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Art and Aesthetics in Action |
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by: Professor Severyn T. Bruyn
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Tree fairy Circles of Gnomes Tree Fairy 
Tree Fairy When our daughter Susan was five years old, she made up a poem, “Have you seen a fairy? I have. Where is it?” At my age, I saw a fairy sitting under some trees. A Circle of Gnomes 
A Circle of Gnomes Have you seen a gnome? I have. I saw five gnomes sitting in a circle holding hands, celebrating breakfast. 
A Circle of Hobbits Then I saw seven hobbits. They were playing in the round, as you can see. Do you want the truth? Hobbits, elves, gnomes, and fairies are real. They are a fact of life. J. R. R. Tolkien validates them and describes them in his artwork. He tells us a story of origins and powers. The first Elves awoke by Cuiviénen, the Water of Daschund 
Daschund (Carved in Wood) I love art, and I love history, but it is living art and living history that I love....It is in the interest of living art and living history that I oppose so-called restoration. What history can there be in a building bedaubed with ornament, which cannot at the best be anything but a hopeless and lifeless imitation of the hope and vigour of the earlier world? The Pilot 
The Pilot Some art is pure fancy. Tell me where is fancy bred, Masks 
Masks Do we all wear masks in this earth life? The Chinese say that one person projects the heat and quickness of summer Fire, another projects cold Winter, a third replicates Dry autumn, and on; so the differences in people and personalities and faces keep mounting, on and on. How is it possible that so many people, so different, make a community? By the way, Can art be judged by universal criteria? Woman in a Bowl 
Woman in a Bowl No comment. Baby Born in a Cup 
Baby Born in a Cup This Baby in a Cup is a tribute: To my birth into retirement and To a Department renaissance. Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: A Turtle and the Elements 
A Turtle and the Elements Sociologist Ken Wilber argues that reality is not composed of things; rather it is composed of “wholes” that are at once parts of other wholes, with no upward or downward limit. He calls them “holons.” There is an old joke about a King who goes to a Wiseperson and asks how is it that the Earth doesn’t fall down? The Wiseperson replies, “The Earth is resting on a lion.” “On what, then, is the lion resting?” “The lion is resting on an elephant.” “On what is the elephant resting?” “The elephant is resting on a turtle.” On what is the…” “You can stop right there, your Majesty. It’s turtles all the way down. When Earth’s last picture is painted, and the tubes |
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