by Michael ODonnell | Dec 7, 2021 | Blog
This time of year we are focused on all kinds of things. Events, meetings, the kids concerts, parties, shopping, making sure everything is done before we clock out for a few days off. It’s an overwhelming and overstimulating season, as much as it’s one...
by Michael ODonnell | Sep 20, 2021 | Blog
Live concerts.The movies.Galleries and community events on the town square. We miss experiencing art in person. Perhaps more than any other time we can recognize how art connects us to our world, our emotions, ourselves, and each other. There are few artists who...
by Michael ODonnell | Sep 10, 2021 | Blog
Nobody thought of a yellow sky before. No one painted red fields. No one used such distinct lines to indicate one form from another. And so the work went unsold, unknown, unappreciated. And Vincent sank further and further into losing himself. Rather than being...
by Michael ODonnell | Aug 26, 2021 | Blog
Abstraction gives us a new way of seeing. It uses the elements of art to communicate in ways that representational art cannot, making certain ideas more attainable. Many people look at abstract art and say, “I don’t get it,” while others are drawn to...
by Michael ODonnell | Aug 16, 2021 | Blog
“The people say that the two seemed to be removed from human experience; that they had gone through pain and had come out on the other side.”–John Steinbeck The Pearl Desire is an important element of human life. In the Church, and in many religious...
by Michael ODonnell | Aug 9, 2021 | Blog
Artists paint still lifes as a way of learning how to see. It is an exercise in paying attention, something that we have lost in our bit-by-bit culture. Our attention has been disjointed by the access to media, which leaves us unable to recognize, at times, just what...
