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Patriotic painting/performance - amazing

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 02:00:03 GMT

clipped by: ruralart
clipper's remarks: An amazing artist and showman.

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

Hero performed by Michael Israel in New York

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Tags: patriotism, firemen, artist, painting, patriotic, usa, 9/11

Jeweler's Hip Hop video

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 05:20:39 GMT

clipped by: ruralart
clipper's remarks: This is great - whether you are a jeweler or not. Music and moves to make jewelry by.... maybe. <vbg>

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

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Dee Fontans, artist jeweler makes a Hip Hop moves video using jewelry making techniques.

Tags: jewelry, music, dance, hip hop, video

Incredible paper cut art

Sat, 22 Dec 2007 00:54:33 GMT

clipped by: ruralart
clipper's remarks: Peter Callesen is an incredible artist who does work cut out of individual pieces of paper. The web site is well worth browsing!

Clip Source: www.petercallesen.com

Vietnam Memories Preserved by Indian Artist

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:19:05 GMT

clipped by: ruralart
clipper's remarks: Intriguing modernization of a traditional honoring form, used to memorialize American Indian veterans of the Vietnam War. Now in the Smithsonian. Unfortunately, the site does not include a photo of the art work.....a pity. Sounds fascinating.

Clip Source: www.smithsonianmag.com

War and Remembrance

An Indian artist's traditional tribute honors Native American soldiers who served in Vietnam

In 2001, Her Many Horses, an artist trained both in traditional beadwork and in doll-making, began the creation of a commemorative tableau featuring miniature figures of Vietnam-era veterans and the tribal women who welcomed them home with ceremonies. Even today, these rituals are not much changed from the days when warriors returned from the Little Big Horn.

It was around this time, in the mid-1960s, that Indian soldiers began returning from tours of duty in Vietnam to be met by honoring ceremonies.

One man returned repeatedly to look at the dolls. He finally revealed that he was a Korean War veteran, allowing that to stand as sufficient reason for his intense contemplation of the work.

Her Many Horses, a member of the Oglala Lakota Sioux of the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, began attending tribal powwows as a boy.

Tags: vietnam, american indian, indian, art, artist, smithsonian, war, veterans, korean war

Morrua Louis - fantastic exhibit of paintings

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 23:46:04 GMT

clipped by: ruralart
clipper's remarks: Morris Louis has long been one of my favorite painters. If you have the chance his works are definitely worth seeing in person. They seem to sing to you from the walls.

Clip Source: hirshhorn.si.edu

Morris Louis's
Para III, 1959

Morris Louis Now: An American Master Revisited

Morris Louis's
Seal, 1959, Estate of Morris Louis.

(High Museum of Art through January 24, 2007 and the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, Feb. 17–May 6, 2007)

“Morris Louis Now: An American Master Revisited” is the first consideration of Washington, D.C.–based artist Morris Louis’s work since 1986. The exhibition presents major paintings dating from the early 1950s until his death in late 1962, the years Louis developed an innovative method of painting by “staining” his unprimed canvases with thinned washes of acrylic pigments.

Even in cramped quarters in Washington D.C., Louis was able to make large paintings, achieving an exuberant, lyrical celebration of colors hovering in white space.

Tags: painting, art, hirshorn, museum, color field