Bruce Petrie is a Senior Counselor at Bricker Graydon law firm, having served clients for over forty years in education, health care, public and private sector and constitutional law. He served on the Executive Committee of the firm ...
162 works by the greats of American art are on exhibit at the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC. See www.phillipscollection.org. The museum is in an 1897 Georgian Revival house in Washington’s DuPont Circle. One of the remarkable things about the collection is its range from realism to impressionism to cubism to abstract ...
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A good golf swing (so I’m told, since I have no firsthand knowledge of same) has a lot to do with balance. In baseball (thinking spring here, still snowing today) we watch each batter before each pitch go through his balance ritual: shifting weight, adjusting grip, aligning shoulders, arms ...
The worlds of math, science and art are not really so separate, even though by education and conventional wisdom many people think they are. Steve Jobs’ intuitions about engineering and art led to some of the most successful and widely used technology ever created. He knew that computing by itself wasn’t enough for the mass appeal he ...
One of my law partners, Mike Hirschfeld, participated in a program entitled “Beyond Civility: Communication for Effective Governance.” Its purpose was to connect people from diverse viewpoints and "elevate public discourse and problem solving" by seeing an opponent's point of view, listening, and avoiding stereotypes.
So ...
In a joint program with the Chicago Bar Association and Art Institute of Chicago, we presented our Continuing Legal Education Program on Brush with the Law...an Artful Eye on Law to a capacity gathering yesterday in Chicago. We looked at four United States Supreme Court decisions in health care, search & seizure, free speech and equal protection ...
George Clooney’s new movie Monument’s Men opens on February 7, based on Robert M. Edsel’s book The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History. It’s the story of Hitler’s looting of the masterpieces of Europe and how a group of museum directors and art professionals-turned-soldiers ...
Following up on the previous item about Jim Borgman, Jim sent on these reflections about his editorial cartooning career:
“As an editorial cartoonist I used to figure that I had the reader’s attention for maybe five seconds…When you think about it, it’s a remarkable honor to be given someone’s attention every day, and I tried to reward ...
While we miss the Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoons of Jim Borgman, we are glad to still have his cartoon strip Zits (with Jerry Scott). Loyal fans of the comics have their favorite cartoons, their likes and dislikes. The reason I like Jim’s work is because it has cartoon soul. Like soul music, it’s hard to define. Just the right mix ...
When a client mentions he or she has read a book lately that has been thought-provoking in running their company or organization, I usually add it to my reading list. One such book is Malcolm Gladwell's David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits and the Art of Battling Giants. Gladwell challenges conventional wisdom about advantages and ...
C. F. Payne is one of America’s leading contemporary illustrators and a friend. I spoke with him today about this artwork he did on the US Constitution:
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Chris said that what he was after was “perplexed” expressions on the faces of Jefferson, Hamilton and Madison. In light of 2014 politics ...
Whether observing a person’s demeanor at work or the salt you put down last night to melt the ice on the back steps…we’re always observing. Or are we? We’ve all watched the oblivious texter walk (not to mention drive) right in our pathway. Can our powers of observation improve? Can we become more observant about observation?
There’s ...
2013 Oil Painters of America Award Winner (Announced 12/20/2013)
Second Place Associate Division, Online Showcase
“Companions” by Bruce Petrie (22” x 33” oil panel)
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If someone at the office today says they like your Christmas tie, that’s a compliment. If you ask yourself why in the world your red and green tie could be worthy of a compliment…now that’s about complement.
A complement refers to making something whole or complete. It applies in geometry, music and art: a complementary angle completes another ...
In an out-of-the-way hallway of our law firm are some shelves with long-unused, leather-bound volumes of US Supreme Court reporters from the 1800s. Here’s a pic of one of them.
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For bibliophiles out there, the aesthetics of an old law book will be appreciated: tobacco-colored; nicked and ...
You know the difference: the speaker who tediously repeats stuff (repetitious) vs. the one you mentally thank for going over the point again (repetition). Psychological studies show that a point can get lost without some repetition; but that too much is a turn off. The funny TV commercial that remains funny when moderately repeated can get ...
Ever heard it said: “in light of all the surrounding circumstances”? Courts, judges and lawyers use it all the time. Law doesn’t stand alone. It has to be applied in a real-world context. Legal context influences perception and outcome.
Context is also key to color. Color theory is one of the most interesting areas of arts education and ...
“It always seems impossible until it’s done.”
“If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.”
Nelson Mandela, who died yesterday at 95, was a lawyer. No one in his family before him had ever attended school, yet his intellect took him to law school and his courage led him to set up a ...
Many of Ohio's county courthouses are architectural gems, located in the center of small towns, like the Clinton County Courthouse in Wilmington where legal work took me this morning. The rural drive and first dusting of snow was a scenic start to the day, with the visual highlight being this beautiful rotunda in the courthouse. Below were lights ...
ArtWorks is an awesome non-profit organization (I’ve mentioned here before) that does incredible public mural paintings on sides of buildings in Cincinnati. Their annual Secret ArtWorks show, this Friday at 5:00 at the Center at the Mercantile Building, 115 E. Fifth St., is really fun and includes hundreds of miniature works of art for sale ...
Today is the 150th Anniversary of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, a masterpiece by a master craftsman of the language of democracy. In Cincinnati’s Lytle Park stands a statue of Lincoln, dedicated on March 31, 1917 at an outdoor ceremony attended by 20,000 to hear an address by William Howard Taft who, like Lincoln, was a former President and ...
At your next meeting look around and make a mental note of who in the room seems to be watching the facial expressions of others. How about you? Are you reading facial expressions?
When proposals are being circulated in a negotiation, the attentive negotiator will put their pen down, put away the smart phone, look up from the laptop and watch for that ...
It's easy to see why people assume art and law are worlds apart. After all, one is a world of briefcases and suits, cases and deals, statutes and rules, courts and juries, documents and contracts - a verbal world ...