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Self and World: An Explanation of Aesthetic Realism
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“The deepest desire of every person is to like the world on an honest or accurate basis." — Eli Siegel, founder of Aesthetic Realism
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New exhibition opening Saturday, May 10, 3-6 pm
| WILLIAM BEHNKEN STEPHEN A. FREDERICKS SU-LI HUNG |
| CHAIM KOPPELMAN STEVE POLESKIE ELFI SCHUSELKA |
| RICHARD SLOAT JUDD WEISBERG |
We are proud to show work—innovative and sincere—by eight contemporary printmakers. The exhibition is based on this great principle of Aesthetic Realism, stated by Eli Siegel:
All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one
of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves. |
Surface and depth, dark and light, fact and imagination are brought together with subtlety and surprise in every beautiful print. And we can learn about these and other opposites in people, nations, ourselves, through the printmaker's art!
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MALCOLM MORLEY ROBERT MOTHERWELL |
| GABOR PETERDI HARRY STERNBERG |
Opening Reception, Saturday, May 10, 3-6 pm
Exhibition through July
Gallery Hours: Wed-Fri 12-5; Sat 12-4
TERRAIN GALLERY / AESTHETIC REALISM FOUNDATION
141 Greene Street in SoHo, NYC
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Current issue Husbands, Wives, & the World • April 30, 2008
In this issue we publish two short poems by Eli Siegel. And with them is an article by award-winning filmmaker and Aesthetic Realism consultant Ken Kimmelman, from a paper he presented last month at an Aesthetic Realism public seminar, “What Does It Mean to Be a Good Husband?”...
I'm glad to comment a little on something Mr. Kimmelman speaks of, something Aesthetic Realism is the philosophy to explain: Every person has an attitude to the world itself, and we will see a man or woman we hope to care for no better than we see the outside world. Further, there is a fight that goes on within everyone, and our ability to love depends on how that fight in us fares. It is between the desire to respect the world and the desire to have contempt for it.
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