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Colorful flowers are cliché? What subject hasn’t been done to the point of cliché? Portraits? Landscapes? Cityscape? Animals? Nudes? Fruit?

Ooh! Olive! I truly love this! ❤️

Last Thursday I visited the Akron Art Museum… about 45-minutes from Cleveland… with one of my best friends from Art School and my Studios. He was visiting from Connecticut and staying with his in-laws. The Akron Museum had a couple of special exhibitions including art by local artists and art by...

Hermes… I certainly would be interested in the process. Although I might miss some of the box sets with all their illustrations, graphics, and liner notes I already find streaming through Spotify far more convenient.

Brendel was a masterful pianist without bombast. He remains my “go to” artist for Schubert’s Impromptus: I also love his performances of Mozart: His performances of Mozart’s piano concertos with Sir Neville Marriner led me to a great appreciation of even the earlier works:

Now you just need some gold leaf, Arty. 😂

This is quite marvellous. Yes it is ❤️ The Magic Flute may just be my favorite opera. I remember when I used to participate on a classical music forum (with Brian). We were asked once to make a list of our 10 favorite operas. Four of mine were by Mozart: The Magic Flute, The Marriage of...

Hermes, have you heard Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in d-minor played on violin? There are some musicologists who suggest the work was originally written for the violin:

Evergreen pieces, reworked for just about every instrument you care to mention too, and with every new instrument, one gets something new out of them, and you also want to go relisten them in the original form for cello. I'm in one of my periodic recorder manias; here's the same piece on...

I am so happy today that I have acquired Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir's 2023 recording of the Bach Cello Suites. Her performance is heavenly, with an unbelievably realistic recording at an impressive bitrate of more than 5000 kilobits per second. Oh great! Another recording of the cello suites that...

Well… I can’t take credit for those “creative” works of Artspeak as I just copied them from a collection of pretentious artist’s statements. Returning to the original purpose of this thread… today I stumbled upon a new painting by the Japanese artist Chie Yoshii, who I have been following for...

I think many underestimate The Beach Boys. They made a name for themselves with songs that conveyed the image of the California beaches and surfing. Songs such as Surfing USA, Surfing Safari, Fun,Fun, Fun, and I Get Around… fine as they are… don’t strike many as profound. Even the band’s name...

Too often it seems that the artist’s intentions… or purported intentions lead to the most pretentious statements laden with catch-words and phrases and sheer gobbledygook: ‘My art aims at a void that signifies precisely the non-being of what it represents…’ ‘My art practice examines hesitation...