WHEN MUSICAL ATMOSPHERE THEY UNDERSTOOD ARTIST’S LIFE – Cecilia Beaux: the painter’s pilgrimage of a woman
CECILIA BEAUX 1/3 – She – an American society portraitist – have a passionate determination to overcome every obstacle, and really become one of the most famous portrait painters of her era. At age 16, she began art lessons, and produced decorative art and small portraits (also gave private art lessons). In 1876, Beaux began attending the Pennsylvania Academy of …
Read More »HEAT – Poetry, by Hilda Doolittle
Her special gift (her grandmother), bestows a sense of mystical connection to the Moravians. Hilda Doolittle was born into the Moravian community of her artistic mother, in Pennsylvania, and reared in a Philadelphia. There, her father was director of the Flower Observatory. Her “The Gift” is cast in the voice of a child, who is cognizant of own dreams and …
Read More »THE SECRET GARDEN – Romance, by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Her first story was published in 1868. Her main talent as a writer? It was to blend a romantic plot with realistic details of the working class. Frances Hodgson Burnett was an English born playwright and author. After her father died, her family emigrated to the United States. It was there that she began writing. The statue depicts her two …
Read More »CECILIA BEAUX (1855/1942), AMERICAN PAINTER – She considered herself a New Woman
BUT A STORM IS BLOWING FROM PARADISE – New York Guggenheim Museum: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa
Everyone loves to travel, but not everyone loves to travel the same way. All you have to do is have the time of your life. Meeting Benches. The way to making the world a better place is easy. Where Guggenheim Museums? New York, Venice and Bilbao! Solomon R. Guggenheim, founded the Guggenheim Foundation to foster also for you an appreciation …
Read More »SONG – Poetry, by Amy Lowell
She was born to wealth, because her paternal grandfather developed the cotton industry of Massachusetts, where two towns (Lowell and Lawrence), are named for the families. Amy Lowell began a lifelong habit of book collecting, accepting a marriage proposal, but the young man set his heart on another woman. She went to Europe and Egypt, to improve her health. 1910, …
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Best Hip Hop / Rap Music Mix 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp_Ym05Aa_U
Read More »LOVE IS ENOUGH – Poetry, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
When she was a little angel, her mother wanted a girl child who can become a writer. Her mother believed in pre-natal influences (according to her, parents could influence the soul personality of their little angel child). Ella Wheeler Wilcox was born on a farm in Wisconsin, becoming an American poet, and “Poems of Passion” was her best-known work, and …
Read More »BOKETTO – Poetry, by Susan Rich
BOKETTO Outside my window it’s never the same, some mornings jasmine slaps the house, some mornings sorrow. There is a word I overheard today, meaning lost, not on a career path or across a floating bridge: Boketto, to stare out windows without purpose. Don’t laugh; it’s been too long since we leaned into the morning: bird friendly coffee and blueberry …
Read More »HE WORRIED WOULD BE KNOWN ONLY AS A PAINTER OF FISH – William Merrit Chase, the gifted witness painter of his era
WILLIAM MERRIT CHASE 1/3 – He showed an early interest in art, and was known as an exponent of Impressionism. He was a gifted witness to his era, gathering impressions of late nineteenth-century city life. Its father moved the family to Indianapolis, and employed his son in the family business. William Merritt Chase was born on a November day, and …
Read More »ALPHABET STREET – Poetry, by Randall Mann
ALPHABET STREET “Adore” was my song, Back in ’87. Cool beans, I liked to say, desperately uncool. Except for you. Florida, a dirty hand gesture; the state, pay dirt. Headphones on, I heard, in a word, you were sex, just in time. Who was I kidding? Then, as now, love is too weak to define. Mostly I just ran, not …
Read More »WILLIAM MERRIT CHASE (1849/1916), AMERICAN PAINTER – The noble sense of color
IF YOU LOSE YOUR LOVER – Poetry, by Judy Grahn
IF YOU LOSE YOUR LOVER If you lose your lover, rain hurt you. Blackbirds brood over the sky trees, burn down everywhere brown, rabbits run under car wheels. Should your body cry? To feel such blue and empty bed dont bother. If you lose your lover comb hair go here, or there get another. https://www.amazon.com/Work-Common-Woman-Collected-1964-1977/dp/0895941554?ie=UTF8&*Version*=1&*entries*=0
Read More »THE SON OF A TEXTILE MANUFACTURER, ABLE TO MAKE COLORED EMOTIONS – The dramatic creative metamorphosis of Charles Sims
CHARLES SIMS 1/3 – The son of a textile manufacturer, he also works as part of the curtains, but soon he joined the South Kensington College of Art (then he was in Paris to further his studies of painting and decorating). Back again to London to join the Royal Academy School, he was expelled in 1895, two years later. In …
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