that it has a visible purpose for visual observation or display,
integrating all of the image-making support's elements visibly into the work as one whole, and
creating the aesthetic image-making support as or developing it into two or three-dimensional art employing its OLED light and this art is:
pictorial;
a sculpture, a mural, a kinetic work, a mobile or an openwork art form;
a design;
with means of display as art;
showing a figure, an animal, a still life, landscape, nature, the sky, a part or aspect of any of these, or subject matter that is not physically present, drawing, collage or a pattern;
or a combination of these, wherein:
the aesthetic image-making support is free of being purely commercial or informational,
the aesthetic image-making support is either free of a camera, or it has a part that is a camera that is subsidiary or that is subordinate in proportion to the visible work as a whole or hidden from view,
the aesthetic image-making support is other than a conventional phone, personal digital assistant device, or portable media player device;
and
A) the aesthetic image-making support is free of a computer or
B) the aesthetic image-making support has a computer that serves the purpose described in this claim and is other than a conventional computer, and if this computer has the at least one interactive feature described above, this feature is other than an OLED touch screen.

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A method for making a mural from a fine-artist's image-making canvas support medium that is a new reinvented version of the conventional utilitarian fine artist's canvas, wherein the reinvented image support medium facilitates artistic expression and the creation and display of art, design or architecture made therewith, thereupon or therefrom, which method comprises:

preparing the canvas support medium with means for creating and showing a two or three-dimensional aesthetic, picture or design using light emitted from one or a plurality of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), that can be seen from one or more sides or angles,
preparing the canvas support medium, its OLED or its OLEDs with at least one ingredient or part so that the work has the form of a mural with distinct edges or boundaries,
preparing the canvas support medium with means of having and using energy from a source that is part of it or separate from it, and
making the canvas support medium as or developing it into an aesthetic mural with a visible purpose for visual observation or display,
integrating all of the canvas support medium's elements visibly into the work as one whole, and
creating the aesthetic mural as or developing it into two or three-dimensional art employing its emitted OLED light and this art is:
pictorial;
a design;
showing a figure, an animal, a still life, landscape, nature, the sky, a part or aspect of any of these, subject matter that is not physically present, drawing, collage or a pattern;
or a combination of these, thus,
the aesthetic mural is free of being purely commercial or informational, and
the aesthetic mural is free of a computer, or it has a computer that serves the purpose described in this claim and the aesthetic mural is other than a conventional computer.

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