Reviews for Storylines

The average rating for Storylines based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-12-12 00:00:00 Raymond Bauer Lovely book! I am seriously jealous of painters/artists. I'm jealous because they get to go to a building and look and learn. As a writer/poet I have no such place. Here's what I wrote in my blog: And while reading, I realized that as a poet, I'm lacking in my poetry education. I came to this realization while reading about how these artists go to art museums to view, and learn from the Masters. These Masters are mostly painters. And I found myself being jealous that these artists could just go to a museum and learn just by viewing and just by going to one place. And I also realized that I have never studied the masters of poetry. yup! I went to graduate school and have never studied the masters. In fact, I'm not even sure who the Masters of poetry are. Granted I could throw out some names, like, Byron, Keats, Wordsworth, Whitman, Dickinson, but who else? Does Homer count? Shakespeare? And not just the masters of poetry but the movements of poetry which are linked to art. Why aren't there any Poetry History classes in graduate programs, specifically, MFA's? It's really quite frustrating. Also culled a great quote: "Why make art? Because I think there's a child's voice in every artist saying: 'I am here. I am somebody. I made this. Won't you look?'" - Chuck Close

Review # 2 was written on 2019-06-07 00:00:00 William Perry Very enjoyable, perhaps more to novices than experts in fine art. The four is really only because they reference so many artworks they don't show in the book, and the ones they do show are in black and white. Thank goodness for smartphones.