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Created for the "Shock of the New" Group's Challenge "Awesome Abstracts".
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Spinning off of "Europe, Just Before the Rain" I took many of the same Classical and Surrealist paintings and built this image up by treating them with extreme mirroring techniques, which resulted in the stellated and spherical forms.
While the larger image is very abstract, closer examination reveals that many telling details of the original paintings still show.
Carrying on off the theme of "Europe, Just Before the Rain" with Max Ernst's "Europe After the Rain" in the middle, I imagined a post 20th century, late 21st century view of a new Europe ... still to come into being. A healed and renewed Western culture that has respected and absorbed the insights and wisdom of the other half of the world.
Classical painting images sourced from Google Images.
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© This Montage - Richard S Warner ( Visionheart ) - 2019. All Rights Reserved. This montaged image is not for use in any form without explicit, express, written permission. The two images used are public domain and no monies will be made from this piece.
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Created for the "Shock of the New" Group's Challenge "Awesome Abstracts".
www.flickr.com/groups/shockofthenew/discuss/7215767971392...
A summation point of the "Classic Re-Mixes" that preceded this image. Being unable to resist SOTN's challenge ( I was an abstract painter for 15 years before coming to the photographic arts ), I thought a good place to take this Classical Re-Mix thing before moving on would be into abstraction.
Here, I've done that with a lot of Monet's and a van Gogh, which lends a lovely "brushstroke" feeling to the texture of this and the following piece "A New Europa". Everything you see in these two pieces comes from painting except for some glowing edges and a bit of bevelling I applied to certain shapes.
Classical painting images sourced from Google Images.
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© This Montage - Richard S Warner ( Visionheart ) - 2019. All Rights Reserved. This montaged image is not for use in any form without explicit, express, written permission. The two images used are public domain and no monies will be made from this piece.
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Creating montages like this (from Wikimedia Commons) is currently the rage on Flickr. So I thought I'd try my hand at it. I thought of putting a whaling scene behind Vermeer's milkmaid. After I created it, I started looking for details about both paintings. They are both Dutch and both reside in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Wikipedia gives Vermeer's "Milkmaid" a date of ca. 1660. And they give dates of 1654-1708 to Abraham Storck's "The Whaling Grounds." So both paintings are not only Dutch they are roughly contemporaneous. Just another example of bonne chance! I welcome further discussion of this montage.
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Created for "The Award Tree" group's challenge "Music Works".
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Beethoven't ninth and final symphony is one of the greatest pieces of Western music in all of history. The composition and concept behind it is beyond "Olympian", as it has often been described. Certainly it is one of the most powerful, hair-raising and rapture inducing musical pieces I have ever encountered. If you have the chance to see it performed live with a full symphony orchestra and large choir, I HIGHLY recommend it. Doing so years ago left me utterly speechless.
I chose to do this for the contest because the opening lines of the Choral, the final moment, "O Freunde, nicht diese Töne !"
( Oh friends, not these sounds ! ) came to mind when looking at Classical paintings of battles. Then when I saw the portrait of Beethoven himself the whole project crystallized. The title is a call to end all wars and to bring about the unity of the human race - beyond nations - "Alle menschen werden bruder". This is hardly a call without relevance today.
I used images from a free download site.
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Music Link: "Ninth Symphony - Chorale" Opus 125 ( 1822-24 ) - Ludwig van Beethoven. Conducted in this video by Leonard Bernstein at a 1989 performance in Berlin to celebrate the removal of the Berlin Wall. Each conductor brings their own interpretation to the podium and thankfully Bernstein had the great sensitivity NOT to rush this symphony as so many others have done. The opening movement requires a stately grandeur to it that's best brought out by letting those gargantuan opening chord sequences in D Minor breathe and expand in consciousness to their fullest extant before careening ahead to the next ones. There are newer and sharper videos but Bernstein's nailed it for me for his impeccable and passionate interpretation.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IInG5nY_wrU
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© This Collage - Richard S Warner ( Visionheart ) - 2019. All Rights Reserved. This collaged image is not for use in any form without explicit, express, written permission. The three images used are public domain and no monies will be made from this piece.
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This was completely impulsive. I had been discussing a recent piece of Paul Cowie's with him and a strong urge came over me to put my hand to the same purpose - collaging classical paintings in a contemporary way. I've been wanting to shake my work up a bit anyway, to step out of the usual for a bit. This qualifies, I think. Created around The Moody Blues's song, "Are You Sitting Comfortably ?" and titled after it.
Entered in The Award Tree groups "Music Works" challenge.
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I haven't done anything like this since I collaged a series of Max Ernst images in an homage to him a few years back. It had been brewing quietly in the back of my mind that it might be time to do another. Paul's piece, "Relaxing with the Little People~~ " provided the spark to set it in motion. So this piece is dedicated to him.
www.flickr.com/photos/paulcowie/47365363172
Both paintings were taken from a public domain website that provides free downloads of classical pieces.
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Music Link: "Are You Sitting Comfortably ?" - The Moody Blues, from their album "On the Threshold of a Dream". This absolutely gorgeous song portrays the imagination of someone sitting back in their favourite chair and dreaming off of distant times and places, both mythical and historical.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSbHwEBP1u8
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© This Collage - Richard S Warner ( Visionheart ) - 2019. All Rights Reserved. This collaged image is not for use in any form without explicit, express, written permission. The two images used are public domain and no monies will be made from this piece.
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Bathe in light, marble, and meaning—the Great Hall of the Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building in Washington, DC is more than an entranceway. It's a declaration that knowledge deserves a palace. This photograph, taken from the second-floor loggia, captures the hall’s luminous grandeur, from its soaring Corinthian columns to the allegorical ceiling murals that inspire reverence in all who pass beneath them.
Completed in 1897 during America’s Gilded Age, the Jefferson Building is the oldest of the Library’s facilities and one of the most ornate public buildings in the country. Its Beaux-Arts architecture is exemplified by this loggia, which wraps around the central atrium like a gallery of civic pride and classical elegance. Here, marble balustrades and arched colonnades frame views of the bustling entryway below, where visitors gaze upward in wonder.
Above, a brilliantly illuminated ceiling features a mosaic of fresco medallions and symbolic figures, each representing virtues such as Poetry, Science, Art, Philosophy, and Law. Painted by a team of 19th-century artists under the direction of Edward Pearce Casey, these murals align with the building’s founding principle: to showcase the best of human achievement in literature, learning, and culture.
Circular lunettes beneath each arch hold female allegorical portraits symbolizing abstract ideals. A closer look reveals gilded phrases etched into friezes, such as "The true university of these days is a collection of books." Every surface tells a story, and every story points to a belief in democracy through access to knowledge.
The photograph’s perspective from the second floor emphasizes the architectural rhythm of repeating arches and paired columns, creating a harmonious procession of forms. The verticality of the space is softened by the warm glow of reflected light off the white Tennessee marble, punctuated by shadows cast from the dramatic ceiling.
Below, in the distance, visitors cluster near the overlook to glimpse the famed Main Reading Room—but here, we linger in a space just as vital. The loggia serves as a contemplative promenade, where the public engages not only with books, but with the visual language of American ideals.
The Jefferson Building was part of a broader movement to elevate the status of libraries from quiet book depositories to temples of civic enlightenment. In no space is that ambition more fully realized than this Great Hall, where classical architecture meets a uniquely American aesthetic of optimism and intellectual freedom.
This image offers a moment of stillness within a space designed to move the soul. It’s a reminder that architecture, at its best, doesn’t just shelter us—it inspires us.
Oil on canvas
40" X 30"
2009
Two American icons, one horribly bad pun...
Original and signed prints available for purchase at wyndawsonworks.artspan.com/
Portrait of Sarah as Chalchiuhtlicue, Pastel on paper, 28 x 36 inches
Retrato de Sarah como Chalchiuhtlicue, Pastel sobre papel
I had these paintings for a long time and could not decide to upload them on Flickr because they are not socially correct. Today, I want to show them because I like them and I want to see them on my gallery.
www.louvre.fr/oeuvre-notices/portrait-presume-de-gabriell...
The first exhibition opens at the recently renamed Kings Gallery, Buckingham Palace on the 17th May until 6th October 2024. This exhibition showcases 100 years of Royal portrait photography from the likes of Dorothy Wilding and Cecil Beaton to Annie Leibovitz, David Bailey, and Rankin.
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