Fleur Roos Rosa de Carvalho, ‘Decorative panels’, in Odilon Redon
and Andries Bonger: 36 works from the Van Gogh Museum collection,
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Odilon Redon at Van Gogh Museum
~Sunnyside
Fernando Cueto Amorsolo at wikiwand
Fernando Cueto Amorsolo at Christie’s
Fernando Cueto Amorsolo at Sotheby’s
Fernando Cueto Amorsolo at Bonhams
~Sunnyside
Love the translation above- the mixture of optimism and yet ironic!
Last week saw the publication of Dana Gioia’s Meet Me at the Lighthouse, a perfect collection of poems. Dana has been a mentor and a friend to me, but had he and I never met, the pages of this book would have lodged themselves just as firmly in my heart. In fact, we came to know each other through one of its masterpieces, “The Ballad of Jesus Ortiz.” It reached me through a mutual friend, the late Scott Timberg, and I leapt at the chance to publish it in the Los Angeles Review of Books. The ballad tells the true story of Dana’s great-grandfather, a Mexican immigrant to the US who was killed in an argument over a bar tab. It is a poem of the West, and others in Dana’s book — including the titular “Meet Me at the Lighthouse” — bring the…
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This is crucial, I believe for Doctors who so often are unable to take the time to really listen to the patient.
Curiosity (Mission San Juan Caistrano) – (Joseph Kleitsch)
“Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.”
Leo Burnett
Curiosity is being eager to find out about new things, to know and learn about various aspects of the world.
It means that we will investigate with some enthusiasm whatever interests us.
Being curious requires an openness of mind, and a willingness to pursue new knowledge and experiences.
Einstein regarded curiosity as a basic aspect of his success :
“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
Einstein
Well, that was Einstein…. but how might such curiosity helpus?
Research into the benefits of curiosity has revealed that it is a crucial factor in academic learning.
“Curiosity is the beginning of all wisdom.”
Françoise Sagan
It is also well documented that curiosity can make us feel happier, enhance relationships
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Amazing that such work could be done in the eye of the storm, so to speak. Many of these paintings are from a time which doesn’t feel long ago and how unusual that world appears.
After the early death of Rufin Sudkovsky in 1885, his widow, the former Elena Petrovna Besnard, a prolific Russian illustrator, later married another Ukrainian artist, Mykola Samokish (1860–1944), a selection of whose paintings I show today. Samokish is remarkable for having remained popular and successful in Ukraine and Russia from the 1880s into the Second World War, a period during which so many artists fell foul of one regime or another.
Samokish was born into a Cossack family in Nizhyn, Ukraine, and spent his youth in the town of Nosivka near Chernihiv, in the north-east of the country. He studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg between 1879 and 1885.
Mykola Samokish (1860–1944), Hunters (1885), oil, dimensions not known, National Gallery of Art, Lviv, Ukraine. Wikimedia Commons.
In his early career, he painted several hunting scenes, including the painterly Hunters from 1885.
The same year, Samokish travelled…
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Some attractive works here!
I have begun to rework various drawings that I have lately found in storage. Most of the drawings were studies and were never finished for that reason. To finish the drawings now means getting ideas from memory and imagination since the still life set ups are long gone, though in some cases certain still life objects are still in the room with me, available to consult. This drawing is particularly odd in its having a twin. For some reason I made two drawings of the same motif and didn’t finish either one. They appear on same sized sheets and the subjects are very similar. So I have decided to use one to suggest ways of working on the other. Whatever information the one drawing has gets copied to its twin. Then the first reworked drawing…
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Brilliant artist-discussed last night on BBC3 Radio 3 Free Thinking
“Associated with the Symbolist movement, the art of Odilon Redon demonstrates a superb mastery of the pastel technique which draws it source from French 18th century art. The Impressionist painters such as Manet or Degas revived this medium, but Redon then developed a particular style which evoked a world inhabited by a deep sense of spirituality…The use of a arched window-like frame emphasises this space of transition between the physical and the spiritual world. The composition is completed by a majestic invasion of evanescent flowers. Flowers, as Redon described in his diary “…come from the convergence of two shores, that of representation, that of memory”. (A Soi-même. Journal (1867-1915), Paris, 1922, p.115).”
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Absolutely love the expression “altering the authorities” because it seems to me, recently reading Lacan, perhaps that is what needs doing and not just alerting them!!
Dance Move, the second collection by the Belfast-based writer Wendy Erskine, comprises eleven short stories – little snapshots of life with all its minor dramas and incidents. While several other reviewers love this book, praising the stories for their humanity, authenticity and colour, it pains me to say that I found it somewhat uneven in quality. On the positive side, there are five very solid stories here – memorable, highly relatable pieces that made a strong impression on me. These are the stories that I’ll focus on in my review, with a few brief notes on the less satisfying ones towards the end.
Erskine’s strongest pieces tend to feature ordinary, working-class people, stoically dealing with the small dramas and preoccupations of everyday life. In some instances, there is a strong sense of looking back to the past, of paths not taken or opportunities left unexplored. In others, a more…
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“Unexpressed emotions will never die.They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.”
Freud
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