Show notes Episode 6: The Black Box

From Ilya Repin’s paintings in the 1800’s to what our descendants might make of our lives in hundreds of years: the black box and the unknown. Expectations, moments, questions, sketches, input, output, what happens in the process?

The procession can’t be witnessed. Kahlil Gibran “On Children,” and how the present cannot decide the future. Who were the secondary English teachers of the 1700’s? Perhaps the intellectualizing was in the everyday ways of being in various professions. The black box of the past and the future. How storytelling can cultivate awareness of self.

Wikipedia entry on "They Did Not Expect Him": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Did_Not_Expect_Him

Ilya Repin's "Religious Procession in Kursk Province": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_Procession_in_Kursk_Governorate

Kahlil Gibran and "On Children"

https://poets.org/poem/children-1

The Black Box Concept in AI and Systems Theory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_box

Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre

Gutenberg Project Full Text of Jane Eyre:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1260

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_a_Wonderful_Life

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe_(figure_of_speech)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_451

Show notes Episode 5: What makes a costume real?

Costumes, cosplay, derivative imaginative experiences. When does a costume become real? Is a persona a mask? Can it become real? The pathway on the stage becomes real when the audience walks through it.

How fiction can vibrate to the frequency of real. The audience decides that this is an enactment experience. We put on the costume and align with another form of being self. Synesthesia and the experience of becoming; self to character. Not necessarily synthesis. Derivative imaginative play. Solidly not real. Beyond the cover of the song. The notion of the influence. Costumes as a scaffolding technique of becoming as a creative.

Show notes Episode 4: Tapestries of meaning

The public good, the fallout shelter, we’re having an assembly today. The wonderful ruckus of it all. Thrown together, pieced together, stitches and seams all showing. From Victory Gardens to Patrick Henry, to Giuseppe Pitrè and Guiseppe Arcimboldo; from Great Wave immigrants to rainy day assemblies.

Victory Gardens:

https://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2016/03/14/victory-gardens-bloom-across-the-1940s-city/

Ottmann, Michelle Melissa Althaus; Maantay, Juliana A.; Grady, Kristen; and Fonte, Nilce N. (2012) "Characterization of Urban Agricultural Practices and Gardeners’ Perceptions in Bronx Community Gardens, New York City.," Cities and the Environment (CATE): Vol. 5: Iss. 1, Article 13. Available at: http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/cate/vol5/iss1/13

 

https://web.archive.org/web/20180602042934id_/http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1113&context=cate

https://www.nybg.org/planttalk/victory-gardens-make-a-comeback/#:~:text=Bronx%20Green%2DUp%2C%20NYBG's%20community,post%20on%20the%20Hand%20Lens.

 

Guiseppe Pitrè:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Pitr%C3%A8

 

Zipes, J. (2009). The Indomitable Giuseppe Pitrè: Research article. Folklore, 120(1), 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/00155870802647809

https://www.academia.edu/3384433/The_Indomitable_Giuseppe_Pitr%C3%A8

 

Patrick Henry:

https://www.bartleby.com/lit-hub/hc/america-i-1761-1837/i-the-give-me-liberty-or-give-me-death-speech/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Give_me_liberty_or_give_me_death!

Arcimboldo:

https://www.nga.gov/artworks/142008-four-seasons-one-head

Show Notes for Episode 3: The Universe, End to End; Art and the Scale and Scope of Conveyance

When do the measures of the universe meet in a tight corner? Is the universe of artistic conveyance large enough to embody contrasting notions of validity? Considering Whitman’s “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer.” Reaching to the ends of a natural ethic from Robert Burns’s “To a Mouse.” Are we reaching to the stars or to the earth right in front of our feet with our artistry? The universe of referentiality from the still life to the landscape. Considering Helen Frankenthaler and Clara Peeters. Considerations of my own works including symphonies in the sink and people of the fork. This is a consideration of the layers of referentiality in the workflow of creating art. Considerations of photography, using Procreate, and how photography and digital tools become part of painting workflow.

References and Searches:

1.     Walt Whitman – "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer"

Search terms: "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer Walt Whitman full text"

  https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45480/when-i-heard-the-learnd-astronomer

 

2.     Robert Burns – "To a Mouse"

 Search terms: "To a Mouse Robert Burns full text"

 Link: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43816/to-a-mouse

 3.     Helen Frankenthaler – Thoughts on abstract painting

 “A red-blue against the white of cotton duck or the beige of linen has the same play in space as the duck, or that duck assumes as important a role as the red shape” (De Antonio & Tuchman, 1984, pp. 82-83).

She further tells us that:

 “The plate that the apples are on is as important as the apples themselves. It isn’t as if background meant the background is a curtain or a drape in front of which there is a table on which there is a plate on which there are apples” (De Antonio & Tuchman, 1984, pp. 82-83).

 Reference: Painters Painting documentary (De Antonio & Tuchman, 1984, pp. 82-83)

 4.     Clara Peeters – "Table with Orange, Olives, and Pie"

 Search terms: "Clara Peeters Table with Orange Olives and Pie painting"

 Link: https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/still-life-with-fruits-and-cheese/24d41c72-0228-4701-8baf-b888a6e8882e

People of the Fork painting 40” x 40”

People of the Fork digital painting

One of the “Symphonies in the Sink” paintings

One of the “Shelf Life” paintings

An article where I discuss artistic processes and pedagogical approaches and reference abstract art and Frankenthaler in a different context:

“Constructing a Pedagogy of Apparentness”

Show Notes - Episode 2: A New Gorgon

1. Roland Barthes – Mythologies

  • Search: "Roland Barthes Mythologies summary"

  • Link: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/56917/mythologies/9780099529750.html

2. The Odyssey by Homer

  • Search: "The Odyssey Homer full text"

  • Link: http://classics.mit.edu/Homer/odyssey.html

3. Artemisia Gentileschi – "Judith Beheading Holofernes"

  • Search: "Artemisia Gentileschi Judith Beheading Holofernes painting"

  • Link: https://www.uffizi.it/en/artworks/judith-beheading-holofernes

4. Francisco Goya – "The Third of May 1808"

  • Search: "Francisco Goya The Third of May painting"

  • Link: https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/the-3rd-of-may-1808-in-madrid/fe6f5c01-8b85-4e70-b56a-7bb58b70982e

5. Édouard Manet – "The Execution of Emperor Maximilian"

  • Search: "Édouard Manet Execution of Emperor Maximilian painting"

  • Link: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436945

6. Yue Minjun – "Execution"

  • Search: "Yue Minjun Execution painting"

  • Link: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/yue-execution-t07608

7. Shakespeare’s Macbeth

  • Search: "Macbeth full text"

  • Link: https://shakespeare.mit.edu/macbeth/full.html

8. Chiaroscuro (Art Term)

Show Notes - Episode 1: The Reaches of Artistic Testimony

In this pilot episode, the foundation of the notion of “An Infinite Language” is explored. From the process of painterly seeing to Ozymandias and the enduring voice of the arts and the artist.
Some highlights:
Can you paint with words?
The artistic voice is more enduring than absolute power. 
The everyday person has the power to tell, to convey and sculpt our notions of what happened.
What voice carries on?
Creative output is an infinite language, it cannot be relegated to, cannot be limited to solving the world’s problems. Art is not a for-hire form of expression that is only used for problem solving.
What is the contrast between Ozymandias and the message in Emma Lazarus's poem on the Statue of Liberty? "The New Colossus" is a message of hope, a claim that the way of lifting up is the golden door. Other works discussed: Guernica by Picasso, David's the Coronation of Napoleon 

Key References:

1.     Percy Bysshe Shelley – "Ozymandias"
Search: "Ozymandias poem Percy Bysshe Shelley"
Link: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46565/ozymandias

2.     Pablo Picasso – "Guernica"
Search: "Picasso Guernica painting"
Link: https://www.museoreinasofia.es/en/collection/artwork/guernica

3.     Jacques-Louis David – "The Coronation of Napoleon"
Search: "Jacques Louis David The Coronation of Napoleon painting"
Link: https://www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/coronation-emperor-napoleon-i

4.     Emma Lazarus – "The New Colossus"
Search: "Emma Lazarus The New Colossus poem"
Link: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46550/the-new-colossus

5.     The Colossus of Rhodes
Search: "The Colossus of Rhodes statue"
Link: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Colossus-of-Rhodes

6.     Robert Motherwell – General Search
Search: "Robert Motherwell artist"
Link: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/robert-motherwell-1654

7.     Jack Whitten – General Search
Search: "Jack Whitten artist"
Link: https://jackwhittenart.com/

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