Fr. Guido on Artists
Posted in Art on Dec 29th, 2010
ShareFATHER GUIDO SARDUCCI explains why becoming an artist, even now, is still a good deal.
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Monthly Archive for December, 2010
Jihad Bells
Posted in Culture Cues on Dec 27th, 2010
Merry Christmas
Posted in Art on Dec 24th, 2010
ShareGOD REST YE MERRY, GENTLEMEN, LET NOTHING YOU DISMAY.
REMEMBER CHRIST OUR SAVIOUR WAS BORN UPON THIS DAY.
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Confessional Arts
Posted in Art, Artistic Identity, Things to Read on Dec 22nd, 2010
ShareRUMMAGING THROUGH THE HARDCOVER BIN at the local dump recycling center last week, I came across a discarded library copy of Fulton Sheen’s Peace of Soul (1949). It was famous in its day. I stopped to leaf through it, curious to see if it still held up. Or was it a phenomenon of the times, [...]
Artists and Eccentricity
Posted in Art History, Artistic Identity, Artistic Pretension, Things to Read on Dec 19th, 2010
ShareWHEN WE TALK OF BOHEMIA, we are referring to a shifting cultural phenomenon that began among the Romantics, came to dissolute bloom in the prosperity of France’s Second Empire and continued, sporadically, through the Twenties and on into the Sixties. From Thomas De Quincey (17-85-1859) to the Beat Generation, thereabouts. But eccentricity has been with [...]
Born Under Saturn
Posted in Art History, Artistic Identity, Artistic Pretension, Culture Cues, Things to Read on Dec 17th, 2010
ShareARTISTS DO LOVE TO THINK OF THEMSELVES as different from everyone else. They are first on line for the latest article, book, monograph or lecture on the problems of the artist’s personality and the mysterious springs of his creative power. They bathe in popular notions of their own otherness and cater to popular illusion like [...]
Of Art & Work
Posted in Art, Art History, Culture Cues, Things to Read on Dec 14th, 2010
ShareI THOUGHT YOU MIGHT ENJOY a look at one example of art-as-social-practice in action. Herewith, Portland State University’s MFA students exhibit their craft at the Portland Museum, Oregon:
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Here we see the social role of the artist being played out in a community setting. It is a wonderful thing. Their heads all point to the center [...]
Saturday Bits
Posted in Art, Art Education, Culture Cues on Dec 11th, 2010
ShareTHIS SEEMS A GOOD TIME to say a word of thanks to those of you—you brave few—who take time to email with your own names. I am glad to have them, glad for that brief moment where the curtain of anonymity gets pulled back. It delights me to know that there are real people behind [...]
Wearing Black
Posted in Art, Art & Money, Culture Cues on Dec 8th, 2010
ShareWE DO ALL WEAR BLACK, DON’T WE? And it is not just artists. A ride on the New York City subways testifies to that. But for the logos on hats and jackets, we all look like Chelsea undertakers or Portuguese widows. Why bother looking for the new black? The old one is just fine, and [...]
Gombrich, Again
Posted in Art, Art Education, Art History, Art Writing, Things to Read on Dec 3rd, 2010
ShareA PAINTER ON FACULTY SOMEWHERE emailed me to regret that Gombrich had become:
. . . a voice that is little heard at the schools in which I’ve taught. . . . “The Visual Image: Its Place in Communication” is particularly good in throwing students for a loop; “On Art and Artists” is nice, too. There’s [...]