Art

  Sabin Howard ---who created A Soldier's Journey at the National World War I Memorial in Washington, D.C. He steps...

  In this episode of Classical Poets Live, Andrew Benson Brown sits down with the illustration of the new SCP...

  Liturgical Loopholes   I. Scheduling Redemption: The Pious Musings of a Serial Sinner I must confess when I transgress...

  Watercolors Before her was a canvas, white as snow. Beside her, watercolors, bright and clean. For hours, she sat...

  Caravaggio Light floods the window, spearing glass and Matthew. Leaning forward now, in conversation, he is called. The bright...

  Angel I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set free. —Michelangelo (attributed) One wonders what...

. Michael Michael, heaven’s handsomest, most decorated strategist and highest-ranking officer, having vanquished Lucifer was faced with long-term unemployment. Seeking...

. In Urbe Hortus ---June afternoon in the South Garden of the Art Institute of Chicago Hard stone and brick,...

. The Poppy I walk a poppy universe, I rattle the hourglass’s isles, Where time slows down and turns to...

. Healing by Heart Dear André, let me see your face And cry out with you to lament The rot...

. In line with its mission to preserve humankind’s artistic traditions, the Society of Classical Poets is featuring the best...

  Old Man at the River Old man's at the river painting the scene.He's working on boats and feeling serene.Unnoticed,...

. In line with its mission to preserve humankind's artistic traditions, the Society of Classical Poets is featuring the best...

. Elusive Illusive Art Where are the pure, illusive works of artthat bubble upward from the deep unknown?Where in this...

. Horse Figurine —one inch by one point nine inch, 32,000 to 35,000 years before Giacometti's famous horse   A hallowed...

. Bright Light, Some City "It's probably a reflection of my own, if I may say, loneliness. I don't know....

. The 2024 Olympics . I. Excusez-moi, s’il vous plait, But having seen your lewd display, I’ve chosen not to...

. Mates of the Greats Gauguin the banker thought Painting while married was Quite a nice hobby And so did...

. . Peaches, Plums, and the Sistine Chapel . . I. Pondering Prufrock   a pantoum  . The women come and...

. Once the Future You were the future once, not long ago. Your sterile walls of concrete, brick, and glass...

. Carving Fingers "Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling." ---St. Paul Percy exhales with a scowl and...

. Two Ekphrastic Poems . The Light of the World, Holman Hunt As predawn darkness shrouds the land, With warm-lit...

. Reviewed Book: Making Music by Sally Cook, White Violet Press, 2012 by Monika Cooper Making Music by Sally Cook...

. The Pietà or Mickey Mouse? A book I’ve read depicts a boy Who’s searching for creative joy. His mind...

. Paradise Lost Satan Found in the Modern by Michael Curtis The guardian prince Saint Michael, spiritual warrior, leader of...

. Key West Rum, reeling, raunchiness, and revelry, Palms, poincianas, palaces of old--- All lie behind; the Morro Castle’s hold...

. Quattrocento On the Fresco “Madonna del Parto” by Piero della Francesca, Monterchi, Italy, circa 1460 We file into a...

. A Picture of Repose A young boy’s seated on a wall that overlooks Capri, an oil painting by Dane...

. Art Freezes Time Great art freezes time when a painting is hung. An image of beauty eternally young. Who...

. Deconstructing Grűnewald’s Crucifixion It isn’t de rigueur these days to show A bloodied, tortured Jesus on the cross. Post-moderns...

. Modernism and the Murder of the People’s Poetry and Art In Response to “Poetry Died 100 Years Ago this...

. . On Alma Tadema’s Coign of Vantage Flora peeks over the marble parapet, a dizzying perch above the azure...

. See the painting more closely here. Eden The newborn world is all aswirl with beasts Obedient who, as God...

. The Portrait   I dreamed I was an artist, and had made A likeness of the one I loved...

. Last Letter from Florence A recent incident recalls the fears Your letters have expressed: that seven years In this...

. After Observing the Working Methods of a Very Important Artist The aging fool stands deep in dirty water, Cradling...

. The Angelus, Jean-François Millet (Musée d’Orsay) How soft across the field the muted peal Has caromed off the setting...

. Reviewed Book: Modern Art: An Exhibition in Criticism, by Michael Curtis, National Civic Art Society, 2022 by Evan Mantyk...

. Yet Another Exhibition Opening "Art is the pleasure of a spirit that enters nature and discovers that it too...

. . The Hireling Shepherd painting by William Holman Hunt This comely wench was Emma Watkins, she Who sat for...