These Colors Taste Like Music" is a captivating book published by Monarch Publishing, located in Vienna, Austria. The book is a tribute to the life and work of the American contemporary artist, Robert Santoré, who resides and works in the vibrant SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan, New York. Through the pages of this book, readers are taken on a journey through Santoré's art, exploring the many different themes, styles, and techniques that he has employed throughout his career. The book features a collection of his most iconic pieces, including paintings, sculptures, and installations, accompanied by detailed descriptions that offer a glimpse into the artist's mind and creative process. Readers will be enchanted by the vivid and colorful world of Santoré's art, which draws inspiration from a diverse range of sources, including music, nature, and the urban landscape. Through his art, Santoré explores the intersection of different cultures and perspectives, inviting viewers to see the world in a new light. "This Colors Taste Like Music" is a must-read for anyone who loves contemporary art and is interested in the creative process. It offers a unique and insightful look into the life and work of one of the most talented artists of our time, and is sure to inspire and captivate readers of all ages.
The Last Mountain is a fascinating biography of the famous British American artist, Robert Wood (1889-1979). A landscape artist of relevant stature, Robert Wood has painted in the best traditions of John Constable and George Inness and many others as famous. Sumptuous in color, correct in drawing, his landscapes are unique. His passion for storms, his reflections on the brilliantly colored pastoral scenes, his awe for the majestic mountains and valleys of the American West with its shorelines and vistas that run into the Pacific are all included in his works. Mrs. Flume was a close friend and admirer of Robert Wood. In this book, she describes the artist's ninety year span of life, from his early years in England to his years in Texas and California. She also brings together an array of personal photos on the artist's life as well as many of his color canvasses. Of special interest to artists and amateurs are the sections on How Robert Wood Painted and His Palette and Painting Notes. These tell how he painted the sky in connection with sunny days, mountains, shorelines, snow, etc. He gives the colors for the trees together with their trunks, limbs, and foliage, as well of grass, snow, water and flowers. In all of this, Violet has succeeded in giving the reader and the lover of art a real insight into the spiritual and physical world of one of today's most revered American artists.
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This glorification of nature, in general incorporates themes of Darwinian evolution through natural selection, extending to investigation of the origin of life from elements made in the stars, to contemplation of consciousness, self-awareness, laws of nature (physics) and probabilities of exact duplication of life-forms (including man) over stretches of time and planetary realms (our punctuated immortality). Overall, there is celebration of the gift of life through each incarnation of birth, death and rebirth in view of science and thoughts of spirituality. The subsuming principle throughout is love, from its haven in the light of dreams to magnanimous configurations that sustain the ethos of humanity. And lifes summation can be visualized in the dream-light from the poem Rainbow; The wave of color binds our sentiments before it fades. For each emotion, is a subtlety in hue expressed, And through lifes noble journey, may we add these tints and shades To vivid cast a rainbow in prismatic lightbeams blessed. Ephemeral are the tones of life bestowed on halcyon skies, When heralded by the rainbow arched above its golden eyes. Or from dreams in the creation of legacy and, ultimately, a consummation of the human species. How privileged we are with self-awareness, To momentary glean the cosmic splendor As part of visions, doubts and thoughts of fairness, Of how the human species may engender A code of ethics, and historic render Our consummation--carbon based, which cast Unto the void of time and space, would tender Ethos and quintessence of our past And future legacies, should dreams survive steadfast. --from Enlightenment of Mankind
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