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Photographing with Renoir Looking over my Shoulder to Mentor Me. Outside the HUB at PSU
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Tree Spirits ~an anonymous sculpture and Tree on the lawn enframed by The Armsby building, the William Frear laboratory ( his analysis of foods enabled the state to enforce food labeling laws) and the The School of Forestry at Main campus of Penn State
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Today I continued my artistic mentoring with Fredric Bazille looking over my shoulder. Note the reflections on the glass in the distance Frederic Bazille https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Bazille
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Note to Self ~ Art Education Does Crazy Things to a Mind. Note ~ I got my Ph.D in Art History. But still went crazy 😄😁😆
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‘Goodness’, the Slavic meaning of the word ‘ Dobro’ , with David Barghanlor at Greenwood Folk Gathering, 2023.
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Variation on Marcel Duchamp’s, “The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even” ; The Sacred and the Profane.
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Ingress ( variations), Full size scale, by Piper Shepherd. HUB gallery, PSU
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Ingress, ( detail) variations on a theme…Close up of Piper Shepherd’s art from her current exhibit ‘ Ingress’ at the HUB , PSU. Intricately cut textiles that conjure lace, wallpaper or remnants of pattern to connect with memories and human history
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Memories of My Starship Before Landing; Earthborn and Airborn… Temporal Transitions, 18.
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Details from Jivya Soma Mashe’ HARVEST ( Hirshon collection) with my photo, lower right, from yesterday.
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Welcome to Diner 22️
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‘ I Stil’ ( see sign in window), Diner 22.
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“ TONIGHT” by Evelyn, age TEN. She wrote, “When the sun sets you can see the sea, then the sky.” I LOVE the talent and sensitivity of these young artists 👏👏 Millbrook Marsh Nature Center
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the Sacred and the Profane by Mircea Eliade, chairman of the department of religions at the University of Chicago and Noir by irreverent, provocative , inspired novelist Christopher Moore; My Unlikely Joint Reading of these Two Books over the Next Severa
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Are Two McSorley’s Better than One? … Tis a funny Puzzlement!! See story below in the description for the answer…
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Peacock in a Garden by Evelyn Woofrey, age 12, watercolor and pencil. She writes, “a Peacock on a rock in a garden with a tail covered in flowers.” Seen on my walk on my on the boardwalk in Millbrook Marsh. Millbrook Marsh
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I will give You one more day to answer what movie 🎥 was the source of the costume of the girl with the bowler hat. .. then, I will tell you. See description below for answer. 🤔 More Help from the staff at Schlow Library
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Quinn , the making of an architect, ?
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With Both MC Escher and Vincent Van Gogh looking over my Shoulder and Guiding my Vision of Sagrada Familia.
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Sagrada Familia, version, 3, Antonio Gaudi, 1890’s , Barcelona, Spain.
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Matisse’s art has strongly influenced how I photographically see the dynamic relationship between both “ positive” & supposedly “negative” space
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The Double Entendre; American Fashion ( see the coffee table art book) with Graffiti Fashionably/Aesthetically overlaid on the living room couch in this street poster…. Can you say double entendre?
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The Vertigo of Color and The Kiss, Jerome and Emanuelle, 2.
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Self Portrait; A New York Frame of Mind in the manner of Arnolfini and his bride by Jan Van Eyck 1434.
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Self Portrait, 2 ; A New York Frame of Mind in the manner of Arnolfini and his Bride by Jan Van Eyck with his self portrait in the mirror, 1434.
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Purple Cabbages Vertigo… Or as my wife said, “ Curple Pabbage”
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And Thinking of Magritte’s Art…. Too.
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Synesthesia 🎶👀🌓
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“Remember Your Roots”👏👏👏… see more about this photo in the description
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A Visual Conversation Between the Artists Christo and Rothko… and Me.
