Monday, February 28, 2011

Keith Haring - part 2


     Here is some more work from 'graffiti' artist Keith Haring. For biographical information on Haring see part 1 below. These works date from 1984 - 1989:

     1984 Untitled

     1985 Moses and the Burning Bush

     1986 Untitled

     1986 Untitled

     1986 Untitled

     1986 Untitled

     1986 Untitled

     1987 Knokke

     1987 Untitled

     1988 Apocalypse #3

     1988 Apocalypse #6

     1988 Apocalypse #10

     1988 Growing 3

     1988 Untitled

     1988 Untitled

     1989 Brazil

     1989 Piglet goes Shopping

     1989 Untitled

    1989 Untitled
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dEfINiTiON M o n d a y

    Jealousy

    What is jealousy?

    envy, covetousness, resentment, resentfulness, desirousness

    Synonyms: protectiveness, suspicion, suspiciousness, wariness, watchfulness, mistrustfulness, distrust, possessiveness

    Jealousy can be a very bad thing.
    It can be a very EVIL thing.

    I won't sit here and tell you that I have never been a jealous person at some point in my life.

    I'm just not currently jealous of anything or anyone right now.

    but.......
    I know jealousy.
    I know what it can do to a person.
    It takes over who you are.
    You do very unchristain like things.
    Its not a good quality to have. No matter what justifications you have for your behavior.
    Its kinda like being an alcoholic. You never admit to what you've become. You never come out and say your actually jealous. You just become more and more obsessed with what your jealous of. In fact when friends try and point it out you only become more angry.

    You go to great lengths to do/say mean things. Cause you think it will make you feel better. That some how it will change the situation for the better if everyone saw this person or situation for what they were.

    You justify you behavior with excuses. That is only realistic to YOU.
    It grows and grows until it gets totally out of control. Your anger takes over you.
    (I know this one all too well)

    Its all you talk about. Until people start to not want to be around you. What with all the negative behavior and all.

    Jealousy can make you do things that you wouldn't normally do.
     Scary things. Mean things. Bad things.

    One never realizes this until they take a step back and look at how bad its gotten.
    and to think all that energy was just wasted.
     for nothing.
    No matter how much you try to convience yourself.
    Jealous behavior and actions are NEVER worth it.

    Try
    forgive and forget.
     it totally works.

    Do you know of somone
    who has allowed
     jealousy to take over their life?
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Sunday, February 27, 2011

Have a nice week!

Connections

    Is there such a thing?  As being connected to someone? Someone who just gets you.
     Just cause you’re attracted to someone or have some or ok a lot of unusual things in common doesn't mean anything. Right. ? or does it?
    Does that mean you’re destined to be together?
    If you have a connection with someone, does that mean you should drop everything(end a marriage? travel a long distance? disappoint family?

    and pursue this person/relationship?

    What if its your only chance? Is there such a thing as having more than one connection with someone?

    Is it destiny.............................................
    the predetermined, usually inevitable or irresistible, course of events?
    Is it fate;  a prophetic declaration of what must be?
    Is it Karma; the good or bad emanations felt to be generated by someone or something?
    What would you do in this situation?
    DO you believe there is such a thing out there? have you experienced it before?
    A soulmate?
    A person with whom one has a strong affinity.
    I am very troubled with this right now.

    What to do, what to do.
    I do believe there is someone out there for everyone.
    That perfect someone.
      Not in the sense of being perfect but a perfect fit .
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Keith Haring

    Following on from my recent post on graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, I thought I'd take a look at a couple of his contemporaries on the New York 'graffiti' art scene. This is the first of two posts looking at the work of Keith Haring.
    Haring (1958 – 1990) was born in Reading, Pennsylvania. He developed a love for drawing at a very early age, learning basic cartooning skills from his father and from the popular culture around him, such as Dr. Seuss and Walt Disney.
    On graduation from high school in 1976, Haring enrolled in the Ivy School of Professional Art in Pittsburgh. He soon realized that he had little interest in becoming a commercial graphic artist and dropped out in the first year. While in Pittsburgh, Haring continued to study and work on his own and in 1978 had a solo exhibition of his work at the Pittsburgh Arts and Crafts Center.
    In 1979 Haring moved to New York and enrolled in the School of Visual Arts. He found a thriving alternative art community that was developing outside the gallery and museum system, in the downtown streets, the subways and spaces in clubs and former dance halls. He became friends with fellow artists Kenny Scharf and Jean-Michel Basquiat, as well as the musicians, performance artists and graffiti writers that comprised the burgeoning art community.
    Haring was also inspired by the work of Jean Dubuffet, Pierre Alechinsky, William Burroughs, Brion Gysin and Robert Henri’s manifesto The Art Spirit, which asserted the fundamental independence of the artist. With these influences Haring was able to push his own youthful impulses toward a singular kind of graphic expression based on the primacy of the line. Also drawn to the public and participatory nature of Christo’s work, in particular Running Fence, and by Andy Warhol’s unique fusion of art and life, Haring was determined to devote his career to creating a truly public art.
    As a student at SVA, Haring experimented with performance, video, installation and collage, while always maintaining a strong commitment to drawing. In 1980, Haring found a highly effective medium that allowed him to communicate with the wider audience he desired, when he noticed the unused advertising panels covered with matte black paper in a subway station. He began to create drawings in white chalk on these blank paper panels throughout the subway system. Between 1980 and 1985, Haring produced hundreds of these public drawings in rapid rhythmic lines, sometimes creating as many as forty “subway drawings” in one day. This seamless flow of images became familiar to New York commuters, who often would stop to engage the artist when they encountered him at work. The subway became, as Haring said, a “laboratory” for working out his ideas and experimenting with his simple lines.
    Between 1980 and 1989 Haring achieved international recognition and participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions. During this period, he also participated in renowned international survey exhibitions such as Documenta 7 in Kassel; the São Paulo Biennial; and the Whitney Biennial. Haring completed numerous public projects in the first half of the 80’s as well, ranging from an animation for the Spectacolor billboard in Times Square, designing sets and backdrops for theaters and clubs, developing watch designs for Swatch and an advertising campaign for Absolut vodka; and creating murals worldwide.
    Throughout his career, Haring devoted much of his time to public works, which often carried social messages. He produced more than 50 public artworks between 1982 and 1989, in dozens of cities around the world, many of which were created for charities, hospitals, children’s day care centers and orphanages.
    Keith Haring died of AIDS related complications at the age of 31 in 1990.
    Since his death, Haring has been the subject of several international retrospectives. The work of Keith Haring can be seen today in the exhibitions and collections of major museums around the world.
    Something that has struck me is the similarity between some of Haring's work and some of the primitive works of Aboriginal Australians, as in the examples below:

     An Australian Aboriginal painting

    Keith Haring: 1982 Untitled

     1979 Untitled

     1980 Untitled

     1981 Untitled

     1981 Untitled 

     1982 Untitled

     1982 Untitled

     1983 Fertility 3

     1983 Fertility 5

     1983 Fertility (no ?)

     1983 Untitled

     1983 Untitled

     1984 Untitled

     1984 Untitled

     1984 Untitled

     Haring photographed by Annie Liebowitz

    More works by Keith Haring in the next blog post.


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Saturday, February 26, 2011

One is the loneliest NO

    One

    One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do
    Two can be just as bad as one
    It's the loneliest number since the number one

    No is the saddest experience you'll ever know
    Yes, it's the saddest experience you'll ever know
    `Cause one is the loneliest number that you'll ever do
    One is the loneliest number, worse than two

    It's just no good anymore since she went away
    Now I spend my time just making rhymes of yesterday

    One is the loneliest, number one is the loneliest
    Number one is the loneliest number that you'll ever do
    One is the loneliest, one is the loneliest
    One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do
    It's just no good anymore since she went away
    (Number) One is the loneliest
    (Number) One is the loneliest
    (Number) One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do
    (Number) One is the loneliest
    (Number) One is the loneliest
    (Number) One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do
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Friday, February 25, 2011

On the RUN

    Springtime is supposed to be getting closer .
    (so that little rodent freakin said, I’m just not a believer  yet with all this freakin snow we keep having)
    AS much as I want it to get here the thought of spring approaching is kinda freaking me out.
    Since, I promised the soccerboy last fall that I would run in a 5k with him.
    In the spring.
    Now, I have been running for about 8 months.
    Heres the big but...........
    Its only been On/off . I've had to take a few breaks due to my injury in my hip and my Gastritis.
    Sooooooo, I don’t really feel like I am where I should be to run a 5k. 
    Some days I can run 30 minutes solid no problems.

    While, Other times I feel like I can just barely make it a freakin mile and ½.
    A 5k is more than a mile and ½ people. Alot more.
    Some of my runner friends have given me a pep talk, saying that I can always walk some if I needed to.
    or that the adrenaline rush of just being in the race will be enough to get me through the whole race.
    I just don’t know. I am one of “those” people who if I am running in a race,
    1)    I won't walk and  2) I enter a race to place.
    I don’t want to come in dead last.
    I’m not saying there is anything wrong with either of those.
     I’m just saying that I am the type of person if I don’t go balls to the wall and do really well then I won't enter to run.
    At least not until I feel like I am 100% ready.
    Does that sound stupid? 
    and now recently I have bumped up my work outs to, two a days.  In hopes that I will be ready come spring.
    Any runners out there have any tips to give me?
    I sooooooo want to be ready
     to run with the soccerboy.
    I don’t want to back out
    of the promise I made to him.
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From the big apple...The Strokes

    For us one of the best band from New York.
    Julian Casablancas & Co. play awesome music. Sometimes speed n' strong, sometimes romantic, always fantastic american rock n' roll!Source URL: http://ledger-heath.blogspot.com/2011/02/
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Theodoros Stamos - part 2

    In this second part of a look at the work of key abstract expressionist Theodoros Stamos (1922-1997), the works shown below date from the mid 1960s onwards. Stamos travelled widely during much of his adult life. These trips both contributed to his aesthetic development and also provided fodder for his broad, deep intellectual interest in the world’s belief systems. Beginning in 1962, he created several long series of paintings; many of these contained sub-series. The Sun-Box series, begun in 1962, explored hard-edged geometries on flat grounds. After 1971, all of his paintings were part of the Infinity Field series. These abstractions are characterized by broad areas of colour delineated by slim lines or shape. Among the Infinity Fields are the Lefkada sub-series, inspired by the Greek island where Stamos spent much of his time from 1970 until his death. I think the influence of the 'colour field' works of his friend Mark Rothko is evident in these works.
    He taught at Black Mountain College from 1950 until 1954 and from 1955 to 1975 he taught at the Art Students League of New York and the Cummington School of Fine Arts. Stamos was also a member of the Uptown Group. A year before his death he donated 43 of his works to the National Gallery of Greece. He died in 1999 and is buried in Lefkas, Greece.

     1969 Homage to Milton Avery, Sun-Box III

     1970 Transparent Green Sun-Box

     1971 Untitled, Infinity Field

     1973 Infinity Field, Knossos Series

     1977 Infinity Field, Lefkada Series

     1978 Infinity Field (HH/TS/7)

     1978 Infinity Field, Lefkada Series #2

     1978 Infinity Field, Lefkada Series #5

     1979 Untitled II screenprint

     1979 Untitled V screenprint

     1979 Untitled VI screenprint

     1980 Infinty Field, Lefkada Series (purple)

     1982 Infinity Field, Lefkada Series

     1982-83 Infinity Field

     1983 Infinity Field, Lefkada Series

     1983 Infinity Filed, Jerusalem Series

     1985 Infinity Field, Jerusalem Series, 3rd Letter

     1986 Edge of Burning Bush

     1986 Infinity Filed, Torino Series #7
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