Featured Work
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Untitled by Lyra
so many things going on with this one – a title escapes me Featured in Symbolism in Art
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and what's left are the pieces of a woman by helene ruiz
acryl on canvas / 38×30
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New Woman by mistertrooth
Photo montage composed in photoshop
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Andrew May Drawing # 107 by Circus Gallery
Title: / Heaving the Footsteps Inside of Mediocrity Charcoal/Soft Pastel on Card / 2002 / 150cm x 120 cm “Availible For Purchase” / for more images / and / info about Andrews work go to Andrew May circusgallery@hotmail.com
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DoubleWoman Dreamers by FAIRIEWOMAN1
Watercolor on Clayboard / Every element in this painting plays a role in the tradition depicted. Here’s an exerpt from my research on this rich, and complicated archetype: Much is lost about the many women’s medicine societies of pre 20th century Lakota culture, and what remains is private. One society about which there’s some recorded information is the Double Woman society. Double Woman, Anukite, was often used as a boogy-woman to frighten children and expectant mothers. She had definite light and dark aspects, and one never knew which face, or aspect she’d manifest. For example she could aid in a smooth birth, or send menstrual and colic cramps to mothers and young children. Simply put, a vision of Double Woman grants recipients with unusually high levels of skill in traditional women’s skills, especially quillwork and tanning. Other women produced beautiful hides and quillwork, but DW Dreamers endowed their creations with the power of vision and spirit medicine. They were (and are) gifted healers, particularly in gynecology, obstetrics and pediatric medicine. They’re quite strong, capable of doing the same work as a man. DW Dreamers own the power of seduction and could be almost irresistably alluring to men. Sources state that DWD were/are often lesbian, and lived with other women as husband and wife. From what Ive read and heard, this tolerance was true of Lakota society in general, and not specific to this society – but I just can’t say for sure. A DW lesbian relationship might last a brief time or many years. If at some point her vision changed and a woman left the relationship and entered a man/woman relationship, this was honored and respected by the People. By the same token, a woman might leave a man/woman marriage and enter into a lesbian relationship in just the same way, and this, too, was respected as her own business and honored. DW appears in a dream as two women, often holding hands or a rope from which a small white dog, ball, or doll is suspended. This image may be seen beaded or painted on old pipe bags and traditional dresses and was also part of a ceremony preformed by DW society members. At the end of this dream or vision, the 2 women turned into black tailed deer (mule deer). Women reenacting the DW vision would periodically dance around the inner camp circle, laughing and crying at the same time. Suspended between them would be a ball painted the colors of earth and sky, medicine bag, or a doll. / The archetype DW represents dualistic answers to a single question, often oracular. She’s gifted at whatever creative endeavor she undertakes. A fertile, wild woman untamed by man or society, she’s her own mistress. As such, she represents the independant and fertile creative spirit as well as chaotic forces capable of upsetting society and its boundaries. / Double Woman text and image copyright Helena Nelson – Reed
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Loss by Jedika
Pen on paper / 2008
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MoonSister´sApple by RosaCobos
A taste of Moon in my hands.. / gloved skin for avoiding evanescency.. / when touching the human soul´s.. / uncontrolled senses of esteem. Taste it.. / while the shadows form / the wrapping of your fears.. / do not fear.. / then… / the slumber and the famine.. / the pungent wish.. / to nourish.. / on my hand.. / apple hard… / rippen misteries .. / entering.. / into the dark side of the.. / Moon. I am the innocence of Eve.. / birthing from… / the submmitted womb.. / to the sun.. / that is not here.. / any more.. / for I can go on an errand.. / and get lightened by any star.. / orbit of my dreams.. / and be on. my soul.. / while he.. / will get lost.. / in any of the the outburst..of.. / his incessant spoling of light. / Vanished… as any star.. / doomed to dryness.. / doomed to die.. Eat it from my Eve image.. / eternal void.. / reflects… / seed of Love / smallest than a thought.. / (Rosa Cobos) © Copyright 2008 Rosa Cobos . All rights reserved
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THE AWAKENING by Paul Alleyne
The Light / The Light / Do you see the light? / Squint — squint some more. Ahh! Yes, I see it now / Finally! / It is so bright. / Like liquid flames dancing in my head / Its long elegant fingers are beckoning me to come to it / To come closer still Should I go to it? / I am afraid. / Should I bathe my soul in its purity? Do not be afraid. / Do not run from it. / Do not hesitate. / Do not draw back from it. / Go to it now. / Your only chance to bask in its warmth / Dance it its glorious ecstasy / And cleanse your soul / Just like I did, a long time ago / Paul Alleyne 12/08/07
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Bluebird by Laurie McClave
Calming blue, / unseen thoughts / Quiet and restrained / another side of a woman / she is wrapped up / a bird is free / like her thoughts…... oil on canvas:10×10 / original painting available
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This Old Man: Future Images by Diana Maus
This is an oil painting done after the smog in Los Angeles reached critical mass in the late 70’s. The sky looked like brown soup. It suggests that “Clean Air” was possible only in a different future. This old man, with gas mask, isn’t optimistic, having been witness to man’s disregard for the environment for a long, long, long time. It is signed by Diana Bauer, which was me, Diana Maus, in earlier days…
Recent Work
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No Escaping it by Yvonne Emerson
You cannot outrun it / You cannot hide from it / You cannot bargain with it / It will eventually catch up / Death waits for us all… patiently
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Loved to death by Alex Talmont
stock photos of my own were provided for this photo manipulation as well as from the following stock artists. http://mjranum-stock.deviantart.com/ / http://cgtextures.com/ / Adobe studio exchange
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Fire Bird by Hutchstone
Ink and pencil on paper
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Universal Truth by butchart
think about it…........b universal truth / Category: Art / MCN: C67A6-572CB-929C2 / © copyright Sun May 11 14:28:13 MDT 2008 – All Rights Reserved
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Elegy by agardnas
© 2008 agardnas / All rights reserved
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Dark waters by agardnas
© 2008 agardnas / All rights reserved
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Suicide Blonde by oneillstudios
The old debate: did she jump or was she pushed? An experiment in the Macabre. The building: Constance Cathedral, Germany. A massive cathedral that dominates the skyline for miles around. I photographed it from an awkward angle, (difficult to get close and shoot). While trying to think of what to do with such a shot this sprung to mind. Only humour: no offense intended to blondes, natural or synthetic, or to anyone else, for that matter, who doesn’t happen to be blonde.
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Emptiness by redbubble addict
There is another part of me that feels empty. Hatred becomes me. My revenge are your nightmares. When you see me I will take away what you have taken from me. I will suck your life out into me.
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Infrastructure of Whitehouse Blues by Glenn Capers
Hillary Clinton continues to play the race card as a senator running for the highest political office in America. She says,”the hard working Americans, the blue collars of this country is her voting block”. What the news refuses to report to the American public is the county areas she has won are white america conservatives that dislike and fear all minorities and liberal Americans. Hillary Clinton has won the gang bangers of white america with a history of over two hundred years in the United States of spreading hatred and terror to Black minorities before , and during the civil right movement. Hillary’s opponent a Black man continues to win the votes of the majority of america and educated men and women of all races. America is about change from the day the first white European came to this land, and matured and developed the civil rights bill of this country. As a young woman in Law school she was against the civl rights bill that states all men and all races are created equal in the United States.. So maybe for people of her true elk, we the people of all race and sex and religion that believe in civil rights and the equality of all man kind, offer this proposal. The red neck blue collar white house is where she can take up residency providing she can pay the security, the cleaning deposit along with the first and last. HIllary will have to provide a clean credit check after spending eleven million dollars of her families money after the Support money for her party has dried up because the majority of her finical backers believe she can no longer be the democratic candidate and run as President of America. Hillary Clinton continues to spread paranoia in thirty percent of the american white raciest, and among women. This is projecting a division in the democratic political party of America in the year of 2008. Congresswoman Sheryl Chisholm and African American first ran in a the primaries in the sixties during the early stages of the vietnam war. She is the true trail blazer for women of all races in America as a leader and equaL To Ghandi, Martin Luther King, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln,
About This Group
More than just a pretty picture
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Here are some great examples from the group that truly exemplify the term “Symbolism in Art”!
Traditional Photography
“Not So Out of reach” by Jenn Ramirez
PhotoManipulation
“The Visit” WanderingSoul Art
Art (sketches and portraiture)
“From the Music of Lola Perrin” by Jedika
Art (non portrait)
“Metaphor for a metaphor “by Karsten Stier
PLEASE NOTE:
Landscapes – either as photos or traditional paintings/drawings will no longer be accepted to the group.
Same goes for shots of architecture… The exception would be a picture where the juxtaposition of elements creates something truly “symbolic” like this excellent shot by Melanie McQuoid
“Filtered” Photos (as in “normal” pictures run through a filter in Photo-editing software) are not Symbolic art in my opinion and will no longer be accepted…Sorry, but there are plenty of other groups for that sort of thing
Abstract Art with no symbolism or “deeper meaning” will no longer make the cut…
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