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Thanks for plugging my blog, Lloyd. I am glad you like it. I hope you are well.
# posted by SandyCarlson : 1:50 PM
it almost looks like a sea star :)
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http://slchome.blogspot.com/2009/03/blog-your-blessings-haunting-in.html#links

he Haunting in Connecticut is this week's blessing.

Rousseau, HenriCombat of a Tiger and a Buffalo1909Oil on canvas18 1/8 x 21 5/8 in. (46 x 55 cm)Hermitage, St. Petersburg

Rousseau in His Time
"A problem persists with regard to the Douanier Rousseau. Admired by artists at the turn of the century (Pablo Picasso, Robert Delaunay, Wassily Kandinsky, Constantin Brancusi, and others), and defended by the same writers (led by Guillaume Apollinaire and Blaise Cendrar
he is still difficult to fit into what we call modern art. Thus in 1918, after having cited the precursors of Cubism and modern painting, Amedee Ozenfant and C. E. Jeanneret (who was not yet calling himself Le Corbusier) stated: "No need to include among [them] the Douanier Rousseau, one of the most charming painters of the period, for his art was purely traditional."' A similar judgment was handed down by Ribemont Dessaignes, who was active in the Dada movement:
"The emergence of Rousseau is an isolated fact separate from the day to day development of art; Rousseau's painting is totally foreign to every contemporary school, whether oldfashioned or avant garde."
And even Philippe Soupault, who was passionately devoted to Rousseau, refused to place his work in historical perspective. Tristan Tzara, however, equally devoted to the Douanier, was able to analyze his work more acutely and to understand the role it played in twentieth century art.
"Such an equivocal situation obviously arises out of the singularity of Rousseau's work and the lack of precedents for it. Also responsible, perhaps, is Rousseau's ambiguous personality, to which we shall return. There persists even today an error in historical perspective regarding his precise chronological position: we tend to forget that Rousseau was not the contemporary of his admirers.

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These make me think of the struggle that faith and a life of faith can present.
# posted by SandyCarlson : 6:01 PM Post a Comment

Concentrate on this Sentence 'To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did.' When God takes something from your grasp, He's not punishing you, merely open your hands to receive a blessing. Concentrate on this sentence... 'The will of God will never take you where the Grace of God will not protect you.' Something good happens everyday; something good....Bless you!

Sunday, March 08, 2009

One Single Impression: Fork in the Road
Here is a fork in the roadAnd I am lookingDown both paths at onceAnd I realizeThere is a forkvery likely becauseTwo people simply got to this pointAnd felt like going different ways.There is nothing cosmic about this;It is about the lust we call hunger.Make a choice and move on;Be like that hungry squirrelThere at the fork in this road.Be like that fat, hungry, healthy squirrelWho very likely sleeps through the nightWithout the slightest thoughtOf this way or that.Dig a little, move on, dig a little, move onBecause you are hungry,And being fed is everything.You will find it, by god you will find it;It is there to be found.Just dig a little.This is the faith of a squirrel.Have that faith and move on.You will be fed.You will find it, by god you will find it;It is there to be found.Just go.You don't have a choice;You have a hunger.So go.One Single Impression
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