Artistic life
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oil on canvas / 2006 / 1978 views
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Portrait of Georgia O’Keeffe. Oil on Canvas / American Artist. Georgia O’Keeffe was raised in Wisconsin, educated in Chicago and Virginia, taught, painted, and lived on the east coast until her early sixties when she moved to Abiquiu, & Santa Fe, New Mexico. Close to one hundred when she died in 1986, living alone and painting in scenery that inspired her famous flowers in closeup with strong sexuality, voluptuous lilies and poppies, stark desert landscapes and animal skeletons. She worked in charcoal, water color, and finally oils, and worked large. I’m not sure her story is known well outside the states. She was photographed, courted, and married (1924) by famed 1920’s photographer Alfred Stieglitz who adored her, left his wife and family for her, and made her more famous than he was. She too, was madly in love with him. His black and white photographs of O’Keeffe filled Stieglitz’s famed “291” gallery in New York and caused a sensation with portraits focused on her beautiful bone structure and striking looks, and spectacular nudity. He took over 300 portraits of her from 1918 to 1937. Stieglitz may have been in love, but smart enough of a businessman to cause O’Keeffe’s work to skyrocket in price, averaging $100,000 a painting, monumental for a living artist and a woman in that time. What he did for her career lasted, interest waned some but revived and her work is priceless now. Every girl painter can use a Stieglitz, few get one. Stieglitz died in 1946 and she moved permanently to New Mexico three years later after cataloguing his work and papers. She was 59, began a new life in a landscape she claimed as her own. “God said I may have that mountain,” she’d written, “if I paint it enough.” So she did. / I painted this from one of Alfred Stieglitz’s famous photographs of Georgia O’Keeffe. / When you do portraits, you start to hear conversations from that time, get a sense of the thinking of the subject, smells and impressions wander through you or assault you inescapably. It’s a fascinating and somewhat dangerous occupation because when you put down the brush and turn away you wonder where the hell you’ve been and question your sanity. I’ve come to accept it as just what happens and there it is. One cannot help but see Stieglitz’s fascination with O’Keeffe’s profound physical symmetry. It bothered me. I thought it annoyed Georgia, too, that he was making more of it than in truth was there. Certainly a thoughtfully bright, introspective & solid woman. But he did not capture the O’Keeffe who stood in the desert in thunderstorms alone in the middle of the night to draw the electricity in the air into her being, which she was notorious for doing. Or the O’Keeffe who lived alone on her Ghost Ranch, and drove in her Model A Ford recklessly to plateaus and mountains of New Mexico to soak in the wilderness. DH Lawrence, Ansel Adams, the Lindberghs were visitors. / It’s not the last portrait I’ll do of her, but I wanted to see more in her than Stieglitz’s precision, no matter how beautiful that is to see. / I think he was incredibly kind and thoughtful about this woman’s life, and helped her reach a financial independence undreamt of for an artist of her time and sex. Stieglitz said of the first drawings of Georgia O’Keeffe that he saw: “Finally, a woman on paper!” He admired her, and he loved her. I can’t blame him for thinking her perfect. I’m just not so sure he saw the savage in Georgia. Other US photographers who did some earlier radical work in b/w, nature, and nudes you might want to visit: Ansel Adams. Brett, Edward, and Cole Weston. Edna St Vincent Millay wrote: “My candle burns at both ends; / It will not last the night; / But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends— / It gives a lovely light!” / Which, published in 1918 became an anthem to end constraints on overwatched Victorian girls. A wild, free life… edged with death. / The Hawks Perch
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Airbrush and mixed media Featured on the Home Page x2 / (Thanks Everyone!) Featured In Pop Art / (Thanks Kitsmumma) Featured in I ♥ Patterns / (Thanks Jemimalovesbigted & Natalie) Featured In C.O.R.E. / (Thanks Ushna & theyellowfury) Featured In Dream & Fantasy Art / (Thanks Ana & Hal Featured In # 1 Artists Of RedBubble / (Thanks Isa & Everyone!) “The inspiration for this piece came from within. I saw it in a vision. I suppose you could also say it’s my subconscious viewpoint on on life, mankind, nature and our current economic situation. Fate later connected me with Peter Oszmann and his succinct poem, it was like our work was destined for eachother’s” – Carrie Glenn “A Fish Out Of Water” / Poem by Peter. J. Oszmann Nature is wise, but Mankind… just bumbling fools. Learn from the living, watch water in motion, Don’t waste your time staring at small stagnant pools. Fish are content to live their life in water, Water is after all their life’s element. There’s no need for them to be an “achiever,” Living, staying alive… that’s accomplishment. But there was one fish wanting something “better”, He wanted “achievement,” he wanted a “first.” He leapt out of water, fins in quick flutter, Taking fast to the sky… but soon died of thirst… / / Peter. J. Oszmann © 2003 / (Check out his other written works they are a delight!) A.K.A. ” Alfred Fishcock ” For The Great Gregory For commissioned work you can contact Carrie at: carrie@carrieglennstudios.com and please visit Carrie Glenn Studios / CarrieGlennStudios.Com
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/ / Dilly Dally Diver / ink and pastel acrylic and charcoal on cream pastel paper / a fun little piece by Karin Taylor / / Customers are welcome to email enquiries to karintaylor@exemail.com.au / /
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I think we all agree, it’s not easy being an artist….this is a reflection of me, my life. *All proceeds of sales are donated to the Hope Animal Shelter You can also visit my ZAZZLE gallery for more products:
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Wedding photography / Melbourne grafitti Melbourne Graffiti Artists This laneway in Melbourne is a gallery for artist to express themselves it is well know around the world for the beauty young emerging graffiti artists can contribute to it. / Melbourne Graffiti has become a tourist attraction and a popular backdrop for fashion and wedding photography. grafitti calenders / Graffiti around Melbourne /
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Empty gallery, only waiting chair
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Snowy playground
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Watercolour. 70 CM X 100 CM. Inspired by my photography. No sketches, but a pencil’s drawing directly on the aquarel paper, to plan the composition. / I enjoy doing many medias in ART. / After few years, that I almost did rarely watercolours, this year was definitely – My year in Watercolour… / I must say, I truly missed watercolours during several years in which, I made other artworks in other medias. / Thanks for viewing and commenting… / May we have a DELIGHTFUL day !! / Love, Nira. / Copyrights© Nira Dabush
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Taken in ‘Roman woods’, Cambridge. NOT ‘as is’
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Cattails. Sepia
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An apple
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/ Medium – pencil, black marker, pastel, watercolour pencils, coloured pencils, charcoal / Substrate – acid free professional tracing paper Living a balanced lifestyle isn’t easy….... / can be a little bit like balancing an egg on your head some days :)
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Like a good Jazz theme, this Paul Jackson watercolor, “Hide and Seek” expresses a curvaceous rhythm and has a knock out impact. Coupled with the beautiful hot and cool color combination, this painting, one of a series of art glass works by the artist, will define any space it’s in. “Hide and Seek” is Paul’s favorite of all glass paintings he’s done. It has a color scheme that balances perfectly.
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Mixed Media and Acrylic on Canvas / Full size 20cm x 120 cm Completed in 2007 / A very special and favourited piece of art (this is where fairies live) Original Not For Sale / Original is part of a private collection Views: 588 @ 07-11-09 FEATURED in ‘Art & Dis(ease)’ August 2009 / FEATURED in ‘The Dreaming Tree’ August 2009
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Thirteen years ago I tragically lost my greatest friend….. and subsequently almost lost myself. / But somehow; after a very long time; I made a choice….. to live. / I’ve never regretted my decision. - best viewed large / SP – canon 1000D Featured – Unconventional Artistry – July 2009 Featured – Artrageous RB Artists – Self Portrait Gallery – July 2009 Featured – ImageWriting – July 2009
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I recently treated myself to a set of Ashleys Photoshop Actions & I have to say that it’s the best money I’ve spent in a long time! / True, these Actions are all things I frequently try to do myself when doing a portrait, but using them has halved my workflow. / Perhaps I should learn to do my own actions…. / I’ve had a lot of fun playing with them this afternoon…... [Canon 1000D, tamron 18-200 mm lens] Featured – Dimensions group – July 2009 redbubble homepage – 22 July 2009 Featured – Australian Portraits – August 2009 /
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Pirita river. Tallinn
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TTV in pp Digital reflex camera / iso 100, f 8.0, 1/15 sec. 50 (75) mm. macro Thank you for your attention. Featured in the group The Grunge Art Gallery / Featured in the group Still Life Fine Art and Food Photography
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I am standing close / So you can smell my / Like / Of you / Touch my petal skin / Explore my tones / Yellow means fear passed / Over, deeper shining truth / Kiss me / Under rays of hope xx / Linaji 2009 / (yes for you)
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Slightness
by linajilight within / came a calling ever so slight / calling me forward / past darkness of plight / resolved by spirits mending / carried through river bending / slightness seem mightier / then heavy handed will like a hymn of peace…Linaji 2009
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