July 8, 2017 by L.E. Hansen

At the Hairdressers — Gely Korzhev — Biblioklept

At the Hairdressers, by Gely Korzhev (1925-2012)

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I wonder what it is that this appeals to. Why do I like it, wish I had it in full colored explosion on a wall here? I can say I like it because it’s unexpected, but many things are unexpected. And weird is enticing. Is weird enticing in a work of art because it’s safe? It can’t reach out and grab me. Yet it might. Is it the same thrill as being frightened? But there are many weird pieces that appeal and are not frightening. Sure I can go on about the detail: the use of color, the build of the flesh, the capture of form. It’s more than that thought. It’s the nothing that’s in between the execution and the method, the subject and the form.

Still, words. Just words. I don’t know why, but I like it.

February 4, 2017 by L.E. Hansen

Nature’s Beauty

Sometimes I have to take a break from the sickness of the world and turn to the beauty of nature. For me, that’s the religion that restores my soul.

Beautiful Pictures with Devinda Deva. 2 February at 23:28

February 3, 2017 by L.E. Hansen

Abandoned

It seems to me that we discard those most precious things of our culture and history. So many beautiful churches are being demolished, abandoned, violated. We leave such beauty to be ravished by nature or the hands of man. We don’t seem to treasure much in America. I always puzzle at that lack of regard for our own history and those monuments to faith and art. I never find redeeming answers. I’m only left with sadness.

485_15678_8257276 Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Photograph by Matthew Christopher of Abandoned America

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February 1, 2017 by L.E. Hansen

Fame

Wordless she disappeared. Without the leaving of notes there is no path to follow. Then, bring in the trumpets, the horns, the brass. It is as much as light into darkness. She must.

6-_art367816_2800 IMAGE: Fame, from Spanish Actions Deflected by the Taking of Ghent (detail), by Charles Le Brun, 1678. Palace of Versailles, Hall of Mirrors, France.