That's a thing!

OMG I just found the coolest thing ever Rubik's cube art this one took 4000 to build and a freaking amazing artist that I can not link a name to so forgive god of the Rubik's I will credit you when I know who you are.Thi sis freaking amazing I could never ever do the real one with out moving the stickers (come on you know you did it too) and then my sister would get so mad at me. but this is a stroke of genius! The 80's have just been made more awesome and not in an Ironic way.

Unusual Atlas

I could not find the name of the artist of these pieces but they really inspired me today. Take some time to soak it in.

                                        I love that he took the content and made such a beautiful picture of it. it reminds me of Africa the fierce people the pride of culture and I can see the pain in her face too. nothing speaks to me about Africa like the women do. So much power and lack of personal owner ship . I know my husband met many wonderful people there. I think their songs still call him back. It is hard to represent a who number of countries diverse as Africa is with one person. I am not sure that is what the artist was trying to do but I do love how the face seems to belong to the land some how.

more of these can be found at  http://forum.xcitefun.net/unusual-atlas-artistic-way-to-map-the-world-t43166.html

What an artist and what a subject!

I normally do not look much at the artist or the things about the art I post before I write about it but I was so struck by this statue and the realization that there are too few representations like it when the books of bravery and outstanding acts of African American people is large and long. I was reading about the artist and admire both his skill and his life's work goals I hope you find Gabriel Koren from Hungary as interesting as I have in learning about him. This statue is Prudence Crandall with student.

Normally I would write here what is see in this piece but I will mix in what I know about this as I go. I kept finding this on a kids page then I found out why Children lobbied to have it made sent in pennies to collect for it. Prudence was a remarkable women and I would be dishonoring to her name and legacy if I did not just tell her story here. She was a Quaker school teacher that admitted a black girl into her class room in 1832, a revolutionary act. This act lead to the community removing their white children from the school. So she closed the teaching school and reopened and offered the classes to 20 African American girls from up and down the eastern shore of the us. the opposition was great a year after this a law was passed prohibiting schooling black children from out side the state with out the towns permitting it: this law was called the black law. She continued to teach the girls and was arrested and put on trial. With one judgment against the the school took it all the way to the supreme court and won!  With this the towns people grew angry vandalized the school and finally burned the school down 1834 forcing her to close. Connecticut repealed the law 4 years later. With the support of Mark Twain she was recognized and provided money monthly and her school still stands.

Leonid Afremov

I found this painting by Leonid Afremov he is an Israeli oil painter. It just stood out to me I could not find another name for it other than #6 So take time to take this in with me. 

I love the vibrancy of the colors and movement it seems to bring you can see some of the quick steps of some of the people walking while the couple strolls along window shopping after a dinner date there is so much life and joy in the way this is painted  the reflection of the puddles adds so much. It feels to me like a busy pedestrian walk way when it is better weather while a few people are taking advantage of the bad weather for less crowds some are there because they have some where to go and have had no choice in the matter.  I think this place in the afternoon would be filled with shoppers and ladies lunching and business people rushing from meeting to meeting. a place where community is built and friendship are started and life it self is lived. 

What do you see?

Pearl earring

I have been drawn by this painting for years I love the dutch painter with light and dark play of light. This one is interesting they made a movie about it. I have not wanted to see it for fear of it wrecking the painting for me but I wanted people to look at the real deal and let it touch them. So here it is Girl with the Pearl Earring by Vermeer.

I love the colors used the yellow blue and just a tint of red in the lips. the hints of white on the dark back ground. I am not sure of the look she is giving what it is saying it looks almost fearful but with peace in the face seems so out of place. the eyes and the pearl both glow. her eyes look of innocents but weariness too. Not so much to harden her. She seems so young to have even as much jading as it looks to me that I see more and more as I look. I do not see a fire of independence more of submitting in her face.

Taking me back.

This is an image from Paul wright's painting It just popped out to me when looking for what I was going to look at for today. Take at least 10 min and let it affect you. it is so hard in our days to do that we are so used to flipping through pictures so fast making quick judgments about them we miss the effect that one piece can have on us.

I see so much dignity in these faces they remind me of my own grand parents the loss of life drips off of them but the vibrant people they are shines through even if life has worn them down. this makes me want to cry at the hardness of life and the beauty of it too. the strength she holds and the kindness of his heart lives in his eyes. they are in love with the closeness of how they sit but it is a tempestuous thing for them. This may be just me putting my grandparents in this with their nick names for each other being you old crow said with such playful affection. The is so much sadness dripping from their eyes. Her hands seem more wringing now than closed off. I am over whelmed with the desire to want to know them they seem like they have so much to say stories I need to know of life and loss. the way this is painted brings so much life to it so much of what I think is in side the people bursting out. It makes me long for my grand parents all sides everyone, but they are all gone now. I wish I knew them more as people not as a child sees an adult but really know who they are. To see them as individuals not just mom dad or grandma and grandfather. This seems briming with longing for me.

What does this say to you? Please share with me.

This is the sight I got this off of please if you enjoyed this visit and enjoy more of his work. http://www.escapeintolife.com/painting/paul-wright/