What is genre? I have asked and asked this question and back in 2018 I found an interesting explanation -- but I didn't note where it came from. A story is a piece of art that induces different emotions as it is read, or told. Different stories can evoke different patterns, varying types of emotion [...]
... who once pushed open a door that had heavy weights against it, to wake her oversleeping owner. You might think it was about food but ... it wasn't. Here is a Woman with a Cat, Auguste Renoir, 1875. Here is Julie Manet Holding a Cat by Berthe Morisot, 1889, printed by someone else in [...]
When I was four or five years old I lived near the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, at a time when you could still park on the mall on a Sunday afternoon, and walk to the museum in hot summer sunshine. My black patent leather Mary Janes slid on the cool floors of [...]
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