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The Gleaners – Horse Style
The Gleaners, by Jean Francois Millet Its art history time. Cue the applause. What? You’re not that interested in art history? Slept through the class in college. Or didn’t take it in the first place.… more →
Two Old Horses and Me
'Rurality' and 'the Urban" Two archetypes that conceptualize the spatial development of human territories
wrote 2 weeks ago: The GleanersJean-François Millet completed in 1857. Current location: Musée d’Orsay Regarding … more →
Pop Artist Ben Steele - The Cleaners
wrote 1 month ago: The Cleaners Jean-Francois Millet would certainly never have conceived of works like Gerhard Richter … more →
Gleaners and Leavers
wrote 1 month ago: The Gleaners and I reminded me quite a bit of Ishmael, a 1990′s novel by Daniel Quinn. In many … more →
The Independence
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wrote 4 months ago: In 1946, the Icelandic writer Halldor Laxness (also Nobel Laureate in Literature, 1955) published th … more →
Day 143: Harvest
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wrote 6 months ago: Today I am going to Harvest Festival, so I thought it appropriate that Harvest would be my theme tod … more →
Culture Corner: Memorable Moments in Western Civilization V
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wrote 7 months ago: Jean-François Millet Les Glaneuses, “The Gleaners” 1857 The harvest is a season full of … more →
Mysteries of the blogosphere
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wrote 7 months ago: About a year ago we posted a piece about an elderly couple who were picking up corn from an already … more →
Perfect Imperfection
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wrote 11 months ago: I bought this potatoe at my local farmer market and it immediately reminded me of one of my favourit … more →
Flash Friday Original Short Fiction: The Gleaners
wrote 11 months ago: Image by Sarah Novak at http://www.novakistan.com The Gleaners Chancy stood in the doorway in the ne … more →
Cruising on the Canal lateral a la Loire
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wrote 1 year ago: April has come and gone. London is done . And now it is May. I write from France. The showers have f … more →
The Painting Years: First florals
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wrote 1 year ago: Yesterday I organized my father’s “framing shed” workshop and found some of my old … more →
The Painting Years: First florals
wrote 1 year ago: Yesterday I organized my father’s “framing shed” workshop and found some of my old … more →
Things I Like
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La terre - Earth Day
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wrote 3 years ago: I finished Zola’s La Terre yesterday, and by happenstance, today is Earth Day. The epic tale o … more →
The Gleaners
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wrote 4 years ago: A news report in November 2008, told of a farm in Colorado that, once they were finished with the ha … more →
Realism on the Canvas
wrote 4 years ago: As we have been discussing in class, the literary and the painterly go hand-in-hand in the Modern pe … more →
The Balm Contest for November: "What are You Truly Thankful For?"
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wrote 5 years ago: Mythbuster Beauty and The Balm are very excited to announce Mythbuster Beauty’s 2nd official c … more →
