- Weaving
- Pottery
- Sculpture
- Photography
- Oil and Acrylic Painters
- Poets
- Watercolors
- Print Makers
- Illustrators
- Pen and Ink Drawings
Over time, I will expand the list of disciplines if this page is well received by you, the reader.
While my poetry blog was initially designed to feature all the poems I have written and continue to write, I would like for this blog to represents artists from around the globe.
My perfect scenario is to have the different artists send their art to me electronically and let me post it on their behalf but the idea has to catch on first, so I am going to select art and post myself.
I heard one time from one of my College Professors that if all the History Books were burned or lost that History could be recreated by looking at the art.
Art reflects our history and people all over the world have a right to be exposed to art and to learn the culture and history from other countries.
I trust many of you will believe as I do and pass the word.
The page will be under construction hopefully until November 1, 2014 and the following months will reflect the 10 areas from the following countries:
November 2014 Mexico
December 2014 Indonesia
January 2015 Italy
February 2015 Spain
March 2015 Ireland
April 2015 Germany
May 2015 India
June 2015 Australia
July 2015 United Kingdom
August 2015 Canada
September 2015 Russia
October 2015 France
These specific countries were selected for the first year because they represent the top 12 viewing countries, not counting the United States.
Italy
Weaving
Patrizia
Palazzetti
For
many of her weavings, she uses a simple loom crafted by a Cagliese
carpenter. The frame is studded with nails on which she strings thin yarn
as the foundation for her creations. For the frames of other pieces, she reuses
materials many would discard – old doors, windows, the bottoms of wine barrels.
Patrizia’s most-recent find is a weathered tray with a metal, grid base that
had been used to strain seeds and pulp from smashed grapes and tomatoes. Patrizia compares her art to that of the
Italian masters such as Michelangelo and Raphaelo. Like these artists of the
past, she says, she is inspired by nature and uses her imagination to develop
the concepts for her textile pieces. She talks about her work as if it is a
painting. “It is like applying colors on a canvas.”
Pottery
Nino
Caruso
I was
born in Tripoli, to Sicilian parents from Comiso, a town in the province of
Ragusa. My adolescence in Comiso was very important to my development. It was a
unique period in history (defined by the war, the arrival of the Allied Forces,
the political parties, the farmers' struggle for the land, the readings, the
discussions), which I experienced engaged in a dialectic with the comrades who
I met during those years. In Rome, in
1951, I came into contact with Meli, who was a friend of mine during my
adolescence. He introduced me to the art world of Villa Massimo, where I met
Guttuso, Mazzacurati, Leoncillo, and Brunori, and to social circles that were
very different from those that I had known until then.
Sculpture
Donatello
Born in
Florence, Italy, around 1386, sculptor Donatello apprenticed early with
well-known sculptors and quickly learned the Gothic style. Before he was 20, he
was receiving commissions for his work. Over his career he developed a style of
lifelike, highly emotional sculptures and a reputation second only to
Michelangelo's. Donatello,
the early Italian Renaissance sculptor, was born Donato di Niccolo di Betto
Bardi in Florence, Italy, sometime in 1386. His friends and family gave him the
nickname “Donatello In 1403, he apprenticed with Florence metalsmith and
sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti. A few years later, Ghiberti was commissioned to
create the bronze doors for the Baptistery of the Florence Cathedral, beating
out rival artist Filippo Brunelleschi. Donatello assisted Ghiberti in creating
the cathedral doors.
Photography
Dianora
Niccolini
(born October 1936, Florence, Italy) is a fine art photographer who is widely
considered[who?]
to be one of the female pioneers in the photography of the male nude. She was President of Professional
Women Photographers (PWP) from 1979 until 1984. Although Niccolini's specialty was in
photographing the male nude, this was a style relegated to homosexual circles and was
considered taboo at the time.
In 1975, however, the Third Eye Gallery in New York City gave
Niccolini a solo exhibition. The exhibition was titled The Male Nude.
Oils
& Acrylics
Michelangelo
Pistoletto
(born 25 June 1933) is an Italian painter, action and object artist,
and art theorist.
Pistoletto is acknowledged as one of the main representatives of the Italian Arte Povera. His work
mainly deals with the subject matter of reflection and
the unification of art and everyday life in terms of a Gesamtkunstwerk. From
1947 until 1958, Pistoletto worked in his father’s restoration
workshop in Turin. In the
1950s, he started painting figurative works and self-portraits. In 1959,
he participated in the Biennale di San Marino. In the following
year, he had his first solo exhibition in the Galleria Galatea in Turin. In the
beginning of the 1960s, Pistoletto started painting figurative works and
self-portraits which he painted on a monochrome, metallic background.
Poetry
Umberto
Saba was born Umberto Poli in 1883. He married Carolina Woelfler in 1909, and
their only child, Lina (Linuccia) was born the following year. They lived in
various places in northern Italy until Saba bought a bookshop in Trieste in
1919. The first edition of his great Canzoniere, 'a sort of Odyssey of man in
our times', was published at his own expense in 1921. He described his as a
life which was 'relatively poor in external events but rich, at times
excruciatingly so, in emotions and inner resonances'. He died in Gorizia in
1957.
(Ho
attraversata tutta la città)
I
traversed the whole city.
Then
climbed a hill
crowded
at first, in the end deserted,
closed
off by a little wall,
a
corner where I alone
sit;
and it seems to me where it ends
the
city ends.
Trieste
has a sullen
grace,
If you like,
it’s a
delinquent, bitter, voracious,
with
blue eyes and hands too clumsy
to
offer flowers;
like
love
possessed
by jealousy.
From
this hill I discover every church,
every
street, follow them to the cluttered shore,
or the
stony slope, on whose
summit
a house, the last one, clings.
Circling,
surrounding
all these things
a
strange air, a tormented air,
the
native air.
My
city, alive in every part,
has
left this corner for me, for my life,
pensive,
and quiet.
Watercolors
Giuseppe
Moriani
was an Italian painter
of the Baroque period,
active mainly in Tuscany in
the late 17th and early 18th century. He
was strongly influenced by Giovanni
Camillo Sagrestani. He painted the Story of Santa Verdiana in the church of
Santa Verdiana in Castelfiorentino,
in collaboration with Sagrestani, Ranieri
del Pace, Niccolò Lapi,
Antonio Puglieschi,
and Agostino Veracini.
In the museum of sacred art in Greve in Chianti, is
Moriani's Healing of the blind since birth. He painted the canvases of Miracles
of San Francesco di Paola for the Church
of San Francesco di Paola (Firenze).
Printmaking
MARINO
MARINI
(Pistoia 1901 - Viareggio 1980) POMONA
One of
the leading Italian sculptors of the 20th century, Marino Marini was also a
painter, etcher and lithographer. Born in Pistoia, he studied painting and
sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts, Florence. Marini succeeded Arturo
Martini as professor at the Scuola d’Arte di Villa Reale in Monza, near Milan,
in 1929, a position he retained until 1940, when he became Professor of
Sculpture at the Accademia di Brera, Milan. During the 1930s he traveled
frequently in Europe. In Paris he was in contact with many of the distinguished
modern artists of that time, including Braque, Picasso and Giacometti.
Illustrators
Federico
Babina
Is an Italian architect and graphic designer
(since 1994) that lives and works in Barcelona (since 2007). “Every day I try
to rediscover a way to observe the world through the eyes of a child. Children
are able to have a vision of things totally uninhibited and without the
conditioning of the experience. Children’s drawings are always amazing and
beautiful in their spontaneous simplicity and clarity. I like trying to explain
the world I see through different techniques of expression. I like the richness
of the language and the diversity of its forms. I do not want to confine me in
a prison of a style or shape"
Pen
& Ink Drawings
Antonello
da Messina
He is, in a sense, the first truly European painter and his remarkably
varied achievements raise issues crucial to our understanding of European art.
No other Italian artist of the fifteenth century responded in such
a direct fashion not only to the leading masters of Bruges and Brussels—Jan van Eyck (d.
1441) and Petrus
Christus (d. 1475/76) in particular—but also to giants of French Provençal
painting such as the Master of the Aix Annunciation and Enguerrand Quarton. Did
Antonello personally encounter any of these artists, possibly in the course of
undocumented trips north of the Alps, or did he only come into contact with
their work during the time he spent in Naples, where Netherlandish painting was
highly valued and where, between 1438 and 1442, Rene of Anjou briefly ruled as
king of Naples and of Sicily?
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Weaving
Sisilia Sii grew up learning the art of making ikat
textiles at her mother’s side but had no formal education and never learned to
read or write. When she married, she chose a husband from a different
ethnolinguistic group, so no bridewealth was exchanged; Sii raised her own
family in the house she inherited from her mother, essentially creating a
matrilineal household. She made cloth for her family’s needs but never sold any
until she was widowed at a relatively young age and had to face the challenges
of raising her four children on her own. With few other resources available,
she seized on weaving as a way of supporting her family. Over the years she has
used this income to educate her children, rebuild her home, purchase garden
land, and raise her standing in the community.
Sculpture
When it comes to driven art, Ono Gaf may fit the
archetype to perfection. And if you disagree, you can take it up with that
giant, hand-built turtle standing over him!
It’s often said that great artists are only
appreciated after they’re dead, but Ono Gaf, who’s recently gained world-wide
attention thanks to his monstrous metal turtle, is smashing that idea with a
giant steel mallet.
Ono, an Indonesian artist whose primary medium
is steel and iron, has been obsessed with his artistic pursuits from a young
age–despite early admonishment from his father. Though he also paints,
he’s gotten the most attention for his amazing sculptures.
As Ono
told the Jakarta Post, he learned how to forge and
weld and found he could “communicate with metal.” Unfortunately, he hit a bit
of a roadblock–at first, most people didn’t consider his work art because of
the medium.
Photography
My name is Hengki Koentjoro, a fine art photographer
base in Jakarta, Indonesia. I graduated from Brooks Institute of Photography in
1991 majoring in Film/video production and minor in Black and White
photography. At the moment I’m working as a video cameraman for a production
house in Jakarta and we do mostly corporate profile and TV commercials. For now
photography is mainly a serious hobby during spare time.
My parents gave me a Kodak pocket camera for a
birthday present. The loves of capturing moments in the family as well as the
ability to freeze moments were the starting point of my love affair with
photography. Letter on the work of Ansel Adam really set my eyes on Black and
White photography. His ability to control the tonality to create moods and
atmosphere captivated me and the passion starts from there and never look back.
Oils & Acrylics
Kartika Affandi-Koberl was born in Jakarta in
1934. She is the daughter of Affandi and Maryati, who were both artists. Kartika
became engaged to a young Javanese artist, Saptohudoyo, at the age of fourteen and
when she was seventeen they were married. She bore Sapto eight children.
Kartika never received formal art instruction. From
the age of seven, she was instructed by Affandi in
how to paint with fingers and tubes directly on the canvas. Any mixing
of colours is done on her hands and wrists. Kartika has no permanent studio;
she prefers to paint outside in the village environment where she interacts
directly with her subjects and on-lookers.
Kartika is one of a small group of women who from
the mid-1980s have succeeded in exhibiting their work on a regular basis and in
gaining limited critical recognition. Even in this context, Kartika's art
emerges as unique, ranging as it does from conventional to subversive.
Watercolors
Ng Woon Lam ( 黄运南
) is a full member of National Watercolor Society NWS and American
Watercolor Society.
He showed in National
Watercolor Society eightieth and eighty-second
international exhibition, American Watercolor Society 139th,
140th and 142nd international annual show, 2003 Florence
Biennale and 2006 Oil Painters of
America 15th Annual National Show.
He learnt from Singapore Master Watercolor Artist
Mr. Gog Sing Hooi, late and founding president of Singapore Watercolor
Society, Associate Professor Emeritus Cheng-Khee Chee (University of Minnesota at
Duluth)
Associate Professor Don Southard and
Professor Susanna Coffey at The School of the Art
Institute of Chicago and Professor Edward Schmidt
at New York Academy of Art.
His painting style carries Chinese calligraphic
strokes; showing strong influence from master Singapore Watercolor Artist Gog
Sing Hooi. His philosophy of image
making is derived from Taiji (太极)
philosophy. He is constantly searching for balance and harmony in the dynamic
image making process. This is similar to the fundamental building of Chinese
Painting.
He is currently teaching in the Nanyang
Technological University's School of Art, Design and Media
Poet
Yanny Widjanarko
From The Glasses of Innocent Eyes
Snuggling
through words
Playing
the role of her ruse
The
broken family picture
Erase
the humanity from her bone
Playing
hide and seek with realism
She
stands under the spotlight
As
if the audience blindfolded
As
if they were meant to be deaf
Rely
on the notion of her self-perspective
She
lost on the devil road
While
the innocent eyes finally judge
While
the innocent eyes finally speak
Collapsed
by the evidence of her mistake
Her
child takes the wounds in silent sob
There
is no concern
Or
no room to pity the misled past
From
the glasses of innocent eyes
No
more Mom figure but ghost
No
more hero, just zero
No
longer appreciated or feel betrayed
The
child must walk on her maturity
Pen
& Ink Drawings
Veri Apriyatno is an artist from Jakarta, Indonesia.
Born on April 12, 1973. Get a bachelor’s degree in 1998 at the Bandung
Institute of Technology, Department of Fine Art, Painting studio. Famous
Indonesian artist is known for his realistic self-portraits that have an Escher
influence. The majority of his drawings were done with pencil on canvas, but
others like the “Eye” were made with charcoal and pastel.
Print
Making
Just about finishing his studies at the Indonesia
Institute of the Arts Yogyakarta, majoring in printmaking art, Rizal Pramana enjoys
the friendly and art-supportive atmosphere of the city. Annual art events,
exhibitions and workshops enrich the cultural life here where every day is also
colored by the traditional arts and a growing number of artists from all around
the world. Rizal loves to observe people and their relationships, the often
grotesque ways they attempt to convey their emotions; and he is always
sensitive for mysteries, both between people and in the world around us.
Illustrator
Azizah Noor is an Indonesian Comic artist. Her first
Coloni Comic called “Satu Atap” and now on her way in making the second
installment of the story while she also working on her other comics, which
called BANDUNG: WHISPERS FROM A CITY.
Pottery
Lombok
Pottery Project The island of Lombok in Indonesia
is well known for its handicrafts and traditional craft work, in particular
pottery, basket-making, and weaving. The three villages of Banyumulek, Masbagik
Timur, and Penujak represent the island's major pottery-producing areas. Here,
where pottery making is their main source of income, the village women have
been producing pottery since the decline of the East Javanese Hindu Kingdom of
Majapahit in the early part of the 16th century.
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Weaving
Porfirio
Gutiérrez and his family are masters of traditional Zapotec weaving and the
creative skills associated with their fine art. They have descended from
centuries of weavers and have no reason to doubt that their ancestors were
weaving in pre-Columbian times. Their village, Teotitlán del Valle in Oaxaca,
has been famous for the art of weaving for centuries. Nearby ruins that date
back as far as 500 BC still stand decorated with the same patterns and symbols
that are used in today's designs.
Sculpture
Sebastián (born Enrique
Carbajal González on November 15, 1947) is a Mexican sculptor best known
for his monumental works of steel and/or concrete in both Mexico and abroad.
These include a number of “gate” sculptures such as the Gran Puerta a México
in Matamoros, Tamaulipas but
his most famous sculpture is the “Caballito” located in downtown Mexico City.
His works are found in various cities outside of Mexico, such as Japan where
two are now used as city symbols.
Photography
Graciela
Iturbide was born in Mexico in 1942, the eldest of thirteen children. She was
exposed to photography early on in life. Her father took pictures of her and
her siblings and she got her first camera when she was 11 years old. When she
was a child, her father put all the photographs in a box and she said "it
was a great treat to go to the box and look at these photos, these
memories." She then married the architect Manuel Rocha Díaz in
1962 and had three children over the next eight years. Iturbide's six year old
daughter, Claudia, died in 1970; after this death she turned to
photography.
Oils
& Acrylics
from Mexico City whose work is
distinguished by the depiction of everyday objects in strong, bright colors,
often using color schemes associated with Mexico. She began her career in 1986
in Cancun doing
etching, but moved to Mexico City and into painting by 1991. Most of her work
is acrylics on
canvas but she is also noted for her work with painting ceramics with Uriarte
Talavera. She has also done painting on wood, created ceramics, collages and
even shoe decoration and has been exhibited both individually and collectively
in Mexico, Europe and the United States
Watercolors
“My
name is Felipe
Bernal. I am originally from Escuinapa, Sinaloa in Mexico
but currently live in Guadalajara, Jalisco, also in Mexico. I studied
fine art at El Centro Cultural Casa Colomos of Guadalajara and since then have
dedicated most of my time to painting. My
artwork is generally on the human form, but I focus on children as I consider
them to be the only beings capable of transmitting innocence and affinity with
the environment in one single yet complex expression. I explore and represent
the visual plane in my artwork through splotches of color from which my figures
emerge.
Poets
Guadalupe Teresa Amor Schmidtlein (May 30, 1918
– May 8, 2000), who wrote as Pita Amor, was a Mexican poet.
She was born in Mexico City, the youngest child of
a family with seven children, of mixed French,German and Spanish ancestry,
a member of the Mexican aristocracy. Her parents were Carolina Schmidtlein y
García Teruel (of German and Spanish origin) and Emmanuel Amor Subervielle (of
Spanish and French origin). Her family's financial woes after the revolution are
narrated in Yo soy mi casa. During
her lifetime she was known for her rebelliousness and audacity in her
lifestyle.
I am my own house
I
Round house had
round loneliness
that pervaded the air
was round harmony
unbreathable anxiety.
round loneliness
that pervaded the air
was round harmony
unbreathable anxiety.
The mornings were nights,
night vanished,
the penalties very well done,
the said very badly lived.
night vanished,
the penalties very well done,
the said very badly lived.
And that round environment
for negative round,
my heart was hurt
and troubled my conscience.
A memory kept:
round round nothing.
for negative round,
my heart was hurt
and troubled my conscience.
A memory kept:
round round nothing.
II
Stairs and no steps
are for me my sorrows,
disappointments chains,
gave tributes to the world.
are for me my sorrows,
disappointments chains,
gave tributes to the world.
Have different shapes
and different shades,
but united by the years,
my pains, and my delusions,
as a succession of injury,
are stairs at me.
and different shades,
but united by the years,
my pains, and my delusions,
as a succession of injury,
are stairs at me.
III
My idea of spherical things,
leave my worries and my woes,
because geometrically identical think
big and small, that being,
they are of equal importance; that exist,
their sizes have proportions,
because not measured by its size
and have only because they are total,
but spherically uneven.
leave my worries and my woes,
because geometrically identical think
big and small, that being,
they are of equal importance; that exist,
their sizes have proportions,
because not measured by its size
and have only because they are total,
but spherically uneven.
IV
I'm pouring out
and I'm drowning inside.
The world is just a sphere,
and to ask the world to
all, that I find.
and I'm drowning inside.
The world is just a sphere,
and to ask the world to
all, that I find.
Whole that should
I, myself, make,
to force remove
such plaintive passion
is extinguished so that
my growing vanity
and thus could
give my soul satiety.
I, myself, make,
to force remove
such plaintive passion
is extinguished so that
my growing vanity
and thus could
give my soul satiety.
V
Baroque my brain
oozes soul intact,
however my body pacta
revenge against the two.
oozes soul intact,
however my body pacta
revenge against the two.
All my being in pursuit
of an end that does not perform,
and in my mind more slides
and the two and released,
presintiéndoles bank
full penetration
of an end that does not perform,
and in my mind more slides
and the two and released,
presintiéndoles bank
full penetration
VI
I am concave and convex,
two media worlds at once:
the murky that show outside,
and mine in me.
curves-are my two halves
so authentic in me
that Honduras and frivolities
all gave them my essence.
two media worlds at once:
the murky that show outside,
and mine in me.
curves-are my two halves
so authentic in me
that Honduras and frivolities
all gave them my essence.
And so I lived
with black and white extremes,
which at the same time learned
tortuous hell and heaven.
with black and white extremes,
which at the same time learned
tortuous hell and heaven.
Pen
& Ink Drawings
Emilia
Ortiz Pérez (Tepic,
1917 - Tepic, November 24, 2012) was a Mexican painter, cartoonist, caricaturist,
and poet, best known for her watercolors.
Her father, Abraham D. Ortiz, had arrived at Tepic originally from Oaxacawhere he
married Elvira Perez and engaged in haberdashery and the hardware trade. She
studied painting at the Academy of San Carlos in Mexico
City.
Her drawings and paintings were exhibited in 1940. An author as well, her
prizewinning book, De mis soledades vengo, was published in 1986. The
Museo Emilia Ortiz in Lerdo houses Ortiz's photography and art, as well as local
art.
Print
Making
María
Dolores Velázquez Rivas, better known as "Lola"
Cueto (b. Azcapotzalco, March 2, 1897 – d. Mexico
City,
January 24, 1978) was a Mexican painter, printmaker, puppet
designer and puppeteer.
She is best known for her work in children’s theater, creating sets, puppets
and theatre companies performing pieces for educational purposes. Cueto took
her last name from husband Germán
Cueto, which whom she had two daughters, one of which is noted playwright
and puppeteer Mireya Cueto. Most of Cueto’s
artistic interest was related to Mexican handcrafts and
folk art, either creating paintings about it or creating
traditional works such as tapestries, papel
picado and traditional Mexican
toys.
Illustrators
Roberto
Montenegro Nervo (February 19, 1885 in Guadalajara - October 13, 1968 in
Mexico City) was a painter, muralist and illustrator, who was one of the first
to be involved in the Mexican
muralism movement after the Mexican Revolution.
His most important mural work was done at the former San Pedro and
San Pablo monastery but as his work did not have the
same drama as other muralists, such as Diego
Rivera, he lost prominence in this endeavor. Most of his
career is dedicated to illustration and publishing, portrait painting and the
promotion of Mexican handcrafts and
folk art.
Pottery
Josefina
Aguilar is a Mexican folk
artist from Ocotlán de Morelos, Oaxaca.
She is best known for her small clay figurines, called muñecas, an
art form she learned from her mother. Aguilar uses red clay to create
depictions of everyday village activities, religious and folkloric scenes,
famous figures and special Day
of the Dead statues. Collectors of her
work include Nelson Rockefeller,
who discovered her work on a trip to Oaxaca in 1975 as well as repeat
visitors to Oaxaca, who come to see her latest work. 
