Tag: art
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Tim Gilmore discusses The Klan in Jacksonville, FL – Its Repugnant Rise and Hysterical Collapse
The Coniferous Cafe was packed Tuesday night, June 13th, with every chair filled, many more people standing, and the crowd actually spilling out the door onto the sidewalk. I love this kind of motivated crowd, sincerely and lovingly united against bigotry and racism, ready to stand up for human rights. There aren’t many words I…
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The Art of Jae Lee
From Why Not: A Blog, James Jones discusses the art of Jae Lee: “His work is decorative, minimal intricate, detailed and refined. The work in many ways is a genre unto itself. Artist/Illustrator Jae lee is the elegance among the utilitarian, the poetry among the mundane. lee is best known for his still bourgeoning career…
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Stare-Worthy Art: Cue Theremin Music
On his blog, Starehouse, Daniel A. Brown interviews artist Sarah Emerson, whose work he compare to British poet Gerard Manley Hopkins’s gift of “traversing what he called the “outscape” and “inscape” of being, celebrating the natural world around him while traveling deep into the shifting lands of his own interior terrain . . . in a…
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Crazy William Blake’s Revolutionary Art
On his blog, These Fantastic Worlds, Jake Jackson celebrates the revolutionary art of William Blake. “Artistically,” says Mr. Jackson, “Blake was influenced by Raphael, Michelangelo and Dürer, but his mental life was informed by the political, social and philosophical forces that broke from the moorings of enlightenment (and its strict codes of reason and order), fueling the bloody revolutions of America and France.”…
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The Art of Leo and Diane Dillon
As a follow-up to my article about Ali Mirdrekvandi’s book, No Heaven For Gunga Din, here’s a page dedicated to the Art of Leo and Diane Dillon. They illustrated the covers of books by Ray Bradbury, Kurt Vonnegut, Clifford D. Simak, A.A. Milne, Madeleine L’Engle, Mark Twain, Philip K. Dick, Roald Dahl, and many, many…
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A Shout Out to Tom Harris, Art Teacher
I recently wrote about my great-uncle, Corbett Hamilton, who wrote poetry as well as a series of newspaper articles about the Hatfield-McCoy feud. Today I want to introduce my wife’s great-uncle, Tom Harris, a retired art teacher from Quincy, Florida. One of Mr. Harris’ art students was Dean Mitchell, one of the most recognized and…