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Botticelli, “Venus and Mars”

Thanks to Ruthie for her insights. “Venus and Mars” (may take a while to download) | Wikipedia article So a male is almost boorish in his exhaustion after intercourse. There’s not much new there. What’s curious is her. She is staring at him, but I’d venture that gaze is more business than anything else. She’s …

August 10, 2011 – 3:47 am | By ashok | Posted in writing | Tagged | Comments (1)

See Paul’s Work

I know – I’m breaking my promise not to post. But a friend makes magnificent religious art and I thought all of you might want a look given the nature of this holiday season. He makes icons, which you can read a little about here: On Iconography Some of his work: Rublev’s Pupil on Flickr …

December 22, 2010 – 1:46 am | By ashok | Posted in media | Tagged | Comments (1)

Picasso, “Man with a Violin” and “Man with a Guitar”

Via the Philadelphia Museum of Art: Man with a Guitar | Man with a Violin I don’t know whether you can call Satie’s Gymnopédies Cubist (listen to Gymnopédie No. 1); his formal association with cubists seems to have happened later in his career. Nonetheless, a description of the Gymnopédies from Wikipedia in need of citations …

August 1, 2010 – 1:05 pm | By ashok | Posted in writing | Tagged | Comments (9)

A Tale of Two Galleries – First Friday in Philadelphia, 9/4/09

1. Artists’ House exhibition, “Art of the Still Life,” was a failure: it was all still life, and it was hard to see what many of the individual artists were trying to achieve through their choice of style. Only a few pieces of that one genre were to be had per artist; the paintings all …

September 5, 2009 – 2:13 am | By ashok | Posted in personal | Tagged | Comments (2)

Masaccio’s “Holy Trinity”

Seen in person at Santa Maria Novella in Florence. The Holy Trinity, with the Virgin and Saint John and donors The classical elements are not superfluous. The hallway supported by arches suggests the Father is walking towards us, except He is holding the cross bearing His Son. The dove, the Holy Spirit, is between Father …

January 1, 2009 – 2:37 am | By ashok | Posted in personal | Tagged | Comments (0)

First Friday in Philadelphia, 11/7/2008: On Schubert’s Quintet D. 956, Op. Posth. 163

1. It’s been two weeks, but I felt I could wait for the sake of saying an appropriate thank you to the Poor Richard’s String Quartet – Michael Finckel, Thomas Kraines, Andrea Schultz, Beverly Shin and David Yang – who played in Christ Church that night. I’m no good at writing music criticism, so I …

November 19, 2008 – 4:51 am | By ashok | Posted in music, personal | Tagged , , | Comments (2)

Two Notable Things from First Friday in Philadelphia, 10/3/08

Paul and I went into the city for First Friday and, as usual, it was noisy, crowded with teens and preteens trying to be 30 year olds; guys who epitomize “douchebag” dressed well with lady-friends (douchebagettes?); guys of the same sort but dressed badly and without lady-friends; kids and adults trying to be artsy but …

October 5, 2008 – 1:37 pm | By ashok | Posted in links, music | Tagged , | Comments (2)

Links, 6/21/2008

This article on the “disadvantages of an elite education” is very good and highly recommended (h/t PTN). I do regret bashing the author as arrogant, which I have done before. He wrote an article wondering why we don’t study literature anymore, and I wanted to say “look in the mirror,” given that he is unabashedly …

June 21, 2008 – 4:00 pm | By ashok | Posted in education, links | Tagged | Comments (2)

See Paul’s Book…

…Paul Drozdowski, illustrator and iconographer, has illustrations from his latest book available here. Please take a look if you get a chance, and the artist loves compliments even if they’re dropped in the comments section below.Technorati Tags: books, art, orthodoxy Powered by ScribeFire.

January 10, 2008 – 11:15 pm | By ashok | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

On Iconography

Links: Samples of Icons by a Contemporary Iconographer Blog of a Contemporary Iconographer Thoughts: The Cathedral was a place where the illiterate peasants would learn of the Divine not through speech, for Mass was said in Latin, and certainly not through reading, but through the images that surrounded them on all sides. The West overthrew …

October 15, 2007 – 6:02 pm | By ashok | Posted in christianity | Tagged , | Comments (3)