Category Archives: Art
Do You Wanna Dance?
Category Art
Do You Wanna Dance? Some of you may recognize our title this month. Does it take you back to the late 60s and early 70s, when America’s youthful males were obsessed with gas-guzzling, muscle cars, and had high hopes that the girl of their dreams would fast become a woman during their courtship?
What A Pair!
Category Art, Movies
Did you ever notice that most everything we like or need usually is a set; and is discussed, acquired, or possessed in pairs? You don’t go to the shoe store and buy two shoes do you? No, you buy a pair of shoes; in the same way you might buy a few pairs of socks. [...]
Travels – Paris and Elsewhere
Category Art, Movies, Travel
Fifty six years ago, in 1951, the classic musical film An American In Paris was released and it is still discussed even today. This film, directed by Vincent Minelli, won the Oscar for Best Picture. It is the story of an American G.I. who stayed in Paris after WWII to pursue his dreams of becoming [...]
Beauty On Our Own Shores
Category Art
Today is the Fourth of July. People will go out on boats, or load up their automobiles and go someplace. Across America there will be family outings to beaches and parks, where picnics and barbecues will happen. There will be parades, fireworks, and of course baseball.
Leave Out the Details
Category Art
How much do you really need in order to piece together enough information to get a coherent understanding of the object before your eyes. As you’ve seen in my column before, I generally like art from the school of classic realism. Make the art as near as possible to a photograph, and you had a [...]
Did Someone Say Purple Mountains Majesty?
Category Art
Recently, I visited a place called Jockey Hollow in Morristown, New Jersey. The area is a National Park, and is known for its beauty and remembered because this is where a number of American troops endured a fierce winter – including seven ‘blizzards’ in December alone – more than two hundred years and twenty years [...]
Orientalist Art & Other Delights
Category Art
Today I found myself in the wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art devoted to some of the European Masters. And speaking of Masters, during the 19th Century, artists in Western Europe began to grow out of the Romanticist and Pre-Raphaelite styles of art, and began to take an interest in more exotic topics, locales, [...]