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HOW TO STUDY AESTHETIC REALISM
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 Aesthetic Realism Theatre Company — Performers and speakers
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TERRAIN GALLERY and ELI SIEGEL COLLECTION
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THE AESTHETIC REALISM TEACHING METHOD
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A note on the beginnings of Aesthetic Realism — and about classes today:Aesthetic Realism was founded and first taught by Eli Siegel in 1941. A poet of "the very first rank," as William Carlos Williams described him, and a critic whose "penetration [is] both original and extraordinary" (NY Times Book Review), Mr. Siegel developed a new way of seeing the world and people which he first called Aesthetic Analysis and later Aesthetic Realism. (See Self and World.) Over the years it became evident that this way of seeing reality and the things in it can enable every person to like the world on an honest basis—an aesthetic basis—and therefore like him- or herself in a way that holds up. All Aesthetic Realism classes are based on this way of seeing—the aesthetic way. Aesthetic Realism arises from poetry. The world and people are seen fairly in true poetry—in Keats, Shakespeare, Whitman, Molière, Lorca, Li Po, Basho. That is why the Aesthetic Realism method of education is in this principle stated by Eli Siegel: "The world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites." You'll see more about the meaning of this great idea in the following: COURSES & CLASSES • The Aesthetic Realism Explanation of Poetry is taught by Ellen Reiss, Aesthetic Realism Chairman of Education, who writes in her class description: "Eli Siegel is the critic who showed truly what poetry is. He showed that poetry — because it is fair to the whole world and oneself at the same time, because it is logic and feeling as one thing, because it puts opposites together — answers the questions of every person's life." • The Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method Workshop is an interactive class for all teachers from kindergarten through high school, and beyond. It is based on this historic concept, stated by Eli Siegel: “The purpose of education is to like the world through knowing it.” The workshop is taught by educators Barbara Allen, Patricia Martone, Rosemary Plumstead, and Dr. Arnold Perey. In it a teacher learns the method which enables students to see that a subject—reading, math, science, history, any subject—is about their own lives and the world itself. As a result, students learn successfully, pass exams, become kinder! • Anthropology Is about You & Everyone, taught by Dr. Arnold Perey, shows how people everywhere in the world, including yourself—whether you live in a NY apartment or a grass covered home in New Guinea—are understood truly through the principles of Aesthetic Realism. All humanity is akin: kind and cruel, accurate and wild, powerful and delicate—trying to put together opposites in ourselves. • The Aesthetic Realism music classes, taught by Aesthetic Realism faculty members Barbara Allen, Anne Fielding, & Edward Green, and mezzo-soprano Carrie Wilson (the Singing class), are based on this principle of Aesthetic Realism: "All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves." • Aesthetic Realism classes in art include The Visual Arts and the Opposites , a museum / gallery course taught by Marcia Rackow; The Art of Drawing: Surface & Depth, taught by Marcia Rackow; and Critical Inquiry: A Workshop in the Visual Art s, in which works in process are looked at, taught by painter Dorothy Koppelman. • The Acting, Life & the Opposites class, taught by Anne Fielding * is based on this concept stated by the founder of Aesthetic Realism: "Acting is a certain way of taking the contraries of the world. It is a way of being somebody else for the purpose of coming back home immediately." • In the Understanding Marriage class, taught by Pauline Meglino, Anne Fielding & Barbara Allen, Aesthetic Realism consultants, women study "the opposites of contempt and respect in the history of marriage and in their own lives, including yesterday's incident at the breakfast table." • In the Learning to Like the World class, Robert Murphy and Barbara Allen teach young people how "everything — from a flower to mathematics to their mothers — can be used to like the world!"_____________ |
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• En Español — Aesthetic Realism in Spanish |
