tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-101764542024-02-27T21:40:42.648-07:00Articles about Art and Life, as explained by Aesthetic RealismOn this blog, you will find information about how Aesthetic Realism, founded by Eli Siegel, explains the relation of art and life. To begin, I'll tell you about some upcoming events and give you links to articles about works of art.Miriam Mondlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03474842654753411977noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10176454.post-66658644756395338602009-08-19T12:41:00.004-06:002009-08-19T12:58:49.885-06:00I haven't been posting for awhile--so I'll begin again!<br /><br />I'm proud to be published in the current issue of <a href="http://www.aestheticrealism.org/tro1751.html"><span style="font-style: italic;">The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known</span></a> #1751, titled "Stuttering & the Human Self," in which Mr. Siegel's 1946 lecture is published for the first time, "The Philosophy of Stuttering." It is a fact that through study of Aesthetic Realism in classes with Eli Siegel, my stuttering ended. I want people everywhere to know how stuttering is a manifestation that represents a person's way of seeing the world. Ellen Reiss, Chairman of Aesthetic Realism, writes in her Commentary to this issue:<br /><br /><blockquote><p class="indent-text">The lecture can be seen as a companion to Mr. Siegel’s rich, stylistically beautiful discussion of stuttering in his <em>Self and World</em>. There he shows that this difficulty in expression is a phase of the fight all people have: the fight between respect for the world and contempt for it. “Stuttering is a collision,” he writes, of the desire “to be other, to be related,” and the desire “to be a snug, perfect point, capable of dismissing anything and everything” (pp. 324, 331). </p> <p class="indent-text">To accompany the 1946 lecture, we reprint parts of an important article by Aesthetic Realism consultant Miriam Mondlin. It appeared in this journal in 1994, with the title “How My Stuttering Ended.” </p><p class="indent-text">So read this great issue--it's about so much more than stuttering!<br /></p><p class="indent-text"></p><blockquote></blockquote><br /><blockquote></blockquote><p></p></blockquote>Miriam Mondlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03474842654753411977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10176454.post-15297266594067944372007-06-05T11:59:00.000-06:002007-06-05T12:33:24.406-06:00Events at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation!<a href="http://AestheticRealism.org/events2.htm"><span style="color:#990000;"><strong>Bookmark the events page on the Aesthetic Realism website </strong></span></a><span style="color:#990000;"><strong>to find great seminars, presentations & special events in New York City!</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#990000;"><strong></strong></span><br /><span style="color:#990000;">For example, here's some of what you'll find at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation, 141 Greene Street, in SoHo, New York, NY 10012, phone: 212 777-4490:</span><br /><span style="color:#990000;"></span><br /><ul><li><div align="center"><span style="color:#990000;"><a href="http://www.aestheticrealism.org/events2.htm#Public_Seminars"><strong>Thursday, June 7 - Public Seminar 6:30 pm</strong> </a><br />"<strong>A MAN'S IMAGINATION: WHAT KIND STRENGTHENS HIM;<br />WHAT KIND WEAKENS HIM?"</strong></span><span style="color:#990000;"><br />Dan McClung, Joseph Spetly, Jeffrey Carduner<br /></span></div></li><li><div align="center"><span style="color:#990000;"><strong><a href="http://www.aestheticrealism.org/GWE-June-2007.pdf">Sunday, June 10 - Special Event at 2:30 PM </a><br /></strong><a class="style437 style278" href="http://www.aestheticrealism.org/GWE-June-2007.pdf"><span style="color:#993300;">A Dramatic Reading of Selections from </span></a><br /><a href="http://www.aestheticrealism.org/GWE-June-2007.pdf"><span style="color:#993300;">GWE: Young Man of New Guinea </span></a><br /><a href="http://www.aestheticrealism.org/GWE-June-2007.pdf"><span style="color:#993300;">By anthropologist Arnold Perey, PhD </span></a><br /><a href="http://www.aestheticrealism.org/GWE-June-2007.pdf"><span style="color:#993300;">—with slides and music—</span></a><br /></span></div></li><li><div align="center"><span style="color:#990000;"><strong><a href="http://www.aestheticrealism.org/events2.htm#Dramatic_Presentations">Saturday, June 16 - Dramatic Presentation at 8:00 PM</a></strong></span></div></li></ul><p align="center"><strong><em>Celebrating the Real Meaning of Marriage!<br /></em></strong></p><blockquote><p><span style="color:#660000;"><strong>MIND AND WIVES</strong></span> A groundbreaking lecture by Eli Siegel, in which he spoke about George Sand, Mary Wollstonecraft, John Milton, & more:<br /></p><p>"A wife is a tremendous point in emotion, accompanied by a clear legal situation. In being married, women are saying they want a man to affect them. Yet in being affected, they don't want to lose themselves. So they face the aesthetic problem of how to have themselves by giving themselves to another."<br /></p><p><strong><span style="color:#660000;">AFFECTION & RESPECT, BODY & MIND, IN REMBRANDT'S <em>THE JEWISH BRIDE</em></span></strong> by Carol Driscoll & Harvey Spears<br /></p><p>"As the groom in this painting embraces his bride, Rembrandt shows visually that a man's desire to embrace a woman and his desire to understand her can be the same thing!"<br /></p><p><span style="color:#660000;"><strong>MAXIMS ABOUT MARRIAGE</strong></span> — humorous, educative, & romantic — from <em><a href="http://definitionpress.org">Damned Welcome</a></em> by Eli Siegel<br /></p></blockquote><p align="right"><em>-- And More!</em></p><p align="right"><em>Click on <a href="http://www.AestheticRealism.org/events2.htm">www.AestheticRealism.org/events2.htm</a> for details.</em></p><p align="center"><em><span style="color:#cc0000;"><strong>And look for the announcement for August 12th at 2:30 PM<br />A Special Event -- </strong></span></em></p><p align="center"><span style="color:#cc0000;"><strong><span style="color:#000099;">The Aesthetic Realism Theatre Company presents:<br /></span>Rock ‘n’ Roll, The Opposites,& Our Greatest Hopes—A Celebration!</strong></span></p><p align="right"><em></em></p>Miriam Mondlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03474842654753411977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10176454.post-68409771913179890392007-06-05T11:38:00.000-06:002007-06-05T12:50:21.884-06:00Aesthetic Realism & Nature by Eli Siegel<span style="color:#006600;">Now that the warm weather is here, and like so many people, I find myself thinking about "the great outdoors" and nature, I'd like you to know about a delightful & deep lecture on this subject by Eli Siegel. </span><br /><span style="color:#006600;"></span><br /><span style="color:#006600;">It is titled: </span><a href="http://www.aestheticrealism.net/lectures/Aesthetic-Realism-and-Nature/Tro1417.htm#Begin"><span style="color:#006600;">Aesthetic Realism & Nature by Eli Siegel</span></a><span style="color:#006600;">—This lecture is published in series in </span><a href="http://AestheticRealism.net/tro"><span style="color:#006600;">The Right Of </span></a><span style="color:#006600;">— & available on the </span><a href="http://www.aestheticrealism.net/index.html"><span style="color:#006600;">Aesthetic Realism Online Library</span></a><span style="color:#006600;">. To give you an idea of this fresh way of seeing nature, I quote some here:</span><br /><blockquote></blockquote>"Once more people are going to go out into the country, and be on the hillsides, and in the grass, and hear the birds, and look at the insects, and watch the sky; and they won't do it really, I'm afraid, with any love for what those things represent, and they won't do it with any deep wisdom for themselves. So far, nature has been used too much to hate people with, and to be against oneself….<br />Nature is defined by Aesthetic Realism as the way the world goes about being itself and changing. Aesthetic Realism sees man's mind as nature at its highest, but as a continuation of all that went before. And if you don't like the way your in-laws behave, you don't like nature, because in-laws are just as much nature as hummingbirds are. If you are going away from in-laws to hummingbirds, you're going from one aspect of nature to another, not from something called in-laws to something called nature." <blockquote></blockquote>Miriam Mondlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03474842654753411977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10176454.post-1159729211193098222006-10-01T12:42:00.000-06:002006-10-01T13:03:19.780-06:00Aesthetic Realism Looks at New York City<blockquote></blockquote>Visit this new, informative website about New York City, its landmark buildings, its bridges, its parks, poetry about NYC, works of art, and more--and learn what makes it so vital.<br /><br />I love what John Stern, Aesthetic Realism Consultant, and historian with a lifelong care for NYC wrote in the Introduction:<br /><blockquote></blockquote><blockquote></blockquote><span style="color:#660000;">"Every city, like every person, is a unique relation of opposites. The way hardness and softness, past and present, sameness and difference, rest and motion, vertical and horizontal come together in New York is what makes this city great. For example, the city consists of about 300 neighborhoods in all 5 boroughs making for its rich diversity—each of which is like the others, yet is also different.<br /><br />Mr. Siegel loved the city. He lived in New York most of his life, taught Aesthetic Realism here, walked on its streets, wrote poetry, and lectured on the city—its history, its economy, its poets, writers, and artists—and much, much more. To hear him speak about New York and its people was an unforgettable experience, mingling as he always did the utmost in feeling and the greatest exactitude, wide range and great depth. He made New York, its people, and all<br />they had to do with alive and permanent to me." </span><br /><br /><blockquote></blockquote><blockquote>Visit <a href="http://www.beautyofnyc.org">http://www.beautyofnyc.org</a></blockquote>Miriam Mondlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03474842654753411977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10176454.post-1158864909298962992006-09-21T12:42:00.000-06:002006-09-21T13:02:26.790-06:00Saturday Dramatic Presentation--On Music, Evil, & Love! Saturday, October 21, 8:00 pmA great event will take place at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation, 141 Greene Street, New York City!<br /><br />Saturday, October 21, 8:00 pm<br />Aesthetic Realism Dramatic Presentation<br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><strong><em><span style="font-size:130%;">On Music, Evil, & Love!</span></em></strong></div><br /><br />THE TRIAL OF MR. PICKWICK: A consideration of Chapter 33 of Charles Dickens' Pickwick Papers, by Eli Siegel<br /><br /><br /><blockquote>“This chapter is a high point in the relation of mirth and evil. Serjeant Buzfuz is a person as much representing evil as anybody in fiction, though he's also exceedingly funny. Samuel Weller represents good sense—he is an angel in London with an accent.” </blockquote><p>MODESTY & PRIDE, TRIUMPH & SELF-QUESTIONING IN RACHMANINOFF'S PIANO CONCERTO #2 by musician and teacher Alan Shapiro </p><blockquote>“As the famous Rachmaninoff melody reaches its height, its greatest pride, on a high E flat—the mingling of major and minor, confidence and self-questioning, is at its most intense.” </blockquote><p>ABOUT LOVE AND MARRIAGE—from <em>Damned Welcome: Aesthetic Realism Maxims</em> by Eli Siegel </p><p>DO YOU BELIEVE IN LOVE? Reenactment of an Aesthetic Realism Lesson </p><blockquote></blockquote><blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><p>Eli Siegel. A person should be interested in pleasure, but a person should also be interested in the effect she or he has on another person….Is it possible to have ecstasy and self-respect? </p><p align="right">—AND MORE!<br />Contri. $10 </p></blockquote>Miriam Mondlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03474842654753411977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10176454.post-1150492460647437842006-06-16T15:05:00.000-06:002006-06-16T15:19:34.250-06:00Mark your calendars now! - August 13 & August 23<div align="center"><span style="color:#006600;">Mark your calendars now!<br />Early reservations are highly recommended.<br /></span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>Sun., Aug. 13, at 2:30 pm & Wed., Aug. 23, at 7:30 pm<br />--2 full screenings</strong></span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.aestheticrealism.org/justice-films-06.pdf"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#003300;"><em>"Film--& 'The Art of Enjoying Justice!'"</em></span></a><span style="color:#003300;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><em><br /></em><br /></span>Ken Kimmelman, President, Imagery Film, Ltd. </span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#003300;">& two-time Emmy-winner,<br />Speaks on & shows 5 of his short films--<br /><br />Including his new film--of Eli Siegel's prize-winning poem<br /><br /></span><span style="color:#003300;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>"Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana"<br /></strong></span><br />&<br /><br />The 1968 documentary of Eli Siegel teaching an actual<br />Aesthetic Realism class (first broadcast on WNET, Ch. 13)<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">"People Are Trying to Put Opposites Together"</span></strong><br /><br /></span><a href="http://www.aestheticrealism.org/justice-films-06.pdf"><span style="color:#003300;">Click here for flyer </span></a><br /><br /><span style="color:#003300;">Aesthetic Realism Foundation<br />141 Greene Street, NYC 10012<br /><br /></span>Reservations: 212.777.4490 </div>Miriam Mondlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03474842654753411977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10176454.post-1147532489059801412006-05-13T08:46:00.000-06:002006-05-13T09:01:29.073-06:00Aesthetic Realism Online LibraryYou can now read chapters from <a href="http://aestheticrealism.net/books">books</a> about the philosophy of Aesthetic Realism founded by the poet and critic, Eli Siegel on the Aesthetic Realism Online Library. For example, the chapter in which Eli Siegel speaks about the work of William Carlos Williams, and what Williams said after the lecture, is online! <a href="http://aestheticrealism.net/">Articles</a> and <a href="http://aestheticrealism.net/reviews">Reviews</a> about Aesthetic Realism and by Eli Siegel beginning in the 1930's are there for you to see.<br /><br />There are many poems by Mr. Siegel, as well as translations of poems with Notes by Mr. Siegel about the poems. There are poems by La Fontaine, Hugo, Verlaine, deMusset, Baudelaire, Catullus, and so many more! Look under <a href="http://aestheticrealism.net/poetry">Poetry</a>.<br /><br />And lectures that appeared in <a href="http://aestheticrealism.net/tro"><em>The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known</em></a> are also online, as well as current issues of this periodical.Miriam Mondlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03474842654753411977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10176454.post-1132608715330418842005-11-21T14:16:00.000-07:002005-11-21T14:31:55.333-07:00Events in December at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation<strong>Come to these great presentations during December!</strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><a href="http://www.AestheticRealism.org/events2.htm#Public_Seminars"><strong>Aesthetic Realism Public Seminar</strong> on <strong>Thursday, December 1 at 6:30 pm</strong> </a><br /><em><strong></strong></em><br /><em><strong>DOES A MAN THINK TOO MUCH ABOUT HIMSELF--& TOO LITTLE?</strong></em><br />Consultants Derek Mali, Bruce Blaustein, Joseph Meglino<br /><br /><a href="http://www.AestheticRealism.org/events2.htm#Dramatic_Presentations"><strong>Dramatic Presentation</strong> on <strong>Saturday, December 17th at 8:00 pm</strong><br /><strong></strong></a><br /><strong>CHRISTMAS CAROLS BEGIN WITH THE WORLD'S OPPOSITES!</strong><br /><br /><em>Sung and commented on by performers from the Aesthetic Realism Theatre Company<br /></em><br />What can we learn from such beloved carols as “Joy to the World!,” “Little Drummer Boy,” “Silent Night”?<br /><br /><strong>GOOD WILL OR ILL WILL IN MARRIAGE</strong> Aesthetic Realism Lesson<br /><br />Eli Siegel. Any situation in this world can be accompanied by ill will or good will. Two married people often tell each other in a quiet, elegant way, “You deceived me.” …Criticism, which is not ill will, should take the place of ill will.<br /><br /><strong>INSTINCT IS ABOUT MONEY --; POWER; OR, MASSINGER'S <em>A NEW WAY TO PAY OLD DEBTS</em></strong> by Eli Siegel<br /><br /> “There is a certain relation between this, one of the most famous plays of Elizabethan or Jacobean drama, and A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Giles Overreach, the most famous of his kind of goer-after-money, represents villainy unrelenting; and he has a bad ending. Along with all his sharpness, there is, likewise, something stupid. The only way villainy will ever be got rid of is if people honestly can see it as stupid.”<br /><br />And there is more on these presentations which are entertaining, educating, and a good time!<br />Hope to see you!Miriam Mondlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03474842654753411977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10176454.post-1131748215543992232005-11-11T14:27:00.000-07:002005-11-11T15:30:15.566-07:00JAZZ & LIFE: A CELEBRATION! Saturday, November 19th 8PM<strong><span style="color:#990000;">Come, see, hear this great celebration of jazz and life this Saturday, November 19th at 8 PM at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation, 141 Greene Street, in SoHo, New York City. Phone: 212-777-4490</span></strong><br /><br /><span style="color:#990000;"><span style="color:#990000;"><blockquote><span style="color:#990000;"><span style="color:#990000;"><strong>THE WORLD, AS SUCH, IS PRESENT IN JAZZ: SOME INDICATIONS</strong> </span></span><span style="color:#000000;">With musical examples from Louis Armstrong, Baby Dodds, Jelly Roll Morton—and more. Eli Siegel says:</span></span></span></blockquote><span style="color:#000000;"><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;"><blockquote>“Jazz, like the other arts, is both severe and easy. Jelly Roll Morton is in the tradition of accuracy as joy.”</blockquote></span><span style="color:#990000;"><blockquote><span style="color:#990000;"><strong>FEELING BAD, GOOD WILL, & THE BLUES</strong></span> <span style="color:#000000;">by Ellen Reiss Commenting on a song performed by Bessie Smith, the Class Chairman of Aesthetic Realism says: </span></blockquote></span><br /><blockquote>“The blues, as form and meaning, is evidence for this: if a person were to have good will, even when she was feeling blue, depression would stop and beauty would begin.”<br /></blockquote><br /><span style="color:#990000;"><blockquote><span style="color:#990000;"><strong>ROUGHNESS & SWEETNESS IN LOUIS ARMSTRONG'S RENDITION OF<br />“I CAN'T GIVE YOU ANYTHING BUT LOVE”</strong></span> <span style="color:#000000;">by jazz musician Alan Shapiro<br /></span></blockquote></span><blockquote><p>“Sometimes Armstrong's voice sounds like an instrument, as he leaves the words<br />behind and scats. Yet we feel that the way he changes the song adds to it, definitely and lovably!”<span style="color:#990000;"></p><blockquote><span style="color:#990000;"></span></blockquote><blockquote></blockquote><p></span><span style="color:#990000;"><strong>THE ORDERLY EXTREME</strong></span> Discussing Shelby Foote's novella Ride Out, about a jazz musician, Eli Siegel says: </p><p>“This is one of the best things about music I know—also about people….If you can let go and still be orderly, you're an artist. The motto for jazz is: Professor Tiger.” and more! <a href="http://www.aestheticrealism.org/Jazz-Celebration-11-19.pdf">for announcement in pdf, click here</a> and more!</p></blockquote>Miriam Mondlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03474842654753411977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10176454.post-1130793354094538002005-10-31T14:11:00.000-07:002005-10-31T14:15:54.110-07:00Aesthetic Realism Seminar Thursday, November 3 at 6:30 pmAesthetic Realism Seminar Thursday, November 3 at 6:30 pm <br />In Art and Life— Is Beauty the Making One of Opposites?<br /><br />This seminar given by Aesthetic Realism consultants and artists celebrates the 50th anniversary year of the publication of “Is Beauty the Making One of Opposites?”<br /><br /> Chaim Koppelman, printmaker, on Vermeer<br /> Marcia Rackow, painter, on Frank Stella<br /> Dorothy Koppelman, painter, on Chris Jordan & “Junk Art”<br /> Dale Laurin, architect, on Staircases —Mayan to Contemporary<br /> Carrie Wilson, art historian, Chair<br /><br />For announcement of this Seminar in PowerPoint format, <a href="http://www.aestheticrealism.org/The-Kindest-Art-Seminar.pps">click here</a>.<br />To download a free PowerPoint 2003 Viewer, <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=428d5727-43ab-4f24-90b7-a94784af71a4&displaylang=en">click this link</a>Miriam Mondlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03474842654753411977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10176454.post-1128724406790523542005-10-07T16:24:00.000-06:002005-10-07T16:33:26.800-06:00Read about a young man whose stuttering diminished through Aesthetic Realism consultationsOn <a href="http://mmondlin.home.mindspring.com/">Aesthetic Realism and Self-Expression</a>, my web site, you can read this kind and scholarly description of how the Aesthetic Realism of Eli Siegel understands stuttering and when respectfully studied, can end it!<br /><br />The high school student, Georges Delong, wrote: "I have been able to resolve in large measure my problem regarding stuttering: now it is quite diminished and also I have been able to understand the motive for stuttering.... I hope that... persons who now do not know Aesthetic Realism will come to know it because, believe me, it can resolve millions of problems of people who perhaps now are struggling, perhaps vainly trying to resolve them." Read <a href="http://mmondlin.home.mindspring.com/eli-siegel/perey-stuttering.html">The Answer for Our Schools by Arnold Perey, Ph.D. </a>Miriam Mondlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03474842654753411977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10176454.post-1127692269110559932005-09-25T17:43:00.000-06:002005-09-25T17:51:09.116-06:00Len Bernstein -- Photographic Education --An approach to art and life based on the Aesthetic Realism of Eli SiegelI want to call your attention to a web site I respect very much. <em><a href="http://www.lenbernstein.com/">Len Bernstein -- Photographic Education --An approach to art and life based on the Aesthetic Realism of Eli Siegel</em>.</a> Len Bernstein states in his opening paragraph: <br /><br /><blockquote>When I began to photograph 30 years ago, I felt I found a way of expressing myself that met something so deep inside me that I wanted to do it for the rest of my life. Walking with my camera, the city streets seemed transformed--friendlier, more interesting--and I spent hours searching for dramatic situations, trying to capture the right moment. Looking through the viewfinder, what I saw had new value for me, boredom and loneliness seemed to vanish, and I wished I could feel that way all the time. And hoping to learn what made a photograph successful, I avidly studied the history and technique of photography.<br /> <br />My hopes were met when I first heard this principle stated by Eli Siegel, the American critic and founder 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.” I've had the thrill of testing this principle in thousands of instances, from the first known photograph taken by Nicéphore Niépce around 1826 to the most modern work of today.<br /></blockquote>Miriam Mondlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03474842654753411977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10176454.post-1127156740814524762005-09-19T13:01:00.000-06:002005-09-20T15:39:22.163-06:00Special Event Sunday, October 23rd, 2:30 pmCome to this great musical and ethical event!<br /><br /><a href="http://aestheticrealismtheatreco.org"> The Aesthetic Realism Theatre Company</a> proudly presents<br /><br /><a href="http://www.aestheticrealism.org/SONGS-10-05.pdf">THE GREAT FIGHT OF EGO vs. TRUTH Songs about Love, Justice,& Everybody's Feelings! </a><br /><br />IN THIS MATINEE, entertainment, knowledge, and ethics are together in a way new in history!<br /><br /> You'll hear, through songs—including some of the most popular and beautiful songs—what the biggest fight is within every person and America herself. Eli Siegel, the great American critic, philosopher, and poet, founder of Aesthetic Realism, explained it. It's the fight between contempt for the world and respect for it. It's the fight of Ego—lying about the world to suit yourself—vs. Truth. <br /> <br /> <em>Rock 'n roll, ballads, musical comedy, & more! </em><a href="http://www.aestheticrealism.org/SONGS-10-05.pdf"> for announcement, click here</a>Miriam Mondlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03474842654753411977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10176454.post-1121461820439325342005-07-15T15:01:00.000-06:002005-07-15T15:20:35.263-06:00Absurdity in a Dukedom; or, Shakespeare's Twelfth Night--& Everyone's Trouble about Love!Sunday, AUGUST 7, 2:30pm Special Event at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation, 141 Greene Street, New York, NY 10012 212 777-4490<br /><br /><a href="http://www.aestheticrealism.org/Twelfth-Night-2005.pdf">for announcement click here</a> <br /><br /><strong>ABSURDITY IN A DUKEDOM; or, SHAKESPEARE'S TWELFTH NIGHT—& EVERYONE'S TROUBLE ABOUT LOVE! </strong><br />A Dramatic Presentation of Eli Siegel's Great 1951 Lecture <br />with scenes from the play<br /><br />Shakespeare's comedy <em>Twelfth Night</em> has both delighted and baffled people for centuries. What does it have to do with men and women <em>now</em>, trying to make sense of love and our lives? The answer is in this matinee!<br /><br /><blockquote>Cast: CAROL McCLUER • TIMOTHY LYNCH • ANNE FIELDING • BENNETT COOPERMAN • KAREN VAN OUTRYVE • DEREK MALI • CARRIE WILSON • KEVIN FENNELL </blockquote><br /><br />With an overture by Edward Green performed by Mr. Green (piano) and Barbara Allen (flute) <em></em><br /><br />Come to this stirring matinee!Miriam Mondlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03474842654753411977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10176454.post-1116276071713326482005-05-16T14:39:00.000-06:002005-09-19T13:12:56.170-06:00A Dramatic Reading of Selections from GWE Young Man of New Guinea by Arnold Perey, Anthropologist & Aesthetic Realism Consultant<strong>Sunday JUNE 12, 2:30pm<br />Special Event at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation:</strong> <br /><br /><a href="http://www.AestheticRealism.org/gwe-thumbnail.jpg"></a><br /><blockquote>A Dramatic Reading of Selections from <br />GWE Young Man of New Guinea <br />—a novel against racism —<br />by Arnold Perey, PhD, Anthropologist, <br />Aesthetic Realism Consultant<br /><br />—with slides and music— </blockquote><br />See <a href="http://www.perey-anthropology.net">Aesthetic Realism a New Perspective for Anthropology.</a><br /><a href="http://www.aestheticrealism.org/GWE-flyer.pdf">For announcement, click here.</a>Miriam Mondlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03474842654753411977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10176454.post-1113576399744429042005-04-15T07:46:00.000-06:002005-04-15T08:46:39.746-06:00Terrain Gallery 50th Anniversary Exhibition Opening / Aesthetic Realism FoundationIn 1955, the Terrain Gallery opened. I remember the New York art scene was filled with lively discussions about art. Beauty, it was felt, couldn't be defined. Eli Siegel, founder of Aesthetic Realism, asked: <a href="http://TerrainGallery.org/IsBeauty.html">Is Beauty the Making One of Opposites?</a> Since then--1955--the Terrain Gallery has had shows of many different styles of painting, sculpture, mixed media--with artists participating in discussions. These exhibitions have been of the highest calibre, showing that whatever style of art was popular, what Eli Siegel saw and explained about the meaning of beauty is true. He saw that beauty is the making one of opposites--and at the same time, he showed the value of art in our everyday lives--how it explains how we want to be. <br /><br />This 50th Anniversary Exhibition Opening is important in the history of art. Be there! <br /><br /><br /><blockquote><strong>Saturday, MAY 7, 2005 <br /><br /><a href="http://www.terraingallery.org/50th-anncmt.pdf">Terrain Gallery's 50th Anniversary Exhibition Opening <br /><br />Announcement</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.terraingallery.org/50anniv-Exhibition-Highlights.html">Highlights from 50 Years at the Terrain Gallery </strong></blockquote></a>Miriam Mondlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03474842654753411977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10176454.post-1109789964257123982005-03-02T11:47:00.000-07:002005-03-02T15:39:00.423-07:00Aesthetic Realism and the Drama by Eli SiegelEveryone who is interested in the drama, will want to attend this great event at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation, 141 Greene Street, in SoHo—next month!<br /><br />SATURDAY, APRIL 23 8PM<br /><br /> We celebrate Shakespeare's birthday with <br /><br /><em>AESTHETIC REALISM & THE DRAMA </em>by Eli Siegel—including scenes from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and John Banks' 1728 play The Earl of Essex: A Tragedy <br /><br />“In the drama, there has to be some feeling of fight, however faint; but the fight is never of strangers. There is always, when drama is most dramatic, a fight of people who are for each other…. Romeo and Juliet is about two families fighting. And two people are together, knowing something also wants them apart.” <br /><br />“SCIENCE IS LOVABLE” from The Aesthetic Nature of the World by Eli Siegel<br /><br />—and more<br /><br />......................................................<br />And if you want to read honest accounts of Aesthetic Realism classes given by Eli Siegel, of which the Shakespeare lecture is one, instead of misrepresentations, go to this link <a href="http://www.counteringthelies.com/reviews-and-more.html#lectures">Lectures by Eli Siegel</a>Miriam Mondlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03474842654753411977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10176454.post-1105822062751696822005-02-24T13:00:00.000-07:002005-02-24T20:14:56.336-07:00"All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves." --Eli Siegel<strong><em>NEWS</em></strong><br /><br /><br /><strong>On Saturday, February 26, 2005, at 8:00 pm, the Terrain Gallery in New York City will celebrate its 50th Anniversary.</strong><br /><br />Eli Siegel's definitive Fifteen Questions: <a href="http://TerrainGallery.org/IsBeauty.html">"Is Beauty the Making One of Opposites?"</a> presented by Dorothy Koppelman, Chaim Koppelman, Carrie Wilson. <br /><br /><em>Also:</em> <strong>AESTHETIC REALISM SHOWS WHAT'S GOING ON IN AMERICAN REALIST ART & IN OURSELVES</strong><br /><br />This talk by Marcia Rackow and Donita Ellison, first presented at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, looks at works by Jacob Lawrence, Alex Katz, Chuck Close, Duane Hanson, and others. The speakers say: <br /><br /><em>"Central in all realist art is the seeing that the commonplace also has grandeur....And one of its great values is that it is critical, through form, of the ways we can lessen reality, divide it, be disproportionate." </em><br /><br />Here is the <a href="http://TerrainGallery.org/TG50Anniversary-2-26.pdf">announcement</a><br /><br />The <a href="http://TerrainGallery.org">Terrain Gallery</a> / <a href="http://www.AestheticRealism.org">Aesthetic Realism Foundation</a> is located in SoHo, at 141 Greene Street, off Houston, New York, NY. Telephone: 212 777-4490. <br /><br /><em>Some history:</em> "The Terrain Gallery is the first gallery to be based on a philosophic way of seeing reality itself, including art--Aesthetic Realism. It opened in New York City in 1955, with artist Dorothy Koppelman as director, publishing in its first announcement, the now historic 15 Questions, <a href="http://TerrainGallery.org/IsBeauty.html">"Is Beauty the Making One of Opposites?"</a> by Eli Siegel, founder of Aesthetic Realism. In continuous exhibitions of contemporary art, as well as notable discussions on the art of the world, the criterion for beauty presented in these questions has been shown to be true about art of every style, time, and place." --Alma Vincent <br /><br /><em>Following you will find links to articles about some of the great art of the world:</em><br /><br /><strong><a href="http://www.lynetteabel.org/Art.html"><br />Sargent's Madame X; or, Assertion and retreat in Woman—Explained by Aesthetic Realism by Lynette Abel</a> </strong><br /><br /><blockquote><strong>In "A Woman Is the Oneness of Aesthetic Opposites"</strong> Eli Siegel writes about 15 pairs of opposites in women. And this is what he writes about Advancing: Recessive: "Towards something is in the feminine mind importantly.... But how much retreat is in woman, too, the unseen sinking, the leaving for a previously chosen background." I think Sargent's Madame X is an opportunity to study these opposites, which all women have.</blockquote> <br /><br /><a href="http://www.terraingallery.org/Anthony-Romeo-Chair.html">Gerritt Rietveld's Red and Blue Chair, and What Learned about Rest and Motion in Myself by Anthony C. Romeo, AIA </a><br /><br /><blockquote>In 1918, the architect Gerrit Thomas Rietveld designed a chair that affected not only furniture design, but the history of architecture. Rietveld's "Red and Blue" chair is now in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, and it is a chair I love.... </blockquote> <br /><br /><strong><a href="http://www.ruthoron.net/Monet-Aesthetic.html">Our Selves Are Aesthetic!</a></strong> by Ruth Oron <br /><br /><blockquote>About Claude Monet's Autumn Effect at Argenteuil and Aesthetic Realism Consultations </blockquote><br /><br /><strong><a href="http://mmondlin.home.mindspring.com/eli-siegel/Van-Gogh-Starry-Night-mm.htm">"Can We Be Expansive and Contained Like Van Gogh's Starry Night?"</a> </strong>by Miriam Mondlin <br /><br /><blockquote>"I learned the reason I loved this painting, and why it has stirred people for more than 100 years: what makes this painting beautiful is the way it puts opposites together, and these are the same opposites we are trying to put together in our lives. </blockquote> <br /><br /><strong>MORE TO COME</strong>Miriam Mondlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03474842654753411977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10176454.post-1107549053090932512005-02-04T13:23:00.000-07:002005-02-04T13:30:53.090-07:00EVIL SEEN BEAUTIFULLY! or, VOLTAIRE'S CANDIDE—I want to tell you about a great production taking place on:
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<br />THE AESTHETIC REALISM THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS—
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<br />A dramatic production of Eli Siegel's great 1951 lecture
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<br /><a href="http://aestheticrealism.org/voltaire-candide-2-05.pdf">announcement</a> Miriam Mondlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03474842654753411977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10176454.post-1107278037322090672005-02-01T09:56:00.000-07:002005-02-01T10:13:57.323-07:00Writer Mike Palmer Learns from Ellen Reiss, Class Chairman of Aesthetic RealismWhile surfing the web lately, I saw this important page on Mike Palmer's website that I wanted to share with you.
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<br />Palmer gives an honest picture of an Aesthetic Realism class, as Ellen Reiss taught him. It is brief, but accurate.
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<br />On this page you will see the kindness and education that I have experienced myself. I am sure there will be more online.
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<br />More later. Meanwhile, here's the link: <a href="http://www.mikepalmer.info/M-Palmer-Seminar-John-Sloan3.html">The Fight between Justice and Ego in an Artist</a>
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<br />This is the conclusion of a paper he presented at an Aesthetic Realism seminar: <a href="http://www.mikepalmer.info/M-Palmer-Seminar-John-Sloan.html">"Ego or Justice?—the Raging Fight in Every Man"</a> (with commentary on John Sloan).
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<br />Miriam Mondlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03474842654753411977noreply@blogger.com