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he great Pandit Ravi Shankar passed from our world this week leaving a gigantic musical legacy and influence that literally re-shaped the course of music in the Western world. Huge cultural figures as diverse as George Harrison, Philip Glass and Yehudi Menuhin all worked with him, learned from him and were profoundly affected by the classical Indian music Shankar was an unparalleled master of. Each spoke of a soft-spoken man who also maintained an air of quiet authority and wisdom. He was as much a Guru, as he was musician.
Would Indian music, and indeed even the culture of India, have translated so well into the west if Shankar, a great educator, had not been open to being it's greatest cultural ambassador?
His mastery of the Sitar is deservedly legendary and anyone who ever had the great fortune to see this great Master completely immerse himself in the grand ragas of the North Indian tradition, to breathtaking effect, count themselves as extremely fortunate.
I've done this tribute in the 4 'movements' of North Indian raga: Alap, Jor, Jhala and Gat.
Blessed re-birth to you, Ravi !!! And Thank you !!!
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In the middle of the crisp, hard cold of winter a memory and a dream of summer with it's perfumed nights and explosion of colour.
Music Link: Brian Eno & Harold Budd - "Against the Sky" from their album "The Pearl".
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hffmkfXIqPc
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September 2012, UK
This isn't just a landscape, it's an impression of a landscape. However, the line between subjective representation and "realism" is very fine. Essentially, an expression of topography as subjective experience, here I hope to reveal the potential of the land as a metaphor for mental comprehension. I use the word mental, rather than "psyche" or "psychological" as these words clutter perception with multifarious ideas.
I don't want to spew art-bollocks as this can be pretentious, derogatory to the audience/viewer and can inhibit the potency of an art work. Nevertheless, I wanted to point out the conceptual aspects of the work as they may not be immediately apprehendable, particularly when one considers the "random" nature of viewing art work on the Internet.
The title "Post (your) Memoir" is a nod to literary and philosophical conceptions of Postmodern culture(s). I spent approx. 3 years on Trace Online Writing Centre based at Leceister University, where I moved from literature to dance and photography/digital art. "Post Memoir" reflects both Baudrillard's theory of "the end of history" and the notion of the "death of the author", where the author (or other creative) becomes less important or redundant in the creation of literature/art. The land is also a vital component of cultural identity. Even in today's artificial times we experience the potency of the land in virtually every task that we undertake. The cultural (and mental) significance of the land is no accident! One can also "post their memoir" or other interpretation of this art-work, in a seemingly abitrary manner, that reveals the process of creating art at the helm of my motivations for photographing and editing a photograph of a not unusual field, lying ploughed and fallow in central England.
Simon
Richard Serra, Sculpture: Forty Years was on display at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) from June 3 - September 10, 2007. The exhibition was a forty-year survey of the work of American minimalist sculptor, Richard Serra (b. November 2, 1939, San Francisco). Serra, who was involved in the Process Art movement, is known for working with large scale assemblies of sheet metal (COR-TEN-Steel). The monumental exhibit, which included three new works, spanned the museum's tall-ceilinged second floor, sixth floor, and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden, where Torqued Ellipse IV (1998) and Intersection II (1992-93) braved the outdoor elements.
Intersection II (1992-93), a gift of Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder, consists of four upright, almost identical conical sections of weatherproof steal--two sections 13'1 1/2" high x 51'9" along the chord x 2 1/8" thick; two sections 13'1 1/2" high x 50'9" along the chord x 2 1/8" thick. The sections tilt their way inviting visitors to travel along three routes between its massive walls, exerting a psychic pressure from the weight, height, and leaning angles, and from their variously dark and rusted surfaces. It is tempered by the elegant precision of their lines and the satisfying logic of their arrangement. The slopes and placements of the great steel curves produce two outer spaces that invert each other at floor and ceiling, one being wide where the other is narrow. Meanwhile the central space is a regular yet biased ellipse.
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) was founded in 1929 and is often recognized as the most influential museum of modern art in the world. Over the course of the next ten years, the Museum moved three times into progressively larger temporary quarters, and in 1939 finally opened the doors of its midtown home, located on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues in midtown. The building underwent extensive renovations, closing on May 21, 2002 and reopening to the public in a building redesigned by the Japanese architect Yoshio Taniguchi, on November 20, 2004. The renovation project nearly doubled the space for exhibitions and programs, featuring 630,000 square feet of new and redesigned space.
MoMA's holdings include more than 150,000 individual pieces. Highlights of the collection inlcude Vincent Van Gogh's The Starry Night, Salvador Dali's The Persisence of Memory, Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiseels d'Avignon and Three Musicians, Claude Monet's Water Lilies, Piet Mondrian's Broadway Boogie Woogie, Paul Gauguin's The Seed of the Areoi, Henri Matisse's Dance, Marc Chagall's I and the Village, Paul Cezanne's The Bather, Jackson Pollack's Number 31, 1950, and Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans.
When David Rockefeller became president of MoMA in 1958, replacing his brother Nelson who took up the position of Governor of New York, he hired the noted architect Philip Johnson to redesign the Museum garden and name it in honor of his mother, the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden. The Gardens are framed by the Peggy and David Rockefeller Building, which houses the main exhibition galleries, on the western end of the site; and and The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building, on the eastern end.
In 2007, the Museum of Modern Art was ranked #146 on the AIA 150 America's Favorite Architecture list.
Kids don’t always have to use paint brushes to create beautiful artwork. There are many media that can be used and each of them create different effects. So today we are exploring Pulled String Painting. This is an easy and sometimes messy art activity. It’s great for kids’...
Richard Serra, Sculpture: Forty Years was on display at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) from June 3 - September 10, 2007. The exhibition was a forty-year survey of the work of American minimalist sculptor, Richard Serra (b. November 2, 1939, San Francisco). Serra, who was involved in the Process Art movement, is known for working with large scale assemblies of sheet metal (COR-TEN-Steel). The monumental exhibit, which included three new works, spanned the museum's tall-ceilinged second floor, sixth floor, and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden, where Torqued Ellipse IV and Intersection II (1992-93) braved the outdoor elements.
Torqued Ellipsde IV (1998), a fractional and promised gift of Leon and Debra Black, is made of curved weathersproof steel measuring 12'3" x 26'6" x 32'6". Torqued Ellipse, Serra’s breakthrough piece, is an oval enclosure, with a slit for entry, whose countour at the top is perpendicular to their contour on the ground.
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) was founded in 1929 and is often recognized as the most influential museum of modern art in the world. Over the course of the next ten years, the Museum moved three times into progressively larger temporary quarters, and in 1939 finally opened the doors of its midtown home, located on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues in midtown. The building underwent extensive renovations, closing on May 21, 2002 and reopening to the public in a building redesigned by the Japanese architect Yoshio Taniguchi, on November 20, 2004. The renovation project nearly doubled the space for exhibitions and programs, featuring 630,000 square feet of new and redesigned space.
MoMA's holdings include more than 150,000 individual pieces. Highlights of the collection inlcude Vincent Van Gogh's The Starry Night, Salvador Dali's The Persisence of Memory, Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiseels d'Avignon and Three Musicians, Claude Monet's Water Lilies, Piet Mondrian's Broadway Boogie Woogie, Paul Gauguin's The Seed of the Areoi, Henri Matisse's Dance, Marc Chagall's I and the Village, Paul Cezanne's The Bather, Jackson Pollack's Number 31, 1950, and Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans.
When David Rockefeller became president of MoMA in 1958, replacing his brother Nelson who took up the position of Governor of New York, he hired the noted architect Philip Johnson to redesign the Museum garden and name it in honor of his mother, the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden. The Gardens are framed by the Peggy and David Rockefeller Building, which houses the main exhibition galleries, on the western end of the site; and and The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building, on the eastern end.
In 2007, the Museum of Modern Art was ranked #146 on the AIA 150 America's Favorite Architecture list.
Richard Serra, Sculpture: Forty Years was on display at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) from June 3 - September 10, 2007. The exhibition was a forty-year survey of the work of American minimalist sculptor, Richard Serra (b. November 2, 1939, San Francisco). Serra, who was involved in the Process Art movement, is known for working with large scale assemblies of sheet metal (COR-TEN-Steel). The monumental exhibit, which included three new works, spanned the museum's tall-ceilinged second floor, sixth floor, and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden, where Torqued Ellipse IV and Intersection II (1992-93) braved the outdoor elements.
Torqued Ellipsde IV (1998), a fractional and promised gift of Leon and Debra Black, is made of curved weathersproof steel measuring 12'3" x 26'6" x 32'6". Torqued Ellipse, Serra’s breakthrough piece, is an oval enclosure, with a slit for entry, whose countour at the top is perpendicular to their contour on the ground.
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) was founded in 1929 and is often recognized as the most influential museum of modern art in the world. Over the course of the next ten years, the Museum moved three times into progressively larger temporary quarters, and in 1939 finally opened the doors of its midtown home, located on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues in midtown. The building underwent extensive renovations, closing on May 21, 2002 and reopening to the public in a building redesigned by the Japanese architect Yoshio Taniguchi, on November 20, 2004. The renovation project nearly doubled the space for exhibitions and programs, featuring 630,000 square feet of new and redesigned space.
MoMA's holdings include more than 150,000 individual pieces. Highlights of the collection inlcude Vincent Van Gogh's The Starry Night, Salvador Dali's The Persisence of Memory, Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiseels d'Avignon and Three Musicians, Claude Monet's Water Lilies, Piet Mondrian's Broadway Boogie Woogie, Paul Gauguin's The Seed of the Areoi, Henri Matisse's Dance, Marc Chagall's I and the Village, Paul Cezanne's The Bather, Jackson Pollack's Number 31, 1950, and Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans.
When David Rockefeller became president of MoMA in 1958, replacing his brother Nelson who took up the position of Governor of New York, he hired the noted architect Philip Johnson to redesign the Museum garden and name it in honor of his mother, the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden. The Gardens are framed by the Peggy and David Rockefeller Building, which houses the main exhibition galleries, on the western end of the site; and and The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building, on the eastern end.
In 2007, the Museum of Modern Art was ranked #146 on the AIA 150 America's Favorite Architecture list.
Richard Serra, Sculpture: Forty Years was on display at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) from June 3 - September 10, 2007. The exhibition was a forty-year survey of the work of American minimalist sculptor, Richard Serra (b. November 2, 1939, San Francisco). Serra, who was involved in the Process Art movement, is known for working with large scale assemblies of sheet metal (COR-TEN-Steel). The monumental exhibit, which included three new works, spanned the museum's tall-ceilinged second floor, sixth floor, and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden, where Torqued Ellipse IV (1998) and Intersection II (1992-93) braved the outdoor elements.
Intersection II (1992-93), a gift of Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder, consists of four upright, almost identical conical sections of weatherproof steal--two sections 13'1 1/2" high x 51'9" along the chord x 2 1/8" thick; two sections 13'1 1/2" high x 50'9" along the chord x 2 1/8" thick. The sections tilt their way inviting visitors to travel along three routes between its massive walls, exerting a psychic pressure from the weight, height, and leaning angles, and from their variously dark and rusted surfaces. It is tempered by the elegant precision of their lines and the satisfying logic of their arrangement. The slopes and placements of the great steel curves produce two outer spaces that invert each other at floor and ceiling, one being wide where the other is narrow. Meanwhile the central space is a regular yet biased ellipse.
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) was founded in 1929 and is often recognized as the most influential museum of modern art in the world. Over the course of the next ten years, the Museum moved three times into progressively larger temporary quarters, and in 1939 finally opened the doors of its midtown home, located on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues in midtown. The building underwent extensive renovations, closing on May 21, 2002 and reopening to the public in a building redesigned by the Japanese architect Yoshio Taniguchi, on November 20, 2004. The renovation project nearly doubled the space for exhibitions and programs, featuring 630,000 square feet of new and redesigned space.
MoMA's holdings include more than 150,000 individual pieces. Highlights of the collection inlcude Vincent Van Gogh's The Starry Night, Salvador Dali's The Persisence of Memory, Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiseels d'Avignon and Three Musicians, Claude Monet's Water Lilies, Piet Mondrian's Broadway Boogie Woogie, Paul Gauguin's The Seed of the Areoi, Henri Matisse's Dance, Marc Chagall's I and the Village, Paul Cezanne's The Bather, Jackson Pollack's Number 31, 1950, and Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans.
When David Rockefeller became president of MoMA in 1958, replacing his brother Nelson who took up the position of Governor of New York, he hired the noted architect Philip Johnson to redesign the Museum garden and name it in honor of his mother, the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden. The Gardens are framed by the Peggy and David Rockefeller Building, which houses the main exhibition galleries, on the western end of the site; and and The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building, on the eastern end.
In 2007, the Museum of Modern Art was ranked #146 on the AIA 150 America's Favorite Architecture list.
Cyrus II of Persia Kuruš; c. 600 BC or 576 BC–530 BC commonly known as Cyrus the Great, also known as Cyrus the Elder, was the founder of the Achaemenid Empire. WikipediaBorn: 576 BC, Anshan
Died: 530 BC (Month: December), Syr Darya
Spouse: Cassandane
Buried: Pasargadae
Parents: Cambyses I of Anshan, Mandane of Media
Children: Cambyses II of Persia, Smerdis of Persia, Atossa, Artystone
Richard Serra, Sculpture: Forty Years was on display at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) from June 3 - September 10, 2007. The exhibition was a forty-year survey of the work of American minimalist sculptor, Richard Serra (b. November 2, 1939, San Francisco). Serra, who was involved in the Process Art movement, is known for working with large scale assemblies of sheet metal (COR-TEN-Steel). The monumental exhibit, which included three new works, spanned the museum's tall-ceilinged second floor, sixth floor, and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden, where Torqued Ellipse IV (1998) and Intersection II (1992-93) braved the outdoor elements.
Intersection II (1992-93), a gift of Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder, consists of four upright, almost identical conical sections of weatherproof steal--two sections 13'1 1/2" high x 51'9" along the chord x 2 1/8" thick; two sections 13'1 1/2" high x 50'9" along the chord x 2 1/8" thick. The sections tilt their way inviting visitors to travel along three routes between its massive walls, exerting a psychic pressure from the weight, height, and leaning angles, and from their variously dark and rusted surfaces. It is tempered by the elegant precision of their lines and the satisfying logic of their arrangement. The slopes and placements of the great steel curves produce two outer spaces that invert each other at floor and ceiling, one being wide where the other is narrow. Meanwhile the central space is a regular yet biased ellipse.
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) was founded in 1929 and is often recognized as the most influential museum of modern art in the world. Over the course of the next ten years, the Museum moved three times into progressively larger temporary quarters, and in 1939 finally opened the doors of its midtown home, located on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues in midtown. The building underwent extensive renovations, closing on May 21, 2002 and reopening to the public in a building redesigned by the Japanese architect Yoshio Taniguchi, on November 20, 2004. The renovation project nearly doubled the space for exhibitions and programs, featuring 630,000 square feet of new and redesigned space.
MoMA's holdings include more than 150,000 individual pieces. Highlights of the collection inlcude Vincent Van Gogh's The Starry Night, Salvador Dali's The Persisence of Memory, Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiseels d'Avignon and Three Musicians, Claude Monet's Water Lilies, Piet Mondrian's Broadway Boogie Woogie, Paul Gauguin's The Seed of the Areoi, Henri Matisse's Dance, Marc Chagall's I and the Village, Paul Cezanne's The Bather, Jackson Pollack's Number 31, 1950, and Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans.
When David Rockefeller became president of MoMA in 1958, replacing his brother Nelson who took up the position of Governor of New York, he hired the noted architect Philip Johnson to redesign the Museum garden and name it in honor of his mother, the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden. The Gardens are framed by the Peggy and David Rockefeller Building, which houses the main exhibition galleries, on the western end of the site; and and The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building, on the eastern end.
In 2007, the Museum of Modern Art was ranked #146 on the AIA 150 America's Favorite Architecture list.
Rostam overcoming the Demon. The 19th century mosaic mural at Arg of Karim Khan.The Arg of Karim Khan (Persian: ارگ کريمخاني) is a citadel located in the north-east of Shiraz, southern Iran. It was built as part of a complex during the Zand dynasty and is named after Karim Khan, and served as his living quarters. In shape it resembles a medieval fortress.
At times, the citadel was used as a prison. Today, it is a museum operated by Iran's Cultural Heritage Organization
The 'ceiling' of our thoughts and received cultures is no more a limit to us than the elephant bound with an invisible rope. To 'train' these noble beasts to stay within a certain circumference, a stake was driven into the ground, a heavy chain was attached to the stake and tied to the collar of a baby elephant. Soon the infant learned that it could only go so far. As it grew the chain went to a rope, then to smaller rope, to a piece of string, until the elephant was so used to its limits, NO chain or bond whatsoever was attached to it. Once there, they never stray from their resting circles.
And so it is with the culture that receive as children. We are taught all kinds of limiting 'realities'. Imagination is largely quashed, except where it is 'productive', and the rich inner life of our childhood gradually, systematically stolen from us.
As a child I often wondered why adults were always so miserable...
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Richard Serra, Sculpture: Forty Years was on display at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) from June 3 - September 10, 2007. The exhibition was a forty-year survey of the work of American minimalist sculptor, Richard Serra (b. November 2, 1939, San Francisco). Serra, who was involved in the Process Art movement, is known for working with large scale assemblies of sheet metal (COR-TEN-Steel). The monumental exhibit, which included three new works, spanned the museum's tall-ceilinged second floor, sixth floor, and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden, where Torqued Ellipse IV and Intersection II (1992-93) braved the outdoor elements.
Torqued Ellipsde IV (1998), a fractional and promised gift of Leon and Debra Black, is made of curved weathersproof steel measuring 12'3" x 26'6" x 32'6". Torqued Ellipse, Serra’s breakthrough piece, is an oval enclosure, with a slit for entry, whose countour at the top is perpendicular to their contour on the ground.
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) was founded in 1929 and is often recognized as the most influential museum of modern art in the world. Over the course of the next ten years, the Museum moved three times into progressively larger temporary quarters, and in 1939 finally opened the doors of its midtown home, located on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues in midtown. The building underwent extensive renovations, closing on May 21, 2002 and reopening to the public in a building redesigned by the Japanese architect Yoshio Taniguchi, on November 20, 2004. The renovation project nearly doubled the space for exhibitions and programs, featuring 630,000 square feet of new and redesigned space.
MoMA's holdings include more than 150,000 individual pieces. Highlights of the collection inlcude Vincent Van Gogh's The Starry Night, Salvador Dali's The Persisence of Memory, Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiseels d'Avignon and Three Musicians, Claude Monet's Water Lilies, Piet Mondrian's Broadway Boogie Woogie, Paul Gauguin's The Seed of the Areoi, Henri Matisse's Dance, Marc Chagall's I and the Village, Paul Cezanne's The Bather, Jackson Pollack's Number 31, 1950, and Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans.
When David Rockefeller became president of MoMA in 1958, replacing his brother Nelson who took up the position of Governor of New York, he hired the noted architect Philip Johnson to redesign the Museum garden and name it in honor of his mother, the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden. The Gardens are framed by the Peggy and David Rockefeller Building, which houses the main exhibition galleries, on the western end of the site; and and The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building, on the eastern end.
In 2007, the Museum of Modern Art was ranked #146 on the AIA 150 America's Favorite Architecture list.
Richard Serra, Sculpture: Forty Years was on display at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) from June 3 - September 10, 2007. The exhibition was a forty-year survey of the work of American minimalist sculptor, Richard Serra (b. November 2, 1939, San Francisco). Serra, who was involved in the Process Art movement, is known for working with large scale assemblies of sheet metal (COR-TEN-Steel). The monumental exhibit, which included three new works, spanned the museum's tall-ceilinged second floor, sixth floor, and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden, where Torqued Ellipse IV (1998) and Intersection II (1992-93) braved the outdoor elements.
Intersection II (1992-93), a gift of Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder, consists of four upright, almost identical conical sections of weatherproof steal--two sections 13'1 1/2" high x 51'9" along the chord x 2 1/8" thick; two sections 13'1 1/2" high x 50'9" along the chord x 2 1/8" thick. The sections tilt their way inviting visitors to travel along three routes between its massive walls, exerting a psychic pressure from the weight, height, and leaning angles, and from their variously dark and rusted surfaces. It is tempered by the elegant precision of their lines and the satisfying logic of their arrangement. The slopes and placements of the great steel curves produce two outer spaces that invert each other at floor and ceiling, one being wide where the other is narrow. Meanwhile the central space is a regular yet biased ellipse.
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) was founded in 1929 and is often recognized as the most influential museum of modern art in the world. Over the course of the next ten years, the Museum moved three times into progressively larger temporary quarters, and in 1939 finally opened the doors of its midtown home, located on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues in midtown. The building underwent extensive renovations, closing on May 21, 2002 and reopening to the public in a building redesigned by the Japanese architect Yoshio Taniguchi, on November 20, 2004. The renovation project nearly doubled the space for exhibitions and programs, featuring 630,000 square feet of new and redesigned space.
MoMA's holdings include more than 150,000 individual pieces. Highlights of the collection inlcude Vincent Van Gogh's The Starry Night, Salvador Dali's The Persisence of Memory, Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiseels d'Avignon and Three Musicians, Claude Monet's Water Lilies, Piet Mondrian's Broadway Boogie Woogie, Paul Gauguin's The Seed of the Areoi, Henri Matisse's Dance, Marc Chagall's I and the Village, Paul Cezanne's The Bather, Jackson Pollack's Number 31, 1950, and Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans.
When David Rockefeller became president of MoMA in 1958, replacing his brother Nelson who took up the position of Governor of New York, he hired the noted architect Philip Johnson to redesign the Museum garden and name it in honor of his mother, the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden. The Gardens are framed by the Peggy and David Rockefeller Building, which houses the main exhibition galleries, on the western end of the site; and and The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building, on the eastern end.
In 2007, the Museum of Modern Art was ranked #146 on the AIA 150 America's Favorite Architecture list.
A two hour PAINTING FOR LIFE workshop is offered in the afternoon for those interested in painting for the sake of painting--not in imitating something out there in the world, but in painting for the very act of painting.
In PAINTING FOR LIFE you start facing a large blank page, not knowing where you are going, not knowing what's going to come up. You free yourselves from all learned techniques and ideas about realism, proportions, colour combinations, etc. knowing that you can't make a mistake if you are open to how you feel here and now.
You ask yourself, "how do I feel right now? Heavy, light, sad, happy, angry, confused, sleepy...?" You physically get in contact with that feeling. You feel it in your body. You let your body move the way it wants to. You let the images come up. You move with that image. It could be your mother, your dog, your lover, the victims of Iraq. Whatever wants to come up, you let it come up.
As you release unnecessary control, you can more fully engage in the creative act. You paint for process not for product.
Richard Serra, Sculpture: Forty Years was on display at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) from June 3 - September 10, 2007. The exhibition was a forty-year survey of the work of American minimalist sculptor, Richard Serra (b. November 2, 1939, San Francisco). Serra, who was involved in the Process Art movement, is known for working with large scale assemblies of sheet metal (COR-TEN-Steel). The monumental exhibit, which included three new works, spanned the museum's tall-ceilinged second floor, sixth floor, and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden, where Torqued Ellipse IV (1998) and Intersection II (1992-93) braved the outdoor elements.
Intersection II (1992-93), a gift of Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder, consists of four upright, almost identical conical sections of weatherproof steal--two sections 13'1 1/2" high x 51'9" along the chord x 2 1/8" thick; two sections 13'1 1/2" high x 50'9" along the chord x 2 1/8" thick. The sections tilt their way inviting visitors to travel along three routes between its massive walls, exerting a psychic pressure from the weight, height, and leaning angles, and from their variously dark and rusted surfaces. It is tempered by the elegant precision of their lines and the satisfying logic of their arrangement. The slopes and placements of the great steel curves produce two outer spaces that invert each other at floor and ceiling, one being wide where the other is narrow. Meanwhile the central space is a regular yet biased ellipse.
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) was founded in 1929 and is often recognized as the most influential museum of modern art in the world. Over the course of the next ten years, the Museum moved three times into progressively larger temporary quarters, and in 1939 finally opened the doors of its midtown home, located on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues in midtown. The building underwent extensive renovations, closing on May 21, 2002 and reopening to the public in a building redesigned by the Japanese architect Yoshio Taniguchi, on November 20, 2004. The renovation project nearly doubled the space for exhibitions and programs, featuring 630,000 square feet of new and redesigned space.
MoMA's holdings include more than 150,000 individual pieces. Highlights of the collection inlcude Vincent Van Gogh's The Starry Night, Salvador Dali's The Persisence of Memory, Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiseels d'Avignon and Three Musicians, Claude Monet's Water Lilies, Piet Mondrian's Broadway Boogie Woogie, Paul Gauguin's The Seed of the Areoi, Henri Matisse's Dance, Marc Chagall's I and the Village, Paul Cezanne's The Bather, Jackson Pollack's Number 31, 1950, and Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans.
When David Rockefeller became president of MoMA in 1958, replacing his brother Nelson who took up the position of Governor of New York, he hired the noted architect Philip Johnson to redesign the Museum garden and name it in honor of his mother, the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden. The Gardens are framed by the Peggy and David Rockefeller Building, which houses the main exhibition galleries, on the western end of the site; and and The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building, on the eastern end.
In 2007, the Museum of Modern Art was ranked #146 on the AIA 150 America's Favorite Architecture list.
Persepolis (Old Persian= Pārsa, Takht-e Jamshid or Chehel Minar) was the ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid Empire (ca. 550-330 BCE). Persepolis is situated 70 km northeast of the modern city of Shiraz in the Fars Province of modern Iran. In contemporary Persian, the site is known as Takht-e Jamshid (Throne of Jamshid). The earliest remains of Persepolis date from around 515 BCE. To the ancient Persians, the city was known as Pārsa, which means "The City of Persians". Persepolis is a transliteration of the Greek Πέρσης πόλις (Persēs polis: "Persian city").
2011
Gel transfer on paper
12 x 10 inches
SOLD
A transfer made by taking this painting, shrinking it down to the original graphic's dimensions and blowing it back up. I let the computer take what looked like a fairly even application of acrylic wash and tease out its various inconsistencies by crushing together and interpolating all the color shifts caused by my hand.
©Ashley Anderson
Richard Serra, Sculpture: Forty Years was on display at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) from June 3 - September 10, 2007. The exhibition was a forty-year survey of the work of American minimalist sculptor, Richard Serra (b. November 2, 1939, San Francisco). Serra, who was involved in the Process Art movement, is known for working with large scale assemblies of sheet metal (COR-TEN-Steel). The monumental exhibit, which included three new works, spanned the museum's tall-ceilinged second floor, sixth floor, and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden, where Torqued Ellipse IV and Intersection II (1992-93) braved the outdoor elements.
Torqued Ellipsde IV (1998), a fractional and promised gift of Leon and Debra Black, is made of curved weathersproof steel measuring 12'3" x 26'6" x 32'6". Torqued Ellipse, Serra’s breakthrough piece, is an oval enclosure, with a slit for entry, whose countour at the top is perpendicular to their contour on the ground.
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) was founded in 1929 and is often recognized as the most influential museum of modern art in the world. Over the course of the next ten years, the Museum moved three times into progressively larger temporary quarters, and in 1939 finally opened the doors of its midtown home, located on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues in midtown. The building underwent extensive renovations, closing on May 21, 2002 and reopening to the public in a building redesigned by the Japanese architect Yoshio Taniguchi, on November 20, 2004. The renovation project nearly doubled the space for exhibitions and programs, featuring 630,000 square feet of new and redesigned space.
MoMA's holdings include more than 150,000 individual pieces. Highlights of the collection inlcude Vincent Van Gogh's The Starry Night, Salvador Dali's The Persisence of Memory, Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiseels d'Avignon and Three Musicians, Claude Monet's Water Lilies, Piet Mondrian's Broadway Boogie Woogie, Paul Gauguin's The Seed of the Areoi, Henri Matisse's Dance, Marc Chagall's I and the Village, Paul Cezanne's The Bather, Jackson Pollack's Number 31, 1950, and Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans.
When David Rockefeller became president of MoMA in 1958, replacing his brother Nelson who took up the position of Governor of New York, he hired the noted architect Philip Johnson to redesign the Museum garden and name it in honor of his mother, the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden. The Gardens are framed by the Peggy and David Rockefeller Building, which houses the main exhibition galleries, on the western end of the site; and and The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building, on the eastern end.
In 2007, the Museum of Modern Art was ranked #146 on the AIA 150 America's Favorite Architecture list.
Richard Serra, Sculpture: Forty Years was on display at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) from June 3 - September 10, 2007. The exhibition was a forty-year survey of the work of American minimalist sculptor, Richard Serra (b. November 2, 1939, San Francisco). Serra, who was involved in the Process Art movement, is known for working with large scale assemblies of sheet metal (COR-TEN-Steel). The monumental exhibit, which included three new works, spanned the museum's tall-ceilinged second floor, sixth floor, and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden, where Torqued Ellipse IV and Intersection II (1992-93) braved the outdoor elements.
Torqued Ellipsde IV (1998), a fractional and promised gift of Leon and Debra Black, is made of curved weathersproof steel measuring 12'3" x 26'6" x 32'6". Torqued Ellipse, Serra’s breakthrough piece, is an oval enclosure, with a slit for entry, whose countour at the top is perpendicular to their contour on the ground.
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) was founded in 1929 and is often recognized as the most influential museum of modern art in the world. Over the course of the next ten years, the Museum moved three times into progressively larger temporary quarters, and in 1939 finally opened the doors of its midtown home, located on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues in midtown. The building underwent extensive renovations, closing on May 21, 2002 and reopening to the public in a building redesigned by the Japanese architect Yoshio Taniguchi, on November 20, 2004. The renovation project nearly doubled the space for exhibitions and programs, featuring 630,000 square feet of new and redesigned space.
MoMA's holdings include more than 150,000 individual pieces. Highlights of the collection inlcude Vincent Van Gogh's The Starry Night, Salvador Dali's The Persisence of Memory, Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiseels d'Avignon and Three Musicians, Claude Monet's Water Lilies, Piet Mondrian's Broadway Boogie Woogie, Paul Gauguin's The Seed of the Areoi, Henri Matisse's Dance, Marc Chagall's I and the Village, Paul Cezanne's The Bather, Jackson Pollack's Number 31, 1950, and Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans.
When David Rockefeller became president of MoMA in 1958, replacing his brother Nelson who took up the position of Governor of New York, he hired the noted architect Philip Johnson to redesign the Museum garden and name it in honor of his mother, the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden. The Gardens are framed by the Peggy and David Rockefeller Building, which houses the main exhibition galleries, on the western end of the site; and and The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building, on the eastern end.
In 2007, the Museum of Modern Art was ranked #146 on the AIA 150 America's Favorite Architecture list.
The great Pandit Ravi Shankar passed from our world this week leaving a gigantic musical legacy and influence that literally re-shaped the course of music in the Western world. Huge cultural figures as diverse as George Harrison, Philip Glass and Yehudi Menuhin all worked with him, learned from him and were profoundly affected by the classical Indian music Shankar was an unparalleled master of. Each spoke of a soft-spoken man who also maintained an air of quiet authority and wisdom. He was as much a Guru, as he was musician.
Would Indian music, and indeed even the culture of India, have translated so well into the west if Shankar, a great educator, had not been open to being it's greatest cultural ambassador?
His mastery of the Sitar is deservedly legendary and anyone who ever had the great fortune to see this great Master completely immerse himself in the grand ragas of the North Indian tradition, to breathtaking effect, count themselves as extremely fortunate.
I've done this tribute in the 4 'movements' of North Indian raga: Alap, Jor, Jhala and Gat.
Blessed re-birth to you, Ravi !!! And Thank you !!!
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Richard Serra, Sculpture: Forty Years was on display at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) from June 3 - September 10, 2007. The exhibition was a forty-year survey of the work of American minimalist sculptor, Richard Serra (b. November 2, 1939, San Francisco). Serra, who was involved in the Process Art movement, is known for working with large scale assemblies of sheet metal (COR-TEN-Steel). The monumental exhibit, which included three new works, spanned the museum's tall-ceilinged second floor, sixth floor, and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden, where Torqued Ellipse IV (1998) and Intersection II (1992-93) braved the outdoor elements.
Intersection II (1992-93), a gift of Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder, consists of four upright, almost identical conical sections of weatherproof steal--two sections 13'1 1/2" high x 51'9" along the chord x 2 1/8" thick; two sections 13'1 1/2" high x 50'9" along the chord x 2 1/8" thick. The sections tilt their way inviting visitors to travel along three routes between its massive walls, exerting a psychic pressure from the weight, height, and leaning angles, and from their variously dark and rusted surfaces. It is tempered by the elegant precision of their lines and the satisfying logic of their arrangement. The slopes and placements of the great steel curves produce two outer spaces that invert each other at floor and ceiling, one being wide where the other is narrow. Meanwhile the central space is a regular yet biased ellipse.
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) was founded in 1929 and is often recognized as the most influential museum of modern art in the world. Over the course of the next ten years, the Museum moved three times into progressively larger temporary quarters, and in 1939 finally opened the doors of its midtown home, located on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues in midtown. The building underwent extensive renovations, closing on May 21, 2002 and reopening to the public in a building redesigned by the Japanese architect Yoshio Taniguchi, on November 20, 2004. The renovation project nearly doubled the space for exhibitions and programs, featuring 630,000 square feet of new and redesigned space.
MoMA's holdings include more than 150,000 individual pieces. Highlights of the collection inlcude Vincent Van Gogh's The Starry Night, Salvador Dali's The Persisence of Memory, Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiseels d'Avignon and Three Musicians, Claude Monet's Water Lilies, Piet Mondrian's Broadway Boogie Woogie, Paul Gauguin's The Seed of the Areoi, Henri Matisse's Dance, Marc Chagall's I and the Village, Paul Cezanne's The Bather, Jackson Pollack's Number 31, 1950, and Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans.
When David Rockefeller became president of MoMA in 1958, replacing his brother Nelson who took up the position of Governor of New York, he hired the noted architect Philip Johnson to redesign the Museum garden and name it in honor of his mother, the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden. The Gardens are framed by the Peggy and David Rockefeller Building, which houses the main exhibition galleries, on the western end of the site; and and The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building, on the eastern end.
In 2007, the Museum of Modern Art was ranked #146 on the AIA 150 America's Favorite Architecture list.
Richard Serra, Sculpture: Forty Years was on display at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) from June 3 - September 10, 2007. The exhibition was a forty-year survey of the work of American minimalist sculptor, Richard Serra (b. November 2, 1939, San Francisco). Serra, who was involved in the Process Art movement, is known for working with large scale assemblies of sheet metal (COR-TEN-Steel). The monumental exhibit, which included three new works, spanned the museum's tall-ceilinged second floor, sixth floor, and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden, where Torqued Ellipse IV and Intersection II (1992-93) braved the outdoor elements.
Torqued Ellipsde IV (1998), a fractional and promised gift of Leon and Debra Black, is made of curved weathersproof steel measuring 12'3" x 26'6" x 32'6". Torqued Ellipse, Serra’s breakthrough piece, is an oval enclosure, with a slit for entry, whose countour at the top is perpendicular to their contour on the ground.
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) was founded in 1929 and is often recognized as the most influential museum of modern art in the world. Over the course of the next ten years, the Museum moved three times into progressively larger temporary quarters, and in 1939 finally opened the doors of its midtown home, located on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues in midtown. The building underwent extensive renovations, closing on May 21, 2002 and reopening to the public in a building redesigned by the Japanese architect Yoshio Taniguchi, on November 20, 2004. The renovation project nearly doubled the space for exhibitions and programs, featuring 630,000 square feet of new and redesigned space.
MoMA's holdings include more than 150,000 individual pieces. Highlights of the collection inlcude Vincent Van Gogh's The Starry Night, Salvador Dali's The Persisence of Memory, Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiseels d'Avignon and Three Musicians, Claude Monet's Water Lilies, Piet Mondrian's Broadway Boogie Woogie, Paul Gauguin's The Seed of the Areoi, Henri Matisse's Dance, Marc Chagall's I and the Village, Paul Cezanne's The Bather, Jackson Pollack's Number 31, 1950, and Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans.
When David Rockefeller became president of MoMA in 1958, replacing his brother Nelson who took up the position of Governor of New York, he hired the noted architect Philip Johnson to redesign the Museum garden and name it in honor of his mother, the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden. The Gardens are framed by the Peggy and David Rockefeller Building, which houses the main exhibition galleries, on the western end of the site; and and The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building, on the eastern end.
In 2007, the Museum of Modern Art was ranked #146 on the AIA 150 America's Favorite Architecture list.
The piece of the day. That black circular rock is a piece of volcanic pumice about a foot in diameter that I came across back on Aug. 13, 2012 when I was interviewed by Kemberly Richardson of ABC News. I was showing her some of the odd things that washed up. Came across it again today about 10 blocks down river and made it the center of this piece. It won't last as its so light the wind keeps blowing it off.
Found her again and set her up again. Now it looks like the wind is blowing her blouse.
Got written up in the NY Times today:
www.nytimes.com/2010/03/26/opinion/26fri4.htm l?ref=opinion
EDITORIAL | THE CITY LIFE
Reimagining What Washes Up
By FRANCIS X. CLINES
Published: March 25, 2010
The Hudson River was as mean as usual this winter, roughing up the Manhattan shore and playing into the hands of Tom Loback, a sculptor who works in flotsam and jetsam. Nothing pretentious. Just more of his fragile, gone-tomorrow driftwood works to puzzle and please along the river rocks down from the apartment towers north of West 100th Street.
there's more, very nicely written
A series that concerns itself with re-birth, a 're-booting', if you will, of the force, power and beauty of life coming from apparent ending ( death ). Re-birth here can refer to any new cycle that begins after the end of another.
The visual metaphors employ black and white images of screening, blocking or limiting structures as 'death' or limitation. Life appears in colour as living plants and flowers breaking forth through, behind, beyond, around or in front of the limiting structures.
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Kemberly Richardson & I in front of GIRAFFE after the interview. My interview is to on 5 O'clock edition of NY ABC NEWS around Aug. 25th, will also be available thru ABC website.
Interview:
Tara Donovan
Untitled, silver mylar tape, 2007
Lila Acheson Wallace Wing, Gioconda and Joseph King Gallery
A large-scale work conceived specifically for display in The Metropolitan Museum of Art's galleries by New York-based artist Tara Donovan comprises the exhibition "Tara Donovan at the Met".
The artist used silver Mylar tape to create a wall-mounted installation that encompasses the entire 1,600-square-foot Gioconda and Joseph King Gallery on the mezzanine level of the Museum's Lila Acheson Wallace Wing. Through a massive accumulation of metallic loops that both reflect and refract light, Donovan transforms the space into a unique phenomenological experience for the viewer.
In the construction of her installations, Tara Donovan employs systems that mimic the elemental patterns of growth found in the natural world. She works with a single, commonplace manufactured material — such as tape, Styrofoam cups, toothpicks, or drinking straws — and amasses up to millions of units into a structure that may resemble a topographical landscape, geological formation, or atmospheric condition. With roots in Earth Art, Process Art, Minimalism, and Post-Minimalism, Donovan's work explores the inherent physical characteristics of the medium at hand while transcending the utilitarian nature of the materials.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
NYC
... a famous line, used again and again in slightly different forms throughout a lot of David Lynch's work. It's primarily in his films and it's even shown up on his CD " Crazy Clown Time". For Lynch, night is the doorway to the subconscious, with all of its wonders and its horrors, which nevertheless is necessary for our growth and realization if we are ready and able to navigate it. View Large on Black.
The sudden flash of breakthrough, a bursting into bloom of imagination after a protracted period in the dark. Realizations and inspirations often come after long periods of seeming emptiness and an absence of light. A "Eureka" moment of higher thought.
Here roses, one of, if not the most, spiritually associated flowers in Western culture, act as metaphors for the bursting out of sudden realizations, quantum leaps of consciousness, coming to the contemplator's mind. In the East the lotus flower symbolizes the opening of the mind. My image is Western, so I have substituted roses.
Also, this image and text were posted for Dec.21/2013 the infamous date of the end of the Mayan calendar, the Tzolkin. A new 5,125 year cycle begins today marking a new period in the growth of humanity, a stepping up of the game and a growing sense a need for new ways in many things. Many new ideas are going to start bursting forth, like Spring roses, over the next 20 years. I think that we're starting to see that in very subtle ways already.
Happy New World Period, everyone !
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Persepolis (Old Persian= Pārsa, Takht-e Jamshid or Chehel Minar) was the ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid Empire (ca. 550-330 BCE). Persepolis is situated 70 km northeast of the modern city of Shiraz in the Fars Province of modern Iran. In contemporary Persian, the site is known as Takht-e Jamshid (Throne of Jamshid). The earliest remains of Persepolis date from around 515 BCE. To the ancient Persians, the city was known as Pārsa, which means "The City of Persians". Persepolis is a transliteration of the Greek Πέρσης πόλις (Persēs polis: "Persian city").
Do you have a lot of broken, short crayons? Put them to good use by letting the kids create unique artwork through this CRAYON MELTING ART activity. It’s a fun and easy-to-do process art activity for kids and science experiment in one.
What is Process Art?
Process Art is open-ended art....
In the hottest time of summer the night air wafts with the perfume of a thousand blossoms, drawing moths and influencing dreams.
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The Sassanian Empire or Sassanid Persian Empire (pronounced /sæˈseɪniən/, /ˈsæsənɪd/; also spelled Sasanid or Sasanian), known to its inhabitants as Ērānshahr and Ērān in Middle Persian and resulting in the New Persian terms Iranshahr and Iran, was the last pre-Islamic Persian Empire, ruled by the Sasanian Dynasty from 224 CE to 651 CE. The Sassanid Empire, which succeeded the Parthian Empire, was recognized as one of the main powers in Western and Central Asia, alongside the Roman-Byzantine Empire, for a period of more than 400 years.