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Have you abandoned this site? Or are you just very busy with teaching art classes? Are you well? Is there another place where I can keep up with your work and life?

I am quite well, actually. It has been forever since I have posted. Mutiple computer crashes, broken (literally) computers, moving to another state, engagement, wedding planning, and having a baby have all lead to quite a bit of time between now and my last post. I do not currently have a computer than can store all the photos I would like, so posting again is a ways off. However, I do intend to come back. I am just on a life hiatus until such time as I have access to appropriate technology :-)

I miss you all greatly, and can’t thank you enough for your loyalty in my absence.

Apr 24, 20134 notes

October 2011

18 posts

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#my scan #Corinne Griffith #window #Russell Ball #silent film #silent movie #actress #vintage #magazine #film #portrait #1920s #Photoplay
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#Charles J. Cook #nude study #in the grass #pictorialism #light #veiled nude #in the woods
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#art #jules joseph lefebvre #oil on panel
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#art #Andrea Casali #oil on canvas
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#vintage #alfred cheney johnston
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#1920s #Gloria Swanson #Photoplay #actress #costume #dress #fashion #film #gown #magazine #metal #metallic #portrait #silent film #silent movie #vintage #my scan
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#Nina Vyroubova #Therese Le Prat
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#Pierre Bonnard #Marthe Bonnard
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#art #jules joseph lefebvre #oil on canvas
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#art #Antoni Piotrowski #watercolor
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#vintage #alfred cheney johnston
“Stare. It’s the way to educate your eyes. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.” —Walker Evans (Thanks to liquidnight)
Oct 3, 2011825 notes
#Photographer #Photography #Prose #Quote #Walker Evans #photographer crush
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#Nino Vayana #vintage erotica #queer vintage
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#John Everard #nude study #skull girl #memento mori #skull
Your posts of the female physique in art pholotgraphy, paintings and the like are beautiful and tasteful. What is your understanding of "transcendental modernism"?

Thank you so much! That question requires quite an extensive answer, and I unfortunately do not have the time to devote to answering it in the depth it deserves. However, the Transcendentalism I refer to in my blog name all at once references the Transcendentalism that became a cultural and spiritual movement in the mid 1800s, after the publication of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Nature” essay, and a poem I wrote,

The Transcendental Modernist

I am a transcendental tale
A modern myth of woe
An axiom of gimping frailty

(c) Kat Laraine

I have made a study of Transcendentalism, so I don’t feel this fully answers your question, and it also doesn’t give enough of an explanation to satisfy my inner perfectionist!  If you are interested in discussing this further, feel free to message me on here with your email, and I’d be more than happy to start a correspondence over this, but please be patient in the response time for the reply emails, as I have been pretty swamped lately with the Masters Fine Art classes I’ve been teaching. :)

Oct 3, 201110 notes
Do you have a facebook page?

Indeed I do! facebook . com / thetranscendentalmodernist

Oct 3, 20115 notes

September 2011

67 posts

Sep 27, 2011189 notes
#art #Francis Danby #oil on panel
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