Figuring white Journal Entries

4 creative works found

• "Mystical Figure" was featured in Painters In Modern Times
  by Carol Berliner

  A huge thank you to the wonderful group Painters In Modern Times / and it’s hosts Marilyn Brown Trisha Lamoreaux kafka Marion Chapman / ...

  A huge thank you to the wonderful group Painters In Modern Times / and it’s hosts Marilyn Brown Trisha Lamoreaux kafka Marion Chapman / Martin Kirkwood and mxsara / / for featuring my work / “Mystical Figure” / / I’m truly honoured and delighted to be featured by this outstanding group! / I’m over the moon! Made my day! Yaaaaaaay! / Have a great day / Luv and hugs / Carol xxxxxx

• FEATURED
  by GittiArt

  Thank you so much to all the wonderful hosts at THE DIVINE FEMININE for featuring my drawing RED LIPS ! I’m happy:-) CHEERS ! / Brig…

  Thank you so much to all the wonderful hosts at THE DIVINE FEMININE for featuring my drawing RED LIPS ! I’m happy:-) CHEERS ! / Brigitte

• What a month...
  by Eyal Nahmias

  What a wonderful month thus far / I have won the Mammals Challenge...

  What a wonderful month thus far / I have won the Mammals Challenge in the all that is nature group with this Northern Elephant Seal image Got a third place in the same group macro challenge for this Julia Heliconian butterfly, which also won first place in the Goodbye, Butterfly! challenge hosted by the Zoophoria group / This image also won first Place in the your best macro challenge hosted by the Macro Untouched group I won third place in the The Conversation challenge hosted by the Candid Photography group / for my Communication! – School children play with public phone in Costa Rica image I was the runner up in the Weekly contest – Animal of all kinds challenge hosted by the Animal Photography group for my image A female Elephant seal Mirounga angustirostris which also won a second place in the Wildlife challenge hosted by the Challenge Café group In the Latin America Group i won second place in the Latin America Book #1 challenge for my Titikaka Man image I won second place in the The Pacific Coastline of California challenge hosted by the California Sound group for my Tranquility image. In the The Professionals group I have received 7th place in the Dusk Challenge for my Sunset in Convict Lake, Mammoth Lakes, California image. this image was also chosen as the avatar and cover image for the Untamed California challenge hosted by the California Sound group Second place was also won in the “It’s all Black and White challenge”: hosted by the The Artistic Nude group for my entry Distress Finished in the top ten in the Cacti and Other Succulents group for the Group avatar challenge with the Cactus cluster entry And last but hopefully no least I won 8th place in the Candids with Hats challenge hosted by the Candid Photography group for this entry Artist’s Hat-An artist is working on a chalk painting at the Imadinari Street Painting Festival. Santa Barbara, California6 In short three (3) winnings in first place / Five (5) winnings in second place / Two (2) winnings in third place / One 7th, one 8th and one 10th place. / To all the artists in RB who took the time to vote for me my sincere gratitude and thanks,it couldn’t have happened without your support and votes. THANK YOU!!! / Yes a good month indeed….... :-)

• Religious sitings, paintings, and why is Jesus potrayed as a white man
  by Arletta

  I’ve heard many questions, over the years, as to why Jesus, his mother, etc. are automatically portrayed as caucasian, why Jesus usually …

  I’ve heard many questions, over the years, as to why Jesus, his mother, etc. are automatically portrayed as caucasian, why Jesus usually has blue eyes in the movies, etc. This is the answer, and also something to provide a bit of thought in regards to what people have really “discovered” when they have “discovered the image of Jesus in a scorch mark on a tortilla” or the “image of the Virgin Mary in the sheen of an oil slick”. Ready? Most of the artists who painted images of the alleged Virgin Mary (read Galatians 1:19), Jesus, God, the Apostles, and etc. were commissioned by a certain family, or a certain religious figure. Most of the artists were white, at least as compared to many other ethnic groups, lived amongst predominantly white people, and were expected – since no one knew what the religious figures actually looked like – to base the figures they painted on members of the family, government, or clergy. There are books which tell this, in tale or in historical data; some combine the two very well, I might add. So, that is why Jesus, Mary, Paul, Peter, etc. are portrayed as caucasian: it was mostly caucasian persons who posed for, and painted, the most well known of the paintings. It is not because of an assumption that they could not be black, or red, or olive in tone. It’s just that it was caucasians involved in their creation, predominantly. Why is Judas more often portrayed as black, then? Because, no one wanted a member of their family or staff being portrayed as Judas, so they preferred him to be a color they were not. In other words, if this had all happened in a town that was predominately full of negroid painters, who were painting for negroid rich people, Judas would have been a blonde-haired, blue eyed, white man; everyone else would have been significantly darker. That’s just life, as it happened. Moving on to what this means, vis a vis Mary as an oil slick: Since almost all of the assumed looks of the persons who were painted as religious figures from the Bible were really modeled after various family members, and occasional clergy or government figures, the truth is that when someone yells “I have seen the face of Jesus mirrored in the frost of my window.” , what they, in fact, if they only knew it, mean is something more like “I have seen the face of a movie star who was chosen for his resemblance to the third cousin of an Italian nobleman, mirrored in the frost of my window!”. It is impossible, in reality, for them to mean anything else, as no one had a camera to take a picture of Jesus, Mary, etc. Also, no sketches of them have been found, except as were modeled after someone else. Just thought you’d like to know. Why am I writing this? Well, not to burst any bubbles. Just, I realized, when talking to my father, that very few people know enough about the history of Italy to have this information. Many people, who know that a good whack of Italians painted most of the great religious figures, assume it was by divine inspiration. Well, it wasn’t: it was because they got paid to paint, and otherwise they would not be getting paid and have to go find other work, and like all good little artists who wish to eat, they tended to whore their credibility in favor of survival. Only fairly well to do persons, with enough connections not to have to worry about the religious and government personnel jumping them for it, had the leisure to explore the possibilities of divine inspiration. Most of their work didn’t survive.