Mankind
169 creative works found
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If we behave always as self-centered human beings, preoccupied with the anxiety to preserve the entity of the self and gratify every wish of the self, there are tensions, conflicts, and clashes among us. If the human race had looked upon aggression as desirable, natural, glorifiable, we would not have proceeded from primitive state of human existence to the creation of a society. There is and there will be a conscious, organized effort towards restraining, curbing, controlling this violent, aggressive tendency. The direction of human civilization is not from violence to more violence, but violence towards less violence, towards absence of violence, towards peace. Peace requires a different perspective of life, it requires purification of perception. Life itself is divine, it is something sacred, and reverence for life is the perfume of religiosity. So peace is not only non-war, or non-aggression. It is moving from a fragmentary, partial, or compartmental perspective of life to a holistic perspective of life where cooperation replaces confrontation.
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What time is it really? Which way are we going? Time looms over us all, hanging right in front of our heads…. / Was completed in watercolor and gouache media on Arches cold-press 180lb. paper, circa 2007.
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Explores mankind’s duality. Within every human being is the potential for intellectual, moral, and spritual awakening, and an animal baseness. / Original was executed in watercolor and gouache media on Arches cold-press 180lb. cotton rag.
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A little spin on the old story of Narcissus. Narcissus, as you may well know, was a quite lovely Greek youth enamoured by his own image. He pined away his days staring at his own reflection, eventually growing roots in the ground- punished by the gods for his vanity, he was transformed into the Narcissus flower. Of course this is the root of modern English words like narcissist and narcissistic. / In this work I wanted to spin that old myth in a different direction. As an artist I find myself working for hours and hours, days at a time on my artwork. When I rest from my painting I find myself staring at the result, intrigued by my own work. I love painting and I’m in love with my work. Now, it’s often said that art is but an extention of the artist. If that’s the case then it goes to follow that I’m a bit of a narcissist myself, albeit of a different sort. / The joke in this piece is that it’s a self-portrait. But I’m staring down at my work, which happens to be a Narcissus flower (Narcissus poeticus, to be exact), the work being but a different reflection of myself. / The original was completed in watercolor and gouache media on Arches 180lb. cold-press cotton rag, 2007.
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corner of mission and 2nd street, san francisco, holga madness. / kodak tri-x turns out this is just up the road from the new RB office, but I didn’t know that when I took it. (having only been to the US thrice i still find steam rising from the vents in the street most evocative, the locals probably find it annoying)
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Airbrush and mixed media Featured on the Home Page / (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!) There’s more ocean in fish than fish in the ocean… 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… / / Poem by 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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32” X 36” Oil on Canvas original for sale at www.artwanted.com/HDPotwin
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photograph photoshopped.
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I’ve seen a few candle images posted on ‘RB’ recently & although I’m not certain as to why this is, I decided to post my own candle shot. Not straight out of the camera & certainly not untouched. / I’d describe it as digital art & the message is all in the title. / I don’t care what God you worship all I care about is whether or not you have a good heart & peaceful intentions. There’s no room in life for hatred our time is limited & should be put to good use. Fighting & killing in the name of your faith is simply living a lie & bringing shame to the word of your God. / God; by any name doesn’t need our help when it comes to life or death. God can wipe us all out with a single thought. / All God wants is peace too but God gave us free will & its mankind that wages wars not GOD!! / / THis image is dedicated to Ushna Sardar & the C.O.R.E. group & to eveyone who has peace in their hearts!!
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This goes along with my article Image copyright © 2009 Lisa C. Weber. Copying and displaying or redistribution of this image without permission from the artist is strictly prohibited.
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[Double Exposure Project #2 – Oregon and San Diego Exposed] This is one of the images produced through double exposing a roll of film with my amazingly talented, generous, and dear friend Matt Adamik. This is our second attempt at working with this process and I am in love with every image yet again. Matt lives in Oregon and I live in San Diego. He shot the roll first, mailed it to me, and I shot over top his photos. Neither of us knew what the other was shooting. The results are astounding and breathtaking. And fun! We will be collaborating on many more double exposure projects in the very near future. A wonderful way to bring Oregon and San Diego together, as well as the styles and friendships of two photographers. I am absolutely in love with this type of photography! I highly recommend it for everyone. Thank you Matt for everything! Goggles Down!
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check the internet for the latest news. FOTO PLEASE ENTER Croatia / http://www.smartraveller.gov.au/zw-cgi/view/Advice/Croatia Death in Dubrovnik…............ well WHAT did happen to…..........BRITT LAPTHORNE this title has to do with the complexities of a missing girl…..... For those who live outside Australia you maybe interested to know that BRITT LAPTHORNE/ 21-year-old Melbourne woman went missing from a nightclub in the Croatian town of Dubrovnik on September 18/’08. Her body was found many days later washed up near rocks not far from the city centre. Alternative Process and Experimental Photography / A group to show your creative talents outside the normal photographic methods has featured this image. Brilliant! 7/04/’09 These images were taken in the OLD CITY of Dubrovnik/Croatia/late ‘08 / / FUSIONartPHOTOGRAPHY.com
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/ / nurture / The act of nourishing or nursing; tender care; education; training; That which nourishes; food; diet; The environmental influences that contribute to the development of an individual; see also nature; to nourish or nurse / en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nurture Media – pencil and photoshop / Substrate – paper I can’t explain this, ‘cept to say, it’s inspired by our connection with nature and the fragility of life itself sometimes, the message coming through is to nurture life by way of fostering goodwill toward one another and accepting we have a duty of care to our natural world also. Because Easter is approaching I thought it appropriate :) The child’s sustenance, or umbilical cord if you like is coming from a tree, symbolic of the healing that nature can bring….the new life and growth that comes with nurture both of spirit and of nature. Humility is understanding our rightful place in the scheme of all things, including nature, family structure and the wider community…... a world where there is tolerance for all, is the one i pray for
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Male figure is a cinema4D render; rest is a lot of postwork _ blended layers and digital painting.
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Sometimes the gap between mankind and ape seems enormous and at other times there is none at all. This is one of those times when there is no gap and it is just two beings reaching out to touch on another.
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28 august 2009.
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Please view large / © 2009 Danilo Lejardi / Basic render was done in Cinema 4D; rest was done in Photoshop by blending layers and doing some digital painting. / A cinema 4D render (CINEMA 4D is a commercial, cross-platform, high-end 3-D graphics application). / /
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Please view large / © 2009 Danilo Lejardi / Basic render was done in Cinema 4D; rest was done in Photoshop by blending layers and doing some digital painting. / (CINEMA 4D is a commercial, cross-platform, high-end 3-D graphics application)
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© 2009 Danilo Lejardi / (Mira is a red giant star estimated 200-400 light years away.) I felt so moved when I first read Dead Suns and Dying Stars, the poem by artist Lianne that I couldn´t help but trying to create an image inspired by it. I know a single image cannot express nor the visceral universe of this poem, neither its infinite subtilities, but it´s just my way of trying to deal with my own feelings and to draw things out. / Thanks from the heart, dear Lianne, for feeding our souls with this outstanding inspiration! Here´s the poem by artist Lianne Schneider. Dead Suns and Dying Stars Empty stars devoid of light, / ashen suns devoid of heat / litter the universe frozen, lifeless, / all dead or dying in the cosmos / winking out like houses gone dark. / And I am Mira in her death throes / orbiting the dead, cold core of you / my binary companion, love star whose / nearness once radiated light to me / whose chemistry generated atomic reactions / in my heart and in my superheated core- / the heat of our fusion the physics / of our intimate and co-dependent galaxy. / When your intense desire had cooled / and your inner fuel of love was spent, / your cataclysmic collapse became the trigger / that sent me hurtling through the cosmos / throwing off the light and heat and color / of all I had become in a fiery comet tail / signifying my fall from your grace. / A thousand light years from now / my death will still be emblazoned on the sky / for love dies no more quickly than a star. © Lianne Schneider October 2009
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Experimenting on Apophysis; bit of Photoshop postwork . Inspired by Christopher Cross´s “Sailing”. / Lyrics: / It’s not far down to paradise / At least it’s not for me / And if the wind is right you can sail away / And find tranquility / The canvas can do miracles / Just you wait and see / Believe me It’s not far to never never land / No reason to pretend / And if the wind is right you can find the joy / Of innocence again / The canvas can do miracles / Just you wait and see / Believe me Sailing / Takes me away / To where I’ve always heard it could be / Just a dream and the wind to carry me / And soon I will be free Fantasy / It gets the best of me / When I’m sailing / All caught up in the reverie / Every word is a symphony / Won’t you believe me It’s not far back to sanity / At least it’s not for me / And when the wind is right you can sail away / And find serenity / The canvas can do miracles / Just you wait and see / Believe me
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© 2009 Danilo Lejardi / Main figure was done in Cinema 4D; also blended a couple of Apophysis renders, and did a bit of digital painting.
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