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Night People Nuit Blanche

The crowds were like moving art to me- flicking against the backdrop with light & shadow

#Nuit Blanche Toronto

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Plastic Bags by Pascale Martine Yayou, Belguim Nuit Blanche Toronto

#nuit blanche #Pascale Marthine Tayou Toronto

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Forever Bicyles - A WeiWei 2013

The Nuit Blanche Night crowds were blown away by mass & colour

#weiwei nuitblanche Toronto Forever Bicycles

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Without windows scenery adds to the feel of the room & changes the day

Virginia Beahan

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WeiWei in Toronto

#ai weiwei #toronto #art gallery of Ontario

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Henry Moore Scupture as a Meeting Place

Growing up in Toronto Canada this Henry Moore Sculpture has been a fixture at our new City Hall and a meeting for locals & tourists. I met my penpal there 45 years ago from France Anne Marie Deniau.

#henry moore #sculpture centre #toronto

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Reflecting Contact: Jaz Interprets Occupy Gezi

Three days prior to when Franco Fasoli, aka Jaz, was set to arrive in Istanbul to paint for the Kadiköy Festival protests erupted throughout the city. Originally incited to protect one of the remaining green spaces in the city, Taksim Gezi Park, the demonstrations quickly escalated to become a larger critique of Turkey’s government. Watching from afar while preparing sketches for the mural, Jaz created four different ideas, taking into account his imagery in the context of the surrounding political climate.  By preparing several scenes for the festival, the artist would be able to adapt his preexisting style to reflect the people of Turkey.

Visual tropes such as feline-human hybrids, voyeuristic crowds, and constellations have characterized the artist’s paintings for several years as visual manifestations of the political climate in his native Buenos Aires. Growing up in Argentina, a country whose history is steeped in political turmoil, dissent against the government was something that the artist previously witnessed and infused into his artwork. Jaz drew parallels between his experiences at home and in Istanbul, saying:        

  I observed so many similarities with the 2001 Argentinean protests, like a very generalized people manifestation, with the same feeling, angry but at the same time happy because the people are saying NO to the government decisions and are very proud about that. But also very full pace compared with the South American protests. The police attack very hard and the people don’t react with violence. That surprised me.

  In contrast to the pillaging and aggression that took place during the riots in Buenos Aires, Jaz noted that the destructiveness in Turkey came at the hands of the government rather than the protestors. For the artist, these observations became the central thesis for the wall he erected during the festival.

  In order to accurately reflect the plight that he had been hurled into first hand, Jaz took to talking with local residents of the Kadiköy district of Istanbul to tailor his imagery to their experiences. Central to the artist’s body of work is the need to convey the movement and aggressiveness of battle. These ideas manifest themselves through figures, whether human or otherwise, lunging toward one another, inevitably merging to become a seamless being. For Turkey, Jaz called upon these tropes while combining aspects from Turkey’s past as a means to represent its present.

Five stories tall and divided by a series of windows, two horses are reared in battle as the two identical figures attack each other, shields and swords in hand. As a means to reflect the plight of Occupy Gezi, Jaz portrayed these warriors carrying Ottoman swords, nearing each other with shields raised. Acting as a double meaning, these weapons represent not only the government attacking its own people in Taksim, but also the country’s larger history of colonization by the Ottoman Empire. Titled Uno Contro Uno, or One Against One, this name reflects the direct contact seen in conquests of the past and the government’s current determination to continue in suite with the protestors of Taksim.

Through carrying the weight of a country’s history into his mural, Jaz was able to display the protestors’ voices through coded aesthetics hidden in a crimson monochrome. Drenched in red hues, the visual cues reflect the activists’ strength of conviction in the face of widespread government brutality. By combining historical significance with a color scheme meant to reflect the peoples’ strife, the artist was able to adapt his style to create a mural that brought attention to Turkey’s political struggle. Upon completing the composition Jaz says that, “They react very well, felt very supported, and are happy because that way foreigners can see the situation in Istanbul.”

—Rhiannon Platt

http://www.artslant.com/ew/articles/show/36288

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WHO WAS MARJORIE MCKEE?

Women artists are common day now but who were the pioneers? What happened to them? Where is their art today?

Marjorie Mckee was one of those women.

#abstract expressionist abstract women artists moma

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Love Italy- it is impotant to know our past to move forward.

The Beauty of Faith: Ten Iconic Churches in Northern Italy

Italy holds some of the most stunning churches in the world that are seeped in history and have been designed and decorated by the most famous artists of all time. Discover the most inspiring religious monuments to be found in this beautiful nation, as Aalia Ahmed provides a guide to ten iconic churches in Northern Italy.

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The Silver Leaf

Nature needs to be viewed in a different context as we need to say STOP that climate change is a reality. Only when we examine nature in a new viewer can we appreciate the fragility.

Alan McKee The Silver Leaf 40 X 40" , 101.6 X 101.6 cm Fuji Paper Silver based paper Lightjet, Aluminium backed Rolleiflex medium format camera, scanned and painted with a Wacom digital brush.

#art digital painting medium format photography nature abstract art for sale

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Digital Paint

Alan Mckee

Tears Of Compassion

36 X 72 inches , 81 X 183 cm

Medium Format, painted digitally with Wacom brush printed on silver based Fuji Matte paper

#Digital art Digital paint medium format photography nature

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Love international calls- a great way to connect & share.

Deadline: Sept 15th, 2013

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A Photographer Adventurer Jeff Fuchs

Jeff Fuchs is no ordinary photographer. Jeff lives his dreams by trekking, adventurer, photographer & writer. Jeff has written The Tea Horse Road, a book documenting one of the oldest trade routes is a masterpiece as he interweaves oral narratives, lost if not recorded and photos of the last of the traders.

Jeff Fuchs

Old Trader Tea Horse Road

Digital Photo

#photographer adventurer tea explorer Tibet China

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Architectural light projections are great for crowd sourcing as the individual & artist experience add to the overall feel of the experience-awe

Simeon Nelson: Plenum (2010-2012)

Plenum is series of computer generated real-time architectural light projections that were displayed festivals and exhibitions in Europe, the UK and Australia in 2010, 2011 and 2012. The first iterations of this work were commissioned by Mario Caeiro, for  the Skyway  Festival, Torun, Poland, 2010. Subsequent versions were co-commissioned by Mario Caeiro and Artichoke, a London based commissioning organisation for an EU funded project, Lux Scientia.

It comes out of a fascination with fundamental processes of nature and is based on a series of my drawings that depict states of matter at very small scales. These drawings were based on the illustrations of crystal lattices found in solid-state physics textbooks. The projection cycle of Plenum is underpinned by a perfect grid of dots arranged in a crystalline matrix, new dots begin to appear forcing the surrounding dots apart so that after 15 minutes the entire grid is pulsating, swaying and liquefying with particles popping in and out of existence. The top layers of the grid begin to disintegrate into a gaseous state shooting off in seemingly random trajectories so that the projection runs a full sequence from a frozen state of absolute order through increasing entropy to a state of complete chaos.

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The Universe Within Nature

We do not need to look beyond the universe to find awe & beauty -it exits in the microcosm of nature on earth.

Creation

Alan Mckee

30 X 35 " 76 X89 cm

Medium format, Hand drawn, photoshop, Lightjet mounted on aluminum

#photoshop medium format camera nature art photography abstract nature photography

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The earth & our universe is more appreciated from afar then close up. The need to value what we have.

The Day the Earth Smiled

In this rare image taken on July 19, 2013, Cassini’s wide angle camera has captured Saturn’s rings and our planet Earth and its Moon in the same frame. It is only 1 footprint in a mosaic of 33 footprints covering the entire Saturn ring system (including Saturn itself). At each footprint, images were taken in different spectral filters for a total of 323 images: some were taken for scientific purposes and some to produce a natural color mosaic. This is the only wide angle footprint that has the Earth/Moon system in it.

Earth, which is 898 million miles (1.44 billion kilometers) away in this image, appears as a blue dot at center right; the Moon can be seen as a fainter protrusion off its right side.

And there it is, folks! Read more about the two images here and here.

#nature universe art photography