Mankind
92 creative works found
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Airbrush and mixed media on canvas Featured on the Home Page / (Thanks Everyone!) My Work Is Featured in Pop Art / (Thanks Kitsmumma) My Work Is Featured in I ♥ Patterns / (Thanks Jemimalovesbigted & Natalie) 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 You can contact Carrie at: carrie@carrieglennstudios.com and please visit Carrie Glenn Studios /
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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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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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mission street, san francisco, holga madness. / kodak tri-x (having only been to the US twice i still find steam rising from the vents in the street most evocative, the locals probably find it annoying)
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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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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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/ I adore this piece… i had to name it MAN… just had to. Can you see why?.. Will find the Essence of Woman in creation to come.. and post… This is a series… I already have the Essence of Love… being revised.. Essence of Love is the collection of ALL YOUR WORK I HOLD DEAR.. THE UPDATE OF THAT COLLECTION WILL BE NEXT RB DELIVERY… A COUPLE OF WEEKS…
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I see and feel the spirits everywhere My main website will lead you to all my other online gallery’s and stores: / Arteology
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Hand print with the Taoist symbol for wholeness; the single circular brush stroke of black ink. The red Chinese character in the top left corner means ‘Health.
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My contribution to this / Boycot / As usual I’m fashionably late, but better late than never! / No mark up. Texture thanks to stewart
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Have you ever wondered about those who nailed Jesus to the cross? My guess is they were ordinary men just doing the job they were hired to do, but something else tells me they were never the same after. The Sacred Blood spilled onto their hands and penetrated their souls, washing them clean from all stain of sin. The Sacred Gaze penetrated their hearts, not with condemnation but with love. And the Sacred Lips whispered, “Forgive them, Father; they don’t know what they’re doing.” I took this photo at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church in Houston, Texas, and when I took a good look at it, I realized Jesus seemed to be anything but the center of attention. Maybe he wanted me to consider his executioners and maybe he wanted to remind me, “It was all for them; it was all for you. They drove the nails, but I laid down my life willingly so that they, so that you could live.”
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A common sight among petroglyphs is the human hand connoting the presence of man, his work, his acheivements, his legacy. It also represents the direction of the creative spirit through a man, as a vessel for the Creator’s power.
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I believe in goodness, raised in a democratic family.. I read many “holy books” and learned almost almost every religion and decided what to believe in at my 14.. / I dont think there is a difference between all those.. Goodness reaches everywhere, counts everwhere; no race, no religion; no “human difference” to me.. I believe in “inside” of me, my soul and Earth.. I am happy with the Mother Nature and her taughts… I am happy to love people and happy to be loved.. Goodness is goodness everywhere, everytime.. Light, Love, Knowledge To All… Erhan OZBIYIK
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Learn intimately and KNOW YOUR Genetic Bill of Rights….one month at a time! / From the Genetic Bill of Rights Painting Series by / Mariam Muradian & CC Arshagra.The Genetic Bill of Rights was drafted in 2000 by The Council for Responsible Genetics and GeneWatch, yet most people do not even now that it exists. These rights exist for everyone; to inform people that they have the right to govern their own genes, bodies, cultures, and biodiversity. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS! / Copyright 2000. All rights reserved The Council for Responsible Genetics. / Professional photographs of the paintings by Kevin Sharp. / Acrylics, oil pastel, charcoal on 24”x30” canvas. / Plus, the unique Signature Piece to The Series, “Consequences” on 48”x60” canvas was painted by Artist, Mariam Muradian when she had gone blind as a side effect from a heart medication. Mariam Muradian is a woman on the forefront of living, interpreting, and choosing these rights daily and personally!
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To all mankind in the Woman's Day...
by Daniela M. Casalla....and to all my women friends, have a great celebration Day! / We can make a difference… PEACE IS IN OUR HANDS / ”!http://image…
....and to all my women friends, have a great celebration Day! / We can make a difference… PEACE IS IN OUR HANDS / “…each war carried within itself, the war which will answer it. Each war is answered by another war, until everything is destroyed…That is why I’m so wholeheartedly for a radical end to the madness…Pacifism simply is not a matter of calm looking on; it is work, hard work…those lovely small apples out there…everything could be so beautiful if it were not for the insanity of war…one day, a new idea will arise and there will be an end of all wars…People will have to work hard for that new state of things, but they will achieve it.” / Kathe Kollwitz (1867 – 1945) Germany “If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or ‘our’ country, let it be understood, soberly and rationally between us, that you are fighting to gratify a sex Instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits which I have not shared and probably will not share; but not to gratify my instincts, or protect either myself or my country. For, the outside will say, in fact, as a woman, I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world…” / Virginia Woolf (1882 – 1941) England The Progress And still we wear our uniforms, follow / The cracked cry of the bugles, comb and rush / Our pride and prejudice, doctor the sallow / Initial ardor, which keeps it fresh. Still we applaud the President’s voice and face. / Still we remark on patriotism, sing, / Salute the flag, thrill heavily, rejoice / For death of men who too saluted, sang. But inward grows a soberness, an awe. / A fear, a deepening hollow through the cold. / For even if we come out standing up / How shall we smile, congratulate; and how / Settle in chairs? Listen, listen. The step / Of iron feet again. And again – wild. Gwendolyn Brooks (1971) – - USA “I believe that peace is not merely an absence of war, but the nurture of human life, and that in time this nurture will do away with war as a natural process….I can see no reason why one should not see what one believes in time of war as in time of peace….Only in freedom is permanent peace possible. To unite women in all countries who are opposed to any kind of war, exploitation and oppression and who work for universal disarmament…and by the establishment of social, political, and economic justice for all without distinction of sex, race, class, or creeds. / Jane Addams (1860-1935) U.S.A. “Women are not at the peace table. We are not there where our commitment to peace, our capacities to find solutions through dialogue, debate, our sensitivities to human needs, human rights are sorely needed. Therefore, we still must press – from the outside…Feminists can make clear that one does not have to agree with the political or economic systems of a country in order to like and understand its people…The feminist movement has a vision. We understand, first of all, that we have but one earth, shared by one humanity. ...We will make it a woman’s world, not in the sense of control, or power, or dominance, but those values that we call women-centered values, will be diffused throughout society.” / Margarita Chant Papandreou. Greece/U.S.A. The End and the Beginning After every war / Someone’s got to tidy up. / Thing won’t pick themselves up, after all. Someone’s got to shove the rubble to other roadsides / So the carts loaded with corpses can get by. Someone’s got to trudge through sludge and ashes, / Through the sofa springs, the shards of glass, the bloody rags…. No sound bites, no photo opportunities. / And it takes years. / All the cameras have gone to other wars. Some, broom in hand, still remember how it was. / Some man listens, nodding his unshattered head. / But others are bound to be bustling nearby / Who will find all that a little boring…. Those who knew what this was all about / Must make way for those who know little. / And less than that, and at last nothing less than nothing, Someone’s got to lie there / in the grass that covers up the causes and effects / With a cornstalk in his teeth, gawking at clouds. / Wislawa Szymborska (1923-) Poland “When we carry our eyes back through the long records of our history, we see wars of plunder, wars of conquest, wars of religion, wars of pride, wars of succession, wars of idle speculation, wars of unjust interference, and hardly among them one war of necessary self-defence in any of our essential or very important interests.” / Anna Barbauld, English poet, essayist, critic, 1793 “The half of humanity that have never bourne arms is today ready to struggle to make the brotherhood of man a reality. Perhaps the universal sisterhood is necessary before the universal brotherhood is possible.” / Bertha von Suttner, Speech to the Federation of Women of America, 1912 “If brains have brought us to what we are in now, I think it is time to allow our hearts to speak. When our sons are killed by the millions, let us, mothers, only try to do good by going to the kings and emperors without any other danger than a refusal.” / Rosika Schwimmer, Speech at International Congress of Women at the Hague, 1915 “Women will soon have political power. Woman suffrage and permanent peace will go together. When a country is in a state of mind to grant the vote to its women, it is a sign that that country is ripe for permanent peace. Women don’t feel as men do about war. They are the mothers of the race. Men think of the economic results, women think of the grief and pain.” / Dr. Aletta Jacobs, (1851-1929) Holland’s first woman doctor and founder of the Dutch suffrage movement. “You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.” And, “The work of educating the world to peace is the woman’s job, because men have a natural fear of being classed as cowards if they oppose war.” / Jeanette Rankin, (1880-1973) First woman to enter U.S. House of Representative in 1917. Lost her seat in Congress when she voted against entry in WWI. “But the havoc wrought by war, which one compares with the havoc wrought in nature, is not an unavoidable fate before which man stands helpless. The natural forces which are the causes of war are human passions which it lies in our power to change.” / Ellen Key, (1849-1926) Swedish social feminist. “Where do all the women who have watched so carefully over the lives of their beloved ones get the heroism to send them to face the cannon? I am afraid that this soaring of the spirit will be followed by the blackest despair and dejection. The task is to bear it not only during these few weeks, but for a long time – in dreary November as well, and also when spring comes again, in March, the month of young men who wanted to live and are dead.” / Kathe Kollwitz, German artist, 1914. / . “[There is an] erroneous impression that this and other countries are at war with one another. They are not. Their governments, composed of men and responsible only to the men of each country, and backed by the majority of men who have caught the war and glory fever, have declared war on one another. The women of all these countries have not been consulted as to whether they would have war or not…” / Harriette Beanland, English dressmaker, three days after WWI declared, 1914. “No tinsel of trumpets and flags will ultimately seduce women into the insanity of recklessly destroying life, or gild the willful taking of life with any other name than that of murder, whether it be the slaughter of the million or of one by one.” / Olive Schreiner, South African writer, feminist, 1911. “Ladies, do you know the numbers? Our taxes are higher than three billion and the ministers of the army and navy devour a third themselves….The household with six francs a day for expenses, for example, starts each day by throwing two francs away.” / Sylvia Flammarion, 1905 speech to working class French women. “If war boosts the economy of the industrial nations that own the war supplies, it smashes the economy of the nations that consume them.” / Fereshten Gol-Mohammadi, Iran, 1983. “If a child grows up with the idea of violence, that you get what you can by force, what kind of world will this be?” / Julinda Abu Nasr, Lebanon, 1980s. “I am convinced that the women of the world, united without any regard for national or racial dimensions, can become a most powerful force for international peace and brotherhood.” / Coretta Scott King, (1922-) Active in U.S. civil rights movement and Non-Violence Center.
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Another Thanks and a Webcomic Rejection
by Steven NovakIt’s been a little while since I posted something, which no doubt left all of you wandering the streets dazed and confused, eyes red with…
It’s been a little while since I posted something, which no doubt left all of you wandering the streets dazed and confused, eyes red with tears while you scream loudly to the heavens proclaiming your loss of faith in mankind as a whole. No? What’s that? You say none of that happened? You didn’t even really notice? Well…now you’ve gone and hurt my feelings. THANKS FOR NOTHING FEELING McHURTY!! Anyway, first off a big thanks to TERILEE for her purchase of a card featuring my OCEAN OUTSIDE MY WINDOW art. Hope you like it. In “outside of the redbubble world news” I recently had a submission to zudacomics.com rejected. I might continue the story simply because it would bug the crap out of me to leave it hanging. (I’m a bit weird that way.) If you’re bored and want to give it a look just clicky clicky on the image below. Also I promise to never type the word clicky again. Steve~
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Original artwork: Acrylic on canvas Many and sharp the num’rous ills / Inwoven with our frame! / More pointed still we make ourselves / Regret, remorse, and shame! / And Man, whose heav’n-erected face / The smiles of love adorn, / Man’s inhumanity to man / Makes countless thousands mourn! Robert Burns: From Man was made to / Mourn: A Dirge, 1785.
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The Missing Link
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Buddha head sculpture photographed in studio with alternative post processing.
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Retirement
by DannyMankind was all gone, only a few of the most stubborn stars still blinked weakly in the heavens. It was finally over. It had been a…
The end piece
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I took a photo today of a stalwart looking cardinal perched on an iron post in the pouring rain. He looked drenched yet majestic in the downpour. Nothing was going to daunt his spirits. I coupled this image with this wonderful quotation and I think it would be suitable not only as a possible Valentine card but for a multiplicity of purposes, especially as we acknowledge our need for each other in the brotherhood of mankind. We may be “drenched” by the problems that face our world, but brotherly love brings out the majestic nature that can be ours. As the week dedicated to prayer for unity comes to an end, this is a fitting thought to consider.
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we are not alone and in the 4 th dimension The high council meets to discuss the progress of mankind
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36” X 36” Oil on Canvas- Original SOLD / /
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For some reason, this makes me think of man, or the remnants of, somewhere at the edge of the universe. Perhaps of the things we leave behind, though maybe I have just watched one too many sci-fi and disaster movies. The old building, with the brickwork crumbling, is a pillbox from the war. It sits amongst the wild and raw slag dumps from the local blast furnace. I think most of this land was originally sand dunes and sand banks, long since built up using the waste products of the iron and steel industry, the ground covered by thin soil with the burnt slag poking through here and there. Rabbits roam aplenty – to which my dog will happily attest. Strangely, the whole area is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI). Post processed using PSE, auto white balance, auto levels and auto contrast, no major changes other than that.
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