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*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.
*This allegory includes the following characters: the little demon, the vulture, the imbecil, the professor, the politian and the ever present gangster. there were several others that were on my list, but could not fit them in aestetically. This painting is best viewed on black.
p.s. see if you can find them! LOL
* paintings, drawings, prints from years gone by. Privately owned.
scanned with intend of having the set published in book form with permission of owners.
*Los Angeles Federal Savings, Newport Beach branch art gallery,solo exhibition, untitled.
p.s. original design was a flag design, colors representing their movement.
*third act maybe seen on You Tube under: "Lola Flores- Pena,Penita, Pena" from an earlier performance from the early 60's
*mixed media: aluminum, welded wire, plaster; background, watercolors on paper
inspiration from my own journals on the making of art: "used to be as if walking on a tight rope; now they just keep coming back with a vengeance; as if on a conveyor belt, while sitting pretty and rocking my self to sleep"
"Das ich 100 000 leute umgebracht habe ist nicht zu glauben, Ich glaube das es sich nur um rund 50.000 gibt!"
*At the precise moment when the bullfight is no longer a ballet with merely a aesthetic appeal where only one opponent must die. It is the unpredictability of outcome that separates it from all other art forms.
After witnessing a mortal goring by Hemingway, calling it a tragedy, he ads the word "moral" when asked to describe he goes: "So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral, is what you feel good "after" and what is immoral is what you feel bad after and judged by these moral standards, which I do not defend, the bullfight is very moral to me because I feel fine while it is going on and have a feeling of life and death and mortality and immortality, and after it is over and someone specially if a friend, get hurt or dies I feel sad but eventually get over it"
*.......en el monte del olvido" Title to a Flamenco dance sang in"Cante hondo" and danced by a couple separately but coming together in the last act with their bodies joined and hands extended in the sign of a cross. translated into english: "there are two crosses planted on the hill of lost memories, one for you and one for me." This is an ancient Flamenco dance in the tempo of "Bulerias" and is generally past on to new generations by the Gitano people of Spain. There are no schools teaching "Cante Hondo" for that too is passed on.
p.s. the above painting is on the back of another painting on canvas.
*The taurine language is a language of it's own and the title is virtually untranslatable; the best I could come up with is: "to keep the coming horn tip out of the way of my stomach"
This painting was done on the back of an old painting on canvas, hence the" aged" look, not to speak of the powerful odor it emanates. /mostly dust and mold with a sprinkling of rat poison for it was sitting in my attic for over thirty years.
I intentionally did not clean it for I wanted to keep the smell of it intact
This is the first time ever that I have painted a picture over a dusty, moldy surface and the paint went on with great difficulty.
*"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 pebbles that form our lives and plug the stream that runs through our veins" best seen on black
note: from newspapers in ref. to Friedrich Flick, director of "Mitteldeutsche Stahlwerke" a conglomerate of coal, mine, steel and other mfg. concerns using slave workers during world warII, responsible for the death of thousands inmates was sentenced to twenty years for his crimes; served only three years! as of now Germany's wealthiest man !
*from series of drawings of Nazi's on trial and later portraits
p.s. on back of drawing I recorded his statement about his being accused for the murder of millions of woman and children: "I believe I am right in saying that every moral consideration depends upon a philosophical principle and that every philosophical principle is a product of it's time and of the prevailing values of that time. No, one, I repeat, no one, under my watch committed any crimes. All killings were done in accordance of prevailing laws at that time!"
*Completed painting having taken liberty of including myself with the insertion of a "french cuff" so as to make the connection truly French.
p.s. since my retirement have not worn french cuffed shirts and have no use of them yet they hold fond memories from my employment and travels to Europe.
p.s. this rather sentimental painting is best seen on black
*Kafka starving to death, on his deathbed at the Hoffmann Sanatoruim in Kierling near Vienna. Franz Kafka died of starvation in June 1924. At that time there was no cure for Tuberculosis.
*El capote de brega (o simplemente capote) 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.
* "What will you do, God, when I die?"
title to famous poem by Reiner Maria Rilke for which this set has been made and photographed in my studio.
"Was wirst Du tun, Gott, wenn Ich sterbe?"
Ich bin dein Krug /wenn ich zerscherbe?/
Ich bin dein Trank /wenn ich verderbe?/
Bin dein Gewand und deine Gewerbe,
mit mir verliest du deinen Sinn.
Nach mir hast kein Haus, darin
dich Worte, nah und warm, begruessen.
Es faelt von deinem muden Fuessen
Die Samtsandalle, die ich bin.
Dein grosser Mantel laest sich los.
Dein Blick, den ich mit meiner Wange
warm, wie mit einem Pfuhl, empfange,
wird kommen, wird nicht suchen, lange-
und legt beim Sonnenuntergange
sich fremden Syeinen in den Schooss.
Was wirst du, Gott? Ich bin bange.
von dem Stunden Buch, 1905
transl as best I could:
"What will you do, God, when I die?
I am your jug /what if I am smashed to bits?/
I am your drink /what if I spill?/
Iam your garment and your trade,
with me /in loosing me/ You loose your meaning
After me /after I die/ you will have no house wherein
words, near and warm to greet you
From your tired feet fall
the velvet slipper that I am.
Your great mantle let's me go.
Your glance, which I with my cheek
warmly, as with a pillow, /now/ I receive,
will come, will seek me, long-
and will lie / literally lies / down at sunset
in the lap of /unresponding / stranger-rocks.
What will you do, God? I am fearfu.
Erich Maria Rilke.
p.s. a practicing psychologist friend of mine calls the poem a "tansparent" wey of saying: "I fear death" Personally I see it as a challenge.
for this rendering I have used myself as a young man from photographs. I am told that the resemblance is striking.
best viewed on black.
after nearly 40 years found a beautiful new version of an old classic song about "Mar Azul" coming back with a vengeance: You Tube: Mar Azul-Cesaria Evora - Marisa Monte.
* portrait: Hipolito Bariloche, writer, poet, amateur bullfighter, as torero seated on a vintage bistro chair. Part of my "living room series" as per Patricia Hetter, mixed media: cutout standee, acrylics on gesso covered cardboard seated on vintage bistro chair. The portrait when completed will be part of my "living room"* series. "Living rooms" is what we used to call artists studios in the 60'-70's
****"living room" by Paris combo": youtu.be/hptx-ofa5Uo.
p.s. Hipolito died in 1987 at the age of 76 in Asuncion , I am told that he is buried in a unmarked grave. Some say he served time for petty thefts and other minor crimes.
p.s, Sadly I could not find anything about this brilliant writer on Wikipedia