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* the series deals with a much "dissected"and discussed subject and one of much stress in most Latin American upper middle class families and to my knowledge not explored "artisticaly" namely the hiring and firing of young female domestic help. It was customery /pre woman-lib/ that the hiring of domestic help /except kitchen help/ would be left to the man of the house, much to the consternation of the wifes, for those hired, come from the interior, are under age, uneducated but with one common trait namely extra-ordinary beauty and in-born savy on how to get pregnant.
While living in Central America in the fifties, I have never met a family that was not raising children from these relationships and knew a prominent family that were raising twelve "out of wedlock" children and treating them as their own. When it comes to the dismissal of these young girls, the wife's usually win, but the "Maria's de nadie" as they are called /Mary's that belong to no one/ by the jillted wife,s, win the battle in the end, for after being booted out continue their relationships till well advanced age, many seeking higher education for themselves and their children.
It is a well accepted fact that the Latin mistress becomes the master of "their man".
My series explores this fascinating subject based on hearsay, annecdotes and observations
Contrary to the sad and tragic portrayel of these woman in fiction and cinema, they through their "experiences" in all things domestic beacome a force to be reckond with.
*mixed media** portrait of a Mexican artist and friend, best seen on black!
**papier mache face over authentic, gold threat, velvet sombrero, blessed, /artist's collection/
In mexico, peasant sombreros are usually made of straw, wealthier men wear sombreros made of felt. The really well to do have their hats fashioned with gold and silver embroidery similar to the designs embroidered on matadors costumes, These kind of hats are only worn during holidays and family reunions and are often blessed by the bishops of the community and in some cases by the Pope.youtu.be/bSCEcQwdbOg
*#3 of set. Cabaret Voltaire, Asuncion: "Oh those British are such gentlemen, and so strange, danced with one who wore a trench coat and never took his hat off"
*bailando al compas del control machete y el acordeon del genio Celso Pina "Sobre rio" como visto en You Tube:*el poeta Celso Pina dice asi:
*this set deals with the ups and downs of a "Vegas Bedlam" artist patient suffering from a progressive multi personality disorder: "non-compos-menti" this set was done over a period of three days and consists of several hundred drawings from which about one hundred will be chosen for a limited edition book. The illustrations depict nightmares, hallucinations, dreams and persecutions all real to the suffering Schizophrenic. The set is best viewed on black
The set was inspired by the eighteen equally intricate designed dollhouse-style interiors made by Frances Glessner Lee, which she titled "The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death" Her sets consist of a series of eighteen intricately designed dollhouse-style dioramas created by the greatest and my favorite doll house interior designer Frances Glessner Lee, a millionaire heiress with an interest in forensic science.
Her dioramas are detailed representations of death scenes that are composites of actual court cases, created by Glessner Lee on a 1 inch to 1 foot (1 : 12) scale./same as mine/ She attended autopsies to ensure accuracy, and her attention to detail extended to having a wall calendar include the pages after the month of the incident, constructing openable windows, and wearing out-of-date clothing to obtain realistically worn fabric. She called them the Nutshell Studies because the purpose of a forensic investigation is said to be to "convict the guilty, clear the innocent, and find the truth in a nutshell. Students were instructed to study the scene methodically—she suggested moving the eyes in a clockwise spiral—and draw conclusions from the visual evidence. At conferences hosted by Glessner Lee, prominent crime-scene investigators were given 90 minutes to study each diorama.
The dioramas show tawdry and in many cases disheveled living spaces very different from Glessner Lee's own background. The dead include prostitutes and victims of domestic violence.
Glessner Lee used her inheritance to set up Harvard's department of legal medicine, and donated the Nutshell dioramas in 1945 for use in lectures on the subject of crime scene investigation. In 1966 the department was dissolved and the sets were placed in storage. Presently the dioramas can be viewed by appointment at the Maryland Medical Examiner’s Office in Baltimore. A exhibit well worth while to visit for those interested in doll house interiors.Those wishing to view these sets, I strongly suggest making an appointment well before setting out to view them.
We are once again, after many years revisiting my own sets, each with it's own story connected to real life events and sharing them with some of my flickr. friends who expressed interest in viewing them.
None of the renderings have previously been exhibited or published.
I am most interested in your comments for we are once again entertaining the thought of publishing them with their stories in book form.
Thank you!
thank you for your interest.
*Candombe, polvo de santos, is venerated by those who worship Yoruba-Orishna by those of African origin it is still performed and danced at Orisha offerings and sacrifices in Bocas del Toro, in Panama and other parts of Colombia. The music which is breathtaking starts with Cumbias followed by drum beats imitating heart beats. The emphasis being on healing of sickened relatives.
As a young man have personally witnessed miracles in healing being achieved after reaching a climax during a trance.
this mixed media is best viewed on black
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Edvard Munch (1863–1944) was one of the most famous Expressionist Norwegian painters. His style, known as symbolism, which mainly focused on life, love, anxiety, and loneliness played a significant role in the late 20th-century art, especially in German expressionism. The dark color and somber tones, the exaggerated forms, and the contrasting lines in his designs portrayed his psychological state. His most iconic artwork, The Scream (1893), which depicts the agonized face and radical expressions, symbolizes anxiety, one of human's most common psychological conditions. We have digitally enhanced some of his notable works from the public domain and made them available for you to download under the creative commons 0 license.
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*from a selection of sketches, drawings and portraits of people known to artist, their dreams, anxieties and life styles as perceived by artist. Sketchbooks are the diaries artists carry in their heads until put on paper, they are made entirely from the stuff we carry in our heads, they are not copies of other people's art and are not made to please anyone except artist who may or my not use them in future for the making of art. They are neither good or bad; I don't even know if they can be categorized as art, all i know they are revealing to what we feel within ourselves and what we think of those that have influenced our art. The portraits are not as they or the world sees them but as we perceive them to be. In short they are nothing but impressions of them at the moment which can often change within minutes or hours. There are some of course who never change for the better or worse. When viewing set, should anyone be interested in the character or image drawn, you are welcome to question them in my comment box and I will gladly answer your queries.
Thank you!
p.s. I am posting them with the intend of publishing several hundred of them in a art book with notations on how some of them evolved into paintings, most of which appeared subconsciously.
*mixed media: shaped aluminum, enameled, welded wire inspired by the famous poem "light my fire" set to music by the genius of Lucho Bermudez. youtu.be/THiOUIhk3YI
*these have never been shown before. All are drawn on arches paper and in spite of aging are in excellent condition. The one above is one of several depicting the dangerous work of miners at work. Hope you will enjoy them as much as we cherish them even after all these years.
thank you!
p.s. I will number them for my own record keeping; they are not in order for some are private and others may not be suitable for viewing for all ages.
*complete title to composition: "Cauterized to prevent the pain to become infected with hate" from "Manicomios" series.
*there comes a time for an artist to say good bye with his work. It is hoped that this last painting of the year will allow me to dedicate myself to other pursuits less taxing and of a healthier outlook on the future rather than focusing on the past. With this last rendering I want to express my gratitude to all of you who have visited my stream on a regular basis. I shall continue to visit all of you who have moved and inspired me with hopes to pick up something fresh i can latch on to so I can continue to get my fingernails dirty and pretend I am still an artist!
Happy New year to you all!
p.s. this "Magnum Opus" is best viewed on black
*as only my mother could tell them, #5 0f 12 "Der Schneider und das Judenkind" After the murder of our Protector, Reinhardt Heydrich, the Nazis in Prague went on a rampage arresting people left and right, specially Jews. A wealthy Jewish woman about to be arrested took her two year old boy to her seamstress for safekeeping until another family member would take the boy of her hands the following week. It so happened that no one came for all the woman's relatives were arrested as well.
For three years the seamstress and her German husband raised the boy as their own.The boys real parents were gassed and no came after the war to claim him. The couple being Sudeten Germans, were being expelled by the avenging Czechs, as they got to the border, the five year old boy by now, had no "papers" and was taken away from them at gun point.
Many of these "paperless" Jewish children, mistaken by the Czechs for German children or fathered by Germans, were simply turned over to the "social
services" and placed for adoption by childless Czech families.
This is one of the many stories my mother told me.
The above illustrates the husband of the seamstress as he tries to protect the boy from being taken away by the border guards.
p.s. not all of my illustrations are of a humorous nature. LOL.
*while searching You tube for the music of my departed friends ran across "Limosna de Amores" a all time favorite performance of the greatest singers of all times, the one and only Lola Flores doing her "Limosnas" For you music lovers I urge you to visit another of the departed to savor this little treasure via the wonderful world of the internet: "Lola Flores - Limosnas de Amores" Did this within minutes after watching. It seems as if yesterday, even though it was performed in 1974! My set is best viewed on black!
*mixed media: aluminum, welded wire, plaster, acrylic paint on plywood.
this composition is inspired by Facundo Cabral's poem: "caminando distraido" For a live recital of same by the greatest poets of the 20th century and one of our favorites: youtu.be/XaIIHuOcDWI
with a pretty good translation into english bellow.
One of Puerto Rico's greatest poets, now but sadly forgotten, Sketch for possible portrait of this most complex of modern day poets
*detail from a larger painting; The Spurgeon, was a somewhat run down building in Santa Ana, California, where i rented a upper floor studio for a song. Between the years of 1966 through 1974, it was my second home, going there to paint after work on free nights.
On the first floor to the left directly bellow my studio lived a retired caboose fireman who would sit at his window with his hat on, watching television at all hours of the night. In all the years there, never spoke to the man, but each night we would end up in a duel; me playing music and him raising the volume on his television and me trying to outdo him. Neither won, deciding to live and let live.
On the opposite side of the stairs in the window barely seen, is his cat, Rufus.
The red "glow" is from the police cruisers that drove around with their red lights on practically all night for the area was drug infested and arrests were made at practically all hours of the night.
This Aventis painting is best seen on black
*Karl L. truck driver, sometimes house painter, handyman, carpenter, bully, aficionado bullfighter and poet, loyal to his friends as a dog to it's master. Karl, you are thoroughly missed!
* / "the crazy life of artists" set consists of several paintings and drawings that were commenced on may 9, after moving my studio outdoors. This set is inspired by the "en plein air" artists of Los Angeles who work day and night /mostly at night/ in the barrios of Los Angeles. Their method of painting consists in the use of bright colored enamel spray paints. To imitate their quick spray paint strokes, I am using 1",2',3" house paint brushes taped to broom sticks which allow me fast strokes resembling those achieved with spray cans.
the set is best viewed on black
inspired by the old classic of same titleyoutu.be/sc7xhOzATJ4
p.s. for a translation of this beautiful poem into english go to Wikipedia: Sampuesana, Raul Orozco
The set was inspired by the eighteen equally intricate designed dollhouse-style interiors made by Frances Glessner Lee, which she titled "The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death" Her sets consist of a series of eighteen intricately designed dollhouse-style dioramas created by the greatest and my favorite doll house interior designer Frances Glessner Lee, a millionaire heiress with an interest in forensic science.
Her dioramas are detailed representations of death scenes that are composites of actual court cases, created by Glessner Lee on a 1 inch to 1 foot (1 : 12) scale./same as mine/ She attended autopsies to ensure accuracy, and her attention to detail extended to having a wall calendar include the pages after the month of the incident, constructing openable windows, and wearing out-of-date clothing to obtain realistically worn fabric. She called them the Nutshell Studies because the purpose of a forensic investigation is said to be to "convict the guilty, clear the innocent, and find the truth in a nutshell. Students were instructed to study the scene methodically—she suggested moving the eyes in a clockwise spiral—and draw conclusions from the visual evidence. At conferences hosted by Glessner Lee, prominent crime-scene investigators were given 90 minutes to study each diorama.
The dioramas show tawdry and in many cases disheveled living spaces very different from Glessner Lee's own background. The dead include prostitutes and victims of domestic violence.
Glessner Lee used her inheritance to set up Harvard's department of legal medicine, and donated the Nutshell dioramas in 1945 for use in lectures on the subject of crime scene investigation. In 1966 the department was dissolved and the sets were placed in storage. Presently the dioramas can be viewed by appointment at the Maryland Medical Examiner’s Office in Baltimore. A exhibit well worth while to visit for those interested in doll house interiors.Those wishing to view these sets, I strongly suggest making an appointment well before setting out to view them.
We are once again, after many years revisiting my own sets, each with it's own story connected to real life events and sharing them with some of my flickr. friends who expressed interest in viewing them.
None of the renderings have previously been exhibited or published.
I am most interested in your comments for we are once again entertaining the thought of publishing them with their stories in book form.
Thank you!
thank you for your interest.
**esta serie es inspirada por la musica del maestro Panameno Lucho Azcarraga tocando en el Panama Hilton durante los carnevales, y es dedicada a mi mujer, casados de cincuenta y cinco anos:
Me mandaste a decir, en un papelito blanco,
como quieres que te quiera
tu en el pueblo y yo en el campo, hay yorelei
tu en pueblo yo en el campo.
Tambien me decia el papel, que tenias a quien querer,
en eso estamos iguales si tu tienes yo tambien !
hay, yorelei, si tu tienes yo tambien
De tus desprecios me rio, tu amor no me da cuidado,
amores como los tuyos a mi nunca me han faltao.
Tengo una novia, que me quiere mucho,
tngo una novia que me hace el amor
si ella me quiere, como yo la quiero,
nos vamos a querer y a querer mucho
Yo quiero tanto a mi novia, que si algun dia,
yo la llego a olvidar seria tan solo ,
por tener la dicha, de olvidarla,
y volveria a enamororar ..............y segia con:
Dice que me quieres-dice que me adora-pero no me quiere na......
no me recuerdo el resto
p.s. recuerdos de mis noches tropicales de mi tierra adoptiva y el amor a mi mujer Panamena.
*this painting is illuminated with artificial light for effect
The set was inspired by the eighteen equally intricate designed dollhouse-style interiors made by Frances Glessner Lee, which she titled "The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death" Her sets consist of a series of eighteen intricately designed dollhouse-style dioramas created by the greatest and my favorite doll house interior designer Frances Glessner Lee, a millionaire heiress with an interest in forensic science.
Her dioramas are detailed representations of death scenes that are composites of actual court cases, created by Glessner Lee on a 1 inch to 1 foot (1 : 12) scale./same as mine/ She attended autopsies to ensure accuracy, and her attention to detail extended to having a wall calendar include the pages after the month of the incident, constructing openable windows, and wearing out-of-date clothing to obtain realistically worn fabric. She called them the Nutshell Studies because the purpose of a forensic investigation is said to be to "convict the guilty, clear the innocent, and find the truth in a nutshell. Students were instructed to study the scene methodically—she suggested moving the eyes in a clockwise spiral—and draw conclusions from the visual evidence. At conferences hosted by Glessner Lee, prominent crime-scene investigators were given 90 minutes to study each diorama.
The dioramas show tawdry and in many cases disheveled living spaces very different from Glessner Lee's own background. The dead include prostitutes and victims of domestic violence.
Glessner Lee used her inheritance to set up Harvard's department of legal medicine, and donated the Nutshell dioramas in 1945 for use in lectures on the subject of crime scene investigation. In 1966 the department was dissolved and the sets were placed in storage. Presently the dioramas can be viewed by appointment at the Maryland Medical Examiner’s Office in Baltimore. A exhibit well worth while to visit for those interested in doll house interiors.Those wishing to view these sets, I strongly suggest making an appointment well before setting out to view them.
We are once again, after many years revisiting my own sets, each with it's own story connected to real life events and sharing them with some of my flickr. friends who expressed interest in viewing them.
None of the renderings have previously been exhibited or published.
I am most interested in your comments for we are once again entertaining the thought of publishing them with their stories in book form.
Thank you!
thank you for your interest.
*fumaba como una chimenea; el utimo ano de su vida, cantaba en el cabaret "Blue Beet" con una voz, que sonaba "sexy", una voz como como si tuviera arena en la garganta. A los ocho meses fallecio de cancer de la garganta. tenia solo 33 anos.
Eloysa Imperio; the greatest ballad singer of the 70's, smoked like a chimney, sang as if she had sand in her throat and here we thought she sounded sexy. She died at age 33 of cancer of the throat. /thoracic/
Marriott desert springs, 1990, from hotel room series.
Painting on wall: /photograph send to me by Dominick/ titled: "Galgenfrist" privately owned.
P.S. enlarge for detail, thank you.
litterally translated as "some one else's" in the bullfight when a matador has drawn a "bad bull" meaning a cowardly or defective bull which makes it impossible for him to shine, he may ask permission of the following matador to show of his "mettle" by making up to three connected cape passes on his bull, frequently the permission is granted and there are times when the rule is broken. We have witnessed a matador showing of with a fifth linked pass only to be caught by the bull on the sixth, when lying on the ground and at the mercy of the bull, be was practically ignored by the matador who's bull it was to begin with. He was badly gored in the groin but survived,
learning his lesson the hard way.
P.S. from my notes and diaries on bullfighting
* en el otono de nuestras vidas, vivimos en el pasado, recuerdos tropicales por Bernard Lavilliers:youtu.be/qroThQy8wtQ