This is my Life
Art WednesdayMy favorite Christmas Song
--Joy to the world--
Joy to the world, the Lord is come!
Let earth receive her King;
Let every heart prepare Him room,
And heaven and nature sing,
And heaven and nature sing,
And heaven, and heaven, and nature sing.
Joy to the world, the Savior reigns!
Let...
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Sarah McLachlan
Song For A Winter’s Night
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The lamp is burning low upon my table top the snow is softly falling
The air is still within the silence of my room I hear your voice softly calling
If I could only have you near...
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Illustration from StuntKid
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I had the thought that I do not share much of my own work on this blog... I think I should do more of that. So here is a logo that I designed recently.
When I finish the site...
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Michelangelo
"David" (Detail)
Can you believe that a human created this?
More about Michelangelo here.
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I just check the election results... YES, YES, YES, YES, YES, YES, YES!!!!!!!!! Come on Montana and Virginia!!!
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Mark Rothko - Red, Orange, Tan, and Purple, 1949
I know that I have used Mark Rothko as an Art Wednesday in the past... But I am feeling the urge again.
I see the three dimensional aspects of life depicted in a...
I am a rock.
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This is a quote from my favorite movie, “American Beauty”. The lead character, Lester Burnham states the following after his death… ((Janie is his daughter and Carolyn his wife))
[narrating] I had always heard your entire life flashes in...
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Hale Woodruff
1900-1980
"Twilight", 1926
I was surfing through The Chicago Art Institutes site and ran across a piece from Hale Woodruff... I knew nothing about him, but have discovered that he was a semi-influential African-American artist... After some reading and a...
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Gustav Klimt
Stoclet Frise : Expectation
So I was talking about favorite artists with one of my good friends and they mentioned Klimt... I was quite embarrassed that I had never heard of him. I have been looking at his stuff and...
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Dalfolk och getter, 1850
by Kilian Zoll (1818-1860)
I can not find any sort of good translation for the title... No comment this week... Just enjoy the piece.
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Howard Hagen trading card day™ was quite a hit... Maybe a new card each week?...
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Life and everything in it is art. Every moment, every breath, every expression. Love, hate, attraction and wonder... We are organic expressions of the art of our lives.
Our reaction to the world around us is the truest form of art.
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Salvador Dali, "Galatea of the Spheres" - 1952
An interesting quote from the book I have on Dali says that he claimed to have a "paroxysm of joy"... After reading this, I immediately went to the dictionary and looked up the...