I think of him as the anti-Homer poet. While Homer’s subjects are gods and heroes, Archilochus writes of drunkenness, running away to live and perhaps fight another day, the common man with his feet planted firmly on the ground — and, occasionally of sweet love. Not much is known about him other than that he […]
See this movie. Owl and the Sparrow, set in the new Vietnam, is about Thuy, a 10-year old girl. Her parents have died, so she is being raised by her harsh uncle and working in his factory. One day, after she makes a minor mistake, her uncle unloads on her, telling her she is deficient,
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I watched Zorba the Greek (1965), which I hadn’t seen since my teen years. My five-sentence summary: I’m incompetent and repressed. You’re incompetent and outgoing.We’re surrounded by viciously ignorant villagers.But that’s okay! Let’s dance! Related: 1955 movie Marty.
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An Artist’s View: Michael Newberry on Key Works of Art in History Michael Newberry is an avant-garde figurative painter, writer, and teacher promoting evolutionary flourishing through his work. He does this through advances in color theory, body language, symbolism, and composition. Michael is the author of two books released in 2021: Evolution Through Art and Newberry
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An old favorite, discovered in my graduate school days, Anacreon (570–488 BCE) is one of the great poets of drinking parties, the many varieties of love, and the sweetness of life in the shadow of death. Infatuation from a distance: O sweet boy like a girl,I see you though you will not look my way.You
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An Artist’s View: Michael Newberry on Key Works of Art in History Michael Newberry is an avant-garde figurative painter, writer, and teacher promoting evolutionary flourishing through his work. He does this through advances in color theory, body language, symbolism, and composition. Michael is the author of two books released in 2021: Evolution Through Art and Newberry
Eugène Delacroix | “Liberty Leading the People” (1830) | Newberry on Great Art series Read More »
An Artist’s View: Michael Newberry on Key Works of Art in History Michael Newberry is a painter and the author of Evolution Through Art and Newberry Color Theory. The full 29-work list of short commentaries is below. Michael Newberry, Commentaries on 29 Great Art Works 1. Geometric Warrior, 8th century BCE 2. Kroisos, 540-515 BCE
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From Richard Osborne’s biography Herbert von Karajan, on an event in war-torn Vienna as it was struggling back to life after a cold winter in the last stage of World War Two: “Then the Russians arrived. For three weeks in April 1945, Russian soldiery ran amok in and orgy of pillage and rape, before Stalin
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