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A new tribute to Saint Michael The Archangel, by expressionist artist Stephen B. Whatley; created with prayers during the last two days of June 2024. He dedicates this tribute to the USA, which needs protection at this dangerous time of political unrest.
Saint Michael is seen as the Warrior Angel, fighting off Satan in heaven and protecting God's chosen people on earth from evil and enemies. St Michael occupies a special place in the church, appointed its protector; and his Intercession is encouraged to defeat the evil in the world - and for the protection from danger for anyone in their every day life.
Stephen B. Whatley is a Catholic convert, a calling he felt through his spiritual search to survive early tragedy in his life; and his exhibition, "Paintings From Prayer" was staged at London's Westminster Cathedral in 2013.
The British London-based artist gets what he humbly feels a 'Divine Push' to paint tributes of faith, alongside his other work; indeed this is the artist's third tribute to Saint Michael.
A large body of Whatley's work is on public display every day in the City of London, just outside the Tower of London - where his series of 30 paintings commissioned by Historic Royal Palaces, 20 years ago, vibrantly chart the history of The Tower.
As a permanent art exhibit reproduced throughout the walkway leading from Tower Hill Station they form a bright and colourful entrance to the Tower of London.
To see more of the artist's eclectic work and read more of his journey by visiting his website, link below.
San Miguel - Saint Michael The Archangel. 2024
Oil on canvas
40 x 30in/102 x 76cm
Ruins of Greek Theatre at Taormina, 1905, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka (1853 – 1919), the Hungarian painter loved by Picasso.
"Csontváry’s works were exhibited in Paris in 1948. Picasso spent an hour outside the exhibition’s regular opening hours viewing them, and after emerging, declared “I did not realize there was another great painter in this century aside from myself.”
Csontváry probably would have taken issue with Picasso’s proclamation, arguing that he was a more significant painter even than Raphael."
"On the hot sunny afternoon of 13 October 1880, when Csontvary was 27 years old, he had a mystic vision. He heard a voice saying, 'You will be the greatest Sunway Painter, greater than Raphael!' He took journeys around Europe, visited the galleries of the Vatican, and returned to Hungary to earn money for his journeys by working as an apothecary. From 1890, he traveled around the world. He visited Paris, the Mediterraneum (Dalmatia, Italy, Greece), North Africa and the Middle East (Lebanon, Palestine, Egypt, Syria) and painted pictures. Often his pictures are very large, several metres wide and height is not unusual."
"In recent decades, Tivadar Kosztka Csontváry has become a true national hero. After all, he has all the necessary attributes: he was only celebrated after his time, his canon of work is not only spectacular, but also unique, and his contemporaries in Hungarian society treated him as all future national heroes were: he was mocked and humiliated.
He painted his major works between 1901 and 1909. He had some exhibitions in Paris (1907) and Western Europe. Most of the critics in Western Europe recognized his abilities, art and congeniality, but in the Kingdom of Hungary during his life, he was considered to be an eccentric crank for several reasons, e. g. for his vegetarianism, anti-alcoholism, anti-smoking, pacifism, and his cloudy, prophetic writings and pamphlets about his life (Curriculum), genius (The Authority, The Genius) and religious philosophy (The Positivum). Some of his biographists considered this as a latent, but increasingly disruptive schizophrenia. Although he was later acclaimed, during his lifetime Csontváry found little understanding for his visionary, expressionistic style. A loner by nature, his “failure” impaired his creative power.
His art connects with post-impressionism and expressionism, but he was an autodidact and cannot be classified into one style. He identified as a "sunway"-painter, a term which he created.
The painter, after being derided for decades, ended up starving to death after the Soviet Republic took everything away from him.
He starved to death.
To give us an idea of how his life’s work was rated at the time, his heirs attempted to sell the paintings to delivery men as they were painted on high-quality canvas. Were it not for Gedeon Gerlóczy, who recognized Csontváry’s genius and bought them all up, there would be no paintings surviving to this day.
Today, a Csontváry is worth millions of Euros."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivadar_Csontv%C3%A1ry_Kosztka
bestbudapest.blog.hu/2015/07/22/csontvary_the_hungarian_p...
Multiple layered images of the same subject over a period of time or in a circular/surrounding motion.
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A new Catholic tribute painting of Marcellin Champagnat (1789-1840), French Founder of the Marist Brothers, by British expressionist artist Stephen B. Whatley.
Marcellin Champagnat was made a Saint in 1999 and the portrait tribute was created with prayers on his Feast Day , June 6th, 2018.
The artist is a Catholic convert and his exhibition, Paintings From Prayer was staged at London's Westminster Cathedral in 2013. Stephen gets what he feels a 'Divine Push' to paint tributes of faith, amongst his other work - and was inspired to paint this tribute, looking at various historical images of Marcellin Champagnat ; after the Marist Brothers in Canada reached out earlier this year and commissioned him to paint a tribute to The Good Mother, a devotion to Our Lady, originated by Marcellin Champagnat.
The Marist Brothers are known as the Little Brothers of Mary, a community of teaching brothers dedicated to making Jesus known and loved through the education of young people; and are located in 79 countries worldwide.
They were founded in 1817 by Marcellin Champagnat in France, driven by his compassionate concern at finding a dying teenager with no knowledge of God.
Alongside his directly Catholic tributes, the work of Stephen B. Whatley is on public display every day in the City of London, just outside the Tower of London - where his series of 30 commissioned paintings charting the history of The Tower are permanently reproduced throughout the walkway leading from Tower Hill Station.
Saint Marcellin Champagnat. 2018
Oil on canvas
30 x 24in/ 76 x 61cm
To see The Good Mother- Marist Devotion. 2018 here on Flickr, please click this link: www.flickr.com/photos/stephenbwhatley/27935723768/in/date...
More expressionism in Siena.
Siena, June 2021.
Camera: Minolta SRT 303b
Lens: Minolta MC Rokkor-PF 50 mm f/1.7
Film: Ferrania P30 (ISO 80)
Laboratory development and scan
No hay madera podrida, no hay acerbo, no hay algidez, sólo hay una caída vertical hacia la abscisa.
El tiempo se lo llevó todo.
Multiple layered images of the same subject over a period of time or in a circular/surrounding motion.
Todo cambia, nada es permanente, y eso es lo único seguro en la vida.
Es inútil aferrarse a la existencia.
¿¿Pero como aceptar el devenir sin despreciarlo todo??
(No, no es una luna llena, es un sol nórdico.)
(No, tampoco la hice en blanco y negro, ese día estaba muy nublado.)
Expressionism emerged as an 'avant-garde movement' in poetry and painting before the first World War; in the Weimar years was being appreciated by a mass audience,[1] having its popularity peak in Berlin, during the 1920s.
Modernist Abstract Art adorns the wall behind German soldiers during WW1. German Expressionism.
To my eyes I interperate the artwork on the left to be tortured souls on the battlefied trying to escape 'No Man's Land'.
The photo is marked in pencil on reverse "18 März (March) 1916".
As war broke out, German Expressionism became a bitter protest movement in addition to a new and modern art style. The movement was led by the younger generation of artists, writers, and thinkers, and was initially confined to Germany due to the country’s isolation throughout World War One. Any creative that sought to dismantle the artistic thought of traditional society belonged, as this movement was borne out of a need to challenge the social conservatism that existed.
German Expressionism art became so much more than simply creating art that told a story, as works incorporated political, social, and cultural aspects. The relationship between art and society was explored, with works being understood as vessels of change that depicted the transitional nature of German culture in the midst of chaos. In its entirety, German Expressionism was indeed fleeting, and its extreme anti-realism began to dwindle after a few years as artists and writers aged.
Despite its downfall, the importance of German Expressionism art was that it encouraged various European cultures of the 1920s to embrace the concept of change and to boldly experiment with unfamiliar artistic styles and ideas.
Good photographic material for war and art historians.
www.goldmarkart.com/blogs/discover/brief-history-german-e...
weimarart.blogspot.com/2011/02/art-of-first-world-war.html
www.cnn.com/2014/10/30/opinion/merjian-art-modern-wwi/ind...