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October 8, 2009
- The question I have is what techniques do you use for REINVENTING YOUR ARTISTRY?I have been challenged in each new decade with reinventing myself.In my twenties, when I began performing for a fee, I utilized my youth and vitality and fulfilled my need to absorb the purpose of musical studies – self-expression.In my thirties, I concentrated more on building a repertoire of pieces I could sing ...
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August 15, 2009
- The question I have is what techniques do you use for REINVENTING YOUR ARTISTRY? I have been challenged in each new decade with reinventing myself. In my twenties, when I began performing for a fee, I utilized my youth and vitality and fulfilled my need to absorb the purpose of musical studies - self-expression. In my thirties, I concentrated more on building a repertoire of pieces I could sing ...
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August 11, 2009
- Rasher’s Depiction of Irelandhttp://www.visual-arts-cork.com/irish-artists/rasher-mark-kavanagh.htmRasherIrish Figure Painter, Still Life Artist. Biography and paintings.Encyclopedia of Irish and World Art – HOMEPAGE – Famous Irish Painters and SculptorsLooking Back to See if You WereLooking Ahead of MeRasher (Mark Kavanagh) (b.1977)The contemporary Irish figurative and still life artist ...
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August 3, 2009
- This article in today’s NYT is all about art, but it made me think all about writing. It’s about, essentially, the way we tend to collect digital photos as evidence of places we’ve seen, without really absorbing the experience of being there. Whereas in the eighteenth century, “Travelers who took the Grand Tour across Europe … spent months and years learning languages, meeting ...
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July 3, 2009
- "The job of the artist is to uplift men's souls." spoken by Nicoli Seroff in LOCAL COLOR, the movie now opening across the States
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June 24, 2009
- I am actually both a writer and artist. I am going to be Artist-in-Residence at the Lewis and Clark County Historical Society (58 N. Last Chance Gulch, in downtown Helena, Montana), during the month of July. I'll be working on my Helena Genius Loci series of paintings. This is a look at my first painting in progress, based on Chief Washakie of the Shoshone, as the South, on a 3 by 4 feet canvas. ...
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May 7, 2009
April 29, 2009
- Remainder, by TomMcCarthy, a British writer and artist, is a great reminder of how writing interacts with the world of art and its concern with space. Remainder, told in the first person, is a book about a man with amnesia who--as a result of an accident--gets over 8 million pounds as compensation on the condition that he never talk about it. He remembers nothing of his past. ...
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April 21, 2009
- One of the great inspirations in my life was experimental animator Jules Engel, best known for his work on Disney's Fantasia and Bambi, as well helping develop Mr. Magoo and some of the first animated series on television, Gerald McBoing-Boing and Alvin and the Chipmunks. When I started at CalArts in 1987, I knew him as the director of the Experimental Animation program. He always dressed ...
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April 11, 2009
- The arts always have it difficult during downturns in the economy, There was a feature on The News Hour last night about Dayton, Ohio and the arts and the struggle to survive. I lived in the Dayton area for many years and thus, found it be an interesting piece. Although Dayton doesn't have the "big city" respect of Cincinnati or Cleveland, it does have a fairly active arts ...
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