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"from the lyrics of a cumbia: "From the gates of heaven he has fallen" by Basilio Nascimiento
"From the gates of heaven he has fallen"
A piece of flesh is seen from way above
to taste the flesh is a sin, he was told time and again,
he got burned many times before
and risking to quench his desire
one more time would be folly
specially when flying so high
and so near to the gates from heaven.
He hesitated, just for a second
only to find himself dropping like a rock,
nearly catching the piece of flesh he so desired
only to fall once again into the ashes that consumed him
so many times before.
Will the Phoenix rise from the ashes once again?
translated from the Spanish, / not exactly but to make sense in english /
lyrics to a cumbia by my departed friend Basilio Nascimiento, aka. "el tuerto", el rey del cante hondo. Who's portrait graces the wall of my office /posted yesterday/
*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
*Sonnenuntergang Mar Azul" Margarete von Elfenheim collection, 1965-1980's
most of my paintings of the sixties were inspired by the popular music of the times in this case it was the famous balad titled "si me quisiste tanto" by the poet of the Vallenato, Alfred Gutierrez: youtu.be/hGAPrvxv-X8
p.s. posted as per request: "artists can never paint what they once painted; all they can do is dance with ghosts of the departed: "si me quisiste tanto porque me dejaste"
*best seen on black
p.s. the crucifix is a pewter family heirloom borrowed for this painting
it is best viewed on black
for those interested in music; my favorite Magdalena is the one celebrated during carnival time in my adopted country Panama; found a recent recording on You Tube under: "Sergio Mendez-Magdalenha" this rendition is celebrated in Brazil
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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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*This life size, cut out standee with that of a female, was sold to a private party anonymously /have no clue where or who owns them/ from an exhibit held at the "Los Angeles Federal Savings Art Gallery in 1985.
p.s. as to the title, it is absolutely true for I can swear that every time I look at myself in the mirror I see the marks the war has left on my own face.
*after Prof. Caesare Lambroso and Willy Ferrero,s limited edition*, illustrated book with portraits of their patients describing their symptoms and subsequent treatment in the early 1900's
*owned by artist
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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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Happy Advent....a new tribute to the Blessed Virgin Mary by Catholic expressionist artist Stephen B. Whatley.
Artist Stephen B. Whatley was born an Anglican and in the 1990s, he became attracted to the devotions within the Catholic Church – to which he converted in 2011.
He is happy that his work touches so many Christians, whether they be Catholics, Anglicans or Episcopalians.
Since 2000, he has been drawn to make statements of prayer and faith; often painting on specific anniversaries and Feast Days – with what he humbly calls a “divine push’, creating both works of hope and light.
The work of Stephen B. Whatley is in collections worldwide & public collections which own his work include the BBC, London Transport Museum, and The Royal Collection of HM King Charles III.
Catholic institutions that own the artist's paintings include The Carrollton School of The Sacred Heart, Miami, USA, The Institute of Marist Brothers, Canada, Newman University, Birmingham (UK), St Anthony Padua Catholic College, Sydney, Australia and Westminster Cathedral, London - which staged his 2013 exhibition, Paintings From Prayer.
In 2004, the artist was presented to Queen Elizabeth II and The Duke of Edinburgh in recognition of his work.
The artist's series of 30 paintings, commissioned by the Tower of London in 2000, is a permanent exhibit outside Tower Hill Station, London ; reproduced throughout Tower Hill Pedestrian Underpass (outside Tower Hill Station) - the main portal entrance to the Tower of London.
Our Lady Star Of The Sea 2024 by Stephen B. Whatley
Oil on canvas
40 x 30in/102 x 76 cm
* one of several showing him in anguish over the loss of his son; the latter to become one of the "desaparecidos" teachers of overthrow of corrupt governments in Central America in the 60's.
from artist's collection; for those interested in his portraits, see my most recent and one of my best of him /I am told/ on lucite. posted on my stream last month; best seen 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.
Higher resolutions with no attribution required can be downloaded: https://www.rawpixel.com/board/1223432/edvard-munch
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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.
Higher resolutions with no attribution required can be downloaded: https://www.rawpixel.com/board/1223432/edvard-munch
*Huayama manicao Cavanova y Isabela, las bovedas, aguadilla Yorosobi y ayuyao desmeleo,chepo, changuinolla y sal si puedes del mani, comio sin comerio, los ultimos Bohemios. ...................
*La Ultima noche de Maria de nadie"
by Iris Zuares
a woman in a vulnerable pose
left alone without her clothes
was she raped and left for dead
all the red makes me think/feel she bled
translation and story behind the "Maria's de nadie" literally translated: "Mary's of nobody" It has been a custom since the sixty,s for poor families living in the poverty stricken interior of Central American countries to name their daughters, Maria, after the virgin Mary, firstly for protection and secondly to remind them of their first obligation to the family. Each year thousands of these young girls move to the cities to seek employment as domestics, many winding up as "sex slaves" of their masters, most of which is tolerated and accepted as the norm; the "lucky" few wind up pregnant from their masters and eventually become their mistresses. The thousands of unlucky ones are eventually discovered by the wives and banished, banished not only from the household but from their own families, hence the title "Mary,s of no one, many winding up in prostitution, thousands seeking a better life by hoping to cross to the United States seeking employment here. But the journey from their native lands, crossing several borders is a very perilous one, for since they don't "belong" to any one,and therefore have no protection, they are most often raped /many times by the police of whom they seek protection/ many wind up murdered and dumped at the local dumps.
Thousands of these young woman are murdered in Ciudad Juarez just across the border of Mexico. There are no statistics, no records except for the local papers that report each day the amount of bodies found, many of whom are never found.
Enter Lydia Calho Ribeiro, a french-portuguese newspaper writer who takes up their plight ,exposes the corrupt politicians who protect the police officials who turn their back on the investigation; she herself is threaten with death yet she persists and writes the book "Los Demonios de Eden" /the devils of eden/ last year she was awarded the prestigious "Francisco Ojeda al valor periodistico" award for her bravery in publishing her book. Her book is not illustrated however the horror as she describes the events and the interviews she made of some of the survivors of this journey are so vivid that after reading the book I simply had to illustrate this horror.
I understand a movie titled "Los Demonios de Eden" is being shot at this moment in Juarez
*when lacking inspiration, he can always rely on last resort: "piss on it"
**"living room" by Paris combo": youtu.be/hptx-ofa5Uo
.............. and when sleep finally takes hold" / artist's family collection /
to appreciate the beauty of this rendering suggest viewing on black
* /rebirth of the artist/ study for my "adore di carne" set now in progress. The carved marfil calavera by an unknown artist was chosen for it has a uncanny resemblance to myself as I imagine myself coming back to life after my departure to worlds unknown..
photographed in my home studio
best seen in light box
The set will be based loosely on the book originally titled: "cosi imparano a fare" /not film/ by the painter, poet and later screenplay writer Mario Bava, the son of Eugenio Bava /noted sculptor/
for background on artist see my #1 posting of yesterday.
Here is the link to the trailer for his original film which I found on you-tube:
*the portrait has been attempted many times before, never achieving the desired results. This is the result of dozens of drawings on paper which include his "other" personality that we have experienced when he was in a rage. It is a bit dark and may be difficult to see but his good side fortunately came out well.
Pictured at this week's Private View of a unique vibrant exhibition in central London, expressionist artist Stephen B Whatley is pictured with two of the guests, star of stage and screen, Siân Phillips CBE( one of Whatley's favourite portrait-sitters; painted in 1997) & her close friend, London osteopath, Fabi Waisbort.
The ever-elegant actress, a lady of great warmth and tenderness, chose to be photographed beneath her favourite painting in the show, The Passion of Christ, painted on Good Friday 2003.
Staged at the grand Rectory of St James's Church, Spanish Place, at 22 George Street, London W1 Paintings From Prayer (which runs from 17 April until 18 May 2013) is a powerful exhibition of 19 works of art, painted with great passion in prayer, that span over a decade of artistic expressions of faith - all never before exhibited.
They include iconic depictions of Baby Jesus (painted on Christmas Day 2000), devotions to the Blessed Virgin Mary ( including Our Lady of Guadalupe & Our Lady of Lourdes) & several Saints; from such traditionally loved as , St Mary Magdalene, St Anthony and St Clare of Assisi to lesser known as St Lucy, Patron Saint of the Blind, and St Kateri Tekakwitha - the first Native American Saint.
Also on show for the first time is Whatley's 2010 popular painting, The Sacred Heart of Jesus; and his Glory of Christ, painted Easter Day 2008.
All of the paintings can be seen online throughout this photostream.
These modern Catholic icons shine out from the grand walls like lights and most are available to purchase; with 30% of proceeds being devoted to St James's Church.
The visitors book is already being inscribed with overwhelmed compliments...come and take the opportunity to be uplifted. One great admirer of the artist's work, the writer Erin Brierley of Georgia USA - and owner of Whatley's 2011 painting of St Therese of Lisieux - wrote to the artist from America,
"....it can be overwhelming to take all your work together, for example, if you look at all the paintings at once, you see all the life and colour going on, but it's when you really contemplate each one, really concentrating and letting it draw you in (Ruth's words, she kept saying your paintings just 'draw you in') that you begin to see the genius and the presence of God in each one, the layer upon layer of symbolism and mysticism, really. They really are icons in a modern form, because as I've said before, they are more than paintings, they are windows through which we glimpse into heaven, and Heaven smiles back at us. "
*not the one we usually pray to, but another, now departed. The music to this tribute may be seen on You Tube, beautifully rendered under: "Gotan Project Live-Santa Maria", Live, being the only one that has the prayer and is the best presentation of this lament.
My Santa Maria is best viewed on black.
*inspirado por letra de Alfonso Etribide Navarrez: "La Venganza" this painting is best viewed on black
*muchas vezes me dijiste: "si tu te vas, entonces, yo te sigo" con musica todo se puede! youtu.be/GRSWOaJe5ro
p.s. pero no todavia! LOL!
*this painting was illuminated for effect with artificial light from behind and 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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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.
Higher resolutions with no attribution required can be downloaded: https://www.rawpixel.com/board/1223432/edvard-munch