Love of beauty is Taste. The creation of beauty is Art. Ralph Waldo Emerson There’s a purpose to this great thing that the Internet has spawned beyond the creation of commerce engines, marketing campaigns and wealth beyond our wildest imagination. The world has become too large, genius too widely distributed, stories too important and creativity […]
Theo, in the living room, evening light, soft time, muted gold, an eye wash of sunlight and inner life, the big photo album balanced gently on his knees. Blonde hair across his face, hiding the curiosity in his eye, matching gazes with the young woman in the picture, head crowned in braids, skin fair and […]
The clues are everywhere, but it isn’t until you see the title that the entire meaning becomes clear. I stumbled across these paintings because I follow the artist on Twitter. Her handle is @julia_hensley. I don’t follow her because she’s an artist; a writer that I follow follows her and I added her as I […]
The artist who painted this works exclusively in images. In her fifty-year career, representative images make up a tiny portion of her work. She is an abstract artist. This is one of the few works where she uses words. The others were in a series of religious works that she did mainly in the 1970’s, […]
Just how bound up natural beauty is with art beauty is confirmed by the experience of the former. For it, nature is exclusively appearance, never the stuff of labor and the reproduction of life, let alone the sub-stratum of science. Like the experience of art, the aesthetic experience is that of images. Nature, as appearing […]