Myths, legends, and stories infiltrate our collective and individual consciousness, and the same holds true for the visual arts. The myth of Icarus, who flew too high then crashed and burned, was mentioned by Apollodorus around 150 BC and has since shown up countless times in visual art.

Feb 12, 2020

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From the cave paintings of the Horses’ Heads to figurative art today, visual art is about perception and subject. We artists, and our anien

Dec 9, 2019

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The contrast between postmodernism and what I call “evolutionary art” is both epistemological, in the sense of how the art is made and the

Jul 8, 2019

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A few years ago I read the book What Art Is: The Esthetic Theory of Ayn Rand (Open Court, 2000) by Louis Torres and Michelle Marder Kamhi..

Jan 14, 2019

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In the last decade of the 18th century Beethoven composed his 1st and 2nd piano concertos, Goya etched the series Los Caprichos, Jacques-Lou

May 9, 2018

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Venus was the most beautiful baby born, but she was cursed in two ways: First, no one knew who her father was, her mother deftly convincing

Mar 5, 2018

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Decades ago at 2:30 a.m. on a back street in La Jolla, I was arrested driving my mom’s ’68 Firebird 400 convertible. I had our tiny mutts

Feb 12, 2018

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It is rare in our contemporary postmodern culture that its representatives get a smack down. But that is what happened with the Tyler Shield

Jun 5, 2017

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One of the more poetic events in The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand is when the protagonist, Howard Roark comes to watch Dominique posing naked fo

May 23, 2017

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Over three decades ago, in 1982, I booked a private telephone consultation with an Objectivist philosopher (associated now with the Ayn Rand

Apr 28, 2017

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Porn and art generate two classic human responses: "Art is in the eye of the beholder" and "I know porn when I see it." Sometimes these....

Mar 10, 2017

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At this time I was working summers to pay for my art education, and I had painted a large still life, and I still remember how proud I was

Feb 2, 2017

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“In the broad valley, far below him, in the first sunlight of early morning, he saw a town. Only it was not a town. Towns did not look like

Jan 14, 2017

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The world of contemporary art is a big place with many contradictory movements. For anyone who wishes to be inspired by art, opening the

Mar 16, 2011

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May 2008 -- The easy integration of natural-looking people and outdoor scenes is one of the hardest-won achievements in the history of art..

Mar 15, 2011

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