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  • Tapestries of meaning

    Tapestries of meaning
    2025/05/04
    The public good, the fallout shelter, we’re having an assembly today. The wonderful ruckus of it all. Thrown together, pieced together, stitches and seams all showing. From Victory Gardens to Patrick Henry, to Giuseppe Pitrè and Guiseppe Arcimboldo; from Great Wave immigrants to rainy day assemblies. Furnari Sicily, tailors, weaving, and the tapstries of meaning in story construction: storytelling as contextual. A story means what we convey it to mean.
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    15 分
  • The Universe End to End; Art and the Scale and Scope of Conveyance

    The Universe End to End; Art and the Scale and Scope of Conveyance
    2025/04/26
    When do the measures of the universe meet in a tight corner? Is the universe of artistic conveyance large enough to embody contrasting notions of validity? In considering Whitman’s “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer.” Reaching to the ends of a natural ethic from Robert Burns’s “To a Mouse.” Are we reaching to the stars or to the earth right in front of our feet with our artistry? The universe of referentiality from the still life to the landscape. Considering Helen Frankenthaler and Clara Peeters. Considerations of my own works including symphonies in the sink and people of the fork. This is a consideration of the layers of referentiality in the workflow of creating art. Considerations of photography, using Procreate, and how photography and digital tools become part of painting workflow.
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    26 分
  • A New Gorgon

    A New Gorgon
    2025/04/15
    Why were there so many toy guns when we were kids? At what point does a work of art become a form? When does an artist create a kind of phraseology that other artists build on, play with, and speak into? When we’re in the world of pretend, is there an ethic for consumption? Why do authors or artists choose to portray the horrific? And how do they choose to portray it? What is realism? Is it the way the artist plays on the very real yet hidden contexts that we are walking through life perceiving with? Works referenced and considered: Roland Barthes’ “Mythologies; The Odyssey; Artemisia Gentileschi – "Judith Beheading Holofernes"; Francisco Goya – "The Third of May 1808"; Édouard Manet – "The Execution of Emperor Maximilian"; Yue Minjun – "Execution"; Shakespeare’s Macbeth
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    22 分
  • The Reaches of Artistic Testimony

    The Reaches of Artistic Testimony
    2025/04/13
    In this pilot episode, the foundation of the notion of “An Infinite Language” is explored. From the process of painterly seeing to Ozymandias and the enduring voice of the arts and the artist.
    Some highlights:
    Can you paint with words?
    The artistic voice is more enduring than absolute power.
    The everyday person has the power to tell, to convey and sculpt our notions of what happened.
    What voice carries on?
    Creative output is an infinite language, it cannot be relegated to, cannot be limited to solving the world’s problems. Art is not a for-hire form of expression that is only used for problem solving.
    What is the contrast between Ozymandias and the message in Emma Lazarus's poem on the Statue of Liberty? "The New Colossus" is a message of hope, a claim that the way of lifting up is the golden door. Other works discussed: Guernica by Picasso, David's the Coronation of Napoleon
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    26 分