Painting Archetypes 1.1 Opening Art is personal. Yet it is crucial to avoid the stereotypical notion of inwardness as entirely idiosyncratic. – First as an artist then as a teacher I began to work through “archetypes.”[1] 1.2 “Looking at the European “old masters” you were probably first struck by their perceptual accuracy. Yet for the […]
Living Art – V. Answering My Students
A Visual Artist Answers his students Student: What shaped you as a teacher? Avron: My personality as a teacher is rooted in my childhood….My father Isaac, mother Sofia and two of my uncles Moses and Raphael were painters. Isaac, Moses and Raphael were well known. They are characterized as “urban realists,” “painters of the American […]
A Dream of Reason I. Part 5 Opening through “The Foundational Disciplinary Anatomy”…
Opening through “The Foundational Disciplinary Anatomy” of Sociology-Psychology[1] (2000) 1.Opening Disciplines are “lenses” … Not glass. Sapient…. Personal-interpersonal. There is a sense in which lenses not only discover but also invent “the world” they explore (without eyes no visual world). Our project is “discipline reconstruction.” We focus on “foundations.” Foundational inquiry is in direct dialogue […]
A Dream of Reason III. Floodtide and Borderline Notes: A Sociological-Psychological Fiction
Floodtide and Borderline Notes (1987) We write against a resisted yet increasingly powerful tendency for pattern and abstraction to overwhelm unique existence, inwardness and presence…. Action, experience and discourse are progressively twisted from personal and dialogical moorings and captured by increasingly complex hierarchical systems. Now at the edge of the overwhelming breakthrough of the cybernetic revolution […]
A Dream of Reason III. Part 3 John’s Vision: A Sociological-Psychological Fiction and The Author Descending
John’s Vision: A Sociological-Psychological Fiction Dream (1974) (Transcript and continuation of A Dream of Reason Bellow) (The above Video is also part of a series, Exploring Questioning) I went to a tough junior high school…. One recess in front of an old red tenement a big guy came at me with a knife. Said, “Give […]
A Dream of Reason- IV. Part 3 …A Working Paper in the Sociology-Psychology…and Apendixes
John Constable’s Orientational Reconstruction of the Art of Landscape Painting: A Working Paper in the Sociology-Psychology of Disciplinary Positions (1965) 1. Opening In this essay we explore “framework” and “orientational reconstruction” through John Constable’s contribution to the art of landscape painting[1]. 2.Generative problematic 2.1 Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723 – 1792), first president of […]
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