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Entries Tagged as 'Art'

Pretty, Petty and Profound Pictures

February 1st, 2009 · 2 Comments · Images, Uncategorized

There are millions, probably billions, of images on the Flickr website. They run the gamut from the sublime to the idiotic. It is a picture library sans catalog—a de facto giant screen and projector and anyone can be the projectionist. On Flickr there are no editors, art directors, researchers, photo-librarians, historians, theorists, philosophers, or social [...]

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What Do I Know (No)?

January 27th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Images

  What lies in our power to do also lies in our power not to do. Aristotle 

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Andrew Wyeth

January 16th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Christina’s world is smaller today and so is ours. The painter Andrew Wyeth has died at age 91. He and Norman Rockwell were the artists who most influenced me as a high school student in 1968. Both men could draw beautifully and I aspired to such virtuosity. Later, as an Art student at Michigan State [...]

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