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Fine Art Tuesday

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I’m sorry, but art has been canceled.

July 18, 2023July 13, 2023
Fine Art Tuesday
Fine Art Tuesday

Fine Art Tuesday

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…

April 12, 2022April 12, 2022
Fine Art Tuesday
Fine Art Tuesday

Fine Art Tuesday

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…

March 29, 2022March 29, 2022
Fine Art Tuesday
Fine Art Tuesday

Fine Art Tuesday

“…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…

March 22, 2022March 21, 2022
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Fine Art Tuesday

Fine Art Tuesday

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”…

March 15, 2022March 15, 2022
Fine Art Tuesday
Fine Art Tuesday

Fine Art Tuesday

(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…

March 8, 2022March 8, 2022
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Fine Art Tuesday

Fine Art Tuesday

(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…

February 22, 2022February 22, 2022
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Fine Art Tuesday

Fine Art Tuesday

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…

February 15, 2022February 14, 2022
Fine Art Tuesday
Fine Art Tuesday

Fine Art Tuesday

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…

February 8, 2022February 7, 2022
Fine Art Tuesday
Fine Art Tuesday

Fine Art Tuesday

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,…

February 1, 2022February 1, 2022
Fine Art Tuesday
Fine Art Tuesday

Fine Art Tuesday

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…

January 25, 2022January 24, 2022
Fine Art Tuesday
Fine Art Tuesday

Fine Art Tuesday

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…

January 18, 2022January 18, 2022
Fine Art Tuesday
Fine Art Tuesday

Fine Art Tuesday

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…

January 11, 2022January 11, 2022
Fine Art Tuesday
Fine Art Tuesday

Fine Art Tuesday

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…

January 4, 2022January 3, 2022
Fine Art Tuesday
Fine Art Tuesday

Fine Art Tuesday

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″…

December 21, 2021December 21, 2021
Fine Art Tuesday
Fine Art Tuesday

Fine Art Tuesday

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…

December 14, 2021December 14, 2021
Fine Art Tuesday
Fine Art Tuesday

Fine Art Tuesday

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…

December 7, 2021December 7, 2021
Fine Art Tuesday
Fine Art Tuesday

Fine Art Tuesday

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…

November 30, 2021November 30, 2021
Fine Art Tuesday
Fine Art Tuesday

Fine Art Tuesday

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…

November 23, 2021November 24, 2021
Fine Art Tuesday
Fine Art Tuesday

Fine Art Tuesday

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…

November 16, 2021November 15, 2021
Fine Art Tuesday
Fine Art Tuesday

Fine Art Tuesday

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…

November 9, 2021November 9, 2021
Fine Art Tuesday
Fine Art Tuesday

Fine Art Tuesday

(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…

November 2, 2021November 2, 2021
Fine Art Tuesday
Fine Art Tuesday

Fine Art Tuesday

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…

October 19, 2021October 18, 2021
Fine Art Tuesday
Fine Art Tuesday

Fine Art Tuesday

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…

October 12, 2021October 12, 2021
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Fine Art Tuesday

Fine Art Tuesday

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…

October 5, 2021October 5, 2021
Fine Art Tuesday
Fine Art Tuesday

Fine Art Tuesday

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…

September 28, 2021September 27, 2021
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Fine Art Tuesday

Fine Art Tuesday

(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…

September 21, 2021September 21, 2021
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Fine Art Tuesday

Fine Art Tuesday

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…

September 7, 2021September 5, 2021
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Fine Art Tuesday

Fine Art Tuesday

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…

August 31, 2021August 31, 2021
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Fine Art Tuesday

Fine Art Tuesday

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…

August 24, 2021August 24, 2021

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