EVENTS at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation

Dramatic Presentations Third Saturday of Each Month, 8:00 PM

 

 

Saturday, July 18, 8 PM

 

About Art, Love, & Life

 

  Aesthetic Realism & the Dance  Looking at the rich history of this art, from Native American dance, to Polynesian, to American jive, to classical ballet, Eli Siegel said:  

“Deeply, the dance is an attempt to annul the hidden, selfish self by having it step out.   It is an attempt to solve the problem of humility and pride.”


  Winslow Homer's Breezing Up; or, Yes! The Unknown is Your Friend by Meryl Nietsch-Cooperman

  
“As I studied this 1876 painting, I was moved to see that in it there's an answer to one of the largest matters in a person's life: the fight between wanting to manage the world and wanting to be affected by it in a big way.”


  Are You Afraid of Love? 
A reenactment of an Aesthetic Realism lesson conducted by Eli Siegel

"Ms. Kramer, when you felt that a man was interested in you, did you respect him?" —Eli Siegel

 

— AND MORE!

Contri. $10 (tax-deductible) 

 

 

Saturday, August 15, 8 PM

 

There Are Comedy & Comprehension

 

  Entertainment Is With the Profit System A deep and hilarious 1971 lecture by Eli Siegel, on Arthur Kober's 1937 hit comedy Having Wonderful Time—with scenes from the play. 

“There are two ways of being entertained: one is to laugh and the other is to be gripped, to have your attention held—to have your dramatic sense satisfied. This play is well done. Tears are mingled with laughter; sighs are mingled with smirks.”


Do You Think Women Are Facts? A reenactment of an Aesthetic Realism lesson conducted by Eli Siegel

"Do you think, Mr. Berns, the reason you suffer from women is, you want to enjoy them but you don't want to be just to them?"—Eli Siegel

 

Wildness & Precision in Tommy Dorsey's “Well, Git It” by Michael Palmer

“In its all-out boldness and exactitude it's a criticism of a contained, cool and also bland way I had....That opening sounds wild. But what's there? The trumpet plays the same basic pattern four times—until, on the fifth, it takes off in a surprising direction. It's both free and terrifically precise.”

 

— AND MORE!

Contri. $10 (tax-deductible) 

 
   
Public Seminars: First Thursday of each month, 6:30 PM

Speakers: Aesthetic Realism Consultants and Associates

JULY 9*

How Can a Woman See Time & Age as Friendly? Marion Fennell,
Meryl Nietsch-Cooperman, Karen Van Outryve

*Seminar date changed due to holiday weekend

 

AUGUST 6

What Do Men Most Need to Know about Their Anger? Christopher Balchin, Jaime Torres, Joseph Meglino

 

                                                                                                                Contri. $10

 

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Music Seminar at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation
Alan Shapiro, Helena Simon, and Rhonda Rosenthal
presenting an Aesthetic Realism Seminar on Music

 
Contributions to the Aesthetic Realism Foundation are tax-deductible.
 Contri. $10

 
Special Event
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Sunday     •      August 23      •     2:30pm

The Aesthetic Realism Theatre Company proudly presents

The Great Fight of
EGO vs. TRUTH

Songs about Love, Justice,
& Everybody's Feelings!

Rock 'n' roll, ballads, musical comedy, & more!

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Contri. $12 (tax-deductible)

 
 
Terrain Gallery

"It is a deep and wonderful experience to see good work. This show of Dienes, Hall, and Poleskie will enrich one's sense of a reality that is often overlooked and undervalued. It will encourage you to think about things as having new and surprising possibilities, and should not be missed."

— Journal of the Print World, Spring 2009

 

   
 "In reality opposites are one; art shows this." —Eli Siegel

The DRAMA in THINGS
Three Photographers

CURRENT SHOW THROUGH JULY
AMY DIENES
 STEVE POLESKIE

PERRY HALL
“Cloudscape” (detail)
"Crystallized Ginger-II (detail)
"High Window, Low Sun" (detail)
We proudly present new work by three contemporary American photographers. There are Steve Poleskie’s rich still lifes of daily objects, captivating in brilliant sunlight and deep shadow. There are Perry Hall’s acute observations of city buildings, objects, and happenings, where sharpness and softness mingle in many and surprising ways. And there is the diverse work of Amy Dienes, from an intimate portrait of the heart of a flower, to an awesome panoply of clouds.

     This radiant show includes the photographers’ comments in relation to these definitive sentences from “The Dramatic Opposites in Photography,” by Eli Siegel, founder of the philosophy Aesthetic Realism:

Photography showed something that was beautiful about the world: that there was a oneness between light and dark. And in any rich photograph, the way the two are the same and different is an essential thing. Photography does dramatize light and shade, softness and sharpness, foreground and background; does dramatize where drama is: that is, in the surfaces, the depths, the relations of things.

Come to this exhibition and see photography and the world itself in a new way!

Hours: Wed.-Fri. 12-5, Sat. 12-4, & by appointment

TERRAIN GALLERY / AESTHETIC REALISM FOUNDATION
141 Greene Street, in SoHo • 212.777.4490
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