İYİKİ DOĞDUN FARKLI HASTA ÇOCUK “SALVADOR DALİ”

Salvador Dali 11 Mayıs 1914 yılında İspanya’da Figueras köyünde dünyaya geldi. Altı yaşında menenjitten ölen erkek kardeşiyle aynı ismi taşıdığı gibi benzerlikleri de şaşırtıcı derece de aynıydı. 1973 yılında Salvador Dali “ Doğar doğmaz tapılan bir ölünün ayak izlerinden yürümeye başladım. Beni severken aslında hala onu seviyorlardı. Belki de benden çok onu seviyorlardı. Babamın sevgisinin sınırları seviş şekli yaşamımın ilk günlerinde içimde büyük bir yara açılmasına sebep oldu” diyerek ölen erkek kardeşiyle benzerliği ve onun yerine konuşuyla ilgili düşüncelerini ifade eder.

Bu benzerlik durumundan sıyrılıp farklılığını göstermek isteyen Salvador Dali ailesinin dikkatini çekmek için teatral hareketler sergiledi. Uzunca bir süre onu etkiliyen kız kardeşi Ana Maria’nın doğumu da kalıcı bir değişim yaratamadı Salvador Dali’nin durumunda. Hatta farklılığını ifade etme isteği hızla artıyordu.

On yaşında çizdiği ilk self portresinin ismi “HASTA ÇOCUK” idi. İyi bir ressam olan Juan Nunez’in öğretmeni olduğu resim kursuna başladı ve karakalem çalışmayı öğrendi. Bu arada Catalanlar ile yani İspanyanın Kuzey Doğusunda yaşayan Catalanca dili konuşan empresyonistlerle ve realistlerle tanıştı. Sonrasında ise Kübizm ve Juan Gris’i keşfetti. Yirmili yaşlarda başladığı Madrid San Fernando Akademisinden anarşist hareketleri nedeniyle atılıp Girona’da tutuklandı. Affedilip okula kabul edilse de 1926 yılında okulla bağı tamamen kesildi. Aynı yıllarda Picasso ile 10 yıl sonra da Stefan Zweig aracılığıyla Sigmund Freud ile tanıştı.

Dali görünümüyle ve her anlamda o günden sonra değişti. Uzun saçları, ağzından hiç düşürmediği piposu yerine kısa saçlı spor kıyafetli asık suratlı bir Dali’ye dönüştü. Günlük yaşamı entelektüel bir çevre de oldukça lüks içindeydi. İspanyol yönetmen ve senarist Bunuel ile “Bir Endülüs Köpeği” filmini sahnelenmesinde yardımcı oldu fakat Bunuel’i dinsizlikle suçlayıp tekrar birlikte çalışmayı tercih etmedi. Kadınlar ilgi alanına girmiyordu onlar sadece erotik fantezileri için gerekliydi Dali için. 1926 yılında Gala ile tanışmasıyla bu konudaki fikri değişti. Bir Rus avukatın kızı ve sürrealist şair Paul Eduard’ın eşi olan Gala ile karşılaştığında eşi de yanındaydı. Fakat bu karşılaşmadan bir süre sonra birbirilerine aşık olup birlikte yaşamaya başladılar. . Gala, Dali için bir aşık bir arkadaş, esin perisi ve model her şeyden öte varlığının yöneticisidir.

İspanya İç Savaşından sonra ise Dünya Savaşından kaçmak için dünyayı gezdiler. Dali “Her zaman anarşist ve aynı zamanda da monarşisttim. Her zaman burjuvaziye karşıydım hala da öyleyim. Gerçek kültürel devrim monarşist prensiplerin restoresiyle mümkündür” diyerek bu süreçle ilgili düşüncelerini ifade eder. Ama 1934’te eski sürrealist arkadaşlarından ayrılmış ve burjuvaya dönüşmekle suçlanır hale gelmişti. Çünkü politikayı kansere benzeterek ilgilenmediğini belli ediyor ve politikadan uzak duruyordu.

1982’de Gala’nın ölümüyle resim yapmayı bıraktı. Gala’nın mezarının olduğu Pubol’e yerleşip son eserlerini verdi. Bütün akımları tanıyıp, tüm çılgınlığıyla devasa eseri “Babil Kulesi’nden sonra Dali, sanat hayatı boyunca varolan görünmez ipi fark etti. Breton ile bile değilken ilk sürrealist eserleriyle gerçek anlamdaki sürrealist eserlerini bu görünmez ip birbirine bağlıyordu.

Freud’un içten ve fanatik olarak olarak tanımladığı Dali’nin gözleri bakış açısı hep büyüleyici bir dünyayı keşfediyordu. Ölümünden sonra da yaşamında da esin perisi Gala’dan hiç ayrılmadı. Pubol şatosundaki yangından kurtulduktan sonra 23 Şubat 1989’da Figueras hastanesinde 84 yaşında gözlerini yumdu. Cesedi ilaçlandı ve Figuras’daki müzesine hakim olan dev kubbenin altına gömüldü.

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TALENTED AUSTRIAN ARTIST CHRISTIAN SCHOLE

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KIM HASKINS’S CATS AND ARTWORKS

Still life illustrations which toy with our confectionary-receptor emotions found lying (NEVER) far from the surface in our cerebral vortexes, cheeky chappie animal compositions which are positively illuminated with wit and wisdom and a fine line in jolly good-looking greetings cards which are brimming over with visually explicit sentiment are all found living and breathing in celebrated contemporary fine artist, Kim Haskins’ creative locker. Make no mistake.

In terms of Haskins’ animals, you are presented with a gorgeous choice of either dogs, chickens, birds, rabbits and of course, her trademark cats. Although you might not have necessarily have known about her ‘trademark’ cats had you not been exposed to Haskins’ ‘trademark’ work before now. So, assuming you haven’t, she paints an awful lot of cats. Who’s she?! We hear people shouting in unison. Er, the cat’s mother according to fable; which takes us off on a whole new plain. Away from Haskins’ colourific host of animals, there’s also a plethora of predominantly black and white ink creature features from which to make your selection to.

Born and bred in Hertfordshire’s, Hitchin in 1981, Haskins was referred to as the ‘class artist’ throughout her school years. Which is always better than being known as the ‘class clown’ of course. Unless you wish to be a comedian when you grow up. Haskins would draw pictures in classmates exercise books (invited to, not just wilfully vandalise for the record), create posters for school plays and design T-shirts for fellow students during her formative years. As Haskins’ skillset improved and interest in art escalated, the nucleus of her work fell into two very clearly defined artistic camps. Those of humourous and/or still life; which remains very much the case today too.

In Haskins’ own words – and as we hinted at in the tedious intro – she (sorry, the artist) paints vivacious, witty pictures of a raft of animals, with particular emphasis placed on cats and chickens, alongside of her sporadic ventures into still life pictures of food. Food and objects which put a smile on Haskins’ face. Which I turn puts a massive gurn on the boat race of those of us who are partial to a Haskins original or limited edition print. Jam doughnuts, strawberry tarts and Bakewell tarts being just a few of her (our) favourite things. Cue a collective breaking into Mary Poppins’ song. The thing which nails Haskins’ tart shots is the illustrative magnificence of her crumbling biscuits, oozing jam and cups of deliciously inviting tea.

Bearing in mind the visual excellence and pictorial intensity of her landmark work, it’s faintly ridiculous to think that Haskins’ has received no formal training in art, and is what’s known as ‘a natural’. Or someone who’s ‘gifted’. One step shy of being a child prodigy/chess master at the age of 8. Possessing a strong interest in language and culture, Haskins instead elected not to study art when of youth, but instead swot for a first-class degree in Hispanic Studies at Queen Mary University of London. Which she duly passed with flying colours in 2004, shortly before Haskins toddled off to pastures new (Granada, Spain) for a year, as is often obligatory with newly crowned students.

On Haskins’ return to familiar shores, she joined the press gang as a journalist in London, securing employment with publications and organisations such as the British Council, Youthnet, handbag.com, Sky and more. This exposure to (and working alongside of) another creative hub (people, places, products, services) inspired her still further and afforded her additional travel opportunities. This time paid rather than self-funded we should imagine. Incidentally, and to this day, Haskins continues to write on a freelance basis, and lists writing as a hobby on her CV. Perhaps.

Painting and drawing was something Haskins did in her spare time, and was never something which she considered doing to any commercial effect. That was until her friends noticed just how good she was, as did one of her father’s acquaintances, who himself had been a successful artist for some 40 years. Did we not mention that connection? Well, we have now. Spurred on and motivated by the staggering response she had to her hitherto hobby art, Haskins decided to go for broke in 2009. In the middle of the recession, which she agrees may have looked a trifle foolish and ill-informed to the casual observer. To give up full-time employment in that economic climate/backdrop I order to paint full-time. But hey, sometimes a girl has to do what a girl’s got to do. Same with boys, and thankfully the hard work paid off as Haskins quickly managed to gain crucial wall space in local and regional art galleries and her published prints were reproduced extensively. In the end.

During that same year, 2009, Haskins did something she hadn’t done since she was 13 – and entered her work into an art competition, submitted a painting of Jammie Dodger biscuits called ‘Broken Hearted’ to the 51st Essex Open Art event in her neck of the woods. And to her utter disbelief, it won the Best Still Life category and was the featured image on all publicity material. Which resulted in Haskins’ biscuits being spotted throughout Essex that summer as she put it. Indeed, it’s Haskins’ undoubted deadpan sense of oh-so-English humour which underpins the lion’s share of her compositional work. Hence the manic appearance of my chickens or the vacant expression on the explosively furry cats. As Haskins concludes; “It’s hard to take a 2ft square painting of a doughnut seriously”. Our thoughts completely.

KIM HASKIN’S CATS AND ARTWORKS

SURREAL PORTRAITS OF ANIMALS-TOMEK ZACZENIUK

Tomek Zaczeniuk was born in 1978, and he is a talented photographer and digital artist. He loves to create parallel reality with help of photo-manipulation and music. In these images two most powerful things are affecting one is image and second is sound. He is brilliantly showing an imaginary world which has stunning nature along with over size animals. Please have a look for your inspiration!
Today surreal portraits of animals by Tomek Zaczeniuk will be presented. He is young talented artist who loves photo manipulation and digital art to show his thinking. All portraits are unreal but eye-catching as they precipitously fascinate viewers look at them.

Animals from Tomek Zaczeniuk’s eye;

Can you imagine life without animals? I can’t. They are not only our best friends, but what is more important that they are the necessary element of global nature balance. Without them we couldn’t exist. It’s very sad that our activities around the world make their lives so complicated, hard and dangerous. We have to do all we can to repair everything what we have destroyed.
It’s not only about saving endangered species. I also dream about the world in which all creatures could live in peace with human kind. Is it possible? I hope so. Just imagine, if the last plant died – we all would die. If animals were gone – we all would be gone as well. Is it so hard to understand this parallel?
In these images, I decided to use animals as the main characters. They are so much better than humans. It’s my own way to say “Thank you, mother nature, for giving me a place to live.”

Yarattığı Sürreal Aleme Hayvanları da Yerleştirmiş Bir Sanatçının 19 Büyüleyici Çalışması

The illustrated prostitute vs the art nude

What I would like to do in this article is define my very basic terms of Pornography and Art as a base to kick off from.

The word “ pornography”, for those of you who don’t know, derives from the Greek pornographia, which derives from the Greek words pornē “prostitute”/pornea “prostitution”, and graphō, “I write or record,” derived meaning “illustration” and therefore pornography is the is the depiction/illustration of prostitution. Pornography or porn is the depiction of explicit sexual subject matter for the purposes ofsexual excitement</b> such as that of the prostitute calling to the loins of those acquiring their services.

By stark contrast, the “artistic nude” depicts people with stylistic and staging conventions that speak of artistic elements such as innocence, and similar artistic values. A nude figure is one, such as a god or goddess, were the nudity is the usual condition, so that there is no sexual suggestiveness presumed</b>. It is a work depicting the vision of an artist working with the human form and is not intentionally erotic. The nude human form presented is revealed as an object of art and not a person with reference to his or her social relationships and behavioural patterns.

There is always debate with regard to whether a work is Artistic or pornographic, this all lends to the society and morals to which we are born. There is that point to which many would agree to the state of pornography and to the intentions of artistic

values that would qualify the work as art or pornography. It is here that I would be simple not to include a very important quote: “I shall not today attempt further to define [obscenity/pornography]; and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it….”
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Michelangelo, his Paintings, and Sculptures

Considered to be one of the greatest artists in Renaissance period and probably for all the time,Michelangelo had high achievements in fields of sculpture, painting, architecture, poetry, and even engineering. Even as of today, many of his works still rank among the most famous ones in existence.

Michelangelo was born on March 6, 1475 in Caprese near Arezzo, Tuscany. He was the first artist who was recognized during his life time. He is also the first western artist whose biography was published when he is still alive. Two biographies for him was written, one was by Giorgio Vasari, who praised Michelangelo as the greatest artist since the beginning of renaissance. He is the best documented artist in 16th Century and has influenced so many areas of art developement in the West. Together withLeonardo Da Vinci, the two stood out as strong and mighty-personalities with two irreconcilably opposed attitudes to art , yet with a bond of deep understanding between them.

Michelangelo was sent to a Florence grammar school but he showed no interest in schooling. He would rather watch the painters at nearby churches, and draw what he saw there. His father realized he had no interest in family’s financial business and agreed to send him to the painter Ghirlandaio to be trained as an apprentice. He was 13 years old at time. In this fashionable Florentine painter’s workshop, Michelangelo learned the technique of Fresco and draftsmanship.

Michelangelo spent only a year at the workshop the moved into the palace of Florentine ruler Lorenzo the Magnificent, of the powerful Medici family, to study classical sculpture in the Medici gardens. He studied under famous sculptor Bertoldo di Giovanni there and exposed himself to many of the great artists of past centuries, Giotto, Masaccio, Donatello, as well as the masterpiece antiquities of ancient Greece and Rome: works that were held in Medici’s vast collection. He also met many living artists, philosophers, writers and thinkers of the day, including Poliziano, Marsilio Ficino and Pico della Mirandola. It was while he was with the Medicis that Michelangelo completed his first two commissions as a sculptor: marble reliefs, Madonna of the Stairs, and Battle of the Centaurs. Both amazingly sophisticated and complex works for a teenager. Michelangelo became, during this time, an expert in portraying the human form, drawing from life and studying anatomy. He also obtained special permission from the Catholic Church to study human corpses to learn anatomy, though exposure to corpses had worsened his health condition.

After the death of Lorenzo de Medici, Michelangelo left the Court and, soon after, the arrival of Savonarola and the expulsion of the Medicis from Florence brought huge change for the young artist. After a short return to his father’s house, Michelangelo left Florence during the political upheaval and, maintaining his links to his patrons, the Medicis, he followed them to Venice, then on to Bologna.

In Bologna, Michelangelo continued his work as a sculptor. He carved three statues for the Shrine of St. Dominic, an angel with a candlestick, and saints, Petronius and Proculus. Continuing to be heavily influenced and inspired by classical antiquities, Michelangelo also became involved in a scheme to pass off one of his sculptures, a marble cupid, as an ancient work. Allegedly, he was told by Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de Medici to make it look as though it had been dug up, so he could sell it in Rome. Cardinal Raffaele Riario, who bought the piece, discovered the deception, but was so impressed by the quality of the sculpture that he invited the artist to Rome.

Michelangelo arrived in Rome in 1496 when he was 21 years old. It was while in Rome, in his early twenties, that Michelangelo sculpted Pieta, now in St. Peters in the Vatican, in which the Virgin Mary weeps over the body of Jesus. Michelangelo went to the marble quarry and selected the marble for this exquisite piece himself. It was frequently said that Michelangelo could visualise the finished sculpture just be gazing at a block of stone.

He was now a man at the height of his creative powers, and, in 1504, back in Florence, he completed his most famous sculpture, David. David, depicted at the moment he decides to battle Goliath, was a symbol of Florentine freedom. It is said to be a masterpiece of line and form. A committee, including Leonardo da Vinciand Botticelli, was created and decided on its placement, in front of the Palazzo Vecchio.

Michelangelo accepted many commissions, sculptures and paintings during his time in Florence, many of which went unfinished when, in 1505, he was called back to Rome to work on a Tomb for Pope Julius II. It was planned to be finished within 5 years but he worked on it (with frequent interruptions) for over forty years, and it seems it was never finished to his satisfaction. Fortunately, Michelangelo also completed some of his best, and most well-known work, during this time, most notably the fresco on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, which took him four years to finish.

This grand fresco contains over three hundred figures over five hundred square meters of ceiling. It took Michelangelo four years, lying on his back, to complete this masterful work, which stands even today as a testament to this one man’s dedicated and accomplished artistry. The scenes depicted are from the Book of Genesis, the most famous of which is The creation of Adam. The outstretched hands of God and Adam are an iconic image, perhaps the most widely known and imitated detail from any renaissance piece. Michelangelo, in this work, demonstrated his deep understanding of the human form, and how to depict it in a huge array of different poses.

The complex, twisting figures and vibrant colors of this work, and the sculptures with their writhing forms, played a huge role in the birthing of an entire artistic movement. Mannerism, largely derived from the work of Michelangelo, is a deliberately stylized form of sophisticated art, in which the human body is idealized. It can be characterized by often complex, and sometimes witty, composition and unnatural use of vibrant colors. Without Michelangelo, the works of later Mannerist artists like, for example, Pontormo and Bronzino, would not exist. Raphael was also strongly influenced by Michelangelo, as were later ceiling painters in the Baroque period, and many others since. His influence on art over the past centuries cannot be estimated. He is rightly viewed as a genius, and as the archetypal Renaissance man.

Michelangelo not only outshines all his predecessors; he remains the only great sculptor of the Renaissance at its best. What most Late Renaissance artists lacked was not talent but the ability to use their own eyes and share a vision with either their contemporaries or posterity. Michelangelo’s extreme genius left little scope for works that escaped his influence, damning all his contemporaries to settle for aping him.

Appreciation of Michelangelo’s artistic mastery has endured for centuries, and his name has become synonymous with the best of the Italian Renaissance. His works in architecture, painting and sculpture inspired numerous of his contemporaries, and he contributed much to art history with his unique style and techniques