Faberge' Eggs and Sound Tracks for Satchmo & Dylan

Here are some more web sites related to upcoming books.


This first one has lots of information about the Faberge' eggs and good pictures.


http://www.pbs.org/treasuresoftheworld/a_nav/faberge_nav/main_fabfrm.html


The next 3 relate to the two May books - biographies of Louis Armstrong & Bob Dylan. The 2 "tracks" web sites offer free listening to lots of tracks by each artist! The other web site is for the Louis Armstrong Museum in New York City. It also includes video and sound.


The web is a gold-mine of additional information for the books we will be reading - a virtual tour of arts & culture!


http://www.louisarmstronghouse.org/louie_armstrong/overview.htm


http://www.last.fm/music/Louis+Armstrong/+tracks


http://www.last.fm/music/Bob+Dylan/+tracks


Beth

Renoir Web Links

http://www.renoirgallery.com/

I'm in downtown Portland today - taking a class in Publisher. We are on a break and, of course, and I am surfing the web - looking for cool web sites related to books we will be reading! Just found this one.

If you are a web-surfer, too, please add sites you have found and would like to share with club members. Since I'm a librarian, at heart, I will keep looking and keep posting!

Beth

I Paint What I See
A Ballad of Artistic Integrity
by E. B. White
First published in the New Yorker magazine, May 20, 1933
during the controversy of Diego Rivera's mural,
Man at the Crossroads,
in the Rockefeller Center



'What do you paint, when you paint on a wall?'
Said John D.'s grandson Nelson.'
Do you paint just anything there at all?'
Will there be any doves, or a tree in fall?'
Or a hunting scene, like an English hall?''

I paint what I see,' said Rivera.

'What are the colors you use when you paint?'
Said John D.'s grandson Nelson.
'Do you use any red in the beard of a saint?'
If you do, is it terribly red, or faint?'
Do you use any blue? Is it Prussian?' '

I paint what I paint,' said Rivera.

'Whose is that head that I see on the wall?'
Said John D.'s grandson Nelson.
'Is it anyone's head whom we know, at all?'
A Rensselaer, or a Saltonstall?'
Is it Franklin D.? Is it Mordaunt Hall?
Or is it the head of a Russian?

'I paint what I think,' said Rivera.

'I paint what I paint, I paint what I see,
'I paint what I think,' said Rivera,
'And the thing that is dearest in life to me
'In a bourgeois hall is Integrity;
'However . . .
'I'll take out a couple of people drinkin''
And put in a picture of Abraham Lincoln;
'I could even give you McCormick's reaper
'And still not make my art much cheaper.
'But the head of Lenin has got to stay
'Or my friends will give the bird today,
'The bird, the bird, forever.

''It's not good taste in a man like me,
'Said John D.'s grandson Nelson,
'To question an artist's integrity
'Or mention a practical thing like a fee,
'But I know what I like to a large degree,
'Though art I hate to hamper;
'For twenty-one thousand conservative bucks
'You painted a radical. I say shucks,
'I never could rent the offices-----
'The capitalistic offices.
'For this, as you know, is a public hall
'And people want doves, or a tree in fall
'And though your art I dislike to hamper,
'I owe a little to God and Gramper,
'And after all,
'It's my wall . . .

''We'll see if it is,' said Rivera.

Internet Resources about Diego Rivera

http://diegorivera.com/index.php

http://www.riveramural.com

I had a few minutes this morning to check out web listings about Diego Rivera. Here are two that I found interesting and colorful. Nice additions to the photos in the book! Hopefully, you can click on them & connect.

Beth

Our First Meeting!

The Arts & Culture Book Club's first meeting was last night, Tuesday, January 27th. We had an interesting discussion of "The Man Who Made Vermeers," by Jonathan Lopez. Nine members of the club were present for this meeting, and two members who couldn't make it will join us next month, February 24th, for our second meeting when we will discuss "Dreaming With His Eyes Open: A Life of Diego Rivera," by Patrick Marnham.

Only members of the Arts & Culture Book Club will be able to read/post to this blog. The Club members can use this blog to communicate with each other about the books we are reading, related books and topics; meeting information and other items related to the book club.

Thanks to everyone for a great first meeting. I'm looking forward to next month.

Beth