Today we are sharing a short conversation, comparing two paintings of people playing cards together. Ruth and I explore the role of games in human interaction. The paintings reflect very different types of human connection, even though the card game centers the art. Both paintings are called The Card Players. The first is by Lucas…
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Our Internal Selves and the External World: An Arting Conversation
Here is a short 10 minute conversation Ruth and I had about the complexity of our internal lives, and how the external world influences it and pushes at it. The conversation was stimulated by a comparison between the Falling Man by Max Beckmann with Street Scene with Garbageman by Karl Vinzenz Tratt, complemented by part…
What’s in a Name? The Start of a Conversation
After years of looking at and discussing art with Ruth in our Arting endeavors, I have come to really appreciate the time artists take to name their art. And resent it when they don’t. I know the reasoning as to why they might not – so as not to bias what we see, letting us…
Experiencing Art in the Moment and Beyond: Wherever You Are
In a previous post, I wrote about how strong autobiographical themes can permeate and focus the work of many artists. Now, I wonder about the influences and possibilities within you, how you can experience and perhaps express your artful capacities in the moment and beyond. Spur of the Moment A friend told me what she…
Mrs. Whistler Meets Venus: An Arting Conversation
In this conversation, Ruth and Shari discuss Beatrice Godwin Whistler, Peach Blossoms and Sandro Botticelli’s Venus, enhance by a portion of John Clare’s poem, I am. The conversation covers the challenges of women artists, and how women are portrayed, a common theme we often return to, because the mysteries are never ending. We hope you…
Finding Your Inner Curator
We talk a lot about Arting As Conversation, as a way of using art to connect to ourselves, to each other and to the world around us. And this is one of the reasons we knew we had to share our experiences with it. The process of Arting, of looking for art and putting pieces…
Our Many Selves: An Arting Conversation
In this conversation, we discuss Stanley William Hayter, Centerausse and Frida Kahlo, The Two Fridas, complemented by John Clare’s poem, I am. The conversation is rich in imagery and in our discussion on how we manage the multiple selves that share our body – how our internal contradictions are challenges yet gifts that make us…
It’s All About Perspective
There is no question that society is in a state of turmoil. Whatever you think about social media and the fracturing of our media infrastructure, it has elevated the truth that perspective matters. Where you stand, how you see and hear, the history you bring to an issue, the way your body processes senses, the…
Autobiographical Themes In Art
The autobiographical theme in artists’ images can relate to your own life, even elicit it in fresh ways. For example, this seemingly subtle, sensuous image below of two dancers by Dorothea Tanning sparks a not so subtle message and visual experience for me. In contrast to typical male dominant positions in classical tango, the dominant…
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…