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This poem was written in 1906. It has been quoted as an argument for the existence of God but beware of that beguiling interpretation: if you look at it closely, there are inconsistencies and it can be interpreted as meaning the opposite. "Consecration" means commitment, loyalty, dedication: the act of binding oneself to a purpose or a course of action. The word has no religious significance in the context: if it did, the poem wouldn't make sense. Carruth was raised as a Protestant but he became a Unitarian. Unitarians do not believe in the Trinity or in the divinity of Jesus Christ. He was elected President of the National League of Unitarian Laymen in 1909. At that time the majority of Unitarians were non-theistic. en.wikipedia.org Carruth raised many criticisms of religious beliefs. He was bold enough to challenge some of the teachings of Christ. It's not fair to claim all the wonderful things of nature to be evidence of the hand of God. If there is a God, he's responsible for all the other not-so-wonderful things too. JBS Haldane, the naturalist and a professed atheist, when challenged by an old lady to admit that God made all creatures great and small, replied "Then Madam he is inordinately fond of beetles." Monty Python was a little bolder: All things dull and ugly, All creatures short and squat, All things rude and nasty, The Lord God made the lot. Each little snake that poisons, Each little wasp that stings, He made their brutish venom. He made their horrid wings ...
The Guardian (blog)Can Google gauge the greatest art?The Guardian (blog)And then there are individual sites which people have set up, or you could try Wikipedia. All of these supply 'content'. But Google is a search engine, ...
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This is a song I wrote recently. It's completely geeky, but I like it. If you are interested in learning more about semiotics and/or Charles Peirce (who is a fascinating guy), you can start with either of these Wikipedia pages: en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org All but three of the pictures in this video are ones that I have taken. Whenever we travel, I take pictures of signs and labels that I find amusing. They seemed to fit with this video. The three pictures that I did not take are the two of Peirce and the one of the Magritte painting at the end.
ARTE LATINOAMERICANO Antonio BERNI en 1928 conoció a Louis Aragón, poeta, novelista y ensayista francés, uno de los líderes del movimiento dadaísta y del surrealismo. Aragón lo acercó al surrealismo y también a André Bretón, poeta y crítico de arte. Por otra parte Berni en ese año se relacionó con el joven pensador Henri Lefebvre, uno de sus mejores amigos franceses, quien lo iniciará en la lectura de Marx. También conoció a Max Jacob, con quien aprendió la técnica del grabado. Sin lugar a dudas la retrospectiva de Giorgio de Chirico y el conocimiento de las obras de Magritte serán los elementos fundamentales que llevarán a Berni a ingresar al surrealismo. Para Berni el surrealismo "es una visión nueva del arte y del mundo, la corriente que representa a toda una juventud, su estado de ánimo, su situación interna, después de terminada la Primera Guerra Mundial. Era un movimiento dinámico y realmente representativo". Berni ayudó a Aragón en su lucha antiimperialista, en un París donde abundaban los chinos, africanos, vietnamitas, Berni ayudó a distribuir un periódico para las minorías asiáticas y colaboró con ilustraciones para otros diarios y revistas. Estudió las obras surrealistas, leyó a los poetas y escritores de este movimiento y también a Freud. En 1930 conoció al ensayista y poeta francés Tristán Tzara que tendrá mucho que ver para que Berni considerara que todo el Grupo surrealista estaba formado por monstruos sagrados. Berni iniciará su pintura surrealista, pero ...
Joseph Cornell (December 24, 1903 December 29, 1972) was an American artist and sculptor, one of the pioneers and most celebrated exponents of assemblage. Influenced by the Surrealists, he was also an avant-garde experimental filmmaker. Cornell's most characteristic art works were boxed assemblages created from found objects. These are simple boxes, usually glass-fronted, in which he arranged surprising collections of photographs or Victorian bric-à-brac, in a way that combines the formal austerity of Constructivism with the lively fantasy of Surrealism. Many of his boxes, such as the famous Medici Slot Machine boxes, are interactive and are meant to be handled. Like Kurt Schwitters, Cornell could create poetry from the commonplace. Unlike Schwitters, however, he was fascinated not by refuse, garbage, and the discarded, but by fragments of once beautiful and precious objects he found on his frequent trips to the bookshops and thrift stores of New York.[8] His boxes relied on the Surrealist technique of irrational juxtaposition, and on the evocation of nostalgia, for their appeal. Cornell never regarded himself as a Surrealist; although he admired the work and technique of Surrealists like Max Ernst and René Magritte, he disavowed the Surrealists' "black magic," claiming that he only wished to make white magic with his art. Cornell's fame as the leading American "Surrealist" allowed him to befriend several members of the Surrealist movement when they settled in the USA ...
Marcel Mariën (April 29, 1920, Antwerp September 19, 1993, Brussels) was a Belgian surrealist (later Situationist), poet, essayist, photographer, collagist, filmmaker, and maker of objects. Mariën is one of the most intriguing and elusive figures in the Belgian wing of the Surrealist movement. He was not only an artist, but also a publisher, a bookseller, a sailor, a journalist in China and an elaborate Surrealist prankster. Marcel Mariën was born in Antwerp, Belgium, in 1920, a single child of a poor family. His mother wanted him to leave school as soon as possible so that he could start bringing money into the home. Aged 15, Marien became apprentice to a photographer initially undertaking menial roles, but later setting up a home studio to develop his own projects. In 1937, he first encountered the surrealist paintings of René Magritte in exhibition and inspired by André Bretons Surrealist Manifesto - traveled to Brussels to seek out the artist. He soon began corresponding with Magritte, who was 20 years his senior, and was warmly welcomed into the close-knit Belgian Surrealist group. Within a year, he had his own work included in the Surrealist group exhibition, Surrealist Objects and Poems, in London. Initially, he could not paint or draw, so he instead used a wide variety of media, including collage, decoupage, drawing, painting, toys, household items and even a reproduction of a Michelangelo fresco. With this anarchistic approach, he was acknowledged as the ...
Time for deconstruction. This is a call for a war on Pipes. The Treachery of intelligence is exposed: We are all blinded by evil pipes! Or maybe we just lack awareness... Either way we better pull ourselves together. The unsanity should end, or we probably will. Our awareness can be raised through various forms of education. See here for an overview of the situation: condeve.blogspot.com These links can also help understand what this film is about: en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org vimeo.com youtube.com en.wikipedia.org www.youtube.com PS Consider the film above a work in progress. You can find this also in my vimeo channel: vimeo.com
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Museu modernista Can Prunera ist ein Museum für die Kunst des Jugendstils in der Gemeinde Sóller auf der Baleareninsel Mallorca. Das von der Stiftung Fundació Tren de lart (Stiftung der Eisenbahngesellschaft Ferrocarril de Sóller) unterhaltene Museum wurde Ende August 2009 nach umfangreichen Restaurierungsarbeiten am Gebäude eröffnet und befindet sich in der 1909 bis 1911 erbauten Jugendstil-Villa Can Prunera der ehemaligen Textilfabrik von Sóller. Die Kunstbestände des Museums umfassen verschiedene Epochen, Ausdrucksformen und Stilrichtungen der Kunstgeschichte. Der Rundgang durch die Ausstellung zeigt Jugendstilmalerei aus dem ersten Drittel des 20. Jahrhunderts, unter anderem mit Landschaftsbildern von Rusiñol, Sureda oder Meifrén. Zu sehen sind auch Werke von Picasso, Joan Miró, Munch, Juan Gris, Magritte, Man Ray, Lucio Fontana, Openheim, Vostell, Penck, Rebecca Horn und Calatrava. Die ausgestellten Werke sind im Besitz der 2006 [1] gegründeten Stiftung Fundació Tren de lart und der Kunstsammlung Coŀlecció dart Serra. (c) de.wikipedia.org Siehe auch: www.sollernet.com
Josephine Wall (born 1947 in Farnham, Surrey) is a popular English fantasy artist and sculptor. Educated at Farnham and Parkstone (Dorset) grammar schools, she studied fine art at Bournemouth College and worked at Poole Pottery as a designer and painter of Delphis Ware[1]. Her pottery figures include characters from Tolkien's Lord of the Rings and mythological creatures. Pieces of this work now feature in a book on the history of Poole Pottery. Her paintings are mainly influenced and inspired by Arthur Rackham, with lesser influences from surrealist artists such as Magritte and Dalí, and the romanticism of the pre-Raphaelites. A number of her works were exhibited in Teheran and Tokyo during 1974 and her first solo exhibition took place the following year in Swindon. Josephine and her paintings were the subject of a special feature on Southern Television in 1990. Following a visit to the Spring Fair[2] in Birmingham in 1993 she signed contracts with firms in Britain and Switzerland to publish her work as prints, posters and cards for worldwide distribution. Her originals and limited edition prints by are often sold through Courtenay's Fine Art. In 1996 a licensing agreement with a company in Los Angeles, California, USA led to many new outlets including cards, stationery, puzzles, journals, bookplates, mugs, needlepoint kits and posters, as well as limited edition prints[1]. In 1998 five original works were selected for an exhibition at London's Mall Gallery entitled Art ...
René François Ghislain Magritte fr.wikipedia.org Un musée Magritte à Bruxelles www.musee-magritte-museum.be .
René François Ghislain Magritte (21 November 1898 15 August 1967) was a Belgian surrealist artist. He became well known for a number of witty and thought-provoking images. His intended goal for his work was to challenge the observer's preconditioned perceptions of reality and force the viewer to become hypersensitive to their surroundings. Magritte was born in Lessines, in the province of Hainaut, in 1898, the eldest son of Léopold Magritte, who was a tailor and textile merchant,and Régina (neé Bertinchamps), a milliner until her marriage. Little is known about Magritte's early life. He began lessons in drawing in 1910. On 12 March 1912, his mother committed suicide by drowning herself in the River Sambre. This was not her first attempt; she had made many over a number of years, driving her husband Léopold to lock her into her bedroom. One day she escaped, and was missing for days. She was later discovered a mile or so down the river, dead. According to a legend, 13 year old Magritte was present when her body was retrieved from the water, but recent research has discredited this story, which may have originated with the family nurse.The image of his mother floating, her dress obscuring her face, may have influenced a 19271928 series of paintings of people with cloth obscuring their faces, including Les Amants, but Magritte disliked this explanation. Magritte's earlist paintings, which date from about 1915, were Impressionistic in style.From 1916 to 1918 he studied at the ...
"Rene Magritte's work frequently displays a juxtaposition of ordinary objects in an unusual context, giving new meanings to familiar things. The representational use of objects as other than what they seem is typified in his painting, The Treachery of Images (La trahison des images), which shows a pipe that looks as though it is a model for a tobacco store advertisement. Magritte painted below the pipe "This is not a pipe" (Ceci n'est pas une pipe), which seems a contradiction, but is actually true: the painting is not a pipe, it is an image of a pipe. It does not "satisfy emotionally"—when Magritte once was asked about this image, he replied that of course it was not a pipe, just try to fill it with tobacco.[9]" (Wikipedia)
Roberto Antonio Sebastián Matta Echaurren (November 11, 1911 November 23, 2002), usually known as Matta, was one of Chile's and France's and America's best-known painters and a seminal figure in 20th century art. Born in Santiago, he initially studied architecture at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago, but became disillusioned with this occupation and left for Paris in 1933. His travels led him to meet artists such as René Magritte, Salvador Dalí, André Breton, and Le Corbusier. It was Breton who provided the major spur to the Chilean's direction in art, encouraging his work and introducing him to the leading members of the Paris Surrealist movement. Matta produced illustrations and articles for Surrealist journals such as Minotaure. During this period he was introduced to the work of many prominent contemporary European artists, such as Pablo Picasso and Marcel Duchamp. The first true flowering of Matta's own art came in 1938, when he moved from drawing to the oil painting for which he is best known. This period coincided with his emigration to the United States, where he lived until 1948. His early paintings, such as Invasion of the Night, give an indication of the work he would continue, with diffuse light patterns and bold lines on a featureless background. This is also the period of the "inscape" series, and the closely related "psychological morphologies". Prof. Claude Cernuschi (see Boston College Matta exhibition external link below) writes ...
René Magritte en.wikipedia.org Functional MRI studies of bullies indicate that rather than acting primarily out of a sense of diminished self worth, as was generally believed, bullying instead stimulates pleasure centers in the brain associated with dopamine release. Bullies' activities typically center around attempts to humiliate others. Non-bullies have been found not to experience the same degree of pleasure from such activities.
René Francois Ghislain Magritte (1898- 1967) Magritte was a Belgian surrealist artist. He became well known for a number of witty and thought provoking images. His intended goal for his work was to challenge observers preconditioned perceptions of reality and force vieuwers to become hypersensitive to their surroundings. At the age of 13, his mother committed suicide, and accordingly to a legend Magritte was present when her body was retrieved from the water of the river Sambre. The image of his mother floating, her dress obscuring her face, may have influenced his paintings. In Paris he met Andre Breton, and became involved in surrealism. Magritte's work frequently displays a juxtaposition of ordinary objects in an unusual context, giving new meanings to familiar things. "The treachery of Images" (la trahison des images) shows a pipe that looks as though it is a model for a tobacco store advertisement. Magritte painted below the pipe "ceci nést pas une pipe" (this is not a pipe), which seems a contradiction, but is actually true. When Magritte once was asked about this image he replied: "Ofcourse it's not a pipe, just try to fill it with tobacco" Magritte points out that no matter how closely we come to depicting an item accurately, we never do catch the item itself. René Magritte described his paintings as visible images which conceal nothing, they evoke mystery, and indeed, when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question; "What does that mean ...
Paul Delvaux (23 de septiembre de 1897 - 20 de julio de 1994) fue un pintor belga neoimpresionista y expresionista en sus comienzos, se orientó posteriormente, influenciado por René Magritte hacia un surrealismo clásico: su pintura se caracteriza por desnudos femeninos en ambientes oníricos y desdibujados, cargados de un erotismo latente y figuras idealizadas. Las pinturas de Delvaux se hicieron famosas al representar mujeres desnudas que miran fijamente como si estuvieran hipnotizadas, con gestos misteriosos, a veces reclinadas de manera incongruente en una estación de ferrocarril o vagando por edificios clásicos. A veces las acompañan esqueletos, hombres con sombreros hongos, o científicos asombrados tomados de las historias de Jules Verne.8 Delvaux repetiría variaciones sobre estos temas durante el resto de su larga vida, aunque pueden reconocerse algunos alejamientos. Entre ellos están sus pinturas de 1945-47, realizadas en un estilo aplanado de efectos de perspectiva forzada y distorsionada, y la serie de crucifixiones y deposiciones de la Cruz protagonizadas por esqueletos, pintada durante los años 1950. A finales de los años cincuenta produjo una serie de escenas nocturnas, en las que hay trenes que mira una niña vista desde atrás. Estas composiciones no tienen nada que sea abiertamente surrealista, y aún así la claridad de detalle a la luz de la luna tiene un efecto de alucinación. Los trenes han sido siempre un tema de interés para Delvaux, quien nunca olvidó lo ...
Rembrandts anatomy lesson of dr. Nicolaes Tulp morphed into Danae (mirrored) as if creating something beautiful out of death... The anatomy lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp is a 1632 oil painting by Rembrandt, housed in the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague (Den Haag) Netherlands. Dr. Nicolaes Tulp is pictured explaining the musculature of the arm to medical professionals. The corps is that of the criminal Aris Kindt, strangled earlier that day for armed robbery. Sme of the spectators are various doctors who paid commissions to be included in the painting. The event can be dated to 16 january 1632, the Amsterdam guild of surgeons, of which Tulp was official city anatomist, permitted only one public dissection a year, and the body would have to be that of an executed criminal. Anatomy lessons were a social event in the 17th century, taking place in lecture rooms that were actual theatres, with students, colleagues and the general public being permitted to attend on payment of an entrance fee. The spectators are appropriately dressed for a solemn social occasion. It is thought that, with the exception of the figures to the rear and left, these people were added to the picture later. One person is missing: the preparator, whose task it was to prepare the body for the lesson. In the 17th century an important scientist such as Dr. Tulp would not be involved in menial and bloody work like dissection, and such tasks would be left to others. It is for this reason that the picture shows ...
Rob Gonsalves is a Canadian painter of magic realism Both his parents were Romanian Gypsies who travelled from place to place in Romania. After 15 years they summoned up the money to travel to Canada. Then he was born in Toronto,Ontario in 1959. He won the 2005 Governor General's Award in the Children's Literature - Illustration category for Imagine a Day. He is also an accomplished guitarist. During his childhood, Gonsalves developed an interest in drawing from imagination using various media. By age twelve, his awareness of architecture grew as he leaned perspective techniques and began to do his first paintings and renderings of imagined buildings. After an introduction to artists Dalí and Tanguy, Gonsalves began his first surrealist paintings. The "Magic Realism" approach of Magritte along with the precise perspective illusions of Escher came to be influences in his future work. In his post college years, Gonsalves worked full time as an architect, also painting trompe-l'œil murals and theatre sets. After an enthusiastic response in 1990 at the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Gonsalves devoted himself to painting full time. Although Gonsalves' work is often categorized as surrealistic, it differs due to the fact that the images are deliberately planned and result from conscious thought. Ideas are largely generated by the external world and involve recognizable human activities, using carefully planned illusionist devices. Gonsalves injects a sense of magic into ...
This video was inspired by my great fondness for the works of Yoko Ono and John Cage. I produced all the imagery and the audio myself for an assignment. It had to be at least six minutes long. I sometimes use images of birds, insects and shapes found in nature. I like to use recordings of common sounds as music for my art. I was taught video art by professor Marjorie Franklin and highly influenced by the teachings of professor Richard Carp. They were two of my favorite professors during my graduate program at NIU in Illinois. For those who are sensitive, please be aware: there are many bright colors and strobing lights in this piece. Mela (aka pamphish, Pamela) en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org Film produced by Autonomous Art Press. If you like this video, subscribe to my channel.
Jacek Yerka (born 1952) is a Polish artist and painter from Toruń. Yerka studied art for a short time at University, but then learnt from direct study of Northern European masters, the Van Eycks, Dierck Bouts, Robert Campin, Bosch, and surrealists such as Magritte. Yerka said: " I did my first painting of my life a year before going to college, where I began studying graphics. My instructors always tried to get me to paint in the more contemporary abstract style, and move away from my fascination with realism. I saw this as an attempt to stifle my own creative style and steadfastly refused to fall in line. Eventually, my teachers relented. " His paintings are acrylic on canvas and carefully rendered, using images from his childhood, including his grandmother's kitchen. He also includes odd beasts and whimsical landscapes. He comments, "For me, the 1950s were a kind of Golden Age ... If I were, for instance, to paint a computer, it would definitely have a pre-war aesthetic to it." Yerka's work has been exhibited in Poland, Germany, Monaco, France, and the United States. His works are also in Polish art museums. Yerka's work can be seen in Mind Fields, a book in which Harlan Ellison has provided narration for each of Yerka's selected pieces. [from Wikipedia] Music by:Thomas Newman More information about the composer at: users.telenet.be
Rob Gonsalves is a Canadian painter of magic realism Both his parents were Romanian Gypsies who travelled from place to place in Romania. After 15 years they summoned up the money to travel to Canada. Then he was born in Toronto, Ontario in 1959. He won the 2005 Governor General's Award in the Children's Literature - Illustration category for Imagine a Day. He is also an accomplished guitarist. During his childhood, Gonsalves developed an interest in drawing from imagination using various media. By age twelve, his awareness of architecture grew as he learned perspective techniques and began to do his first paintings and renderings of imagined buildings. After an introduction to artists Dalí and Tanguy, Gonsalves began his first surrealist paintings. The "Magic Realism" approach of Magritte along with the precise perspective illusions of Escher came to be influences in his future work. In his post college years, Gonsalves worked full time as an architect, also painting trompe-l'œil murals and theatre sets. After an enthusiastic response in 1990 at the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Gonsalves devoted himself to painting full time. Although Gonsalves' work is often categorized as surrealistic, it differs due to the fact that the images are deliberately planned and result from conscious thought. Ideas are largely generated by the external world and involve recognizable human activities, using carefully planned illusionist devices. Gonsalves injects a sense of magic into ...
1998 - Fabrizio Ravanelli - Una delle celebri imitazioni di Gioele Dix, tratte dal programma televisivo della Gialappa's Band, Mai dire Gol, trasmesso su Italia 1 a partire dal 1990. Per informazioni sulla Gialappa's e su Mai dire Gol, è possibile visitare le seguenti voci Wikipedia: it.wikipedia.org it.wikipedia.org
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