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TODAY'S FEATURED POST

Messages to Your Creative Self

Lisa Cyr

Every year, it is important to look at your artistic goals. As a new year is about to begin, I would like to share with you a process that is not only enlightening but empowering. In order to gain the most benefit from this process, you must free yourself from all distractions. The effectiveness of this experience is greatly diminished if it is done under stress or chaotic circumstances. My suggestion is to possibly go…

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EVERYDAY ORIGINAL

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YESTERDAY’S POST

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The Male vs Female Gaze in Art

Lauren Panepinto

November 30, 2023 - After my column last month about Manet and his work — especially Olympia and Luncheon on the Grass,  I had some very interesting conversations with some artists trying to wrap their head around what was SO controversial about those pieces. There's a few different reasons. 1) His brushwork was so much looser than the leading academic painters of the time — not as abstract as the Impressionists that were inspired by him and followed right after, but still very abstract in comparison to the artist generation before and concurrent with him. 2) He wasn't painting historical figures or aristocrats — he was using oil paint to elevate working people at the lowest rungs of society. 3) He took nudes out of an idealized historical context and put them right in contemporary settings. And 4) These…

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