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EMULATION: March 2015

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To match or surpass (a person or achievement), typically by imitation; from Latin aemulat- 'rivaled, equaled,' from the verb aemulari, from aemulus 'rival' —OED. Recently the artist Nelson Shanks revealed a secret in the shadows of his painting of Bill Clinton:. Http:/ www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/03/02/390196140/clintons-portrait-has-hint-of-lewinskys-blue-dress-artist-says. 8221; Too true, indeed. Realism has killed portraiture. But like most people today (obviously not attuned to his canonical au...

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EMULATION: October 2013

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To match or surpass (a person or achievement), typically by imitation; from Latin aemulat- 'rivaled, equaled,' from the verb aemulari, from aemulus 'rival' —OED. Emulation X.1 The Theater of Aspirations. The Carracci and their Models I. Annibale Carracci, Pietà. Those on the way) was competitive among the students, but also competitive with respect to the past and present; Agostino designed their impresa. Whose motto Contentione Perfectus. T]he stylistic polemic in which the Carracci were engaged did not...

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EMULATION: March 2014

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To match or surpass (a person or achievement), typically by imitation; from Latin aemulat- 'rivaled, equaled,' from the verb aemulari, from aemulus 'rival' —OED. Back to the Opera. Haymarket Opera company’s Actéon. Altar dedicated to Diana on the rightmost periaktos. Once again I had the pleasure of painting sets for a Haymarket Opera company. Production, this time of Charpentier’s Actéon. With a pastoral prelude of Le Jugement de Pan. And an interspersed divertissement. The urge to breathe fresh contemp...

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EMULATION: July 2014

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To match or surpass (a person or achievement), typically by imitation; from Latin aemulat- 'rivaled, equaled,' from the verb aemulari, from aemulus 'rival' —OED. Disruption and the Can(n)on. A bit of filler blog until I have some art to post…. From The New Yorker. Recently, which, like a stopped clock, is occasionally correct:. 8220;The Disruption Machine. What The Gospel Of Innovation Gets Wrong.”. June 23, 2014. Less recently, and slightly less often wrong:. Stories, but one can’t have dumb or me...

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EMULATION: September 2014

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To match or surpass (a person or achievement), typically by imitation; from Latin aemulat- 'rivaled, equaled,' from the verb aemulari, from aemulus 'rival' —OED. The Baroque, Then and Now. Since I’m a painter as well as an architect, the frescoes in particular of South German eighteenth-century churches interested me, and while there is much that they have in common, particular artists brought unique styles and interpretations to their subjects. From the sort of purple sfumato. St Lorenz, apse. At the ag...

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EMULATION: AN ACADEMY OF EMULATION

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To match or surpass (a person or achievement), typically by imitation; from Latin aemulat- 'rivaled, equaled,' from the verb aemulari, from aemulus 'rival' —OED. AN ACADEMY OF EMULATION. What Would An Academy Of Emulation Look Like? The Reasons We Learn To Draw:. If we can’t see, we can’t understand. If we don’t understand, we won’t remember. Memory is the mother of the Muses. The Role Of Drawing In Making Art:. Invention is the search. Invention is not a priori. I what you draw conditions what you invent.

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EMULATION: June 2015

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To match or surpass (a person or achievement), typically by imitation; from Latin aemulat- 'rivaled, equaled,' from the verb aemulari, from aemulus 'rival' —OED. The World Pope Francis Advocates Already Exists: It’s Called Tuscany. Encyclical Letter Laudato Si’. Of The Holy Father Francis, 18 June 2015. View of Siena from the south. With the release of Pope Francis’ encyclical on the environment. The Virtues of the well-governed city on the left,. And their effects on city and countryside on the right.

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The Idea of the Beautiful and the Art of Drawing. Pietro Bellori, 1672. The point of liberation within the classical figurative tradition was in drawing: there the artist both re-presented, and invented. We should remember the exploratory implications of the Italian word. It suggests digging, finding, uncovering. Drawing in the inventive process is a search for the Idea through the medium of the figure. Giorgio Vasari said this about the process:. Becomes a fertile exchange between the past and present.

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David Mayernik Ltd.'s built work in Europe has been realized in collaboration with a series of local architects (as Architects of Record) and construction supervisors; collaboration is a viable way of integrating design expertise with local knowledge and experience. BoradwayMalyan, Andres Kalik, AK Harris, Harris Partnership. Studio Conza, Luca Pagnamenta, Elena Ricciardo, Alessandro Prei. No; Direzione di Lavoro, Pierangelo Realini. Projects for TASIS Switzerland: Gymansium, Library,.