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I have used projectors to more rapidly transfer images of the figure on my large painting surface. I have access to projection by electric light and yet the use of the projector remains limited. It can allow you to more rapidly establish proportions but working in the dark limits you to the main...

I have long admired Samson François’ recordings of Ravel and Debussy but just came upon this one of Liszt. I am slowly building my playlists of classical music on Spotify… composer by composer.

Don’t get me wrong; I like a lot of Hockney’s art but have issues with his theories of how the old masters “cheated” through the use of the camera obscura and such projection devices.

I know I am probably missing much by practically never listening to jazz. Rather than the raw, original works, I am only able to appreciate jazz second hand, filtered through the ears of composers like Gershwin, Copland, Bernstein, or Ravel. The only jazz I have ever really enjoyed has been from...

I’ve got this set playing on Spotify on random while my little puppy is sleeping on the chair next to me.

Arguably the finest jazz album ever. ❤️ Nearly everyone who played on this album was a major artist in their own right: Cannonball Adderly, Bill Evans, John Coltrane, etc…

Yes… autocorrect often “corrects” vocabulary that is correct but not recognized by the program… especially terms related to art (or other disciplines), non-English words, and proper names.

I would be interested even though a lot of my paintings aren’t Facebook friendly… but then again, Peter Paul Rubens was the most censored artist on Facebook to the point that the Belgian Ministry of Culture produced this: :rolleyes:

Listening to Mahler’s 2nd Symphony “The Resurrection”. I must say this album cover strikes me as a bit arrogant… placing the name of the conductor as more prominent than of the composer.

I just started digging out. I spent 45minutes clearing a path around the car and then brushing the 10” of snow off of the windows, headlights, and hood of the car. I’ll just let the snow on the roof blow off once I get going on the highway. 😆 I looked at the 10-15” of snow down the length of the...

Honestly, Schumann… and Mendelssohn were never among my favorites. I prefer the earlier Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert… and later composers such as Wagner, Mahler, and Richard Strauss. Nevertheless, I quite like this disc.

We were at sub-zero° F yesterday with the snow really starting around 12 AM Sunday morning. We got an average of 9-10” in the area around me. More shoveling 😡. It’s a balmy 12° now but predicted to be colder. Maybe another day off (as well as today) due to weather. They are predicting 10-20°...

Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater is not only a beautiful work but also a fascinating creation historically… one of those “what if?” moments. At the height of the Baroque Pergolesi’s work points toward the greater simplicity and clarity of the Classical Era well before Haydn and Mozart. The Stabat Mater...