Comments on: Much More Than Mere Contrast http://www.spinozablue.com/2008/11/1026/ An Eclectic Journal of the Arts Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:16:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Robert Mueller http://www.spinozablue.com/2008/11/1026/#comment-258 Robert Mueller Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:27:57 +0000 http://www.spinozablue.com/?p=1026#comment-258 Well, thank you as well. "Buddenbrooks," as it happens, is a gap for me. Also, thank you for the encouragement to read Stefan Zweig, whose book "Umok" I have at home and is in Gothic script (!) so I am not even sure I have the title right, a title of only four letters.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('258','Robert Mueller'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('258','Robert Mueller','Well, thank you as well. \"Buddenbrooks,\" as it happens, is a gap for me. Also, thank you for the encouragement to read Stefan Zweig, whose book \"Umok\" I have at home and is in Gothic script (!) so I am not even sure I have the title right, a title of only four letters.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Well, thank you as well. “Buddenbrooks,” as it happens, is a gap for me. Also, thank you for the encouragement to read Stefan Zweig, whose book “Umok” I have at home and is in Gothic script (!) so I am not even sure I have the title right, a title of only four letters.
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]]> By: Cuchulain http://www.spinozablue.com/2008/11/1026/#comment-257 Cuchulain Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:38:59 +0000 http://www.spinozablue.com/?p=1026#comment-257 <a href='#comment-256' rel="nofollow">@Robert Mueller</a> - Thanks, Robert. Haven't read that. <i>Buddenbrooks</i> is my favorite of his books, but there are many gaps for me. Appreciate the rec.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('257','Cuchulain'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('257','Cuchulain','<a href=\'#comment-256\' rel=\"nofollow\">@Robert Mueller<\/a> - \r\n\r\n\r\nThanks, Robert. Haven\'t read that. <i>Buddenbrooks<\/i> is my favorite of his books, but there are many gaps for me. \r\n\r\nAppreciate the rec.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> @Robert Mueller —

Thanks, Robert. Haven’t read that. Buddenbrooks is my favorite of his books, but there are many gaps for me.

Appreciate the rec.

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]]> By: Robert Mueller http://www.spinozablue.com/2008/11/1026/#comment-256 Robert Mueller Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:24:06 +0000 http://www.spinozablue.com/?p=1026#comment-256 The following is off the topic, or only accidentally on point, but (who knows?) it may provide a spark. For Decapitation from a comic angle and in a folk-tale context, I recommend the book I am reading by Thomas Mann, "Die vertauschten Koepfe: Eine Indische Legende" (The Exchange of Heads: A Tale of India).<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('256','Robert Mueller'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('256','Robert Mueller','The following is off the topic, or only accidentally on point, but (who knows?) it may provide a spark. For Decapitation from a comic angle and in a folk-tale context, I recommend the book I am reading by Thomas Mann, \"Die vertauschten Koepfe: Eine Indische Legende\" (The Exchange of Heads: A Tale of India).'); return false;">Quote</a></div> The following is off the topic, or only accidentally on point, but (who knows?) it may provide a spark. For Decapitation from a comic angle and in a folk-tale context, I recommend the book I am reading by Thomas Mann, “Die vertauschten Koepfe: Eine Indische Legende” (The Exchange of Heads: A Tale of India).
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]]> By: Cuchulain http://www.spinozablue.com/2008/11/1026/#comment-255 Cuchulain Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:04:07 +0000 http://www.spinozablue.com/?p=1026#comment-255 Yes. Very difficult in so many art forms. In literature, for me, it's the poem. I seem to love my work one moment and hate it the next. And all things in between. Frustrating. Prose seems more stable, but not eternally so. Caravaggio gives us much to think about and analyze. Both with his bio and the work itself. Taking the surface of his paintings just as surface, or going deeper, thinking about the symbology, even the models he drew from. Attention to his works brings rewards aplenty.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('255','Cuchulain'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('255','Cuchulain','Yes. Very difficult in so many art forms. In literature, for me, it\'s the poem. I seem to love my work one moment and hate it the next. And all things in between. Frustrating. Prose seems more stable, but not eternally so. \r\n\r\nCaravaggio gives us much to think about and analyze. Both with his bio and the work itself. Taking the surface of his paintings just as surface, or going deeper, thinking about the symbology, even the models he drew from. Attention to his works brings rewards aplenty.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Yes. Very difficult in so many art forms. In literature, for me, it’s the poem. I seem to love my work one moment and hate it the next. And all things in between. Frustrating. Prose seems more stable, but not eternally so.

Caravaggio gives us much to think about and analyze. Both with his bio and the work itself. Taking the surface of his paintings just as surface, or going deeper, thinking about the symbology, even the models he drew from. Attention to his works brings rewards aplenty.

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]]> By: Tony Jones http://www.spinozablue.com/2008/11/1026/#comment-252 Tony Jones Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:51:33 +0000 http://www.spinozablue.com/?p=1026#comment-252 "Working on a painting too long and ruining it..." Knowing when to quit is so essential in any art form, and it might be the hardest thing to know. I too have polished poems into the ground, until all the life was sucked from them...That must be where the muse comes in, the intuitive sense - the "Force" in Star Wars parlance - of balance that tells you at a glance or in a heartbeat whether what you're doing technically is commensurate with the needs of a piece's archetype...<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('252','Tony Jones'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('252','Tony Jones','\"Working on a painting too long and ruining it...\"\r\n\r\nKnowing when to quit is so essential in any art form, and it might be the hardest thing to know. I too have polished poems into the ground, until all the life was sucked from them...That must be where the muse comes in, the intuitive sense - the \"Force\" in Star Wars parlance - of balance that tells you at a glance or in a heartbeat whether what you\'re doing technically is commensurate with the needs of a piece\'s archetype...'); return false;">Quote</a></div> “Working on a painting too long and ruining it…”

Knowing when to quit is so essential in any art form, and it might be the hardest thing to know. I too have polished poems into the ground, until all the life was sucked from them…That must be where the muse comes in, the intuitive sense — the “Force” in Star Wars parlance — of balance that tells you at a glance or in a heartbeat whether what you’re doing technically is commensurate with the needs of a piece’s archetype…

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