No nos podemos olvidar…
Buenos días – Bon dia – Good morning
#art, «Stella Maris» as a Fine Art Print…
This one will blow you away… One from my «Domine Caritas Dei Nostris» series, re-done and re-titled «Stella Maris«, and now as a fine art print. Only available through Pixels (a Fine Art America corporation). This is the metal print, but there are many other options for fine art prints as well as for other items. Check out my gallery at Pixels, and check it often as I often change the images I place there. Pixels, like Fine Art America, handles the entire transaction and ships quickly to you as soon as your order is ready. This is an exceptional way to own fine art, original art, at affordable prices.
CHEERS…
#art, Mujeres artistas – Women Artists: Tamara Lempicka
Esta es una de las pintoras que no me gustan. Hay otras como Frida Kahlo y Tracy Emin… Los cuadros de Lempicka parecen hechos para las portadas de revistas de moda y sus modelos, o sea las mujeres que pinta, parecen altaneras y creídas… Lempicka nació en Varsovia, Polonia en 1898, dícese de su arte que es «Art Deco» y que sus cuadros la hicieron famosa en Francia y Estados Unidos… De alta cuna, familia de alcurnia, bien educada, hablaba varios idiomas… en 1918 se casa y se va a París y persigue estudios de arte… Fue la preferida de la farándula de Hollywood y la llamaron la «baronesa con pincel»… Pintaba retratos femeninos y desnudos al estilo art deco… dijo que sus influencias eran Boticelli, Bronzino y el cubismo y los empleaba juntos en un tipo de eclecticismo o fusion de estilos, pero su idea de cubismo ni se acerca a la de Picasso o Braque… Muere en 1980 en Cuernavaca, México.
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This is one of the painters I don’t like. There are others like Frida Kahlo and Tracy Emin… Lempicka’s paintings seem to be made for fashion magazine covers and her models, in other words, the women she paints, seem haughty and conceited… Lempicka was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1898, her art is said to be «Art Deco». Her paintings made her famous in France and the United States… Of high birth from a noble family, well-educated, she spoke several languages… in 1918 she got married and moved to Paris to pursue art studies… She was the favourite of Hollywood celebrities and was called the «baroness with a brush»… She painted female portraits and nudes in the art deco style… she said that her influences were Botticelli, Bronzino, and cubism, and she used them together in a type of eclecticism or fusion of styles, but her idea of cubism is far from that of Picasso or Braque… She died in 1980 in Cuernavaca, Mexico.
Os diría que aunque a mi no me guste, es una pintora importante que hay que conocer y reconocer, aunque ya la han conocido grandes como Barbara Streisand, Jack Nicholson y Madonna que tienen sus obras en sus colecciones…
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I will say that although I do not like her work, she needs to be known as she is important, although big stars like Barbara Streisand, Jack Nicholson and Madonna already know her well and collect her paintings…
GRACIAS – CHEERS
Bronca by j re crivello
De cualquier forma aparece. O nadando debajo de su calcetín con un agujero que se abre despacio, hasta acabar en la basura. O entre los partidos del …
Bronca by j re crivello
Bos dia – Bon dia – Egun on
Aunque algunos nos quieren llevar allí…
#opinion, Querido diario, pagina 13 –
La primera pagina que te escribo, querido diario, en lo que va del 2024, pero bueno… Ahora comienzo con cifras, cifras que narran vidas, tormentos, horror, desesperación y tragedias. Han muerto mas de 22 mil tratando de cruzar el Mediterráneo para llegar a costas europeas… En el otro lado del mundo, más de 1.104 personas (llamadas ilegales por muchos en EEUU) perdieron la vida intentando cruzar hacia Estados Unidos en 2023*. Tratando de llegar a España en 2023 murieron más de 6.600…
Serán cifras pero son vidas de seres amados por sus familias, amigos, padres, hijos, madres, hijas, hermanos, primos etcetera. Estos fallecidos lo hicieron no por el afán de violar las leyes de otros países, no, lo hicieron por la desesperación. Fue el padre desesperado, el hijo sin miras a un futuro prometedor, el perseguido, el que huye de la destrucción de la guerra, el que ansia poder vivir mejor, esos son los que murieron en el mar o en el desierto. No eran criminales, eran almas en pena que ansiaban solo encontrar refugio. Tienen todo el derechos del mundo. Nadie se lanza al mar a la ligera. Nadie atraviesa desiertos y anchas partes de continentes porque les gusta la aventura. Lo hacen en búsqueda de la salvación. El que busca refugio no tiene el lujo de hacerlo por las vías normales, ni dispone del tiempo tampoco. Tiene que hacerlo como pueda porque la necesidad es implacable y las ayudas muy pocas.
Hablar de migrantes y de refugiados es algo también bíblico y aquí les recuerdo a los cristianos y creyentes lo que dice la Biblia.
Exodus 23:9 “No explotes al extranjero; tu sabes lo que es serlo…»
Leviticus 19:9-18 “Cuando recojas la cosecha de tus tierras deja en el borde suficiente para el pobre y para el extranjero…”
Leviticus 19:33-34 “El extranjero que viva entre vosotros lo tenéis que tratar como uno de vosotros, como a uno que haya nacido aquí…”
Aquí lo dejo, querido diario. Ojalá que tengamos el tesón y la fortaleza para pronto, pero muy pronto, resolver este gran desafío. ¿Por que no podemos culpar al extranjero que busca mejor vida? Porque nuestros países industrializados del mal llamado «primer mundo», han sido los culpables de que tantos países en Africa, America y Asia sufran de tanta pobreza y tanta necesidad. Ahora nos toca ayudar y hay que hacerlo con alegría y con la sabiduría que hacemos lo que Dios mismo nos ha mandado a hacer. Y el que no crea en Dios, no importa, la moral existe aún entre los ateos…
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* Proyecto Migrantes Desaparecidos indican que en lo que va de 2023 han muerto o desaparecido 1.104 migrantes en las rutas de las Américas, de los cuales 370 corresponden a ahogamientos, 282 a accidentes de vehículos, 148 a condiciones ambientales, falta de albergue, comida o agua; 77 por actos de violencia, 76 a muertes accidentales, 34 a enfermedades o falta de acceso a la salud, y 117 por motivos desconocidos. (EFE)
GRACIAS…
#art, «JaZzArT Owls» as a Fine Art Print
«JaZzArT Owls» is one of my proto-jazzart drawings and now I have made it available as a fine art print only through Pixels/Fine Art America. They are the only company that I use to create and sell my images as fine art prints. They handle the entire transaction and ship quickly to you as soon as your order is ready. This is an affordable alternative and allows you to have quality original art at home. Check out my Pixels gallery often as I often change the images there. What you see here is the art print but there are many other options as well as other items with this unique jazzy image…
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#opinion, Dear Diary, page 10: We Have to Believe…
The first page I write to you, dear diary, in 2024, but well… I’ll begin with numbers, numbers that tell stories of lives, torments, horror, desperation, and tragedies. More than 22 thousand people have died trying to cross the Mediterranean to reach European shores… On the other side of the world, over 1,104 individuals (labelled as illegal by many in the US) lost their lives trying to cross into the United States in 2023*. Trying to reach Spain in 2023, more than 6,600 perished…
They may be just numbers, but they are lives of beloved beings for their families, friends, parents, children, mothers, daughters, brothers, cousins, and so on. These died not trying to break the laws of other countries, no! They did it out of desperation. It was the desperate father, the son with no prospects for a promising future, the persecuted, the one fleeing from the destruction of war, the one yearning for a better life, those are the ones who died at sea or in the desert.
They were not criminals, they were tormented souls who only longed to find refuge. And they have every right in the world. No one throws themselves into the sea lightly. No one crosses deserts and vast parts of continents because they enjoy adventure. They do it in search of salvation. Those seeking refuge do not have the luxury of doing so through normal channels, nor do they have the time either. They have to do it however they can because the need is relentless and the help is very scarce.
Talking about migrants and refugees is also something biblical and here I remind Christians and believers what the Bible says:
Exodus 23:9 “Do not oppress a foreigner; you yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners, because you were foreigners in Egypt.”
Leviticus 19:9-10 “When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Do not go over your vineyard a second time or pick up the grapes that have fallen. Leave them for the poor and the foreigner.”
Leviticus 19:33-34 “When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the Lord your God.”
I’ll leave it here, dear diary. I hope we have the will and fortitude to do something about this great challenge before us. And why cannot we blame the foreigner that seeks a better life in our lands? Because our industrialised «First World» countries are to blame for the poverty and need that exists in som many places in Asia, Africa and America. Now it is our turn to help and help we must, with a smile on our faces and a disposed heart. We must do what God himself taught us we must do. And for those who do not believe in God, it’s ok, there is morality also among atheists…
* Missing Migrants Project indicates that as of 2023, 1,104 migrants have died or gone missing on the routes of the Americas, of which 370 were due to drowning, 282 to vehicle accidents, 148 to environmental conditions, lack of shelter, food or water; 77 to acts of violence, 76 to accidental deaths, 34 to illnesses or lack of access to healthcare, and 117 for unknown reasons. (EFE)
CHEERS…
El discurso del Oso —04 La nueva civilización by j re crivello
“Aunque no se puede conocer la verdad como algo dado y revelado, el hombre puede al menos conocer lo que hace” (pág. 309, Hannah Arendt, La condición…
El discurso del Oso —04 La nueva civilización by j re crivello
#art, Women Artists Series: Suzanne Valandon
Perhaps one of the forgotten or overlooked by art history… Marie-Clémentine was born in Bessines-sur-Gartempe, during the Second French Empire (1865). She lived with her mother in Montmartre and started as an artist and model for many artists as well. At the age of 15, she was a trapeze artist at the Circo Pigalle and was contemporary to Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt, and like them, she painted mostly women. The difference was that Morisot and Cassatt were both from the upper middle class while Valandon wallowed in harsh poverty…
She gave birth at 18 to Maurice, who would become the famous painter Maurice Utrillo… She married a bourgeois but got bored and ran away with a painter who was a friend of her son, and who was also her male model. A well-known painting of her from that time is Adam and Eve, with André as Adam and she as Eve…
Valadon died on April 7, 1938, from a stroke, and among those attending her funeral were the painters André Derain, Pablo Picasso, and Georges Braque. She is buried in the Saint-Ouen Cemetery.
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