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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
It took years of pleading to get one of her films shown @ the San Francisco Silent Film Festival. Now, we ask for more. Her career was full, wide, brilliant. She lived life over the edge long before Elizabeth Taylor or Lindsay Lohan. She invented public drama.
But behind all those layers of robust Social Media precursors was a truly gifted artist. We can only hope that her work will be up there with Garbo, Pickford, Swanson, Chaplin, Valentino, Fairbanks. Her time is overdue…
Viva Pola Mania!
Princess Melita Bonaparte, ready for her close up, says that she will base her interpretation of the part of Norma Desmond upon her exhaustive research of the life of Pola Negri.Princess Melita Bonaparte, klaar voor haar close-up, zegt dat zij haar interpretatie van het gedeelte van Norma Desmond zal baseren op haar uitputtend onderzoek van de levensduur van Pola Negri.
With resolve generally associated with Dutch determination to make things work, Her Serene Highness has consented to take a direct call from Paramount Executives, to begin filming “a more authentic remake” of the Gloria Swanson-William Holden classic, Sunset Boulevard. Gasps could be heard from pillar to post, at the outré of such suggestions, but never one to shirk adventure, it would not come as any surprise that Paramount might rise to the occasion. It won’t be to rent her car, she hasn’t one. “And if Paramount should fail me, then profile me on one of those American Greed episodes, so I can get my cut of the green stuff,” she implores.
Her Serene Highness, The Princess Melita Bonaparte, found something that is made in the United States of America. She wishes the best of advice as how to handle this rare item. “Should I put it with my Gutenberg Bible, or with the jewels that were handed down to me by Cleopatra? It is an extremely rare item and it is our wish to make certain that it finds the right home, to exist as proof for future generations that things were once actually manufactured here in this country.”
Hare Doorluchtigheid, The Princess Melita Bonaparte, iets gevonden dat wordt gemaakt in de Verenigde Staten van Amerika. Ze wil het beste van advies hoe u dit zeldzaam object behandelen. “Moet ik het met mijn Gutenberg-bijbel, of met de juwelen die werden overgeleverd aan mij door Cleopatra? Het is een uiterst zeldzame voorwerp en het onze wens om er zeker van dat het juiste huis vindt, op te bestaan als bewijs voor toekomstige generaties die dingen ooit daadwerkelijk hier in dit land werden vervaardigd.”
“I will put these rare American manufactured items up for collateral, in order to encourage investors for such a project, she has promised. “I will promote it with my heart and soul. It will sweep the Oscars, or at least the streets,” so she says.
“They were too tall to get complete focus in one shot, but I wanted to prove to investors that they were made here.”-Princess Melita Bonaparte
“You cannot find such items as this now. It is worth more than my entire jewelry collection!”
“These priceless & historic items from DART CONTAINER CORPORATION “Made in the USA.” They should be worth enough to finance my breakthrough role & provide Paramount with enough profit to buy another country for me.”
Here are some fences worth a few glances! Inspired by Markovich Arts–you have such wonderful camera skills!
San Francisco behind Barbed Wire (not the Pola Negri film!).
White gravel on one side, sidewalk on the other.
The fence of finality, tranquility, East of Taos, New Mexico, May 2012
A painting which suggests a barbed wire fence, an abstraction of the real thing, a symbol of the symbol, used as one would use lined paper, with a message not completed..
A fence can signify many things, division, boundaries, design, being kept in or out. It can serve as a symbol of class differences, or simply be functional, intended to protect or preserve.
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