Author Archive

Article on American Realism Movement

Read this excellent article about the contemporary realism movement happening today in Art. This article was shared with me by none other than the glorious poet himself Dave Talbot. The article shares many wise words from a great leader in this movement: Jacob Collins.

Autumn Landscape - Jacob Collins

Autumn Landscape – Jacob Collins

Collins explains: “My general feeling in terms of art making is the train got off the rails in the 1860s and 1870s, and my practical instinct is to go back to where it was, try to put it back, fix it up, and start going again. Our culture,” he continued, “has inherited the idea that if artists are not avant-garde they cannot have a significant role. That’s a fallacy we’ve inherited from some Parisian nut-job radicals. The rejection of beauty is so accepted. It’s high time that we as a culture attend to our beauty position.”




Support this film initiative

As many of you know, my great grandfather Albert Bloch has had a tremendous influence on me as an artist. As a little boy I was dazzled and enthralled when I first climbed up into his attic studio in Lawrence Kansas Green Dressto peruse his paintings and hear about him from my great grandmother Anna.  His paintings and prints hand on the walls of my parents home, and I’ve always loved his work.  I got to see where he first exhibited in Germany, at the Lenbachaus in Munich, when I studied abroad in college. I will never forget that.

 

Now a film is finally being produced about him and his life’s work and story.  It is almost finished but needs a little funding to complete the project. Read the story, watch the video, listen to AB’s voice (done by actor Holmes Osborne). It’s magnificent! Please give to this project here: https://igg.me/at/albert-bloch-film

In Art,

Peter Hilaire Bloch



Happy as Kings: Restoring the Art of Education

Dear Friends,

Graduation Mass at St. Gregory's Academy 2005

Graduation Mass at St. Gregory’s Academy 2005

Gregory the Great Academy has started a fundraising campaign called Happy as Kings: Restoring the Art of Education.  I encourage you prayerfully to consider making a donation to this important venture in Catholic education.  No amount is too small!  By donating, you will be supporting Gregory the Great Academy’s noble goal of helping form young men into well educated and artistic Catholic gentlemen.  These young men are instructed in the serene beauty of the Pocono mountains, free from the distractions of technology and mass media; it is here that they are allowed to work, play, and pray in a community of friends devoted to their motto’s ideals: bonum, verum, pulchrum.

https://igg.me/at/HappyasKings/x/9885120

Please share this link with your friends and family to help GGA reach their goal (and beyond) of $24,000.

Thank you, and God Bless,

Peter Hilaire Bloch

St. Gregory’s Academy Class of ’05




css.php