If you wish to collect art, your walls needn’t look like this picture. In fact, you can buy just one artistic object, learn from it that you have no interest in collecting and be done. And that piece can be from an art or craft fair, an artist friend, a rummage sale. It can cost only a few dollars. However you begin, I guarantee you that your life will be...
Read MoreMy recent romp through a few new tech gadgets put me in mind of the French artist Fernand Leger. The Impressionists flirted with statements about technology, but Leger was one of, perhaps the, first to directly address the human and social effects as well as the scientific understandings that accompanied it. Along with several other French artists and painting...
Read MoreSomeone recently got another of his serial 15 minutes of fame organizing a Renoir protest at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. It was a nothing event except that it has given me an excuse to revisit Pierre Renoir, many of whose works warm my heart every time I encounter them, even in pictures, posters and greeting cards. So, I am a fan of Impressionist painter...
Read MoreOh Goodie!! A Vermeer painting I didn’t know existed until today! And being (always) a homebody and (now) a city person, I was instantly taken by this naturalistic townscape. It is a slice of daily, domestic 17th century life in Delft so exquisitely rendered that it captures the poetic beauty of and reverence for everyday life throughout Holland. In its...
Read MoreThe other day I was expecting a delivery of a fairly expensive garment I’d ordered on line. As the day went into evening, I kept going to my front door to see if the package was there. Finally, just before going to bed I looked one more time – and there it was on my doorstep. At 10 p.m. – which meant that someone had to drive alone in the...
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