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Picasso's ceramics is from a PBS special I have adored Picasso's ceramics from when I first spotted one. So much so that I was surpr...

 Marcelin Cardinal is a Canadian artist I only recently discovered. His work is spectacular! Marcelin (a.k.a. Marcel) Cardinal was born in G...

I have discovered that I have not paid enough attention to the artist Hieronymus Bosch. He came up in my War and Peace book club today.  Hi...

Today was meeting 2 of my meetup group on War and Peace. It's going to be a long slog effort, it's probably more than a year, every...

 Now onto part 7 of the 8 parts of my Anna Karenina journey.... I like this image from a Spanish translation Just a couple interesting links...

My Tolstoy adventure continues with Anna Karenina today. I almost missed it, and realized I wasn't prepared. Power-listened to half of t...

Tonight I joined a book club that was celebrating Ernest Hemingway on the occasion of his 125th birthday. We focused our discussion around T...

A new-to-me artist today: Sonia Delaunay Sonia Delaunay, 1914, Prismes électriques oil on canvas, 250 x 250 cm Musée National d'Art Mode...

 One of my book clubs introduced me to this book, which I really enjoyed. I listened to the Audible audiobook. Source: Wikipedia The Well of...

Leo Tolstoy at age 20, c. 1848 In looking for articles on  Leo Tolstoy, I discovered leo-tolstoy.com  - it's a great site, and I loved t...

In my Tolstoy book club today, discussing The Cossacks.  Leo Tolstoy began work on the short novel in August 1853. In August 1857, after hav...

  I discovered a new-to-me artist today, via my online art club:  Maria Helena Vieira da Silva Maria Helena Vieira da Silva (1908–1992) was ...

  Tolstoy and his grandchildren, c. 1909 The first book in my Tolstoy book group is Childhood. I'm not sure what I was expecting, but I ...

 I am embarking on an adventure: reading all the works of Leo Tolstoy. It's part of a Meetup group . We are meeting once or twice a mont...

Today I learned about the Italian Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi. Her work is quite stunning... and very haunting (think Caravaggio!)...