because
something
i want you
girl
come together
across the universe
strawberry fields forever
i am the walrus
the word
revolution
tomorrow never knows
dig a pony
a day in the life
re masters.
something in Bb C
tip of the hat to dangerous minds
r3ckon
Fjord was right
Monthly Archives: August 2010
Tanya Johnston
Back Wards (2009)
“Just look at us. Everything is backwards; everything is upside down. Doctors destory health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the major media destroy information and religions destroy spirituality.” – Michael Ellner
Self Transcendence (2009)
One Consciousness (2009)
“Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.” – Carl Jung
Landscape of the Mind (2010)
“That which is created by mind, is more real than matter.” – Charles Baudelaire
Brainscape (2009) Background photo: Neil Banas
Lapis Angularis (2010)
“We have art in order not to die of the truth.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
Homo Evolutis (2009)
Sculpture photography courtesy of cliff1066. Left: Iron by Antony Gormley, 2000. Right: Bronze by Hanneke Beaumont.
[re]-surfacing (2009)
Artist’s Website
Artist’s Flickr
All images from Tanya Johnston’s Website and Flickr. The quotes are those selected by the artist to accompany some of her images.
Ruud Van Empel | Escape Into Life
World #25 (2007) Cibachrome 118.1 x 39.4 inches
World #30 (2008) Cibachrome 33 x 47 inches
World #13 (2006) Cibachrome 33 x 36.5 inches
World Series- Boy & Girl (2008) Cibachrome 67 x 95 inches
World #24 (2006) Cibachrome 11.5 x 16.8 inches
World #27 (2008) Cibachrome 33 x 47 inches
World #31 (2008) Cibachrome 23,5 x 33 inches
About the Artist
Van Empel’s working method is a complex one. He photographs 4 or 5 professional models in his studio, and takes many series of detailed photos of leaves, flowers, plants and animals. Having gathered hundreds of pictures in a database, he selects those images with which he can achieve the best results. The models are mixed in the Photoshop program, clothes are photographed separately on a tailor’s dummy. In this way he creates new images of mainly children, black or white, set in a paradisaical environment.
The art historian Jan Baptist Bedaux wrote in the catalogue (2006) of Museum Het Valkhof:
“The fact that many of the children in his compositions have a dark skin is a facet that cannot remain without comment. Although it is self-evident that a child’s skin colour is not important, the iconography of the innocent child was traditionally represented by ‘white’ children. The earliest examples of this date from the early seventeenth century. These are portraits in which children are captured in an idealized, pastoral setting. It is a genre to which the children’s portraits of the German artist Otto Dix, a source of inspiration to van Empel, refer.
In deviating from the standard iconography by giving the child a dark skin, Van Empel inadvertently assumes a political stance. After all, this child is still the focus of discrimination and its innocence is not recognized by everyone as being self-evident.” Read More on Wikipedia
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, “Mann und Sitzende im Atelier”.
Pastell und Graphit auf Handbütten, 1913/14.
Hubertus Melsheimer Kunsthandel.
Diego Rivera
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Diego Rivera (1886 – 1957) Las tentaciones de san Antonio. 1947. Óleo sobre tela, 89.5 x 100 cm. Museo Nacional de Arte, INBA
Joaquín Clausell
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Joaquín Clausell (1866 – 1935) Atardecer en el mar, la ola roja. 1910. Óleo sobre tela, 101 x151 cm. Museo Nacional de Arte, INBA
David Hockney
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David Hockney, “Busthorpe Valley”.
Oil on canvas, August 2005.
Annely Juda Fine Art.
Stephen Shore
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Stephen Shore (American, born 1947), U.S. 97, South of Klamath Falls, Oregon. July 21, 1973. Chromogenic color print (printed 2005
Courtesy the artist and 303 Gallery, New York (c) 2009 Stephen Shore.
The Road West, New Mexico, 1938
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Dorothea Lange (American, 1895-1965)
The Road West, New Mexico. 1938.
Gelatin silver print, 9 5/8 x 13 1/16″ (24.5 x 33.2 cm)
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
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