It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. Henry David Thoreau Before Ruth and I started Arting, art was an event – a museum to visit, a gallery to drink wine at, a master or trend to check off the bucket list. I enjoyed art but I filed it away in…
Scandalous Women: An Arting Conversation
One of Shari’s favorite paintings is Madame X by John Singer Sargent. The reason she likes it so much is that is that when it was painted, it had been a scandal. Why? Because it represented a married woman as attractive, sensual and sexual. When we compared this with Gerard van Honthorst’s “Smiling Girl, a…
Letting Go of Expectations
How often have you visited museums and art galleries, alone or with someone? I usually went to museums with a friend who was also interested in art, rarely having the quietude and intimacy of being solitary. We tended to move quickly, commenting to one another quietly, not approximating a conversation until we sat down…often to…
Beards: An Arting Conversation
Ruth and I wanted to share one of our Arting conversations with you. Here is a video of our discussion comparing Albrecht Durer, Portrait of a Boy with Long Beard and Edvard Munch, Head of an Old Man with a Beard, complemented by the poem Beard by Brian Potter. Invitation Into the Conversation We want…
Arting Resources
Arting Resources Over the past four years, we’ve collected and developed resources and questions to support our arting adventures. We will update this regularly and invite you to share resources you’ve discovered that help to find and enjoy art. As you skim these possibilities, choose a few that speak to you now, returning as curiosity…
What is Arting?
When we decided to start this blog, we knew the first thing we had to do was explain what arting is to us, why we love it and how to do it. The What At its most basic, arting is working together to choose art pieces, looking at them side by side in what…
Welcome to Arting: Art As Conversation
Shari: We are excited you are here. We invite you to engage with us in the exploration of the beauty, the wonder, the mystery, the contradictions, the irony and the horror of life that art reveals so well. Ruth and I started visiting virtual art exhibits during the Pandemic as a way of staying connected…