Rockhurst Review

 Rockhurst Review, " a fine arts journal" of literature and art is published through the English  Department at Rockhurst University in Kansas City, MO every spring.
In 2010 its twenty third edition was published - one of my poems is included in it.

The Genesis of A Work of Art: "Eye's Cold Quarantine"

"Eye's Cold Quarantine"

Florence Egerter

The Genesis of A Work of Art: Florence Egerter

In the Thick of the Battle

In the Thick of the Battle

Progression

Artist’s Studio:  Genesis - II

The Genesis of A Work of Art: A Rider: John Norton

 The post--> A Rider: John Norton

The Likely Impossibility

Artist’s Studio: The Genesis of A Work of Art: The Likely Impossibility

Shooting Star

As he prepared for the initial set of sketches, Luca intended to include a representation of Tecumseh, who...continued--> here

Sir Isaac Brock

Apart from the figure that dominates the center of the one of the panels - whom I have referred to as The Blue Rider - there are other riders in this monumental painting.

One of them represents Sir Isaac Brock, for whom Brock University was named.

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The Genesis of a Work of Art...

..continues with a guest post from Weyman Chan, Governor General Literary Award Finalist -->link

The Time and the Place: Niagara Peninsula

The ‘place’ of this monumental painting is the Niagara Peninsula, in Ontario, Canada.

In its early stages – a set of charcoal sketches –...continued here

The Lad With The Knapsack

In the panel noted in the previous post, a few protagonists - soldiers marching on - are rendered with their  backs to the viewers, looking somewhere “ahead” & into the distance, whose contours we barely distinguish, but nevertheless intrigue us....

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The Blue Rider

Let’s step closer to a section of the painting (above).
This is perhaps the aftermath or the prelude of a battle, perhaps a march, with the British forces in red and the American ones in blue at the time of the War of 1812....continued here....link

"Artist's Studio" : Bogdan Luca and the Genesis of a Work of Art - An Invitation

I have started to write about the genesis of a work of art: a one of a kind, monumental painting currently in progress, created by Bogdan Luca, a Toronto area painter, who is working round the clock to complete this painting. 

It's also a one a kind artistic experience for the writer of this blog, and hence the invitation to follow along with me  and to share your thoughts on this work of art and on the creative process in general. 

Here is the -->link

 I look  forward to seeing you there!