"Things hidden in my head"
Copyright 2012 © Ronald D. Isom, Sr.
This blog is a division of the CODEX ISOM a complete guide to the collected works and writings of Ronald D. Isom, art educator and artist. A study of the heart, soul and mind. Creating esoteric connections to the universe. Without symbols our lives would be as spiritually impoverished as sleep without dreams.
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
I robot...
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Sunday, June 2, 2013
Friday, May 31, 2013
“If we seek genuine psychological understanding of the human being of our own time, we must know his spiritual history absolutely. We cannot reduce him to mere biological data, since he is not by nature merely biological, but is a product also of spiritual presuppositions.” – -Carl Jung from a presentation at the C. G. Jung Institute Zurich, Küsnacht, 15 Nov 1953
Reciting my lines on the stage of life
"Things hidden in my head"
Copyright 2012 © Ronald D. Isom, Sr
Art matters. Art instructs. Art heals. Art takes us on a journey and we are changed!
Thursday, May 30, 2013
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Language of the universe
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Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Psychodynamic flow
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Sunday, May 12, 2013
Dreams of mystic elements
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Friday, May 10, 2013
Artistic sense
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Thursday, May 9, 2013
Mysterious landscape
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Monday, May 6, 2013
Equations
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Sunday, May 5, 2013
Wonders of the unconscious
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Friday, May 3, 2013
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Monday, April 29, 2013
Sunday, April 28, 2013
Friday, April 26, 2013
"Things hidden in my head"
Copyright 2013 © Ronald D. Isom, Sr.
"Do you ne'er think what wondrous beings these?
Do you ne'er think who made them, and who taught
The dialect they speak, where melodies
Alone are the interpreters of thought?
Whose household words are songs in many keys,
Sweeter than instrument of man e'er caught!"
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 'Tales of a Wayside Inn'
"Do you ne'er think what wondrous beings these?
Do you ne'er think who made them, and who taught
The dialect they speak, where melodies
Alone are the interpreters of thought?
Whose household words are songs in many keys,
Sweeter than instrument of man e'er caught!"
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 'Tales of a Wayside Inn'
Thursday, April 25, 2013
I just don't get it.
Recently,
I have been fielding question about my art from from residents of the
independent living center where I reside. One of the most common
questions relate to where I get my ideas and occasionally someone
will mention that that my work “look like” some known artist.
Those questions are usually veiled attempts to suggest that my work
may not be original. A particularly difficult question or response
is always some form of “ I just don't get it” or I like pictures
of things I recognize.” These ego related questions are the most
annoying. The questions and opinions are not new, I have been asked
the same questions and heard the same opinions from students, family
members and friends for over sixty years.
Originality
is a ghost and one could question philosophically whether originality
really exists. What really matters is our personal approach to art
and the way in which we express our experiences and influences on a
canvas; that is the high point of art and art criticism; anything
else is a moot point and ego driven drivel.
"Things hidden in my head"
Copyright 2013 © Ronald D. Isom, Sr.
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Organic undergrowth
boscage, boskage, brake, brush,
brushwood, bush,coppice, copse,
thicket, understory, underwood
"Things hidden in my head" Copyright 2013 © Ronald D. Isom, Sr.
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Horror Vacui
Horror
vacui art is an art form that expands on Aristotle's theory of horror
vacui (that
nature abhors a vacuum, and therefore empty space will always try to
fill itself with a gas or liquid to avoid being empty) and includes
visual interpretations in artwork.
Horror vacui artwork involves the
artist leaving no piece of the canvas uncovered. There is a
fear of empty space in the works of any horror vacui art, and so
artists will cover every inch of their canvas in detail to avoid
leaving any remnants of blank space.
Horror vacui art had been practiced by ancient Greek and Islamic
artists, and was even evident among the many indigenous tribes of
Central and South America. However, with regards to the term horror
vacui,
this is credited to 20th century author, scholar, and critic Mario
Praz. Mario used the term to help describe the suffocating atmosphere
created by Victorian Age interior design.
Monday, April 15, 2013
Monday, April 8, 2013
"Things hidden in my head"
Copyright 2012 © Ronald D. Isom, Sr.
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
― Albert Camus
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
― Albert Camus
Saturday, April 6, 2013
"Things hidden in my head"
Copyright 2012 © Ronald D. Isom, Sr.
Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
Charles Churchill
Charles Churchill
Thursday, April 4, 2013
Human nature is not fixed: humans are able, when forced by life conditions, to adapt to their environment by constructing new, more complex, conceptual models of the world that allow them to handle the new problems.
"Things hidden in my head"
Copyright 2012 © Ronald D. Isom, Sr.
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Primeval expression
"Things hidden in my head"
Copyright 2012 © Ronald D. Isom, Sr.
The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens into thatprimeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was a conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach. Carl Gustav Jung
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
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