Category: Art
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S. Elizabeth on Karen Kuykendall’s Cat People from the Outer Regions
S. Elizabeth, author of The Art of Darkness, The Art of the Occult, and The Art of Fantasy as well as the incredible Unquiet Things blog, tells us about painter Karen Kuykendall and growing up with the beautifully surreal Tarot of the Cat People.
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Deep Waters by Lilias Trotter
Art as faith. Faith as art. “‘I am come into deep waters’ took on a new meaning this morning. It started with perplexing matters concerning the future. Then it dawned that shallow waters were a place where you can neither sink nor swim, but in deep waters it is one or the other: ‘waters to…
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5 Poems for Juneteenth
From joy as resistance to Langston Hughes’ dropkicking doors to a poem from a current High Schooler, here are 5 poems to celebrate Black excellence! Poetry is the perfect medium for freedom. It liberates language from the harsh confines of good sense, from the tyranny of perfect punctuation, from the endless grind of Logic and…
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Maggi Hambling – Wall of Water IX
Maggi Hambling’s oil paintings express the rainbow of thoughts and emotions of watching the water. Images of the beach, the ocean, the sea, the waves are synonymous with luxury, opulence, with living your best life. From the white sand beaches of Florida’s Clearwater Beach to the glamour of Cannes and the Mediterranean World to the…
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“Suburban Pastoral” by Dave Lucas
Evening descends on a Proustian suburb in Dave Lucas’ “Suburban Pastoral.” Beauty can be found anywhere. Ditto, inspiration. While melodrama and grandeur might seem necessary to make Great Art – the lofty, soul-stirring heights of Gothic architecture, the knee-quaking, awe-inspiring sublimity of the ocean, the mountains, the desert, the night sky – inspiration and beauty…
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Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian
Titian’s Bacchus and Ariadne is a masterpiece, illustrating our evolving associations with the color blue. Titian’s Bacchus and Ariadne is one of the finest and most famous paintings in the National Gallery. The Cretan princess Ariadne has been abandoned on the Greek island of Naxos by Theseus, whose ship is shown in the distance, at lower left.…
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“Polaroid Ode” by Cori A. Winrock
For Federico Durand. Something has been inexplicably lost with the rise of infinite HD digital photography. Maybe it was the inherent finitude of analog photography, the shortage of film and the time, energy, and resources to cultivate it. You had to really think about what you were going to shoot. You had to choose and,…
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Italian Girl With Flowers by Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida
Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida’s early portrait of youthful innocence is a masterwork of light. Rendered in liquid, dreamy oils in 1886, Spanish painter Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida’s impressionist portrait of a young Italian girl’s reverie both presages his later work while also standing resolutely apart. Sorolla y Bastida would later become known for epic works…