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Masque & Spectacle. Thank you Heather for making me a Featured Artist in your magazine.https://masqueandspectacle.com/2019/09/01/featured-artist-tony-belobrajdic/
Last August (2018) I have started a project called 'Pandora's Box' consisting of 31 panels 76 x 56 cm, Watercolours on 640 grams paper.
My vision of Pandora's Box, when it was opened, was a 'Mess of human flesh being released into the world, fighting for the space, position, supremacy...'
They were originally painted as 7 poliptych paintings ( from 2 to 9 panel units) .
Idea behind this series was that individual panels could be rearranged in different order and grouped into many new paintings.
There are thousands of combinations how to group and display them together.
Here is a poliptych called Pandora's Box 1. It consists of 9 panels measuring 228 x 168 cm.
Drawing with some watercolour and small amount of tempera.
Talens Ecoline Watercolour Ink. Available here www.singulart.com/en/artist/tony-belobrajdic-10927
I layered one section of the 'dam' on top as an example of all the 'dam work'. I love the play on words here, and I don't think they are an accident. I'm not sure who composed this, but I suspect it was someone with a great sense of humor right here in good old Idaho. This sign can be found very close to the dam that I photographed and placed at the top of the photograph.
For my international friends and translation purposes, the sign says : A lot of dam work! Creating a lake in the Deer Flat basin was an enormous undertaking. Unlike most reservoirs built by damming a river, Deer Flat Reservoir was built in a basin with no natural rivers. Crews expanded or built forty miles of canal to bring water from the Boise River. To contain the water, they built four earthen dams more than three miles in total length. Imagine using only steam shovels, train cars, and horse teams to move four million cubic yards of gravel, dirt, and lava rock. That much material piled on a football field would be more than a quarter of a mile high--more than three times taller than the space needle in Seattle.
"Not from Here" is a series of portraits where I was trying to depict “lost in time” feel and make faces and bodies androgynous.
Acrylic on loose linen, 68 x 50 cm. Partially inspired by Visconti's film Death in Venice, but more by Mahler's Symphony No5 ( used in the film ). Acrylic on loose linen with approx. 45 mm of unpainted border if to be put on a stretcher . Matisse acrylic paints.
Painted in 2022 and signed on left side.
Intention to be float framed in a box frame, with or without glass . Please check a photo for framing suggestion.
Thin layer of Krylon UV Archival ( Gallery series ) satin varnish has been applied. It can be varnished further would more shiny look be required.
Again, whole series is dedicated to great(est) of them all, F. Goya.
Great influence and a silent mentor.
Painting portraits and hands is a great passion. They are both delicate and also challenging to paint. Hands reveal great deal of the personality and character of the sitter.
Portraits....beautifully difficult to paint.
Artwork will be posted in a mailing tube
About Goya:
-Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes was a Spanish painter and printmaker. He is considered the most important Spanish artist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
He is considered to be both, the last of the Old Masters and the father of modern art.
Goya’s importance to modern painters is undeniable.
His influence continued throughout the 20th century and is still prevalent today.
Though he enjoyed great success as a court painter, Goya withdrew from public life in his later years, no doubt dogged by his increasing deafness and fear of old age and madness.
When the political climate in Spain became too unstable, he exiled himself to Bordeaux, where he died in 1828.
another jointwork based on janey's very decorative and beautiful drawing: www.flickr.com/photos/74473522@N00/31822216/
Janeys Journey says: Well you certainly do her more justice then I could. I'm not going to color her. I just have to name her - Julianne du Paradis in honor of the artist who gave her color!
Dr Tao says: Great! The combination of shapes & colours with so strong Renaissance "aftertaste"...
FFgoatee says: a tasteful colorlayer for a dlicate drawning :)
Last August (2018) I have started a project called 'Pandora's Box' consisting of 31 panels 76 x 56 cm, Watercolours on 640 grams paper.
My vision of Pandora's Box, when it was opened, was a 'Mess of human flesh being released into the world, fighting for the space, position, supremacy...'
They were originally painted as 7 poliptych paintings ( from 2 to 9 panel units) .
Idea behind this series was that individual panels could be rearranged in different order and grouped into many new paintings.
There are thousands of combinations how to group and display them together.
Here, I have chosen a poliptych called Pandora's Box 1. It consists of 9 panels measuring 228 x 156 cm.
Sancho Panda
"who controls the past now controls the future, who controls the present now controls the past"
my 1st mini-exhibition, me and 3 other artists, looking forward to see my pics framed and hung on the walls
the conversion of constantine
the conversion of constantine, and thereby the late roman empire, has had an enormous impact on world history. i have always wondered how a break away minor jewish sect based on the short and confused ministry of yeshua ben pantera was transformed into the christian juggernaut. the early christian community (from the death of yeshua to the 4th century) was an often persecuted lot. the common history is that christ appeared to constantine before the battle at pons milvius (where constantine was leading a machiavellian challenge for the control of the western half of the roman empire against the legitimate emperor) and bid him to follow the banner of the cross to victory. after said victory under said banner, constantine relaxed proscriptions against the christian community, and eventually adopted christianity as the legal state religion of the empire. this formal sanction led to the explosive political growth of the church [catholic and otherwise] and is the reason we worship christ the savior.
however, but for a figurative coin toss of history, we would be praying to mithra the redeemer. mithra who? you say. mithraism was another near east faith based on a son of god as savior motif very popular in the eastern half of the roman empire at the time of constantine.
mithra:
the cult of mithra (sidebar) was revered as a light-bringer, a protector and judge of immortal souls. mithra the god-figure remained celibate throughout his life, and valued self-control, renunciation and resistance to sensuality among his worshippers. mithras represented a system of ethics in which brotherhood was encouraged in order to unify against the forces of evil. mithraic rituals involved the symbolic consumption of wine/blood and bread/flesh, baptismal purification, and celebrated the birthday of mithra on december 25th. sound familar? consider then, that the myth of mithra predates christianity by many many centuries. cross-pollination of myths and ethos in the ancient near east was very common. it is important to understand that there is no single pure theology. they are all quilt-work.
the mithraic belief system was focused on the role of mithra as enforcer of truth. the avesta, the zoroastrian holy book, relates that ahura-mazda, the zoroaster Lord figure, sent mithra to guarantee the sanctity of promises and bonds. in fact, mithra is persian for 'contract'. mithras was worshipped as guardian of arms, and patron of soldiers and armies. the handshake was developed by those who worshipped him as a token of friendship and as a gesture to show that you were unarmed. when mithras later became the Roman god of contracts, the handshake gesture was imported throughout the mediterranean and europe by roman soldiers.
mithraism was adopted first by the roman legions garrisoned in the east during the republic. i presume they were attracted to its emphasis on honor, strength, and action. by the late empire under diocletian (284 - 305 AD), mithra was the de facto (and de jure) state religion. mithraic temples, known as mithraeum, were found at all corners of the empire, from northern england to northern africa.
mithraism was a revealed mystery faith. you did not merely convert to mithraism with a ritual baptism and declaration of submission. like the free masons, you had to be chosen and initiated in secret ceremonies into the ranks of the believers. perhaps this was a critical shortcoming of the faith in competition against the more liberal membership rites of christianity. an initiate was first required to prove their courage and strength in tests of danger (crossing swift rivers, jumping through fire bound and blindfolded, etc...) the mithraic initiation process led the acolyte through seven stages of greater revealed knowledge: Corax (Raven), Nymphus (Male Bride), Miles (Soldier), Leo (Lion), Peres (Persian), Heliodromus (Sun-Runner), and Pater (Father); each respective grade protected by Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, the Moon, the Sun, and Saturn.
mithraism was the faith of the realm for several centuries before constantine supplanted it. but for his conversion, the west, and the world would be a dramatically different place.