My Art Page

This page will include thoughts, quotes, links to my pages & links to other web sites.

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See Tolstoy’s essay What is Art? where he says “Art is infection”.

CS Lewis’ purpose for art: “to know that we are not alone”

St. John of Damascus’s purpose for icons: “to know that God is with us”

7/23/2006: Is there any beauty that art cannot express?

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My Joseph Noel Paton appreciation page.

My Thomas Cole appreciation page.

• A Cole page: http://www.texaschapbookpress.com/magellanslog55/coleintro.htm
• A Thomas Cole bio: http://www.thomascole.org/biography.html
• William Cullen Bryant’s funeral oration: http://www.catskillarchive.com/cole/wcb.htm
• An interesting on-line lecture presentation on the Hudson River by Wendy Harris and Arnold Pickman, including HR School of Painting discussion.

A favorite artist of mine is Charles Vess. I have several of his books, including a signed, boxed edition of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”. Here are some links:

• A good bio from Terri Windling. By the way – explore around her site for good Greenman articles & pics. She edited (2002) a book on Greenman stories. review.
• Mr. Vess’ own Greenman Press.
• A page, on my own site, listing all the Vess Items in my collection. Also includes my want list and a few bibliography links.
• Page & Vess portfolio by Steve Rafert, who has a good story explaining his interest in Vess’ works.
• A small Vess exhibition at Virginia’s New River Valley visual artists site.
• bio and bibliography from Trinoc Con.
• WizardWorld.com Interview on Rose.
• A page, on my site, showing some book covers from my collection.
• 12/2005: http://www.imakinarium.net/comic/ABC%20autores/V/Vess%20Charles/vess.htm cover art

Salvador Dali sites:

Dali’s own museum, the Teatre-Museu Dali, in Figueres, Spain

The Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida

Many more links to Dali on the Web: http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/dali_salvador.html

On October 2^nd, 2002 the radio news show All Things Considered (National Public Radio) ran a story on Sandow Birk, an artist who created a series of paintings and a video ‘mockumentary’ on a fictitious war between Los Angeles and San Francisco. I like the idea of it and the breadth and scope of the work. Birk also apparently painted a series of works depicting every maximum security prison in New York State. I couldn’t get any more information on that series. See a link for Birk at the Catharine Clark Gallery.

1/14/2004 – check out this website: http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~tas3/musicon.html - it talks about JS Bach’s Mass in B minor, but pulls in threads from many other sources – art, philosophy.

3/3/2004 – in a similar vein, this site relates music to different artistic movements: http://www.luc.edu/depts/history/dennis/106/106_Music_Page.htm

3/3/4 – Some on-line course material from a professor at St. Bonaventure – check them out! art, religion, architecture, literature, etc: http://web.sbu.edu/theology/bychkov/

8/11/4: I have an original oil painting by Robert (Bob) Scully of Pine Bush, NY of Skytop and the Mohonk mountain. Here is a link to another painting of his:

http://www.andersonvillediary.com/navy.htm

Chris Jamison 2004-2006

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