Daily Entries for the week of
Sunday, July 3, 2022
through
Saturday, July 9, 2022
It’s Thursday, July 7, 2022
Welcome to the 1,494th consecutive post to the blog
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Lead Picture*
Thomas Cole
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Commentary
I’m pleased to announce that I have added dips to my diet. While dips are an easy way to overeat, the beans, avocado, and vegetables all push in the direction of a plant-based diet and from that perspective are important to our health. Of course, I’ll learn to make my own.
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Wellness
I’m feeling very well just 4 days after the bike slam.
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Social Life
I’ve added lunch with my son Dom and coffee with my friend Cindy to my social life in the next two weeks.
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Chuckles and Thoughts
Flattery is like cologne water,
to be smelt, not swallowed.
~Josh Billings
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Mail and other Conversation
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Some excitement from our friend Tucker:
Hi Dom,
We released Chapter 8 this morning. In this episode we examine Ridley and Tony’s working relationship and how they pushed and pulled each other forward creatively. Thank you so much as always for watching and sharing.
The End of History - Chapter 8 on Vimeo
Here are all the episodes we’ve released so far:
The Home of The End of History | Scout Tafoya on Patreon
. Tucker
Blog meister responds: I’m about to watch it!
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Dinner/Food/Recipes
Tucker, Scout, and I are gearing up for a dinner party. We will be eating dinner while we watch “There will be Blood” and eat dinner: some vegan dips, Pasta Marinara, and Feijoada for us meat eaters.
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Pictures with Captions from our community**
grace, dom, and Joanna during pandemic
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Short Essay*
Thomas Cole (February 1, 1801 – February 11, 1848) was an English-American painter known for his landscape and history paintings. He is regarded as the founder of the Hudson River School,[1][2] an American art movement that flourished in the mid-19th century. Cole's work is known for its romantic portrayal of the American wilderness.
Cole was primarily a painter of landscapes, but he also painted allegorical works. The most famous of these are the five-part series, The Course of Empire, which depict the same landscape over generations—from a near state of nature to consummation of empire, and then decline and desolation—now in the collection of the New-York Historical Society and the four-part The Voyage of Life. There are two versions of the latter, one at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., the other at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica, New York. Among Cole's other famous works are The Oxbow (1836), The Notch of the White Mountains, Daniel Boone at his cabin at the Great Osage Lake, and Lake with Dead Trees (1825) which is at the Allen Memorial Art Museum.[9] He also painted The Garden of Eden (1828), with lavish detail of Adam and Eve living amid waterfalls, vivid plants, and deer. In 2014, friezes painted by Cole on the walls of his home, which had been decorated over, were discovered.
Cole influenced his peers in the art movement later termed the Hudson River School, especially Asher B. Durand and Frederic Edwin Church. Church studied with Cole from 1844 to 1846, where he learned Cole's technique of sketching from nature and later developing an idealized, finished composition; Cole's influence is particularly notable in Church's early paintings. Cole spent the years 1829 to 1832 and 1841 to 1842 abroad, mainly in England and Italy.
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**Pictures with Captions from our community are photos sent in by our blog followers. Feel free to send in yours to domcapossela@hotmail.com
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It’s Wednesday, July 6, 2022
Welcome to the 1,493rd consecutive post to the blog
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Lead Picture*
Corot, scene in the Forest of Fontainebleau, 1846
Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot - lQFvKSdF82pL1A at Google Cultural Institute maximum zoom level
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Commentary
Sounds contra-indicated but it was perfect.
Four days after being struck by a bike, raised into the air and then dropped on the pavement suffering hurt to my right side, I decided to take an active role in my recovery by resiming my routine on the weights.
Carefully.
Starting each machine at near zero weights.
Why?
I wanted to discover where my injuries lay.
I used every machine, even the two or three that focused on those muscles most injured by the slam.
I had trouble on only a single machine and quickly worked out the issue.
The result?
Immediately after my workout, I felt substantially better.
It was akin to having a talented masseuse work me over, soothing.
But better because it strengthened the muscles as well as relaxed them.
My plan is to return to the club tomorrow.
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Chuckles and Thoughts
There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
~Josh Billings
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Mail and other Conversation
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This from one of my dearest friends.
Dom,
It's here!
Hys: A Love Story: Sono, Min'na: 9798839602731: Amazon.com: Books
Finally!!
Blog meister responds: My friend has entered the world of self-published authors. The book?
The Hys invaded the Earth 120 years ago. They rule by what they call "eemo" - an anti-structure that corrects past male crimes against women by making present males into ‘women to Hys.’ They claim that their anti-structure represents true freedom for the Earth. Three males meet in a place where humans go to learn the hidden meaning of the Hys anti-structure. Their inner journey becomes the prelude to their escape from Hys freedom.
I helped with the editing and loved the book. It’s only a couple of bucks on Amazon. Rush to buy it now so our purchases will propel it to the top of the sales charts. Ive just bought mine.
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Dinner/Food/Recipes
I made a Marinara Sauce in advance of a visit by a vegan friend. For dinner on Tuesday I took a scoop of that sauce and made a pan-roasted lobster with a side of spaghetti.
Yes, it was delicious.
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Pictures with Captions from our community**
P Garden Beautiful Summer Day
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Short Essay*
The Barbizon school of painters were part of an art movement towards Realism in art, which arose in the context of the dominant Romantic Movement of the time. The Barbizon school was active roughly from 1830 through 1870. It takes its name from the village of Barbizon, France, on the edge of the Forest of Fontainebleau, where many of the artists gathered. Most of their works were landscape painting, but several of them also painted landscapes with farmworkers, and genre scenes of village life. Some of the most prominent features of this school are its tonal qualities, color, loose brushwork, and softness of form.
The leaders of the Barbizon school were: Théodore Rousseau, Charles-François Daubigny, Jules Dupré, Constant Troyon, Charles Jacque, and Narcisse Virgilio Díaz. Jean-François Millet lived in Barbizon from 1849, but his interest in figures with a landscape backdrop sets him rather apart from the others. Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot was the earliest on the scene, first painting in the forest in 1829, but British art historian Harold Osborne suggested that “his work has a poetic and literary quality which sets him somewhat apart".[2] Other artists associated with the school, often pupils of the main group, include: Henri Harpignies, Albert Charpin, François-Louis Français, and Émile van Marcke.
Many of the artists were also printmakers, mostly in etching but the group also provided the bulk of the artists using the semiphotographic cliché verre technique. The French etching revival began with the school, in the 1850s.
* The Blog Meister selects the topics for the Lead Picture and the Short Essay and then leans heavily or exclusively on Wikipedia to provide the content. The Blog Meister usually edits the entries.
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It’s Tuesday, July 4, 2022
Welcome to the 1,492nd consecutive post to the blog
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Lead Picture*
Cristina Ricci
Comiccon Brussels 2020 - Q&A Christina Ricci We are so proud and excited to announce our next main guest! An incredibly talented actress, but not only that, also a role model and a true icon. We have known her since she was young, because her powerful rendition of Wednesday Addams made her one of the most striking roles in this nineties classic and ensured that the whole world was sucked in a gigantic The Addams Family Hype! Box Offices exploded worldwide, MC Hammer was waking the dead with his dance moves and the merchandise was absolutely everywhere. After that the tone was set, because despite her absolute world fame, she continued to choose for unconventional roles with a dark edge and with succes. She played leading roles alongside the biggest known actors, like next to Johnny Depp in Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow, with Charlize Theron in the Oscar-winning Monster, alongside Samuel L. Jackson in Black Snake Moan...She stole all our hearts in Mermaids (alongside Winona Ryder and Cher), Casper and the Addams Family and made us shiver and hold up a mirror in Prozac Nation. For the first time in the heart of Europe for our 5th year anniversary! The super talented and dazzling: CHRISTINA RICCI! ( Comic Con Brussels is your celebration of geek culture in the heart of Europe! You will find us at the beautiful Tour & Taxis site near the Brussels North train station. At Comic Con Brussels you will find Dealers, Artists, Actors, ... It's a Con that brings together all the things you love: Comics, cosplay, gaming, films, manga, collectibles, anime, tv series, clothing, toys, gadgets and lots more!!! )
Miguel Discart - 2020-02-22_16-02-13_ILCE-6500_DSC01210
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Commentary
Who’d a’thought a Hollywood, Tom Hanks movie about Elvis would be boring?
It was. Is.
But if you liked (like) Elvis, I did, do, it’s enjoyable. Scarcely.
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Wellness
I’m healing after the bike collision.
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Chuckles and Thoughts
Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.
~Josh Billings
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Mail and other Conversation
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This from Sally C:
Dear Dom,
Regarding “The Bear,” I was apprehensive that you were going to talk about the inane film by the same name that came out back in the 1980s or 1990s. About as enticing as watching paint dry. I haven’t seen the series and am unlikely to, but no doubt it has far more depth and drama than the film.
Go well and get better soon!
Sally
Blog meister responds: The only bear in this series about a restaurant is in the chef’s name. Sorry my dear, but my children liked the Bear movie It was a family experience which I enjoyed with them.
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Dinner/Food/Recipes
The pic below shows the simple pan gravy I made for my spatchcock chicken.
It was darn great.
As was the chicken.
RECIPE;
Brown onions/garlic/bell pepper in butter
add chicken stock/white wine
capers
rosemary
parsley
Reduce
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Pictures with Captions from our community**
spatchcock chicken with simple pan gravy
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Short Essay*
Christina Ricci is an American actress. Known for playing unusual characters with a dark edge,[2] Ricci predominantly works in independent productions, but has also appeared in numerous box office hits: to date, her films have grossed in excess of US$1.4 billion.[3] She is the recipient of several accolades, including a National Board of Review Award and a Satellite Award, in addition to nominations for Golden Globe, Primetime Emmy, and Screen Actors Guild awards.
Ricci made her film debut at the age of nine in Mermaids (1990), which was followed by a breakout role as Wednesday Addams in The Addams Family (1991) and its sequel, Addams Family Values (1993). Subsequent appearances in Casper and Now and Then (both 1995) brought her fame as a "teen icon".[4] At 17, she moved into adult-oriented roles with The Ice Storm (1997), which led to parts in films such as Buffalo '66 and Pecker (both 1998). She garnered acclaim for her performances in The Opposite of Sex (1998), Sleepy Hollow (1999), and Monster (2003). Ricci's other credits include Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998), Prozac Nation (2001), Pumpkin (2002), Anything Else (2003), Cursed (2005), Penelope (2006), Black Snake Moan (2006), Speed Racer (2008), and The Matrix Resurrections (2021).
On television, Ricci appeared as Liza Bump in the final season of Ally McBeal (2002), and received acclaim for her guest role on Grey's Anatomy in 2006. She also starred as Maggie Ryan on the ABC series Pan Am (2011–12), and produced and starred in the series' The Lizzie Borden Chronicles (2015) and Z: The Beginning of Everything (2017). She currently stars as Misty on the critically acclaimed Showtime series Yellowjackets (2021–present). As well as voicing characters in several animated films, Ricci provided voices for the video games The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon and Speed Racer: The Videogame (both 2008). In 2010, Ricci made her Broadway debut in Time Stands Still. She is the national spokesperson for the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN).[5] She is married and has two children.
* The Blog Meister selects the topics for the Lead Picture and the Short Essay and then leans heavily or exclusively on Wikipedia to provide the content. The Blog Meister usually edits the entries.
**Pictures with Captions from our community are photos sent in by our blog followers. Feel free to send in yours to domcapossela@hotmail.com
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It’s Monday, July 4, 2022
Welcome to the 1,491st consecutive post to the blog
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Lead Picture*
Charles Sheeler
Sheeler standing next to a window.
Peter A. Juley & Son - SIRIS
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Commentary
My niece called to wish me back to health. Our conversations are a lot of fun. We go back about six decades and we share connections to our family that are unique to only us and a couple of other people, none of whom are excellent conversationalists.
We discussed, health, politics, ethnicity, food, travel, get togethers, chauvinism, television, labor, auctions, blogs, and memory. I know I’ve forgotten some. Such an early morning call anchors the day.
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Word of the Day:
Precisionism
For definition, see below, immediately after the Short Essay
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Screen time
Am watching “The Bear,” a series revolving around a ‘top chef’s’ efforts to change the nature of his dead brother’s diner.
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Wellness
I saw my doctor yesterday. We went over several issues: 1. my fatigue: we’ll closely monitor it; 2. my slightly high glucose testing; we’ll reduce the size of my dessert intake. 3. A growth on my thigh that’s been there for 20+ years; we’ll ignore it. 4. The injuries sustained from the bike event of two days ago. Nothing is broken or seriously bruised. The staff did an excellent job in bandaging my arm abrasion and my split fingernail. The remainder of the injuries will heal on their own.
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Chuckles and Thoughts
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
~Josh Billings
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Mail and other Conversation
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Some email comments on my reported injuries:
Hi Dom,
Just wanted to send my love and well wishes. Good luck at doctors.
And another:
OMG o sorry to hear this. I have the biggest pet peeve about bike riders, I hope you can sue the ass
And a third and then stop:
Such awful news that you have been hit again! I sure hope that cyclist has insurance – if he does, his rates will get hiked, deservedly so. I will pray for quick healing and no long-term or permanent damage! When will so many careless cyclists learn that they must follow the same rules of the road as automobiles!
Blog meister responds: Thank you all, my friends.
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Dinner/Food/Recipes
Saturday I had Roast Leg f Goat. I’ll publish the recipe in the next day or two.
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Pictures with Captions from our community**
Condrieu bottle and glass
Perhaps my favorite white wine
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Short Essay*
Charles Sheeler (July 16, 1883 – May 7, 1965) was an American artist known for his Precisionist paintings, commercial photography, and the avant-garde film, Manhatta, which he made in collaboration with Paul Strand. Sheeler is recognized as one of the early adopters of modernism in American art.
Early life and career
Charles Rettew Sheeler Jr. was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He attended the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art from 1900 to 1903, and then the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied under William Merritt Chase. He found early success as a painter and exhibited at the Macbeth Gallery in 1908.[1] Most of his education was in drawing and other applied arts. He went to Italy with other students, where he was intrigued by the Italian painters of the Middle Ages, such as Giotto and Piero della Francesca. After a trip to Paris in 1909, Sheeler was inspired by works of Cubist artists like Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque.[2] Returning to the United States, Sheeler felt that he would not be able to make a living as a modernist painter, so he took up commercial photography, focusing on architectural subjects. Sheeler was a self-taught photographer, learning his trade on a five dollar Brownie. Early in his career, he was greatly impacted by the death of his close friend Morton Livingston Schamberg during the influenza epidemic of 1918.[3] Schamberg's painting had focused heavily on machinery and technology,[4] a theme that featured prominently in Sheeler's own work.
Sheeler owned a farmhouse in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, about 39 miles outside Philadelphia, which he shared with Schamberg until the latter's death. He was so fond of the home's 19th century stove that he called it his "companion" and made it a subject of his photographs. The farmhouse itself serves a prominent role in many of his photographs, which include shots of the bedroom, kitchen, and stairway. At one point he was quoted as calling it his "cloister." His work was also part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics.[5]
On April 2, 1939, Sheeler married Musya Metas Sokolova, his second wife, six years after the death in 1933 of first wife Katharine Baird Shaffer (married April 7, 1921).[citation needed] In 1942, Sheeler joined the Metropolitan Museum of Art as a senior research fellow in photography, worked on a project in Connecticut with the photographer Edward Weston, and moved with Musya to Irvington-on-Hudson, some twenty miles north of New York. Sheeler worked for the Metropolitan Museum's Department of Publications from 1942 to 1945, photographing artworks and historical objects.
Sheeler painted in a Precisionist style that complemented his photography and has been described as "quasi-photographic".
Manhatta
In 1920, Sheeler invited photographer Paul Strand to collaborate on a "portrait" of Manhattan in film. The resulting 35mm nine-minute series of vignettes, called Manhatta after Walt Whitman's poem, Mannahatta, was the first avant-garde film created in America.[8]
Work with Ford Motor Company
He was hired by the Ford Motor Company to photograph and make paintings of their factories.
Photography and film work
Films created by Charles Sheeler
1921 Manhatta (with Paul Strand)]
Photographic works
1917 Doylestown House: Stairs from Below (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
1927 Criss-Crossed Conveyors, River Rouge Plant, Ford Motor Company (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
1928 Images from Vogue and Vanity Fair
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Definition of Today’s word:
Precisionism was a modernist art movement that emerged in the United States after World War I. Influenced by Cubism, Purism, and Futurism, Precisionist artists reduced subjects to their essential geometric shapes, eliminated detail, and often used planes of light to create a sense of crisp focus and suggest the sleekness and sheen of machine forms. At the height of its popularity during the 1920s and early 1930s, Precisionism celebrated the new American landscape of skyscrapers, bridges, and factories in a form that has also been called "Cubist-Realism."[1] The term "Precisionism" was first coined in the mid-1920s, possibly by Museum of Modern Art director Alfred H. Barr[2] although according to Amy Dempsey the term "Precisionism" was coined by Charles Sheeler.[3] Painters working in this style were also known as the "Immaculates", which was the more commonly used term at the time.[4] The stiffness of both art-historical labels suggests the difficulties contemporary critics had in attempting to characterize these artists.
* The Blog Meister selects the topics for the Lead Picture and the Short Essay and then leans heavily or exclusively on Wikipedia to provide the content. The Blog Meister usually edits the entries.
**Pictures with Captions from our community are photos sent in by our blog followers. Feel free to send in yours to domcapossela@hotmail.com
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It’s Monday, July 4, 2022
Welcome to the 1,491st consecutive post to the blog
existentialautotrip.com
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Lead Picture*
Charles Sheeler
Sheeler standing next to a window.
Peter A. Juley & Son - SIRIS
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Commentary
My niece called to wish me back to health. Our conversations are a lot of fun. We go back about six decades and we share connections to our family that are unique to only us and a couple of other people, none of whom are excellent conversationalists.
We discussed, health, politics, ethnicity, food, travel, get togethers, chauvinism, television, labor, auctions, blogs, and memory. I know I’ve forgotten some. Such an early morning call anchors the day.
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Word of the Day:
Precisionism
For definition, see below, immediately after the Short Essay
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Screen time
Am watching “The Bear,” a series revolving around a ‘top chef’s’ efforts to change the nature of his dead brother’s diner.
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Wellness
I saw my doctor yesterday. We went over several issues: 1. my fatigue: we’ll closely monitor it; 2. my slightly high glucose testing; we’ll reduce the size of my dessert intake. 3. A growth on my thigh that’s been there for 20+ years; we’ll ignore it. 4. The injuries sustained from the bike event of two days ago. Nothing is broken or seriously bruised. The staff did an excellent job in bandaging my arm abrasion and my split fingernail. The remainder of the injuries will heal on their own.
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Chuckles and Thoughts
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
~Josh Billings
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Mail and other Conversation
We love getting mail, email, or texts.
Send comments to domcapossela@hotmail.com
or text to 617.852.7192
Some email comments on my reported injuries:
Hi Dom,
Just wanted to send my love and well wishes. Good luck at doctors.
And another:
OMG o sorry to hear this. I have the biggest pet peeve about bike riders, I hope you can sue the ass
And a third and then stop:
Such awful news that you have been hit again! I sure hope that cyclist has insurance – if he does, his rates will get hiked, deservedly so. I will pray for quick healing and no long-term or permanent damage! When will so many careless cyclists learn that they must follow the same rules of the road as automobiles!
Blog meister responds: Thank you all, my friends.
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Dinner/Food/Recipes
Saturday I had Roast Leg f Goat. I’ll publish the recipe in the next day or two.
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Short Essay*
Charles Sheeler (July 16, 1883 – May 7, 1965) was an American artist known for his Precisionist paintings, commercial photography, and the avant-garde film, Manhatta, which he made in collaboration with Paul Strand. Sheeler is recognized as one of the early adopters of modernism in American art.
Early life and career
Charles Rettew Sheeler Jr. was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He attended the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art from 1900 to 1903, and then the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied under William Merritt Chase. He found early success as a painter and exhibited at the Macbeth Gallery in 1908.[1] Most of his education was in drawing and other applied arts. He went to Italy with other students, where he was intrigued by the Italian painters of the Middle Ages, such as Giotto and Piero della Francesca. After a trip to Paris in 1909, Sheeler was inspired by works of Cubist artists like Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque.[2] Returning to the United States, Sheeler felt that he would not be able to make a living as a modernist painter, so he took up commercial photography, focusing on architectural subjects. Sheeler was a self-taught photographer, learning his trade on a five dollar Brownie. Early in his career, he was greatly impacted by the death of his close friend Morton Livingston Schamberg during the influenza epidemic of 1918.[3] Schamberg's painting had focused heavily on machinery and technology,[4] a theme that featured prominently in Sheeler's own work.
Sheeler owned a farmhouse in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, about 39 miles outside Philadelphia, which he shared with Schamberg until the latter's death. He was so fond of the home's 19th century stove that he called it his "companion" and made it a subject of his photographs. The farmhouse itself serves a prominent role in many of his photographs, which include shots of the bedroom, kitchen, and stairway. At one point he was quoted as calling it his "cloister." His work was also part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics.[5]
On April 2, 1939, Sheeler married Musya Metas Sokolova, his second wife, six years after the death in 1933 of first wife Katharine Baird Shaffer (married April 7, 1921).[citation needed] In 1942, Sheeler joined the Metropolitan Museum of Art as a senior research fellow in photography, worked on a project in Connecticut with the photographer Edward Weston, and moved with Musya to Irvington-on-Hudson, some twenty miles north of New York. Sheeler worked for the Metropolitan Museum's Department of Publications from 1942 to 1945, photographing artworks and historical objects.
Sheeler painted in a Precisionist style that complemented his photography and has been described as "quasi-photographic".
Manhatta
In 1920, Sheeler invited photographer Paul Strand to collaborate on a "portrait" of Manhattan in film. The resulting 35mm nine-minute series of vignettes, called Manhatta after Walt Whitman's poem, Mannahatta, was the first avant-garde film created in America.[8]
Work with Ford Motor Company
He was hired by the Ford Motor Company to photograph and make paintings of their factories.
Photography and film work
Films created by Charles Sheeler
1921 Manhatta (with Paul Strand)]
Photographic works
1917 Doylestown House: Stairs from Below (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
1927 Criss-Crossed Conveyors, River Rouge Plant, Ford Motor Company (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
1928 Images from Vogue and Vanity Fair
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Definition of Today’s word:
Precisionism was a modernist art movement that emerged in the United States after World War I. Influenced by Cubism, Purism, and Futurism, Precisionist artists reduced subjects to their essential geometric shapes, eliminated detail, and often used planes of light to create a sense of crisp focus and suggest the sleekness and sheen of machine forms. At the height of its popularity during the 1920s and early 1930s, Precisionism celebrated the new American landscape of skyscrapers, bridges, and factories in a form that has also been called "Cubist-Realism."[1] The term "Precisionism" was first coined in the mid-1920s, possibly by Museum of Modern Art director Alfred H. Barr[2] although according to Amy Dempsey the term "Precisionism" was coined by Charles Sheeler.[3] Painters working in this style were also known as the "Immaculates", which was the more commonly used term at the time.[4] The stiffness of both art-historical labels suggests the difficulties contemporary critics had in attempting to characterize these artists.
* The Blog Meister selects the topics for the Lead Picture and the Short Essay and then leans heavily or exclusively on Wikipedia to provide the content. The Blog Meister usually edits the entries.
**Pictures with Captions from our community are photos sent in by our blog followers. Feel free to send in yours to domcapossela@hotmail.com
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It’s Sunday, July 3, 2022
Welcome to the 1,490th consecutive post to the blog
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Lead Picture*
Thomas Cole (1801–1848)
The Oxbow, View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm (1836), Metropolitan Museum of Art
Thomas Cole - Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Commentary
I got smacked by a bike travelling 20 mph, flew 6 feet in the air, and smashed into the asphalt. I stayed still, fending off a flurry of offers to help. I suspected a charley horse coming on and waited the minutes stretching out my leg to counter the threat. Then I very slowly got to my feet, my body having suffered a half-dozen injuries. I thanked everyone for their solicitations and continued my walk thinking. “What if I shirked my exercises? What if I were less fit?”
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Chuckles and Thoughts
Money will buy a pretty good dog,
but it won't buy the wag of his tail.
~Josh Billings
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Wellness
Suffering from traumatic injuries, a growth on my thigh, and a general malaise, I am not in a better moment.
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Mail and other Conversation
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Hi Uncle Dom:
Just thought I would share a special moment with you and your readers. I am in the antique auction business and have the opportunity to represent sellers who have a wide range of interesting and valuable items that they entrust with me to sell in online auctions. Recently, I was retained by the estate representatives of a prominent Carlisle MA doctor to handle the sale of his antique objects.
As your followers may be aware, you and I are reading The Killer Angels, a book about the battle of Gettysburg during the Civil War. Well, imagine my delight when I discovered that the doctor collected antique medical instruments, and mixed in with the other items were several
Civil War era medical kits. I can't pinpoint the exact time period, but certainly in the mid- to late-1800s.
Civil War pocket field medical and surgical kits!! What an honor to handle objects that may have been owned by a doctor caring for soldiers in one of the battles. Perhaps even Gettysburg!!
This is one of many reasons I love the business I’m in; that I get to hold such cherished items that we see in museums. There was even a Picasso and Vermeer in the mix (only prints -darn!).
For those interested, the sales (there will be 5 parts to this auction) are listed through AuctionNinja.com. There are many other categories in the sale including original art, furniture, objects, books, and more. Feel free to contact me at medianore@gmail.com for an exact link once each auction is live and online.
Your niece
Lisa
Blog meister responds: I put a couple of bids in at Lisa’s last auction. I didn’t ‘steal’ anything then but I’m looking forward to this next one. The day of the event is quite exciting.
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Dinner/Food/Recipes
I had dinner at Ga Ga, my current preferred Chinese restaurant. I ate parts of three plates: Shrimp w Lobster Sauce, very large shrimp, Kung Pao Shrimp, very small shrimp, and Mixed Vegetables. All the dishes were very good, the Mixed Vegetables were wonderful.
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Community Photos**
Make way for ducklings in yellow
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Short Essay*
The Hudson River School was a mid-19th century American art movement embodied by a group of landscape painters whose aesthetic vision was influenced by Romanticism. The paintings typically depict the Hudson River Valley and the surrounding area, including the Catskill, Adirondack, and White Mountains. Works by the second generation of artists associated with the school expanded to include other locales in New England, the Maritimes, the American West, and South America.
Overview
The name Hudson River School is thought to have been coined by New York Tribune art critic Clarence Cook or by landscape painter Homer Dodge Martin.[1] It was initially used disparagingly, as the style had gone out of favor after the plein-air Barbizon School had come into vogue among American patrons and collectors.
Hudson River School paintings reflect three themes of America in the 19th century: discovery, exploration, and settlement.[2] They also depict the American landscape as a pastoral setting, where human beings and nature coexist peacefully. Hudson River School landscapes are characterized by their realistic, detailed, and sometimes idealized portrayal of nature, often juxtaposing peaceful agriculture and the remaining wilderness which was fast disappearing from the Hudson Valley just as it was coming to be appreciated for its qualities of ruggedness and sublimity.[3] In general, Hudson River School artists believed that nature in the form of the American landscape was a reflection of God,[4] though they varied in the depth of their religious conviction. They were inspired by European masters such as Claude Lorrain, John Constable, and J. M. W. Turner. Several painters were members of the Düsseldorf school of painting, others were educated by German Paul Weber.[5]
Founder
Thomas Cole, A View of the Two Lakes and Mountain House, Catskill Mountains, Morning, 1844, Brooklyn Museum of Art
Thomas Cole is generally acknowledged as the founder of the Hudson River School.[6] He took a steamship up the Hudson in the autumn of 1825, stopping first at West Point then at Catskill landing. He hiked west high into the eastern Catskill Mountains of New York to paint the first landscapes of the area. The first review of his work appeared in the New York Evening Post on November 22, 1825.[7] Cole was from England and the brilliant autumn colors in the American landscape inspired him.[6] His close friend Asher Brown Durand became a prominent figure in the school, as well.[8] A prominent element of the Hudson River School was its themes of nationalism, nature, and property. Adherents of the movement also tended to be suspicious of the economic and technological development of the age.[9]
Second generation
Frederic Edwin Church, Niagara Falls, 1857, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Albert Bierstadt, Among the Sierra Nevada, California, 1868, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
John Frederick Kensett, Mount Washington, 1869, Wellesley College Museum
Asher Brown Durand, The Catskills, 1859, Walters Art Museum
The second generation of Hudson River School artists emerged after Cole's premature death in 1848; its members included Cole's prize pupil Frederic Edwin Church, John Frederick Kensett, and Sanford Robinson Gifford. Works by artists of this second generation are often described as examples of Luminism. Kensett, Gifford, and Church were also among the founders of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.[10]
Most of the finest works of the second generation were painted between 1855 and 1875. Artists such as Frederic Edwin Church and Albert Bierstadt were celebrities during that time. They were both influenced by the Düsseldorf school of painting, and Bierstadt had studied in that city for several years. Thousands of people would pay 25 cents per person to view paintings such as Niagara[11] and The Icebergs.[12] The epic size of these landscapes was unexampled in earlier American painting and reminded Americans of the vast, untamed, and magnificent wilderness areas in their country. This was the period of settlement in the American West, preservation of national parks, and establishment of green city parks.
Female artists
Several women were associated with the Hudson River School. Susie M. Barstow was an avid mountain climber who painted the mountain scenery of the Catskills and the White Mountains. Eliza Pratt Greatorex was an Irish-born painter who was the second woman elected to the National Academy of Design. Julie Hart Beers led sketching expeditions in the Hudson Valley region before moving to a New York City art studio with her daughters. Harriet Cany Peale studied with Rembrandt Peale and Mary Blood Mellen was a student and collaborator with Fitz Henry Lane.[13][14]
Legacy
Hudson River School art has had minor periods of resurgence in popularity. The school gained interest after World War I, probably due to nationalist attitudes. Interest declined until the 1960s, and the regrowth of the Hudson Valley[vague] has spurred further interest in the movement.[15] Historic house museums and other sites dedicated to the Hudson River School include Olana State Historic Site in Hudson, New York, the Thomas Cole National Historic Site in the town of Catskill, the Newington-Cropsey Foundation's historic house museum, art gallery, and research library in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, and the John D. Barrow Art Gallery in the village of Skaneateles, New York.
*The Blog Meister selects the topics for the Lead Picture and the Short Essay and then leans heavily or exclusively on Wikipedia to provide the content. The Blog Meister usually edits the entries.
**Community Pictures with Captions are sent in by our followers. Feel free to send in yours to domcapossela@hotmail.com
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