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   Current Exhibition — Saturday, December 13 — March 5, 2009

 

ARCHITECTURE AND YOU

The Opposites in New York City Landmarks and Our Lives!

The Terrain Gallery is proud to present this important exhibition, first shown at Flushing Library.  It features photographs of many beloved New York landmarks, with comments by Anthony Romeo, Dale Laurin, John Stern, Carrie Wilson, and Vincent DiPietro from the popular series of talks based on this great principle of the philosophy Aesthetic Realism:

All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves.

 — Eli Siegel, founder of Aesthetic Realism

December 13, 2008 - March 5, 2009
Gallery Hours: Wed-Fri 12-5, Sat 12-4

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   About the Terrain Gallery


           50th Anniversary Exhibition Online [click here]

Highlighting 50 Years of exhibitions

 

 
 Aesthetic Realism Relates Art and Yourself


On J.M.W.
Turner—Light and Dark, Hiding and Showing in Joseph Mallord William Turner by Dorothy Koppelman

Art Answers the Questions of Your Life by Dorothy Koppelman and Carrie Wilson (presented at 31st InSEA World Congress)

   Works by Eli Siegel, founder of Aesthetic Realism

 What is Art For?
Art as Criticism
Is Beauty the Making One of Opposites?

  The Opposites Theory — with commentaries by Ellen Reiss:

bullet  Art & Your Life: The Same Subject
bullet The Beauty of Art & the Pain about Love
bullet  Beauty, Contempt, & Ourselves
bullet  The Opposites—in Everyday Confusion & in Art
bullet Prose & Parents
bullet  Ugliness, Beauty, & Appreciation
bullet  Ugliness & Beauty, Contempt & Art
bullet  Spontaneity & Plan—in Art, Ourselves, a Nation
bullet  The Weighty & Light—in Ourselves & Art
bullet  The Human Drama
bullet  Slowness & Speed—in Art & Us!

bullet  What Our Lives Are For—& the Moment
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The Ease & Difficulty We're Looking For
bullet  What Art Has—& the Fight in Every Person
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Art and the Purpose of Our Lives


 
   
    Art Classes at the Terrain Gallery / Aesthetic Realism Foundation
     
   


THE ART OF DRAWING: SURFACE AND DEPTH taught by Chaim Koppelman

   

THE VISUAL ARTS AND THE OPPOSITES taught by Marcia Rackow

   

CRITICAL INQUIRY: A WORKSHOP IN THE VISUAL ARTS taught by Dorothy Koppelman

   
   
 
 

 

red diamond bulletMore: Eli Siegel - Biog., Library, Self and World & chapters, On Beauty, Anthropology; Ellen Reiss - Poetry Class, Professional classes, Classes on Idioms, Children, Poetry & Animals; TRO commentaries: Emily Dickinson, Robert Burns, Eli Siegel, J.K. Rowling

red diamond bulletWorks on this site: Anuszkiewicz, Blaustein, Burckhardt, Di Cerbo, Hall, Henry, Hung, King, Kranjac, Koppelman, Longo, Michael, Rackow, Romano, Roth, Schmidt, Sloat, Stadnik

red diamond bulletDiscussions in the press & at the TG: Bernstein, Bruegel, da Vinci, Gee's Bend: Quilts, Guston, Homer, Indiana, Koppelman, Lange, Monet, Picasso: Dora Maar Seated, Picasso: Minotauromachy, Picasso: Guernica, Pollock, Pollock: Number One 1948, Potter, Rietveld, Sargent, Sloan, Terrain Gallery [1}, Terrain Gallery [2], Terrain Gallery [3], Velazquez, Vermeer

red diamond bulletMore on the Arts: Film. Imagery Film Ltd.; Photography. L. Bernstein, D. Bernstein, Dienes & Dienes; Music. B. Allen, E. Green, A. Shapiro. Theater. Acting & Drama, A. Fielding

Marc Epstein Photography As Art

Robert Lorenson, Sculptor • Informative and photographic sculpture site for internationally recognized large scale sculptor Rob Lorenson. He works primarily in stainless steel. (Faculty, Bridgewater State College, Bridgewater, MA)



”Best U.S. Short”
Avignon/New York Film Festival, NY

Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana
Directed by Ken Kimmelman,
Emmy award-winning filmmaker

red diamond bulletOakland Museum of California Art Department -- Dorothea Lange Archives

   
   
 


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