Freddie-bot and Charlie start a blog post
Author: Vessie Kazachka
The Adventures of Freddie-bot and Charlie
“Why isn’t Vessie writing today? She said she would have a new post every week?” “Freddie-bot, she’s busy today. She’s working.” “Charlie, she’s not just gonna quit her job to write a blog, and she likes her job, too. She had the whole last week to write, but she did a lot of sleeping, especially … Continue reading The Adventures of Freddie-bot and Charlie
I found something SOOO exciting!
Here is an artist I found yesterday: Aline Brant! She embroiders onto black and white photographs. How amazing is this? She is also the photographer! Why am I sharing this? Because I love it and because I'm thinking about why it is that I love it. Going back to the Oxford definition of art (check … Continue reading I found something SOOO exciting!
“Few other composers let you know so deeply who they are…”
Here's a statement I found on Instagram - by LA Philharmonic CEO Simon Woods. A long-time orchestra executive and a record producer with degrees in music, he writes about Robert Schumann: Few other composers let you know so deeply who they are as humans, and do it with such seamless craft and inspiration. In my definition … Continue reading “Few other composers let you know so deeply who they are…”
Definitions 1 Cont’d
The artwork in the video of the post from two weeks ago is called Double America 2 by artist Glenn Ligon. Here is how the museum's curators describe the work on their website: Glenn Ligon’s childhood love of literature evolved into a fascination with the political and social uses of language, which informs much of his … Continue reading Definitions 1 Cont’d
Happy Memorial Day!
My writing companions and I wish you a very Happy Memorial Day! One of my small traditions is to watch every year, usually around Memorial Day, one of my all-time favorite moving picture works - the series "Band of Brothers." One of the major purposes of art is to make us relive memories and the … Continue reading Happy Memorial Day!
A Look at Definitions 1
Over the next several posts, I will look at different art definitions and attempt to explain why I find them dissatisfactory. When one searches "art" in Google, the Oxford dictionary definition comes up: Art - the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculptures, … Continue reading A Look at Definitions 1
On a Personal Note 8
Last month I went to The Broad museum in Los Angeles to see the new Yayoi Kusama infinity room exhibit - Longing for Eternity, 2017. I hadn't seen her previous and very famous Infinity Mirrored Room- The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away, 2013, so I saw both on the same day. I didn't expect … Continue reading On a Personal Note 8
Back to being “Wow-ed”
I'm reading over my old posts - to remind myself of what I wrote, and to correct my grammar - which I do need to do occasionally! 🙂 And I came to this one and thought: the "wow", here it is! - "this inclination, this inner urge of reverence for something set apart above us" … Continue reading Back to being “Wow-ed”
In the work?
Art today is to "wow" its audience. Yet what do the artists have to say about it? Ani DiFranco had no definition (see last month's post here). Andy Warhol is largely credited with saying "Art is what you can get away with." Whether it was him who said it, or Marshall McLuhan, or which one … Continue reading In the work?
Art and the Invisible 