Saturday, November 15, 8:00 PM
Dramatic Presentation
Aesthetic Realism Looks at Things: Communication
By Eli Siegel
“Communication is the way a person makes his or her thoughts part of another’s life, or thoughts….People can live together for years and really not transmit what they feel to each other. You have to respect and like what you express yourself to before the job of communication can have a fair chance.”
Respect vs. Contempt in Marriage
Reenactment of an Aesthetic Realism Lesson
“The only way to avoid contempt as a hurtful thing is to ask: Do you respect yourself for having it?” —Eli Siegel
Chardin’s Soap Bubbles & How I Saw the World Has Meaning
By Lore Mariano
“This painting answers soberly and joyously ‘yes’ to the most serious questions we can ask: Does the world have meaning? Do our lives have meaning? Light and dark, the weighty and feathery, the permanent and transient are related beautifully and shown to be one in a way every person is longing for and can learn from.”
… And more!
Contri. $10
Featured image: Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin:Soap Bubbles, ca. 1733-34, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.