#art, Artists Series, page 2: KANDINSKY (Part One)…

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I know there are many blogs dedicated to inform or to critique art, contemporary and/or historical and I do too, so let’s get into it…

The «Artists Series» began yesterday with Robert Lenkiewicz, and continues today with an artist that I have always admired and who is one of my main references. Wassily Kandinsky, the creator of abstract art…erroneously…who was born in Russia en 1866. He did not start life as an artist but as a lawyer. He must have been a good one because he was offered a professorship at the University of Dorpat, the oldest law institution in Estonia. But he turned it down and turned to painting instead. He was thirty years old at the time.

He moved to Munich in 1896 where he studied at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts. But very soon (1914) the Great War broke out and he returned to Moscow. Shortly after, the Russian revolution took place and Kandinsky joined… more or less… Anatoli Lunacharski’s cultural administration (Commissioner of Education of Soviet Russia) and even helped to found the Museum of Culture of Painting.

However, his spiritual beliefs and his sense of realism did not fit with the materialism of the communists. After all, the communists do not allow the minds of their indoctrinated to be diluted with other ideologies. Kandinsky cleverly returned to Germany in 1920. He was a professor at the Bauhaus School (art and architecture) from 1922 until the Nazis closed it in 1933. In Germany, he created his best works…

Here are some of his early works of figurative (landscape) art, probably from 1902 to 1909…

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On our next programme, part 2 of Wassily Kandinsky…

Now watch this…

(2022)

CHEERS…

#opinion, Who is «illegal» and why?

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Does a man commit an illegal act by climbing over a fence to enter a country that can offer a better life for himself and his family? Should there even be such a fence? The struggle for existence is a hard one for many people in many places of the world that have been ruined by wars, communism and other destructive forces. So, is it a crime to want to leave? Should we not all try to seek higher ground? Don’t we have a duty to ourselves and to our families to provide as best as we can?

The United States, the United Kingdom and most of Europe is a haven for people seeking shelter from the ravishes of disastrous countries of the Third World. Our countries are considered First World, industrialised, civilised and developed and with the capacity to absorb whatever the world can throw at them. Especially the United States. Europe is the old continent. We are settled people with roots that go back to pre-history, but the US is a new land and a large one, where everybody, including the Indians, arrived from somewhere else. So in a most direct, historical way, everybody there was, at one time, an «Illegal» alien.

But the term «illegal alien», which many in the US choose to use to dehumanise those who would come to seek a better life in the US, is an ugly title indeed to place upon any human being. As I have seen and heard, many, probably led by the virulent ideas of Donald Trump, think that those who would cross the US/Mexico border are nothing more than scoundrels who wish to come to their country to pillage and destroy. But nothing could be further from the truth. Those are racist thoughts fuelled by hate and fear.

Immigrants come to work. Those on the other side of the fence are families, children, young men and women who also deserve a piece of the pie. They have committed no crime to be labelled as illegal or as aliens and they have a right to be there. And why? Because the US is a land of immigrants and the greatness of the country is thanks to its being open to immigrants from all over the world. Should the US close itself to immigrants it would not function as it has for the last hundred years of its existence.

It’s about time that all of us start thinking that we do not own the world. Everybody else has as much right as we do. Hating them does nothing but rot our soul, destroy our spirit and places us at odds with God Himself who so loved the world…

CHEERS…

#art, Artists Series (p.1) «Robert Lenkiewicz»

(Image Terry Warne)

Robert Lenkiewicz was born in London in 1941, son of Jewish refugees that fled from Nazi Germany… At 16 years of age he was accepted at Saint Martin’s School of Art and later attended the Royal Academy of Art… He relocated to Plymouth after his neighbours in London complained that he allowed drug addicts, derelicts, and who knows who else to shelter in his studio… He gained recognition with his giant mural on Plymouth’s Barbican (1970’s)…

(Image RobertLenkiewicz.com)

In the 1990’s he began to get more and more recognition… 42.000 of his countrymen attended a retrospective of his art in 1997 at Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery… He died in 2002 of a heart attack with only £12 and a huge debt… Some media reports placed Lenkiewicz’s estate somewhere around £6.5 million. Maybe because of his library of antique books on witchcraft, the occult, metaphysics and medieval philosophy. Yet when Sotheby’s auctioned the entire estate in 2003 it raised less than £1 million.

SOME OF THE WORK OF ROBERT LENKIEWICZ

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(image Por amor al arte)
(Image robertlenkiewicz.com)

He never cared about courting the London art crowd or acceptance from anyone who would not accept him on his own terms. A true artist.

(Sorry but I could not find the dates of any of the work, except for the mural and even that was just in the 1970’s)

CHEERS…

#art, «The Composer» Is Now a Fine Art Print…

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«The Composer» as an art print, is a new work that I have uploaded to my gallery at Fine Art America, the only company that does my fine art prints, who handles the entire transaction and who ships to you quickly. This is a great way to support original art at affordable prices. Check out my gallery at Fine Art America often as I often revise the work I upload.

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CHEERS…

#music, Here’s Johnny…

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Arguably one of the icons of the 60’s 70’s and beyond. I’m not going to say he was the leader of The Beatles because I think that honour really goes to Paul, but John certainly was a force to be reckoned with during those years when the lads was fab…

After The Beatles, well, his life was shortened but in close to ten years he did some good things and a lot of rubbish too. But here is one not heard of too much (maybe because it says too many truths) but that I think is a little jewel (in spite of Yoko’s vocals).

THE LUCK OF THE IRISH

Ok, one, two, three, one two, three

If you had the luck of the Irish,
You’d be sorry and wish you were dead
You should have the luck of the Irish
And you’d wish you was English instead
A thousand years of torture and hunger
Drove the people away from their land
A land full of beauty and wonder
Was raped by the British brigands
Goddamned
Goddamned

If you could keep voices like flowers
There’s be shamrock all over the world
If you could drink dreams like Irish streams
Then the world would be as high as the mountain of morn

In the ‘pool they told us the story
How the English divided the land
Of the pain and the death and the glory
And the poets of auld Eireland

If we could make chains with the morning dew
The world would be like Galway Bay
Let’s walk over rainbows like leprechauns
The world would be one big blarney stone

Why the hell are the English there anyway?
As they kill with God on their side
Blame it all on the kids and the I.R.A.
As the bastards commit genocide
Aye, aye
Genocide
Okay

You should have the luck of the Irish,
You’d be sorry and wish you were dead
You should have the luck of the Irish
And you’d wish you was English instead
One more time
You should have the luck of the Irish,
You’d be sorry and wish you were dead
You should have the luck of the Irish
And you’d wish you was English instead
Hey, yes, you’d wish you were English instead

CHEERS…

Buenos días – Egun on – Bon dia

Todo pasa, no hay que desesperarse, por muy mala que estén las cosas,por lo mucho que te engañen o que te suban el IVA, los malos gobiernos, como todo lo demás, también pasarán…

#art «One Kiss Too» As a Fine Art Print!

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«One Kiss Too» is a new image that I have uploaded to my gallery at Fine Art America, the only company that makes fine art prints of my work. Here you see «One Kiss Too» as a canvas print. There are more styles to choose from. Visit my gallery at Fine Art America for more. This is a fabulous way to have original art at very, very affordable prices. Fine Art America handles the entire transaction and they ship quickly to you.

CHEERS…

#art, «One Kiss» Is Now a Fine Art Print!

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The one you see above «One Kiss» is the framed print, but there are other styles… I have revised my gallery at Fine Art America, the company that makes my fine art prints to include several new items like «One Kiss». Fine Art America handles the entire transaction and they ship to you quickly. Fine art prints, of high quality, is a phenomenal way to own original art at very affordable prices.

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CHEERS…