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*in this set we, once again explore the ancient art and study of our dreams, their hidden meaning and the art of healing by painting the images as we recollect them.
They have little to do with "art", for anyone can draw them in the most childish of forms. I have chosen to paint mine in the style of "arte macnudo" invented by the great artist Barbaro Rivas and my dear departed friend Isaac Benitez who gave his life exploring the world of dreams in art at a much too early stage of his life; both artists were erroneously labeled "primitive" a insult for they were far ahead of their time.
It was in the late 60's that a false prophet and con man wrote a book on mimd expansion of dreams /altered states/ by the introduction of a "harmless" drug he called L.S.D. This "Guru" by the name of Timothy Leary persuaded millions of young Americans into believing in "mind expansion", to live in a dream world, /state of bliss/ claiming that ones dreams can be "artificially" brought to the forefront by the application by his "harmless" use of his drug.
Millions followed his advise not realizing that the daily dose of this drug was nothing but a temporary fix no different than any other recreational drug, and had nothing to do with learning to understand our dreams and much less to help us to lead more satisfying and fulfilling lives, never leading to the analysis of one's dreams, much less healing
which in reality was only a temporary fix no different than any other "recreational drug or the use of alcohol to excess'
The "harmless" use of this "dream-world state" often called "mind expansion" drug has led to a generation of unfunctioning, sexless beings best described as "Zombies" and exploited in recent films and mass runs.
The better understanding of our dreams can help us to escape from the demons that trap our minds and help us escape from the debilitating brainwash /lavado cerebral/ inbred believe that we may not be worthy of love and happiness on this earth, focusing all ends to the "other world. after our departure. In other words living our lives in perpetual anxiety and punishing us for our daily "sins" Tis malice if not identified through the understanding of our dreams may last a life time depriving us from living our lives to the fullest. depriving us from living our lives of love and happiness on earth
Thanks to the native artists of the Carribean and Central America we learn how anyone can unravel the mystery that surrounds our dreams, what they mean and how we can our potential to that led to the "depicting", drawing and ultimately the understanding of the true meaning behind our dreams.
Words can not describe what goes on in the subconscious, much less offer understanding.
The natives in their "primitive" ways found their ways into the labyrinth of the mind long ago by drawing pictures of what they felt while in their dreamworld. Thus they opened the doors to the "otro mundo quiero comenzar" /another world I will begin" which is brilliantly recited in the famous Cumbia by Alfred Gutierrez*
To understand and to put to practice this ancient process of healing, we need to take the time to record our dreams in the way best suited to us, that is to draw them regardless how silly they may seem at first. This visual imagery drawn from within will help us to open the doors to the unconscious our demons have so long "brainwashed" /lavado cerebral/** us into believing.
For those interested in this in this subject explored in art further I suggest visiting my artist friend Diane Kramer who has explored this subject brilliantly in her: "Rooted in Intuition":
www.dianemariekramer.com/index.html
University of Pittsburgh-Bradford 2011
Rooted in intuition exhibit- Diane M Kramer
another artist who has equally succeeded is the filmmaker Ingmar Bergman in his film: "the passion of Anna" in which he and his actors find their own truth.
*/** "otro mundo voy a empezar"youtu.be/UelP7KzJQw0
*portrait of the "mushroom king" Timothy Leary as he saw himself in the mirror of the El Paseo in august of 1960. He wrote: "up to that day I found myself an anonymous, institutional employee who drives himself each morning in a long line of automobiles on the freeway to work and return the same way home each evening just like all the other millions of Americans, only to come home to get drunk and go back the next day to do the same.
That day Timmy and his friend, Anthony Russo with whom he traveled to Mexico experienced the effects of Psilosybe Mexicana, the mushroom of "altered states" and became the Mushroom king of America; the man, whom all parents and Law enforcement people feared and hated for the following he inspired by the young generation by his credo: "Turn on, Tune in, drop out"
In the 1960's, he and the American poet Allen Ginsberg became the most powerful influence of that generation.
p.s. interestingly I have not found his name mentioned or linked in any shape of form to Anarchism, which astonishes me to this day, for he was the ultimate Anarchist.
literally translated; "to carry the act" the skilled use of the muleta to follow a specific line in the charge after the bull clears the body. The term originally reffered to the position of the bullfighters legs during the pass, but it has come to mean a follow-through with one's entire upper body. It is what separates a mere bullfight into a "moving art form" / sculpting versus fighting/ very rare, for there are only a handful of true artists in the ring who do not fight for money and fame but create art for the sake of art.
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.
*the character in this rendering is a self portrait as a young man from a photograph carved in wax in my studio. The propaganda prayer is based on a true story and depicts priests given the opportunity to pray before being executed. Photographs of these prayers were than published at later dates in newspapers so as to indicate that they were still alive and well!
I have taken artistic liberty depicting above victim of these horrific experiments in a red garment. The inmates wore striped pyjama like uniforms, the elecrified hats were ordinary tin pans. Dr.Gebhart writes: " we had to improvise at all time"
*detail section: 'montando Aurea" from four sections; best seen on black. See Roberto Torres, youtu.be/uEKHY3M2e7Q
p.s. "Caballo Viejo" was immensely popular in the seventy's and it seems as if coming back with vengeance. /best seen on black.
* in the above we see German performance artist, Hermann Nitsch, performing his "atonement for the horrors" perpetrated by Germans during world war two. 1984 saw several German expressionists purge themselves of guild through sacrifice.
To-day, Herman Nitsch, is considered one of Germany's greatest artists and is presently designing stage sets for the Opera.
*privately owned, from set titled: "Upholders of human rights; where are you now?"
p.s. some of you have expressed interest in seeing my earlier works; kindly advise if you wish for me to continue to post these, for they are a real pain to scan and post. Your input on these oldies is much appreciated; thank you!
*The set depicts the daily lives of the people living in this multi cultural community and is the inspiration for this illustrated book which when completed will be self published. As most of my works it was produced while listening to the original recording of same title. It can be heard and seen with a short video on You Tube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA9DEHaOLqQ&feature=fvsr
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.
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.
Abstract art portrait
Acrylic on canvas
SOLD
Prints:
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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.
*in art anything is possible,* from a set of several paintings in progress inspired by a posting by she wolf titled: "the lace behind the door" and a poem titled: "windows to the soul" by Carol Wiebe. In the set i am attempting to depict an artist's rental studio that transforms itself into the soul of the artist hiding nothing. A room where only ghosts are given free reign during nights and where the morning sun chases them away and all becomes strangely tranquil.
"Windows to the soul"
Has the truth been told?
Or have the words been carefully chosen
to match
what others expect to hear?
If we were not afraid,
if we could fling open our doors and windows,
throw away the curtains,
and live transparently.
Carol Wiebe, may 22, 2011
p.s. Carol Wiebe and she wolf's art maybe seen on flickr. on their sites
* Jose Reyes and Manero Ballardo are considered the greatest performers of "Cante Hondo" deep songs/ Jose Reyes became famous in the 60's performing the complex "Saeta" which we were fortunate to witness in a rare performance.
The "Saeta" a form of "Cante Hondo" is usually sung during religious processions. It is the sort of music that requires what is known as the "Duende", a term referring to the ability of the performer to feel and project a complex combination of emotions-fervor, passion, intensity, spiritualism, ecstasy and or heart-felt dispair. It is the soul of Flamenco and an artist no matter how good, without the Duende is just a deep singer.
Jose Reyes possessed that rare quality and rare feeling only Gypsy performers are able to convey.
The above is from memory; there are very few photographs available for Reyes insisted not to have any pictures taken of him for fear of being robbed of his "Duende"
I do have an early photograph of him taken by Lucien Clergue, dated 1963
*"The bartered bride set" consists of 220 still photographs of eighteen 12" action figures who's faces were altered by way of polyurethane or wax carvings hand painted in my studio. Eye expressions were changed to suit the scene i was shooting. All furnishings, sets and many of the woman's costumes were also made by me. Mens wear and uniforms were furnished by a Japanese miniature costume maker. The "bartered bride" is loosely set to the opera of same title and is set in Krakow, Poland during the Nazi occupation. The models for my carvings came from authentic character photographs of real people. "The bartered bride has taken me an entire year to complete and has never been shown anywhere. For several years we have tried to get the sets shown at important galleries throughout the U.S.A., but none showed interest in showing it, even though i got several letters of praise for the high quality of the sets.
p.s. for those of you viewing this set, I would appreciate knowing if you are interested in viewing this in it's entirety, for these are transparencies that need to be cleaned and scanned; a real pain to do if no one is interested. Thank you!
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.
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.
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.
*"mortally wounded, bull united with man wait for death to separate them and send them to their separate heavens."
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.
*illustration for a book on travels, depicting a Swedish couple "sittin: under a red umbrella; the woman would go around topless when she was told not to! The natives did, for it was part of their culture but for white woman it showed disrespect. These illustrations are best seen on black
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
Still Life from November 1994. Click image to view 'on black'.
Oil on canvas
30 x 24in/76 x 61cm
Private collection, London, UK
*Over the years have painted various interpretations of this popular concierto by one of my favorite composers. This "new" interpretation plays out on the island and under water where the real drama takes place; the plunge into the deep culminating in the gran finalle.
This is my first attempt on paper with watercolors as wash.
Since most everyone is familiar with this brilliant composition, played out in so many ways, that it has become the most popular "tune" played the world over, Even the writers of popular music have "stolen" this haunting tune putting their words to it. Most recently presented in a new Tango dance number. The circumstance on how this piece of music came about is the one that has intrigued me from my earliest youth.
At the age of 35, Rachmaninoff, after the completion of his first symphony which was rejected, depressed, discouraged, thinking his career as a composer over, and that he would have to spend his entire life teaching music, decided to call it quits. Packing up his family he left his native Russia and moved to Dresden where he lived in total isolation writing music but not with much success. On the advise of his doctor to have a change of scenery he took a trip to Leipzig where he, for the first time saw the painting: "Die Toteninsel" by Arnold Bocklin on display. Having been so taken by this painting he went back to see it, but by that time it was purchased by Countess Marie von Oriola. The painting was delivered with these words:" When you hang my painting, it must produce such stillness that only the waves of the water will be heard; everything else will be quiet" This phrase was repeated to Rachmaninoff upon visiting this painting at the Countess house.
On his deathbed in Beverly Hills, California, Rachymaninoff spoke of that moment of so long ago thus: "On seeing this island again, I felt I knew it intimately, I lived on it, played in the waves and heard the somber stillness so loudly, interrupted only by the constant lapping of the water" and indeed it is this that we hear when listening to the finished symphony. The music gradually rises in intensity until, in the middle of the work, it bursts into song of lamentation for the dead. Toward the end there is a reference to the Dies Irae from the Mass for the dead, frequently used in compostions having to do with death. Finally, there is a return of the undulating rhytmn, suggesting the motion of water, and the music dies away into the peace and calm suggested by the painting.
On his death bed in Beverly Hills, California he said: Of all my compositions, The Isle of the Dead is dearest to my heart; to know I will be returning soon to it, makes me happy"
*a journey or allegory of an artist's output of his creations during the year 2010. As is customary each year about this time, we sit down and contemplate on what we have accomplished, what should have been done and was not and most importantly what we have learned from our journey. This is a painting of an artist's view of what he has produced during the year, depicting in an abstract form the paintings that most touched him and selecting those that are to be kept. At last count there were seven hundred plus paintings of which many had as many as three or more underneath, we also found several hundred drawings. At present we have found twelve that made a difference in our lives and those we shall keep.There were years when we just re-hashed old themes, what we call "cop-out" art keeping none. So, all in all not bad.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank all my flickr friends for your visits and comments on my work. I would like to thank flickr for opening the doors to so many talented and brilliant artist's out there and giving them the opportunity to share their works with the rest of the world. A true miracle of democracy at work.
p.s. this allegory is best viewed on black, thank you and cheers my friends!
*In literal translation: "In the theater of the absurd" in taurine colloquialism could be applied as in follow. description made by taurine art critic Nestor Lujan in reference to Ignacio Sanchez Mejias performance: "His valor in the ring is simply frightening, awesome. He executes suicidal maneuvers with the simplicity of a man who carries inside his head the furious comet of madness which gives him a forehead that is broad and Roman and livid like a statue, a forehead with the classic whiteness of a man touched by death and dancing to his tune in the "Theater of the absurd"
transl. from Spanish, from my notebooks on bullfighting
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.