Susanne Langer (20 December 1895-1985) was an American philosopher of art, one of the first female academic philosophers in the USA, popular in the past but now often forgotten She is best known for her 1942 book “Philosophy in a New Key”, where she put forth an idea that she developed in her following studies… Read More Symbols
This canvas was painted by Samuel Butler in 1874 and its title is: “Mr Heatherley’s Holiday: An Incident in Studio Life”. The work was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1874, and now hangs in the Tate Gallery in London. It is his largest and most impressive oil painting, an ‘important’ work, as Butler referred… Read More Samuel Butler – Painter
English novelist and critic Samuel Butler was born in 1835 in Langar Rectory, in Nottinghamshire, England, into a long line of clerics, preordained to a career in church, to which he too, by his father’s wish and expectation was predestined. His relations with his father, Rev. Thomas Butler were difficult and antagonistic.He later wrote of… Read More Eclectic Samuel Butler
Samuel Butler was a British satirist, novelist and critic, born on 4 December 1835. Here are some of his quotes on life: “Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.” “Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.” “Life is like music, it… Read More Samuel Butler on Life
Jacques Barzun ( born on 30 November 1907) was a French-American historian, teacher and a philosopher of education Three quotes on teaching: Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a… Read More Teaching
🎶“Ah, but I was so much older then / I’m younger than that now” (1)🎶 Today Bob Dylan, singer-songwriter, poet and visual artist, turns eighty “I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I’ll die like a poet.” (2)“Art is the perpetual motion of illusion. The highest… Read More Happy Birthday, Bob Dylan 🎉
Susanne Katherina Langer (born on 20 December 1895) was an American philosopher of art, who said that:“Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.” (1)“Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.” (2) Langer thought that the ability to use symbols underlies all human knowing and understanding and it is… Read More Symbols
Paul Frederic Simon was born on this day in 1941, so today, 13 October 2020, he is 79 years old. “You want to be a writer, don’t know how or when?Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.” “Facts can be turned into art if one is artful enough.” “It’s actually very difficult to make… Read More Happy Birthday, Paul Simon
💛 Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. 💛 Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious. 💛 No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an… Read More Oscar Wilde on Art
Il 9 settembre 1501, il ventiseienne Michelangelo iniziò a lavorare al blocco di marmo da cui doveva trarre il celebre David, provando la durezza del blocco con qualche colpo di scalpello. La statua (alta 520 cm, incluso il basamento di 108 cm) era stata commissionata dalla corporazione Arte della Lana e dagli Operai del Duomo… Read More Il David di Michelangelo
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