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I’m honored Michele wanted this piece. It was the start of a new series I continue to develop.
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Mirror Mirror: The Portrait of Charles III mirrored suggests the face of Baphomet
The elites have long flaunted their association with Satan. Establishment pet artist Marina Abramović has build a whole career toying with that imagery.
Now a new portaint of KIng Charles III by Jonathan Yeo has made people wonder if art is being used as a not so subtle code to show who the King’s master is.
A tradtional depiction of Baphomet:
“’King Charles. Satanists, pedophiles, extinctionists. This is what describes the people who wield the most power in the modern world,’ an X user wrote. ‘They used to hide it. But now they don’t. They flaunt their love for satan through symbolism.’
“The user continued: ‘Those who see it are branded conspiracy theorists, because the masses do not yet believe that our governments are in lock step with each other and are controlled by globalist organisations like the UN, WEF, and WHO. Our world is ruled by people who believe that earth of overpopulated and want to wipe out most of humanity. There is only one reason why not a single person that paid to rape, molest, and murder children on epstein island is in jail: They are the ones at the top.’”
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“From the River to the Sea,” Proposed Burning Man Installation
Burning Man is a celebration of Postmodern neo-pagen decadence, but one genocidal “artwork” was too much for even them. The title was a slogan calling for the destruction of Israel and the Jewish people. The watermelon was supposed to symbolize the colors for the flag of the non-existent country of Palestine.
“The 8-foot-by-14-foot fiberglass watermelon has the genocidal title ‘From the River to the Sea’ and was previously listed on the event’s website as part of the installation, but organizers suggest it was only submitted to cause a ‘stir’ and ‘likely won’t be part of the annual festival.’
“A petition signed by more than 1,100 people demanded its removal…”
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The continuation of a new series of Remodern America videos. These videos are possible due to the technical skills of my wife: I am the director, and she makes my vision come to life. It’s another fun part of our creative collaborations.
Video Number Six: Masculinity and Art
A video on art and masculinity. Art is not an American male priority. With our focus on responsibility and practicality, art might seem frivolous. It’s considered a hobby, therapy, good for the kids. We have little sense of its potential power.
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My wife writes about a pilgrimage to visit a sacred painting.
It’s hard to believe there is no velvet rope
separating me from this magnificent work of art.
This was the second time I saw The Annunciation by Jan van Eyck
up close and personal.
I could have stood there for hours..
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Ellie Iron’s Book “Feral Hues: A Guide to Painting with Weeds”
Contemporary artists are spoiled by the abundent supplies of pre-made art materials. In earlier eras, the creation of paints using pigments and binders was a laborious process.
One artist has taken on a project to create her own colors again, using plants and weeds. Although I have not seen many images of the art she applies her creations to, and her interview quotes are full of progressive proselytizing, it’s an interesting exploration.
“Ellie Irons: There are many joys, which is why I’ve been entranced by the process for so many years: an ever-deepening and shifting connection to urban ecosystems and the land that supports them that emerges through careful, considered harvesting practices; the smells, colors, and textures that reveal themselves when plant parts are processed by hand in the studio; the joy of sharing the process with other humans who also become entranced by the relatively simple act of lovingly harvesting often overlooked weedy plants and creating paint with them; the process of attuning to the cycles of vegetal life sprouting, growing, blossoming, fruiting, senescing across the seasons and years — there is always something to delight in and harvest, in any habitat, even in deep winter, which I find comforting and reassuring in this age of climate chaos and instability.”
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Like most people, cultural commentator Matt Walsh does not understand so called “Modern” art died out in the 1960s. The junk he is describing is pretty much peak Postmodern art, with all its low acheivements and politics as a substitute for quality on display.
Still, Walsh provides some dry analysis which exposes the sham that our cultural insitutions serve up instead of art.
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French painter Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863) has been called both the last Old Master and a precursor to Modern art. In 2018 New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art hosted exhibits of Delacroix’s paintings and drawings.
“The last great artist who was not a modernist, Delacroix synthesized very complex visual and verbal traditions in stunning works that, by summarizing the old master European worldview, open the way to modernism. Political and artistic transitions are tricky to deal with — but his handling of this transition was exemplary.”
Eugène Delacroix “Self Portrait in Green Vest” 1837
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Peter Doig ” Country-Rock (Wing-Mirror)” oil on canvas 76.7″ x 106.3″ 1999
Peter Doig is a contemporary painter who I was very interested in at one time – until I discovered he uses a projector to create his art. I have strong feelings against this practice, as I wrote about in an earlier piece, The Image Morgue:
“Projector artists. Artists who cheat themselves and their audience by projecting an image onto their canvas and doing a paint-by-numbers routine to create their works. Artists like this have reduced themselves to a mere cog in a mechanical reproduction process, not creating, but taking dictation from their gadgets. They let their tools make their discoveries for them. It is an inferior mode of creation.
“If you’re an artist, do your own rendering.”
Still, Doig has done wonderous things with color and the handling of the paint. which is why I continue to enjoy his work. He can evoke beauty.
It’s estimated Doig’s 1999 painting Country-Rock (Wing-Mirror) will be setting some auctions records.
“In 1972, sixteen-year-old Berg Johnson – a self-anointed ‘Caretaker of Dreams’ – painted a rainbow over the grey façade of a roadside underpass on the outskirts of Toronto. Johnson was inspired by the memory of a friend, Sigrid, who had tragically died in a car accident nearby. He would often complain to her that people in Toronto ‘never looked up’ and following her death he wanted to do something to make people smile.
“It is Johnson’s rainbow tunnel, just off Toronto’s Don Valley Parkway, that we glimpse as if from the passenger seat of a passing car in Peter Doig’s Country-rock (wing-mirror), 1999. This mysterious landscape is distinctly Doig: characterised by his trademark otherworldliness and capturing the familiar ennui of such peripheral spaces.
“Every time a major landscape by Doig is offered at auction it represents an important market moment: only last year, Swamped, 1990, established a new artist record of US$39 million. Replete with mystery and intrigue, Country-rock (wing-mirror)will be a highlight of Sotheby’s Hong Kong Contemporary Evening Auction this autumn, the most significant work by Doig to be offered at auction in Asia.”
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