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Shakes, Shivers, and Dithers: Compelling Faces in Art - Francesco Hayez, La Meditazione (L’Italia nel 1848).
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Shakes, Shivers, and Dithers. Poetry, opinions, and essays by Mark V. Williams. Monday, April 7, 2014. Compelling Faces in Art - Francesco Hayez, La Meditazione (L’Italia nel 1848). A face covered by a veil of shadow, the raven hair, the air and deep sorrow in the eyes, and the hands highlighting the weight of the large volume and cross, impart the "melancholy" of contemporary consciousness transformed into meditation. Italy is a woman humiliated. Mark V. Williams. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Shakes, Shivers, and Dithers: April 2014
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Shakes, Shivers, and Dithers. Poetry, opinions, and essays by Mark V. Williams. Sunday, April 27, 2014. Compelling Faces in Art - Henry Herbert La Thangue, An Autumn Morning. Willa Cather wrote in O Pioneers! Do we see in her face, the grand struggle between human agency and the larger forces; a relationship that goes deeper than mere control or influence? Is she, to some extent, an incarnation of the land, curiously empty of human emotion and personality? Mark V. Williams. Vincent Van Gogh painted three...
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Appalachian Morning: Discovering Relatives in the American Revolution and More!
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Art and Photography Writing and Books… All settled within a heart that loves creativity, trees, animals, hills, and the changing seasons. July 4, 2011. Discovering Relatives in the American Revolution and More! A few months ago I decided on a whim to sign onto Ancestry.com to see if I could learn anything more about my family history. I've always thought our family to be very small and without much in the way of "roots.". Help me solve these mysteries? Here are a few things I have learned:. Was born in 1...
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Appalachian Morning: Videos, Photos, and Poems...Oh My!
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Art and Photography Writing and Books… All settled within a heart that loves creativity, trees, animals, hills, and the changing seasons. June 21, 2012. Videos, Photos, and Poems.Oh My! Beginning with our move to Harbor Springs. Michigan in April to my road trip to Philadelphia in May to a bevy of creative activities both personal and professional this spring.I've barely had time to catch my breath, but catch it I have. Breath after breath of "Pure Michigan" air.and it is so good for me! In May 2012, I d...
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Ginger Dawn … A Spice Just Below the Horizon: September 2014
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Monday, September 29, 2014. Bilbao Beetle Learns to Share. Bilbao Beetle Learns to Share. By Andrea Saint James. A book review by Ginger Dawn Harman. One of the first lessons we’re taught as young children is about the importance of sharing. Author Andrea Saint James has accomplished this with her children’s book, Bilbao Beetle Learns to Share. Read this amazing write up from The Examiner. Author Andrea Saint James. By Andrea Saint James. Labels: Andrea Saint James. Bilbao Beetle Learns to Share. I purch...
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Shakes, Shivers, and Dithers: March 2014
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Shakes, Shivers, and Dithers. Poetry, opinions, and essays by Mark V. Williams. Wednesday, March 26, 2014. Compelling Faces in Art - Francis Bacon, Head VI. Head VI" is one of Francis Bacon’s famous "Pope paintings," with the haunting mouth recalling the anguished cry of the bespectacled nanny in Sergei Eisenstein’s 1925 film Battleship Potemkin. It is in fact based on the portrayal of pope Innocent IX which was originally painted by Diego Velazquez (1599-1660). Ingmar Bergman said of his films, “I...
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Shakes, Shivers, and Dithers: May 2011
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Shakes, Shivers, and Dithers. Poetry, opinions, and essays by Mark V. Williams. Monday, May 23, 2011. What Is This Thing Called Poetry? I originally wrote this as a guest blog article for Jessica Bell's The Alliterative Allomorph.]. Mozart claimed that his letters came from God. Seamus Heaney said that his poetry came from a metaphorical dig, to uncover the hiding places of his power. For each, the result could be referred to as the source of creative inspiration. I could not have said it better. Luckily...
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Shakes, Shivers, and Dithers: Compelling Faces in Art - George Frederic Watts, Sympathy.
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Shakes, Shivers, and Dithers. Poetry, opinions, and essays by Mark V. Williams. Monday, April 7, 2014. Compelling Faces in Art - George Frederic Watts, Sympathy. As a English Victorian painter, George Frederic Watts became famous for his allegorical works. This painting is called Sympathy, and is part of an epic symbolic cycle called the House of Life, in which the emotions and aspirations of life would all be represented in a universal symbolic language. Does it evoke immense and unfathomable things?
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Shakes, Shivers, and Dithers: Compelling Faces in Art - Henry Herbert La Thangue, An Autumn Morning.
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Shakes, Shivers, and Dithers. Poetry, opinions, and essays by Mark V. Williams. Sunday, April 27, 2014. Compelling Faces in Art - Henry Herbert La Thangue, An Autumn Morning. Willa Cather wrote in O Pioneers! Do we see in her face, the grand struggle between human agency and the larger forces; a relationship that goes deeper than mere control or influence? Is she, to some extent, an incarnation of the land, curiously empty of human emotion and personality? Mark V. Williams. Subscribe To This Blog. Willia...
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