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When Books and Art Really Mattered
An essay on purveyors of wisdom in Renaissance Florence- A book review of new book by Ross King, "The Bookseller of Florence." By Brian...
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- Jun 3, 2021
- 7 min
A Life of Collecting Art- A Passion of Painterly Principles- and printed pages.
An essay on the art connoisseurship of Gil Williams- By Brian Keeler To call Gil Williams the crème de la crème of art collectors is not...
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bkeeler
- May 14, 2021
- 7 min
Collecting, Creating and Crafting the Arts-
An essay on integrating art in the home and community- by Brian Keeler Tom and Anne Marie Noone have been immersed in the arts of...
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bkeeler
- May 12, 2021
- 5 min
The Art of Collecting- Meetings that Inspire!
The second entry of a series of articles on patrons of the arts- an essay by Brian Keeler To say that Bill Greener’s collection is...
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bkeeler
- Apr 26, 2021
- 6 min
The Art of Collecting- Meetings with Remarkable Men and Women
The Art of Collecting- Meetings with Remarkable Men and Women- An essay by Brian Keeler (This is the first in a series of articles about...
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bkeeler
- Apr 18, 2021
- 7 min
Entreaty of the Enfilade-
An Essay on Interior Perceptions- by Brian Keeler “The Doors of Perception” the title of Aldous Huxley’s 1954 controversial book about...
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bkeeler
- Apr 8, 2021
- 7 min
De-Pontificating Bridges-
An essay on the visual expressions of bridges and boats- Brian Keeler As the idea for a new exhibit coalesced around the alliterative...
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Brian Keeler
- Mar 4, 2021
- 10 min
Maximizing the Minimalism or vice versa-
Musing on architecture and art (or the lack thereof)- an essay by Brian Keeler From Bellini to Brutalism and from Raphael to...
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Brian Keeler
- Feb 23, 2021
- 7 min
Eurythmic Light- The Sound of Color
An essay on the sonorities of painting by Brian Keeler The term “eurythmic” embodies a fascinating concept that alludes to the underlying...
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Brian Keeler
- Feb 17, 2021
- 6 min
Nascent Nocturnes and Lucent Lunar Liaisons
An essay on the mystery of night scenes by Brian Keeler The soft edges and the inchoate possibilities hidden in the shadows are part of...
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Brian Keeler
- Jan 29, 2021
- 5 min
Temporality- Barns, River Eels and other women etc.
Contemplating the impermanence of so many things- an essay by Brian Keeler As I was immersed in painting my most recent landscape, a...
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Brian Keeler
- Jan 16, 2021
- 6 min
A Stairway with a View-
Appreciating Angles and Atmospheres at the Baldwin Stairway in Ithaca- An essay on art and historical elements by Brian Keeler It is...
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Brian Keeler
- Jan 7, 2021
- 7 min
The Denoument- Finally, Some Fresh Air- (maybe?)
An essay by Brian Keeler, on the end of a scoundrel-ship - "The Denoument," is appropriate here but somehow too charitable as well, for...
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Brian Keeler
- Dec 29, 2020
- 10 min
Reflections on The Continuum of The Classics
From the Campagna to Cole’s Catskills - Art in Italy and America Book Review of “America’s Rome” By William L. Vance An Essay by Brian...
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Brian Keeler
- Dec 17, 2020
- 8 min
Drawn to Drawings-
The Manner of Mannerism- An Homage to the Drawings of Andrea Del Sarto - an essay by Brian Keeler Andrea Del Sarto, I have often said,...
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Brian Keeler
- Dec 11, 2020
- 5 min
The Last Judgement- Pearls "over" Swine
An Essay on a clash of cultures- Spiritual and artisitic with the crass, profligate and materialistic- By Brian Keeler This essay was...
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Brian Keeler
- Nov 26, 2020
- 9 min
An Autumnal Light on Painting-
A Solar Meditation- Still Life Arranged for Autumnal Light- an essay by Brian Keeler The definition of wisdom according to Dante...
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Brian Keeler
- Nov 13, 2020
- 6 min
Pursuing the Soul in Renaissance Florence
Essential Ideas of the Renaissance- An essay on the timeless Philosophy of Marsillio Ficino by Brian Keeler This reflection on...
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Brian Keeler
- Nov 1, 2020
- 7 min
Figurative Facts and Flesh-
Figurative Facts and Flesh- French Connections- An essay on the human form in impressionist art- by Brian Keeler The inspiration for...
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Brian Keeler
- Oct 22, 2020
- 8 min
The Art of Hell & Horizons of Hope -an essay on inversions of normality
An essay reflecting on politics, poetry and painting- by Brian Keeler The art of hell is, well, a vision of a place one would not one to...
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