Love of Artists
 

What Remains: The Life and Work of Sally Mann - Part 1 of 3




What Remains: The Life and Work of Sally Mann - Part 2 of 3




What Remains: The Life and Work of Sally Mann - Part 3 of 3



Greco

Mr. Gordon Parks
 

Half Past Autumn: The Life and Work of Gordon Parks



Currently there is an exhibition of Mr. Gordon Parks's
art at the Arturo Alfonso Schomburg Center in NYC

Arturo Alfonso Schomburg was a Puerto Rican-
American who collected art throughout his life.

His mother was Mary Joseph from St. Croix, Virgin Islands,
and Carlos Schomberg, Puerto Rican of German descent.

He was a law a clerk, a Kappa Alpha Psi, a translator, a writer
and his collection has become the Schomburg Center in
Harlem, New York City.

Mr. Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, and Mr Gordon Parks
continue to be my mentors.

Greco

Sally Mann 1/3
 

Folks, this is the Love of Artists thread.

I've made a mistake somehow, but the other will
be deleted as soon as the Admin can.

Enjoy these incredible artists.

Greco

love of art - photographers
 

Masters of photography - Diane Arbus (documentary, 1972)



Greco

love of art: photographer - Stieglitz
 

Alfred Stieglitz: The Eloquent Eye (1999)



Greco

I love Gordon Parks. I once bought about a dozen copies of "A Star for Noon" and presented them to my closest friends.

"Now here in this place where spring has buried winter, the despair that threatened our Eden is a forgotten word. Having stolen Heaven from the Gods, I feel no guilt for it. If you would have a star for noon, it shall be yours."

:sparklyheart:

Artist as Activist
 

Sebastiao Salgado (Brazilian photojournalist)



Sebastiao Salgado is a Paris based photojournalist, who has documented the lives of Latin American peasants, diamond mine workers in Brazil, and famine in Africa. His most recent books Migrations: Humanity in Transition and The Children: Refugees and Migrants illuminate the plight of migrants, refugees, and displaced persons all over the world. His previous books include An Uncertain Grace and Workers: An Archaeology of the Industrial Age.

Greco

Judith Scott - Fabric Sculptor * Incredible life*
 

Outsider: The Life and Art of Judith Scott - preview




Judith Scott at The Museum of Everything (BBC Culture Show 2011)



Greco

Love of Artists - Visual Artist
 

Improvisations in Time: Eugene J. Martin and the Masur Museum of Art



The Masur Museum of Art in Monroe, Louisiana, celebrates the recent acquisition of twenty-four works of art from the estate of the artist Eugene J. Martin (1938-2005) with a solo exhibit entitled "Improvisations in Time: Eugene J. Martin and the Masur Museum of Art". The exhibit showcases ~70 graphite and pen & ink drawings, mixed media works and collages, paintings on paper and canvas, and photographs on loan from the Louisiana State University Museum of Art, Baton Rouge LA, and the Estate of Eugene J. Martin. All works were created in Washington D.C., Chapel N.C. and Lafayette LA between 1960's and 2003. The exhibit takes over the Museum's three floors.


visual artist Eugene J. Martin at work, 1992



Martin studied painting at the Corcoran School of Art and Design in Washington D.C. His often humorous and highly abstract paintings, collages, drawings, and photographs primarily deal with the concepts of time and memory. He has exhibited at the Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art, MS; Louisiana State University Museum of Art, LA; Walter Anderson Museum of Art, MS; New Orleans African American Museum, LA; Lilly Gallery, Duke University; Michel Rooryck Gallery, Ghent, and Oudenaarde Town Hall, Belgium; and the Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette LA, among others. Martin's art also resides in the permanent collections of the Munich Museum of Modern Art, Munich, Germany; Ogden Museum of Southern Art, LA; University of Delaware Museums, DE; Schomburg Center for Black Culture, NY; Sheldon Museum of Art, NE; Stowitts Museum, CA; Walter O. Evans Collection of African American Art, Savannah GA; Mobile Museum of Art, AL, among others.

Curator Benjam Hickey writes in the Exhibition's catalogue that "On the surface, Eugene J. Martin's work appears to be an after-the-fact riff on modernism driven abstraction. His work is related to this tradition, but is something more. Martin was an accomplished Jazz musician and incorporated his experience of rhythmic improvisation also associated with High Modernism or Abstract Expressionism as a means of illustrating the irregular, non-linear, but cyclical manner humans perceive, understand, and experience the world around them. He used biomorphic and quasi-mechanical abstractions to create this link with the physical perceived world, but warped them to reference the slipstream nature of consciousness as well. The improvisational language Martin ascribed to any moment or period of time plays back into how he considered his oeuvre. He conceived of it as fluid and let it be guided directly by variables such as access to art making materials dictated by his financial means, a passing interest in any given media or subject matter, and his mood. He would also muddle the chronology of his work by creating new work to add on to old pieces, dismantle a completed artwork and incorporate it into several works, or do the same with photographs of his art. This totally integrated art practice is what makes Martin stand apart from other artists; his improvisations were rigorous and permeated his entire decision making process."

Greco

Chris Ofili



infamous (in the US) for being the artist/exhibit that Giuliani tried to shut down at the Brooklyn Museum of Art because of his controversial Madonna.

i think that video was cut short, here's an interview given after a recent retrospective

Dan Rupe
 

Dan Rupe

I first saw this painter's work in Provincetown. I admire it even more than I did twenty years ago.

His canvasses are still so fresh and alive; the way he captures light is stunning. These jpegs might as well be done in tones of beige; they do his work no justice.

Seeing his paintings in person is like sitting in the front row of a live symphony performance as they perform your favorite piece.

http://gallerydriver.com/Art/Truck%20Route,-t1.jpg

http://www.outercapeartauctions.net/..._1ruped_cl.jpg

http://www.danregion.com/Photos/Road0083_Rupe7.jpg

http://www.danregion.com/Photos/Road0083_Rupe1.jpg



http://gallerydriver.com/?method=Art...E291E1E9A3758D

The Tate Modern, Eliason & Kapoor
 

One of my favorite museums in the world, The Tate Modern, is a renovated turbine hall; what was once a decrepit symbol of industrialism is now an icon in London and has some of the most unique and special exhibition spaces in the world. And like all museums in the UK, admission is free.



The actual Turbine Hall itself has housed some of my favorite exhibits

'The Weather Project' by Olafur Eliason



Eliason is the artist that created the Waterfalls in New York a few years ago, he's also has permanent pieces in SF MoMA among other great collections.

And I experienced one of my favorite sculptors Anish Kapoor in the Turbine Hall as well


This exhibit is more recent and in Paris at the Grand Palais


Kapoor created the very controversial red steel sculpture/structure outside of the Olympic stadium


and his work that is probably most recognized in the US is Cloud Gate in Chicago (colloquially known as "the bean")

Schama's Power of Art Van Gogh
 

The Power of Art - Van Gogh (complete episode)



The complete series: http://gekos.no/workshop/video.html
The Dutch Post-Impressionist master.
Van Gogh spent his early life as an art dealer, teacher and preacher in England, Holland and Belgium. His period as an artist began in 1881 when he chose to study art in Brussels, starting with watercolours and moving quickly on to oils. The French countryside was a major influence on his life and his early work was dominated by sombre, earthy colours depicting peasant workers, the most famous of which is The Potato Eaters, 1885.

It was during Van Gogh's studies in Paris (1886-8) that he developed the individual style of brushwork and use of colour that made his name. In 1888 he moved to Arles where the Provençal landscape provided his best-known subject matter. However, it also marked the start of his mental crisis following an argument with his contemporary Paul Gauguin. Van Gogh was committed to a mental asylum in 1889 where he continued to paint, but he committed suicide in 1890.



Sparkle, I also appreciate Kapoor's sculpture, you, and Reader welcome to the thread.

Greco

Love of Artists - a painter - Basquiat
 

Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child (2010)



In his short career, Jean-Michel Basquiat was a phenomenon. He became notorious for his graffiti art under the moniker Samo in the late 1970s on the Lower East Side scene, sold his first painting to Deborah Harry for $200, and became best friends with Andy Warhol. Appreciated by both the art cognoscenti and the public, Basquiat was launched into international stardom. However, soon his cult status began to override the art that had made him famous in the first place. Director Tamra Davis pays homage to her friend in this definitive documentary but also delves into Basquiat as an iconoclast. His dense, bebop-influenced neoexpressionist work emerged while minimalist, conceptual art was the fad; as a successful black artist, he was constantly confronted by racism and misconceptions. Much can be gleaned from insider interviews and archival footage, but it is Basquiat's own words and work that powerfully convey the mystique and allure of both the artist and the man.

Greco

My favorite artist
 

My favorite artist is Amanda McDonough. (my fiancee) :D

Love of Poets are artists too
 

Elizabeth Bishop



One Art
by Elizabeth Bishop

The art of losing isn't hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.

Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. None of these will bring disaster.

I lost my mother's watch. And look! my last, or
next-to-last, of three loved houses went.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.

I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.
I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster.


--Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident
the art of losing's not too hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.

Greco

Henry Darger
 

His dress was shabby; he was a solitary. In 1930 he settled into a second-floor room on Chicago's north side. It was in this room, more than 40 years later, after his death in 1973, that Darger's extraordinary secret life was discovered.
Amid a thick accumulation of debris- including hundreds of Pepto-Bismol bottles, nearly a thousand balls of string, old newspapers, magazines and comic books, religious kitsch and much more- his landlord, the photographer Nathan Lerner, found a creative life's work: an enormous literary and pictorial production. The key element was a picaresque tale in 12 massive volumes composed of some 19,000 pages of legal-sized paper filled with single-spaced typing entitled The Story of the Vivian Girls, in what is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion. The origins of this epic appear to be in 1909. It took more than eleven years to write it in longhand; in 1912 Darger began the task of typing the still incomplete manuscript...
the most important supplement to the book, however, exists in the several hundred watercolor paintings Darger left in his room, many of them illustrations for The Realms of the Unreal. They transform Darger’s apocalyptic text into a body of images that are among the most original and beautiful in outsider art.

http://www.hammergallery.com/artists/darger/darger.htm

Love of Poets - are artists real and grounded in Self-Love
 

Still I rise - Dr. Maya Angelou



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Love of Poets - Our much loved Sra Julia De Burgos
 

RIO GRANDE DE LOIZA POEMA DE JULIA DE BURGOS



Homenaje a Julia de Burgos, los poetas Etaniris Rivera,
Marianela Medrano, Yrene Santos y Tomás Galán
visitaron la tarja junto al río donde está el poema.

Cada poeta lee un fragmento el homenaje a Julia de Burgos.

Greco

Love of Poets - Mary Oliver
 

Mary Oliver reading Wild Geese and other poems



One of our favorites.

Greco

Love - the creative process
 

1/4. David Whyte: Jerry Wennstrom's artistic journey



David Whyte calls on his poem "Tilicho Lake" in describing artist, author Jerry Wennstrom's creative journey. He defines Wennstrom's encounter with the void as as "the ultimate artistic step." In 1979 Jerry Wennstrom took the ultimate artistic step -- he destroyed his large body of art, gave away his possessions and leapt into a creative void that required deeper faith and "trust in the Great Belonging."

David Whyte originally offered this testimony in the documentary film, "In the Hands of Alchemy: The Art and Life of Jerry Wennstrom" (Parabola and Sentient Publications videos.)

Jerry Wennstrom destroyed his life's work (all his paintings) when he saw that his art had become a "false god" to him. He looked instead find God and creativity in all that he did in everyday life. Following this experience Jerry lived with only what life presented to him.

In Part One, David Whyte's inspiring discourse is both gripping and challenging. Whyte talks about facing death in all its manifestations. He refers often to Wennstrom's art and his path, but Whyte's wisdom and message is for anyone who has faced the metaphoric death of an identity that no longer served their lives.

Thanks to Paul Adams and David Hoffman for use of their music "Zorro and the
Fat Man." See http://www.pauladams.org to listen to this piece and others.

For more information about Whyte visit http://www.davidwhyte.com. For more info about Jerry Wennstrom's recent art, films or his book, "The Inspired Heart" visit http://www.handsofalchemy.com

There is also a second channel with more videos about Jerry Wennstrom at
http://www.youtube.com/user/JerryWennstrom, or find them on this channel's playlist.

Greco

Love - the creative process
 

2/4. David Whyte: Jerry Wennstrom, Finding Inspired New Life in Emptiness




3/4. David Whyte: Jerry Wennstrom - Companionship with the disappearing light




4/4. David Whyte: Jerry Wennstrom - Through darkness to innocence


As famed poet David Whyte sees it, Jerry Wennstrom's courageous journey through the eye of darkness led him not to a life of bitterness and sadness, but to a place of inner strength where he claims and expresses the heart of innocence in both his life and his art.

Is there a need for this in today's society? Whyte states, "I think one of the things that we are desperate for now in the Post Modern world is a first-hand experience of creation. And we're tired of talking about the world, and we're tired of observing the world through various media and we want to be actually present to it and affected by it in a very innocent way."

Greco

Love of Artists - Poet/Activist Joy Harjo
 

Poet/Activist Joy Harjo

Nearly Unbearable Grace



Native American poet and performance artist Joy Harjo reads a selection of her work, and discusses the variety of influences (including music) on her artistic development.


The Poetry of Rita Dove

If You Can't Be Free Be A Mystery



Rita Dove, former Poet Laureate of the U.S. and recipient of a Pulitzer Prize, is one of the most honored figures in modern American literature.


The Poetry of Wang Ping

Flash of Selfish Consciousness



Chinese-American poet Wang Ping reads selections from her award-winning work and discusses the evolution of her style from ethnocentric influences to multicultural concerns.

Greco

Picasso
 

Picasso: The Full Story Part 1 (2002) - modern art, artist, Painting




Picasso: The Full Story Part 2 (2002) - modern art, artist, Painting




Greco

Love of Artists - Yo Yo Ma
 

Art for Life's Sake: In Conversation with Yo-Yo Ma (Full Session)

Greco

Jose Saramago
 

Que importa cuantos años tengo - José Saramago


Frecuentemente me preguntan que cuántos
años tengo... ¡Qué importa eso! Tengo la
edad que quiero y siento. La edad en que
puedo gritar sin miedo lo que pienso.Hacer
lo que deseo, sin miedo al fracaso, o lo
desconocido. Tengo la experiencia de los
años vividos y la fuerza de la convicción
de mis deseos. ¡Qué importa cuántos
años tengo!.

No quiero pensar en ello. Unos dicen que
ya soy viejo y otros que estoy en el apogeo.

Pero no es la edad que tengo, ni lo que la
gente dice, sino lo que mi corazón siente
y mi cerebro dicte. Tengo los años necesarios
para gritar lo que pienso, para hacer lo que
quiero, para reconocer yerros viejos, rectificar
caminos y atesorar éxitos. Ahora no tienen
por qué decir: ¡Eres muy joven!, no lo
lograrás; o ¡Estas muy viejo!, ya no podrás.
Tengo la edad en que las cosas se miran con
más calma, pero con el interés de seguir creciendo.
Tengo los años en que los sueños se empiezan a
acariciar con los dedos, y las ilusiones se
convierten en esperanza.

Tengo los años en que el amor, a veces es
una loca llamarada, ansiosa de consumirse
en el fuego de una pasión deseada, y otras
es un remanso de paz, como el atardecer
en la playa.

¿Qué cuántos años tengo? No necesito
marcarlos con un número, pues mis anhelos
alcanzados, mis triunfos obtenidos, las lágrimas
que por el camino derramé al ver mis ilusiones
truncadas... ¡Valen mucho más que eso!.
Qué importa si cumplo, cuarenta, cincuenta,
sesenta o sesenta y tres mas. Pues lo que
importa es la edad que siento.Tengo los años
que necesito para vivir libre y sin miedos.
Para seguir sin temor por el sendero, pues
llevo conmigo la experiencia adquirida y la
fuerza de mis anhelos. ¿Qué cuantos años
tengo? ¡Eso a quién le importa!.

Tengo los años necesarios para perder el miedo
y hacer lo que quiero y siento.

Qué importa cuántos años, ¿cuantos tengo o
cuantos espero?. Si con los años que tengo,
aprendí a querer lo necesario y a tomar
solo lo bueno.

José Saramago

Para Usted, Greco

Hans Zatzka
 

Love of Poets - Janis Ian
 

Janis Ian Interview on The Daily Show 2012

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Janis Ian
 

http://youtu.be/8wOsq0-EyXI
Janis Ian: I Hear You Sing Again (October 2012)

Janis Ian at Red Clay Theatre, 10/10/12 introducing
and singing "I Hear You Sing Again". For more information
visit www.janisian.com, (for more information
about The Pearl Foundation click on Pearl Foundation
link off the home page).

Dedicated to Pearl, Janis's Mother

to my Mother, and to All Mothers who
have sacrificed to make a space for our
growth and success.

Gracias Mama, sigo oyendo tu voz en cancion,
siempre y con todo mi
Amor.

Greco

Janis Ian III
 

Backstage With Janis Ian

Greco

Love of Artists: Leonard...A Poet...his Poems set to music
 

Leonard Cohen - A Thousand Kisses Deep |HD|

Greco

Leonard...the Poet...part II
 

Leonard Cohen - In My Secret Life



Because Of



WAITING FOR THE MIRACLE



Dance Me To The End Of Love

Greco

Love of Artists - Rachmaninoff/Musician/Composer
 

Rachmaninoff Documentary - The Harvest Of Sorrow

Greco

Hayao Miyazaki (Film director, animator, screenwriter, manga artist since 1963, co-founder of Studio Ghibli)
http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/i/2013/09...o-Miyazaki.jpg
http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/73...12ac9d6de2.jpg

Gregory Colbert (film-maker, photographer since 1983, creator of Ashes and Snow)
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-o...7-h8/photo.jpg
http://windmillsbyfy.files.wordpress...rt-janelas.jpg

Jean-Léon Gérôme (painter and sculptor, 1824 – 1904)
http://www.biography.com/imported/im...8872-1-402.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ters_37131.jpg

John William Waterhouse (painter known for working in the Pre-Raphaelite style, 1849 - 1917)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...e_portrait.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...of_Shalott.jpg

Love of Artists/Sculptors - Richard Serra
 

Richard Serra on his Drawing (2011)

on drawing...

Greco

Love of Artists/Poet Nikki Giovanni
 

Nikki Giovanni on Poetry, Grief and Her New Book, "Chasing Utopia: A Hybrid"

/http://www.democracynow.org/2013/12/16/nikki_giovanni_on_poetry_grief_and

Greco

Nikki Giovanni
 

Poet Nikki Giovanni Talks Love, Marriage


Nikki Giovanni

As part oft the 2011 Johnathan & Maxine Marshall Distinguished Lecture series, ASU and Project Humanities were proud to host world-renowned poet and educator Nikki Giovanni.

Greco

Love of Artists: R. Carlos Nakai musician...scientist
 

R. Carlos Nakai "Water Is Life" celebration (full one-hour VERSION 3)


"R. Carlos Nakai at National Geographic's "Water Is Life" celebration on Martha's Vineyard. THIS FULL ONE-HOUR version includes rare video of Nakai sharing his LIVING PHILOSOPHY about the evolution of humankind and the flute music of various civilizations through time - along with an expanded selection of his Native American Flute music to flow with this celebratory water event."

Greco

Love of Artists - Carlos Saura y Fado
 

"Fados" a film by Carlos Saura

Greco