Dramatic Presentation
Saturday, February 21, 8 PM
Napoleon Accompanied Works & discussion by artist Chaim Koppelman Presented by Terrain Gallery coordinators Carrie Wilson & Dale Laurin
“Two opposites which have gone through my work are pride and modesty. And whom have I used to show this?—none other than Napoleon Bonaparte. Eli Siegel explained that I was dealing with the problem of the individual and the democratic. Napoleon, he said, represented the pushing sense of one’s individuality, the emperor in oneself, and also the desire for democracy.”
Do You Want to Be Accurate about Your Feelings? Reenactment of an Aesthetic Realism Lesson
“What do you think you gain more from—thinking more of a person or thinking less of that person?” —Eli Siegel
Aesthetic Realism & Beauty
In this magnificent lecture showing the relation of art to life—with discussions of the painter Correggio and composers Chopin & Berlioz—Eli Siegel said:
“Aesthetic Realism believes that aesthetics should be studied because the study will make one more able to meet the good and evil in the world and the good and evil in oneself.…A question Aesthetic Realism raises is: What relation have we to an orchestra?”
A Reception will follow this event!
Contri. $10
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Aesthetic Realism Foundation
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New York, NY 10012
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Featured image: Chaim Koppelman, “Napoleon Entering Brighton Beach,” 1981, pastel