tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25128586856349226802024-03-13T02:02:37.095-04:00The Pagan SphinxArt, love, peace and justiceAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17296223961815248113noreply@blogger.comBlogger1024125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2512858685634922680.post-14561370377860342332013-04-16T21:12:00.002-04:002013-04-16T21:16:21.278-04:00Munch at MoMA<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Because I'm an art blogger, being allowed to take photos in museums is always a treat. Luckily, anything at the Museum of Modern Art can be photographed. . Even a special showing of one of four editions of <a href="http://www.edvardmunch.org/">Edvard Munch</a>'s The Scream and a few other of his paintings and lithographs on loan to the museum from other places, are allowed to be photographed. During my visit to MoMA in February, my camera was always ready and a set of new batteries available in my pocket.<br />
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So, is The Scream all it's cut out to be? Yes, it is! Despite its ubiquitous reproductions on everything from greeting cards to boxer shorts, it retains all of its power to communicate the complex interaction between society, the self and the often mysterious elements of the way we view our own existence. One looks at it and is immediately struck on so many levels of emotion, that is is actually physically difficult to look at it for too long. None the less, the image grafts itself in the mind's eye and refuses to let go. I've thought about The Scream almost daily since my visit to MoMA. Partially, I think my reaction is a result of seeing the actual painting, in its proper context, instead of on a mug or a tee-shirt. The frame with its etched words further adds to the feeling of real communication between the artist and the viewer; one that transcends time and place. It was as if the artist gave me his eyes to view myself. Needless to say, a very powerful experience and one that I don't expect I can precisely give a voice to. One of the most visceral experiences I've had to a painting since I first saw Van Gogh's Starry Night, another highly reproduced image.<br />
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<i>One of four versions of The Scream made between 1893 and 1910. This is the only of the four in a private collection. The other three versions are in museums in Norway. This is piece that <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/03/arts/design/the-scream-sells-for-nearly-120-million-at-sothebys-auction.html?_r=0">sold for $120 million at auction in 2012<span style="font-size: large;">.</span></a></i><br />
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The fact that The Scream is one of the world's most recognized and reproduced artworks implies that the painting resonates with a universal feeling of isolation, loneliness and despair. Munch lost his mother to tuberculosis when he was only five years old. While still young, Munch also suffered the loss of his father and two sisters. The work of this period expresses the deep sense of grief and bleakness he carried well into adulthood.<br />
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Munch's work gave visual expression to feelings of existential angst and the darker aspects of human sexuality. His depictions of dark emotions and the psyche of modern man is often credited with being a precursor in the development of modern psychology.<br />
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Munch is regarded as one of the most influential artists of German and Central European expressionism. He propelled into the limelight in Germany when his works, where were a part of an exhibition at the<b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </b><em _idv_element_hash="5858192" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-style: normal; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Verein Berliner Künstler, were found objectionable and the exhibition was closed down.</span></em><br />
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<b>~Edvard Munch</b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Two People. The Lonely Ones<br />1914-17<br />Woodcut<br /><br /><br /><i><br /></i></span><i><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">"</span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">"</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: small; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></b></i><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></td></tr>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #676767; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 14px/21.33px Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">In New York and Paris on the Champs Elysée</span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #676767; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 14px/21.33px Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">They clap their hands together when they get her in the store</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #676767; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 14px/21.33px Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">She's gonna wanna get more more more and more and more</span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #676767; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 14px/21.33px Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">She was a regular here</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #676767; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 14px/21.33px Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">We thought madame would like to know</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #676767; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 14px/21.33px Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">We've got the blood red rouge right here</span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #676767; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 14px/21.33px Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Now we've got all of madame's requisites and all in madame's size</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #676767; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 14px/21.33px Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Madame's taste is truly exquisite she must accessorise</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #676767; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 14px/21.33px Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">The belts are alligator the bags are kangaroo</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #676767; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 14px/21.33px Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Enchanté may I say the jade was made for you</span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #676767; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 14px/21.33px Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">All the poor people saying that they gotta quit paying for you</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.33px; text-align: left;">They see her coming from a long long way</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.33px; text-align: left;">They clap their hands together when they get her in the store</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.33px; text-align: left;">She's gonna wanna get more more more and more and more</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.33px; text-align: left;">Imelda baby Imelda baby what to do</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.33px; text-align: left;">She was a regular here</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.33px; text-align: left;">We thought madame would like to know</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.33px; text-align: left;">We've got the blood red rouge right here</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.33px; text-align: left;">Now we've got all of madame's requisites and all in madame's size</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.33px; text-align: left;">Madame's taste is truly exquisite she must accessorise</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.33px; text-align: left;">The belts are alligator the bags are kangaroo</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #676767; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.33px; text-align: left;">Enchanté may I say the jade was made for you</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17296223961815248113noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2512858685634922680.post-88237237854189761572012-12-05T21:16:00.001-05:002012-12-05T21:46:16.382-05:00Rest Peacefully<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In nearly four years of blogging and approximately two years of social networking, I've virtually met a number of wonderful, creative and intelligent people. Those with whom I feel deeply connected, however, have been few and far between. Perhaps that is just a manifestation of who I am and how I go about the process of making friends. Regardless of the reasons, I feel fortunate for both the purely friendly connections as well as the fewer, deeper friendships that I've developed through my internet experiences. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Usually, those true friendships take a while to cement. Instinct almost always tells me that taking my time in any new relationship is a good idea. To be able to count on consistency in character and values in a friend is a sort of marker of that friend's authenticity, both online and in the real world. Georgia O'Keeffe once said: <i>"Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time." </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In my life, I've found O'Keeffe's words to be largely true. One exception to <i>"it takes time" </i>happened when I made a new friend, Marc Panomoroff, on the social network G+, perhaps a a year ago or so. A few months in getting to know Marc, he told me he was dying. Only a few hours ago today, December 5, I received an email from his daughter that he had passed away.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I don't recall how I stumbled upon his posts but almost immediately, I was struck by the sense of familiarity and ease with which we communicated. I pondered this spontaneous and rather quick new friendship and instead of my usual skepticism about fast friendships, I felt comfortable with it. It took me several months to understand the most important component of my trust in our friendship: Marc was a gifted communicator. Not just a talented writer but <i>truly gifted</i>. And I have his gift to thank for allowing me the privilege of getting to know him. Perhaps because he knew he was going to die, there was more of an urgency to get to know those he encountered along the way. What I concluded today is likely what others in Marc's life feel also. Whether they feel it in a way they can place into words or not doesn't matter. Marc was a person who reached those who attempted to reached back. That's what it's all about, isn't it? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Of the things Marc and I had in common - literature, poetry, daughters, music was what we bonded around the most. We didn't have identical musical taste but we overlapped quite a bit. Among our mutual favorites were The Smiths and Talking Heads, among others. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Marc - here is a song for you. I will miss you every bit as much as I would, had I been lucky enough to hug you tightly. Rest peacefully, dear friend. </span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17296223961815248113noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2512858685634922680.post-54560295311315264332012-12-02T18:40:00.000-05:002014-02-13T19:03:04.830-05:00Ophelia<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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coronet weeds<br />Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke;<br />When down her
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<strong><a href="http://www2.tate.org.uk/ophelia/">John Everett Millais's Ophelia at The Tate</a></strong></div>
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<strong><a href="http://preraphaelitepaintings.blogspot.com/">Pre-Raphaelite Art Blog</a></strong><strong></strong></div>
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<a href="http://arthistoryblogger.blogspot.com/2011/07/john-everett-millais-and-pre-raphaelite.html"><strong>Art History Blogger</strong></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/sep/10/preraphaelites-exhibition-victorian-sexuality-drama"><strong>Victoria Avant-Garde at Tate Britain - The Guardian</strong></a></div>
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<a href="http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/sir-john-everett-millais-ophelia.html"><strong>Smart History: John Everett Millais's Ophelia</strong></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.opheliapopularculture.com/home/john-everett-millais-ophelia"><strong>Ophelia in Popular Culture - Alan Young</strong></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.shakespeare-online.com/plays/hamlet/opheliacharacter.html"><strong>Shakespeare Online - Ophelia in Hamlet</strong></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.sjfn.nb.ca/Lets_Connect/hamletonline/ophelia.htm"><strong>Hamlet Online - Ophelia's Mad Songs</strong></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.pre-raphaelitesociety.org/"><strong>The Pre-Raphael Society</strong></a></div>
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<i>After nearly five years of blogging about art (with a few other things thrown in), I've finally come to a place where I'm comfortable with what and when to post. There have been many times when I've posted something just for the sake of posting <b>something</b>. Not that I felt those posts were insincere or irrelevant, just that I tried too hard to come up with something simply to give The Pagan Sphinx another breath in those times when I thought that perhaps I was done with it. I will probably continue to post quickies and assorted silliness now and then, though unattached to a particular schedule.</i></div>
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<i>One of the ways I caged myself into posting was with regular weekly features such as The Friday Evening Nudes, creating a sort of obligation for myself that I provide a post every Friday evening. What hit me suddenly today when I found the work of Paula Rego was that the art has to crash upon me like a ton of bricks; leaving me no choice but to delve deliciously into image after image, selecting them like a kid chooses candy in a sweet shop. If the reason for the post is my furious intensity with the subject, sharing it with you and enjoying your responses are often the height of the experience.</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Paula Rego's work reminds me of several other artists all at once. There is, in some earlier pieces, an element of Hopper. In others it's the influence of Picasso. There is more than a touch of Surrealism. Rego in fact used the Surrealist method of "automatic drawing" to create some of her earlier works.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Rego is not afraid to tackle morose and even grotesque subject matter, at times delving deeply into the taboos that frighten us the most. If tragedy can be beautiful as well as painful, Paula Rego can paint it in a way that feels completely genuine. Her intellectual and psychic preoccupations make us look deeper into ourselves. At least that is how I'm viewing her works overall, after having perused probably every image I've discovered to research this piece. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Paula Rego was born in Lisbon in 1935. Her father, an engineer, was relocated in 1936 to Britain by the company he worked for. He and his wife left Paula to be raised by her grandmother until 1939. She grew up in a liberal family during the Salazar regime. Her parents were devout Anglophiles and Paula attended what was then the only English school in Portugal. In the 1950's, Paula's father encouraged her to attend The Slade School of Fine Art in London where she met her future husband <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Willing">Victor Willing</a>, also an artist, whom she married in 1959.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Dividing her time between Portugal and London in the 1960's, Rego settled permanently in London in 1976. She continued to visit her childhood home in Ericeira, Portugal the home that was often depicted in Rego's paintings. When her husband became ill with multiple sclerosis, his nurse, a woman of Portuguese descent was to become Rego's favorite model.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Paula Rego's work began receiving important recognition somewhere after the 1990's in English, Portuguese and worldwide art circles. She began receiving many invitations by galleries and museums to produce work which she regularly took part in curating. In 1990, she was appointed the first Associated Artist of the National Gallery in London.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Rego's paintings speak in an unmistakably female voice; one that sometimes looks deceiving at first glance but that eventually turns up messages through symbolic details. It is always a complex picture; its meaning purposefully or inadvertently masked. There are stories in these paintings, told from different points of view, with mind-bending configurations, such as the sitting figure in the image below - the head of a mustached man with a stocky, womanish body.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The above is a fascinating image. Its creation was inspired by the play <i>The Maids</i> by<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Genet"> Jean Genet</a>, which itself was based upon a real life event of two sisters Lea and Christine Papin, who brutally murdered their mistress and her daughter in Le Mans, France<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"> in 1933. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Most of what I've read in my research on Paula Rego focuses on her paintings of the 1980's and there is enough written about them. I found little information about her more current works. I haven't quite digested them and, to be honest, they don't have nearly the same impact on me as the paintings I began the post with. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As the century turned, some of Rego's works became increasingly more frightening, depicting scenes of infanticide, rape and abortion, among other horrors. <a href="http://www.google.com/imgres?hl=en&sa=X&tbo=d&biw=1902&bih=1011&tbm=isch&tbnid=30e5GBCRKepeJM:&imgrefurl=http://library.thinkquest.org/17016/then.htm&docid=sOfuuf6jjVcsqM&imgurl=http://library.thinkquest.org/17016/Lmonk.jpg&w=356&h=245&ei=7GWgUL_WBJG60AHznICYAQ&zoom=1&iact=rc&dur=620&sig=101118227275453875599&page=1&tbnh=142&tbnw=213&start=0&ndsp=64&ved=1t:429,r:6,s:0,i:93&tx=101&ty=71">The Red Monkey series</a> from the 80's was grotesquely comical but these later paintings seem to me to take themselves too seriously, causing me to turn away but not really feel anything. I've chosen to keep those out of the post because even as I find them strangely fascinating, I don't particularly like them. Unlike the works of Frida Kahlo, expressing similar themes, Rego's more disturbing works from the 2000's lack the conviction and personal tragedy that make Khalo's paintings so enduring. If you'd like to check them out, click<a href="http://www.marlboroughfineart.com/artist-Paula-Rego-30.html"> this link</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The images that follow are ones from 2000 to around 2010 that to my interpretations, feel most truthful. I leave you to your own interpretations of the following. I believe Dame Paula Rego would approve!</span><br />
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Futurism, an Italian movement, made its debut with the publication of its<a href="http://masi.cscs.lsa.umich.edu/~crshalizi/T4PM/futurist-manifesto.html"> manifesto</a>, written by poet Filippo Marinetti, on the front page of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Figaro">le Figaro</a> in 1909 and began to subside in 1918, just as World War I was starting. This art movement preceded that of Dada about which I wrote in <a href="http://thepagansphinx.blogspot.com/2012/09/surrealistic-sunday.html">this post</a>. Futurism, in fact, influenced many other 20th century art movements including Art Deco, Vorticism, Constructivism and Surrealism.<br />
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Futurists mixed activism and artistic research. They organized scandalous events that expressed their rage at antiquity. A primary goal of the movement was to eschew the old society and usher Italy into the age of modernity. Certain Futurists promoted themselves to try to join forces with the Fascists, who were just coming into power. But Mussolini showed a preference for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novecento_Italiano">Novecentro Italiano</a> movement of artists who identified with and promoted the classical order of Italian heritage and history.<br />
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One of the leading painters of the Futurist movement is Gino Severini. For years I've been looking at certain of his paintings here and there but it's only recently that I took his name from my list of artists to explore further and ran smack into what's become a significant effort on my part to learn about and understand Futurism and put it into a historical context.<br />
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As a resident of Paris from 1906, Severini served as an intermediary between his Futurist colleagues in Italy and his friends among the Parisian avant-garde, dominated at this time by Cubism. Severini was to return to Cubist themes in his later works.<br />
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The theme of dance was among the stronger influences of Severini's artistic imagination. Dance was for him an icon of modernity. It served as a metaphor for the exploration of new forms of physical and psychological involvement of the spectator.<br />
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Severini later abandoned any recognizable human form in favor of depicting movement in dance exclusively through abstract forms and color.<br />
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Let me move on to another of Futurism's most influential painters, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umberto_Boccioni">Umberto Boccion</a>i<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> (<span style="text-align: justify;">1882-1916</span><span style="text-align: justify;"> )</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">,</span> who was the main theorist of the movement.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Giacomo Balla (1871-1958) spanned the first and second, post-war wave of Futurism. Both Severini and Boccioni were his students. Balla's style changed remarkably with the adoption of Futurist dictates of light, movement and speed. Or perhaps his personal leanings as a painter coincided with the ideas of the Futurists. Balla's paintings addressed the themes of work and humanitarian concerns, reflecting is Socialist politics. Throughout his participation in Futurism, Balla celebrated the machine and captured figures and objects in motion. Repeated sequence of movement were Bella's vehicle for depicting movement. In the painting below, Dog With Leash, Balla recreates a sense of movement, speed and light via superimposed images.</span><br />
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The Futurist movement included a handful of Russian artists, the best of which is the only woman in the entire group, including the Italians - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalia_Goncharova">Natalia Gonchorova</a>. Futurism also influenced American artists such as Italian-born <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stella">Joseph Stella</a>.</div>
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On this rainy, mild Sunday, I decided to take on the procrastination demons and update my gardening blog, <a href="http://messygardner.blogspot.com/2012/09/catching-up.html">The Messy Gardener</a>.<br />
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And here are a few quick glimpses of <a href="http://garlicandarts.org/">The Festival That Stinks</a>; one of our favorite Western Massachusetts harvest festivals. North Quabin knows how to do garlic in style!<br />
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Where is the garlic, you ask? My camera ran out juice. :-(</div>
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<i>Note to followers: With this post, I've departed from my usual style of publishing only a lot of a particular artist's works, links to biographical information, articles and exhibitions. I found Spencer's biography so fascinating, that I compiled a write-up based on pieces of his life I garnered from several sources. I'd like your honest feedback on whether you find this too cumbersome or if you enjoyed it and would like to see more biographical information in future Artist Spotlight features.</i><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>" When I left the Slade and went back to Cookham</i>, Stanley wrote, <i>I entered a kind of earthly paradise. Everything seemed fresh and to belong to the morning. My ideas were beginning to unfold in fine order when along comes the war and smashes everything."</i>
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<span style="line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Further influencing his work was his experience toward the end of T</span>he <span style="font-size: large;">Great War, when he was commissioned by the War Artists Advisory Committee. One of the paintings resulting from that commission was <b style="font-style: italic;">Travoys Arriving with Wounded at a Dressing Station at Smol, Macedonia, September 1916, </b>the<b style="font-style: italic;"> </b>obvious influence of his work with the medical corps.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I</span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">n a letter written in 1917, Spencer wrote:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>"I do anything for these men. I cannot refuse them anything, and they love me to make drawings of photos of their wives and children or a brother who had been killed."</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">A private commission,<i> <a href="http://www.countrylife.co.uk/article/75242/Treasures-of-Britain-The-Resurrection-of-the-Soldiers.html">The </a></i><i><a href="http://www.countrylife.co.uk/article/75242/Treasures-of-Britain-The-Resurrection-of-the-Soldiers.html">Resurrection of the Soldiers</a> </i>which was to become the alter piece of the Sandham Memorial Chapel in Burghclere, as a memorial to a dead soldier by his family. It would also be the place that housed most of Spencer's war paintings. He worked on this painting from between 1926-28.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The painting is the eccentric Spencer's view of what happened to the fallen when they reached the heavens, depicting virtually no religious imagery other than the many crosses and one small figure of Christ behind a soldier, submerged beneath the crosses. It may be difficult to see in the image to the right. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Stanley Spencer, one of the great visionary artists of the 20th century is considered by some art critics as possibly the most important modernist painter of the century. And yet, he is virtually unknown in North America. Almost all of his paintings are housed in museums in the United Kingdom or are in private collections.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As a person, Spencer was as eccentric as his work. After the wars, he was seen out and about in Cookham wearing pajamas under his coat in cold weather. Shaggy-haired and frumpy, he would push a pram containing his easel and art supplies through the village. He was known as an outgoing and spirited man, with twinkling eyes and a vision for the unexpected within the ordinary.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In 1925, Spencer married Hilda Carline, a fellow artist at The Slade. They had two daughters. Hilda was the most important figure in Spencer's life. She embodied for him everything that was essential in life and love. Circumstances in Hilda's family took her away from her husband for long stretches of time and</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">in 1929, Spender met and became infatuated with artist Patricia Preece. His wife divorced him in 1937 and four months after the divorce, Spencer married Patricia. The couple never lived together and the marriage was never consummated. Patricia continued to live with her partner and lover Dorothy Hepworth despite repeated requests from Spencer for a <span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">m<em _idv_element_hash="6285488" style="background-color: white; font-style: normal; line-height: 16px;">énage</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 16px;"> à t</span><em _idv_element_hash="6285344" style="background-color: white; font-style: normal; line-height: 16px;">rois</em></span>. Patricia was Spencer's muse and would often pose nude for him. Throughout their relationship, Spencer lavished Patricia with expensive gifts and money. Their relationship eventually fell apart, though Patricia refused to grant Spencer a divorce. The pain Spencer caused his first wife Hilda, was to be the source of great regret for Spencer, who continued to visit her until her death from cancer, as a way of making amends for how he had treated her.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Labels such as fantastic art, visionary art, magic realism art, psychedelic art and dark surreal art are applied to categorize the surreal artists of the present day, who were highly influenced by the original group of the Surrealist Movement.</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 16.866666793823242px;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 16.866666793823242px;">I will present the usual assortment of the contemporaries but for a bit, I have a brief history of <a href="http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/893">Dada</a> (the root movement) and Surrealism. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">"There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"> His assertion was, in fact, confirmed by Sigmund Freud, another famous founding father whose ideas contributed greatly to the social, intellectual and artistic circles of the time.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">The Surrealists were attracted to Freud's ideas because one of their goals was to channel the unconscious as a means to unlock the power of the imagination.<span style="color: #444444;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Dali met Freud in London in 1938. At that meeting, Dali showed Freud his 1937 work Metamorfosis de Narciso. Freud was not found of the Surrealist movement but made an exception where Dali was concerned. The work of </span><span style="background-color: #fafafa; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fafafa; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Joseph Cornell (1903–1972) and Arshile Gorky (1904–1948) was to be heavily influenced by the Surrealist and was a sort of bridge between surrealism and abstract expressionism. </span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17296223961815248113noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2512858685634922680.post-86126038687518540072012-08-16T13:33:00.002-04:002012-08-20T19:18:14.801-04:00Artist Spotlight - Alicia Hunsicker<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
As I contemplated writing this piece, I asked myself how in the world I could ever do this brilliant, gifted and profound artist justice, when the words so often fail me in expression through writing. Having said that, there is no escaping the strong feelings I have about sharing Alicia Hunsicker's work with as many people as I can. <br />
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Alicia lives in Leyden, Massachusetts, a small hill town that has largely escaped commercialization. The centers of activity are the elementary school, a church and a town hall. There is not even a corner store to buy milk! What it does have are beautiful views, grassy fields and several small farms. Western Massachusetts rural beauty at its finest.<br />
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When I visited her home for the open studio event and fundraiser sale, I was, as always, received with a warm calmness by Alicia. When she begins to discuss her work, she is transformed and one sees clearly that she is passionate about life, senses her place in the universe but also asks a lot of questions about it, constantly searching for ways to express her questions and evaluate her understanding.<br />
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It's no wonder that the rural beauty of Alicia's surroundings have impacted so greatly on her work. The paintings reveal a deep reverence for nature and how it intersects with art, science, the spirit and the human body. One gets the feeling upon exploring many of Alicias' works, that they are somehow familiar; that there are threads there that one could explore over and over again and experience a feeling of connection to forces that are beyond one's intellectual understanding perhaps, but that one can experience on a spiritual and unconscious level. I feel about Alicia's work as I sometimes do about a certain type of poem; one that has many complex layers of meaning and yet touches a core feeling that we humans are a part of something really huge and magnificent. It's a comforting feeling, to realize that each of us is just a tiny dot on a massively huge universal canvas. We are so preoccupied with ourselves and our problems, that to feel that connection, however fleeting, and to see it expressed through art, reminds us that we are not so important in and of ourselves, but a part of a vast wholeness. It is humbling to view human life through this perspective.<br />
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Recently, Alicia was interviewed by <a href="http://www.superconsciousness.com/topics/art/supernatural-creator">Superconsciousness Magazine</a> and described her work and her process, as well as what inspires her. Her own words express much better than I what she has in mind when she creates. Here is an excerpt from the article:<br />
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<strong>Alicia Hunsicker:</strong> I received a wonderful amount of feedback when I unveiled my latest series of work, entitled “Moments of Creation”. This series evolved from the idea of expressing the moment in time where thought or energy transforms into form or matter. Many people resonated with this work and pointed out a strongly perceived scientific connection. Some even called the compositions biological landscapes.</div>
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I have always thought of myself as a spiritual artist, but as I started to view my work through a more scientific lens, I began to experience more expansion in what was possible through my art. I was amazed at the similarities between the questions I was asking through my art in the studio and the questions scientists were researching in their facilities.</div>
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This new alignment allowed me to see doors that I could not see before, and now, excitedly, I am starting to open them and explore what is inside.</div>
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Alicia has had an impressive resume. Her work has been exhibited internationally and she has won a number of awards, grants and residencies. Her work appears in a number of private collections as well.<br />
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A recent solo exhibition (which I attended) at Gallery in the Woods, a prestigious New England gallery, featured several canvases of recent works called "Moments of Creation". <br />
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Alicia received a lot of feedback when these works were unveiled. The ideas for the paintings evolved from the idea expressing "the moment in time where thought or energy transforms into form or matter". Many people who resonated with this work referred to it as a series of "biological landscapes".<br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent;">Most recently, Alicia was invited by the D. Feiss East West Foundation to participate in a residency and Symposia of Contemporary Art in Mallnitz, Austria.</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> In order to participate, she created an online Kickstart fundraising campaign called </span><a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/aliciahunsicker/boundless-artist-residency-in-austria-and-journey?ref=email" style="background-color: transparent;">Boundless: An Artist Residency and Journey to Cern</a><span style="background-color: transparent;">. In addition to the residency she will be fulfilling a career dream by traveling to</span><a href="http://public.web.cern.ch/public/" style="background-color: transparent;"> Cern</a><span style="background-color: transparent;"> - The European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva, Switzerland. </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">Specifically in regards to Cern, her current interests are in the</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider" style="background-color: transparent;"> Large Hadron Collider</a><span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">and the</span><a href="http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/341993/title/Higgs_found?gclid=CPDAgZS_7LECFSkQNAodazwA2w" style="background-color: transparent;"> Higgs Boson</a><span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">particles and images of particle collisions.</span></div>
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Alicia is currently fundraising to help pay for her journey to Austria. For the love of art, humanity and science, please consider making a contribution. However modest, every bit helps. You will be rewarded with a gift of Alicia Hunsicker art as well as the feeling that you're involved in something really big and exciting.<br />
<a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/aliciahunsicker/boundless-artist-residency-in-austria-and-journey/?ref=kicktraq">Boundless Artist Residency and Visit to Cern.</a><br />
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My blog friend Joe Spado of <a href="http://spadoman-roundcircle.blogspot.com/2012/08/from-my-friend-cheryl.html">Round Circle</a>, bestowed upon The Pagan Sphinx this blog award:<br />
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I haven't participated in one of these in a couple of years but not only did come from someone I have known and liked in the blogosphere, but I also thought it would be a good way to connect with other people I like, with whom I have had little contact recently.<br />
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Yes, I have been largely absent from the blogging universe. I'm not quite ready (perhaps I will never be) to give it up entirely but because of the massive amount of work and energy that I feel I need to put into every post, I'm simply finding it too strenuous right now.<br />
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All is well. I returned at the end of July from Portugal, where I spend three weeks with my mother. I'm afraid that other than family photos, I didn't do any sightseeing of new places. My mother and I spent three days in Lisbon with my cousins who live there. My mother has a lot of energy left in her but to drag her on a walking tour of Lisbon would have been exhausting; especially in the hot Lisbon sun. Instead, we took a tourist bus around the city, making it very difficult to take great photos.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Meredith has returned to Massachusetts from living for three years in Santa Barbara, California. She and her wife Shannon are not the Santa Barbara (often referred to as the American Riviera) types but lived just outside of that city so that Shannon could attend graduate school. She is working on the dissertation portion of her phd now, which allows Meredith now to return to university for a graduate degree. She'll be attending Boston University in September and living a ten minute walk from her sister. Shannon will be writing her dissertation and doing a stint as a visiting scholar at Northeastern University in Boston. How my children are managing their academic and work lives so well, on such limited budgets,is beyond me but I am very proud of them.</span></span></span><br />
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I will, as usual, break the rules and not tag anyone in particular for this activity. If you'd like to participate, please do! Since I won't be providing you with questions to answer...well...I'm not sure about that part! </div>
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Thanks, Joe. I enjoyed this opportunity to keep in touch and I appreciate that you thought of me and The Pagan Sphinx blog!</div>
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Eleven Random Facts About Me<br />
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1. Portuguese was my first language and I also spoke French as a child for two years, before immigrating to the United States in 1967.<br />
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2. My great-grandmother, Virginia Duarte, was the mother of twelve children.I have slightly over fifty second cousins, most of whom live in Portugal. A couple of them have immigrated to other countries in Europe.<br />
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3. I am an introvert.<br />
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4. I named one of my daughters Ursula because when I was carrying her, I was reading one of Ursula K. LeGuin's novels and I liked the way the name looked in print.<br />
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5. I won a third grade spelling bee by spelling the word "vacuum".<br />
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6. I have freckles.<br />
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7. A couple of years ago, a photograph of mine was chosen as the cover of an engineering trade publication. My fifteen minutes of fame!<br />
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8. The first book I ever read entirely by myself was Puss in Boots, in French.<br />
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9. In my more recent blogging life, I have eschewed these types of memes but I really like and respect Joe Spadoman, and I enjoyed his list, which is infinitely more interesting than mine!<br />
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10. My most treasured possessions as a child of about nine were a portable record player and a case full of 45's. A passion for rock and roll and popular music has accompanied me in life since. The first 45 rpm record I purchased for myself (I played a lot of my older brother's records, much to his consternation) was Let it Be. When was that...1969?<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">1.)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>What would you say or ask if you had the opportunity to have a conversation with Jesus Christ?</span></div>
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<i>It would depend entirely upon what direction the conversation took. From all accounts, Jesus was an intense dude, so I would try very hard not to offend him by suggesting in any way that his idea that he was the son of God was a lot of delusion.</i></div>
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<i>The most relaxing and romantic is rail travel; especially in Europe.</i></div>
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<i>Strong black coffee.</i></div>
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<i>Why, does my answer reflect something in particular about me? ;-) Okay, left.</i></div>
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<i>I don't think about things like that.</i></div>
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<i>I'm rerunning this post on Hopper by special request going out to Wayne. xxoo</i><br />
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<i>The Pagan Sphinx blog will be on hiatus from 8-28 July. I'm headed across the pond to spend some time with my Portugal family.</i><br />
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I wasn't surprised that the The Whitney did not allow photography for their current exhibition <a href="http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/ModernLife">Modern Life: Edward Hopper and His Time</a> because generally speaking, most museums don't allow photography of special exhibitions. What did surprise me is that the entire museum has a no photography rule. The only other museum in NYC that I know of that doesn't allow photos is The Frick. Otherwise The Met, MoMA and The Guggenheim all allow photos of practically everything. The same is true of Massachusetts museums. I did manage to sneak a photo here and there, nonetheless. My only intent being that I enjoy sharing and promoting the art. :-) I'll share those sneak peaks with you randomly over the next days, as time allows.<br />
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This post attempts to recreate the exhibition with samples I culled from the web. The exhibition wasn't as complete as I'd hoped it would be but having never been to a show that featured so many Hoppers, I really enjoyed it. I like how the Hopper works where interspersed throughout with the works of his American contemporaries, including the photographers Stieglitz and Strand. Works on canvas by <a href="http://thepagansphinx.blogspot.com/2010/09/artist-of-week-charles-demuth.html">Charles Demuth</a>, Charles Sheeler, George Bellows and others, place Hopper's settings into a social and historical context.<br />
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<b> 1909</b></div>
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<b> <a href="http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/sloan_john.html">John Sloan</a></b><br />
<i><b>Backyards, Greenwich Village</b></i><br />
<b>1914</b><br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Strand"><b> Paul Strand</b></a><br />
<b><i>Wall Street</i></b><br />
<b>1915 </b></div>
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<i><b>My Egypt</b></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">American industrial <a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=2512858685634922680&postID=1348854873793737173">landscape</a>, machines and architecture that were symbols of growth and prosperity. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"> Grain elevators were often over 100 feet tall. Demuth saw the grain elevators as American monuments, equivalent to the pyramids of ancient Egypt. Both structures combine great size and physical beauty. The pyramids of course were tombs. And their association with life after death might also have appealed to the ailing artist. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"> When he made this painting in 1927, Demuth was very ill with diabetes and he died 8 years later. He may have also chosen the title because only 5 years earlier archeologists had discovered the tomb of King Tut, and America was fascinated by anything related to Egypt.</span></div>
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<i><b>Early Sunday Morning</b></i></div>
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<b>1930</b></div>
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<b><i> The Barber Shop </i></b><br />
<b>1931</b><br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Cadmus"><b> Paul Cadmus</b></a><i><b><br />
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<b><i>Office at Night</i></b><br />
<b>1940</b><br />
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<i>This Friday, I present a large variety of fine art nudes of various shapes, sizes, styles and persuasions. I hope you enjoy the art and your weekend.</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Francesco Clemente is best known for the signature themes of the human form, particularly women’s bodies; his own image; sexuality; myth and spirituality; non-Western symbols; and dreamlike visions. In the United States, where he has a residence in New York City, Clemente is often categorized as a "<a href="http://www.theartstory.org/movement-neo-expressionism.htm">neo-expressionist"</a>, otherwise known as <i>Italian Transavantguardia</i>. Clementes paintings also contain visual elements of Surrealism. He is said to eschew such labels.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">(This one is for Crow by way of <a href="http://phantsythat.blogspot.com/">Susan</a>. Perhaps he can enlighten us about this character)</span> </td></tr>
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<i style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>P</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;">ity the poor books editors in the 1950s when confronted with yet another manuscript by the persistent Edward Gorey. Back then no one knew quite what to call his small gems with their manic pen-and-ink illustrations of overstuffed drawing rooms, set somewhere between the Edwardian era and the 1920s, and with punch lines taken from the unspeakable horror of their well-dressed characters’ untimely demises. </span></i><br />
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