URSULA | Visual Diaries

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URSULA STERNBERG (1925 - 2000)

Ursula was a fundamentally upbeat spirit. She prevailed in impossible circumstances to reach levels of self actualization that few people ever reach. She challenged current art world trends. She was one of those people who didn’t simply enter a room; she consumed it and its inhabitants with her eyes, taking in every inch, then filling it with anticipation of what would come next.

Ursula shied away from being called a Philadelphia Artist, an American, a European Artist, or a Woman Artist. To her, she was "An Artist". Ursula inspired and continues to inspire many who knew her. Hopefully these pages will share her work with a NEW AUDIENCE, perhaps even leading to new discoveries, new methods and new secrets. 

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Visual Diaries - Ursula's books are spirited and flamboyant.  Just looking at them, touching the pages, reminds you how very much it is a piece of art.

The power of poetry binds together a collection of painted books by Ursula Sternberg.  The artist observes, “certain poems inspire me to paint around them, they guide my brush, determine color.  In the end, words and paintings seem to merge and complement each other.” The verses by Baudelaire, Paul Verlaine, and Guillaume Apollinaire, French poets of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, are Sternberg’s favorites. 

Of all Ursula’s themes and variations, women, in all their moods and attire, are a consistent element. Ursula’s strong introspective, playful, bold characters are silent witnesses to countless unfolding dramas, intrigue, and tantalizing situations that continue to captivate.

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Ursula was a fundamentally upbeat spirit. She prevailed in impossible circumstances to reach levels of self actualization that few people ever reach. She challenged current art world trends. She was one of those people who didn’t simply enter a room; she consumed it and its inhabitants with her eyes, taking in every inch, then filling it with anticipation of what would come next. Ursula shied away from being called a Philadelphia Artist, an American, a European Artist, or a Woman Artist. To her, she was 'An Artist'.

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