Shwedagon Pagoda

 


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

MIRIAM KELLOGG FREDENTHAL & TZAIMS LUKSUS

 ALL INFORMATION FOUND AT THE BENNINGTON MUSEUM WEB SITE IS FALSE OR UNTRUE CONCERNING TZAIMS LUKSUS AND MIRIAM FREDENTHAL. THIS IS THE CORRECT STORY. In 1956 James Henry Luksus, fresh out of the US Navy after four years active duty matriculates first at the University of Pennsylvani in architecture, togetherbwith the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, painting and drawing, and then at the Philadelphia Museum School of Art majoring in Archectural Interior Design.  The program in Interior Design included city planning, urban renewal, structural engineering, architectural restoration, textile weaving and silk sceen printing of fabric. Miriam Kellogg Fredenthal held a teaching position in textile design technology atbthe PMSA from the Philsdelphia Textile Institute.  Earlier she attended Cranbrook Academy of Art having won a sculpture scholarship at the Boston Museum School to study under Carl Millis, however, Millis left for Sweden on a family crisis and the mother of E...
Read more

TZAIMS LUKSUS THE ARTIST

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE AN ARTIST??  WHAT MAKES AN ARTIST??  WHAT IS ART?? These are not easy questions to answer, however, I feel it is possible that I am an artist yet more then that I believe I am creative.  Not only because I am a man that can create new life physically but can create mentally.  What does this mean? First of all living as an artist is being an artist.  Being the son of a welder and welding found objects together doesn't make one an artist.  Simply a fabricator or being the son of a house or industrial painter that becomes a painter on canvas isn't an artist, but only a painter.  What most modern art actually is, is craft not art.  Early masters were different because they embodied artistry, lived it, not just exhibiting industrial skills as most today. From my lifelong experience it seems that one being creative accepts everything as a natural phenomenon.  Everything becomes a resource for creation.  Not physical in ...
Read more

The Personal & Private World of Tzaims Luksus aka Prince Dmitri Ivanovitch Yusupov-Luksiev

Image
Captain & Master  Tzaims Luksus, FRSA OF   2.0 AMERICA  Schooner Key West, Florida  2014 ● Tzaims has been wearing Sailors uniforms since he was 2 years old in 1934. ● Tzaims' 1904 144 foot  Barkentine  "Regina Maris"  Tzaims' Schooner  "Unicorne" Buckthorne Hall Residence of  Tzaims Luksus, FRSA Front entrance with pair of antique London Street lamps from  1800s Charles Dickens era. ● Tzaims found the estate one early misty morning with a for sale sign nailed to a tree.  He was traveling through Vermont to New Hampshire on a 1963 Labor day weekend.  It struck his soul since he had a recurring dream when a child of this very property.  Dark gabled mansion, long circular drive, old trees and him burning leaves in the gravel drive on Halloween afternoon.  Same dream over and over.  ● He immediately called the number and lease/purchased the mansion that same weekend and moved in on 1 October 1963, burning leaves...
Read more