A Book About Death Australia

Creamy Cracker

This artwork is for an Exhibition held at the Tweed River Art Gallery, New South Wales, Australia.

18 October – 24 November, 2013

A Book About Death is coming to Australia!

This international exhibition originally conceived by Paris artist Matthew Rose was first exhibited in the Emily Harvey Gallery, New York in September 2009.

The exhibition became a world wide phenomena, involving work from over 500 artists and inspiring artists to curate off shoot exhibitions throughout North America, South America, Europe and Britain.

Now after four years, ABAD will be jumping continents and leaping to Australia.

An exhibition of new works created especially for the Australian exhibition as well as the original New York postcards will be exhibited at one of Australia’s most beautiful regional art galleries, the Tweed River Art Gallery in October 2013.

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Henry Ward Beecher

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.  ~Henry Ward Beecher

Paintings

Contemporary Art

This is some my artwork from my contemporary art class.

 

Zebra Finch

 

Zebra Finch, originally uploaded by Alittlelulu Graphics.

This is my Zebra Finch from by bird series created in illustrator.
What do you think?

Guest Blog

This post  is posted by a guest blogger: Rita Masarin. Visit my blog to check out my art and design, great recipes and  information on experimental films

The result of this portrait of myself  was  ‘playing’ with  Microsoft Word back in the day when I was real green( knew zilch) with computers.
From a photo image  I wanted a  heavily shadowed and high contrast  of light and dark values .
In Micro soft Word  I played with the hue and saturation until I was happy with the colours.

A happy accident, thats  the title I should’ve given the piece but I named her “Psychedelic  Shadows. I used oil as a medium  . The dimension 50cm x50cm.

Thank you  a little lulu for allowing me to be your guest blogger.

Two quotes

Whether I’m painting or not, I have this overwhelming interest in humanity. Even if I’m not working, I’m still analyzing people.

You can’t leave humanity out. If you didn’t have humanity, you wouldn’t have anything.

Alice Neel

Sometimes creativity flows like butter

Sometimes when an artist gets an idea it flows when the painter puts their paint brush to the canvas, when the writer puts their pen to paper the words flow out like soft butter running across the page. These moments don’t happen all the time. Even if you are trained in a specific area, sometimes the ideas just don’t come. I know that there are some days that I just can’t paint. I wrack my brain for ideas at times and they just don’t come.

Do you know what I mean?

Do you have those days when you pic up the paintbrush, the guitar, the pen, and it’s just not happening?

Have you ever wondered if creativity comes from you or from an external force?

Some artists make it big then the crash. Have you ever wondered why. Perhaps it’s because they give all the glory to themselves for their masterpieces. Perhaps their ego gets a little too large and their heads get a little too big and they can no longer squeeze through that narrow door called creativity because they think they are the creator.

You may not agree but I have found a very interesting video that all artists should watch. It is by a woman named Elizabeth Gilbert the author of Eat Pray Love

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/elizabeth_gilbert_on_genius.html

you wont be disappointed

Incognito Art

‘Art … loves to be incognito. Its best moments are when it forgets what it is called.’ Jean Debuffet.

So when a picture is born through accident or collaboration, from that outside force, rather than exclusively as a result of a self-conscious act, it seems to have greater ‘validity’.

The Storm

If we could only take things like a storm that rumbles past out house, thunder, lightning, thunder and lightning. so close, it only just missed the house. If we took those things as warnings to get it right, do some good, make the right decisions, instead of the wrong ones. It’s hard to know what I mean until you go through the storms of life. I’d like to suggest the next time that a storm passes your house, listen. The truth is most people believe that there is some outside force that creates, guides and destroys. Many of us don’t know what that force is, so we are left with calling that force God, Allah, Jah, Jehovah, Baiami, and many other terms. When the storm comes and a persons life is in threat, I mean real threat, they will call out to this force for help. If you were on a plane and it started to plummet from the sky what are you going to say. Oh well I’m going to die or are you going to yell God help me? Why don’t we recognize this force in our daily lives? Why do we think that we can do it on our own? We cry out in our hour of desperation but we don’t cry out for help in the simple things. Perhaps if we took the ego out of our lives we would realize that our gift has been given to us from that outside force, then we would be a little bit more humble and a little less egotistical when we produce our work of art. It would also help us form having devastating crashes because we are no longer self-reliant. We have help. How wonderful does that sound. We may not have help from our partner, our children our parents but if we ask we can receive help form an outside force. I may be wrong but check out some of the famous artists that were self-reliant, there self reliance brought them to a dead end. There are plenty of examples:

van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890)
Dutch painter
Died, two days afterwards, of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest.

Arbus, Diane (1923-1971)
American photographer
Took a lethal dose of barbiturates and slashed her wrists.

Gertrude Margaret Lowthian (1868-1926)
English architectural historian
Overdosed on sleeping pills in Baghdad.

Bonvin, Léon (1834-1866)
French watercolorist
Hanged himself from a tree in the forest of Meudon, after a Parisian dealer rejected his paintings.

Borromini, Francesco (1599-1667)
Italian architect
Threw himself on a ceremonial sword, then lingered for another 24 hours.

Bugatti, Rembrandt (1884-1916)
Italian sculptor and draftsman
Put on one of his finest suits and gassed himself.

Carrington, Dora (1893-1932)
English painter and decorative artist
Shot herself a few weeks after the death of her companion, Lytton Strachey.

Crevel, René (1900-1935)
French Dada and Surrealist poet
Gassed himself the day before the Congress of Writers for the Defense of Culture met in Paris.

Czigány, Dezsö (1883-1937)
Hungarian painter
Committed suicide in a psychotic fit, but not before killing his family.

Daswanth (active ca. 1560; d 1584)
Indian miniature painter
Stabbed himself with a dagger.

Doort, Abraham van der (1575/80-1640)
Dutch wax-modeler, drawing-master and administrator
Left this world despondent over the thought that he might have misplaced one of Charles I’s favorite miniatures.

Erhard, Johann Chirstoph (1795-1822)
German painter and printmaker

Fagan, Robert (1761-1816)
English painter, archaeologist and dealer
Jumped out of a window in Rome.

Frank, Jean-Michel (1895-1941)
French designer
Leapt to his death in New York City after having been there for one week. Purely coincidental.

Fries, Ernst (1801-1833)
German draftsman, painter and lithographer
Slit his wrist.

Gagneraux, Bénigne (1756-1795)
French painter and engraver
“Fell” out of a window in Florence.

Gerstl, Richard (1883-1908)
Austrian painter and draftsman
Disemboweled himself with a butcher knife after a brief romantic fling with the wife of the composer Arnold Schoenberg.

Gertler, Mark (1891-1939)
English painter
Tightly sealed up a room and turned on the gas ring.

Gorky, Arshile (1904-1948)
Armenian-born American painter
His studio had burned, his wife had left him, his health was bad and he had no money. He hanged himself.

Greco, Alberto (1915-1965)
Argentine painter, sculptor and performance artist
Overdosed on barbiturates, and left notes about how it felt (for as long as he could, anyway).

Gros, Baron Jean-Antoine (1771-1835)
French painter
Drowned himself in the Seine

Haydon, Benjamin Robert (1786-1846)
English painter, teacher and writer
Shot himself, then cut his throat.

Hébuterne, Jeanne (1898-1920)
French painter
Pregnant with their second child, she leapt from a third-story window two days after her partner, Amedeo Modigliani, died of tuberculosis.

Johnson, Ray (1927-1995)
American painter, collagist and performance artist
Committed “Rayocide” one Friday the 13th by jumping off a Sag Harbor bridge and backstroking away.

Kahlo, Frida (1907-1954)
Mexican painter
We’re fairly certain she overdosed on painkillers, though the coroner’s report read, “pulmonary embolism.”

Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig (1880-1938)
German painter, printmaker and sculptor
Shot himself after the combination of illness and the termination of his career by the National Socialist Party proved too much.

Kricke, Norbert (1922-1984)
German sculptor

Kruyder, Herman (1881-1935)
Dutch painter and draftsman
Committed suicide in a psychiatric hospital.

Kurzweil, Max (1867-1916)
Austrian painter and printmaker
On leave from his position as war artist in Istria, he did it in Vienna.

Lefèvre, Robert-Jacques-François (1755-1830)
French painter

Lehmbruck, Wilhelm (1881-1919)
German sculptor, painter and printmaker

Lemoyne, François (1688-1737)
French painter and draftsman

Lo Savio, Francesco (1935-1963)
Italian painter and sculptor

Lombardi, Mark (1951-2000)
American draftsman
Hanged himself in his Williamsburg, New York studio.

Malaval, Robert (1937-1980)
French painter and sculptor
Shot himself in the head.

Maurer, Alfred (1868-1932)
American painter
Hanged himself in the doorway of his father’s bedroom.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir (1893-1930)
Russian poet, playwright and artist
Shot himself.

Mayer, Constance (1775-1821)
French painter
Cut her throat with the razor of painter Pierre-Paul Prud’hon, who’d been her teacher and then her lover but was not, apparently, going to be her husband.

Min Yŏng-hwan (1861-1905)
Korean calligrapher and painter
Was so strongly opposed to living under the Protection Treaty being enforced by Japan, that he decided not to.

Minton, John (1917-1957)
English painter and illustrator
Took an overdose of Tuinal.

Nero (AD 37-68)
Roman art patron and, yes, emperor
Decided stabbing himself in the neck was preferable to being flogged to death.

Pascin, Jules (1885-1930)
American painter, draftsman and printmaker
Hanged himself in his Paris studio, possibly depressed over the reviews of his current show.

Pellizza da Volpedo, Giuseppe (1868-1907)
Italian painter
Hanged himself after the deaths of his wife and son.

Réquichot, Bernard (1929-1961)
French painter, collagist and writer

Robert, Louis-Léopold (1794-1835)
Swiss painter
Killed himself in Venice, in front of his easel, on the 10th anniversary of his brother’s suicide.

Rothko, Mark (1903-1970)
American painter
Slit his wrists in his New York studio.

Sage, Kay (1898-1963)
American painter and poet

Seymour, Robert (1800-1836)
English printmaker and painter
Shot himself in the garden at his home in Islington.

Soares dos Reis, António (1847-1889)
Portuguese sculptor, engraver and teacher

Soroka, Grigory (1823-1864)
Russian painter and draftsman

Staël, Nicolas de (1914-1955)
French painter
Jumped out of his studio window in Antibes.

Stauffer-Bern, Karl (1857-1891)
Swiss printmaker, painter, sculptor and poet

Tilson, Henry (?1659-1695)
English painter and draftsman
Shot himself through the heart with a pistol over the unrequited love of a wealthy patroness.

Vaughan, Keith (1912-1977)
English painter
Chose to overdose, rather than live with bowel cancer, kidney disease and depression.

Watanabe Kazan (1793-1841)
Japanese painter
Committed an honorable suicide after a run in with the Tokugawa shogunate (over its isolationist policies) led to his being under house arrest.

Witkiewicz, Stanislaw Ignacy (1895-1939)
Polish writer, art theorist, painter and photographer
When the Second Army invaded Poland, he tied himself to his lover, fed her poison and slit his wrists. She regained consciousness. Him – no.

Witte, Emanuel de (1617-1693)
Dutch painter
Said to have drowned himself, after his body was discovered in a frozen canal.

Wood, Christopher (1901-1930)
English painter
Stepped in front of a train.

This is the first part to this blog so check this page out on Sunday for another short blog and a really interesting link by a famous writer.

First impressions count

You never get a second chance to make a first impression