Monthly Archives: August 2011

Jackson Pollock

Posted on August 25, 2011 by foxpudding

  Lavender Mist, No. 1, 1950, Oil on canvas, 221 x 300cm (7’3” x 9’10”), National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC   There are two writers who live within me. One is an erudite fellow who understands exactly how language … Continue reading →

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Winslow Homer

Posted on August 18, 2011 by foxpudding

The Gulf Stream, 1899, Oil on canvas, 71.5 x 124.8cm (28.15” x 49.13”), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City The great themes are usually held to be Man vs Man, Man vs Himself, and Man vs Nature (or God). … Continue reading →

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Pieter Bruegel

Posted on August 11, 2011 by foxpudding

  The Beggars (also called The Cripples) 1568, Oil on Wood, 7⅛” x 8¼” (18 x 21cm, approx) the Louvre, Paris Bruegel is a Flemish painter who in his own time suffered from comparisons to the more famous Hieronymus Bosch. It … Continue reading →

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General Orders No. 9

Posted on August 9, 2011 by foxpudding

Years ago Robert Frost wrote a poem called “The Road Not Taken” which ends “…and I, I took the one less traveled by/and that has made all the difference.” All over the world well meaning literature teachers started going on … Continue reading →

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Alphonse Mucha

Posted on August 4, 2011 by foxpudding

JOB Cigarette Papers Illustration, 1898 This will not take very long today. Where I live in north Texas we are into day thirty-six or seven or eight of hundred plus degree days, and there is simply little energy for writing. … Continue reading →

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