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Watercolour and selective scraping with touches of gouache, over graphite on textured cream wove watercolour paper.
In the late 19th century, The Bahamas encouraged tourism. The Caribbean had previously been seen in the US as a disease-filled 'torrid zone'. Advertising aimed at wealthy North American visitors rebranded The Bahamas as a tripical paradise with a restorative climate. Intended for viewers back home, Homer's watercolour celebrates the verdant landscape. But it also suggests the exclusion of Black islanders from aspects of Bahamian society. The coral and limestone wall, traditionally used to enclose the gardens of Nassau's wealthy private residences, separates the child from the landscape beyond.
[National Gallery]
Taken in the Exhibition
Winslow Homer: Force of Nature
(September 2022 – January 2023)
[A]n overview of Winslow Homer (1836–1910), the great American Realist painter who confronted the leading issues facing the United States, and its relationship with both Europe and the Caribbean world, in the final decades of the 19th century.
Homer’s career spanned a turning point in North American history. He lived through the American Civil War and the abolition of slavery, so-called Reconstruction, and war with the last colonial European power in the Americas, Spain.
From his sketches of battle and camp life, to dazzling tropical views and darker restless seascapes, the works reflect Homer’s interest in the pressing issues of his time; conflict, race, and the relationship between humankind and the environment – issues still relevant for us today.
After the war, Homer’s subject became the lives of Americans in the wake of the war and abolition with a focus on the lives of formerly enslaved African Americans.
Homer travelled to France, England, the Bahamas, Cuba and Bermuda. In England, he painted scenes of heroism and resilience that he saw while staying in Cullercoats, a town on the North East coast. In the Caribbean, his paintings became more vivid as he painted the transparent turquoise waters and lush vegetation. His interest in conflict remained constant and he often explored the issue through painting the life and struggles of Black people.
With more than fifty paintings, covering over forty years of Homer’s career, 'Winslow Homer: Force of Nature' is part of a programme of exhibitions that introduce major American artists to a UK and European audience and follows on from our exhibitions about George Bellows and the Ashcan painters, Frederic Church and Thomas Cole.
[National Gallery]
Humankind has not woven the web of life.
We are but one thread within it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.
All things are bound together.
All things connect.
~ Chief Seattle, 1854
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 22 - Sister Mary Haddad attends Humankindness Gala on May 22nd 2024 at San Francisco City Hall in San Francisco, CA (Photo - Jessica Monroy for Drew Altizer Photography)
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Ion, along with Rainpillar and Windscarf, explores humankind’s essential relationship with the cycles, energy patterns and geophysics of earth’s atmosphere.
Ion defined by geophysics, is an electrically charged atom; it is one of the radicals formed most notably in earth’s atmosphere by the action of electricity or cosmic radiation causing atoms to either gain or lose electrons. Ion unfurls as the portrait of a positively charged particle.
In this sculptural incantation, M.L. Snowden builds upon the ultimate evocation of the positive particle when it is first created. An intensely gestural work, Ion’s hands are open and receptive not only to the new gravity of its atomic structure but to the conceptual freedom of new ventures. In Ion’s dramatic silhouette, it is possible to trace the sculpture as it enlarges its meditation to embrace the sweeping cosmic maps of electrical currents witnessed throughout creation: the path of lightning; the trails of comets; or the ray of energy blazed by an internal human mental thought made visible as it floats and grooves actual tissue like a metal thread. A closed electrical circuit is suggested in fractal planes forming the abstraction of Ion.
A notable engineering accomplishment, Ion has been sculpted by Snowden into new levels of metallurgical balance. Ion’s substantial weight effortlessly suspends along Snowden’s mathematical enhancement of what is possible to be achieved in the science and art of contemporary lost wax bronze. M.L. Snowden invented the protocols and specific foundry wax that makes the casting of Ion possible.
Ultimately for the sculptor, Ion is a seminal work that experiments with a groundbreaking weighted structural wall support calculation. In Ion, each specific element of the anatomical figuration is defined as if charged with an electrical cathode that maximizes every nuance and tendon yet supports the figure in effortless grace and flotation.
From important roots in the Paris studios of Rodin and Antonin Mercié, Snowden brings to Ion, the luminous platinum Fourner Patina and the touch of the Rodin tools that were used to define the exquisite anatomical passages of Ion.
Such is the message of Ion - it is sculpture based on the artist’s theoretical meditation that the trajectory of a positively charged Ion is deeply related to the electrical map of human thought and other expressions of universal cosmic energy. In the sculptor’s conception, the highest plane of human cerebral mentation first extends out in an energy arc much like an extended finger or figure, that when established, tends to form upon orbits of self contained energy systems. For the sculptor, Ion is a wand of human questing; the grace and drive of the soul expressed as transcendent energy.
ABOUT THE ARTIST...
M.L. Snowden is a third generation protegé of the great French sculptor, Auguste Rodin and the inheritor of Rodin’s sculptural techniques and original sculpting tools, which she uses in her own work. Her sculpture has been shown in museums around the world and is in the permanent collection of The White House. Snowden has received numerous awards including being named the world winner of the 1992 International Rodin Competition in Tokyo, Japan. In 1989, at the age of 36, Snowden was awarded the National Sculpture Society’s inaugural Alex Ettl Grant for “Lifetime Achievement in American Sculpture.” Snowden’s commissions include the Main Altar of the $200 million Los Angeles Cathedral.
awesome building, looks like a small hill in the front and really space-age at the back : "where we have come from, and where we are going"
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 16 - Boyz II Men and the Dean family attend Dignity Health Foundation's Humankindness Gala at City Hall in San Francisco, CA. (Photo - Andrew Caulfield for Drew Altizer Photography)
A visitor to Maropeng's interactive exhibition. Maropeng is situated in the Cradle of Humankind, World Heritage Site in Gauteng.
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Mother Nature seems to bear stoically ...
Q: What would happen when She decides to show Her intolerance ?
A: Humankind may never live to know the answer.
1587, darkness prevails. A realm of creatures is discovered, and an enraging war to save humankind begins. We gon' stake some bloody vampires tonight. #drama #ruleofthirds #texture #igers #igerstz #inarusha #instagood #instamood #iphonesia #ianography #iphoneonly #iphoneography #iphonephotography #outdoors #adventure #snapseed #dailyfeature #VSCOcam #vsco #vampires #bnw #blackandwhite #noir #monochrome