Variations on “Jingle Bells” for keyboard. Continue reading
Category Archives: Art
Mid Century Modern art is featured on these pages.
Acis and Galatea
The Featured Image: The Loves of Acis and Galatea by Alexandre Charles Guillemot (1827). One of my favorite books was written in the time of Augustus, the one who exiled the imprudent and lurid Ovid for violating the new Roman sexual decorum. For those that don’t know, the eventually Divine Augustus, after assuming the … Continue reading
Andante by Ferdinando Carulli
This is a charming piece by Ferdinando Carulli for classical guitar that I arranged in B Major. https://musescore.com/user/14413256/scores/5269508/embedAndante+by+Ferdinand+Carulli” by Howard Bosler Continue reading
String Serenade Part 3
This is the third movement of the String Serenade. This will need polishing but I have other projects to do. I’m working on a painting, writing 3 new articles for my blogs, plus trying to get things organized for a house to remodel. In the middle of the month, I have eye surgery to replace … Continue reading
String Serenade, 2nd Movement
I have finished–completed for now–the second movement of this string quartet. The first movement was at a walking pace and this more toward a brisk jaunt, even though there is an adagio piece toward the end. The third movement, which will probably extend the work to over thirty minutes, will strictly be a sweeping adagio … Continue reading
String Serenade
I’m writing what is essentially a string quartet in three movements and have made a good start on the first movement which includes an Introduction (Largo) and a following Andante con Expressione. The second movement will be an Allegro, or maybe even a Presto and the third will be a sweeping Andante Cantabile or even … Continue reading
Consider Gerome’s The Death of Caesar and Vinchon’s Boissy d’Anglas
Comparison of paintings by Gerome and Vinchon. Continue reading
Sargent’s Mrs. Hugh Hammersley
All those things one hears about the painting methods and techniques of John Singer Sargent come to an excellent example in his Portrait of Mrs. Hugh Hammersley of 1892. Sargent can manage a tour de force of a painterly approach like very few other artists. Of course, it is said that he admired Velazquez … Continue reading
Some Comments About Line in Art
About the use of line to produce formal effects. Continue reading
Again
I post this series of photographic images which I composed based upon a poem by Tennyson and one by Ginsberg. This is a visual poem. You may see them without comment for they were not meant for commentary. The End. Continue reading
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