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How to post in September when extending the relaxing mode of summer? "I have no ideas?" It is in the doing (painting, writing, movie making) that ideas appear! I made a movie for granddaughter and was shocked how many ideas occurred in the making.That is my lesson this month.
Paula Pitman Brown said it, and I found it true! She also said, "Red is your color." (Van Gogh had his sunflower. :*)) Click on to enlarge photos.
Back in November 2005 I entered the
Cambridge Art Association RED show an encaustic painting with copper leaf,
Dr. Colin Bethel MD. At the same time I encouraged
Cindy Ryan to enter her huge cups painting which won the prize!
RED is a biennial show. This year I found lots of reds in my stash:
Misappropriation,
The Breakfast Club and
Erika Zen-ing Out to enter.
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| Misappropriation |
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| Erika Zen-ing |
The political painting
Pen and the Dragon which is up now in Harvard Square's University Place gallery will be coming down from the Fall Salon. This reminds me of my
Vanity in Aspic, my redo of Breugel's
Tower of Babel, the babble of the political season...the vanity and breaking of hubris.
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Pen and the Cashdragon:
The contest of good and evil, saint and demon, hero and villain, liberator and tyrant has long been a favorite of artists and writers. Here Raphael's
St. George and the Dragon meets the cyberpen vs. wealthocracy. In the saddle of the white horse, wielding the pen and paintbrush, sits Arianna Huffington, icon of cyberjournalism. In the supporting wing stands Anita Hill, as the Statue of Liberty. The dragon emerges from the cave of the forces of pharmaceutical, petroleum and financial industries. The Supreme Court can be seen far in the background as the ultimate referee.
Vanity in Aspic:
The painting starts with the Flemish painter, Pieter Breugel's Tower of Babel, showing the foolishness of men's social pretensions as they strive to build a tower to God. As I was painting it, the men started to look like ants, and tower to look like aspic which melts or dissolves. The artist falls off the top.
