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This is a photograph of Salvador Dali & Walt Disney taken in the 1940s. I am guessing that it is in California.
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Art Game II
This is a water colour painting by my cousin, Martha Outt Harns, done in 1987. She is now 87 years old & sadly, lives in a residential facility for Alzheimer’s Disease patients. I wanted to post this as part of the Art Game series as a tribute to the body of work that she left us. This painting shows some degree of Thai dance culture, in terms of the hand & finger positions, but the costume design, as I understand it, is her interpretation or composite of similar costumes from South East Asia.
Art Game III
This is a result of my point & click camera. The Art Game series has inspired me to record the art I see around me in San Francisco on a daily basis. Not all art has to be within the walls of a museum or a palace. It can be part of your daily life, if you let it. I call this one Kitty Cat Sidewalk, not knowing who created it, nor what (if any) name was given to it. It was taken not very far from where I work.
CODA: I had a funny, sweet, naughty, smartest-cat-in-the-world. Her name was Marnie, after the Alfred Hitchcock movie. To the best of my ability to know, the only thing she ever shoplifted was my heart. She was in my life for 15 years, before she died. I miss her very much. To Marnie, my little meow-face!
Art Game IV
Atlas Stands Unnoticed Before The Holy Wisdom
I started this painting in 2007. It was rejected. I repainted it, after years of pain, in 2010, understanding it was growth which caused both the pain & the release of the cause of that pain. Now, the painting is free & in so being, it has released me from much sadness.
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Art Game V Jay Defeo/The Rose
This monumental painting by artist Jay Defeo is one of the most astonishing & spiritually moving works of art I have ever experienced in my life. I first became aware of it several years ago by taking a class called Women In Art History, City College, San Francisco. It's history of having to be removed from an apartment here in San Francisco, due to the eviction of the artist & the story of having the bay window that was it's original backdrop setting removed & a crane used to hoist it to the street-level moving van added to my intrigue of the work. I was impressed by the photographs I had seen & by what I had read about the struggles of the artist. But NOTHING, NOTHING at all could have prepared me for the emotional & spiritual experience of seeing it in real life, real time, minus the bay window that was it's original backdrop. Much has been written about this work. The only thing I can add, with a tone of urgency is: Please, take the time to see this for yourself while it is back in San Francisco, at the Museum of Modern Art. It is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Photography can certainly show you what it looks like, but you need to experience this in person, as an active viewer, in order to be fully overwhelmed. My paltry words do not do it justice, not at all!
Art Game VI
Art Game VI: Andy Warhol-Knockoff
This is a painting of Andy Warhol @ a cafe entrance on Divisadero Street, San Francisco. I liked the idea of it being more or less street art, not in a museum & not costing several millions of dollars. It's not signed. Post Mortem would make that a bit of a challenge, even freaky. Calling it a knockoff is a tip of the hat to Jean-Claude Van Damme & to Warhol, since they both did the same thing over & over & over. One was a genre artist, the other is an genre actor. Duplication must be in the wrist & the timing. Makes the term monetize seem rather quaint. Enjoy!
Art Game VI
No Smoking Sign. This is the international standard glyph for "No Smoking." It is simple & well designed, making it's simple message obvious to all who can see. Why is it still being ignored by people? This is a question for which there is no simple answer. I hope that by posting this work of functional art, the message can be repeated: You deserve to have a full life that does not include destroying your lungs or harming the environment. Think: if every tobacco field were turned into a forest, how good that would be for the planet! That, alone, is a very exciting concept. Help make it a reality!
Art Game VII-Princess Antoinette Bonaparte
Here are a few more photographic remembrances of Norway Day held at San Francisco’s Fort Mason this past weekend.
The flag of Norway.
Fasten your seatbelts, please. I thought this was a toy aircraft, fashioned from plastic. No, it’s a specially wrapped & folded T-shirt, representing SAS Scandinavian Airlines!
Here is Rosemaling as it was originally intended, as architectural design.
Here, with this booth, is an opportunity to see Rosemaling in a more practical context.
In addition to Cinco de Mayo, which had an early start soon after the workweek ended yesterday, there is also Norway Day, being recognised & celebrated the 4th & 5th of May 2013 @ Fort Mason Center, here in San Francisco. I got a lovely ‘gift’ commemorating this year’s event in the form of a hand painted bookmark, in a style called “ROSEMALING.”
WHAT IS ROSEMALING?
To quote verbatim from the California Rosemaling Association’s brochure, available @ various ROSEMALING booths, “Rose (flower) maling (painting) is the beautiful Norwegian folk painting, which dates from the 17th Century. This unique style of painting, with its graceful scrolls, leaves, and flowers, was influenced by Viking woodcarving of the 9th Century, as well as the Acanthus leaf & Baroque style borrowed from Greece & Rome. Rosemaling has been steadily gaining in popularity in the United States since the early 1950s.” For more information about this art process, please refer to their Website: http://www.califrosemaler.org
This lovely example of Rosemaling was done by artist Beth Twogood.
Alongside, Rosmaling, there were tourist information centres, various food vendors, and other examples of Norwegian art & culturally related displays.
Happy Norway Day!
At least for this weekend, Rome could relax, as all roads led to Oslo.
And in the event, you could not find your way to Oslo, there were other means of solace.
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