The Self Beyond the Mirror William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 22 is one of the more intimate and psychologically complex poems in the Shakespearean sonnet sequence. Unlike the grand philosophical reflections on time, beauty, and mortality found in many of the surrounding sonnets, Sonnet 22 explores something deeply personal: the relationship between aging, identity, emotional connection, and … Continue reading “A Heart That Never Ages: Shakespeare’s Sonnet 22 and the Eternal Language of Love, Identity, and Youth”
T.A.E.’s Art Reviews – Portrait Inspired by David Park
“Portrait Inspired by David Park” can be read as a modern, painterly meditation on how likeness is constructed—not merely depicted—through color, distortion, and selective erasure. While the work presents itself as a portrait, its organizing logic departs from conventional figuration. The figure is modeled through translucent veils and abrupt, diagrammatic blocks of tone, suggesting that … Continue reading T.A.E.’s Art Reviews – Portrait Inspired by David Park
(Home) – Studio Painting – 5th Still-life Project – One Considered Composition
I’m still not decided I want to go with this set-up. So, I needed to make a smaller sketch-painting on paper to see how I feel about it. First, I love the picture and feel there’s a possibility here, I’m just not sure I can paint it well. One thing is for sure… I’ll need(Home) … Continue reading (Home) – Studio Painting – 5th Still-life Project – One Considered Composition
T.A.E.’s Art Reviews – Deconstructing “Haring”
In the dry pastel drawing entitled "Haring", the artist constructs an idiosyncratic, irreverent tribute to the legendary 1980s East Village art icon, Keith Haring. Rather than replicating the clean, kinetic lines synonymous with Haring’s subway chalk drawings and radiant iconography, the work adopts the subversive language of twentieth-century caricature and graphic satire. Through extreme anatomical … Continue reading T.A.E.’s Art Reviews – Deconstructing “Haring”
T.A.E.’s Art Reviews – Existential Parody in “And this weeks biggest loser is…Frank!”
In "And this weeks biggest loser is...Frank", the viewer is confronted with a severe, tragicomic distillation of human defeat. Rendered in dry pastel, the piece operates at the intersection of mid-century psychological caricature and modernist alienation. The composition is starkly vertical: a disproportionately tiny, curved head sits perched atop an impossibly attenuated neck, emerging from … Continue reading T.A.E.’s Art Reviews – Existential Parody in “And this weeks biggest loser is…Frank!”
T.A.E.’s Art Reviews – “He shaved!” and the Grotesque Satire of Modern Identity
In the dry pastel portrait “He shaved!”, the artist engages in a compelling dialogue between mid-century American satirical cartooning and European modernist portraiture. Visually dominated by an extraordinarily elongated neck and a flattened, mask-like countenance rendered in pungent ochre, the work destabilizes conventional portraiture to explore themes of exposure, banal absurdity, and the vulnerability of … Continue reading T.A.E.’s Art Reviews – “He shaved!” and the Grotesque Satire of Modern Identity
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #218 – Tea Bowls – Cheetahs
218 – Tea Bowls – Cheetahs 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 stuck on pieces of asphalt, then I set it aside to dry slowly under paper and plastic, before sending it to500 … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #218 – Tea Bowls – Cheetahs
T.A.E.’s Art Reviews – Self-Portrait, I think…
In the dry pastel drawing titled “Self-portrait, I think,” the artist confronts the traditional genre of self-portraiture not as an act of self-aggrandizement, but as an exercise in existential doubt and comic desublimation. The tentative subtitle, "I think," immediately subverts the artist’s authority over their own likeness, pointing to a contemporary condition of psychological alienation … Continue reading T.A.E.’s Art Reviews – Self-Portrait, I think…
Looking For Strange #3
Random lines, following the whims of my hands and inner eye, revealing shapes not seen or envisioned consciously… The paper is turned and turned to find any recognizable patterns. When found, colours are applied to achieve the pattern I think I see. Anything can happen. Hint, I look for what might be eyes and letLooking … Continue reading Looking For Strange #3
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #217 – Tea #13
Tea #13 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 scored the outside with a fork and dabbed on some grog mixed with brown stain, then I set it aside to dry slowly under paper500 … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #217 – Tea #13