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Mysterious ways

// February 16th, 2009 // No Comments » // Art, Beauty, Fun, Mind, Nature

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. - Albert Einstein

Do you have any Jackson Pollock in you?

// January 28th, 2009 // No Comments » // Art, Beauty

jackson-pollock

You’ll be an abstract artist in minutes after visiting this site.  Try it out for yourself.  Perhaps its a second calling. Click your mouse to change color and press any key to stop the brush.

Snowy day in Tennessee

// December 12th, 2008 // No Comments » // Art, Beauty, Daily Life

From Virgil’s Aeneid

// September 26th, 2008 // No Comments » // Art, History

I’ve been trying to track down the history of my first name forever.  I’d heard that it was based in mythology or from one of Homer’s (not Simpson) writings.  A recent Google search found that my name shows up primarily in Virgil’s “The Aeneid”.  Oh valiant warrior that I was, I tried to take on the prince, but alas tragedy strikes.

Now Turnus leads his troops without delay,
Advancing to the margin of the sea.
The trumpets sound: Aeneas first assail’d
The clowns new-rais’d and raw, and soon prevail’d.
Great Theron fell, an omen of the fight;
Great Theron, large of limbs, of giant height.
He first in open field defied the prince:
But armor scal’d with gold was no defense
Against the fated sword, which open’d wide
His plated shield, and pierc’d his naked side.

So now I know the rest of the story.

The Art of Daniel Merriam: The Impetus of Dreams

// July 16th, 2008 // No Comments » // Art, Mind, People, Random

I’ve been friends with Dan Merriam since high school. He was a few years older than me. I remember early on he was one of those guys who could draw/paint anything. During the first few years of college we were roommates in Naples, Maine as he was just beginning to move into the professional world of transparent watercolor. Our family has many of his originals from the very early days.

As time passed, Dan was recognized and heralded by many in the art world as a creative genius in the art of contemporary surrealism and transparent watercolor. He wrote a book chronicling his path called The Art of Daniel Merriam: The Impetus of Dreams. I’ve got this painting below called Cat’s Cradle at my home. Each painting is filled with so many pieces that you can literally stare for hours and never fully see everything.

Here are a couple of links to view his artwork.

http://www.animazing.com/gallery/merriam.htm

http://www.danielmerriam.com/index.php

http://www.visionsfineart.com/merriam/aa_index.html

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