Desperation and fear. A deep-rooted struggle to feel alive and function in a meaningful way. What exactly is this artistic temperament that is so often associated with the arts? It is to some degree a measure borne of the frustration and inability to cope with problematic circumstances. The manifestation of dramatic swings in emotion could [...]
Lindy Hop was the name given to an original form of urban dancing of Afro-American creation. Its categorized as swing dancing , yet Lindy Hop was an innovative variant that took the genre to a new level. The Harlem ghetto of the 1920′s and 1930′s and in particualr the Savoy Club was the focal point. [...]
British writer Caryl Churchill’s ten minute playlet ”Seven Jewish Children”( 7JC) is an artistic achievement that has multiple interpretations. It is art imposed over a political and religious context whereby the audience is drawn into the relationship between church, state, and modern power structures. 7JC has many similarities with Jonathan Swift’s ‘‘Tale of the Tub.”. Seven [...]
This unusual statue has been produced by an artist who is both anonymous and somewhat mysterious as to origin and identity. The statue was initially observed slap-shotting on a frozen pond before stickhandling its way inside the showroom of ArtPizzaz in Montreal, an importer of decorative Chinese made oil paintings. The owner of the gallery [...]
Florine Stettheimer was among the most original American painters of her generation. Her lengthly creative peak began in 1916 until her death in 1944 which occurred while painting. Stettheimer viewed art as ”an entirely private pursuit”. There was no existing precedent for Stettheimer’s work and no-one has painted like her since. The approach was personal and [...]
At an outer perimeter of Delta Quadrant is a planet inhabited uniquely by a left handed civilization with human resemblances. They are Artemoids, so named after the Greek God of the arts, Artemis. Artemis’s moon is named Apollo, after the Greek God of music and poetry. The entire Artemoid population are practioners of the arts. [...]
The Treaty of the Tribbles crumbled. The Klingons, now aided by the Vogons, began burning art at public gatherings. Kirk was asked to lead an expeditionary force, temporarily vacating the captaincy of the Enterprise. Starfleet originally planned to promote Shakespeare’s Falstaff, but the Vulcan wisdom of Spock prevailed, and Captain Leonardo DaVinci was named [...]
Celebrity painter Bob Ross could speed- paint a landscape in 30 minutes for his ”The Joy of Painting” television series.This rapidity was achieved primarily through a modular approach implemented with a variant of the ”wet on wet” technique. But, could the iconic Ross or any painter attain 180 completed works per week for 10 years? [...]
The Great Wall of China would be the largest wall surface to hang paintings in the world. Its 5500 square miles long of wall could be filled with Chinese ”hand-made” factory reproductions in less than a month. Chairman Mao could have equally stated that ”Art would flow out of the barrel of a gun”. Forty [...]
Who Am I? What artist , period of painting and paintings best reflects myself? Five women and five men will be posthumously featured over the next several months. A five dollar gift certificate will be mailed to each participant who responds by making a choice and explaining why. There will be an as yet undisclosed [...]
