I will do this someday.
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"The creation of art, okay, just the attempt at the creation of art, as well as the appreciation of it, is both an enlarging of the world and an expanding of the consciousness."
— Dean Young, from The Art of Recklessness
February 5, 2012
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"I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. The soul always hears an admonition in such lines, let the subject be what it may. The sentiment they instil is of more value than any thought they may contain. To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, —that is genius. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost,— and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment. Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton is, that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good-humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else, to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another."
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~ from Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance”
Essays: First Series/Self-Reliance - Wikisource
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January 25, 2012
Jusepe de Ribera, An Old Usurer, 1638
From the Museo del Prado:
In this depiction that some have interpreted as an allegory of avarice, a n old usurer, with wrinkled face, ragged clothes, an annoyed gaze and a distrustful expression, holds a set of scales, probably for weighing gold.
In the sixteen thirties, Ribera’s style grew closer to that of the Venetians and Bolognese painters, yet this work affirms his continuing relation to Caravaggio’s naturalism. This is especially clear in the rendering of the scales and of the old woman’s figure. Unlike his youthful works, though, this one is characterized by rapid, intense brushstrokes.
I love Ribera!
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