Category: Fine Art Tuesday

I’m sorry, but art has been canceled.

Once again, I’m redefining a craft to be an art. 🙂 Barn quilts are widely believe to have started in 2001 as an Ohio woman’s…

Southern rock, popular music style combining blues jams and boogie licks with lyrics declaring fierce regional pride. Its aggressive, unpretentious sound helped revitalize American rock…

“…Steely Dan drew from the gamut of American musical styles to create some of the most intelligent and complex pop music of the 1970s.“ You know, I could let…

In the late 1800s, Neo-Impressionism used the new sciences of optics and color to create a new form of painting, in which artists used “dots”…

(I’m sneaking this one in under the wire. Today was MRI Day. Preliminary results aren’t showing much if I read them correctly.) I’ve always had…

(I’m doing this one through the/a migraine, now at day 8, I think. Yes, I’ve been in touch with my neurologist. Steroids are on the…

I probably missed out on something as a kid by not reading JRR Tolkien’s Rings fantasy series. Truth is, I’m not much of a fantasy…

Those of us of a certain age usually have fond memories of drive in movies. I remember the playground in front of the screen, where…

We, as people who grew up in the 20th or 21st centuries, are accustomed to theater in a certain format. There is an elevated stage,…

Let’s stretch out on the subject of dance. Today, we’re we’re going to look at b-boying, otherwise known as breakdancing. b-boying started out possibly in…

It strikes me that, in our current times, Franz Kafka should come to mind. In many ways, Kafka was one screwed up individual. Born in…

As a child of the 70s-80s, I came to jazz music in my 30s, via a coworker, friend and golf partner. Of course, I never…

Finnish painter Fanny Churburg was born in 1845, the third child of a physician father and a mother who died when she was 12. This…

Today I’m going off the rotating script again, and heading off to the intersection of art and craft (and history). At 230′ long and 20″…

Today, we’re looking at architecture, and I want to talk about the humble ranch house. The ranch architectural style is like jazz and great cheeseburgers…

In the spirit of stretching the rules, I’m skipping the categories of dance and theater and going straight to cinema. I’ve viewing this cinema post…

You would think that, for someone who has always loved to read, that literature wouldn’t be a hard task. Au contraire. This is because my…

If you’ve been reading my missives on fine art, you know I really like music from the Baroque Period. One of my favorite composers from…

Mrs. Freeholder and I have had the rare experience of enjoying fall together this year. The last years when we were both working, autumn was…

Yep, late again. Story in the next post. John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum, more commonly known as Gutzon Borglum was the son of Danish…

(I almost missed it again. There seems to be a mental block forming on the subject.) Today’s subject is architecture, and I want to discuss…

Dune. Arrakis. Desert planet. Those are the thoughts of ducal heir Paul Atreides as he ponders on his family’s move from his home world of…

Rather than a single piece of music, this time I choose to go with a composer, John Williams. There is little one can say about…

Until I hit Eaton Rapids Joe, in my anger I had forgotten it is Tuesday. Today’s effort is music, in particular the music of John…

In light of my recent journey to West Virginia, I thought an artist from that state would be apropos. Virginia B Evans was born in…

(Beware, today I’m stretching the definition of sculpture.) A creative mind wants to create, no matter the circumstances. What else could be the reason for…

Fortifications have a long history. The first was probably a rock shelter or a cave that was defended by some angry group of hominids. Over…

I don’t watch movies as much as I once did. I think our cultural ADHD has something to do with that, as does a lack…

Working is a musical, based on the 1974 Studs Terkel book of the same name. It’s a story about several different, mostly blue collar, workers…