William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 21 is one of the poet’s most fascinating reflections on authenticity, artistic integrity, and the difference between genuine admiration and shallow obsession. Unlike many love poems that exaggerate beauty through extravagant comparisons, Sonnet 21 rejects the culture of over-the-top praise. Shakespeare’s speaker argues that true affection does not need fake mythology, impossible … Continue reading “No Filter, No Fake: Shakespeare’s Sonnet 21 and the Modern Search for Authentic Love”
T.A.E.’s Art Reviews – A Day at the Beach
A Day at the Beach presents itself as a close, affective encounter with the body in leisure—yet it does so by borrowing the visual grammar of David Park’s celebrated 1957 oil painting Seated Bather (sometimes referred to simply as Bather). In this sense, the work can be read less as a literal beach scene than as a re-staging of … Continue reading T.A.E.’s Art Reviews – A Day at the Beach
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #214 – Tea #7
Tea #7 The Technique: How I did this awesomeness! Combining a slab-building and Pinch-pot method to make the actual bowl, I worked it wet and fast. While still wet, I hit the sides lightly with a blade and painted the marks with a black engobe, cleaned away the excess black with a blade and smoothed … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #214 – Tea #7
T.A.E.’s Art Reviews – “Oaxaca” – Dia de los muertos
The acrylic composition Oaxaca – Día de los Muertos situates itself at the intersection of Mexican Folk Art (Arte Popular), Naïve Art, and the satirical printmaking traditions championed by José Guadalupe Posada. At its formal core, the work pays homage to the iconic calavera—an enduring motif within Mexican cultural identity that playfully democratizes mortality. Visually, … Continue reading T.A.E.’s Art Reviews – “Oaxaca” – Dia de los muertos
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #213 – Tea #6
Tea #6: The Technique: How I did this awesomeness! Combining a slab-building and Pinch-pot method to make the actual bowl, I worked it wet and fast. While still wet, I hit the clay with the end of a small stick to make the texture, then I set it aside to dry slowly under paper and … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #213 – Tea #6
Ofrenda for Basquiat
November 2nd is The Day of The Dead and we must create these memorial images of those we want to remember. I’m playing with the interpretation of this awesome Mexican tradition, but I want to pay tribute to a creative inspiration: Jean-Michel Basquiat. Perhaps doing an Ofrenda in a style similar to his will doOfrenda … Continue reading Ofrenda for Basquiat
Old Man Facing The Wind
I was in need of filling a little time and didn’t feel like getting dirty with charcoals, so I sat on a bench not far from this older businessman. He was enjoying the breeze and sunshine on his face. Well, that’s what I think he was doing and probably what it would have looked like,Old … Continue reading Old Man Facing The Wind
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #211 – Tea #3:
Tea #3: The Technique: How I did this awesomeness! Combining a slab-building and Pinch-pot method to make the actual bowl, I worked it wet and fast. While still wet, I rolled it in broken porcelain crumbs left over in my recuperation bin and dabbed on some grog mixed with manganese stain, then I set it … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #211 – Tea #3:
T.A.E.’s Art Reviews – Leaning In And Listening
In Leaning in and Listening, the viewer is confronted with an intimate, psychologically charged portrait executed in dense oil pastel upon an organic, hand-cast paper substrate. The work immediately enters into dialogue with early 20th-century Modernism, operating at the crossroads of School of Paris portraiture, Fauvist chromatic intensity, and German Expressionist structural directness. Through an … Continue reading T.A.E.’s Art Reviews – Leaning In And Listening
Mesmer, or some other freak who turned me into a chicken in Las Vegas
I think I just woke up, refreshed and not remembering a thing about being a chicken… I have no clue what deep dark corner of my mind pulls this nonsense into the light of day, but here it is. Say hello to the Kramer of hypnotists. Capable of doing great things, but somehow, just likeMesmer, … Continue reading Mesmer, or some other freak who turned me into a chicken in Las Vegas