HAPPY FATHERS DAY
A little something for all the great dads out there.I hope you all have a wonderful day.
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Sunday, June 21, 2009
Saturday, June 13, 2009
ONE OF MY FAVORITES-JACKSON POLLOCK
Jackson Pollock 1912-1956
Jackson Pollock was born in Cody, Wyoming on 28 January 1912. Jackson spent most of his childhood in Arizona and northern California and in 1925 the family settled in southern California. Jackson became interested in art through the influence of his oldest brother.
In 1929 Pollock moved to New York City to study at the Art Students League with Thomas Hart Benton.Between 1931 and 1935 he made several trips to California and then decided to settle in New York.
She Wolf
From 1938 to 1942 he worked on the Federal Arts Project.In 1940 he enjoyed his first New York exhibition where he met Lee Krasner (also an accomplished artist) who he married in 1944.
Pollock's first one-man show took place in 1943 at the Art of This Century Gallery in New York. Owned by the celebrated collector Peggy Guggenheim, the gallery became famous during the 1940s as a showroom for unknown but gifted American artists.
In 1946 Pollock and Lee moved to Easthampton, L.I. Pollock's art during these years reveals his effort to come to grips with advanced European developments, particularly cubism and surrealism.Between 1947 and 1950 Pollock's art matured with astonishing rapidity. He also began to receive national and international recognition.
In 1950 Peggy Guggenheim organized his first European one-man exhibition, which was shown in Venice and Milan.These shows clearly established Pollock as the leading figure of the new American painting. Along with the sheer quality of his work, however, his radical techniques also attracted widespread attention.In 1947 Jackson gave up conventional easel painting in favor of dripping his paint - from sticks, brushes, or syringes onto lengths of unstretched canvas laid out on the floor of his studio.
"When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It is only after a sort of "get acquainted" period that I see what I have been about. I have no fears about making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through. It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well."- Jackson Pollock
These "drip" paintings constitute his masterpieces and include Full Fathom Five (1947),Lavender Mist Number 1 (1950), and Autumn Rhythm (1950) as well as many others.This "drip" technique allowed him simply to "let go, " to release spontaneously the psychic and bodily energies that surrealist theory had encouraged the artist to explore during the creative act.
During the 1950s Pollock exhibited regularly at the Sidney Janis Gallery in New York. But while his reputation continued to grow, he began to suffer intense self-doubt and anxiety.He seemed to want to accommodate human or abstract figures within the dripped webs that characterize his masterpieces of 1947-1950. His effort to do so can be seen in the black/white paintings of 1951-1952.Many of these works generally lack his earlier lyrical harmony.
Pollock never seemed to emerge from this crisis. He died on Aug. 11, 1956, in Southampton, N.Y. from an automobile accident he was only 44 .Tragically that year he was honored in a memorial exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art .
Here are a couple interesting facts about Pollock I found while researching for this post :
He sometimes mixed broken glass with his paint.
His painting, "No. 5, 1948" sold at an auction in 2006 for $140 million, making it the most expensive painting ever.
He once knocked down a wall to make a room large enough for a 20-foot canvas.
In 1929 Pollock moved to New York City to study at the Art Students League with Thomas Hart Benton.Between 1931 and 1935 he made several trips to California and then decided to settle in New York.
She WolfFrom 1938 to 1942 he worked on the Federal Arts Project.In 1940 he enjoyed his first New York exhibition where he met Lee Krasner (also an accomplished artist) who he married in 1944.
Pollock's first one-man show took place in 1943 at the Art of This Century Gallery in New York. Owned by the celebrated collector Peggy Guggenheim, the gallery became famous during the 1940s as a showroom for unknown but gifted American artists.
In 1946 Pollock and Lee moved to Easthampton, L.I. Pollock's art during these years reveals his effort to come to grips with advanced European developments, particularly cubism and surrealism.Between 1947 and 1950 Pollock's art matured with astonishing rapidity. He also began to receive national and international recognition.
In 1950 Peggy Guggenheim organized his first European one-man exhibition, which was shown in Venice and Milan.These shows clearly established Pollock as the leading figure of the new American painting. Along with the sheer quality of his work, however, his radical techniques also attracted widespread attention.In 1947 Jackson gave up conventional easel painting in favor of dripping his paint - from sticks, brushes, or syringes onto lengths of unstretched canvas laid out on the floor of his studio.
"When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It is only after a sort of "get acquainted" period that I see what I have been about. I have no fears about making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through. It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well."- Jackson Pollock
These "drip" paintings constitute his masterpieces and include Full Fathom Five (1947),Lavender Mist Number 1 (1950), and Autumn Rhythm (1950) as well as many others.This "drip" technique allowed him simply to "let go, " to release spontaneously the psychic and bodily energies that surrealist theory had encouraged the artist to explore during the creative act.
During the 1950s Pollock exhibited regularly at the Sidney Janis Gallery in New York. But while his reputation continued to grow, he began to suffer intense self-doubt and anxiety.He seemed to want to accommodate human or abstract figures within the dripped webs that characterize his masterpieces of 1947-1950. His effort to do so can be seen in the black/white paintings of 1951-1952.Many of these works generally lack his earlier lyrical harmony.
Pollock never seemed to emerge from this crisis. He died on Aug. 11, 1956, in Southampton, N.Y. from an automobile accident he was only 44 .Tragically that year he was honored in a memorial exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art .
Here are a couple interesting facts about Pollock I found while researching for this post :
He sometimes mixed broken glass with his paint.
His painting, "No. 5, 1948" sold at an auction in 2006 for $140 million, making it the most expensive painting ever.
He once knocked down a wall to make a room large enough for a 20-foot canvas.
Monday, June 8, 2009
BLOGGING FOR A CAUSE AND FEELING GOOD ABOUT IT
Every day 25 000 people die from hunger and hunger related illness .Word of mouth is a powerful tool in the fight against hunger!There are 963 million undernourished people in the world today. That means one in nearly seven people do not get enough food to be healthy and lead an active life. Hunger and malnutrition are in fact the number one risk to the health worldwide — greater than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined.
A malnourished person can no longer maintain natural bodily capacities such as growth, pregnancy, lactation, learning abilities, physical work as well as resistance and recovering from disease.
When a person is not getting enough food or not getting the right sort of food, malnutrition is just around the corner. Disease is often a factor, either as a result or contributing cause. Even if people get enough to eat, they will become malnourished if the food they eat does not provide the proper amounts of micronutrients - vitamins and minerals - to meet daily nutritional requirements.
The food price crisis, dubbed a "silent tsunami" for the world’s poor, is far from over. A recent study revealed that food prices are higher than they were 12 months ago in 46 developing countries. In nine of the countries, food prices are the highest on record.
The current economic crisis, first felt in developed nations, is now impacting on developing nations too. People living in these regions have much less to cushion the blow of an economic downturn and hunger is on the increase.The combination of high food prices and the economic downturn has the makings of a humanitarian disaster.In the Horn of Africa, where climate change is aggravating the situation, the effects of the two crises are especially harsh. And as the global economic and financial crises compound the food crisis, hunger and malnutrition are likely to increase further.
In these times it is hard on all of us,but even in the least we can help spread awareness of this growing crisis.It is up to us as human beings to make a stand and help our fellow man.For any one who wants to be involved please visit this site.Just click the banner on the right side of my blog and begin your commitment to those that need your support and care.
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Rusted Metal(photo study)
I came across this on one of my little walking adventures so of course I had to shoot it.It was actually pretty cool as it was naturally shot but I decided to enhance it through a photo editing tool.By doing that I think it really brings out a certain beauty that would otherwise be missed.The same goes for life. We all need to try and slow down so we can actually see the under lying beauty that surrounds us every day at every step we take.If we could all do that I believe our world could be a wonderful place.A place full of optimism instead of pessimism,peace as a posed to war and bounty not starvation.It is always good to think before we act.Unfortunately mankind is in to much of a hurry for progress and doesn't look at the result of it's actions.Just for one day or one hour feel the absolute calmness you will feel by simply slooowwwiiing down.Give it a try then tell me how you feel.
As always take care of yourselves and I wish you all good fortune.
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