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Original abstract artwork
30x30 in.
Oil & spray paint on brown paper
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Sinuoso y vetusto canto,
Beso de nubes y mares
Cálido en tu pulcritud,
Álgido en tu indiferencia.
¡Dulce efluvio pluvial,
Alegre trova de gotas!
Excitada recibe mi alma
Las caricias de cada nota
Caes delicadamente,
Como un susurro en crescendo
¡Llueve ya! ¡El mundo se cubre!
Se despejan los cielos,
Mi corazón se abre
Llueve ya, y el mundo se cubre.
Brick Expressionism developed at the same time as the "New Objectivity" of Bauhaus architecture. The expressionist architects developed a distinctive form or ornamentation, often using rough, angular or pointy elements. They were meant to express the dynamic of the period, its intensity and tension. To me the people who actually built those buildings had a very hard job.
Rio & Fondamenta della Misericordia, Venezia (Italia)
The picture is inspired by Egon Schiele's "Self-portrait with physalis" (1912).
The bright red color of the flower is both love and blood for me, that is, love for nature and blood that connects us all. Reds and yellows of the flower that represent nature and blood are reflected in my smeared shadow to the left: I’m not important, I’m but a medium to transmit colors and beauty of life to viewers (which is, of course, a barefaced lie, as I’m crucial to my pictures; I’m not a transmitter, but creator). Negligible transmitter and omnipotent creator... That is always the case with me: I believe in two contradictory things at once! Cognitive yin and yang. Movement and frozen moment. Color and its absence. Subjectivity and the desire to resonate with all viewers. All in one picture.
My melting face resembles that of a clown as I’m a comical and “self-ironic” person.
A new tribute painting of Saint Teresa of Calcutta by British expressionist artist Stephen B. Whatley.
Born in Albania, Mother Teresa (1910-1997) answered an early calling to serve God, joining the Sisters of Loreto in Ireland in order to learn English , with the intention of becoming a missionary.
In 1946 on a train she felt she heard from Jesus, "Come be my Light...I cannot go alone" - and devoting her life to helping the poor, the homeless and the dying in India, she became the Mother to the Poor.
When she had taken her religious vows in 1931 she chose the name Teresa after Saint Teresa of Lisieux - and like many, including Saint Teresa of Lisieux , she had experienced throughout her life, a struggle with faith, even feeling separated from God - a darkness that troubled her and maybe drove her on with her good work.
She had opened her first hospice in 1952 and expressed her wish that a "a beautiful death is for people who lived like animals to die like angels - loved and wanted".
She was proclaimed a Saint in 2016 by Pope Francis ; two miracles of healing of cancer in 1998 and 2008 being attributed to her.
The artist - a Catholic convert since 2011 - created the tribute through the intensive research, photographic references and the prayers that generate all his work.
"Through darkness into light...humbly I hope my painting represents the eternal light that will forever be Mother Teresa's reward in heaven - and I pray for peace and any healing for all who view the image, faith or no faith" - Stephen B. Whatley, London, UK, April 2023.
Saint Teresa of Calcutta. 2023
Oil on canvas, 30 x 24in/76 x 61cm
German expressionism is one of my favourite movements of art. Here I am posing with a few of my books on the subject with the Otto Dix biography being highlighted. German expressionism was prevalent from the end of World War I until the early 1930s. With Hitler gaining power in January 1933, 'modern art' was endangered with many artists being arrested, fleeing the country or put in concentration camps as degenerates. A significant number of art works were either destroyed or ironically, confiscated by high ranking Nazis.