I LOVE GOOD MOVIES

 

Good movies, like good art and music, always get us talking. And they give us a dose of beneficial medicine - laughter, discovered by doctors today, known by the pygmies for generations. They teach us that we can learn from history, and that we're not alone. They give us a measure of reality, that we can better understand ourselves and other people.

The remake of Robin Hood, stands up today, as well as it ever did. We are reminded of individual courage, the value of sticking together in friendship, and that leadership is a rare, undervalued, and remarkable force.

Good art, music, movies, and books, will be our weapons of war in the battle of love and of living.


 

 

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Topics

1.00 Preface
1.01 From Idol to Icon and So On
2.00 What is Art?
2.01 Good Art
2.02 The Artist as Child
2.03 Matisse and Picasso
2.04 The Need for Drawing
2.05 The Need to Teach Children to Draw
2.06 Geometrical Figures are the Essence of Drawing
2.07 Misunderstanding of Form
2.08 Pebbles Show Nature's Way
2.09 People Love Abstractions
2.10 Our Faults
2.11 Technical Skill
2.12 Quality and Time on Painting
2.13 Originality and Creative Courage
2.14 Respect for the Successful Innovator
2.15 Bizarre Stuff
2.16 A Great Artist
2.17 Get Yourself a Gimmick
2.18 Unceasing Change
2.19 Blue Period
2.20 Cheap Repetition
3.00 The Artist
3.01 Understanding
3.02 Solitude
3.03 Full Circle
3.04 Myth Making
3.05 A Taste for a Few and Simple Things
3.06 There is Such a Thing as Talent
3.07 The Ouija Board
3.08 Artists and Other Circus Acts
3.09 We Don't Need Another Hero
3.10 The Van Gogh Syndrome
3.11 A State of Being
3.12 The Dreaded Dry Spell
3.13 Art is no Occupation For Relaxed People
3.14 Illustrator or Artist?
3.15 Good Versus Evil
3.16 We Belong to Our Time
3.17 The Artist of the Surface
3.18 Where Have all the Artist's Gone
3.19 Everywhere Artists are Painting Flowers
4.00 The Art
4.01 No Content No Form
4.02 Selecting the Subject
4.03 The Real World has Much to Offer
4.04 Beautiful Bird or Piece of Paper
4.05 Time
4.06 Art is a Reflection on Society
4.07 A Note on the Subtlety in Painting
4.08 Ugly Art
4.09 Decoration or Art?
4.10 The Pendulum Swings
4.11 Cartoons an Art Form
4.12 Sculpture Arises out of Garbage
4.13 Real Visual Discovery
4.14 Technology and Art
4.15 Discoveries and Art
4.16 Something Wrong with Technology
4.17 Skyscraperism
4.18 Art Suits the Purpose
4.19 The Monotony ofthe Mechanical
4.20 Firstest is Almost Always Mostest
4.21 Anything Goes
4.22 Seeing Something Worthwhile
4.23 Big Government Involvement in Art
4.24 Art for Art's Sake
4.25 Out Like Seal Skin Boots
4.26 An Idea of Aestheticism
4.27 Art as Entertainment
4.28 I Love Good Movies
4.29 Van Gogh Museum
4.30 Visual Pollution
4.31 On Architecture and Painted Murals
5.00 Art in Terms of Yesterday
5.01 On Abstract Art
5.02 Abstract, Avant Garde
5.03 Abstract Realism
5.04 Minimalism or Minimal Art
5.05 Old Ways Coming Through Again
5.06 The Minor Arts
5.07 A Frightening Insight into Realism
5.08 Historical Values
5.09 Art for the Aristocracy
5.10 A Democratic Art
5.11 The Growth of Bourgeoisie and Art
5.12 Art and Religion
5.13 A Note on Chinese Painting
5.14 Romanticism a Contradiction in Terms?
6.00 Qualities and Art
6.01 Paucity in Art
6.02 The Vital Brushmark
6.03 Every Idea has its own Size
6.04 Nature Has Taught Us
6.05 Interior Design School
6.06 Nature Teaches us about Patterns
6.07 Nature Teaches us about Lines
6.08 Nature Teaches us about Textures
6.09 Our Senses Get Dulled
6.10 Symbols may be General or Specific
6.11 Old Friends
7.00 Feelings in Art Today
7.01 A Growing Indifference to Art
7.02 The Big Show
7.03 Lifestyle Dictates Taste
7.04 Art is Most Enjoyed
7.05 Infatuation and Art
7.06 Enjoy Children's Art
7.07 Something to Match the Sofa
7.08 For the Joy or the Pain
7.09 Freedom, Money, and Artist's Expectations
7.10 Icons the Public
7.11 Confusion About Prints
7.11 Confusion About Prints
7.12 The Big Business of Art
7.13 Beware of the Retailer Dealer
7.14 Rarity
7.15 The Wealthy and the Arts
7.16 Every Tiny Scratch
7.17 The Thin Wolf
7.18 Even Artists Underestimate Art
7.19 Intuition and the Senses
8.00 In Search of Truth
8.01 Come into my Closet
8.02 Freedom
9.00 In Conclusion

 

 

 

    Copyright: Sharon Christian, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada