Tag Archives: Nicolas Poussin

meaning what you mean

Do I know you mean what you mean? If a person thinks in one language, they think one way; in another language another way. At least that is what Benjamin Lee Whorf said, who explained why a person’s thought is … Continue reading

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it’s an ordered world: plane enjoyment

The essential element in any classical composition is order. Although, all composition is order in one form or another, in classical composition order is associated with the idea of repose and possibly can exist for itself alone as an exercise, … Continue reading

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billion dollar bash

Living in dangerous times. Currency wars have been on the fringe of public consciousness for some time, mainly as as an echo of anti-China sentiment on their dumping practices into north American markets. However we are on the verge of … Continue reading

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malraux and the great beyond: resurrecting the present

…Again, Malraux writes of Cezanne: “His genius rejects appearance as much as the sacred arts did: and faced with so many centuries which rejected it in the name of a Truth he does not know- but to which he spectacularly … Continue reading

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back to biz: chasing the long beards

The election is over and the war goes on. Electronic warfare and remote control combat is and will continue to be a big business both for military and civilian application. Simply, its technology war to stay ahead of the competition … Continue reading

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bernini and the brief french kiss

Bernini spent nearly six months at the French court, but except for a marble bust of the king, which had been commissioned as an afterthought, the trip was a failure. It was a foregone conclusion that an artist who believed … Continue reading

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trial and tribulation: May ’68 …A.D.

The trial of Jesus. Was Christ condemned to death by the Jews, as tradition held for so long, or was he really executed by the Romans as a political offender? …. The effect of the Jewish War in 66 A.D. … Continue reading

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fatal showplace

To give a great party is a dangerous thing. A few famous balls have been enshrined in history and golden legend-none more so than the Duchess of Richmond’s in Brussels on the eve of Waterloo, remembered in the celebrated lines … Continue reading

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what goes around

Drones are certainly here; this kind of soft-ware based warfare of which the FLAME virus and Stuxnet were also manifestations of this information age off-shoot where industrial age economics is displaced to a backseat in favor of digital technologies and … Continue reading

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something sad, terrific

Nathaniel Hawthorne was ten years away from Brook Farm, the socialist, utopian project, before he wrote the book The Blithedale Romance, from his observations there. By then, the success of The Scarlet Letter had justified his habit of looking at … Continue reading

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