A Tale of Three Davids The stretch of art history from the Early Renaissance through the Baroque can be exemplified by selected works of major artists during these periods. Three works by Donatello, Michelangelo, and Bernini representing the biblical character of David are good examples of this stretch of art history. Donatello was born in … Continue reading
While the current political climate makes things difficult to manage budgets in Washington and the latest cause de celebre, the saving of art and civilization from the cutting of federal public funds for the arts, the same predictable armies have been drafted for the same delusionary fight, ironically using some of the same soldiers who bitterly complain … Continue reading
After reading an article on http://www.spiked-online.com, the question of using the term judgmentalism when exploring art criticism piqued my interest. The article on this website, “Modern Art is Not Rubbish,” engaged in the typical tortured intellectual gymnastics that has been around since the Cubists, which I will examine a little later. Nevertheless, I have heard … Continue reading
On Appian’s The Civil Wars. Continue reading
May be she is best known in the Greek as Persephone–this poem features the difference in worlds and the contradictions of life in general. Proserpine spends time in hell and heaven, spreading her influence to the earth and life and death. The Garden of Proserpine by Algernon Charles Swinburne Here, where the … Continue reading
This article is largely a response regarding another article that I produced, mostly as an amusement. The original article was an example of minimalism in itself. Perhaps an apology to the readers might be appropriate, but I have refrained from doing so simply because of my self-indulgent attitude toward humor whether anyone else sees any … Continue reading
A musical Christmas gift an arrangement for classical guitar of O Holy Night. Continue reading
I start fresh. I look at this picture as if the first time in seeing. Although difficult to do so, the Daughters of Edward Darley Boit has been pondered and subjected to voracious scrutiny and detailed psychoanalysis. Not infrequently this picture has been proclaimed the greatest produced by an American and, upon examination, hardly presents many … Continue reading
***In reading up on Sargent and, in particular, his Daughters of Edward Darley Boit for a new article for this website, I came across this writing by Henry James, originally published in Harper’s Magazine in October of 1887. Due to my attraction to the works of James and to a subject I find of great … Continue reading
Howard Bosler Artist 