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Learning Can Be Painful – Part One

by Robert Maniscalco | Aug 3, 2020 | Art Instruction, CSA Advocacy, Fine Art, Motivational, Random Favorites, Theatre Related, World View

Here is my response to a fascinating blog about my Alma Matter/professional acting school, Circle in the Square. Much of what we learned at Circle was about neutralization, where the goal is to find our neutral, so we might then add or take away any color, behavior,...

Learning Can Be Painful – Part Two

by Robert Maniscalco | Aug 3, 2020 | Art Instruction, CSA Advocacy, Fine Art, Motivational, Theatre Related, World View

Is the Old School Effective? In Learning Can Be Painful – Part One, I didn’t get into my experiences in music school with my clarinet teacher. Nor did I delve into my experiences learning the craft of painting from my father. These, and many of the examples I...

NETI Statement of (His Lack of) Purpose

by Robert Maniscalco | Jul 25, 2020 | Art Instruction, Fine Art, Motivational, Theatre Related, World View

I am that I am not. I am Neti. See NETI RUN (Remove Unnecessary Nonsense) “There is a war on beauty in the world. There is a war on intellectualism. There is a war on history where only the new is cool. But the only new thing is that which has not yet been...

The Quench Project – Overview

by Robert Maniscalco | Jul 22, 2020 | Art Instruction, CSA Advocacy, Fine Art, Motivational, Portraiture, Random Favorites, Theatre Related, World View

MEDIA RELEASE  10-15-20 The Quench Project Continues Renown Charleston artist, Robert Maniscalco, has created an exhibition of paintings, expressing hope and renewal from a Vision Trip to Haiti in 2014, in collaboration with Water Missions International. The Project...

Goddess of the Universe

by Robert Maniscalco | May 22, 2020 | Fine Art, Motivational, Portraiture, Random Favorites, Theatre Related, World View

We are all one with the cosmic dust of the multiverse I love it when a client/friend asks me to go outside the box and use my creativity. Who said a portrait has to be all about how we normally look? Sometimes I fancy myself to be soaring among the stars. Maija had an...

Making Music

by Robert Maniscalco | Apr 1, 2020 | Fine Art, Motivational, Random Favorites, Theatre Related, World View

My Sonic Journey I am now recording original music and making it available for soundtracks, films and other uses, with permission. This particular track features my clarinet playing. At one time I was training to be a orchestral clarinetist. I was a member of the...
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