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Oil on canvas
The title refers to bells rung on board ship to mark the end of each four-hour watch. Here, two sailors use astronomical instruments to record the vessel's location following a storm, their oilskins glinting as the sun breaks through the clouds. Homer expressed interest in writings by oceanographer Matthew Maury (1806-1873), who connected scientific measurement with divine order. Through this lens, the depiction of the sailors' everyday work becomes a meditation on the human struggle to comprehend nature.
[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 in all its complexity and type is an inexhaustible source of inspiration for Marlene Dumas. A recurring theme is the subjectivity of categorization: beautiful and ugly, perfect versus imperfect, acceptable as opposed to shameful. Her expressive, smudgy style is anything but neatly or finely rendered, and yet within it lies an extraordinary beauty. This resonates in her approach to the people she portrays.
The series of paintings and drawings she made in 1990-91 of patients AND staff at "Het Hooghuys psychiatric institute" is a striking example of this.
INOCULATION ETERNITY is a story about a place called Eternity. It is my imagination about what life might have been like before humankind ever existed. We all have this hope that when we die we go to a perfect place called Heaven. In this book I paint a picture of a similar place where there is no time, sickness or war. Its essence beholds perfection and pure happiness. The entire story evolves around the life of Archangel Lucifer, who is the Master of Ceremony for the Gathering.
The Gathering could be likened to a church service, but far greater. Its purpose is to recharge everyone's spirit in what I reference in the book as life's resurgence. Everything was perfect until something happens at the latest Gathering service. This something has to do with Lucifer. It begins a wind of change that rocks the core of Eternity and everyone's existence. You will witness how Lucifer's unleashed emotions assimilate negative potential. As the story progresses, readers will witness how many of Eternity's inhabitants who are witnessing the changes, become determined to understand what is happening. Amongst them evolves a certain sect of creatures who begin to enjoy their newfound knowledge. Different sensations are experienced as new emotions surface, which were hidden from them since the beginning of their existence.
Gabriel, who is another principal character is one determined to understand what is happening. Prior to these dysphonic eruptions everything was all good. Now another realm appears on the horizon. His concern for Lucifer and scientific interests beckon him to go in search of a remedy.
Ancient of Days' is my version of God. He is the center of all moral consciousness and the animator for life. He doesn't even attempt to explain what is happening or what has caused the eruption in the first place. Some begin to wonder why. His expression of love for His creation is to stand back and allow them the freedom to choose their own destiny. It is His desire that they trust Him. He encourages them to govern themselves. He lends them support and intervenes only when it is absolutely necessary. With an infinite space ahead of them, He is in no hurry to stop what appears to be a disaster.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 22 - Jeffrey Buckmaster and Ketty White attend Humankindness Gala on May 22nd 2024 at San Francisco City Hall in San Francisco, CA (Photo - Natalie Schrik for Drew Altizer Photography)
Look at the rainbow. Nature has filled the Earth with beauty. Perhaps humankind should have appreciated the beauty that Nature provided rather than create a consumer economy which perpetuates itself by destroying and polluting the planet.
Can you live without oil? It really doesn't matter in the least even if you cannot. You are going to lose oil anyway. Oil is a finite resource subject to depletion. Peak Oil has occurred. If you need oil to survive you are really out of luck.
Can you live without plastic? I know, I know ... life without plastic is impossible. Who cares that floating plastic trash is polluting lakes, rivers, wetlands and the ocean? Americans need their plastic!
Humankind has treated the Earth like a worthless planet. Humankind will discover in the years ahead that living on an unhealthy inhospitable planet is quite a bit more impossible than living without plastic, oil, SUVs, consumerism, capitalism and the American Way of Life.
Protecting the environment is a life or death matter for humankind. Extinction happens. Humankind has gambled with the entire planet and it is humankind which will end up the ultimate loser in the bet. You cannot destroy your only home without suffering consequences.
Helping the breeze lift the bride's veil... [ Calke Abbey, NT ]
[ idea borrowed from the sound stage/dream sequence in 'Singin' in the Rain' - ? ]
Cradle of Humankind, Maropeng, South Africa. Dec/2012. O Berço da Humanidade. África do Sul. Dez/2012
This powerful verse calls on us all to recognize the truth of our humble beginnings. We are dust and fluids. Which Allah The Creator fashions into this glorious diversity known as humankind. The creation of human beings and all their faculties is a great mercy in itself. The fact that we can get out of bed, work, eat, play and sleep should make us grateful.
Does the human being not remember that We created him before, when he was nothing?
―Quran 19:67
Have We not made for him two eyes? And a tongue and two lips?
—Quran 90:8-9
Do they not reflect on themselves? Allah created the heavens and the earth and whatever lies between them in Truth and for an appointed term. And truly many of the people are disbelievers in the meeting with their Lord.
—Quran 30:8
Were they created by nothing, or were they themselves the creators? Or did they create the heavens and the earth? Nay, but they have no firm Belief.
—Qur'an 52:35-36
Allah has created you from dust, then from a drop of semen, and then He made you pairs. No female conceives or gives birth without His Knowledge. No aged human is granted a long life or the life is cut short but is written in a book. Surely, that is easy for Allah.
―Quran 35:11
And He has granted you all that you asked Him for. If you tried to count Allah’s blessings, you would never be able to number them. truly, the human being is unfair, ungrateful.
—Quran 14:34
It is Allah Who has endowed you with the faculties of hearing and sight and has given you hearts. Scarcely do you give thanks.
―Quran 23:78
Allah brought you out of your mothers' wombs, not knowing anything; and He gave you hearing and sight and hearts, so that you might be grateful.
―Quran 16:78
According to Islam, one of our foremost duties is to be grateful to God for all of His blessings. We can describe three levels of thankfulness:
1. To realize and appreciate all blessings by and within the heart.
2. To say thanks with the tongue.
3. To express gratitude by doing righteous deeds.
In other words, the first level is the appreciativeness and gratefulness that we feel in our hearts. Then we fortify that thankfulness through our speech. And the third level is when we prove by our deeds that we are truly thankful to God.
If you were to count the blessings of Allah, never would you be able to number them.
―Quran 16:18
You’re here for a reason. You’re not a coincidence. You were created for a purpose.
Watercolour on wove paper
Painted during an 1873 visit to the village of Gloucester, Massachusetts, the smaller figure here appears to eye the dead shark ahead, while his older companion looks back, while his older companion looks back, seemingly at the sailboat behind them. Such details subtly allude to threats the youth of this fishing village might someday face at sea.
[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]
Pretty interesting clouds rolling over the landscape surrounding the Cradle of Humankind, Maropeng.
More on the Cradle of Humankind, Maropeng
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