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"My art is my search for the moments beyond the ones of self knowledge. It is the rhythmic fantasy; a restless streak which looks for its own fulfillment! A stillness that moves within! An intense search for my origin and ultimate identity". - Meena
Friday 8 May 2015
To Paint Is to Love Again: Henry Miller on Art, How Hobbies Enrich Us, and Why Good Friends Are Essential for Creative Work | Brain Pickings
To Paint Is to Love Again: Henry Miller on Art, How Hobbies Enrich Us, and Why Good Friends Are Essential for Creative Work | Brain Pickings: "“What sustains the artist is the look of love in the eyes of the beholder. Not money, not the right connections, not exhibitions, not flattering reviews.”
One particularly icy winter day not too long ago, I reluctantly retired my bike, took the subway into Manhattan, and gave up my seat to a kindly woman a few decades my senior. We struck up a conversation — an occurrence doubly delightful for its lamentable rarity on the New York City subway. For this radical act we were rewarded with an instant kinship of spirit — she turned out to be the wonderful artist Sheila Pinkel, visiting from the West Coast for a show she was having at a New York gallery, and bonded over our mutual love of Henry Miller, lamenting how much of his magnificent and timeless writing has perished out of print — things like his beautiful reflections on the greatest gift of growing old and on money and on the meaning of life.
Right before I hopped out at my stop, Sheila mentioned one particular book that had made a strong impression early in life, but which she had been unable to find since — Miller’s 1968 lost gem To Paint Is to Love Again (public library). Naturally, I tracked down a surviving copy as soon as possible and was instantly enchanted by this rare and wonderful treasure trove of Miller’s paintings — for he was among the famous writers who were drawn to the visual arts, producing such lesser-known treats as J.R.R. Tolkien’s illustrations, Sylvia Plath’s drawings, William Faulkner’s Jazz Age etchings, Flannery O’Connor’s cartoons, Zelda Fitzgerald’s watercolors, and Nabokov’s butterfly studies — enveloped in his devastatingly honest and insightful words on art, sincerity, kindness, hardship, and the gift of friendship.
With his characteristic blend of irreverence, earnestness, and unapologetic wisdom, Miller — who began painting at the age of thirty-seven in 1928, while he was “supposed to be at work on the great American novel” but was yet to publish anything at all, bought his first watercolors and brushes in the midst of poverty, and was soon painting “morning, noon and night” — explores the eternal question of what art is and what makes one an artist."
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Wednesday 6 May 2015
C.G. Jung on Art (some wise words)
Posted by Meena Chopra on Tuesday, May 5, 2015
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Monday 13 April 2015
Art gives sight to blindness.
LANGUAGE HAS NO BARRIERS. A FULL HEART FINDS ITS WAY TO EXPRESS. Art gives sight to blindness. Creating from the eyes of touch.
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Posted by Meena Chopra - Artist & Poet on Monday, April 13, 2015
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Monday 6 April 2015
Pay with a poem: cafes around the world to exchange coffee for poetry
Pay with a poem: cafes around the world to exchange coffee for poetry | Books | The Guardian http://owl.li/KFUOD
Posted by Meena Chopra - Artist & Poet on Monday, March 23, 2015
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Sunday 22 March 2015
March break with colours at ART HOUSE FOR KIDS - Art Classes in Mississauga
March break with colours at ART HOUSE FOR KIDS - Art Classes in Mississauga #artclasses,#drawing #painting with Artist educator Meena Chopra
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Art House for Kids at Lakeshore/Clarkson, Mississauga, Call 905 819 8142
Friday 13 March 2015
Tuesday 10 March 2015
Sitaron ki Chhaon Mein EK NAZAR Kuchh Khaas Geeton Par (Episode 5)
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Sitaron ki Chhaon Mein,, Kuchh Khaas Geeton Par - "एक नज़र", कुछ ख़ास गीतों पर
(A StarBuzz Presentation) Episode 5 . (A research based program on the songs of Hindi films.) +YouTube edition with host Meena Chopra.
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