Tag: Art

  • In Defense of Darkness

    My post “JDR Makes A Film” received the comment below: – – – This was disappointing. A worthless, somber look at a day that brought many neighborhoods together and gave joy to countless curiously eager and vigorous young people. You missed a great portion of the people’s positive spirits during today’s citywide snow day. Sorry,…

  • Mass Art, and Some Thoughts on Romanticism

    Mass Art, and Some Thoughts on Romanticism

    The afternoon was spent perusing the various art museums here on Yale’s campus.  In one there was the standard fare: the oil paintings of Jesus and nobles and the poor at work, the amorphous sculptures characteristic of the middle of the twentieth century, and many other categories not named here. From each, the quintessence of…