Desert flowering
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An exhibition piece from a collection of works that revolved around the themes of magic, nature and storytelling. The text translates as “I am the beautiful flower, I am the sun’s tear” which is from an ancient poem “The song of Amergin”. The work is loosely based upon this poem, although influences come from a wide variety of cultures. 50.5×40.5cm
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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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South Australia’s floral emblem. Taken in Port Augusta / / The Sturt Desert Pea flower is quite large, being around 9cm in length.
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The original artwork is an acrylic painting on linen. Only greeting cards, matted prints and small size of laminated, mounted & framed prints are available to maintain image quality.
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Skeleton of Coyote and Datura blossom. Photo based mixed medium image.
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A delightful close up painting of an orange cactus bloom surround with the cactus pear leaves, painted in reference to the many beautiful cactus that bloom in Las Cruces New Mexico. 12×12 x 1.5 oil on gallery wrapped canvas
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Oil on canvas. Size 24” x 24”
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The stunning Sturt’s Desert Pea flowering in Melbourne – in a large container. It had just finished raining so you can see drops on flower. / Nikon D80 105mm macro lens
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watercolor
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Nothing fancy here. Orton effect and lighting effects. Hope you like! Add me to your watch list now / My Bubblesite
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Macro of Tiny seeds blowing around
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“Wild Flower Storm” is inspired by the spring wildflowers as they errupt into life in the Australian Outback. / This painting is painted using mixed medium & acrylic on canvas. The technique of splattering & painting adds to the vibrance and life of the wildflowers in the dessert. www.carmencillierstheartist.blogspot.com painted sometime in winter 2007 … so what’s that July maybe?
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I love this little flower. It is no bigger than a nickle in real lfe. It is a macro shot of a delicate desert succulent flower that lives but a short time, but beams with bright beauty in its short life. No photoshop work here or manipulations. This is how it came from the camera…I used a Mamiya 645 with a zoom lens and a soft focus filter to get the shot… A beautiful compliment to any room, especially an entry hall or a bedroom. Images Do Not Belong To The Public Domain. All images and writings are the copyright of the artist – © amari, amarica. All Rights Reserved. Copying, altering, displaying, distributing and/or selling any image without prior written consent from the artist is strictly prohibited and subject to any and all legal remedies.
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Bee’s feeding on cactus flowers
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This image was processed with Fractalius and twisted a little to give it a wavy look. Hope you like! Add me to your watch list now / My Bubblesite
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one of my most favourite places on Earth / deep in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara lands of South Australia / somewhere west of Angatja / following the Ngintaka tjukurpa (Perentie Lizard songline) / an ancient stand of kurkara (desert oak trees) / and a magical carpet of parkilypa (parakeelya flowers) one of the most peaceful places on Earth AP Lands, South Australia. 2006. [Creative Effects: Brightness/contrast adjustments, Omni spotlight with Photoshop]
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Macro of an orange globe mallow in the red desert mountains of Zion National Park, Utah
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