In honor of Odilon Redon's birthday, we are revisiting a post originally published last year honoring the late painter's life and work. We want...
As the head of a state-supported institution of higher education, I hold a rather minor office. In that role, I have seen how people are impressed -- positively as much as negatively -- by symbolism that should not be significant at all.
It would be very easy to classify this work with the various other instances of pop surrealism which currently abound. I think this would be a mistake.
Seeing Obama, and his family, at the White House, allows us to soak in an image that personifies a country that may well live up to its billing as a place for that freedom and equality.
Murray's new body of work, entitled Dystopia, marks the artist's darkest most soul-bearing work to date. It's as though this newfound inner peace and strength enabled a large memory store of emotion to be unleashed.
Like most of you who screw around reading stupid articles on the Internet instead of actually blazing a path towards greatness, I too yearn to reshape the world in my own image. So here is my latest idea.
Most of us know Norwegian painter Edvard Munch by his "Scream," which has continued to echo throughout our collective nightmares since the late 19th c...
French painter Marlene Mocquet brings the fanciful spirit of the childhood imagination to an adult psychological meltdown. The result is an aesthetica...
This year marks the 150th anniversary of Gustav Klimt's birthday, and museums around the world are celebrating the Austrian Secessionist's work. You c...
What carries meaning or significance for you? When is an object, event or occurrence more than what it appears on the surface?
The aim of a symbol is to communicate as immediately and directly as possible the core of what you represent. Which brings us to an important question: Is it time to consider a new symbol for a new era?
For the past eight years, Jesse Bransford has systematically engaged with ancient visual symbols and the cultural lore surrounding the seven classical planets.
We want to wish a happy birthday to one of our personal favorites: Bertrand-Jean Redon, aka Odilon Redon. The artist, who would be 172 today, created ...
In her latest show at Frank Pictures Gallery, Lori La Mont uses captivating painting techniques to examine the intersection between animal imagery and advertising in the wide world of sports.
After a tremendous journey over the past few decades, Gustav Klimt's landscape, "Litzlberg on the Attersee," has found itself on the auction block and...
(Via Beautiful/Decay.) The work of Ryan De La Hoz exists in a very particular world, a world comprising haunting, nostalgic paper cut-outs and draw...
Title of today's blog is a chorus of one of my all time favorite Taj Mahal songs. I sure does love me some Taj Mahal! Okay, have to make this quick ...
It is immaterial whether or not the egg can stand at any other time of the year (as some critics maintain). The important thing is to recognize the symbol, the season, the sky and the kindred souls who surround us.
When you see a great deal of 111, or 3333, or 777 or 666 stop for a second, close your eyes, breathe deeply, and try to pick up messages, clues, sensations, sounds and smells that can relate to what you are going through in life.
Republicans know full well that their healthcare repeal vote today is nothing more than empty symbolism. They should enjoy their symbolic moment in the sunshine, as the substance that follows is not going to be anywhere near as much fun.
By bringing Christianity to so many of the Irish people, Patrick was a major instrument of Christianity supplanting the Druids. And, by doing so, Patrick "drove the snakes into the sea" in a metaphorical way.
A symbol is not just an image, but is like a door into the inner world of the soul, through which we can access the energy and meaning that belongs to this sacred dimension of our self.
Kabbalah enables the "receiving" of more and more of reality, with more and more depth and sensitivity. Let's see how this works, in each of its three streams.
To favor symbolism over substance is to allow the proverbial tail to wag the aphoristic dog. And that's never a good idea.
I never thought I'd cry while wearing 3-D glasses.
