{"id":147,"date":"2007-12-22T16:23:05","date_gmt":"2007-12-22T22:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=147"},"modified":"2007-12-22T16:23:40","modified_gmt":"2007-12-22T22:23:40","slug":"art-and-snow-at-the-beginning-of-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=147","title":{"rendered":"Art and Snow at the Beginning of Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A Winter Solstice shot by Jim Johnson from the plains near Hecla, South Dakota<\/p>\n

18\u00a073%\u00a028%\u00a00mph windroseWNW\u00a0 bar\u00a029.87\u00a0steady\u00a0windchill17\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Winter Solstice<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Winter\u00a0began at 12:08 AM\u00a0this morning<\/p>\n

A bit of refinement on the arts and literature ideas from yesterday. The overarching idea is this:\u00a0 some works of art included literature, usually poetry but not always.\u00a0 In those instances it is clear that for the artist the written material had critical importance to the piece, otherwise, why include it?\u00a0 In other instances, the image or sculpture gives form in print, painting or three-dimensions to a specific moment, either in story or in history.\u00a0 Again, for the artist the textual base for the piece has to inform the work, so knowing the work, especially as it was known in the artist’s time and to the artist seems as important as understanding the piece itself.\u00a0 Also, painting and sculpture and prints were never the only art form of their day; insteady they existed in an artistic milieux that not included fellow workers in the plastic arts but also poets, novelists, musicians, architects.\u00a0 We often see reference to architecture in art history books, but very little reference to literature.\u00a0 This last point becomes even more important as we move into the impressionist era and beyond when artists often wrote proclamations, began to intentionally blend their work with poetry and some moved into performance.<\/p>\n

These are ways in which literature is important to the field of art history and therefore our job as docents.\u00a0 The use of other books, about artists and movements and particular works, is another intersection between art and literature.<\/p>\n

A light snow.\u00a0 The snowblower moved out of the garage with its usual growl and eagerness to eat snow, then throw it.\u00a0 Temperatures have begun to trend down again after a brief warmup.\u00a0 I’ve done some additional moving, but I think today, certainly tomorrow will see the end of the bookcase\/exercise equipment reshuffle.\u00a0 That means I’m ready to move onto learning about hydrponic gardening and planning the vegetable gardens for next year.\u00a0 Looking forward to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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