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* Post card from San Salvador: "El tirano" from a painting by Jose Clemente Orozco
reverse reads: "Dad, you will not believe this, could not get a cab to take me; they killed 39 cab drivers yesterday, and they say there is no war going on here."
p.s. the local papers claimed that the cab drivers were killed by "death squads" because some offered free transportation to insurgents.
* to appreciate viewing this image I urge my friends to view on black; well worth the effort, 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to having a wall calendar include the pages after the month of the incident, constructing openable windows, and wearing out-of-date clothing to obtain realistically worn fabric.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.
/el rapto de la la santisima virgen del barrio de Santa Maria/
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 and a english translation of the original poem and the inspiration for this composition on You Tube: youtu.be/w-DkkpGk5h0
The set is best viewed on black.
p.s. The porcelain statuette is that of the "Virgen de la Macarena" a present to artist from long ago. It was placed back into it's small alter after the picture was taken. It will never again be used for "artistic" purposes. May she forgive me for having used her in vain.
*Imagination, to Antonin Artaud, was reality; he considered dreams, thoughts and delusions as no less real than the "outside" world. To him, reality appeared to be a consensus, the same consensus the audience accepts when they enter a theatre to see a play and, for a time, pretend that what they are seeing is real.
Artaud saw suffering as essential to existence and thus rejected all utopias as inevitable dystopia. He denounced the degradation of civilization, yearned for cosmic purification, and called for an ecstatic loss of the self. Hence Jane Goodall considers Artaud to be a modern Gnostic while Ulli Seegers stresses the Hermetic elements in his works.
A very important study on the Artaud work comes from Jacques Derrida. According to the philosopher, as theatrical writer and actor, Artaud is the embodiment of both an aggressive and reparative gesture, which strucks, sounds out, is harsh in a dramatic way and with critical determination as well. Identifying life as art, he was critically focused on the western culture social drama, to point out and denying the double-dealing on which is based the western theatre tradition; he worked on the whirlpool of feelings, lunatic expression, being subjugated to a counter-force which exactly comes out from the gesture. Definitely, the Artaud work gave life to all of what has never been admitted in art, all the torment and the labour into the creator consciousness, which is about the research of the meaning of making a work of art.
p.s. this set is not about good or bad art; it is simply a narrative of what the brain "feels' not sees.
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 colors in this set were made from dicarted tea bags, coffee, blue berries and other natural substances.
*"*pulling the rug" was an artists expression used to describe the anxiety of showing one's work to be accepted by a leading gallery. /most artists would cover their art with bed sheets, I used faux Persian rugs. /como una virgen/ another colloquial slang term describing same feeling.
Thank God, we now have flickr. and don't have to go through these unnerving, humiliating experiences. Of course some of you older artists will identify with what I am trying to describe above.
This portrait will be part of my "living room" series when completed.youtu.be/hptx-ofa5Uo
*hammered aluminum, copper over painted canvas: "the merry widow caught in the deceased husbands rivals cape" from the poem: "Capotes de Brega" by Agustin Pardo.
*El capote de brega es un instrumento para torear, pesado y de tela bastante rígida, con forma de capa, que se usa tanto para fijar y poner en suerte al toro de lidia como para efectuar lances artísticos durante los dos primeros tercios de una corrida de toros. El tamaño varía entre los 113 y los 123 cm y su peso entre 4 y 6kg. Se debe distinguir de la muleta, más pequeña y ligera, de color rojo y utilizada en el último tercio de la lidia.
Su origen se encuentra en los primeros tiempos de la tauromaquia cuando los caballeros que salían a rejonear y sus ayudantes de a pie vestían con capa y se servían de ellas en su lance con el toro. De aquella capa se originó el capote, que era de color rojo y de lana ligera (a la que se llamaba lamparilla). Actualmente es rosa con vueltas amarillas, verdes, azules o moradas según la preferencia del torero. La tela también ha cambiado y es de material sintético (nylon) o de seda para impedir que se enganche el cuerno del toro. El capote está tratado con productos químicos para evitar que penetre la sangre del animal y para darle peso y rigidez.
p.s. se me hace bello si visto sobre negro, tambien por el symbolismo, ya que las viudas en las Americas se vestian de negro por un ano despues del fallecimiento!
*artist's collection, recently found while doing major housecleaning. Maguinaldo was the undisputed king of bongo and tambor players of Sal si puedes, Panama in the 50's,; winner of many contests he wound up playing for a famous group in Miami /do not recall the name/ but his music is ingrained in many of my early unrelated paintings.
He is best remembered for his rendition of "el caretero" which I recently found on you tube and played by an equally talented drummer who can be heard in the last half of this recording I found on u-tube.
*in third grade did a report on what "Bolsheviks did in this forrest. Three years later did a report /different teacher, different school/ what Nazis did in the same forrest, both versions brought on nightmares. Never went back to school, learning a trade at age thirteen.
p.s. curious as to what children are taught to-day as to what happened there!
for a beautiful new version of a old classic describing Mar Azul go to: You Tube: Mar Azul-Cesaria Evora - Marisa Monte.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5OQ37VA1yI
best seen on black
*to be seen against black for it is supposed to "scream" when viewing, but most likely it may just appear as colored spots on a large T.V. screen. After all that is where most of the wailing is seen and heard, and just as soon as the spots appear we switch channels. / we do same on flickr. /
A new 'work from prayer' created on the first day of Advent, December 1, by expressionist artist Stephen B. Whatley.
The Catholic artist humbly feels a 'divine duty' to create on significant dates, to bring light, peace and healing to viewers of his paintings and drawings.
The work of Stephen B. Whatley is in private collections worldwide & other public collections which own his work include the BBC, London Transport Museum, Westminster Cathedral & The Royal Collection of King Charles III.
His series of 30 paintings commissioned by the Tower of London are showcased as a permanent public art exhibit, at the entrance of the Tower of London, just outside Tower Hill Station, in The City of London.
Peace and Blessings.
Holiness of Mary - Advent 2023.
Pastel on paper,
16.5 x 11.5in /42 x 30cm
*mixed media, head, body parts and offerings box, baked separately, for my oven is too small. All parts assembled on drywall, dyed ropes.
p.s. vardogers are not to be confused with "doppelgangers" who as artists, paint or sculpt themselves in a all together different light.
this mixed media is best viewed in light box.
If interested, will post separate body parts and leftovers next. Thank you!
"gesso covered cardboard silhouette standees.
These paintings are part of my new series of tableaus set in "living rooms". a term used to describe artists studios where artists actually "lived" unlike those of to-day where artists just go to paint.
*Imagination, to Antonin Artaud, was reality; he considered dreams, thoughts and delusions as no less real than the "outside" world. To him, reality appeared to be a consensus, the same consensus the audience accepts when they enter a theatre to see a play and, for a time, pretend that what they are seeing is real.
Artaud saw suffering as essential to existence and thus rejected all utopias as inevitable dystopia. He denounced the degradation of civilization, yearned for cosmic purification, and called for an ecstatic loss of the self. Hence Jane Goodall considers Artaud to be a modern Gnostic while Ulli Seegers stresses the Hermetic elements in his works.
A very important study on the Artaud work comes from Jacques Derrida. According to the philosopher, as theatrical writer and actor, Artaud is the embodiment of both an aggressive and reparative gesture, which strucks, sounds out, is harsh in a dramatic way and with critical determination as well. Identifying life as art, he was critically focused on the western culture social drama, to point out and denying the double-dealing on which is based the western theatre tradition; he worked on the whirlpool of feelings, lunatic expression, being subjugated to a counter-force which exactly comes out from the gesture. Definitely, the Artaud work gave life to all of what has never been admitted in art, all the torment and the labour into the creator consciousness, which is about the research of the meaning of making a work of art.
p.s. this set is not about good or bad art; it is simply a narrative of what the brain "feels' not sees.
*fallen asleep, finally,
under her blanket of red,
dreams turning into nightmares,
all his ghosts dancing with joy,
for from nightmares such as these
there is no waking.
Zholabghbiilye Negesti.
this is #1 pull of three, all of lighter hues, this being my favorite for it's contrasts.
best viewed on black
Houses at Night by Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Oil Painting Reproduction
You can see more here remediosvaro.biz/karl_schmidt_rottluff.html
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.
*Imagination, to Antonin Artaud, was reality; he considered dreams, thoughts and delusions as no less real than the "outside" world. To him, reality appeared to be a consensus, the same consensus the audience accepts when they enter a theatre to see a play and, for a time, pretend that what they are seeing is real.
Artaud saw suffering as essential to existence and thus rejected all utopias as inevitable dystopia. He denounced the degradation of civilization, yearned for cosmic purification, and called for an ecstatic loss of the self. Hence Jane Goodall considers Artaud to be a modern Gnostic while Ulli Seegers stresses the Hermetic elements in his works.
A very important study on the Artaud work comes from Jacques Derrida. According to the philosopher, as theatrical writer and actor, Artaud is the embodiment of both an aggressive and reparative gesture, which strucks, sounds out, is harsh in a dramatic way and with critical determination as well. Identifying life as art, he was critically focused on the western culture social drama, to point out and denying the double-dealing on which is based the western theatre tradition; he worked on the whirlpool of feelings, lunatic expression, being subjugated to a counter-force which exactly comes out from the gesture. Definitely, the Artaud work gave life to all of what has never been admitted in art, all the torment and the labour into the creator consciousness, which is about the research of the meaning of making a work of art.
p.s. this set is not about good or bad art; it is simply a narrative of what the brain "feels' not sees.
** came about after finding her favorite song after 40 years on You Tube; a beautiful new version of a old classic coming back with a vengeance: You Tube: Mar Azul-Cesaria Evora - Marisa Monte.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5OQ37VA1yI
best seen on black
*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 exhibit consisted of thirty six paintings, illustrations and documentation of recorded atrocities committed by practicing physicians who "volunteered" to work in Nazi concentration camps and experiment with real life people instead of animals. Thousands including children perished in the most agonizing death imaginable. Each and every torture was recorded in the daily report medical ledgers and by 1971 the archives were made public for every one to see, listing all the 549 practicing physicians names and their specialty. To my amazement only a handful were prosecuted and most resumed their practice in other countries. Only one doctor. Dr. Josef Mengele was sought and most of the atrocities were conveniently blamed on him, for he was conveniently dead.
* "Que no tuve, hasta mi renacer en adolencia en mi querido Panama"
the watercolor is an illustration to a poem by one of my favorite poets of all times; Antonio Cipriano Machado:" A un olmo seco"
A un olmo seco
Al olmo viejo, hendido por el rayo
y en su mitad podrido,
con las lluvias de abril y el sol de mayo,
algunas hojas verdes le han salido.
[...]
Antes que te derribe, olmo del Duero,
con su hacha el leñador, y el carpintero
te convierta en melena de campana,
lanza de carro o yugo de carreta;
antes que, rojo en el hogar, mañana
ardas, de alguna misera caseta
al borde de un camino;
antes que te descuaje un torbellino
y tronche el soplo de las sierras blancas;
antes que el río hacia la mar te empuje,
por valles y barrancas,
olmo, quiero anotar en mi cartera
la gracia de tu rama verdecida.
Mi corazón espera
también hacia la luz y hacia la vida,
otro milagro de la primavera.
Antonio Cipriano Machado
p.s. my rendering is best seen on black
*Above, John Fulton Short, Philadelphia painter, later bullfighter, from a newspapar clipping interview, He writes: "as soon as the bulls are dragged out and before their blood dries, I jump in and start painting; he than would sell his "real bullfight paintings"
to tourists; later becoming obsessed with bullfighting that he quit painting to become a full fledged matador, appearing in many plazas throughout the world.
or "Piquero" literally translated: "pricker" is a mounted lancer. His sole purpose in the ring is the unaesthetic but essential one of weakening the neck muscles of the bull so that it's huge head will be lowered for the kill. He is unquestionably the most unpopular man in the ring, usually deservedly, since half of the bulls one sees fought to-day are "ruined" by a inept Piquero, the exception being Pepe Mairena who is called "el principe" or prince for his skill with the lance; he also gets paid a "princely" fee for his services and very few matadors can afford him.
from my notes on bullfighting /recently found/
* 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
*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.
*/rebirth of the Mexican Tetra/, she was born in Rio Grande, as a child she has traveled as far as Nueces and Pecos. She was born without eyes making her totally blind to her surroundings, living her life as if in a cave. Her skin is pinkish white; having lived in captivity she has turned carnivorous, but if nurtured and cultivated she may become with time harmless.
Her birth sign is pisces.
from my own notes on "La Tetra Mexicana" of the 1980's when I first started to paint her in female form. This is my first attempt in many years to revisit her and once again try to capture that unforgettable moment when she separates from her blind mother and in spite of her blindness enters the world which rightfully belongs to her.
p.s. best seen on black