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Praxiteles– Making the Myth of Praxiteles. pdf
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Marianne North, on her Paintings
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Babies, Kids and Haiku
(Note: at the bottom of this page can be found Introductory Remarks. It is a short essay on how this society is unfair to children and why. If you wish, skip down to Introductory Remarks at the end of this page below.
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Babies and Kids
I learned from birds and animals that the best thing in life is having babies. Bison, Elephants, Whales and Ants as well as Deer have babies, and so do Redbirds and Orioles and every other species. Life is babies and they are too taken for granted, made fun or disparaged by men, who seem to think they were not born too. Having children has changed me in profound ways.
The process of birthing is amazing, and though for a time, if one births in a hospital, one abdicates control to nurses and doctors, they are really not in control. They offer a margin of safety, but I could see the baby was in control, something in the mothers body decides with the baby that birth will be now, and no one really understands how that happens exactly.
Yes, the babies changed my life in huge ways, and my thinking. When my daughter was born I saw this happen right away and it has never stopped, 12 years on now. The second child divided me somewhat, — for instance, how do I teach them both at the same time? But he is as amazing as the first.
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“Staying Amazed”: Universal Realism and the Science of Seeing
This also contains notes an essay on
Beyond Style: Realism: the Real Art of the Last 600 Years
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Museum Show Proposal “Staying Amazed”
My trilogy, collectively called Persistant Fictions, also contains a few essays on art. I situate art history with a wide cultural and historical context. Some of this is in the following exhibit, but much more is in the essays on Praxiteles: “Misuses of Scholarship in the Making of the Myth” and “Beyond the Dead End of Traditional and (Post)/Modernist Aesthetics”
http://www.naturesrights.com/Book%203%20The%20Varieties%20of%20Religious%20Delusion.pdf
See also my Blog which contains many essays on my art and that of others. Here:
Doing Drawings at the Cleveland Museum of Art
The notion of Mastery has several definitions in the dictionary. One evokes the idea of slavery, serfs and peasants, as well as the corresponding overlord, conqueror, monarch or or suzerain– the ‘Master’, precisely… Continue reading “Doing Drawings at the Cleveland Museum of Art”
Drawing Horses
I’ve been drawing horses when I can for three of four years now. Not very often, just when there is a horse show or my daughter is riding. We found a good teacher for a few years but then she left and we have not found a good one to replace her. In any case, I have not drawn horses very much, and am only at the beginning of this study. So this is really a blog post about beginning this inquiry. Continue reading “Drawing Horses”
Drawing Baseball
I love kid’s baseball. I played it alot when I was a kid. I was not very good at playing on teams, partly because I never learned how. My first team was the Shetland Ponies, when I was 7. When 10 or 11, I was set up on a team called the Cardinals, where all the kids were nearly two years older than I was and that makes a huge difference. I struck out all that summer. I never got one hit. It got so bad I started crying before I even got up to bat. But with the neighborhood kids, it was a fair game and I did pretty well. Indeed, i loved it, from playing pickle to having real games with all the boys in the neighborhood. Continue reading “Drawing Baseball”
