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<Bump of Salvation>
I went to see the
MARILYN MONROE: LIFE AS A LEGENDexhibit at the Winnipeg Art gallery with some folks last night to celebrate a friend's 39th birthday. I must confess no particular interest in Marilyn Monroe (not watching movies will do that to one), but there were a lot of good paintings in oil & Acrylic, as well as some good photographs. If I can find some good images I'll post links later. Gotta do some high-speed data entry now.
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testing if maybe one good thing can come out of this new jive crud: hope this comes through. this is pretty amazing stuff, i got in an email...
0----------------------------------------------0Street Artist...new stuffEdgar Mueller Super ArtistGreat Crevase Edgar Mueller. Hard work: Together with up to five assistants,Mueller painted all day long from sunrise to sunset. The picture appeared on theEast Pier in Dun Laoghaire, Ireland, as part of the town's Festival of World CulturesHe spent five days, working 12 hours a day, to create the 250 square metre image of the crevasse,which, viewed from the correct angle, appears to be 3D. He then persuaded passers-by to completethe illusion by pretending the gaping hole was real.
'I wanted to play with positives and negatives to encourage people to think twice about everythingthey see,' he said. 'It was a very scary scene, but when people saw it they had great fun playing onit and pretending to fall into the earth. 'I like to think that later, when they returned home, they mightreflect more on what a frightening scenario it was and say, "Wow, that was actually pretty scary".'
Mueller, who has previously painted a giant waterfall in Canada, said he was inspired by the British 'PavementPicasso' Julian Beever, whose dramatic but more gentle 3D street images have featured in the Daily Mail.This guy is amazing no matter how you look at it!| -
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I bought a watercolour from the gallery where I have my semi-regular panpipe gig the other day. I'm feeling rather virtuous, because while I have lots of paintings (over 100, I'm sure), most of them have come from second hand shops, garage sales and the like, but this time the money will actually be going to the artist!
I think you can still get a good idea of the brush strokes, even at the resolution it's at (I'm a brush-stroke sort of guy 
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Watercolour is a very difficult medium - you can't make mistakes! With oils, you can muck around for ever, or even scrape it off and start again; with acrylics you can just paint over something that doesn't work, but with watercolours, a brush stroke laid is a brush stroke played! I think this watercolour shows a high degree of mastery. (Yes, the subject matter is somewhat banal, but so what?) I love the brush work on the wings.
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Well, I bought another piece of artwork yesterday & the money went directly to the artist.....
Nice piece; I like it.
I don't feel quite as good, though, about this purchase...
I had just been a dollar store doing some grocery shopping (72% cocoa chocolate bars, 100g ea - two for a dollar! woot!) & was walking down the street. Saw a native couple coming down the street. The man looked terrible - all red around his eyes and mouth - but something made me say hi. I ad my panpipes with me, of course, and he asked me some questions about it, then asked if I knew any native pieces. So I played one of the handful of native pieces I know for them. They were appreciative. He said he was a musician (guitarist) too, in addition to being an artist; we should form a band! I'd noticed he was carrying some sheets of paper that looked like art paper, and it turned out he was out on the street to sell a piece of artwork to get something to eat. I asked how much he was selling it for; he said $10. I gave him $40 & a CD. When we parted he said that he'd talk to me later 'my new found friend'.
I feel (and I said at the time) that I was taking advantage of him.... but what to do? I can't simply fix whatever is wrong in his life, and it's not as though I am a gallery owner and can sell this at a profit. I did a google search
on his name (Les Mawakeesick)and found out (not entirely to my surprise) that he is a known artist. So I am going to do a little enquiring and see if I can find anyone who can help him (if they can find him!). I don't really expect that he will call me back.... but he does have my name.... and my number's in the phone book.... so....
(It is such a joyful picture, it seems to me. Hard to reconcile it with the image of the man who painted it.
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I like it too Kami. Maybe it's a self-portrait and he's howling at the sun.
A little tooling around on E-Bay revealed a number of pics by this artist with the same title ("Aroused"); they're all different, butwith a common theme. Mine's the best though.
(*JJ: You've been listening to the news too much! 
)Too bad he's in a rough way. We've had four homeless people turn up dead these past three weeks, and no foul play. Just too many years living with the bottle, it seems.
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I like this for the paradoxes it includes.
For some insight into this strange and ambiguous painting – and art in general – grab a cuppa, sit comfortably and watch this.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/audioslideshow/2009/feb/22/art-philipp ullmana
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