Why Is Modern Art So Bad? (Video by Robert Florczak) The Society April 29, 2016 Art, Essays, News of Note, Video 11 Comments See full Epoch Times article on Robert...
‘Dunblane Cathedral’: On the 20th Anniversary of a Massacre The Society March 26, 2016 Beauty, Culture, News of Note, Poetry 6 Comments By Joseph Charles MacKenzie On the massacre of sixteen children and their teacher at the Dunblane Primary School near Stirling, Scotland, March 13, 1996 LOVE’s light lost the bleak night breathes a black...
Review: The Parliament of Poets by Frederick Glaysher, Earthrise Press, 2012 The Society January 25, 2016 Epic, Essays, News of Note, Reviews 9 Comments By James Sale Frederick Glaysher claims to be an epic poet, and furthermore to have written an epic poem, The Parliament of Poets. This is a huge claim and an astonishing ambition. Is he? Has he? Before...
Book Review: ‘Poetry Is’ by Jose Garcia Villa The Society November 6, 2015 Essays, News of Note, Reviews 2 Comments Review By James Sale This weekend two different things coincided. First, I finished reading ‘Poetry Is: Jose Garcia Villa’s Philosophy of Poetry’ edited by Robert L King (Ateneo University Press),...
‘Metamorphosis, Offering’ by Neal Dachstadter The Society September 10, 2015 Art, Beauty, Poetry A trail it stumbled on a door, A doubled one, upon a floor, Some fellow just as you and me, Approached the portal now we see, And unobtrusive might have been, Except he’d shed, down to the...
‘The Course of Empire’ Observations by Reid McGrath The Society March 1, 2015 Art, Beauty, Culture, Poetry 2 Comments Observations both Literal and Inferred on The Course of Empire, 1833-36, by Thomas Cole The Savage State THE foreground is dark, sublime, and savage. Storm-clouds roll up towards the right. The...
‘A Plea to Scylla’ and Other Poetry by Ron L. Hodges The Society January 2, 2015 Beauty, Culture, News of Note, Poetry 1 Comment Shadow of the Laogai In the Laogai’s shadow, the ghosts of China stir, Unseen by dreaming eyes as golden currents blow Across the sea. Our compassion seems to falter In the Laogai’s...
‘Suicide Nets’ and Other Poetry by Reid McGrath The Society September 25, 2014 News of Note, Poetry 1 Comment Lamenting our Complicity in the Installation of Suicide Nets I met a “bum” outside an Apple store holding a sign which read: “I’m taking bets.” “On what?” I said. “On something that’d...
Poetry on Chinese Communism by Damian Robin The Society September 16, 2014 News of Note, Poetry 1 Comment Chinese Cameo 1 Here’s a tale of friends and family— Near the founding of the CCP, Zhou Enlai and Sun Bingwen were friends, both Party members seeking sim’lar ends. Both heaved and puffed up...
Lines Composed Before Finding the ‘Society of Classical Poets’ by Reid McGrath The Society August 31, 2014 Art, Beauty, Culture, Poetry 3 Comments Untitled Savants like to arrange their stars and push their poets into piles: marble-misers who assign the jars according to the artists’ styles. They line them in their fusty den when they deem an...
‘Aristotle Contemplating a Bust of Homer’ by Cees Wilerd Bui The Society August 19, 2014 Art, Beauty, Culture, Poetry 1 Comment In Rembrandt's scene of 1653, Aristotle Contemplating a Bust of Homer, there is much that we can see amidst that musty sett(l)ing of gold dust that balances upon the old and new, upon the dark and light,...
‘The Living Thinking on the Dead’ by Alberdi Ucwese The Society June 12, 2014 Art, Beauty, Poetry On the painting "Le berges d'Arcadie" by Nicolas Poussin The rugged mountains in the distance stand beyond, above the three, young shepherds and the shepherdess, who gather round a tomb that they have...
‘On Leighton’s Procession’ by Evan Mantyk The Society November 12, 2013 Art, Beauty, Poetry 1 Comment A godly painting held over their heads As they process through a street in Florence, Each face is free from manic glee or dread And transcends with a tranquil tolerance; They are transformed by the art’s...
‘Big Shoes’ by Carrie Pearce The Society October 7, 2013 Art The Artist's Statement on Horses: I have always believed that nature lends itself to man. The horse has contributed more to civilization than any other animal... Since prehistoric times, the horse has...
Art: ‘Woe’ by Joshua LaRock The Society September 13, 2013 Art 1 Comment Woe is a work that seeks to engage its viewers in the universal emotion its title suggests. This man is in the grips of anguish and sorrow. Perhaps this is his initial reaction just after receiving...
Art: ‘Made in America’ by David Bowers The Society September 7, 2013 Art Is outsourcing to foreign countries a good thing or bad thing? The gradual demise of American manufacturing seems to be part of the meaning behind this stunning work by David Bowers. From David Bowers'...
‘Fortitude’: An Amazing Painting and True Story The Society August 28, 2013 Art One of the oil paintings in the Art of Zhen, Shan, Ren International Exhibition is titled “Fortitude” and depicts a middle-aged man standing with immense poise in a swirling snowstorm. The blizzard fails...
‘Cataract on a Canvas’ by Bruce Dale Wise The Society August 25, 2013 Art, Beauty, Poetry In Niagara by Frederick Edwin Church, immediately one’s taken in to the great falls. From a remarkably precarious perch, one’s seized by the enormity of the landscape. One sees at once the powerful and...
‘Aurora Borealis, 1865’ by Bruce Dale Wise The Society August 13, 2013 Art, Beauty, Poetry 1 Comment How weird and eerily appears, that solar surge, Aurora Borealis, 1865, by Hudson River School's Frederic Edwin Church. The skyscape is so alien, and yet alive, with faint and dancing lights, blue, yellow,...
Art Speaks: Exploring Traditional Art The Society August 12, 2013 Art, News of Note Art Speaks is the Epoch Times’ global art exploration project. Here we explore works of art created before 1900 from all parts of the world—Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania—and in all mediums...
‘On a Picture of Dürer’s’ by Bruce Dale Wise The Society July 29, 2013 Art, Beauty, Poetry 1. In 373, at Antioch, Jerome asked himself if he were not a disciple of Cicero rather than Christ, his eternal home; and thereupon abandoned his early love for philosophy, law, language, and...
William Trost Richards: A Lesser-Known American Great The Society July 26, 2013 Art, News of Note 3 Comments By Christine Lin NEW YORK—How could staring at a canvas barely two square feet transport a person to the hillsides of Pennsylvania or the glass-like waters of Lake Placid? How could a painting of a farm...
Painter Erik Koeppel Revives an American Tradition The Society June 29, 2013 Art, News of Note By Mary Byrom Last year, painter Erik Koeppel left New York City’s big art scene behind. He moved to a small town surrounded by the picturesque White Mountain National Forest. Yet far from disappearing...
Painting: ‘Metamorphosis’ by Steven J. Levin The Society June 26, 2013 Art 2 Comments Steven J. Levin was born in Minneapolis MN in 1964. His interest in art began early, when as a young boy, Levin would spend hours drawing alongside his father, a commercial artist. Recognizing his talent...
Sonnet on Giorgione’s ‘Tempest’ by Bruce Dale Wise The Society June 24, 2013 Art, Poetry Near a brief flash of lightning sits a bird, a white one on a gray and sloping roof, and rests against big blue clouds, like a surd, almost absurd, incapable of proof; and down below some city buildings...
Painting: ‘Illlumination’ by Xiaoping Chen The Society May 12, 2013 Art As a gentle, outer light shines downward, a different, invisible light — that of spiritual illumination — shines into the mind as a woman studies the teachings of Falun Gong. The child, resting serenely...
Painting: ‘Sweet Youth’ by Duffy Sheridan The Society May 4, 2013 Art 1 Comment Duffy Sheridan has been painting since he was a child. His father, also an artist, encouraged him to learn to paint anything and everything. He has traveled the world and dedicated his artistic life...
Ani Art Academies Offer Free, but Rigorous, Art Instruction The Society April 26, 2013 Art, News of Note 1 Comment (Featured Image: “Reraise, Douce!” by Timothy Reynolds. Charcoal and pastel, 10 by 11 inches.) NEW YORK—Imagine a place where a master will teach you to draw and paint like a god, bend light onto...
Painting: ‘Bowl of Pansies’ by Steven J. Levin The Society April 22, 2013 Art 1 Comment Steven J. Levin was born in Minneapolis MN in 1964. His interest in art began early, when as a young boy, Levin would spend hours drawing alongside his father, a commercial artist. Recognizing his talent...
Portrait of Margaret Thatcher by Nelson Shanks The Society April 9, 2013 Art, News of Note NEW YORK—On the day of Margaret Thatcher’s death, Nelson Shanks, founder of Philadelphia realist art atelier Studio Incamminati, took another look at his portrait of the British politician, and...
Painting: ‘Amistad, 2011’ by William Storck The Society March 31, 2013 Art 1 Comment William Storck has painted professionally for over 30 years. His work is in private collections throughout the United States as well as public and corporate collections. The artist spends a great deal of time...
Spiritual and Emotional Paintings in Oxford, UK The Society March 21, 2013 Art, News of Note By Damian Robin The intricately patterned Oxford Town Hall is the latest UK venue for the The Art of Zhen Shan Ren, a continuous international tour of prize-winning paintings, which opened on March...
‘As Icarus Drowns: After Breugel’ by Bruce Dale Wise The Society March 19, 2013 Art, Poetry As Icarus drowns in the deep-green, wine-dark sea, before the white, round fisher happily ensconced and th' extr'ordinary sailing ship embarking, a shepherd, standing near his flock and loyal dog, is...
Art: An Angel Reads Li Bai The Society March 11, 2013 Art In this new work by Li Jinyu, of New York City, an angel reads poetry by Li Bai of the Tang...
Art Analysis: Gustave Jean Jacquet by Kara Lysandra Ross The Society March 3, 2013 Art Gustave Jean Jacquet (1846–1909), is known among scholars as one of William Bouguereau’s top students. Although Jacquet’s subject matter was not of peasant girls or mythological scenes like Bouguereau...
‘Composed Upon a Sunlit Chair’ by Bruce Dale Wise The Society February 26, 2013 Art, Poetry "Heavenly Hurt, it gives us—" —Emily Dickinson A sunlit chair by Michael John Hunt sits in light, inside a house with open door. It's at a foyer corner—shadowed bits upon the greenish wall and...
‘A Sketch of Stone Roberts’ by Bruce Dale Wise The Society February 19, 2013 Art, Poetry A line that travels down the middle of the scene divides the picture's plane in two: above, the vast and airy openess o' th' arching building, green on top, and filled with golden light and shadows...
Valentine’s Day Poem: Flowers for My Lady The Society February 14, 2013 Art, Poetry 1 Comment How that florid scent Wafts through your two vents Making all your senses yield To wilderness in a field. How the petals soft Carry you aloft To the clouds above us all, Lightly float and never...
Anand PKC: ‘A New Day Rising’ The Society February 14, 2013 Art, News of Note 1 Comment Anand PKC’s “transcendental realism” is on view now through Feb. 27 at Walter Wickiser Gallery, Manhattan, NY. Featured Image: A New Day Rising, Oil on canvas, 48" x 34",...
Photo Exhibit: Shiprock and Mont St. Michel The Society February 5, 2013 Art, News of Note PHOENIX—What does a rock formation in New Mexico have to do with an old abbey in France? It’s not the premise of a paperback novel, but a photography exhibit at Phoenix Art Museum. The rock formation,...