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…”
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?
Why “definition”?
I can hear people thinking: "Seriously, Vessie? Today we have no definition of art?That's impossible, there is so much art happening, and a lot of it so good! What you are saying is simply not true." Well, for centuries and millennia there was no physics and engineering. Yet buildings and structures were built that still … Continue reading Why “definition”?
Who needs a definition?
"Art is the reason I get up in the morning, but the definition ends there. It doesn't seem fair that I'm living for something I can't even define." Ani DiFranco I read this quote on the sidewalk sign of a lovely art supplies store near my place. I can relate. This lack of definition didn't … Continue reading Who needs a definition?
“New Year, New Luck”
... is a Bulgarian proverb, but I don't believe in luck, and I think turning a page in today's calendar doesn't really amount to anything much. It does, however, find this blog with the new look I promised over a year ago. So yay for New Years! I'm thankful there are people at WordPress who … Continue reading “New Year, New Luck”
Back at it!
Dear reader, It's time to write again. After a year of calm on the surface and lots of turbulence underwater, I again have the desire and inspiration to think, muse and share on art, life, and visible and invisible things. I've been wanting to organize my thoughts and to find a new look for the … Continue reading Back at it!
Art and the Invisible 