There is nothing better than being in a mansion, having room to spread out and move around, you can even be in the same room with someone and not know they are there because there is so much space. When it comes to stone, marble is one of my favorite because it is classic. If I could, I would have marble counter tops in my house, marble floors, marble walls, and even a marble walkway. Marble is one of the most tactile of all of all artistic mediums. Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer of the High Renaissance, who was born 18 February 1564, in Rome, Italy, and exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of America Art. Michelangelo had an uncanny ability to transform marble into lifelike forms. When in the church of San Pietro in Vincoli in Rome, we are virtually compelled to reach out and confirm that the statue of Moses is made of hard, cold marble and not the real yielding flesh that it seems to be.  

Even the Ten Commandments that Moses is holding on his side, seems real. The drapery of his garments seems soft, falling in gentle folds. The visual experience of this work defies what we know is materially true. Beyond its emotional content, part of the power of this work derives from the stone’s extraordinary texture from Michelangelo’s ability to make marble come to life. The liberal arts are those areas of knowledge that are thought to develop general intellectual capacity—which include rhetoric, arithmetic, geometry, astrology, and music. The liberal arts are understood to involve inspiration and creative invention. Art is an intellectual pursuit, and it is an imaginative frenzy of the artist’s temperament and artistic genius, possessing all the intellectual authority and dignity of Michelangelo. While it may be common to think of others as intellectually inferior to men, other people also are creative.  

By this measure, the more faithful to nature a sculpture is, the more accurately it represents the real World, the greater is its aesthetic value. The ideal of love is a greater love of God for all living beings. It is truth to nature that people all desire an image with which they could readily identify. Pay particular attention to how various media developed are in response to artists’ desire to imitate reality and express themselves more and more fluently. The extraordinary luminosity of the encaustic medium is careful and gradual, it has to be prepared with a very smooth ground to create an extremely durable and softly glowing surface unmatched by any other medium. The objects seem to reflect light as if they were real, and the play of light through the surface gives them a sense of tangible presence. The more real a work of art appears to be, the more it is reported to be an example of trompe l’oeil, a French phrase meaning “deceit of the eye.”  

How we see the World of the mind with the physical World outside—we see it as being outside ourselves even though it is only a mental representation of it that we experience inside ourselves. A sculpture, after all is an artificial reality, not reality itself. Works of art exists in the mine, and for the mine, it need not necessarily reflect the World outside. Since virtually its inception is an expressive potential that has to be recognized. The figures have changed as well, giving up their sense of physical motion. The figures have to have a vitality, but not be in motion. They have to be animated with some force…with some energy. That is what the stone is doing. Marble has the energy. Where people live and work have become tangible public monuments to the shared experience of communities of color. We do not want a giant scar across the land which serves to further divide an already divided World. In the history of individuals, as well as in nations, there is often a period of sudden blossoming—a short, luxuriant Summer, not without its tornadoes and thunder-glooms, in which all the buried seeds of past observation leap forth together into life, and form, and beauty.  

Successful love may sometimes use the language of flattery. However, hopeless love always speaks the truth. The man who loves, and loves truly, should not long permit its object to remain in any doubt of his feelings and intentions. Healing is about illuminating, opening to, and integrating all that you are, including the aspects of yourself that you have denied, neglected, ostracized, or disowned. Everything has its place. The deeper your healing, the more you become whole, and the more capable of relating skillfully to everything that you are. Past, present, future—such a neatly sequential trio, or so it seems. The process of making art is the transforming of life. There is hope, and love. After you get through all of that, you can really love yourself, your art, your people, and who you really are. Life is meant to be seen from all side. Walk around and look at how beautiful the World really is. As your figure rises, life changes dramatically. Drama can be good; it is about what you experience. Victorian architecture is very dramatic and beautiful. Wisdom supports the weight of the sky so that it can change places. 

CRESLEIGH HAVENWOOD

Lincoln, CA | from the low $700s

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 No appointment needed! Cresleigh Havenwood features four distinct floor plans ranging from 2,293 – 3,377 square feet and offering up to five bedrooms.  Each plan has been thoughtfully designed and includes great features such as single story homes, guest suites, optional offices, garage workshops, and more! Get the most out of your new home with Cresleigh’s All Ready smart home featuring all the connectivity needed to keep your house running. Best of all, each Cresleigh home comes with owned solar included! 

Located off of Virginiatown Road and McCourtney Road, residents of the 83 homesites of Cresleigh Havenwood will benefit from a brand new neighborhood in the charming City of Lincoln. Palo Verde Park, is  just down the street and there’s plenty of recreation to take part in all around town. https://cresleigh.com/havenwood/