Word: condo
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...Kaplans are among thousands of seniors retiring to these college-affiliated communities. For many older Americans the desire to continue learning and growing intellectually still burns bright--some are even earning degrees after long and productive careers. And they're happily cracking open their nest eggs for a condo tucked inside the ivory tower. "People retiring these days want to stay sharp, and this kind of connection with a college is enormously attractive," says David Schless, president of the American Seniors Housing Association...
...sketches in ink, pencil and watercolor reveal the artist’s working process. Condo says they’re for the students for his intermediate painting course next semester...
...Condo says inspiration for the paintings came from a recent show on Manet and Velasquez at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. He was interested in how the two great artists compared to each other, and his own characters, Condo says, are “composite figures from memory...
...want the students to learn working from memory,” Condo says. He says that there is much work done already with reliance on external source material. “But one shouldn’t deprive oneself [from the work],” he says. Condo jokingly recommends as prerequisite to his course “heavy background in philosophy and good technical skills” and especially recommends Heidegger’s “Early Greek Thinking...
...think they’re weird and wonderful,” he says of the works. “Condo is an extraordinarily skillful painter...