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July Newsletter
Hey everyone! Here are some general updates for everything that’s been going on and what you can expect for this month and throughout the summer.
Health Update
As some of you may remember, right after the Kickstarter closed I was knocked out by a one-two punch of a fibro flare and Covid. While I’ve been put through the wringer, I’m FINALLY feeling like I’m crawling back out from under this extended period of sickness.
I’m still dealing with some pain and fatigue due to my fibro flare-up, but it’s more or less back to the “normal” levels of what I’m used to, so overall I’m doing pretty good. I took some extra time to recuperate from Covid in the hopes of avoiding any long Covid effects, and while I am still taking it easy, I take a lot of joy in drawing and being forced to not indulge in any of my creative pursuits have made me all the more eager to get back into the swing of things. So, I’m still being careful, but I’m also easing back into work.
I got so many amazing comments from patrons, readers, and Kickstarter backers all encouraging me to take as long as I needed to get better, and I can’t thank you enough for the kind words and well wishes! It was measurably easier to take some time off to rest knowing I had so many people cheering me on and encouraging me to do so, so thank you so much for taking the time to say something and for sending me words of support. <3 You da best!
Comic Updates
We’re moving right along, with 12 pages currently in the pipeline at various production stages. In fact, I’ve just put three new finished pages into the buffer for $10+ patrons today! Our priority right now is to get a healthy buffer so that I can have ample time and space to catch up on other work without impending deadline pressures.
Patreon Rewards
Next, I plan to knock out a good chunk of Patreon commissions for my $50+ folks. I’ve already been doing that here and there, but I want to make sure that the oldest ones are finished first.
Likewise, due to the chaos of a sudden move and a lot of life changes, Ari didn’t send the May postcards out until today, so I apologize for the delays there – we’re getting back on track! June’s postcards have already been sent.
Speaking of, I’ve included some of the patron reward art I just finished last week!
Kickstarter News
We still need to finish the internal book edits, draw up the Q&As, format the information in the book, and finish formatting annotations. These are all things I had intended to get done both during and after the campaign but I was simply unable to keep up with it due to health reasons. Curse you, chronic illness!
I am also going to explore another option for getting the softcovers printed locally, which is something I will only go with if the quality is up to my standards. But we're less than $5k away from being able to reprint Chapters 1-3 so if we're able to get a cheaper local deal with a good printer, I'm willing to explore the option!
By the way, we are now officially sold out of Chapters 1 and 2 books, but you can help us reprint them by preordering them and other stuff through our Backerkit shop!
Preorder Here
We’ll be streaming edits in the Foxglove discord server, so be sure to keep an eye out on there!
New Pride Merch
For Pride month I launched two new apparel designs as part of our Pride collection! Choose from Agender or Non-Binary Ainsley or Biromantic or Transgender Marie on comfy shirts available in a wide range of colors and sizes.
This collection also features downloadable Tales from Treehollow comics dealing with LGBTQIA+ themes. Come check it out!
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Artfight
I’ve never done Artfight before, but I’m gonna try this year! It’ll be fun to have little warmup drawings I can squeeze in here and there between larger projects.
If you’ve never heard of Artfight, it’s an annual art trading game where you “attack” by drawing other people’s characters. It seems really fun! If you’re participating and want to add me, here’s my profile:
https://artfight.net/~Cvilbrandt
Thanks all for reading! May this month be ever better!
#newsletter#art#comics#webcomic#cute#animals#adorable#furry art#furry community#digital art#indie comic#TamberlaneComic
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With it getting close to time for Summer Reading I wanted to make a friendly reminder to support your local library!! Libraries are one of the few places where everyone is welcome. Libraries also tend to provide services beyond lending books and DVDs. Free internet, programs for all ages and a place for homeless people to hang out during the day. Some libraries, like the one I work at, will even let Patrons check out laptops and wifi devices.
Library doesn't have the book or movie you're looking for? Then there's always the option of ILLs (Inter Library Loan) or the library may end up buying the book or DVD if it's available through their distributors.
Beyond that there's also ways to check out ebooks, audiobooks and movies through sites/apps such as Hoopla and Overdrive or Libby.
And these are just a few things libraries offer. Of course services may differ depending on area. I know our library will let Patrons fax and print documents for a very reasonable price. We also have a computer lab for patrons to use.
Libraries are valuable resources for everyone but especially the less fortunate or poor people. Without libraries there would be a lot less services available to communities. Plus libraries are one of the few free places you can still go to; most of the time (I know in some countries you have to pay for a library subscription to check out books).
Anyways thanks for coming to my TedTalk.
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CARRYTHEFIRE, in a plotted starter.
✯ ALLOW HIM TO PREFACE THIS WITH DEFEATIST
THOUGHTS OF A PESSIMIST HE COULD NEVER
STAND FOR, BUT, IN TIME, I SUPPOSE EVEN THE
HOLY LANCE STARTS TO RUST AND SHATTER:
GOD'S PUNISHMENT IS LOOKING AWAY. MAN
ALWAYS FELT A SENSE OF ABANDON WHEN HE,
WE, PRAYED WITHOUT RETURN. PRAYER FOR
HEALTH OR WEALTH OR another summer on the
GUADALUPE RIVER WITH YOUR DAUGHTER,
cooler packed with coke and ice pops for her;
SNEAKED A FEW COLD BEERS FOR YOU, IT'S
INEXPENSIVE AND MEMORABLE. You pray for
that. Next year, expenses tighten, you're working
CONTRACT THROUGH AUGUST. GOD LETS YOU
down. IT BECOMES A DISTANT MEMORY, because
in retrospect, there's many maybes and should haves, could haves, would haves. WHEN THE WORLD FALLS APART, the earthly soil layers between Hell and Earth blur and you cannot tell if the ground's ruptured and there spewed a demon, perhaps pride. THE INFECTED ARE LIKE A SCRATCHED MIRROR of humanity, maybe we were always this vile, toxic, our sins spread like spores and destroy everything we love, everything we hold close. Hold within arm's length, close enough to breath easy but exhale heavy and bloodied, dark coffee grounds, digested sin. Sometimes you pray the ground did rupture, you pray it can swallow you whole, fall right in and then close. Dying in a hole a privilege, because in retrospect, it's preferable to this. THE SOON TO BE CAESAR, still in operator casual attire after days of fighting at the gates, sweat & grime that keeps this air station's gears greased and running. That, and... mountain of corpses they climb, rivers of blood they sail. MOUNTAIN OF CORPSES, RIVERS OF BLOOD. Still, he crossed the ruby river of a different kind. Caesar, then Washington, now him. SEE WHERE MEN END AND MYTH begin, a powerful legitimizing force in uncertain time leading uncertain men who will bow to his radiant, unwavering confidence.
Today's scene, however, lies somewhere between bureaucracy and war zone: vast rows of metal and plastic foldable tables brought outside on the blockaded roads. Uniformed servicemen with what improvised sanitary measures & protection are available, working these tables tirelessly, screening survivors who make it past the front gate. That, I'm afraid, is our first line of defense. Anyone remotely ill-appearing or ill-intending is 'filtered' out on sight—I needn't explain, you get it. Sacrifices that must be made. Caesar's orders, so it's okay, lay your consciousness to rest. You know what must be done for the greater good. He affirms what you already know, and in some new way, morality will sit this one out. Busy scene, trucks rolling in and out, men carrying crates, crates carrying slain men. BURIALS IN TIMES LIKE THIS, some things an apocalypse cannot take, like our faith. Or maybe it's despair, that eternal rest in death is the only avenue left. Doesn't hurt to try, doesn't hurt to die. Can't possibly be any worse than to live in this putrid world. Still, he presses on, Alexander approaching the nearest unmanned metal table, slipping on a pair of nitrile gloves. ❝NEXT! Y'TWO THERE, the gents. Step on up. Names?❞ He's drawing up a line down the middle of a blank lined paper page, speeding things up, going to 'process' these two together. No formal printed forms at this time as the printer's out, I'm afraid, but you can trust he has capable hands working on a solution for stabilizing power.
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“Pathways to Invention” documentary debuts on PBS, streaming
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“Pathways to Invention” documentary debuts on PBS, streaming
The Lemelson-MIT Program has announced the national debut of an award-winning documentary that celebrates invention: American Public Television (APT) presents “Pathways to Invention,” a film that follows modern inventors of diverse backgrounds as they develop life-changing innovations.
Produced by Maaia Mark Productions in association with the Lemelson-MIT Program with funding from The Lemelson Foundation, MIT’s School of Engineering, and the University of California at Berkeley, the 60-minute special explores whether inventors are born or made through a series of engaging, up-close profiles while examining the tangible impact they’re making across a variety of disciplines including biotech, medical diagnostics and prosthetics, sustainable agriculture, food production, software development, and materials science. The inventors featured in the documentary are all recipients of the Lemelson-MIT Student Prize. The program premieres this month on PBS stations nationwide, available for streaming in the PBS app and on PBS.org as well as on WORLD. The film will also air on WGBH 44 Boston on July 7 and 19. A companion website with related learning resources for all ages launched May 1.
“Pathways to Invention” explores the lives of 12 inventors overcoming obstacles to achieve success in cities across the country. Each shares an insightful perspective inspiring audiences to discover their own pathways to realizing their goals.
Journeying through the workshops, garages, laboratories, and offices of these entrepreneurs, the film considers what it really means to take “leaps of faith” as the accomplished innovators present a realistic approach of persevering through overwhelming odds and obstacles, taking risks, and inevitably experiencing failures before achieving success and discovering that the essence of invention is collaboration and lifelong learning.
“We all have the power in our minds and hands to shape the world,” says Levi C. Maaia, the film’s director, a former high school educator, and co-founder of Maaia Mark Productions with Noah Mark, a veteran showrunner and executive producer who has produced numerous series for a who’s who of major broadcast/cable networks and video streaming platforms. “The goal of ‘Pathways to Invention’ is to inspire others to think about new ways they can create solutions to benefit their own lives and humanity at large.”
Together, Maaia and Mark have collected more than a dozen awards for the film. At the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival Awards in summer 2022, it was recognized as the season’s best documentary feature, Mark and Maaia as best producers, Maaia as best director of a documentary feature, and composers Michael Mark and Jon Cobert for best original musical score.
The film seamlessly weaves together the distinctive paths of each inventor working to achieve similarly meaningful results. They include:
David Moinina Sengeh SM ’12, PhD ’16, chief innovation officer and minister of basic and senior secondary education for the government of Sierra Leone, who witnessed those around him struggle with ill-fitting prosthetics that were too uncomfortable to wear, and designed next-generation wearable mechanical interfaces that improve comfort for amputees.
Nicole Black, a materials scientist whose experience growing up as a little girl grappling with hearing loss due to a perforated eardrum led to the groundbreaking formulation of a 3D-printed material — a near-perfect scaffold for the regrowth of human eardrum tissue.
Paige Balcom, a Fulbright Scholar visiting Uganda who was inspired to develop a small-scale community recycling process in Gulu employing street-connected, at-risk youth. This supposedly “impossible” initiative was the genesis of Takataka Plastics, where Paige now serves as co-founder and is currently working to expand to five towns across Uganda, and eventually scale to other developing countries.
Geoff von Maltzahn ’03, PhD ’10, who, after becoming hyper-focused during college with the programmability of living things at a microscopic level, has raised hundreds of millions of dollars to fund groundbreaking biotech and life sciences research. Through the management of microbes and the DNA programming of organisms big and small, von Maltzahn and his colleagues are focused on eliminating plant pesticides, creating drought-tolerant crops, sequestering carbon, and eliminating disease.
Championing the idea that most inventors do not emulate the storied life of Thomas Edison or follow the financial trajectory of Elon Musk, “Pathways to Invention” brings a relatable aspect to the journeys of each inventor.
Stephanie Couch, executive director of The Lemelson-MIT Program, states that “the key takeaway we’d like for viewers to keep in mind is that it’s never too late — or too early — to get on the pathway to invention. We are all aware of problems in our daily lives and we have what it takes to become collaborative problem-solvers and invent solutions that can make the world a better place.”
“We all are born curious; we all like to study the world. We like to understand it. That’s the innate curiosity that we all have, and sometimes it’s the environmental factors that drive it out of us,” says Josh Siegel, an assistant professor at Michigan State University and inventor whose work focuses on designing platforms for collecting and analyzing vehicle data. “Inventing has taught me to be persistent; inventing has taught me to be creative; inventing has taught me to trust myself as I have never trusted myself before. It’s OK to be imperfect, so long as you’re better than you were. We can invent things, we can invent products, we can invent services. We can create new capabilities; we can create new knowledge. But at the end of the day, what we’re really doing is reinventing ourselves.”
#2022#3d#agriculture#air#app#approach#apt#biotech#Born#cable networks#carbon#Chief Innovation Officer#cities#Collaboration#collaborative#college#Community#crops#curiosity#data#Developing countries#development#diagnostics#Disease#DNA#education#Elon Musk#engineering#Environmental#Featured
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Be Your Family's Healthcare Hero with the "Home Doctor"
Living in a remote village has its charm, but access to immediate medical care isn't one of them. That's why I decided to invest in the "Home Doctor – BRAND NEW! Book (printed)". After having it on hand for a while now, I can confidently say it's been a game-changer for my family.
A Comprehensive Guide for Everyday Ailments
Let's be honest, minor illnesses and injuries are a regular occurrence in most households. The "Home Doctor" has been a lifesaver in dealing with these everyday situations. It covers a wide range of common ailments, from treating a sprained ankle to soothing a summer cold. The book provides clear instructions on diagnosis, treatment options, and even preventative measures to keep these issues at bay.
The best part? The information is presented in a clear and concise way, avoiding overly technical jargon. This makes it easy to understand even for those without a medical background. I particularly love the inclusion of helpful diagrams and illustrations. For instance, when my husband came down with a nasty case of poison ivy, the clear pictures in the book helped me identify the rash and choose the appropriate treatment options with confidence.
Empowerment Through Knowledge
One of the most valuable aspects of the "Home Doctor" is the sense of empowerment it provides. With this book readily available, I no longer feel helpless when faced with minor medical situations. The information allows me to make informed decisions regarding my family's health. For instance, when my daughter had a mild earache, the book outlined home remedies I could try before rushing to the doctor. Thankfully, the suggested techniques helped ease her pain, and we were able to avoid a late-night trip to the emergency room.
Peace of Mind in Unexpected Circumstances
Life in a remote location means being prepared for anything. Power outages, unexpected storms – these can disrupt normal routines and potentially limit access to medical care. The "Home Doctor" offers incredible peace of mind in these situations. The wealth of information it contains ensures that I have a reliable resource even when outside help is unavailable.
This book goes beyond just first aid. It also explores various preventative measures and even delves into alternative remedies. While I recognise that conventional medicine is always the best course of action for serious issues, the book provides a well-rounded understanding of different approaches to healthcare.
An Investment in Your Family's Wellbeing
Overall, the "Home Doctor" has proven to be a fantastic investment. It empowers individuals to take charge of their health, provides a reliable source of information in unexpected situations, and ultimately offers invaluable peace of mind. If you're looking for a comprehensive, user-friendly guide that empowers you to navigate everyday health concerns, the "Home Doctor" is a must-have for your home! It's a fantastic resource that I highly recommend to anyone who wants to be prepared for whatever life throws their way.
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Dive into Style: A Guide to Choosing the Perfect Swimwear
As the sun begins to shine brighter and the temperatures rise, it's time to hit the pool or beach in style. Whether you're lounging by the poolside or catching waves in the ocean, having the perfect swimwear can make all the difference. With a plethora of styles, cuts, and designs available, finding the right swimwear can sometimes feel overwhelming. But fear not! This guide is here to help you navigate the world of swimwear and find the perfect fit for you. For more info about Rash Guard click here.
Understanding Your Body Type:
Before diving into the world of swimwear, it's important to understand your body type. Different styles of swimwear flatter different body shapes. For instance, if you have an hourglass figure, you might opt for a bikini with high-waisted bottoms to accentuate your curves. On the other hand, if you have a pear-shaped body, a swimsuit with a plunging neckline can help draw attention upwards.
Exploring Different Styles:
Swimwear comes in a variety of styles, each catering to different preferences and occasions. From classic one-pieces to trendy bikinis, there's something for everyone. Consider trying out different styles to see what makes you feel the most confident and comfortable. Don't be afraid to step out of your comfort zone and experiment with bold prints, vibrant colors, or unique cuts. Get more details about 泳⾐ visit here.
Finding the Right Fit:
When it comes to swimwear, the fit is everything. Ill-fitting swimwear can not only be uncomfortable but also affect your confidence while lounging by the water. Make sure to take accurate measurements and refer to sizing charts provided by brands to find the perfect fit. Additionally, pay attention to features such as adjustable straps, underwire support, and stretchy fabrics for added comfort and flexibility.
Choosing Quality Materials:
Investing in high-quality swimwear is essential for both comfort and longevity. Look for swimsuits made from durable materials that can withstand exposure to chlorine, saltwater, and sunlight. Quality fabrics like nylon, spandex, and polyester offer excellent stretch and support while retaining their shape over time. Moreover, opt for swimwear with features like UPF protection for added sun safety.
Embracing Sustainable Options:
In recent years, there has been a growing demand for sustainable and eco-friendly swimwear options. Many brands are now incorporating recycled materials, organic fabrics, and ethical manufacturing practices into their swimwear lines. By choosing sustainable swimwear, you can not only reduce your environmental impact but also support brands that prioritize ethical production and social responsibility.
Personalizing Your Style:
Swimwear is a reflection of your personal style and personality, so don't be afraid to let your individuality shine. Whether you prefer minimalist designs, retro-inspired silhouettes, or bohemian prints, there's a swimwear style that suits your taste. Experiment with mix-and-match options, accessorize with statement pieces like hats and sunglasses, and embrace your unique sense of style with confidence.
Conclusion:
Finding the perfect swimwear is about more than just looking good – it's about feeling confident and comfortable in your own skin. By understanding your body type, exploring different styles, prioritizing fit and quality, embracing sustainability, and personalizing your style, you can dive into summer with style and confidence. So go ahead, make a splash in the perfect swimwear and soak up the sun in style!
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Projects, Musings, Shocks
I am chilling on the brand new sofa my host family just bought. It’s a stiff navy chair. I lie across the arms of the chair, in my classic Foreigner chaco-style Teevas, ill-fitting shorts (my last clean pair), and a pink t-shirt. I watch and listen to the Peruvian news. It really keeps you hooked. Endless blood and shootings motivated by money, drugs, and stealing. Today I was surprised to see that in Lima, there is a standoff between fishermen and police officers. Both sides throwing rocks and large sticks at each other. Several men rushed to the hospital. The air is warm and unpleasantly cozy, fortunately a breeze makes its way through the iron grates on the window. I have a slight stomach ache from eating too many potato chips with lemon and the Valentina sauce I brought from the US. My host mom eats a homemade lucuma popsicle. Since no one has AC here, popsicles are a constant in life. Like drinking water (In the US, here most people don’t drink water). Every few days you have to make a new batch of popsicles, with whatever fruit you have available. If no fruit, make a chocolate popsicle, or use any juice you have. Right now we have lucuma, and I took advantage and made lucuma pancakes today too. Lucuma is a delicious fruit and perfect in a chocolate cake, something I will miss dearly when I leave.
I’ve been working on a higiene project in my town. The idea is that a nutritionist comes to talk about kitchen higiene. I invite all of the restaurants and the rest of the town. Then the municipality gives certificates to participants and promotes participating restaurants on their website.
It has been very frustrating to work with the municipality to organize this project. It was like pulling teeth, and I am so happy that we are nearing the end of the project! First we did the workshops in La Capilla, which is where more of the districts restaurants are located. 6 women came. That is a lower number than I was expecting, but it allowed for a lovely, intimate workshop. Every woman was able to ask questions and participate in the hands-on activities. This week, the workshop is in the municipality. Since only 6 women came to La Capilla, I thought to myself, most likely around 10 women will come to the muni. But on our first day, 23 women showed up!!! I am still in shock. And I wonder if they came for the certificates, the restaurant promotions, the rifa sorpresa, or because I walked around in the heat 4 different times collecting info and inviting everyone to the workshop. Although 23 women are welcome, I’ve quickly discovered how hard it is to capture the attention of the whole group at once. Everything takes longer. Plus, a few people brought their young children. Still, the workshop had some very good moments, and I printed out all the information and slides in booklets, so I think that helps it to flow more smoothly, and helps people pay attention. Tomorrow, Wednesday, will be the last workshop, and I went and bought more materials. A few women, who also own restaurants, commented that they have never had any formal training in restaurants or kitchen higiene, so that is what is motivating me to do my best.
Once the workshops are finished, I’ll still have to organize kitchen inspections and restaurant publicity on the webpage.
Besides that, I am trying to enjoy the hot, sweaty summer. I am training girls age 8-12 in soccer, and spending time at the beach with Peruvian friends and family.
On Sunday my host brother and I found a scorpion on the floor. With a small scream, he smashed it into oblivion. On Monday, my host mom found another scorpion. She picked up the scorpion with a handkerchief, found its tale, and injected herself with the venomous butt. She explained to me that the venom is good for skin and can help pimples go down. I am very happy to report that she is still alive and bopping. Although I haven’t checked to see if that pimple went down. It was like an alternate universe.
Also like being in an alternate universe, was someone was describing to me an awful motorcycle crash. But aside from the motorcycle crash, by the time the ambulance and police got there, the victims had also been robbed of their wallets and cellphones, while in their state of severe injuries and severe shock. It’s so awful to imagine. But so many people in Peru are poor, desperate, and accustomed to death.
Today my host brother cooked a yellow-pepper-and-cheese pasta. It’s called tallarines a la huancaina. He put too much yellow pepper in and it tasted like a spiced pasta - spiced but not spicy. I was thoroughly enjoying it, and my host brother sat there eating and chugging down glasses on glasses of lemonade. He dumped half a parmesan cheese on top to lower the spice, and gave me half of the pasta he had served himself. In the end he gave up and went to take a shower to cool off after the spicy pasta. It was like eating mac and cheese with some black pepper on top!
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Suzanne Miller art history documents
Suzanne Miller returned to her hometown of Toledo, Ohio in the early 90s to complete her long-worked-on degree in Art History. This is deeply moving, considering her being an active part of art history itself. Suzanne Miller was awarded her diploma and BFA in Art History in May, 1994, shortly before passing from a previously-unknown illness. Her groundbreaking and vital work is housed at the University of Toledo's Ward Cannady Center. It is a great treasure of truly important writing and art.
Collages/boxes/objects by Suzanne Miller, later 1980s
CASTLE HOWARD
"Villas and Palaces, 1963" class paper 1993 or 1994
If you read in the newspaper that Woody Allen had submitted his design for Secretary Bentsen's new country house, you'd probably think it was a joke or a mis-print. Conversely, if you read that among Frank Lloyd Wright's posthumous papers there was discovered a batch of hilarious, rollicking comedies that he had written in the yawning intervals between architectural visions, you might find that hard to credit, because this is 1993 and artists tend to stay within a narrower range. In the 1700's an educated gentleman could pursue a number of arts and sciences and practice them if he excelled. Nevertheless it seems inexplicable that someone who had never studied architecture formally nor built anything should have been given such an important commission as the third Earl of Carlisle, Charles Howard granted to John VanBrugh, successful author or hilarious, rollicking comedies. There could be several things to consider: first, VanBrugh had spent four years in France at a time of splendid building, draughts of palaces and churches were available in print shops, so it is quite possible he was able to impress Lord Carlisle with his knowledge of the French principles of planning and his understanding of the grandeur and plasticity of architectural design. The second would be his knowledge of the theatre which like architecture is an intensely visual art and interestingly, movable scenery was coming into vogue. But more important, both arts are concerned with human beings and their activities in artificial surroundings. It's a matter then of scale and materials and imagination. His personality may have been a third factor as he was well-known for his wit and jovial nature.1
The early and the architect met most probably at the Kit Kat Club which by its' silly name doesn't sound promising and a gathering place of the educated elite which is what it was. As a young man, Charles Howard had been sent on the requisite Grand Tour all the way down to Italy where he saw Palladio's Rotunda, Roman buildings, Renaissance paintings and other things which greatly impressed him. When he succeeded to the title he took up parliamentary politics and was a patron to paints, sculptors and cabinetmakers when he decorated his London house. He owned Carlisle, a territory in York far up in the north of England, as far as possible from the culture and sophistication of London. The surroundings were small farms, its architecture entirely of the vernacular with no classical motifs anywhere. Around 1698 he conceived the idea of building a house up north that would be one of the most grandiose and flamboyant private houses in Europe. No one researching then or since can discover just why he wanted to build on such a scale but some guesses have been to show the status of the Howard family which stretches back to the middle ages. He had a passionate interest in heraldry as is shown by his library catalogue. 2
Before beginning, VanBrugh spent a summer visiting and studying various great houses in England. One precursor of Castle Howard would have to be Chatsworth where we find some motifs that may have impressed VanBrugh: fluted pilasters, the ornamental frieze and pediment, urns on the balustrade. We know, however, through his stream of letters that his plans for Castle Howard were already drawn before he reached Chatsworth. And of course the inspiration of the dome, the first to be built on a private house in England, transformed the design from a main block, which is more conventional to visual magnificence. 3
If VanBrugh was fortunate in his patron, he was as well in his colleague, Nicholas Hawksmoor, who as an architect long associated with Christopher Wren had the expertise to translate VanBrugh's ideas. He knew as well how to draw up contracts and rates of payment. It has, however, been well established that VanBrugh was entirely and exclusively responsible for the ideas for the house. Hawksmoor could do the math.4
What kind of a house is Castle Howard? It would be inadequate to describe it as a country house any more than you would call it St. Paul's the parish church of London. It is not in the vernacular of English architecture, at the time it was not universally admired. The understanding of buildings like Castle Howard and the
Blenheim Palace require a sense of historical development of Renaissance and Barqoue art. Castle Howard is in the monumental heroic style for which we have to look back to MIchelangelo. In an essay on St Peter's Goeffrey Scott says: "MIchelangelo has got away from the conception of architecture as a boy of classical bricks, limited and fixed in shape, to be arranged, and treats his units of design as high-handedly as in the dome he treated his laws of structure. He conducts, as it were, an orchestra of forms. These are 'liberties' which constitute 'Baroque' architecture culminating in Brammante, which have a law and logic of their own. It would be more exact to say that MIchelangelo sought to stress the energetic rather than the static physical implications in architectural forms."5
Knowledge of engravings and illustrated editions of Serilo and Palladio would not be sufficient to explain the "new manner" manifest in Wren and VanBrugh which could be characterized as a feeling for mass and for movement. Movement is hard to define in architecture since naturally nothing actually moves, but the sense that as you walk around the exterior of this kind of building, new compositional effects are continually presenting themselves, so you have an elaboration of recessions and projections in their facades.
The essentials of the design of Castle Howard are these: a central block crowned above by a high dome and flanked by two wings supported on a rusticated basement. The north facade or entrance facade have four pairs of Doric pilasters reaching two stories, the south facade or garden facade have equally enormous pilasters in the Corinthian order. One of the secrets of the facades is the alteration of plain surfaces with decoration. The south front pilasters have deep fluting which contrasts with the generally horizontal lines giving a dramatic balance. On the north side the pilasters are smooth but the vertical contrast is achieved by the eight niches along side the pilasters containing urns and statues. The immense scale of the facade is underlined by the two pillars at the door which look miniaturized beside the hight of the pilasters. The dome dominates the facades and although it was the first to be used for a private house, there is nothing hesitant or timid about it. it rises up on a tall drum as boldly as on any church.
it must be admitted that when examining Castle Howard we are confronting an theatrical illusion. Namely, that it looks and feels like a much larger house than in it is if the floor space is calculated. Instead of being a single block, two wings are pulled away form the main block, so to speak, and extended perpendicular to the main block. All the apartments are lined up for 300 feet on the South front, but in between the North and South fronts on either side of the Great Hall are blank spaces which nevertheless can't be seen from any exterior viewing. The house appears enormous with the grandeur Lord Carlisle and VanBrugh intended, an effect of controlled, ceremonial magnificence. One can see that this ingenuity in the use of space could have its disappointing side for some in that the visitor may feel the smallness of the rooms belie the grandiosity of the exterior. A feeling that expectations are not fulfilled inside. This is a fair criticism. Another criticism at the time was that because the two facades are of different architectural orders, the one Ionic, the other Corinthian, that the building presents a sense of unrelatedness, a lack of conformity, disjunction. This may be defended as Hawksmoor himself did on the grounds that "the North and South side can never be seen at the same time nor together from any diagonal." 6 Still it does infer that the building can't be contemplated in the mind as a satisfactory unit with all its elements interrelated. My view is that if you respond to the dynamic vitality of the pile, that would not dissuade you from admiration. To the extent that a house of such assertive grandeur could be said to belong to its surroundings, Castle Howard is harmonious to its environs in that all the stone for the house was quarried on the estate within the boundary of the park, while the limestone used for paving and courtyards came from another quarry within the vicinity.
From time to time building had to stop due to lack of funds so that although most of VanBrugh's design was realized, the East wing was not built until later by Thomas Robinson, a son-in-low of Lord Carlisle who clearly was unsympathetic to the masterpiece he nearly ruined, probably due to his association with Lord Burlington, a critic of the house the advocate of a movement for purer Palladian style that was to prevail. 7
Before judging such buildings as Castle Howard and Blenheim Palace it is important to understand what VanBrugh took to be the needs of his respective patrons. These were in part public and ceremonial and private and familial. As he stated himself, his priorities were "State, Beauty, and Convenience." He satisfied the first in his use of great halls, saloons and state suites. As to Beauty, it might be useful to note his colleague Christopher Wren on the subject in a fragmentary document published at the time in the Parentalia: "Views contrary to Beauty are Deformity, or a defect of Uniformity, and Plainness, which is the Excess of Uniformity; Variety makes the Mean. Varieties of Uniformity make Compleat Beauty: Uniformities are best tempered alternately or sometimes with more Variety." 8 As to convenience, he designed an arrangement of suites with drawing room, bedroom, dressing room and a cabinet or study to each suite, with a way out of each suite independently without having to pass through an anteroom. This meant that the patron could be protected from clients or petitioners he might not wish to see. This brings us to VanBrugh's introduction of the corridor in his design. This feature was as yet so little used that the architect had to explain the meaning of the word at times. He lined all the private apartment rooms along the South front and linked them by a 300 foot narrow, high-vaulted corridor. On the other side of the Great Hall he has another corridor which links the kitchen in the West wing to the dining palour with enough distance to avoid the noise and smells of the kitchen but not so far away that cold food would be the consequence, something which couldn't be avoided in the greater expanse of Blenheim Palace.
When turning our attention to VanBrugh's interior style, particularly the Great Hall, we find him using his architectural imagination with great freedom, especially in the Corinthian order of the massive piers under the dome. He also uses the idea of surprise vistas down the superbly vaulted corridors and in the Great Hall no staircase is allowed to break up and diminish the immense unbroken space. He places the stairs behind arches at each side of the hall so one gets glimpses through to arches to the stairwells beyond.
Sadly the beautiful ceiling, dome and wall paintings by Pelegrini were destroyed in a fire around 1928 so only photos remain of how light and exhilarating they must have been. 9
It would take another paper to describe the many splendors situated around the grounds of the estate, among them the beautiful Temple of the Four Winds, a mausoleum, obelisk, pyramid, gateways, walls and magnificent 40 acre wood allowed to stand in its natural state with its mature trees and only organized by winding paths.
Sometime around 1967, a philosopher/statesman, Sir William Temple wrote an essay in which he explored the possibilities of irregularity or asymmetry. He speaks of people who have lived among the Chinese who say in effect that anyone can plant things in a row, but to distribute them without apparent order and yet to achieve beauty is was the greatest reach of imagination. VanBrugh may not have read this essay but it is the same spirit of working with nature not just for control that the decision was made to leave the Wray Wood standing. Here is the approach to Castle Howard as described by Nigel Nichelson, "A sense of expectation is being created, as by the tuning of an orchestra before the curtain rises." 10
My fascination with Castle Howard goes back to the time I first saw it as the house used in the television movie of Evelyn Waugh's novel Brideshead Revisited. There is a seen in which one of the main characters, Sebastian, takes his new friend out in a car with the intention of showing him his family house, or more precisely to meet his nanny. He drives the car through a wooded area, along a silvery lake and suddenly there in the distance, past the lake up on a swell in the land is the most tremendous apparition of a domed structure all alone out there in the countryside with its complex silhouette, a varied skyline of urns, statues and domes. It stopped my breath for a moment. What was this place? Where was it? were questions that came to mind. The credits gave it as Castle Howard, Yorkshire. Yorkshire! What was such a grand place doing way up north so far from London? I wanted to know all about it and yet I didn't. I rather loved keeping it a mystery. This course of Villas and Palaces signaled the time to let the mystery be enlightened and study. This has proven to uphold Spinoza's view that intellectual understanding of a work of art increases one's pleasure. I have learned some things about this building and it still fascinates.
Castle Howard is still the home of the Howard family although according to Simon Howard currently in residence, members of the visiting public believe that the Marchmains of Brideshead still live there and want to know if Sebastian is still drinking too much! 11
NOTES:
THE BUILDING OF CASTLE HOWARD: Charles
Saumarez Smith, The University of Chicago Press, 1990
Ibid
THE COMPLETE WORKS OF SIR JOHN VANBRUGH,
The Letters edited by Geoffrey Webb, The Nonesuch Press,
1928
THE BUILDING OF CASTLE HOWARD: Charles
Saumarez Smith, The Univeristy of Chicago Press, 1990
THE ENGLISH COUNTRY HOUSE: Gervase
Jackson-Stops and James Pipkin, Little Brown and Company,
1985
THE BUILDING OF CASTLE HOWARD: Charles
Saumarez Smith, The Univeristy of Chicago Press, 1990
MASKS AND FACDES: Madaline Bingham, George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1974
THE COMPLETE WORKS OF SIR JOHN VANBRUGH,
The Letters edited by Geoffrey Webb, The Nonesuch Press,
1928
THE BUILDING OF CASTLE HOWARD: Charles
Saumarez Smith, The University of Chicago Press, 1990 10. GREAT HOUSES OF BRITAIN: Nigel Nicholson, David R.
Godine, Publisher, 1989
11. THE ENGLISH COUNTRY HOUSE: Gervase
Jackson-Stops and James Pipkin, Little Brown and Company, 1985
EDNA BY CAMILLE
Professor Barlowe's Literary Criticism Class
11/2/93
My paper would interpret the character of Edna Pontellier in Kate Chopin's story "The Awakening" applying her choices and fate the statements published by one particular feminist, Camille Paglia.
This feminist has placed herself in an opposing position to what she perceives as directional errors in current feminist trends. She writes, "I'm not trying to get rid of feminism. I'm trying to reform it, to save it, to bring it into the twenty-first century..." P. 274 in Sex, Art and American Culture. She has been called a neoconservative, a reactionary, and a pain in the neck in many quarters. She calls herself a dissenter and names her new "system" (my quotation marks) Italian Pagan Catholicism. Leaving aside the Catholic position on abortion and birth control and the appaling activities of Mother Theresa in India, the Church's chief propagandist and how Paglia would justify this, I would concentrate on her brand of feminism as it might apply to Edna. Briefly, it would go something like this: Edna, far from being someone who should represent a danger to the male, but female-in-collusion societal structure as she was historically viewed and suppressed should be seen as a hopelessly ineffectual defeatist, and failed Romantic.
Pagila would see Edna as a wealthy, pampered woman who never thinks beyond her circumscribed world even when she's looking at the sky. Edna is her own obstructionist. As she observes the women in her world, Adele seems consumed by her role as wife and mother. Edna finds both roles inadequate to her longings. One might look to a wildly heightened paralell in the perpetually pregnant mistress of Franz List and the liberated George Sand in the movie IMPROMPTU.
Another model for Edna, Madmoiselle Reisz, a professional pianist, is seen by Edna as paying too great a price for her art, as disagreeable and somewhat friendless. Her one sustaining bond with life is her love for Robert, as in "life's delirium" (PG 76), "The Awakening". Edna concludes that her love for Robert will end someday and indeed she hastens that end. Edna's failure in Paglia's view would be in her inability to "take personal responsibility for her own identity" P. 36, Sex, Art and American Culture. She chooses death instead.
Paglia avows that she wants a "feminism that stress courage, independence, self-reliance and pride." P. 304 Ibid. These strengths are renounced by Edna because she never attained them. Paglia, moreover, is again and again vehemently impatient with the presentation of women as victims and a lack of understanding of the tremendous influences of the dominant culture. Paglia wants a society in which the above qualities were encouraged in women, instead of self-sacrifice, marital ownership and biological determinism. But Chopin is describing a society in which such aims are not only discouraged but punishable and despite some advances are still prevalent if not increasing in more violent forms. It is not ultimately fear of punishment that disheartens Edna fatally, but, I would suggest, the terrifying loneliness of choice.
The Meaning of the Mark David Rosand
Transcription or original writing - unclear
1. Leonardo was the son of a notary part of whose function was to write documents. Probably Leonardo learned at an early age how to form his letters. His first preserved drawing dates 1473, is a landscape with deep perspective and is considered a key monument in the development of landscape representation. At the top is an inscription in a graphically flurry of panache which suggests how much he enjoyed writing as well as drawing.
The next sheet we have of his features two male heads looking at each other, one old, one young. Above is an inscription with even more elaborate flourishes, so much so that writing becomes drawing.
By drawing Leonardo could explore the study of contrasts, youth and old age, horse and lion. This dialectic was Leonardo’s preferred mode. He draws parallel profiles Eventually he codified his researches in physigonomy, as a teaching devise. He uses the nose, mouth, chin and forhead. He shows three types of noses; concave, convex and straight. He is not pretending to catagorizes natures variety but to be used as an aid to memory. It is through the contour line that he commits things to memory therby making them available to the imagination. “When you wish to remember something you have studied do this: when you have drawn the same object so many times that you have it in your memory, try to execute it without the model.” Leonardo later discovers a correspondence between the form of motion in nature and the motion of his own hand in drawing. With pen or chalk in hand Leonardo saw better, as in the complex movements of water. His drawings of water are not diagrams, they are theoretical images of how water must behave. He knew that outlines did not occur in nature, but rather are a useful convention, but for all his deep pictorial involvement with aerial perspective, sfumatura and chiarosuro, he could still concieve of the world as a dynamic linear system. “The air is full of infinite lines straight and radiating, intersected and interwoven, without their displacing one another, and they represent for every onject the true form of their cause.” On the basis of hand, eye cordination he is actually aware of the process: “When you are drawing and beginning a line, be sure to look over the whole body that you are representing for whatever may lie in the direction of the line you have begun.” The act of drawing is an act of projection, of self-projection. Drawing records what has been seen and is known, but not after the fact: it is simultaneous with, identical to perception. Line made the world imaginable.
3. Saul Steinberg
Paul Klee 1. An active line on a walk
2. the same line, accompanied by complementary forms.
(SEE DETAIL IN FILE Suzanne Miller Steinberg Klee)
2/25/94
Our class was privilged to view the Rubens exhibition at the museum today. One of the attendants, without looking at our tickets didn't want to let us in. She was a rude, snappish sort of person who when she realized her mistake, apologized in an equally rude manner! Some people, who totally lack charm, should not be allowed near the public! Ms. Autry, a sensitive, civilized person, seemed baffled by the woman's behavior. In the Age of Vulgarity I am always grateful if not amazed when people are courteous.
I'll try to put my mind on re-wind and play over some impressions without trying to formulate them as yet. First Rubens, an early work, a large male nude and great bird pecking at his liver! I remember the myth of Prometheus who stole fire from the gods and gave it to mankind. Surely one of the first Mediterranean Martyrs. Rubens presents him with all that glorious musculature learned in Italy. It made me think how wonderful nudity must have looked in cold climates with people always bundled up and hidden beneath masses of clothing - no central heat of course. Rubens gave them flesh that spoke of wealth.
I'm jumping around - energy, bold diagonals of the foreshortened body, the eagles wing span. Close-up. Long shot in the corner landscape. Film can't do that, not quite.
Rubens' small oil sketches, all that vitality in a small space. There is something in Shakespeare ... "Though I may be bounded by .. ? .. I count myself as a king of infinite space." Too bad my library is all in cardbaord boxes else I could look it up. But the idea was there again when after lunch, coming upon the Rembrandt etchings in the hallway. There was Amsterdam, a precise set of tiny marks on the horizon! The world in inches, no, fraction of inches.
And another thing, how Rembrandt and Ruisdael unnervingly select the right line, or mark that says bark, leaf, clump of earth, roof, whatever, this multitude of marks, this variety of strokes is greatness and I feel so blessed to be able to recognize it.
Now i see the rude woman at the counter in a new light she is a guardian at the gates of Paradise. I became the Romantic at the drop of a hat pin. Must look at the Dutch - look at life and don't flinch!
Rubens - Rembrandt, contemporaries. Poles apart. And where is Van Dyck, a quiet genius waiting in the wings when he steps on stage, what he has to say! I'll have to wait and find out.
Meanwhile we are in Holland and last night it snowed and I really was in Holland, not just in these studiest but outside my door shovelling a path to the driveway, loking around me. The trees showing their bare branches against the sky, a landscape, the mirror image of which hangs on the museum wall! I am learning to see with Dutch eyes.
3/2/94 Outside Question
What would you choose to paint, collect or write about and why, in 17th century Dutch art.
Written by Hannah De Groot, 1662, Amsterdam
When my dear husband died here in Amsterdam he left me a wealthy widow. Our son runs his father's shipping business so I am free to indulge my passion for art. My husband was a most tolerant man in most things but he took the Protestant sanction against religious images too seriously in my opinion. He would however agree to my purchases of landscapes, or still life paintings and so I began to be a collector. I enjoyed seeking out among the many artist living and working in our busy city, the very best I could find and learning how to compare their achivements. There were few critics to guide me in this so I trained my eye by looking at copies and engravings of past masters. This, however, was not always helpful because our artist had often gone in a different direction from the great Italians. The pictures our artist were painting looked so much like our life itself. I soon learned, however, that they were far more than mere copy-cats of nature. They were profound students of nature who used their skills and observations to make effects of light or imaginative arrangements. For example we purchased a painting of flowers by Ambrosius Bosschaert which show didn't bloom at the same time of the year. Each is so carefully observed and placed just so each seems an individual. The artist combined these so we could enjoy them during the long winter months. My husband greatly appreciated still-lifes of objects which remind people of the transience of life. He liked explaining to guest what each of the objects represented. But he did not approve of paintings, whether in food or silver, on display. I, myself, enjoy looking at such pictures as Herr Van Beyeren paints for the sheer delight they give to the eye.
We made a visit to Antwerp a few years ago and I managed to enduce my husband into viewing some of the works of the renown Rubens. He was cold to some of them because of the veneration of saints but what I didn't expect was how appalled he was at the nudity in the paintings with mythological subjects. "Paganism, pure paganism!" he kept exclaiming, "I thought we were rid of that evil!" I thought them dazzling in their energy and complexity. But it made him more receptive to our down-to-earth Dutch painting so that when it came to purchasing a wonderful Rembrandt, he didn't hesitate.
I find what I like to collect now are drawings and etchings. As I get older my eyes do not seek so much stimulation as oil painting provides. I am soothed and enchanted by the line, stroke and markings which conjur miraculously to convey an image in etchings and drawings. For city and landscapes and narrative event I prefer Rembrandt. For the human body Rubens is my choice and for faces, Van Dyck. Like most collectors I don't know when to stop. I am thinking of moving to a home in the English countryside where I would have larger rooms for it. Only my own death will end my passion for art.
3/2/94
Came across some writings of the French critic Roger de Piles (1635-1709) in A Documentary History of Art, Volume II. He devised this rating system (men seem to love that sort of thing they are still using it for television and movies and the President!) for the top painters in Europe and which goes like this: he divides degrees of perfection into twenty parts in 4 different categories, composition, drawing, colour, and expression. He says, “The twentieth degree is the highest, and implies sovereign perfection; which no man has fully arrived at. The nineteenth is the highest degree that we know, but which no person has yet gained. Looking over the chart I see that only four artists out of 57 rate an eighteen - Guercino for composition, Sareio for drawing and expression, Rubens for composition and Titan for color. Rembrandt does fairly well but only rates a six in drawing! I would quarrel with that but he gives Michelangelo a pitiful four in colour and that’s probably fair especially once Titian came along. So much for the Olympics! In his writing he shows true sensitivity to the use of chiaroscuro in painting and an appreciation for the relatively new genre of landscape.
3/5/94
Subjects I need to explore in the future:
The Counter-Reformation
I have a workable, just adequate, in other words mediocre understanding of just what went on. Need the best on this subject.
Protestant symbolism.
When people revolted against the Catholic Church they rejected an enormous number of symbols through which the Catholic Church had expressed it's doctrine. These were images of great power as it was no small matter to reject them. One concept they could retain was the battle of good and evil. Virtue and vice were to fill a vacuum created by icon-bashing.
Look into this further, too. Catholic elements in Renaissance art wasn't all there was, there was paganism in the blood stream; suppressed, disguised, bursting out and all kinds of erotic strangeness! Michelangelo's grotesque females, Leonardo's deceptive Mona Lisa, Botticelli's strange sadness, and what to make of Donatello's David! After studying the foreright Dutch how wonderfully bizarre the great Italians seem to me. I'm expressing this in a sketchy, off-the-top manner because I want to formulate it all so that it makes an argument that I can support.
University of Toledo document - "Missing Questions" 3/16/1994
2/22/94 In Class Question
Can a landscape painting be expressive to the same degree as a figurative painting?
No, never. Landscape for a western artist is almost always a projection of human emotions, tranquil or quiet it doesn't matter. The western male artist always imprints himself, reads himself, interprets himself in the greater world around him. This is his arrogance and his greatness. In this meaning that I've given it landscape can be a mirror of some of man's feelings and responses but never the full range. Rembrandt always needed the human figure to represent what he needed to convey. Clouds and trees would never have sufficed.
The Seghers landscape gives one a sense of nature's power and grandeur - awesomeness and that it is a welcome release from human concerns. I feel that landscape offers that escape.
With Aristottle with the bust of Homer we are free to contemplate a contemplating man. We may think of the poet of war, the examination of ethics and nature, we may wonder what Aristotle might think Humer would make of his own time, but whatever it may be, the face in deep thought is a thoroughly human consciousness. Nature has no consciousness. It cannot contemplate itself, it can only be.
3/4/94 In Class Question
Establish some of the major style changes which separate
Hals' Young Man and Women at an Inn 1623 from Jan Steen's Easy Come - Easy Go 1961
These two works are separated by 78 years. Hals may have been making a statement about the folly of indulgence but it seems to me the joy of painting for its own sake is what comes across in the immediate sense of viewing. His figures are right up close to your eyes, their setting is in a corner of the canvas.
Jan Steen on the other hand is stepping back and presenting a little theatre piece, a frozen play in the stage. Steen is interested in recording human behavior. Rembrandt is interested in exploring the possibility of understanding human behavior. But not only that - when humans are met with a moment of truth of an event - that it what Rembrandt
was moved to wanted to express.
Jan Steen presents situations in middle class domestic life which illustrate a moral or lesson. His is an anecotal art while Rembrandt's is a universial art.
3/4/94
How are Steen and Rembrandt involved with symbolism through the depiction of visual reality?
After a brief exercise in Symbolism with the early work of the man counting his money I don't see any evidence of Rembrandt relying on symbolism to carry his meaning. Nevertheless Steen fulfilled an important role in both showing society what it was doing and letting it decide for itself what conclusions to draw. Rembrandt was fishing in deeper waters and his particular search has carried on in art.
In The Lovesick Young Woman, Steen uses a painting on the wall of Venus and Adonis to tell us this is an incident of lovesickness, the child as cupid playing with arrows. There is sly wit in Steen's work and a refined and polished style which engages us in humanities little foibles.
TWO MASTERS
University of Toledo school paper, March or April 1994
Could two major artists living at the same time period and not all that far away from each other display the very opposite of intentions in nearly every aspect of their art? In the art of the West they can in a way that would be impossible in the arts of China or India. Rubens in Antwerp, Rembrant in Amsterdam chose the same subject at one point in their careers, Christ's Descent From The Cross. They both are free by now to use space in a dynamic rather than static way by the use of diagonals and foreshortening. But any similarity rather ends there. Rubens uses ascending and descending diagonals which he surrounds with spirals or curves supporting the diagonal of Christ's body. Rubens' figures are massive compared to Rembrandt's humble human figures. In the Rubens for all their forceful movement the figures supporting Christ's body have a classical grace which belies the weight they are bearing but adds an effect of supernatural power. Rembrandt stresses the humanity of Christ, and the all too human cruelty behind his betrayal represented by the impassive observer in opulent clothing. The figures holding the body to keep it from falling feel its weight.
Rubens move on to ever more complex compositions with figures swirling and hurling themselves in spaces seemingly driven by great forces but actually driven by Rubens' sweeping compositions.
Rembrandt meanwhile moves away from his early dramatic narratives such as The Blinding of Samson to an ever more contemplative art in which a simple reaching out, an embrace, a hand over the heart is gesture enough. Rembrandt sought to illuminate an inner drama for all that light was his principle method. He understood that tenebroso was more than an effective technique, it was the key to his deepest feelings that light moves through primordial darkness. For Rubens purposes light plays no part. He throws the switch, the lights go up and the story begins.
Rembrandt burns his pictures with thick impasto applications. He is in no hurry. When it is appropriate he can use a smooth polished technique. Rubens chooses the polished technique for most of his major works but when he paints oil sketches his brush flies and he conjures up a whole figure in a few strokes.
Delacroix called Rubens "the master chef" for his color ingredients. Rembrandt uses rich blacks and browns as a setting for his focus on the inner life. Perhaps it can be said that with Rubens, composition and color are complex, with Rembrandt the humanism is complex. They are each expressions of the great and diverse streams of Baroque Art.
4/15/94
Proposal for a paper on Venitian painting comparing its development to Florentine painting in the sixteenth century. I will focus on the two styles called in Italian, disegno and colorito, and discuss these two terms as they apply to Titian, the Venitian and Leonardo, the Florentine who were contemporaries, including in my discussion Giorgione and Bronzino as well as other painters who contributed to the development of ground and medium of the new kind of painting bringing in some of the writers who observed what was happening at the time.
I will give some background of the two centers of art although I will make no attempt to parallel the differences in painting in the two cities being due to the great differences in them except in the broadest general suggestion. I will, however, try to show certain influences which caused Venitian painting to take the turn it did.
I feel it important to emphasize that despite his great innovations, Titan was not a revolutionary in the modern sense as it began in the early 20th century. He was well within the aesthetic principles of the Renaissance in so far as they were intent upon capturing nature in the two dimensions of painting, as well as the canon of iconography to which he was faithful. His work contains no historical irony.
2. I would describe the ground of canvas as the hard ground of wood and plaster and how this affected Titan’s confrontations with the canvas.
4/21/94
As an Art History major I am doing an independent studies program this quarter. I've chosen to focus on 16th Century Venetian painting with an emphasis on Titian. He has been credited as the first Renaissance painter to fully explore the effects of light and color in painting. While it is true Leonardo did explore the nature of color, his paintings reveal that he still thought of color in terms of light and dark, and not a "property" or light itself in so far as our eyes experience color.
Titian's achievements fit perfectly with this course in light and color. I have seen microscopic photographs of his paintings which take a small section and in a cross section that reveal the many layers of pigment and glazes applied on top of each other in order to create his luminous effects particularly in flesh. Light penetrates the transparent glazes and returns to the viewers with subtle color messages. He also understood how a dark surround enhances the intensity of the lighter areas. Titian opened up the world of color for generations to come.
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Lengthy COVID could also be linked to a very totally different and customary virus new research finds
A variety of elements might improve the danger of somebody growing lengthy COVID, apart from catching COVID itself. They embrace having bronchial asthma, Kind 2 diabetes, or autoimmune situations, and being feminine.
Now researchers suppose prior publicity to a different coronavirus—one which causes a typical chilly—might play a task in some sufferers.
Within the new research by Harvard College–affiliated scientists, printed Sept. 26 to Yale College–affiliated preprint server medRxiv, authors examined the blood of 43 sufferers who had arthritis or an identical situation earlier than the pandemic.
Such sufferers who later developed lengthy COVID confirmed proof of an underwhelming antibody response to COVID—and of an amazing antibody response to OC43, considered one of a number of circulating coronaviruses that trigger widespread colds.
The sufferers have been probably contaminated with the chilly in some unspecified time in the future of their lives earlier than they have been contaminated with COVID, the authors theorize. When their our bodies’ immune techniques have been uncovered to the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID, they responded with OC43 antibodies that, whereas related, have been lower than splendid, resulting in persistent irritation and different lengthy COVID signs.
Dr. Eric Topol, a professor of molecular drugs at Scripps Analysis and founder and director of the Scripps Analysis Translational Institute, mentioned the brand new findings are available a “very fascinating report that provides to the doable underpinnings of lengthy COVID.”
Researchers have checked out prior an infection with Epstein-Barr virus, a type of herpes that may trigger mono, and different viruses as probably contributing to the event of lengthy COVID, Topol tweeted Sept. 26. However the brand new research is the primary to have a look at the position a typical chilly may play.
There are regarded as a number of classes of lengthy COVID with, maybe, totally different triggers for every, apart from COVID. Whereas prior an infection with this widespread chilly might play a task in arthritis sufferers with lengthy COVID, it could or might not play a task in different classes of sufferers, the authors wrote.
However for arthritis sufferers particularly, the invention may function a technique to establish lengthy COVID and probably develop a therapy for it, they added.
Practically 20% of American adults who’ve had COVID—an estimated 50 million Individuals—report having lengthy COVID signs after their an infection resolves, in line with information collected by the U.S. Census Bureau this summer time.
Lengthy COVID is roughly outlined as signs that persist or seem lengthy after the preliminary COVID an infection is gone, however a consensus definition has not but been broadly accepted.
Many consultants contend that lengthy COVID is finest outlined as a chronic-fatigue-syndrome-like situation that develops after COVID sickness, just like different post-viral syndromes like these that may happen after an infection with herpes, Lyme illness, and even Ebola. Different post-COVID issues, like organ injury and post-intensive-care syndrome, shouldn’t be outlined as lengthy COVID, they are saying.
Coronaviruses, named for his or her crown-like look beneath a microscope, have been found within the Sixties. 4 varieties, together with OC43, generally flow into amongst people, often inflicting colds. Three extra coronaviruses contain extra critical signs: MERS (Center Jap respiratory syndrome), which triggered an epidemic in 2012; SARS (extreme acute respiratory syndrome), which triggered an epidemic within the early 2000s; and COVID.
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SAVE THE PINEWOOD, SAVE THE PLANET!
In Viareggio and in Versilia (Tuscany), a large pinewood park and a beach of great beauty and tourist-environmental relevance have long been threatened by a series of senseless and despotic political choices (concrete "penetration axis" with the demolition of dozens of trees, invasive cycle path in wildlife oasis, planned construction of military installation…).
The pine forest rebels and asks you to send your postcard on the theme "Save the pinewood, save the planet!". The work will be made available to visitors of the Giak Verdun Popular Museum of the Pinewood during the actions and events of the summer 2022, in the form of a temporary exhibition and / or free distribution, with a series of free postcards produced in small circulation and available in a special exhibitor installed in the park.
Send your work in good resolution jpg file to the email [email protected] or in hard copy (one copy or small print runs) to the address: Vittore Baroni, Via C. Battisti 339, 55049 Viareggio, LU, Italy. Include your name and e-mail address in the postcard to receive project documentation. Deadline: 30 September 2022.
The project "Save the pinewood, save the planet!" is part of the World Decentralized Congress Mail Art Wave 2022, for more information see the group
Gentile Vittore,
stamani ti ho mandato per posta la mia opera per partecipare al tuo progetto (SAVE THE PINEWOOD, SAVE THE PLANET).
Purtroppo in Ungeria la situazione é piú pesante delle circostanze italiane perché Viktor Orban ha cambiato da poco la qualificazione delle tutte le foreste cosi in Ungheria ogni albero é legna da fuoco. Questa disposizione é valida anche nei parchi nazionali!
Spero che la mia 'spedizione' arriverá in tempo.
Con affetto
Peter
P.S.:
Tanti anni fa collaboravamo nel progetto di LEOPOLD BLOOM ASSEMBLAGE.
Purtroppo il mio collega Ákos Székely (l'altro redattore di Leopold Bloom) é morto l'anno scorso.
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Bekapcsolódtam egy toszkán mail art projektbe, amit egy olyan versiliai fenyőerdő ill. tengerpart megmentésért indítottak, melyet mindenféle beruházásokkal veszélyeztetnek. Nem is tudom, honnan ismerősek ezek a helyzetek... A fakivágások ellen a jelek szerint ott is küzdeni kell. A projekt gazdája, Vittore Baroni több alkalommal is szerzője volt a Leopold Bloom Assemblage folyóiratnak.
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Why you should read Elizabeth Goudge’s Torminster books for Advent and Christmastide:
Wonderful atmospheric depiction of a small Cathedral town in the beginning of the 20th century, partly inspired by the authors own childhood; (Torminster is technically Wells, Somerset)
the first book is a very soft and gentle adult novel, about all kinds of love, redemption, and the way literature and art can bring people together;
the sequels are two children’s novellas about a wonderful girl named Henrietta, who is already an important character in the first book, and who will grow up to be a great painter;
one sequel is set at Christmas and has a wonderful message, the other is set at high summer, but so magical it still feels right for this season;
the first book is set over the span of more than one year, and has absolutely gorgeous Christmas chapters;
the prose is lovely and evocative, the descriptions full of detail, the wide cast of characters endearing, and the various relationships and kinds of love (romantic, platonic, familial, and more than that) simply beautiful;
it is a book about art, artists, and the appreciation of art and its value: there is a bookshop, a poet, an actress, a very imaginative child, but there are also depictions of numerous other ways people use their creative ability as a means to communicate and to enrich but also understand the world around us;
the setting is lovely, a tiny town within a lovely landscape, and within the town the microcosm of the Cathedral Close;
soft, cosy, warm; lots of tea and treats, and Little Things;
there is a dog called Mixed Biscuits: “Front elevation collie, rear elevation pomeranian. The man I bought him from said he was a spaniel, but I think myself that there’s a dash of dachshund about the legs.” And there are even more dogs in the sequel: Keeper and Mee-Too.
All three books were very rare and usually out of print for a long while, especially the two sequels, but are currently in print or at least widely available. A City of Bells is the first book, and originally a stand-alone; Sister of the Angels was published before Henrietta’s House (published in the US as The Blue Hills), but is set later. The first is an adult novel, but suitable for all ages, if it should interest a younger reader, whereas the other two are children’s books of the kind that are just as appealing for adult readers. All books are ideally read together, but all of them can be read separately.
As in all of Goudge’s books, there are themes of religion and spirituality, mental illness and disability, and societal values and problems, but they are a bit gentler than in her other books – certainly there, but lighter, as the focus is rather on art and the individual, making them very soft and gentle, but nonetheless thoughtful reads for the season.
Goudge has a great gift of evoking a sense of time and place, so one does feel the town and also its seasons and celebrations very much when reading. Places in Goudge novels are very much characters on their own, and Torminster, the bookshop, the blue hills, and especially the Cathedral are very tangible, and in a way, also very independent. They are not fantasy books (except, maybe, Henrietta’s House) but they do have more than just a touch of magic.
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Read them especially if you love (or maybe need) a story about unusual relationships, platonic love and romantic friendship, second chances and redemption, hope and healing, compassion and forgiveness, everyday mysteries and the magic of the ordinary, the extraordinary effects of human kindness, and the beauty of hard, yet right choices.
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