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Posted: May 24th, 2010, 9:55 pm
by jimboloco
what a nice gallery of banners! and altho the supply is proving to be ultimately infinate
it sure is nice to see juan miro and maybe some of the surrealists other than daleeee hellooooodaleee this is jimbo dali
it's so bad to have you around all the time
actually he is a cultural icon there at the museo dali in st pete
i used to frequent it some before i met my wife
i remember a friday nite jazz concert with bogus pomp
i was sitting in the back an then i noticed all the folks turn into cool hipsters nodding their heads to th base beat
man
i saw a little girl mimicking them with an exAagerated nodding comic
an her mom was watching her an i started laughing loudly
an them several folks turned round who i knew
that lady artist who lives with her hubbie in gulfport
she does clay, and paints
magnigicent colored backyard dreamscapes
i had such an extended network for awhile
used t see th same ppeople spontaneously all over tampa bay
sometimes at quaker meeting, the most real place i've ever been
sometimes in th street at macdill air force base central command
once at ft benning school of the assassins with padre roy beaugois
was a riverboat commander in the delta
became a priest aware of th same and worse as an unknown war against rebellious peasants in latin america
i sulked to the front by th stage
twas no honey in th rock there
but quiet and dignified indigenous latinos
very strongly traumatized
by their facial grimacing
ththe realittyy of the pain evident
can not be faked 'xept by an actor

like that chilean who plunged into his surreal landscapes and one time, he never returned
ya can go over th edge and plunge into the abyss
t'aint th problem
indeed thhere'ssanctuary there
wayat the very bottommmmmmmm
ground zero of the ssoul
is where the spirit dwells
and when there's so much gravity th soul is mute and dumb down lo down beat

but if you're low cause of a broken spirit
and have no spirit in a rationally based faith
then i suggest ya thiink again
there have always been shamans
natural born ministers of th eternal celestial faith
from human beings wherever we have been since before homosapiens
and ever since the begging with us for sure
shamanic thanksgiving
holy spirit
our source of good
and the woman stands neath th apple tree, tropical style
and she hands adam an apple and says
this is good
while th snake watches, her pet
harmless
save what we project into it
certainly not evil and tempting
a warped sensibility
a joke played on us by our distant forbears
so we would know them and feel their urgent and real goodwill and presence from before the fall of men ten thoousand years ago
with the curse of the sword

Posted: May 25th, 2010, 8:41 am
by Doreen Peri
Yeah, it's a gorgeous piece of artwork.

I love this "Carnival of Harliquin" banner by Joan Miro.

She was amazing!

Posted: May 25th, 2010, 10:21 am
by stilltrucking
Say Doreen
I think it is pronounced Juan
I was stunned too
I thought it was a woman too
I said to myself, Wow, :o :shock: maybe women do have souls :wink:

Man I wish you would live that banner up for a few more days
please. 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)

Posted: May 25th, 2010, 10:46 am
by Doreen Peri
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Sorry, I goofed. He wasn't a woman. He was a man. Forgive me.

What a disappointment. LOL :lol: :shock:

Just shows you why I got a D in Art History in college.

From Wikipedia
Joan Miró i Ferrà (April 20, 1893 – December 25, 1983; Catalan pronunciation: [ʑuˈan miˈɾo]) was a Spanish Catalan painter, sculptor, and ceramist born in Barcelona.

Earning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism, a sandbox for the subconscious mind, a re-creation of the childlike, and a manifestation of Catalan pride. In numerous interviews dating from the 1930s onwards, Miró expressed contempt for conventional painting methods as a way of supporting bourgeois society, and famously declared an "assassination of painting" in favour of upsetting the visual elements of established painting.

Posted: May 31st, 2010, 6:36 pm
by WIREMAN
cool banner ....this time by a female.....jackson pollock's wife in fact....i dig it.....

Posted: May 31st, 2010, 8:22 pm
by Artguy
Ya love Lee's work..I'm reading a book about her.

Posted: June 1st, 2010, 9:07 am
by mtmynd
Yes, Lee's work is a very nice addition.

Posted: June 1st, 2010, 11:17 am
by jimboloco
harlequin woman you are doreen
i'm glad you're a woman
and not a man
believe me ma'am
joan miro when i first saw that
i said wow just like juanita picasso an
lee krasner's unspoken light in awe
like the first burst of pollack's
indigenous archetypal drips
she flips my hambone brain
she do flip my noodle

Posted: June 6th, 2010, 11:44 am
by Artguy
I loooooooooooooooove this cezanne...I am reading a book almost as voluminous as war & peace about 20th century art criticism, and many of the essays place Cezanne as the soul artist to be the cause of cubism and other abstractions that gave us modernism and all it's other posts.... 8)

Posted: June 12th, 2010, 8:10 pm
by jimboloco
wow i'm allright afterall
i was so struck by this cezanne banner
with his so famous landscape
that is so prodigously beautiful
it fortells the liberation
of light and form into spirit
and heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerrrr's
le arte guy merciiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
love that greeeeeeeeen bluuuue
yyyyyeeeeeeeeellllllloooooooowww

Posted: June 19th, 2010, 6:51 pm
by Arcadia
beautiful banner!! :D

Posted: June 20th, 2010, 5:05 am
by WIREMAN
.....i like this banner by artguy...a detail of something bigger i imagine....it's good to see an S8 artist doing the banner....all them art masters get enuff publicity...let's hear it for the homeies!!!!!!!....love you doreen and art guy ...this is cool.......

Posted: July 5th, 2010, 9:21 am
by stilltrucking
Todays banner
Image

I like that Banner by Wireman for the same reasons he likes the one by Art Guy
...a detail of something bigger i imagine
Yes tantalizing detail of this picture.
Image
Image source

Alas poor Tantalus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantalus

Posted: July 5th, 2010, 9:31 am
by WIREMAN
thanks ST!

Posted: July 5th, 2010, 11:53 pm
by Lightning Rod
I just love this banner
well, I love both the banner and the original image
the banner is as good as any of the recent impressionistic stuff that doreen has been using. It makes my eyes feel good just to look at it. Bravo to both artists.