An Art Residency in Greece An amazing art story unfolds in sun-bathed Rhodes, deep in the shade of a centuries-old pine forest. Plunging deep into these woods, birds were singing, seemingly urging me to keep walking, to discover a gem…
The Exquisite Corpse
Plunging deep into their psyches to create absurd stories, André Breton, Man Ray and other Surrealists were enchanted by the game, the drawings that reflected “the exquisite corpse will drink the new wine.” It was a collegial fun fest, combining…
THE UNCLASSIFIABLE OF MODERN ART: (PART ONE)
On the sidelines of the official styles, modern art is undeniably marked by artists escaping the artistic standards, the “unclassifiable” that will forever engrave their name in the history of art. We will have among them: Edgar Degas (1834-1917) Although…
Liberation
Amid the swaths of Sahara sand dunes, the camels plodded along. Their “pacing” had a rhythmic beat, a reassuring constancy. This was a place of solitude, and traveling through the vast no country of sand and heat, any reminder of…
Swimming with turtles
There was never any doubt. His rebellious nature, refusal to listen to most people, convinced him that he was destined to “swim with turtles,” to glorify them in his paintings. Raised on Saint Lucia in the Caribbean, amid deep green…
Frida Kahlo Lives By Ceasar
One woman is wounded, roiled by pain, and limited by male-dominated traditions. Another is bursting free, hoping to live life like Frida Kahlo, and to pursue her art without boundaries. She wanders, the rebel “sending a lesson to women everywhere,…
Spheres of Influence
Before escaping to Barcelona, Istanbul’s Blue Mosque, and the Acropolis, the 13-year-old was bullied daily by rock-throwing schoolmates. She tried to find refuge in her art books, and fantasies. But as she recalls, life in the icy oil fields of…
The Poisonous Apple By Fungai Willard
Flourishing with golden apples, sweet pears, and a variety of other delicious fruits, The Tree of Good Hope ascended high in the African sky. So much promise was attached to this tree, it barely mattered menacing snakes coiled around its…
Castration
A knife is drawn. Emboldened, voluptuous women lie near their conquered oppressor, and man’s “possessive gaze on the female forms” brings bloody retribution. So begins Wynnie Mynerva’s still unfolding story in New York City, leaving Peru, and picturing sexual liberation,…
A Cry for Help
They are huddled together, their slumped bodies and extended hands passionately dramatizing desperation, their collective nightmare. These immigrants are the forgotten, souls lost in a tense, highly-pitched political battle. Some have wandered through the Sahara carrying their infants. Others have…