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Gala Benefit for the Aesthetic Realism Foundation

http://aestheticrealism.org/come-to-the-aesthetic-realism-foundations/

 

Come to the Aesthetic Realism Foundation’s Holiday Gala Benefit!

Featuring a dazzling

Cabaret

by the Aesthetic Realism Theatre Company.

With an exciting Silent Auction, including
jewelry, electronics, & other fine Holiday
Gifts. Live Jazz, Buffet, & More

Save the Date! 
Sunday, December 7, 4- 9 PM

You can attend this exciting film class on Wednesday, Nov. 12 at 6 pm

The Romantic Comedy; or, Love Has Obstacles • Wednesday, Nov 12, 6 PM 

Ken Kimmelman, Emmy award-winning filmmaker and Aesthetic Realism consultant, says about this upcoming class in his course “If It Moves It Can Move You”: Opposites in the Cinema:

One of the most popular of film genres is the romantic comedy, in which two people delightfully overcome obstacles that seem insurmountable. While these films are lightsome, entertaining, and sometimes zany—at their best, they also have depth and meaning, and represent the victory of what Aesthetic Realism describes love as being: “proud need.”

Some of the films I’ll be discussing are: The Goodbye Girl; Bringing Up Baby; My Cousin Vinnie.  Call (212) 777-4490 to audit this class.

Aesthetic Realism & what we learned about Art & Life

We are a husband and wife, architect and poet, and this blog is about what we learned from Aesthetic Realism, the philosophy founded by Eli Siegel: that all the problems or questions of life are answered in art.  In love and marriage, as parents, at work, in every aspect of our lives we are trying to put opposites together, and, as Eli Siegel stated: "The resolution of conflict in self is like the making one of opposites in art."

Aesthetic Realism explains the beauty of time arts—like music and poetry—and also space arts such as architecture, sculpture, painting.

Sunday, January 5, 2:30 PM

A thrilling double event about music, architecture,
& the understanding of ourselves!

Aesthetic Realism Public Seminar

What Music Says about Our Lives—A Celebration!

Presented by Barbara Allen, Anne Fielding, Edward Green,

& Speakers from the Opposites in Music Class

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Kevin Fennell on:
Criticism & Encouragement in “Reach Out, I’ll Be There,”
by the Four Tops

Frances Finch on:
How Smetana’s “The Moldau” Is Both Unbounded & Particular!

Lynette Abel on:
Love as Intimate & Wide in the Beatles’ “I Saw Her Standing There”

Steven Weiner on:
Power & Delicacy in “The Flower Duet from Léo Delibes’ Lakmé

Alan Shapiro on:
Passion & Control in Prokofiev’s 5th Symphony

◊◊◊

And—following the seminar there will be
a Reception, with light refreshments, in honor
the new Terrain Gallery Exhibition

The Meaning of a Building

Architectural Sketches & Drawings by Anthony Romeo, RA
for the Renovation of the
Aesthetic Realism Foundation’s Historic Building!

 

HAPPY NEW YEAR! Please note that due to heavy snowstorm & extreme cold predicted for the NYC area the exciting event ”Music, Architecture, Ourselves—A Celebration!” is re-scheduled for Sunday, Jan 5, 2:30--Please Come!

 

Due to the heavy snowstorm and extreme cold predicted for the NYC area this Thursday, January 2,  the exciting event ”Music, Architecture, Ourselves—A Celebration!” will be postponed. It has been rescheduled.

New date: Sunday, January 5, 2:30 PM

A thrilling double event about music, architecture,
& the understanding of ourselves!

Aesthetic Realism Public Seminar

What Music Says about Our Lives—A Celebration!

Presented by Barbara Allen, Anne Fielding, Edward Green,

& Speakers from the Opposites in Music Class

◊◊◊

Kevin Fennell on:
Criticism & Encouragement in “Reach Out, I’ll Be There,”
by the Four Tops

Frances Finch on:
How Smetana’s “The Moldau” Is Both Unbounded & Particular!

Lynette Abel on:
Love as Intimate & Wide in the Beatles’ “I Saw Her Standing There”

Steven Weiner on:
Power & Delicacy in “The Flower Duet from Léo Delibes’ Lakmé

Alan Shapiro on:
Passion & Control in Prokofiev’s 5th Symphony

◊◊◊

And—following the seminar there will be
a Reception, with light refreshments, in honor
the new Terrain Gallery Exhibition

The Meaning of a Building

Architectural Sketches & Drawings by Anthony Romeo, RA
for the Renovation of the
Aesthetic Realism Foundation’s Historic Building!

Music, Architecture, & the Art of Understanding Ourselves! Thrs. Jan.2 6:30 pm Aesthetic Realism Public Seminar

A thrilling double event about music, architecture, & the understanding of ourselves!

Thursday, January 2, 6:30 PM

Aesthetic Realism Public Seminar

What Music Says about Our Lives—A Celebration!

Presented by Barbara Allen, Anne Fielding, Edward Green,

& Speakers from the Opposites in Music Class

◊◊◊

Kevin Fennell on:
Criticism & Encouragement in “Reach Out, I’ll Be There,”
by the Four Tops

Frances Finch on:
How Smetana’s “The Moldau” Is Both Unbounded & Particular!

Lynette Abel on:

Love as Intimate & Wide in the Beatles’ “I Saw Her Standing There”

Steven Weiner on:
Power & Delicacy in “The Flower Duet from Léo Delibes’ Lakmé

—And more!

◊◊◊

And—following the seminar there will be
a Reception, with light refreshments, in honor
the new Terrain Gallery Exhibition

The Meaning of a Building

Architectural Sketches & Drawings by Anthony Romeo, RA
for the Renovation of the
Aesthetic Realism Foundation’s Historic Building!

Contri. $10

Aesthetic Realism Foundation

141 Greene Street

New York, NY 10012

212.777.4490

Don't Miss a Wonderful Holiday Presentation at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation

What Good Will Really Is!  Sunday, December 22, at 2:30 pm at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation, 141 Greene Street in New York City.

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CONGRATULATIONS TO THE TEACHERS PRESENTING THE AESTHETIC REALISM SEMINAR TONIGHT

Tonight, I attended a seminar about a teaching method that really works!--it has changed the anger in students to excitement about learning--it has made them kinder!  If the new administration in New York City were to implement this method throughout city schools we would see an immediate improvement in our schools.  Congratulations to Lori Colavito, (first grade teacher at Southampton Elementary), Zvia Ratz, (mathematics teacher at MS 223), and Christopher Balchin, (social studies teacher at Brooklyn Academy of Science and the Environment) for your courage, honesty, your passion about ending racism and your love for your students.  The way Christopher Balchin spoke about how racism changed in him because of what he learned, earned the respect of everyone who heard it. Check out his blog on this subject!

Congratulations to Patricia Martone (ESL, PS 134M), Arnold Perey,. Ph.D. and Rosemary Plumstead. You have made a difference in the lives of many. Keep up the great work!

The Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method Meets the Hopes of Students NOW!

The Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method Meets the Hopes of Students NOW!

Public Seminar: Thursday, November 7, 6:30 PM •
Speakers: NYC Teachers & Aesthetic Realism Consultants with All For Education •
As this school year begins, students feel two things: hope that they’ll be able to learn—math, science, history—and fear that they won’t understand and remember the facts they’re taught. Amidst new ‘standards’ and relentless testing, a boy repeating 4th grade in the Bronx asks himself, ‘What’s the matter with me? Am I dumb? Will I ever be able to learn?’ The speakers in this vitally important seminar will show how the Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method meets children’s tremendous hope to learn successfully!
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New York teachers will give examples of lessons from their own classrooms and will describe how students—including many who had been given up on—become excited by their subjects, remember facts, pass standard exams, and also become much kinder to each other. This is the educational method that can end the high dropout rate, the poor learning, and the violence in our nation’s schools

Speakers: LORI COLAVITO (1st grade, Southampton Elementary School) ♦ ZVIA RATZ (math, MS 223) ♦ CHRISTOPHER BALCHIN (social studies, Brooklyn Academy of Science & the Environment) ♦ PATRICIA MARTONE (ESL, PS 134M) ♦ ROSEMARY PLUMSTEAD (science, NYC HS retired, & current teacher educator) ♦ ARNOLD PEREY, Ph.D. (instructor, The Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method)
To print flyer, click here.
Aesthetic Realism Foundation
141 Greene Street (SoHo)
New York, NY 10012
212.777.4490

Aesthetic Realism & Shakespeare's "Much Ado about Nothing"

Can a Woman Make Sense of How She’s For & Against a Man & the World?

By Karen Van Outryve

Emma Thompson & Kenneth Branagh in “Much Ado about Nothing” [1993 film]

The following excerpt from an Aesthetic Realism seminar by my colleague Karen Van Outryve, poet and actress, has a section about Beatrice & Benedict in Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, showing how this play can be useful to women and men right now. – Anne Fielding Read more

 

AESTHETIC REALISM & GERRIT RIETVELD'S RED AND BLUE CHAIR by Anthony C. Romeo

GERRIT RIETVELD'S RED AND BLUE CHAIR
& What I Learned about Rest and Motion in Myself
By Anthony C. Romeo, AIA
In 1918, the architect Gerrit Thomas Rietveld designed a chair that affected not only furniture design, but the history of architecture. Rietveld's "Red and Blue" chair is now in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, and it is a chair I love. Read more...
         
 

 

Aesthetic Realism consultant John Stern on the beauty of Grand Central Station

The beauty of Grand Central Station, 100 years old, considered by geologist & Aesthetic Realism consultant John Stern on this beautiful website, which also contains talks on many other New York City landmarks: pay a visit!

http://www.beautyofnyc.org/grandcentralstation.htm

I began to study Aesthetic Realism, the philosophy founded by Eli Siegel, in 1968.  It was the education that met--exceeded--my deepest hopes. Over the years, I saw the immense benefit Aesthetic Realism brought to those who studied it seriously. I also saw the enormous, real pain that resulted from the refusal of the press to report on Aesthetic Realism fairly and seriously. I saw there was a boycott by the press--an agreement not to write about it honestly.  One instance of this boycott, led by the New York Times, under Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, is the interview listed below, "Is a Person An Aesthetic Situation?" which the Times might easily have published but did not.  By 1977, I had seen this boycott end and ruin lives. And there were millions of others I did not know, but knew that, like me, they were longing for an understanding, an explanation, of why they didn't like themselves, and how they could. Aesthetic Realism is that knowledge.  My passionate feeling about this found the following expression in 1977.

Sapphics on the Press Boycott of Aesthetic Realism

Silence can kill: Sulzberger you are guilty!
You are one man, holding back hope for millions.
Stop the boycott--too many people suffer,
People have died, too.

 

Silence goes on! See what the press is doing!

Horrors each day; everyone is a victim.

Something can change agony into seeing:
Give it a fair chance!

What have we seen? Sulzberger ask us questions!

What have we seen, learning from Eli Siegel?—
Art and our lives: truthfully comprehended!
How can you kill truth?

We have learned why beauty has so much meaning.

Art is good sense: Opposites are the reason;
Beauty is this: Opposites reconciled, and
This is what we want.
 
Why does this thought satisfy our perception?
We have good minds: critical, thinking people,
We have looked hard, studying isn't easy—
Not with a boycott.

Silence must end!  There is a way of seeing

People yearn for: Knowledge that makes one kinder,
Justice can be beautiful self-enhancement:
Let it be known now!

Karen Van Outryve

1977

 

 

 

Anthony C. Romeo, AIA, talks on Post-Sandy Recovery

Hear the discussion:
http://vimeo.com/61145818

Anthony C. Romeo, AIA
Parks Program Director
New York City Department of Design and Construction
Faculty, CUNY, New York City College of Technology
Aesthetic Realism Associate

Chrysanthemum

Written after a photograph by David M. Bernstein and comment by Eli Siegel

The white flower in reason
Holds the secret of all your sorrows.
The dark places of your heart lie in the rich green leaves
Visited by sunlight.
The petals are white,
Rising in snowy abundance to greet
All that is unknown.
What is this sought after world,
That knowing it is rivalled so by fear?
So, hope can turn to ashes in our eyes,
But even as we turn, ungratefully, away,
The lowly petals in wild disorder lie
Attesting to the glory
Of uncertainty.
They ask, as ever in sureness they did,
What is this world?

Karen Van Outryve
1969