tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75234689450366313562024-03-13T03:16:00.878-07:00Crazies and KooksMysteries, Revolutionaries, SurrealismUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7523468945036631356.post-60859094674856572522014-04-11T08:24:00.002-07:002014-04-11T08:24:38.476-07:00Two Years The fate of this blog remains uncertain, you can see the timeline and question; "how lazy is this mutherfucker?" I'm not lazy but overwhelmed, as we had a daughter two years ago and all of my time and creative juices have been drained. I plan to update when possible. Thanks!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7523468945036631356.post-62218852891065363172012-03-20T20:30:00.000-07:002012-03-20T20:30:18.910-07:00'Desire in a Book' Surrealist Exhibition at PSTLThe PSTL Gallery at Pace in St. Louis (Midtown) was the first location for this multi-venue exhibition. Our second location will be the Thomas Jefferson Visual Arts Gallery, 4100 S. Lindbergh Blvd. STL, MO 63127. Please join us for the OPENING Friday April 13, 2012. Here are some photos of the opening at PSTL:<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7523468945036631356.post-4621968936796610402011-08-11T19:11:00.000-07:002011-08-11T19:24:12.431-07:00Surrealist Art Show - St. Louis<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7PfMvBm5KAo/TkSLoU2E3vI/AAAAAAAAAG4/MZa5HLUzFB0/s1600/Art-Flyer.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; height: 228px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; width: 433px;"><img border="0" height="213" naa="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7PfMvBm5KAo/TkSLoU2E3vI/AAAAAAAAAG4/MZa5HLUzFB0/s320/Art-Flyer.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">September 9, 2011 will bring some participants of the International Surrealist Movement to St. Louis, Missouri with a new show entitled:<em><strong> 'Desire in a book'</strong></em>. This international exhibition consisting of one-of-a-kind Surrealist art-books starts in St. Louis at the PSTL Gallery at PACE and will travel to England in 2012.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7523468945036631356.post-82907874345145274922011-08-11T18:55:00.000-07:002011-08-11T18:56:10.160-07:00We thought you were dead...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gh9tw9EaJC8/TkSIDm6357I/AAAAAAAAAG0/A1KK_rDM0HE/s1600/benoit2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" naa="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gh9tw9EaJC8/TkSIDm6357I/AAAAAAAAAG0/A1KK_rDM0HE/s320/benoit2.jpg" width="221" /></a></div><br />
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No, just sleeping. New updates through-out August and September.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7523468945036631356.post-71761200703338978542010-10-01T05:44:00.000-07:002010-10-01T05:44:13.054-07:00Surrealist book project<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rf3rKbKaPtk/TKXXA5crubI/AAAAAAAAAGI/nbFMV4MeQdo/s1600/fire.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" px="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rf3rKbKaPtk/TKXXA5crubI/AAAAAAAAAGI/nbFMV4MeQdo/s1600/fire.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div> As the country burns and the politicians toil, a new, one-of-a-kind book project by part of the international Surrealist Movement will be announced soon ...Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7523468945036631356.post-28579122137022370032010-08-27T07:05:00.000-07:002010-08-27T07:05:10.264-07:00Jean Benoît 1922 - 2010<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rf3rKbKaPtk/THfEmYpjqNI/AAAAAAAAAF4/pgwgca9fl10/s1600/benoit2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" ox="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rf3rKbKaPtk/THfEmYpjqNI/AAAAAAAAAF4/pgwgca9fl10/s400/benoit2.jpg" width="277" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><strong>The extraordinary and uncompromising Surrealist Jean Benoît passed away August 20, 2010.</strong> He was one of the most powerful purveyors of Surrealist imagery the world has ever seen. Benoît joined the Surrealist Movement in 1959 and that same year he performed and designed the costumes for the Exécution Du Testament Du Marquis De Sade. He was married to Surrealist Mimi Parent (1924 - 2005). Members of Surrealist Movement will have tributes to him through-out this year and we will post them here when they become available.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7523468945036631356.post-20406547768591906052010-06-09T09:17:00.000-07:002010-06-09T09:17:26.948-07:00TROVA Remembered 1927 - 2009<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rf3rKbKaPtk/TA-9Q0RdybI/AAAAAAAAAFo/T7jhX1HRwoM/s1600/trova1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" qu="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rf3rKbKaPtk/TA-9Q0RdybI/AAAAAAAAAFo/T7jhX1HRwoM/s400/trova1.jpg" width="153" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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If you are in the St. Louis area this summer I encourage you to view the <strong>Ernest Trova retrospective at White Flag Projects</strong> (gallery) located at 4568 Manchester Ave - STL 63110, close to the CWE south of I-64/40. I am sorry Ernest, I never found the high-ball glass you had me search for ...<br />
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<a href="http://etrova.org/">etrova.org</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7523468945036631356.post-83314945461576962642010-05-20T19:56:00.000-07:002010-05-20T19:59:58.474-07:00Rand Paul, this is not 1964<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rf3rKbKaPtk/S_X2HdTvaqI/AAAAAAAAAFY/NSflQsqskl4/s1600/rand.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" gu="true" height="272" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rf3rKbKaPtk/S_X2HdTvaqI/AAAAAAAAAFY/NSflQsqskl4/s400/rand.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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Rand Paul seems to think only 9/10ths of the Civil Rights Act was good enough for him and Kentucky!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7523468945036631356.post-51375957459151411512010-04-06T07:07:00.000-07:002010-04-06T07:07:37.745-07:00New book from the Surrealist Movement<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rf3rKbKaPtk/S7s-1h8s7rI/AAAAAAAAAFQ/TPLHLFDGZkw/s1600/hhh.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" nt="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rf3rKbKaPtk/S7s-1h8s7rI/AAAAAAAAAFQ/TPLHLFDGZkw/s320/hhh.jpg" /></a></div><br />
Hydrolith is here; the newest book from the International Surrealist Movement. You can order the book from the publisher or contact us.<br />
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Thinking about Rene Magritte today. His art always seems to get me out of my artistic funk ......Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7523468945036631356.post-65122324969203451782009-12-16T18:03:00.000-08:002009-12-16T18:18:41.098-08:00More Duvall......I regret to say that I was unaware of how many family member J.S.D. had living, especially in Iowa. On behalf of the Surrealists scattered across the globe I want to extend our sympathies and let you know his work touched many of us.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7523468945036631356.post-61921028611041783492009-12-15T15:21:00.000-08:002009-12-15T15:28:51.484-08:00Schlechter Duvall has passed away...I posted about my Surrealist commrade Schlechter Duvall back in May. It is with sadness that I report from his family that he has passed away. I will be posting some new info on Schlechter in tribute to him this coming week. <br /><br />His ever-potent quote which used to be next to my easel: "Surrealism always was, still is, and always will be the first and last force of revolt on this Earth. It exists only for one reason: to realize freedom. And for freedom's sake, I want to warn every human being that surrealism is more than ever ALIVE!"Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7523468945036631356.post-34389427328145595232009-11-30T07:39:00.000-08:002009-11-30T07:41:01.144-08:00Lawrence Welk has been killed...run over by Tiger Woods. RIP Lawrence........ah one and a two and a .............Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7523468945036631356.post-21202463495894721282009-11-13T08:07:00.000-08:002009-12-16T18:03:33.252-08:00What are the Surrealists doing....?<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rf3rKbKaPtk/SymRZFBH2-I/AAAAAAAAAEE/AV6HRq3ugIw/s1600-h/art-general.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 270px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5416019886919375842" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rf3rKbKaPtk/SymRZFBH2-I/AAAAAAAAAEE/AV6HRq3ugIw/s320/art-general.jpg" /></a><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rf3rKbKaPtk/Sv2cQUEbc9I/AAAAAAAAAD4/Yh_QJpEfCX0/s1600-h/fuckgw.jpg"></a><br /><strong>The newest Declaration from the International Surrealist Movement:</strong><br /><br /><br /><strong>International Surrealist Declaration<br />for the imprisoned Serbian anarchosyndicalists</strong><br />-We hereby declare our unconditional solidarity with the five* Serbian anarcho-syndicalists who have been imprisoned since September the 4th, facing the charge of “international terrorism.” Tadej Kurep, Ivan Vulović, Sanja Dojkić, Ratibor Trivunac and Nikola Mitrović, all members of Sindikalna konfederacija Anarho-sindikalistička inicijativa (ASI), were arrested some days after an action of solidarity with the Greek activist, and then-hunger striker, Thodoris Iliopoulos. The target of this action was the Greek embassy in Belgrade.<br />The Serbian authorities used the slight damages caused to the building of the Greek embassy as a pretext in order to exercise their repressive powers, labeling the members of ASI as “terrorist” and detaining them with no substantial evidence of their actual involvement in this so-called crime of damaging the façade of a building. It is not the building, of course, that concerns the Serbian police; neither is it the symbolism, per se, of an attack against the embassy of another state: the real impact of international solidarity and radical politics, with a view towards social emancipation, is what makes them transgress the limits of their supposed democracy, so as to imprison militants through farcical procedures.<br />Ratibor Trivunac, one of the accused, is a friend of the international surrealist movement. But surrealism is not an exclusive club of personal relations, any more than it is one of mere aesthetic affinities. We consider as our brothers all these five persecuted Serbian militants (and the sixth, Ivan Savic, who was arrested some days later) because their cause, their choice to live and to struggle for another, liberated life, is one that we share. When a state lays its oppressive hand upon one of us, we must all feel the threat to our freedom, we must all take a stand with those who risk being deprived of their elementary freedoms because they are determined to fight, here and now, for real universal freedom.<br />We demand the immediate release of our six comrades and friends!<br />The passion for freedom is stronger than any of your prisons!<br /><br />Athens Surrealist Group:<br />Grigoris Apostolides, Giannis Golfinopoulos, Manolis Daskalos, Alexandra Halkias, Diamantis Karavolas, Vangelis Koutalis, Sotiris Liontos, Helias Melios, Lefki Mossou, Makis Perdikomatis, Nikos Stabakis, Theoni Tabaki, Marianna Xanthopoulou, Giannis Xourias.<br /><br />Nicosia: Kostas Reousis.<br /><br />Leeds Surrealist Group:<br />Gareth Brown, Stephen J. Clark, Kenneth Cox, Luke Dominey, Jan Drabble, Bill Howe, Caroline Jeffs, Sarah Metcalf, Mike Peters, Peter Overton, Martin Trippett.<br /><br />Surrealist London Action Group (SLAG):<br />Paul Cowdell, Merl Fluin, Aniano Henrique, Patrick Hourihan.<br /><br /><br />Grupo Surrealista de Madrid:<br />José Arias Taboada, Eugenio Castro, Manuel Crespo, Javier Gálvez, Jesús García Rodríguez, Vicente Gutiérrez Escudero, Bruno Jacobs, Lurdes Martínez, Julio Monteverde, Noé Ortega, Antonio Ramírez, José Manuel Rojo, María Santana y Ángel Zapata.<br />and its friends:<br />Sonia Ayerra, Rag Cuter, Andrés Devesa, Jesús González Gómez, Paul Hammond, Inés Mendoza, Emilio Santiago, Leticia Vera and the Anarchist Group Al Margen.<br /><br />Groupe Surréaliste de Montréal:<br />Jean-Maurice Brouillet, Dominic Tétrault.<br /><br />Le Groupe de Paris du mouvement surréaliste:<br />Michèle Bachelet, Alfredo Fernandes, Jean-Pierre Guillon, Michaël Löwy, Marie-Dominique Massoni, Dominique Paul, Michel Zimbacca.<br /><br />La Vertèbre et le Rossignol (ville de Québec):<br />Enrique Lechuga, David Nadeau.<br /><br />on behalf of Grupo Surrealista del Río de la Plata/Buenos Aires-Montevideo:<br />Juan Carlos Otaño.<br /><br />on behalf of Skupina Českých a Slovenských Surrealistů:<br />Frantisek Dryje, Katerina Pinosova, Bertrand Schmitt, Bruno Solarik.<br /><br />Surrealistgruppen i Stockholm, Johannes Bergmark.<br /><br />Sürrealist Eylem Türkiye<br /><br />Surrealist Movement in U.S.A.:<br /><br />Chicago Surrealist Group: Penelope Rosemont, Paul Garon, Beth Garon, Gale Ahrens, David Roediger, Joseph Jablonski, Joel Williams, Jan Hathaway, Irene Plazewski, Janina Ciezadlo, Renay Kirkman, Tamara L. Smith.<br /><br />Portland: Brandon Freels, M.K. Shibek.<br /><br />The St. Louis Surrealist Group:<br />Richard Burke, Susan Burke, Andrew Torch, M. M. Morose.<br /><br />Eric Bragg (www.surrealcoconut.com)<br /><br /><br /><br />• - Currently six imprisoned<br /><br />October 31, 2009</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7523468945036631356.post-75109327655776623572009-09-12T17:57:00.000-07:002009-09-12T18:07:12.012-07:00Sarane Alexandrian has died.<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rf3rKbKaPtk/SqxFj2Fe13I/AAAAAAAAADw/j6x5ROTwaF8/s1600-h/sarn.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 250px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rf3rKbKaPtk/SqxFj2Fe13I/AAAAAAAAADw/j6x5ROTwaF8/s320/sarn.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380752136917145458" /></a><br />The group of Surrealist Movement members directly associated with Breton, Picabia and other Pre-WWII members becomes one fewer this week. Sarane was an active Movement member in the 1940's - 1950's, director of NEON, headed the journal Supérieur Inconnu, wrote the overview 'Surrealist Art' (1969) and countless other books and novels. Our comrade will be missed.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7523468945036631356.post-55835558142915686302009-09-09T22:30:00.000-07:002009-09-09T22:59:04.239-07:00Rep. Joe Wilson, you so crazzzy<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rf3rKbKaPtk/SqiVKori1bI/AAAAAAAAADo/nXNudwSO-U8/s1600-h/pd10.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 277px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rf3rKbKaPtk/SqiVKori1bI/AAAAAAAAADo/nXNudwSO-U8/s320/pd10.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379713764845344178" /></a><br />Another sad and brazen display of impertinence in Congress shadowed President Obama's address regarding healthcare reform in America. Representative Joe 'Can't shut my piehole' Wilson, interrupted the speech a couple of times shouting at the President and blatantly in a louder voice: 'You Lie'. I urge the South Carolinians who voted this buffoon into office to join us in the new century and elect a leader whose whiteness and dull wit will not continue to be a roadblock to progress in their state. <br /><br />(Cartoon by me; submitted to the Editorial page at the St. Louis Post Dispatch)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7523468945036631356.post-64943591701847072892009-08-14T06:30:00.000-07:002009-08-14T06:38:01.348-07:00Crucified Tree<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rf3rKbKaPtk/SoVon8pw1YI/AAAAAAAAADg/Fpn6lebBG4o/s1600-h/art-tree09.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 205px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rf3rKbKaPtk/SoVon8pw1YI/AAAAAAAAADg/Fpn6lebBG4o/s320/art-tree09.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369813166214665602" /></a><br />On my way to work everyday I pass a solemn tree...Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7523468945036631356.post-82573362834314246562009-07-11T19:23:00.000-07:002009-07-11T19:44:02.959-07:00Arch connector and beer for all!<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rf3rKbKaPtk/SllMuOPPQBI/AAAAAAAAADY/vU44-hqWQC0/s1600-h/arch.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rf3rKbKaPtk/SllMuOPPQBI/AAAAAAAAADY/vU44-hqWQC0/s320/arch.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5357397588713619474" /></a><br />I have wondered over the last 2 or 3 months if President Obama is trying to tackle too many issues. Today, in our fair city by the muddy Mississippi we are gearing up for the Baseball All-Star Game but at the same time we had a visit from Interior Secretary Ken Salazar. For the most part I like Salazar, I think he was a solid pick by Obama. What surprises the hell out of me, is what Salazar stated today during his visit: <br /><br /><strong>(From the Post-Dispatch/Jake Wagman) Salazar noted what visitors before him have lamented for years: The Arch is cut off from the rest of downtown, isolated by the depressed interstate lanes that run along Memorial Drive. <br />"One of the things we need to do is find a way of connecting the Arch to the community of St. Louis," Salazar said. "That will be a priority of President Obama, and it will be a priority of mine." </strong><br /><br /><em><em>Really?</em> A priority?</em> Our Senator Claire McCaskill must really be working her voodoo spell to bend the ears of Salazar and Obama enough to make the connecting-lid over the highway to the Arch grounds a priority. Hot damn!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7523468945036631356.post-43667569864328810492009-06-29T07:18:00.000-07:002009-06-30T08:09:20.327-07:00Reinhardt Mural COVERED by advertising!<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rf3rKbKaPtk/SkjWUjrnXGI/AAAAAAAAADQ/jIw22412_Rs/s1600-h/sig1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 282px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rf3rKbKaPtk/SkjWUjrnXGI/AAAAAAAAADQ/jIw22412_Rs/s320/sig1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5352763805793737826" /></a><br /><strong>Lambert Airport sells out!</strong><br /> Sigfried Reinhardt, the world renowned St. Louis artist (b.1925 - d.1984) recently had his famous <strong>History of Aviation Mural </strong>at Lambert Saint Louis Airport covered and boarded-over. Some states like New York have statutes against doctoring and/or removing public commissioned artwork. My guess is that many citizens are in the dark on this as our once proud international airport is currently a joke of an airstrip which might be able get you to Chicago or Baltimore, run by one buffoon after another. Props go out to KTVI 2, who appear to be the only media outlet covering this story....here are some snips:<br /><br /><strong>BRIDGETON, MO (KTVI-FOX2now.com) - The huge "History Of Aviation" mural at Lambert Airport was heralded as a masterpiece when it was finished some 30 years ago. In fact, some critics thought it was the finest work of internationally-known artist Sigfried Reinhardt. Now the folks at Lambert have decided to cover it with plywood.<br /><br />FOX 2's John Auble caught up with Jim Pegg at the Brewington Gallery in the Central West End where many of his paintings are sold. <br />Pegg recently got off a plane and couldn't help but notice that the mural was being covered by carpenters. "They said, 'Well, why do you want to know?' And, I said, 'Well, because I helped paint that mural," Pegg relates, "One of the guys said that they were going to put some advertising on it."</strong><br /><br /><br />(Reinhardt photo courtesy of LIFE magazine)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7523468945036631356.post-37452946044011800842009-06-24T08:35:00.000-07:002009-06-24T08:47:33.675-07:00What inspires you to create...<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rf3rKbKaPtk/SkJJoFcvJ0I/AAAAAAAAADI/eZcpbEXs5m0/s1600-h/go.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350920260275873602" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 144px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rf3rKbKaPtk/SkJJoFcvJ0I/AAAAAAAAADI/eZcpbEXs5m0/s320/go.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />In the midst of the oppressive summer heat a simple link from my friend Craig has inspired me in multiple ways...enjoy:<br><br><p align=center><br /><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/KYykpRRuHQM&hl=" width="425" height="344" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" fs="1&" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always"></embed>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7523468945036631356.post-59665739332507673792009-06-22T20:30:00.001-07:002009-06-22T20:43:14.602-07:00St Louis, hoodwinked again...<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rf3rKbKaPtk/SkBOxd0V-cI/AAAAAAAAADA/i3aJiXCccsg/s1600-h/Dead_Parrot.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 220px; height: 225px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rf3rKbKaPtk/SkBOxd0V-cI/AAAAAAAAADA/i3aJiXCccsg/s320/Dead_Parrot.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350362969040878018" /></a><br />...by the Catholic-hierarchy and elitist developers who manhandle this city with full approval and ball-licking by a corrupt City Hall. More to follow...Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7523468945036631356.post-21189504019927409602009-06-12T17:52:00.000-07:002009-06-12T18:35:57.556-07:00Nudity for the weekend<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rf3rKbKaPtk/SjMCca_WXDI/AAAAAAAAAC4/aNUwfvmvjug/s1600-h/wcolor3.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 234px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rf3rKbKaPtk/SjMCca_WXDI/AAAAAAAAAC4/aNUwfvmvjug/s320/wcolor3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346619869923531826" /></a><br />Pour yourself a drink and take off your clothes; try to hold a pose for about 30 minutes...the best ones can! Why is it that mainstream America still sees nudity as vulgar and comical, even nudes in art?! Today's MSNBC headline report (because I am sure there isn't any better news to dwell on) focused on Leonardo da Vinci and the possibility of a nude painting of Mona Lisa or what might have been a pre-lim sketch of Mona in the nude. This work was recently uncovered in the wall of a library. Their take was: "(Leonardo), in a Renaissance version of Mad Magazine, may have painted his famous Mona Lisa in a number of ways, including nude. Now, a painting has surfaced that looks much like the original, sparking debate over just how far the master took his iconic painting." I guess the reference to Mad magazine was made to dumb-down the artwork of Leonardo so it is on a level that the average American moron can relate! Well, fuck you MSNBC. <br /><br />The best art model I ever worked with was from Columbia, MO and she could hold a complex pose for about 30 minutes, sometimes 40.<br /><br />Note: The picture is of a watercolor I executed for the book: 'The Somnambulist Footprints - A Collection of Surrealist Tales'. It has not been publicly viewed and it joins a subset of my work which is not welcome by most gallery owners.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7523468945036631356.post-67949112562855869502009-06-07T09:59:00.000-07:002009-06-07T10:13:27.605-07:00BUILT, Art Exhibition at Laumeier<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rf3rKbKaPtk/Siv099QhjYI/AAAAAAAAACw/35G2S4dNAqw/s1600-h/bh.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 94px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rf3rKbKaPtk/Siv099QhjYI/AAAAAAAAACw/35G2S4dNAqw/s320/bh.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344634728058293634" /></a><br />You have until September 6 to see this dynamic show at Laumeier. Artists include: <strong>Sarah Frost, Mike Behle, Cameron Fuller & Sarah Paulsen, Stan Chisholm and Craig Norton</strong>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2