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FEBRUARY 20
The Opposites in Sculpture, Music, & Life!
 Weight as Lightness: Aesthetic Realism Looks at Sculpture:
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In this 1951 lecture, Eli Siegel spoke of works from Venus de Milo to Brancusi’s Bird in Space:
“In sculpture there is a feeling of resistant nature opposed by insistent man, and man saying, ‘I can find form in you, and I’ll get that form out of you though you resist, though you are marble, bronze; though you’re anything, I’ll get beauty out of you!’”
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How Much Should You Understand Another Person? Reenactment of an Aesthetic Realism Lesson
"In proportion to how much we don’t want to understand fully, that much we’ll be lonely….
Mr. Locke, what would you like Sylvia James to understand about you that she may not?"
— Eli Siegel
Cheerfulness & Complaint in "Every Day I have the Blues"
By Michael Palmer
“Even as the music wails and complains, the way singer Joe Williams and the Count Basie band work together with that great rhythm makes us feel anything but blue, depressed. In fact, we feel terrifically excited and composed at once!”
—And More!
Following this presentation there will be a reception celebrating
the 55th anniversary of the Terrain Gallery
and the exhibition Surface & Depth, Part Two--Works on Paper. |
| Contributions to the Aesthetic Realism Foundation are tax-deductible. |
Contri. $10 |
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MARCH 20
Spring, Life, Music
More Life! by Ellen Reiss
“Who is more alive: 1) a person who can look at an object, maybe the bare branch of a winter tree, and be interested in it, feel that in its humble bareness yet proud diagonal lift it is beautiful?; or 2) a person who looks at the branch yet doesn’t really notice it, and moves on?”—The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known, issue 1291
How Much Should You Understand Another Person? Reenactment of an Aesthetic Realism Lesson
"In proportion to how much we don’t want to understand fully, that much we’ll be lonely…. Mr. Locke, what would you like Sylvia James to understand about you that she may not?" — Eli Siegel
How Is Reality Organized? by Eli Siegel
“Spring is a sign that nature hasn’t lost its gift for organization....As energy goes from the earth through the stem of a plant and changes into a flower, and the flower blooms, it is an example of the successful organization that nature has.”
Are You Glad to Need Him? Reenactment of an Aesthetic Realism Lesson
"Does your husband get the feeling you have these signs: ”Help me unlimitedly” but “No Trespassing”? — Eli Siegel
Seriousness & Jubilation in Bach's "B Minor Mass" by musician and choral director Alan Shapiro
"One of the most beautiful and deeply ecstatic moments in the choral music of the world comes when the ‘Crucifixus,’somber and mournful, is followed by the joyous ‘Et Resurexit.’"
—And More!
| Contributions to the Aesthetic Realism Foundation are tax-deductible. |
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APRIL 17
Drama, Landscape, Love
Aesthetic Realism & the Drama by Eli Siegel—including scenes from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and John Banks’ 1728 play The Earl of Essex: A Tragedy
“In the drama, there has to be some feeling of fight, however faint; but the fight is never of strangers. There is always, when drama is most dramatic, a fight of people who are for each other.”
Love Needs Knowledge Reenactment of an Aesthetic Realism Lesson
"Let’s say a person’s desire to know another was 65 percent and the desire to have that person was 85 percent—do you think there could be trouble?"
—Eli Siegel
Central Park—Its Beauty & Ethical History by architect Dale Laurin
“I see Central Park, in its unity and variety, as an important work of art.The way its various elements—the rustic pond; the promenade under towering elms; the sunny, expansive Great Lawn—add to each other, shows how we want to be and how we need to see people different from ourselves: with the respect and kindness they deserve.”
—And More!
| Contributions to the Aesthetic Realism Foundation are tax-deductible. |
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