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Dr.Ellen Kenner
 
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"(A rational man) needs a moment, an hour or some period of time in which he can experience the sense of his completed task, the sense of living in a universe where his values have been successfully achieved, It is like a moment of rest, a moment to gain fuel to move farther, Art gives him that fuel;  the pleasure of contemplating the objectified reality of one's own sense of life is the pleasure of feeling what it would be like to live in one's ideal world."AYN RAND
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Poor thinking skills can lead a person to draw dis-values from art. For example...
"I didn't think magic was real, but after seeing (Harry Potter), I'm beginning to think it is."
--David, 10 from Newsweek, November 26, 2001
 

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  • www.cordair.com
  • Bouguereau
  • www.forgottendelights.com
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Twelve angry men
Inherit the wind
The Mark of Zorro (1920), Douglas Fairbanks
The Count of Monte Cristo
Chocolat
Name of the Rose
Dangerous Beauty
The Incredibles
Back to the Future part one

Art and Parenting

From an answer to a listeners question
How can I keep my nine year old  daughter from hanging out with a bad crowd?

"...you can offer her a diet of better art, and by `art' I mean the books she reads and the movies she sees. It's not inspiring to be introduced to crappy art - I don't have any other words to describe this - books like Catcher in the Rye, or maybe an awfull movie like Ferris Bulher's Day Off.
   
"If in school she's introduced to such literature or to art that is destructive, nihilistic, like Picasso's paintings where eyes and faces are all chopped up, it presents a very confusing view of the world. Try to counteract that stuff by giving her better art; Nancy Drew, Harry Potter series, the Box Car Kids, books about the childhood lives of famous Americans, O. Henry stories, good movies. You could show her the story of Helen Keller. One of my favorites is back to the future Part one, where you see how the father's choices in that movie make such a difference in his long range happiness and his whole family's happiness. ..."

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