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Category: 300 Words

300 Words: Sarasota Visual Art asks individuals to write about a particular discussion or evaluation of visual art. While we look to criticize art in the context of aesthetics or the theory of beauty, one of our goals is the pursuit of a rational basis for art appreciation.

Branches and Instinct by Micah Mathewson

Being an artist leaves a lot of time to think about all of the branches art creates. There is a branch of communication, one that does not effect the individual...

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An Open Invitation by Kasey Lou Lindley

Hey there! So, I moved back to Sarasota a short while ago. I was originally going to write about the fluctuating art scene in Sarasota, and why the youth feel...

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Christ and the Centurion from Ringling Museum’s Paolo Veronese, A Master and His Workshop in Renaissance Venice – 300 Words by Tim Jaeger

There is no doubt that Paolo Veronese‘s paintings are grandiose and magnificent visions of the spectacle of sixteenth-century Venetian life. The Italian painter is arguably most famous for his paintings...

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An Ancient Gift – 300 Words by Kasey Lou Lindley

Anasazi Ridge Petroglyphs, in Southern Utah by Kasey Lou Lindley I’ve done a lot of traveling in 2012, and with that comes searching — searching for purpose, home, and my...

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Francesco’s Judith Holding the Head of Holofernes

JUDITH HOLDING THE HEAD OF HOLOFERNES by Francesco del Cairo, Italian, 1607-1664; SN 798, oil on canvas by Daniel Miller One of my favorite paintings in the John and Mable...

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Connection – 300 Words by Pamela Beck

by Pamela Beck Every time I stand in front of the elegant black forms in a Robert Motherwell painting from his “Elegy to the Spanish Republic” series, I feel it....

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Let optimism reign! 300 words by Jen Nugent

by Jen Nugent The first art show I organized was in 2007. I was eighteen years old and running a small, bi-monthly zine complete with layout problems and typos, but...

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Open letter to the Downtown Merchants Alliance

Fury sits beneath these words. Miami Beach gets the Basel Art Fair and we get Sarasota Masters Art Festival. Classing a street fair as a “Sarasota Masters Art Festival” and...

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I didn’t die today- in fact, most days I’m not in any immediate danger. By Jen Nugent

For me, there is so much weight associated with the term artist because it means that I must come to terms with what it is my work has to offer....

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A Sandwich Worth a 1,000 Words?

300 Words by Tim Jaeger As an artist, naturally I read everything I can about art and everything related to it. Whether it is about theory, a movement, or a...

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PALM AVENUE PARKING GARAGE (PART 2)

300 Words by Joan Altabe First, to clear up any confusion, the proposed garage murals will be painted inside, not outside. No matter. Painting within is no less objectionable than...

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Don’t do it, Sarasota!

300 Words By Joan Altabe You’re not going to believe this, coming from me. You don’t always need public art. I know, I know: For years, I’ve railed that there’s...

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Welcome to Paradise

300 words by Regan Stacey I moved to Sarasota about a month ago, a transplant from the shores of southeastern Connecticut. In all twelve states I have lived, never have...

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Brushing Up on the iPad

300 Words by Kevin Costello This electronic world we share is an inheritance of the Industrial Revolution with its specializations, standardizations, and synchronizations; itself a consequence of the Rationalism of...

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