An Art Musing - Fine Art & Custom Framing & A Little Boy Posed Between Behold a photo taken of an alert yet cautious young boy in a stroller, evaluating and attempting to understand to the best of his ability a stop on the walk, a pause in being pushed through the mid-morning still...
An Art Musing – The Given & the Posed, Art upon Art, Intrusions Out Of & Alongside & Within the “Real” World Glimpsed by the Open & Understanding Eye This mural upon the walls of a path between subway stations in New York, is reminiscent of the scenes of everyday life carved and...
An Art Musing – As I Began this Posting, as I Contemplated this Cropped Photo, I Searched My Soul for a Title. With a work of art, there is usually a focus, a subject, or perhaps more, a germinal or central thought or theme, helping to birth whatever the artist comes to create. Sometimes the...
A Young Boy Gazes at the Ocean As with most art objects, if there is a title or description associated with it, one’s mind and emotions usually begin the process of understanding the piece with that. The title here is “A Young Boy Gazes at the Ocean” and obviously, from the photo this is...
Behold the Little Boy with the Blue Chalk in His Hand with His Unpretentious Semi-Dirty Face Behold the little boy with the blue chalk in his hand. I know this boy, clever, perhaps precocious, but still a little boy in spirit and behavior, but with depth. He is at a park. He...
In the Barren Sands of Loneliness, Isolation & Despair It is wrong to think of the goal of art as only portraying the beautiful to the eye, for that may lead to superficiality, banality, and untruth. For there are many things that are beautiful, yes, but there are for humans, for those...
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/322586 Panel with Striding Lion Art, great art, may be great because of the artistic excellence, because of its timeless beauty, because of its historical significance, or because of what it says to and about us today. This art object, created...
Vincent van Gogh - Wheatfield with Crows - Van Gogh Museum Exactly! There have been moments in my life, starting when I was very young, when the vividness, newness, or beauty of a sight or event, or the incredible uniqueness of its peace or power - or both together - made a deep and lasting...