Category: art history
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You Don’t Always Get What You Want But Perhaps What You Need
“Not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of good luck, because it forces you to reevaluate things, opening new doors to opportunities and information you would have otherwise overlooked” (58) is a quote from the book I mentioned reading in an earlier blog post titled “1000+ Little Things Happy Successful People Do…
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Fantastic Mistakes
In May 2012, bestselling author Neil Gaiman delivered the commencement address to Philadelphia’s University of the Arts. Why does this matter to you or me? Well maybe it matters less to you and more to me because I found a hard copy of this speech also referred to as “The Make Good Art Speech” at…
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Overcoming My Anxiety – An Artist’s Struggle (Part 2)
My Painting I will be entering in the Rose Festival Art Exhibition. This is my follow up blog about my endeavors to paint a piece of art for the Rose Festival Art Exhibition. I mentioned before that I was facing a lot of anxiety towards painting and finishing this piece. I decided to overcome my…
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The Anxiety Is Real…An Artist’s Struggle
A photograph of my preliminary drawing for my painting for the local art competition in town. I have found myself facing a new challenge thanks to a well meaning friend who told me about the local art competition going on in my town. The problem is the due date is a month within me getting…
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Art Oracles – An Art Historian’s Wet Dream
If you know anything about me you’ll know that I spend several hours a week perusing the well-being section at local bookstores. I do not know if it was by divine intervention that yesterday I happened to find one of the coolest things I have ever come across before. I am not even sure it…
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