The Artist

Posted on October 29, 2011October 29, 2011 by bfaure Leave a comment

Hollywood’s collective idea of a great movie these days trends toward combining the wizardry of modern computers and animation with comic books. Caught between the strain of developing a complex storyline and knocking out another Batman movie, Batman wins every time. Since 1989, dark knight has been the focus of Batman (1989) Batman […]... Read More

Sargent - Portrait of Carolus-Duran (wikipedia)

Theodore Roosevelt-John Singer Sargent (wikipedia)

Sargent-Lady Agnew of Lochnaw (wikipedia)

Capturing the Spark of Life

Posted on August 7, 2011August 7, 2011 by bfaure Leave a comment

Unlike film, portrait painting and painting in general, must create an emotional reaction from the viewer perceiving a single fused projection of a moment in time. Its necessary immobility creates a vague sense of passiveness as the emotions created do not build into complex directions that create tension with the original impulse. It […]... Read More

Thoughts Turn To Spring…

Posted on April 29, 2011May 1, 2011 by bfaure Leave a comment

After over three consecutive weeks of rain, sleet, and dismally chilly temperatures, the National Weather Service for the great Lakes Region informed the suffering hordes that this spring was the coldest in 15 years, averaging 8 degrees below the seasonal norm. Where in the world is that rising CO2 level that assures global warming […]... Read More

Birthday of a Rock Star

Posted on March 6, 2011 by bfaure Leave a comment

What did you accomplish by your 24th birthday? Well, the pleasant little stone carving pictured above was the work of a young Italian from Caprese named Michelangelo, and it is worth reminding us all of this man’s brilliance and contribution to western civilization on the occasion of his birthday today. Michelangelo Buonarroti was born […]... Read More

SANFORD GIFFORD, A GORGE IN THE MOUNTAINS - wikipedia

CHURCH, TWILIGHT IN THE WILDERNESS - wikipedia

ALBERT BIERSTADT, LOOKINg DOWN YOSEMITE VALLEY - wikipedia

ALBERT BIERSTADT, SIERRA NEVADA - wikipedia

The Landscape Artists of the American Ideal

Posted on February 26, 2011March 13, 2011 by bfaure Leave a comment

The North American continent landmass has inspired from its first explorers onward a special spiritual awareness. The explorers and early settlers, predominantly from lands crowded with civilization and restricted by their birth position found a overwhelming sense of a higher reality in the huge, untamed, and essentially uninhabited and unbounded country. Even as the eastern […]... Read More

WINSLOW HOMER - A RAINY DAY IN CAMP (THE ATHENEAUM)

WINSLOW HOMER - THE BRIDAL PATH -CLARK ART INSTITUTE

WINSLOW HOMER - ROWING HOME (PHILLIPS COLLECTION WASHINGTON DC)

WINSLOW HOMER - ARTISTS SKETCHING IN THE WHITE MOUNTAINS (PORTLAND MUSEUM OF ART)

WINSLOW HOMER - BREEZING UP -A FAIR WIND (NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART)

The Centennial of Winslow Homer

Posted on August 18, 2010 by bfaure Leave a comment

The Portland Maine Museum of Art is hosting a large retrospective on the artwork of American artist Winslow Homer on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his death. The exposition, “Winslow Homer and the Poetics of Place”, is highlighted in the New York Sun and focuses on Homer’s unique American gifts for translating the […]... Read More

World Class Artistry, from a Wisconsin Artist

Posted on July 25, 2010July 24, 2010 by bfaure 1 Comment

Illustration has been a driving force of artistic expression in human culture since the earliest identified images applied to cave walls by pre-literate man some 30,000 years ago in Lascaux, France. The explosion of public appreciation for this skill through the act of painting on a canvas as a form of expression of symbolism […]... Read More

Dancing and Other Things I Can’t Do

Posted on July 23, 2010July 22, 2010 by bfaure Leave a comment

I am enthralled with the idea of old fashioned dancing. The process for hundreds of years in western culture was a shared experience between a couple, classically man and woman, attracted to each other and stimulated to share a coordinated bonding to music – sounds good to me. I have been, however, a singular failure […]... Read More

Beautiful Cinema

Posted on July 14, 2010July 16, 2010 by bfaure Leave a comment

Hollywood used to be about glamour. Its black and white films had a special translucence from the films’ unique sheen and soft focus, to the use of light and shadow to magnify underlying emotions or intimacy. The actor’s film persona became especially tied to the cinematographer’s skill. Is there any doubt to the smoky […]... Read More

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