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The Recording Artist as Fine Artist
An exploration of the parallels between the worlds of contemporary art and music.

The visual arts and music are largely presented as two separate histories with their own unique artists and legacies, connected only by the occasional common intellectual movement. In the last fifty years the worlds of popular music and contemporary art have collided with increasing frequency. The dawn of the information age and ever-quickening advancements in technology have contributed to the blurring of once rigidly defined borders between areas of creative expression…

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Michelangelo’s Moses of the Julius Tomb
Thoughts on the definitive Michelangelo Buonarroti Sculpture Moses

Michelangelo’s Moses of the Julius Tomb (figure1) is one of the most powerful works from one of the most important artists of all time. Michelangelo is perhaps best known for the David. However, a more definitive although lesser known work rests silently within the old stone walls of San Pietro in Vincoli Church in Rome. On a pedestal flanked by several other figures, Moses sits in Neoclassical dress upon a chair, looking eager to spring to life…