tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15439939568632142482024-03-04T22:54:33.891-08:00Timeless RhythmsHi, I am Kerrie B. Wrye_
Welcome to my Timeless Rhythms Studio, online art journal!une femme artistehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14396204687682296296noreply@blogger.comBlogger186125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543993956863214248.post-87618284297323554482015-06-19T15:58:00.001-07:002015-06-19T16:04:21.335-07:00Wow! New things are happening in 2015!Hello world!
Away from the online journal here at Timeless Rhythms Studio, I have been growing my life in different directions for some time now!
For example, over the last 3+ years, I finally intersected my evolution between traditional fine art making with digital mobile technology! In doing so, we've realize an AWESOME touring app for local art collections that is NOT a point-and-go-find <i>app-tivity</i>. Publicly launched and toured to lucky visitors in 2012, it is so much more! Since then, my moves to grow the project community and funding support are going more slowly, yet tenaciously- for I never give up on the smart and savvy! So stay tuned; in fact, jump on-board as a funder/supporter! Just leave a contact on this post.
Meanwhile., if you know any conscious culture-builders, send them and their desires to fund what is innovative, of nourishment for the greater good over lifetimes, and a tool that changes public participation in public life p o s i t i v e l y! Send them to this post! :)
As well, I am continuing to develop a fledgling interest in old-fashioned (did I just say that?!), cultural research on historic female artists. Not published yet- not even close! And again, not giving up because things that take time and point us toward beauty in life, can require our lives to leave a substantive mark. So just stay in touch, and ket me know that you are! :)
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Finally, I discovered a very fair, web-based resource for artists to sell their work online, in ways that commodify some works that the artist chooses, at prices that the artist sets and DOES experience getting paid regularly, (when we make our own sales). There are tons of choices about selling choice details and lots of other information that is not only streamlined, it is also transparent. Your own URL is priced at an annual rate that even a struggling artist's budget can manage. It is called Fine Art Anerica- you can google it yourself if you are interested, AND you can click on <a href="http://kerrieb-wrye.artistwebsites.com/art/all/all/tote+bags">THIS link</a> to go to my website, and buy one of my beautiful artful totes, after you've played around to your heart's content with image sizing, background color choices, and compositional layout- to make your own unique tote design. Be sure to share my artful totes with everyone you know! Send them as gifts, and share the <a href="http://kerrieb-wrye.artistwebsites.com/art/all/all/tote+bags">web link</a>!
Ok! For now, that brings you up to date- I hope to see you around my Timeless Rhythms Studio online journal! une femme artistehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14396204687682296296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543993956863214248.post-28517037905258385582014-10-16T09:53:00.001-07:002014-10-16T09:55:51.149-07:00Corvallis Arts Walk-TONIGHT!<div class="aboveUnitContent" style="margin-top: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px;"><div class="userContentWrapper"><div class="_wk"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Everyone in Corvallis and the Mid-Willamette Valley:</span></div><div class="_wk"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="userContent">Turn out for the FIRST (in a longtime)- artwalk TONIGHT!<br>Find out more details by clicking the link below, about who is participating in the local art and restaurant settings, for times and about other goodies!<br><a href="http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corvallisartswalk.blogspot.com%2F&h=tAQHWE-mm&enc=AZOgaOvIb-QLw-ZD7Q3nJCi07xjOAQ6qGrm0sLVEpJk3TEBX-tzyqik_Zy87beVd2J7EMI8n84VboATYCEXqycOKsbPLP3fKJYbOPWPcAqZBBd6Vn8wo2gZuiMagFi1zjBZCVyrrt5zk7GZ1s70jupX1&s=1" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">http://www.corvallisartswalk.blogspot.com/</a><br>EVERYONE of all ages and social demographics- families welcome- come on out for a fun evening, no matter the weather <i class="_4-k1 img sp_EM2HXYHHm4y sx_058209" style="vertical-align: -3px; background-image: url(https://fbstatic-a.akamaihd.net/rsrc.php/v2/yZ/r/FKYwtkMOy-M.png); background-size: 26px 8167px; display: inline-block; height: 16px; width: 16px; background-position: 0px -8105px;"></i></span><span class="userContentSecondary fcg"> — in <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Corvallis-Oregon/104028649634847?ref=stream" data-ft="{"tn":"P"}" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=104028649634847&extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3Anull%7D" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Corvallis, OR</a>.</span></span></div><div class="_wk"><br></div><div class="_wk"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisvnUrsfAPUP1cr7J7RmcV2v8s9J-y8ZCAxcH28_i9kQvrVqex_l_pR6O9t4c0Aea9qgZ_Ko3-clqKOf9kJSC0LCMv6k-QBFFOfb9sL9HG3E79kMcxsJoECE28tZitTJVvRQlpfPknVzU/s640/blogger-image--871074821.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisvnUrsfAPUP1cr7J7RmcV2v8s9J-y8ZCAxcH28_i9kQvrVqex_l_pR6O9t4c0Aea9qgZ_Ko3-clqKOf9kJSC0LCMv6k-QBFFOfb9sL9HG3E79kMcxsJoECE28tZitTJVvRQlpfPknVzU/s640/blogger-image--871074821.jpg"></a></div></div></div>une femme artistehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14396204687682296296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543993956863214248.post-35845175349048797392014-07-25T20:50:00.000-07:002014-07-25T20:53:49.651-07:00My Indiegogo Campaign has launched!We've gone live! Please consider this your invitation to find my Indiegogo Campaign in order to help me buy my first home!
The campaign is located <a href="https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/le-chateau-of-art/x/8219491">here</a>:
Thank-you!
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUusCdPuPOROWNUbGG2aMdPtPbjIQNBQOtxPBCm4dE_jByQSJbQkVgYeBf-Q_5jW0mQChyYrRj7eehncjH04EctPkFldFTn2boCwopDLo6jJ-djYElppN2imQ-7EmPywOgA99-n0_JN54/s1600/Land+of+Plenty-+horizontal.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUusCdPuPOROWNUbGG2aMdPtPbjIQNBQOtxPBCm4dE_jByQSJbQkVgYeBf-Q_5jW0mQChyYrRj7eehncjH04EctPkFldFTn2boCwopDLo6jJ-djYElppN2imQ-7EmPywOgA99-n0_JN54/s320/Land+of+Plenty-+horizontal.jpg" /></a>une femme artistehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14396204687682296296noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543993956863214248.post-59886288058170708442014-07-22T13:26:00.001-07:002014-07-22T13:26:44.563-07:00Crowdfunding campaign to buy my house.I invite you all to check out a preview of my Indiegogo Campaign.<div><br></div><div>You can give me feedback about what questions you have, what is needed, and/or what is missing: </div><div><br></div><div><font color="#000000" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.indiegogo.com/project/preview/aa7577b2" target="_blank" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">http://www.indiegogo.com/project/preview/aa7577b2</a></font><br><div><br></div><div>I am an artist deep in the middle of a big community service art project <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">where I live, </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">to help make our local permanent art collection accessible to more people and wider audiences.</span></div><div><br></div><div>To keep working with my project partners, I have an opportunity to buy my house, or I must move by September 1st, and that will mean not have any housing anymore. That's because there is a funding gap for the community art project right at this juncture, which means principally, I am currently working with no pay.</div><div><br></div><div>So I am reaching out to you, asking for your support to help me buy my house, so I can keep going forward on valuable work to realize what those of us who are in it know- that a smart phone tool that promises to be an enjoyable encounter with our local art resources is going to be available in the next year, and on the outside, maybe two.<div><div><br></div><div>To help you help me buy my house, I created a generous contribution spectrum on Indiegogo, for all budget considerations. In it, I included the valuable dontation option for those who can help spread-the-word, even if contributing money is not possible.</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Let me know your feedback by posting comments below this post, and keep checking back back for details and updates.</span></div><div><font face="Helvetica Neue Light, HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif">Thanks!<br></font><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfVCnvRFHpQ9ZOe09mDhyphenhyphenHYFbl9wujio2rEC7HmdMejcOkO7RYR2I3c4luaTk8-APZOycEUkg_eyvby3RkCw5G1hKpjno7-PKbkq2b5eZDipzxgnhdCCRtQv-IaFSzVNy7_-Q_dCUfEDw/s640/blogger-image-1716228334.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfVCnvRFHpQ9ZOe09mDhyphenhyphenHYFbl9wujio2rEC7HmdMejcOkO7RYR2I3c4luaTk8-APZOycEUkg_eyvby3RkCw5G1hKpjno7-PKbkq2b5eZDipzxgnhdCCRtQv-IaFSzVNy7_-Q_dCUfEDw/s640/blogger-image-1716228334.jpg"></a></div></div></div></div></div>une femme artistehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14396204687682296296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543993956863214248.post-3099385883635930922014-01-09T14:49:00.000-08:002014-01-09T15:25:17.800-08:00“Iconic Views at OSU” Series, #1: Participates in OSU student exhibit, while fundraising in support of student project <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizngpqzKUVYpZvplQoamXXpLKobQBr8XOgC3BvPYZB6xa2_2wZhbB3JahtkPo2nx2vReE0yK7bzs-2XjaSrSZWj3lsrU2Kp1xr-qg9RMJ0ISF5d0hsyMvYfqWRjCRb2KcVCP_T-PznIZQ/s1600/Iconic+Views+of+OSU+Series,+%231.png" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizngpqzKUVYpZvplQoamXXpLKobQBr8XOgC3BvPYZB6xa2_2wZhbB3JahtkPo2nx2vReE0yK7bzs-2XjaSrSZWj3lsrU2Kp1xr-qg9RMJ0ISF5d0hsyMvYfqWRjCRb2KcVCP_T-PznIZQ/s320/Iconic+Views+of+OSU+Series,+%231.png" /></a>
The first annual juried student art exhibit at Oregon State University's- new Beth Ray Academic Success Center, will host a reception on the 4th Friday- January 24th, from 4 to 6 pm.
By participating as student, professional artist and arts advocate in this first annual art show, my work in a new series called, “Iconic Views at OSU”, kicks off two more exhibitions for this series.
These consecutive exhibits will happen spring 2014 in another OSU campus location, and again later in the year in the Corvallis community.
By participating in this juried show at the <a href="http://success.oregonstate.edu/student-success-center">Beth Ray Academic Success Center</a>, the “Iconic Views at OSU” art image series goals are- to advocate on behalf of the benefits of re-integrating the arts back into our educational experiences, first by asking the viewer to take the time to look at the work. As an original art work it serves to both raise awareness about looking, and to raise funds in support of my student project called, <i>the ARt project</i>.
<i>the ARt project</i> is a new arts access prototype mobile application tool with a content model that engagingly furthers evidence-based observation skills, as we all seek to participate effectively in our expanding monitor-centered reality.
You can “Find” <i>the ARt project</i>, “Like” <i>the ARt project</i>, and follow <i>the ARt project's</i> 2014 fund raising developments and exhibition participation, on Facebook, by clicking on this link:
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/ARt-project-Accessing-culture-connecting-community/183691239090?ref=hl">ARt project- Accessing culture, connecting community</a>.
You can also find the new BRC next door to the new OSU Bookstore- both are located just north of the CH2M Alumni Center. This exhibit will hang until June; and meanwhile I look forward to seeing you there on the 24th!
une femme artistehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14396204687682296296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543993956863214248.post-49311703913099612502014-01-05T15:46:00.000-08:002014-01-05T15:47:43.162-08:00Integrating Kindness and Compassion for The New Year 2014"Integration made visible is kindness and compassion," says Mindsight, well-being, UCLA Psychiatrist- Dr. Dan Siegle.
May the New Year be filled with healthy integration for us all!
Taking a life review and recap perspective in this post, I write about what " visible- even manifest kindness and compassion," means for me, now:
Releasing a long deserved, Ahhhhhh... I pause to articulate, mine is- after decades of building and building real integration of my own conscious intellectual life; what I know within without plaguing self-doubt; of building comprehensive benefit from the hard work to reach better whole-self acceptance; a consciously lived spiritual life, joyfully if more privately- coupled to a gifted creative life; is a life far more integrated with my on-going dreams for a successfully realized material life; a balance whole life eventually integrated with a truly supportive love life at loooong last- as I still believe this to be soooo much nicer!
Yesterday, the next moment of mature insight was freely and beautifully stated by my daughter in a phone call we shared together, very located in the present. For me, it was a parting of the waves experience, a deep drink from the well- experience. She is in her mid-twenties now, and I am so grateful for the qualities of development coming to the fore by her choices, as she lives her own independently successful life.
I worked full-tilt during those full-time, single parenting years- all 23 of them. Covering the waterfront of developmental well-being, to raise my child as benefitting from all the supports I valued and tirelessly continued putting together, in myriad ways. I worked full-tilt during those full-time, single parenting years: defining-as-I-lived into the intense, non-stop therapy work: a working scaffold-on-the-run of personal well-being, for the first time in my own life.
Necessarily independent of all family ties, and all past social ties to that point, in the land of the free and the brave- I continue even today, figuring out how to make my career and living as an artist of international cultural upbringing- influences. Free from inherited, and through hard work- avoidable, non-preferential chaos.
I wear a medal of honor I gave myself one Mother's Day years ago, to mark these everyday truths of my life.
From the moment of conception, my child and I continue to have a deep, growing, special bond. It does contrast very well, the reality of having been raised with two younger sibs, by intense mental illness, not ever diagnosed until I was in my thirties, with a daughter of my own daughter and in Kindergarten.
By then, I personally had a basket-full of years of the therapy work belonging to this person-in-denial to do, under my own belt.
If I can even begin to touch with words, any accurate written description- what integration might look like, after doing the best one can from the getgo to navigate the growing up 24/7 terrifying hell about my only living, high-functioning, terrifyingly (high IQ-low self-esteem), nevertheless extremely intelligent- parent.
I cannot emphasize this reality of navigating the mind field of a parent in denial and avoidance, while projecting and attaching- because they are among many things, a mentally ill, high-functioning and terrifying intellect. If you've no exposure to denied egregious mental illness in your parent, there is not enough emphasis that can be made.
The residue hardest to shed is, I have ALWAYS felt very guarded about many things, centrally about revealing, or knowing the equally complex truth of revealing any of these personal, historical details- in order to be seen, heard and/or valued individually.
A gift I continue my own on-going maturity growth/integration of compassion and kindness, to give myself, first.
Yet dear reader, even though what I share are very intimately scaled insights- imposed isolation from the social world outside must be equally, compassionately abated. We all suffer greatly in America, from shame, and a narrowness of normalcy conditioning.
And even as there is now a reasonable, clinical diagnosis- this multi-decade, geographically distanced individual, still lives in denial of their truth- and always will. Shame costs us everything.
On this uphill, growth-into-conscious-life journey, I have only very recently in the past two years, more fully integrated a very hard acceptance of this truth about social shame's costs and my parent's fears reflecting a lifetime of wrong-thinking choices, though I never give up on the soul trapped inside the storm.
It means, continuously integrating the evolutionary reality of a biological relation in this life who is unpredictable at every moment, while continuously untangling less, and working more integrative-ly, with all the internal challenges tied to this being. The one you've always needed to be loved by to grow up well, no matter the distance- but have had to intuitively choose from a very, very young age, to (initially secretly) decide to literally escape, in order to save your own life. Someone whose job it was to care for and protect you, whom you've always only loved, yet who, (I've) had to work very hard, again initially with help, to learn- has never been safe enough to let that far in to your psychic/emotional life.
Reflective of the years of work to untangle, clarify, heal more and the gains made and earned integrating kindness and compassion- to now navigating in order to mutually establish more healthy, non-familial integration (i.e., meaningful, substantive friendships)- can be awkward, hard work trusting others. So I begin again, chopping wood and carrying water.
See? (*This is truly a simply profound inquiry.) For anyone close enough to believe they see me, art really does save lives.
In the past two years of post-Bacc studies, to finally integrate meaningful academic accomplishments into a valuable whole, in support of my being able to work confidently from this self-realized platform to be reasonably competitive in the marketplace: I have good footing now in a finely integrative opportunity, called, <i>the ARt project</i>.
An integration of passions regarding access and courage, I've managed to build from an original vision of my own in collaboration with many talented others at the local university.
As the project enters the scary (to me) phase of budget writing, grant proposal development, personal worth analysis, proposal pitching, presenting and marketing- as I prepare to leave this wombish period of my self-made life, I take another step in shedding large burdens met- of separation, in my easing carefully into the flowing river of life.
May I continue swimming well as an individual soul of The Divine, as a blessedly conscious, caring parent, and as working/selling artist, who is also becoming a start-up founder- with greater mastery found in the grace of compassion and kindness.
*Below, the image is of a painting I created- with quite the true story of living integrity flowing through how it came into being.
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une femme artistehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14396204687682296296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543993956863214248.post-92105653678384813012013-09-24T09:53:00.005-07:002013-09-24T10:05:39.727-07:00the ARt project- what is it?For the past 18 months I have been given the great, great opportunity to work on a student project of my own vision, while pursuing my post-Bacc degree at the local university!
The project is a result of recognizing that mobile app technology contains so much possibility to make the beauty and wonder in this world so much more accessible for so many more people.
With this basic recognition and a lifetime of experiences in the arts, I hit on a combination of thoughts and discoveries that combined to light up my mind and inner vision to see the holistic possibilites of a new tool.
Without going into too many other details, at this stage the project has enjoyed a proof-of-concept public launch at a local science and arts festival_ as of last year. As student-project director, I have also presented the prototype project to academic peer review at a regional digital technology in education conference, also last year.
Now, as initial and generous university support funding to realize this stage of the project, and much more- winds down, I am building my first public funding campaign in support of the project. the ARt project has currently entered second-stage refinements in the university Engineering capstone group for the next 12 months. This means it is very important to fund what comes next! To do this, I will be learning by doing, how to apply for grants, search for private funders and play with crowd funding!
To mark the launch of this brand new funding campaign project- I share the essential portion of an email that arrived in my inbox just yesterday, with this message:
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une femme artistehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14396204687682296296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543993956863214248.post-6995429058140600662013-07-03T23:21:00.002-07:002013-07-03T23:36:04.619-07:00When life just opens up, and we find ourselves spending time with people whose work we admire<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I had a very lovely 15 minutes today. It was a lovely little window of timelessness in the quality of this day because I plunged in, giving myself permission to make contact with someone whose work I have been savoring and appreciating about a subject in art that we both share in our very individual ways.<br />
I am not going to go into details about who this person is, as I do not have their permission to be detailed about them. I am not going to go into detail about the work we have in common because I don't want to brag.<br />
I do very simply want to create witness to the quality of this small accomplishment that means so much to me today.<br />
It all came about as I had written a letter to them over last week-end asking essentially if they would mentor a precious corner of my own academic work right now, knowing how in-demand their life and time is. Yet before sending that letter today, it just seemed appropriate to give a call to their place of business first, to ask if there might be a protocol for making this kind of inquiring contact out of the blue.<br />
Rather than any stuffiness on their end, and I went through two administrative check points, what I received was a seamlessly saturated 15 minutes of on-the-spot mentoring and so much more, with someone who seemed was also having a good day. Someone who could receive my call at a moment on their end when everything just fell into place between us to share this passionate commonality_ and for a few unfettered moments, enjoy it in an extended conversation that touched on so many other details in very friendly repartee. It was 15 minutes that really has made my whole day, for at least the next 6 months!<br />
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une femme artistehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14396204687682296296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543993956863214248.post-2602005688117406222012-10-07T15:50:00.001-07:002012-10-07T15:50:03.629-07:00Please Excuse the New Image-Slider Construction!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
While there are two images popping up in the once beautiful image-slider that seems a distant memory now! I am smack in the middle of getting a new and much improved image-slider in place, at the top of my art blog!<br />
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It uses jquery, css and javascript so, I am feeling quite accomplished having followed the insert instructions well enough, to get the device smoothly onto my art blog here. Just not smooth enough to migrate my own images into it yet! So, it's important to keep in mind, I am the traditional visual artist with some technical ability_ not the programmer. Programming is its own art form and an area that I respect and would love to have the talent working with me on <a href="http://www.gazettetimes.com/news/local/education/different-strokes-from-paintbrushes-to-touch-screens/article_6c8c3412-cfae-11e1-9572-0019bb2963f4.html" rel="nofollow">the ARt project</a> in fact! But this is another post. <br />
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Meanwhile, this state of improvements-in-progress for my new image-slider, is temporary! So please excuse the mess, and I appreciate your patience as I learn and grow in all skills needed to accomplish the task(s) at hand!<br />
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*The artwork just above here in <u>this</u> post, is project-driven. Exercises to open my thinking up about map design inside <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/wellinart/7677053450/in/photostream#/photos/wellinart/7677053450/in/photostream/lightbox/">the ARt project</a>. So they are not particularly strong examples of my visual style in art making. Yet as I say, this is material for another post! <br />
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une femme artistehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14396204687682296296noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543993956863214248.post-45347462765434350632012-07-18T23:13:00.003-07:002012-07-18T23:16:48.442-07:00the ARt project! ARtechnology?! What is all this?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>Imagine a Woman</b><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">by <a href="http://www.imagineawoman.com/home/about">Patricia Lynn Reilly</a>, M. Div.</span><br />
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Imagine a woman<br />
who believes it is right and good she is woman.<br />
A woman who honors her experience and tells her stories.<br />
Who refuses to carry the sins of others within her body and life.<br />
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Imagine a woman<br />
who believes she is good.<br />
A woman who trusts and respects herself.<br />
Who listens to her needs and desires and meets them with tenderness and grace.<br />
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Imagine a woman<br />
who has acknowledged the past's influence on the present.<br />
A woman who has walked through her past. <br />
Who has healed into the present.<br />
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Imagine a woman<br />
who authors her own life.<br />
A woman who exerts, initiates, and moves on her own behalf.<br />
Who refuses to surrender except to her truest self and to her wisest voice.<br />
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Imagine a woman<br />
who names her own gods.<br />
A woman who imagines the divine in her image and likeness.<br />
Who designs her own spirituality and allows it to inform her daily life.<br />
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Imagine a woman<br />
in love with her own body.<br />
A woman who believes her body is enough, just as it is.<br />
Who celebrates her body and its rhythms and cycles as an exquisite resource.<br />
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Imagine a woman<br />
who honors the face of the Goddess in her changing face.<br />
A woman who celebrates the accumulation of her years and her wisdom.<br />
Who refuses to use her precious life energy disguising the changes in her body and life.<br />
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Imagine a woman<br />
who values the women in her life.<br />
A woman who sits in circles of women.<br />
Who is reminded of the truth about herself when she forgets.<br />
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Imagine yourself as this woman.<br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />© 1995 </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The poem that inspired the book Imagine a Woman in Love with Herself.<br /><a href="http://www.imagineawoman.com/home/iaw-peom-i/imagine-a-woman-i">www.imagineawoman.com</a></span></div>
</div>une femme artistehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14396204687682296296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543993956863214248.post-75010789178301777362012-05-08T16:40:00.006-07:002012-05-08T16:52:00.545-07:00My Apologies<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSjMisyyS_zBzpff918kYm8W1s8CQNLrLurLogaGu2czC_poo88tLe-uEdRw5P98TMf6GIwELEXsou06ruu91u8-gRzCyIhE7QaSo7rXhoLBtGUYYZ_UqEnKmF-kP8jA57-tQ2JOWdGM0/s1600/1st-exhibition-images-4.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 106px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSjMisyyS_zBzpff918kYm8W1s8CQNLrLurLogaGu2czC_poo88tLe-uEdRw5P98TMf6GIwELEXsou06ruu91u8-gRzCyIhE7QaSo7rXhoLBtGUYYZ_UqEnKmF-kP8jA57-tQ2JOWdGM0/s400/1st-exhibition-images-4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5740313529235292146" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Until Google & Apple both decide to play more inclusively, I must apologize for the compromised appearance of my once beautiful-looking blog.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Not being able to feature my artwork in the beautiful horizontal 620 x 360 pixel configuration, is just pathetic really.<br />If anyone has a lead on free/creative commons plugins that can help me restore the quality visual portfolio presentation I used to have, (re-imagine a 3" x 2"- horizontal, continually scrolling slidebar just under the blog title!)_ please let me know!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Meanwhile, as a Mac owner_ the evolution of Java is at a complete standstill; also NOT cool.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">All constructive feedback on this front also welcomed.</span>une femme artistehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14396204687682296296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543993956863214248.post-56772813324870368492012-02-26T21:11:00.003-08:002012-02-26T21:18:13.196-08:00Russia's Banksy does it for the motherland<div id="main-article-info"> <h1><span style="font-size:100%;">Russian street artist P183 is covering Moscow with his politically charged murals – and says he's doing it for a 'strong, educated and cultured homeland'</span></h1> </div> <div id="content"> <div id="article-wrapper"> <div id="main-content-picture"> <img src="http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/About/General/2012/2/24/1330108547463/A-mural-by-the-Russian-st-007.jpg" alt="A mural by the Russian street artist known as P183" height="276" width="460" /> <div style="font-weight: bold;" class="caption"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/shortcuts/2012/feb/26/russian-banksy-paints-for-motherland?intcmp=239"><span style="font-size:78%;">A mural in Moscow by the Russian street artist known as P183. Photograph: P183/Rex Features</span></a></div> </div> <div id="article-body-blocks"> <p>Decorating the walls of Moscow with politically fuelled graffiti isn't met with quite the same admiration as it is in the UK, yet an artist known only as P183 has made a name for himself by capturing the zeitgeist of modern-day <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/russia" title="More from guardian.co.uk on Russia">Russia</a> in his work.</p><p>P183's portfolio includes a sprawling mural of a masked protester holding a flare, a CCTV camera fitted with machine guns and a cardboard cut-out of a young girl hanging baubles on a barbed-wire fence. After gaining notoriety when <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2012/jan/31/moscow-banksy-p183-in-pictures" title="">photographs of his art</a> got picked up around the world, he is now preparing a new series that will be unveiled around the Moscow streets soon.</p><p>Dubbed the Russian <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/banksy" title="More from guardian.co.uk on Banksy">Banksy</a>, or "Bankski", his art resembles the world's best-known street artist, although P183 insists he has never tried to imitate the Bristolian. Speaking from Moscow over Skype, dressed in his usual black garb and balaclava, he says: "I fully understand that we both have a common cause, but I never sought to emulate him or anyone else. I use the songs of people such as Yegor Letov and Konstantin Kinchev for inspiration – not public figures."</p><p>P183 first began writing poems at the age of 11 on the Tsoi Wall in Moscow, which pays tribute to Soviet musician Viktor Tsoi. Then as he got older, he began to spray murals elsewhere in the city. Lately he has set up guerrilla installations, including a giant fork shovelling industrial piping that looks like a plate of spaghetti.</p><p>As with most street artists, P183's canvas is all too soon covered with grey paint by the authorities. "The city government is categorically against <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/streetart" title="More from guardian.co.uk on Street art">street art</a>, so any wall drawings are painted over. Graffiti with political meaning and social subtext are painted over especially fast," he says.</p><p>At the mere mention of this week's Russian election, he scowls. "I'm not going to talk about Putin, it's too much. In our country, there is a very heavy atmosphere. People are closed-minded, and money is the most important thing. Our state does not support creativity. To me, street art is a tool to send thoughts to people."</p><p>His motivation remains "to have a strong, educated and cultured homeland". If photographers continue to get to his work before the authorities, he may help to achieve just that.</p><p><br /></p><p>*this article is originally posted on<span style="text-decoration: underline;">: </span><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/shortcuts/2012/feb/26/russian-banksy-paints-for-motherland?intcmp=239">the guardian- SHORTCUTS BLOG; A Sideways Look at the News</a></span></p> </div> </div> </div>une femme artistehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14396204687682296296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543993956863214248.post-12214951503818302432012-02-12T13:53:00.000-08:002012-02-12T14:07:07.340-08:00The False Dichotomy Between "Work" and "Home" For Many... Part II:<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Paraphrased from: <b>Composing A Life by</b>, <a href="http://www.marycatherinebateson.com/">Mary Catherine Bateson</a>, copyright 1989, "A radical rethinking the concept of achievement." -San Francisco Chronical<br />
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From <a href="http://kerriebwrye.blogspot.com/search?q=Composing+a+Life">my first posting, in September 2009</a>, directly quoting from Mary Catherine Bateson's work, "Composing A Life": <br />
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"As I began to thing about the lives of women in this project, I was struck by the diversity of their homes and the spaces they created to live and work, by these concrete expressions of who we are. Joan is the only one of us who has spent long periods of her life as a traditional full-time homemaker. I have visited the Eriksons in at least half a dozen of their houses across the country. Joan talks about the sense of light and openness she tries to achieve for Erik, and I recognize familiar brightly colored pieces of art and handicraft from one house to the next, but they are always artfully recombined, each object at rest in its new place. Of all of us, Joan has the clearest understanding of how objects that enrich the senses can also enrich human relationships.<br />
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It is possible to create a context of sharing with very simple material cues. This idea is best expressed by the old notion of sacrament. This word has been shaped and often abused by the Christian tradition, but it is still useful express an idea that occurs in many cultures: that the most ordinary materials. like bread and clay, as well as those that are rare and shining, are carriers of meaning, and that the proper action taken with these materials, around the day of the calendar, have a transformative value. The old Anglican catechism defined a sacrament as "an outward and visual sign of an inward and spiritual grace." I prefer the statement that turns up in some Catholic theological discussions: "a sacrament <i>effects</i> what it signifies." *The lighting of Sabbath candles, the giving of gifts, the preparation and sharing of food_ all have the potential to bring about human closeness, as well as simply referring to it. <br />
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When my husband and I visited his family in Beirut on our honeymoon I was frustrated to find that my courteous and highly educated in-laws answered me in English whenever I spoke to them in Armenian. Then, on the fourth or fifth day of our visit, his mother set out to make <i>chee kufta</i>, a dish in which finely ground lean lamb is kneaded at length with bulgar wheat, parsley, and onions until the raw meat simply disappears into the wheat. It's one of those dishes, shaped by their mother's hands. that sons go home to eat. Greatly daring, I went into the kitchen and took over the kneading. After that day, my in-laws began to answer me in Armenian, the kneading of meat and grain and the sharing of what I had prepared having transformed me into a different person, just as the mother of a new priest is suddenly shy with her son after he has been touched with sacred oils, just as desire becomes holy after the exchange of wedding rings. </div>
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*<i>Enchiridion Symbolorum: Definitions et rationum de rebus civii et morum,</i> 33rd edition, ed. H. Denzinger. Freiburg: Herder, 1965. Nos. 1606, 1639. </div>
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</div>une femme artistehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14396204687682296296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543993956863214248.post-64391737827638080592012-01-24T20:33:00.000-08:002012-01-24T22:21:53.187-08:00Hi! I'm Baaaaack!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC3o6FOXZTOar-cWAsSR60IQdoONwnrVVb7XhU1_N4NhCGJ9su1rRl48h23PWOvK0ZKze4yObAtP6igbtaMLD1hyYmPZapJoeX7OyR7PrZE-2Rd7qZdQxlHk91bZl0y43bqxIQPolitJ8/s1600/artists-easle2.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC3o6FOXZTOar-cWAsSR60IQdoONwnrVVb7XhU1_N4NhCGJ9su1rRl48h23PWOvK0ZKze4yObAtP6igbtaMLD1hyYmPZapJoeX7OyR7PrZE-2Rd7qZdQxlHk91bZl0y43bqxIQPolitJ8/s400/artists-easle2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5701446788396476578" /></a><br />Oh my gosh, it's been so long since my last post!<br /><br />Well enough of that_ the present is what counts!!<br /><br /> <br />Do take a read into my latest invite; consider it however it fits for you, and then leave a comment as that moves you!<br /><br />Keep in mind, I love getting, reading & AGAIN responding to your comments!<br /><br />Read on:<br /><br /> I hope this post finds each one doing well in their life endeavors & experiences where you are in this world! <br /><br />Ok! I am making a target audience inquiry because I am working on a project to bring art & technology closer together in a format that invites non-artists to get more familiar with the inspirational influences/impacts of art in their daily world_ <br /><br />Part of my approach, is to ask each one of you to thoughtfully consider if you will, how it might be to do an interview about your favorite art commission experience(s)? <br />Some of you are experienced at this sort of thing so you might even have some pointers for me in making this inquiry. <br />For those of us who have never had this opportunity_ visualize your most opportune moment & paint that picture with me! I would love to hear about it & see it in my mind's eye as I read your projections! <br /><br />The basic question is this: If you were interviewed and really wanted the world to know some things very specific or particular about your approach(es) to your work/process_ what five questions would you like to be asked that might best allow you to convey this message most clearly out into the world? <br /><br />Feel free to only respond in part to <span style="font-style:italic;">any</span> part of this contact that appeals to you. <br /><br />Thanks in advance for your time in whatever form you feel available, again, to respond to this post. I look forward to your questions no matter how many they might be! <br /><br />Merçi beaucoup!une femme artistehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14396204687682296296noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543993956863214248.post-65934985943796262412011-07-20T13:13:00.001-07:002011-07-20T13:43:35.096-07:00Two-year Job Search Comes to an End!I am elated to finally post that after a grueling two-year job search, I am finally rejoining the ranks of the employed, as a <a href="http://www.ehow.com/about_5484492_project-coordinator-position-description.html">Project Coordinator</a> for an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_medicine">Alternative Wellness Center</a> in my area!<br /><br />This is a brief post because I am still jumping up and down for sheer joy!<br /><br />Enjoy the photos from part of my week-end celebration during the local festival in my community. Rain or shine, everyone came out to play!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7kJoJzMVmgDn9GBikCW-Av330KMzKmVQZ1fq0o4LxTBHL3LMju89C3vofwAx-FuP9Nl1mFXOv5iA8xS0VD7xnM0bIZjGTf-5F9z2GFhJeQOMkfjzklEzKG37gAD6Mbs9np2xSjnq5Q2E/s1600/ART-JOB-WEEKEND-CELEBRATION.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 146px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7kJoJzMVmgDn9GBikCW-Av330KMzKmVQZ1fq0o4LxTBHL3LMju89C3vofwAx-FuP9Nl1mFXOv5iA8xS0VD7xnM0bIZjGTf-5F9z2GFhJeQOMkfjzklEzKG37gAD6Mbs9np2xSjnq5Q2E/s400/ART-JOB-WEEKEND-CELEBRATION.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5631535389588964002" /></a><br /><br />For anyone continuing to experience the long job search, do not give up, and keep at it unequivocally, no matter what! This IS what I had to do and did.<br /><br />Nobody can abandon you, if first you don't abandon yourself. <br />Nobody can betray you, if you don't first betray yourself.<br />Nobody can despise you, if you don't despise yourself first.<br />Nobody can hurt you, if you don't hurt first yourself.<br />Nobody can truly be in love with you, if you aren't first in love with yourself.<br /><br />Blessings and actively share your joy, because the world is full of people who need what we each uniquely have to share with one another!une femme artistehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14396204687682296296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543993956863214248.post-87196721168999195002011-05-29T19:00:00.000-07:002011-05-29T19:35:23.395-07:00Leonora Carrington, artist and surrealist muse, dies at 94By <a href="http://projects.washingtonpost.com/staff/articles/adam+bernstein/">Adam Bernstein</a>, Published: May 26<br /><br />Leonora Carrington, who gained a cultural foothold as the muse and lover of painter Max Ernst and later emerged as a significant artist in works that fused surrealism with the occult and mystical explorations of femininity, died May 25 in Mexico City. She was 94 and had pneumonia.<br /><br />Surrealism — by turns macabre, sexually overripe, whimsical, subversive and fantastical — suited Ms. Carrington’s creative journey.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4eMOEoMVHcz2Wx0jb2KIpOeA9Vs3PKcBW2pxbxToYSsmpix4bDYFFZwbna7CxnQlOfXeQDI1CEB7rtUSaNM6FYqh6WGSD9A6Y3q5jMQ6PcMnqSvv6ms32ipNIllNHw22LCcJQ-wCtWFY/s1600/Leonara-Carrington.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 93px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4eMOEoMVHcz2Wx0jb2KIpOeA9Vs3PKcBW2pxbxToYSsmpix4bDYFFZwbna7CxnQlOfXeQDI1CEB7rtUSaNM6FYqh6WGSD9A6Y3q5jMQ6PcMnqSvv6ms32ipNIllNHw22LCcJQ-wCtWFY/s400/Leonara-Carrington.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5612328344456530642" /></a><br /><br />She was widely, if belatedly, regarded as one of the most imaginative artists of her generation and one of the last links to the surrealist movement that included Salvador Dali, Joan Miro and Marcel Duchamp. Her paintings fetched hundreds of thousands of dollars at leading auction houses.<br /><br />Ms. Carrington was born in England to an upper-crust family that stifled her artistic impulses. She went through the motions of being a debutante before managing, at 19, to broker her independence and study painting.<br /><br />Smitten with surrealism — and its use of art to explore the psyche — she became in 1937 the lover of one of its masters, the German-born Ernst, who was 46 and married.<br /><br />They retreated to a farmhouse in southern France, where they put on plays and tended vineyards. Guests were welcome, to a point. When surrealist visitors overstayed their welcome, the interlopers were treated to an omelet — of their own hair, which Ernst and Ms. Carrington had secretly cut the night before.<br /><br />Their idyll in the French countryside was interrupted by the German occupation during World War II. Ernst eventually found sanctuary in the United States — and, once there, married arts patron Peggy Guggenheim.<br /><br />In Ernst’s absence, Ms. Carrington fled the Nazis and suffered a mental breakdown in Spain. When her parents sent an emissary to find her, she escaped to Mexico, a haven for European emigres during the war, through a marriage of convenience with a diplomat.<br /><br />In the 1940s, her work was shown in important New York galleries. Her paintings were “heavy with sex and horror,” an art critic at Time magazine wrote, noting a body of images freighted with melancholy: “Feathery, hairy, horny, half-luminous creatures merged imperceptibly into birds, animals and plants. Painted with cobweb delicacy, they conspired and paraded before misty landscapes and night skies thick with floating islands.”<br /><br />Her artistic reputation was initially handicapped by her relationship with Ernst, said Susan Fisher Sterling, director of the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington. She was seen more as a muse than an artist in her own right.<br /><br />But Ms. Carrington remained a vital figure in the art world long after the surrealist movement dimmed in the late 1940s. She bridged the psychological aspects of surrealism with her growing interest in the roles of women as muses, mothers, goddesses and foes of patriarchal oppression.<br /><br />Her paintings, murals and sculptures, which featured dreamlike images of animals, sibyls, animals and deities, reflected her study of alchemy, Mayan magical traditions, Buddhism and the Jewish mystical writings known as the Kabbalah.<br /><br />“The strange, enigmatic and subtly humorous anecdotes that appear in her work were the expression of a profound inner world, a mythology of her own making, which although terrifying protected her from the aggressive banality of the external world,” arts scholar Jorge Alberto Manrique wrote in the “Grove Dictionary of Art.”<br /><br />Ms. Carrington was rediscovered by feminist art historians in the 1970s and ’80s, Sterling said, prompting renewed interest in her work as well as her compelling life.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKmx-7lkKFVWC9zGB2fb8pjAJ5BVfE_vcNa16G3qguO3wENbzsNw2Z3uUcNum392QJyfNhesx1lnGzyDulCOwIYZDUIeU4Cq2eLdJl56y3cvRZlyKc_jReZUaoDjDQos3Aks0auBGfLRY/s1600/imgres-5.jpeg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 284px; height: 178px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKmx-7lkKFVWC9zGB2fb8pjAJ5BVfE_vcNa16G3qguO3wENbzsNw2Z3uUcNum392QJyfNhesx1lnGzyDulCOwIYZDUIeU4Cq2eLdJl56y3cvRZlyKc_jReZUaoDjDQos3Aks0auBGfLRY/s400/imgres-5.jpeg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5612330266076555330" /></a><br /><br />Elusive about the meaning of her work, Ms. Carrington tired of interviewers who tried to make her an object of fascination.<br /><br />“Everyone’s had an interesting life,” she told a reporter. “Unless they’re interested in business or something.”<br /><br />Leonora Carrington was born April 6, 1917, in Lancashire, England, and grew up in a shadow-filled Edwardian mansion called Crookhey Hall. She described her father, a textile magnate, as a philistine who thought that “you didn’t do art — if you did, you were either poor or homosexual, which were more or less the same sort of crime.”<br /><br />Rebelling at London’s social whirl, she studied art and found a new world when her mother sent her a book about surrealism that featured cover art by Ernst. At a dinner party soon after, they fell instantly in lust and spirited away to Paris and then to Provence.<br /><br />In her paintings of the era, notably the self-portrait “The Inn of the Dawn Horse,” Ms. Carrington was drawn to images of horses, mostly to depict states of arousal and fertility. Many of her equine-inspired images showed up in a Paris exhibit of surrealist painters in 1938.<br /><br />The Germans marched into Paris in 1940, and Ernst, whose art had been labeled “degenerate” by the Nazis, was rounded up as an enemy alien and taken to an internment camp.<br /><br />Alone for months, Ms. Carrington grew despondent and tried to starve herself. She sold her home for a few francs, liberated her pet eagle and drove to Madrid.<br /><br />“In the political confusion and the torrid heat,” she wrote in her diary, “I convinced myself that Madrid was the world’s stomach and that I had been chosen for the task of restoring this digestive organ to health.”<br /><br />She became hostile with police at the British Embassy and was committed to an asylum, a period she wrote about in her acclaimed memoir “Down Below.” She was given drugs that caused her to hallucinate and go into spasms.<br /><br />Her parents sent a guardian to get her, but Ms. Carrington was determined not to return to England. In Lisbon, she escaped by hailing a taxi and asking to be driven to the Mexican Embassy. She married a Mexican cultural attache, Renato Leduc. “It was the only way of getting out,” she later said.<br /><br />They settled in Mexico City, and the marriage crumbled. Ms. Carrington took up with Emerico Weisz, a Hungarian emigre photographer who had covered the Spanish Civil War. She and Weisz marred in 1946 and had two sons, Gabriel and Pablo. Weisz died in 2007, and the sons survive.<br /><br />Ms. Carrington counted many European exiles among her friends in Mexico, including surrealist filmmaker Luis Bunuel.<br /><br />A former Bunuel assistant told the Sydney Morning Herald in 1997 that when the filmmaker visited Ms. Carrington’s home one day, the artist greeted him.<br /><br />“You look very much like my guardian at the insane asylum,” she said. She proceeded to step into the bathroom and take a shower, fully dressed.<br /><br />Bunuel was vexed, but he stared at her, thinking, “After all, I am a surrealist, but at what point does it stop?”<br /><br />*This article originally appeared in the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/leonora-carrington-artist-and-surrealist-muse-dies-at-94/2011/05/26/AGSUMMCH_story.html">May 26, 2011 edition of the Washington Post</a>.une femme artistehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14396204687682296296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543993956863214248.post-10803842786169057022011-05-09T16:24:00.000-07:002011-05-09T16:49:36.002-07:00Brain scans reveal the power of art<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6Rw2UD1KPZlO3yXN57DzZY6mGhb8QAqRpDYwgO5zVg9Fra-gkD6bqAiIrNHg6yTcM-e55opyd3U2BdBncKkxRFtLTO6xZXNXe77EPNm0eQ2dxhxmXkTuEFaC4wQq_Mr5VV76hntNVjEI/s1600/View+on+the+Stour+near+Dedham+1822%2527+by++John+Constable%253A+Brain+scans+reveal+the+power+of+art+.jpeg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 250px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6Rw2UD1KPZlO3yXN57DzZY6mGhb8QAqRpDYwgO5zVg9Fra-gkD6bqAiIrNHg6yTcM-e55opyd3U2BdBncKkxRFtLTO6xZXNXe77EPNm0eQ2dxhxmXkTuEFaC4wQq_Mr5VV76hntNVjEI/s400/View+on+the+Stour+near+Dedham+1822%2527+by++John+Constable%253A+Brain+scans+reveal+the+power+of+art+.jpeg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5604864785541843602" /></a><br />View on the Stour near Dedham 1822' by John Constable <br />Photo: Bloomburg News<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYXs3SONu6wAbdeD6xv8Fq4hZTes0_FfJklxWDXCcHTLDIuRhB5Er7H0MJHd4BfNHNzG2pdI-TeCij52UXb2kuuQv0suFTkknwgXKcf1dYpMvInFiQ6C2EpfFDFDAoz0-Zq-yBvhv7yb8/s1600/Robert+Mendick.jpeg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 60px; height: 60px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYXs3SONu6wAbdeD6xv8Fq4hZTes0_FfJklxWDXCcHTLDIuRhB5Er7H0MJHd4BfNHNzG2pdI-TeCij52UXb2kuuQv0suFTkknwgXKcf1dYpMvInFiQ6C2EpfFDFDAoz0-Zq-yBvhv7yb8/s200/Robert+Mendick.jpeg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5604864524876863682" /></a> By <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/journalists/robert-mendick/">Robert Mendick</a>, Chief reporter 8:00AM BST 08 May 2011<br /><br />Human guinea pigs underwent brain scans while being shown a series of 30 paintings by some of the world's greatest artists.<br />The artworks they considered most beautiful increased blood flow in a certain part of the brain by as much as 10 per cent – the equivalent to gazing at a loved one.<br />Paintings by John Constable, Ingres, the French neoclassical painter, and Guido Reni, the 17th century Italian artist, produced the most powerful 'pleasure' response in those taking part in the experiment.<br />Works by Hieronymus Bosch, Honore Damier and the Flemish artist Massys – the 'ugliest' art used in the experiment – led to the smallest increases in blood flow. Other paintings shown were by artists such as Monet, Rembrandt, Leonardo da Vinci and Cezanne.<br />Professor Semir Zeki, chair in neuroaesthetics at University College London, who conducted the experiment, said: "We wanted to see what happens in the brain when you look at beautiful paintings.<br /><br />Related Articles:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/8447563/National-Art-Pass-for-free-museum-entry.html">National Art Pass for free museum entry 13 Apr 2011</a><br /><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/8500427/Art-and-soul.html">Art and soul 08 May 2011</a><br /><br />"What we found is when you look at art – whether it is a landscape, a still life, an abstract or a portrait – there is strong activity in that part of the brain related to pleasure.<br />"We put people in a scanner and showed them a series of paintings every ten seconds. We then measured the change in blood flow in one part of the brain.<br />"The reaction was immediate. What we found was the increase in blood flow was in proportion to how much the painting was liked.<br />"The blood flow increased for a beautiful painting just as it increases when you look at somebody you love. It tells us art induces a feel good sensation direct to the brain."<br />The test was carried out on dozens of people, who were picked at random but who had little prior knowledge of art and therefore would not be unduly influenced by current tastes and the fashionability of the artist.<br />The magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan measured blood flow in the medial orbitofrontal cortex, part of the brain associated with pleasure and desire.<br />The study, which is currently being peer reviewed, is likely to be published in an academic journal later this year.<br />Professor Zeki added: "What we are doing is giving scientific truth to what has been known for a long time – that beautiful paintings makes us feel much better.<br />"But what we didn't realise until we did these studies is just how powerful the effect on the brain is."<br />The study is being seized upon as proof of the need for art to be made as widely available to the general public as possible.<br />There is currently concern in the arts world that widespread budget cuts could affect accessibility while also slashing acquisition budgets.<br />"I have always believed art matters so it is exciting to see some scientific evidence to support the view life is enhanced by instantaneous contact with works of art," said Dr Stephen Deuchar, director of the Art Fund, the national fund-raising charity which has spent £24 million over the last five years helping to buy art for galleries and museums.<br />Last month, the organisation launched a <a href="http://www.artfund.org/join/national-art-pass-benefits">National Art Pass</a> giving free entry to more than 200 museums and galleries and 50 per cent off entry to major exhibitions.<br />The Art Fund has pledged to increase its funding by 50 per cent to £7 million a year by 2014 to make up for widespread budget cuts in the arts world.<br />The charity has been praised by Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt for showing that "philanthropy can be about small as well as large donations".<br /><br />This article originally published by <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/8500012/Brain-scans-reveal-the-power-of-art.html">The Telegraph</a>, on Tuesday, May 10, 2011une femme artistehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14396204687682296296noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543993956863214248.post-8926697170203159252011-03-26T15:54:00.000-07:002011-03-26T16:10:40.637-07:00Imagery niggling<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqmBp0zh9YeLxLMdELWOAyX1X7FhVlH34UApLBY-23fBAonxNiv_IdR5G7hKFSkiz5hlgw-9iGH_hADDbtJOLLfaEB5t1Aqpv5mCHBTAkn02N-d8C6eXB39Kf7znsAx6ghxIExSg4KxBI/s1600/collage"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 102px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqmBp0zh9YeLxLMdELWOAyX1X7FhVlH34UApLBY-23fBAonxNiv_IdR5G7hKFSkiz5hlgw-9iGH_hADDbtJOLLfaEB5t1Aqpv5mCHBTAkn02N-d8C6eXB39Kf7znsAx6ghxIExSg4KxBI/s400/collage" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5588526120648049266" border="0" /></a>I post a collage of some old & new works. Some finished_ others, in-process.<br /><br />I am reading, "expressive Drawing" by Steven Aimone, and loving how it validates the looking/seeing experience of our individual humanness! You can make anything that you see, the WAY you see it_ your art!<br /><br />Here too, are some inspirational quotes for today and everyday they serve your own higher functioning:<br /><br /><style>@font-face { font-family: "Times New Roman"; }@font-face { font-family: "Optima"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 13pt; font-family: Optima; }p { margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Times; }table.MsoNormalTable { font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; }</style> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-style: italic;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);font-family:Optima;font-size:13pt;" ><b>"Before I go I will remember that there’s someone out there who needs me. </b></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0); font-style: italic;font-family:Optima;font-size:13pt;" ><b>I am living my life so they can find me!" </b></span><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);font-family:Optima;font-size:13pt;" ><b>_Someone said a Balinese dancer first said this!</b></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-style: italic;"><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);font-family:Optima;font-size:13pt;" ></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);font-family:Optima;font-size:13pt;" ><b><span style="font-style: italic;">"What you radiate in the world comes back to you!"</span> _Nicholas Bellamy, a wise friend and fellow artist!</b></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);font-family:Optima;font-size:13pt;" ></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);font-family:Optima;font-size:13pt;" ><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);font-family:Optima;font-size:13pt;" ></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);font-family:Optima;font-size:13pt;" ><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);font-family:Optima;font-size:13pt;" ></span><span style=";font-family:Optima;font-size:13pt;color:black;" ></span></p>une femme artistehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14396204687682296296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543993956863214248.post-28762453601611584522011-03-19T00:18:00.000-07:002011-03-19T00:32:06.029-07:00The National Museum of Women in the Arts, in Washington D.C.<iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/kXaln1MDGwg" frameborder="0"></iframe><br /><br />In conducting research during my undergraduate studies on women in the arts, I could not find any information locally that gave me enough of what I needed to treat my subjects fairly.<br />What a victorious thrill it was when I discovered that the <a href="http://www.nmwa.org/">NMWA</a> would give me the supportive access I needed to over 250 names for French Women Artists in particular_ since this was my research focus!<br />I wound up writing two papers for two different projects on my subject, the second of which I wrote in both English and French.<br /><br />Thank-you very much, <a href="http://www.nmwa.org/library/">National Museum of Women in the Arts</a>!une femme artistehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14396204687682296296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543993956863214248.post-70621378859176576542011-03-13T12:08:00.000-07:002011-03-13T12:32:49.577-07:00Beautiful permission-giving inspiration!<object width="446" height="326"><param name="movie" value="http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="bgColor" value="#ffffff"></param> <param name="flashvars" value="vu=http://video.ted.com/talks/dynamic/JR_2011-medium.mp4&su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/JR-2011.embed_thumbnail.jpg&vw=432&vh=240&ap=0&ti=1085&introDuration=25000&adDuration=0&postAdDuration=0&adKeys=talk=jr_s_ted_prize_wish_use_art_to_turn_the_world_inside_ou;year=2011;theme=the_creative_spark;theme=new_on_ted_com;theme=ted_prize_winners;theme=a_taste_of_ted2011;event=TED2011;&preAdTag=tconf.ted/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;"><embed src="http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf" pluginspace="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="446" height="326" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" flashvars="vu=http://video.ted.com/talks/dynamic/JR_2011-medium.mp4&su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/JR-2011.embed_thumbnail.jpg&vw=432&vh=240&ap=0&ti=1085&introDuration=25000&adDuration=0&postAdDuration=0&adKeys=talk=jr_s_ted_prize_wish_use_art_to_turn_the_world_inside_ou;year=2011;theme=the_creative_spark;theme=new_on_ted_com;theme=ted_prize_winners;theme=a_taste_of_ted2011;event=TED2011;"></embed></object><br />Check out the details to get involved on any scale that fits for you, right here at: <a href="http://www.insideoutproject.net/">Inside Out</a><br /><br />I have never felt so finally identified until seeing two projects today of this scale and magnitude by just one person (at least out in front)!<br /><br />I am looking for this kind support in the world! Who wants to help me be an Inside Out Artist in this world?!<br /><br />*Leave your comments and contact info here!♡Thanks<span style="display: block;" id="formatbar_Buttons"><span class=" on down" style="display: block;" id="formatbar_CreateLink" title="Link"></span></span>une femme artistehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14396204687682296296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543993956863214248.post-33394298633903656012011-03-13T00:05:00.000-08:002011-03-13T01:20:52.055-08:00Who Are you? Who? Who? Who? Who? I REALLY want to know?In my newest incarnation at a local museum, I am absolutely struggling to learn the art of telling people, primarily children, what looking at art is!<br /><br />That the value of a person's own eyes (consciously) looking at what is called art, is a valuable act. Actively building on looking together, through facilitating each person speaking about what and how each one sees, in an <a href="http://www.vtshome.org/pages/a-vts-discussion">organized, non-judgmental and encouraging manner</a>, so as to empower the act of looking differently through shared conversation, what and how each person sees. Thereby, taking ownership of the art and the experience of looking_ together.<br /><br />For example the current feature exhibit, outside of the many permanent, residency and visiting exhibits available to see at the museum_ is work of contemporary photographer, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Jordan_%28artist%29">Chris Jordan</a>. The exhibit of his work is titled: <a href="http://www.chrisjordan.com/gallery/rtn/#light-bulbs">Running the Numbers</a>.<br /><br />*Watch the <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/chris_jordan_pictures_some_shocking_stats.html">TED</a> video of Chris' talk about why he does his photography, and notice non-judgmentally how you respond. Then, share it with friends and see how you all do!<br /><br /><object width="446" height="326"><param name="movie" value="http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><param name="bgColor" value="#ffffff"> <param name="flashvars" value="vu=http://video.ted.com/talks/dynamic/ChrisJordan_2008-medium.flv&su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/ChrisJordan-2008.embed_thumbnail.jpg&vw=432&vh=240&ap=0&ti=279&introDuration=15330&adDuration=4000&postAdDuration=830&adKeys=talk=chris_jordan_pictures_some_shocking_stats;year=2008;theme=numbers_at_play;theme=media_that_matters;theme=words_about_words;theme=presentation_innovation;theme=art_unusual;theme=the_creative_spark;event=TED2008;&preAdTag=tconf.ted/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;"><embed src="http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf" pluginspace="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" bgcolor="#ffffff" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" flashvars="vu=http://video.ted.com/talks/dynamic/ChrisJordan_2008-medium.flv&su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/ChrisJordan-2008.embed_thumbnail.jpg&vw=432&vh=240&ap=0&ti=279&introDuration=15330&adDuration=4000&postAdDuration=830&adKeys=talk=chris_jordan_pictures_some_shocking_stats;year=2008;theme=numbers_at_play;theme=media_that_matters;theme=words_about_words;theme=presentation_innovation;theme=art_unusual;theme=the_creative_spark;event=TED2008;" width="446" height="326"></embed></object><br /><br />I thought titling this post after the Who was appropriate. After all in light of this exhibit's message and mirror, who are we_ each one?!!<br /><br /><iframe title="YouTube video player" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/l_FZVD5lsAw" width="480" frameborder="0" height="390"></iframe><br /><br />Then, some partial answers provoked by this particular exhibit's invitation to see deeply into one's own self, and one's own subsequent (lifelong) choices (in some cases), as documented and mirrored back to us by Chris Jordan's photography_ may for some, be found in these quotes that have recently crossed my own radar:<br /><br /><style>@font-face { font-family: "Times New Roman"; }@font-face { font-family: "Optima"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 13pt; font-family: Optima; }a:link, span.MsoHyperlink { color: blue; text-decoration: underline; }a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed { color: purple; text-decoration: underline; }table.MsoNormalTable { font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }span.clsq { }div.Section1 { page: Section1; }</style> <p class="MsoNormal">“I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.”<span class="clsq"> </span></p> <span style=";font-family:Optima;font-size:13pt;" ><i>_ </i></span><span style=";font-family:Times;font-size:10pt;" ><i><a href="http://quotes.dictionary.com/author/Don+Delillo"><span style="font-family:Optima;">Don Delillo</span></a></i></span><br /><br /><style>@font-face { font-family: "Times New Roman"; }@font-face { font-family: "Optima"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 13pt; font-family: Optima; }table.MsoNormalTable { font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; }</style> <p class="MsoNormal">“Love does truly come to those who still hope although they've been disappointed_ to those who still believe although they’ve been betrayed, to those who still choose to love </p> <p class="MsoNormal">although they’ve been hurt before, and to those who have the courage to build trust again.” _ <span style="font-size:10pt;"><i>Paraphrased from Anonymous, posted to the Internet</i></span><span style="font-size:10pt;"> </span></p>une femme artistehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14396204687682296296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543993956863214248.post-16873553483097438982011-02-14T18:22:00.000-08:002011-02-14T19:13:01.483-08:00Rediscovering Outstanding Women Pop Artists<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv2KxBlXS1k2xAnycRq53gr0DsOBCmur-Ry7USQf6SVeIMfWZ2scK5sX1zVrzy29TiIVGX-IoZkIG9RuR1jpApQDinuSgQiUEdlEo7EZZFhIkVah-r7c1J1HwVfvzAaluDM6Ek2gDgJ1Q/s1600/stphalle_big.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 228px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv2KxBlXS1k2xAnycRq53gr0DsOBCmur-Ry7USQf6SVeIMfWZ2scK5sX1zVrzy29TiIVGX-IoZkIG9RuR1jpApQDinuSgQiUEdlEo7EZZFhIkVah-r7c1J1HwVfvzAaluDM6Ek2gDgJ1Q/s400/stphalle_big.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573747161165413426" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=43792">*The following article as posted on artdaily.org</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.google.com/images?q=Christa+Dichgans&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=jeRZTbGLA4X6sAPftYieCg&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=3&ved=0CDUQsAQwAg&biw=1074&bih=699">Christa Dichgans</a>, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/artimageslibrary/5306441485/">Stilleben mit Frosch,</a> 1969 © Christa Dichgans, Privatsammlung, Berlin.<br /><br />VIENNA.- Rediscovering outstanding women Pop artists, POWER UP fulfills <a href="http://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/416">Dorothy Iannone’</a>s combative promise after fifty years. Currently on display until March 6, 2011 at <a href="http://www.kunsthallewien.at/cgi-bin/event/event.pl?id=3728&lang=en">Kunsthalle wien</a>, the show aims at the reinterpretation of an art movement that until today has primarily been associated with male protagonists. Plastic, loud colors, reduced forms, and graphic contours – the nine women artists’ works on display resemble those of their male colleagues in many respects.<br /><br />Whereas their works appeal to the taste of the masses, these artists, as pioneers of Feminism, have remained belligerent and critical. They reveal the consumer culture’s superficiality, exposing the commodity myth as an empty shell like Christa Dichgans, ironically transforming everyday objects to oversized kitsch objects like <a href="http://www.google.com/images?q=Jann+Haworth&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=peZZTdqyLYj6swOe7eCrCg&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=4&ved=0CEMQsAQwAw&biw=1074&bih=699">Jann Haworth</a>, or exploring mass media clichés and superstar constructions like <a href="http://www.fromscratchradio.com/show/rosalyn-drexler">Rosalyn Drexler</a>. Like <a href="https://www.corita.org/">Sister Corita,</a> a committed peace activist, they took a clear stand on the sixties’ social and political events such as the Vietnam War.<br /><br />The exhibition pursues its political perspective in those instances where the era’s current notions of what a woman is are revised by different views: <a href="http://www.google.com/images?q=Kiki+Kogelnik&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=0ehZTfmCFoW0sAOx3KCSCg&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=2&ved=0CDUQsAQwAQ&biw=1074&bih=699">Kiki Kogelnik</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marisol_Escobar">Marisol</a> describe the corset in which the representation of women by themselves and by others is caught, while <a href="http://www.evelyne-axell.com/Welcome/welcome.html">Evelyne Axell</a> or Dorothy Iannone provocatively display the nude body, love, and sexuality, and, like <a href="http://nikidesaintphalle.org/">Niki de Saint Phalle</a>, attract the viewer’s attention with sophisticated modes of self-presentation.<br /><br />The next great moment in history is ours! - Dorothy Iannone<br /><br />“We choose to LOOK at LIFE all the TIME, and though we realize that they are in one sense adult comic books, they are also full of things that speak…“ For Sister Corita, the world of signs, advertising slogans, and the culture of logos was not just some vast wasteland, but a sphere that supplied her with input for an art nourished by everyday life. Her work, like that of Evelyne Axell, Christa Dichgans, Rosalyn Drechsler, Jann Haworth, Dorothy Iannone, Kiki Kogelnik, Marisol, and Niki de Saint Phalle, stands for feminine strategies of artistic self empowerment during the Pop Art era, particularly in the 1960s. While from an art historical point of view Pop Art is mainly associated with male protagonists, POWER UP – Female Pop Art intends to undertake a revision of this understanding through the presentation of outstanding women artists’ positions.<br /><br />Oscillating between abstraction and figuration, commodity cult and critique of capitalism, high and low art, the women artists’ works on display in many aspects resemble those by their male colleagues in terms of material, subject matter, style, and working method. Documenting and hypostatizing the prosperity of the postwar era and reflecting upon the superficiality of consumerism, the artists unmask the commodity myth as an empty civilizational achievement like Christa Dichgans or affirm certain items by turning them into oversized kitsch objects like Jann Haworth with her Soft Sculptures. Through the graphic character of their simple language of forms, their use of new materials like plastic, and their choice of garish colors, women pop artists, as feminist pioneers attracting maximum attention with their self presentations like Evelyne Axell, Niki de Saint Phalle, and Kiki Kogelnik, satisfied the taste of the mass and yet remained militant, critical, and exceptional. The exhibition does not postulate some genuinely feminine art, but strives to focus on a number of outstanding women artists’ oeuvres in the field of Pop Art and to shed light on their identity creating practice and their view of women’s role in society which was very much determined by patriarchal notions in the 1960s.<br /><br />These artists’ approaches have revised the male regime of viewing and such representations of women as Tom Wesselmann’s deindividualized matrices of the female body, Mel Ramos’s picturesque fusion of advertisements with lasciviously rendered nudes featuring as objects of desire, and Allen Jones’s sadomasochistically arranged female sexual companions. Instead, they describe the corset in which women’s self representation and representation by others seemed to be caught in those years like Jann Haworth, Kiki Kogelnik, and Marisol, highlight the attempt to shake off the fetters of domestic life and become visible in public by means of art like Christa Dichgans, and provocatively expose the female body, love, and sexuality like Evelyne Axell and Dorothy Iannone. Painting over newspapers in an iconoclastic gesture, Rosalyn Drexler explores the creation of clichés and gender typifications in Hollywood films as well as the construction of superstars. Open toward the popular culture surrounding her, Sister Corita, in an early act of culture jamming, relied on advertising propaganda for creating new messages which were democratically and serigraphically produced and sold at a low price. Her works, like Kiki Kogelnik’s, Marisol’s, or Niki de Saint Phalle’s, comprise critical commentaries on contemporary events and political contexts such as the Vietnam War.<br /><br />The ladies of the <a href="http://www.google.com/images?q=Ann%C3%A9es+Pop&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=ITr&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&prmd=ivns&source=lnms&tbs=isch:1&ei=q-5ZTeCnJIm6sAOHi9mOCg&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1074&bih=699">“Les Années"</a> present strategies of self empowerment, celebrate female sexuality and lust, draw on pin ups, excerpts from consumer culture, and fragments of an occasionally very banal everyday world in a bad girl manner, comment upon social changes, and translate personal issues into political ones in their clearly autobiographically tinted oeuvres. Their proto feminist works counter the affective death of classical Pop Art and its cool and anonymous style. By also employing a traditional female language of forms, using textiles and ornamental elements, and relying on a naïve imagery, their approach idiosyncratically extends the established canon of art. What they share with this style is the humor and lightness of an attitude toward life whose facets and variations are still unfolding in today’s art.<br /> <br /><br /><br />Kunsthalle wien | Dorothy Iannone | POWER UP | Christa Dichgans | Vienna |une femme artistehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14396204687682296296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543993956863214248.post-6779084917655104932010-11-24T13:19:00.000-08:002010-11-24T13:56:03.331-08:00Helping a new friend Get Out The Word:<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9gS0VtOwXNizMSEr9OfI6HFPqAI9akY8cXZ42qhwpdcsavMWNc1zrAFiu8_7xFgZW3PpZP60eI3Z0M2t7rWWEd9Q3BQUYJvawlmaf2FCWCgYoyG-KpjrBTN3RdON7b_Yh0-vBtPLERmo/s1600/Hearts1.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 102px; height: 136px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9gS0VtOwXNizMSEr9OfI6HFPqAI9akY8cXZ42qhwpdcsavMWNc1zrAFiu8_7xFgZW3PpZP60eI3Z0M2t7rWWEd9Q3BQUYJvawlmaf2FCWCgYoyG-KpjrBTN3RdON7b_Yh0-vBtPLERmo/s400/Hearts1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5543229470876925618" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Let’s make art together…</span><br />posted: November 24th, 2010 by Luna<br /><a href="http://www.lunariafinancial.com/?p=620"><br /><br />…while exploring our relationship with money!</a><br /><br />I’m writing a book called Wild Money: A Right-Brained, Knock-Your-Socks-Off Approach to Loving Your Relationship with Money (working title). <br />After looking high and low for books on personal finance written for non-linear creative people, I finally realized I’d have to do it myself. I want to create a book filled with the artwork of “creatives” from around the world.<br /><br />Want to play?<br /><br />Anyone can participate. There is no prerequisite other than desire. I envision a community sharing our insights and attitudes; histories and dreams of how money has woven through our lives; tales of helping, healing, hurting, reconnecting, disconnecting, saving, destroying and otherwise wildly impacting our tender, brilliant, expressive selves.<br /><br />I have a short time frame for this project, so I’ll need all artwork by Dec 15, 2010. If you are willing and able to share your art (and maybe some writing if you’re so inclined), please <a href="http://www.lunariafinancial.com/?p=602">click here</a> for more information.<br /><br />I’ve only just begun to explore the vast communities on the web and need some help linking-in. So I’d appreciate you passing this on to as many people, lists, groups and social media feeds as possible.<br /><br />Thank you in advance!<br /><br /><a href="http://www.lunariafinancial.com/?page_id=17">Luna Jaffe, CFP</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.lunariafinancial.com/?page_id=5">Lunaria Financial, LTD</a><br /><br />7837 SW Capitol Highway, Portland, OR 97219<br /><br />503-452-7000<br /><br />Securities offered through KMS Financial Services, Inc.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifIM4jt1kvetZvfn6yDo6AydneHQZAgqsxME8Nv1Hg5ggoyYMA9llvjAQ0pyQojIRjorbbCPXlCgIuYLF7eN-tpY9dH5a0BSIw4Jg6c29f2CDuNqDQUxIAPgcfmUOf6uLyW_QgBye2jGA/s1600/whole-Tulip-composition2-we.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 302px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifIM4jt1kvetZvfn6yDo6AydneHQZAgqsxME8Nv1Hg5ggoyYMA9llvjAQ0pyQojIRjorbbCPXlCgIuYLF7eN-tpY9dH5a0BSIw4Jg6c29f2CDuNqDQUxIAPgcfmUOf6uLyW_QgBye2jGA/s400/whole-Tulip-composition2-we.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5543229909548542642" /></a><br /><br />*This is a post to assist a new acquaintance get the word out on a project that sounds truly inspired; she has also come onto my radar via a reputable mutual acquaintance. Check out the links, roll the idea around in your head/heart & check out the details for yourself. I have already gotten on-board!une femme artistehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14396204687682296296noreply@blogger.com0