Art & Soul Seeing #5
Inspired by Kim Manley Ort's Adventures in Seeing 2: Focus Habit 5: Get Curious Kim’s exercises got me asking a lot of questions in...
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by Janet St. John
- Jul 29, 2018
- 2 min
Art & Soul Seeing #4
Inspired by Kim Manley Ort's Adventures in Seeing 2: Focus Habit 4: Pay Attention This month, again with inspiration from Kim Manley...
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by Janet St. John
- Jun 27, 2018
- 2 min
Art & Soul Seeing #3
Inspired by Adventures in Seeing (Kim Manley Ort). 1: Pause Habit 3: Acceptance This month, Kim Manley Ort’s contemplative habit focused...
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by Janet St. John
- May 30, 2018
- 2 min
Art & Soul Seeing #2
Inspired by Adventures in Seeing (Kim Manley Ort). 1: Pause Habit 2: Be Humble I spent the past month considering the ideas in, and...
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by Janet St. John
- Apr 27, 2018
- 1 min
Art & Soul Seeing #1
In an attempt to expand my ways of seeing and being in the world, I have been working with Kim Manley Ort's Adventures in Seeing....
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by Janet St. John
- Mar 20, 2018
- 1 min
Art & Soul Seeing in 2018
Happy Spring, Art & Soul Readers! As trees and bushes bud, treasured irises get close to blooming, and the New Mexico winds whir and...
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by Janet St. John
- Feb 2, 2018
- 3 min
Art & Soul Short #52
Photograph by Kim Manley-Ort Cradle of Life Clara found the hollow place while walking. At the north edge of her family’s eastern...
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by Janet St. John
- Jan 26, 2018
- 1 min
Art & Soul Short #51
Pandora There is a woman and a box. She is curious. It is closed. Is it a gift? An honor? A secret? She recognizes temptation when she...
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by Janet St. John
- Jan 19, 2018
- 1 min
Art & Soul Short #50
https://history.denverlibrary.org/denver-building-history-tutorial Break It Down Again Nothing was wrong with the house, but he wanted to...
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by Janet St. John
- Jan 12, 2018
- 1 min
Art & Soul Short #49
Dancers. e. e. cummings (American, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1894–1962 North Conway, New Hampshire). ca. 1922. Ink and graphite on paper....
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by Janet St. John
- Jan 5, 2018
- 1 min
Art & Soul Short #48
I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold. Charles Demuth (American, Lancaster, Pennsylvania 1883–1935 Lancaster, Pennsylvania). 1928. Oil, graphite,...
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by Janet St. John
- Dec 29, 2017
- 1 min
Art & Soul Short #47
Emil Orlik (German, 1870 – 1932) Oasis in the Desert. c.1913 Drypoint and roulette printed in light brown on laid cream paper 11.7 × 19.8...
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by Janet St. John
- Dec 22, 2017
- 3 min
Art & Soul Short #46
Carlos Anderson (American, born 1905). Published by WPA. 1935–43. Lithograph. 11 1/2 x 15 1/2 in. (29.2 x 39.4 cm) sheet: 14 1/2 x 18 1/2...
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by Janet St. John
- Dec 15, 2017
- 1 min
Art & Soul Short #45
Lion Sleeping. Antoine-Louis Barye (French, Paris 1796–1875 Paris). 1810–75. Watercolor on wove paper, lined sheet: 9 3/16 x 11 5/8 in....
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by Janet St. John
- Dec 8, 2017
- 1 min
Art & Soul Short #44
Pixabay.com. Public Domain Image. Waiting for Rain White vapor, turns grey, builds over the mountains. Invisible hand stirs the...
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by Janet St. John
- Dec 1, 2017
- 1 min
Art & Soul Short #43
The Afternoon Meal (La Merienda). Luis Meléndez (Spanish, Naples 1716–1780 Madrid). ca. 1772. Oil on canvas. 41 1/2 x 60 1/2 in. (105.4 x...
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by Janet St. John
- Nov 24, 2017
- 4 min
Art & Soul Short #42
Winter Scene in Moonlight. Henry Farrer (American, London 1844–1903 New York). 1869 Watercolor and gouache on white wove paper. 11 7/8 x...
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by Janet St. John
- Nov 17, 2017
- 2 min
Art & Soul Short #41
Utagawa Hiroshige.(1797–1858 Tokyo) Edo period (1615–1868) ca. 1833–34. Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper. 9 15/32 x 14...
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by Janet St. John
- Nov 10, 2017
- 1 min
Art & Soul Short #40
Burned Tree, Western Oregon. Ansel Easton Adams (1902–1984). 1960. Black and white instant print. 11.1 x 8.7 cm. Rights and Reproduction:...
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by Janet St. John
- Nov 3, 2017
- 1 min
Art & Soul Short #39
Sidewalk. Janet St. John. 2017 I didn’t know what the cracks represented, nor the lines diagonally dividing this space from that, one...
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