We would like to thank The Puffin Foundation for their support of this project.
Chincoteague pony penning happens every summer about this time
Opening this Friday, August 5, Ix Art Park and venues in Charlottesville
This is my contribution, a poster in a retro tongue in cheek style, entitled Recipe, a bit light hearted because otherwise I would make something so full of rage no one would want to look at it …
National anthems are kind of bloodthirsty: France
Arise, children of the Fatherland,
The day of glory has arrived!
Against us, tyranny's
Bloody standard is raised, (repeated)
Do you hear, in the countryside,
The roar of those ferocious soldiers?
They're coming right into your arms
To cut the throats of your sons, your women!
Refrain:
To arms, citizens,
Form your battalions,
March, march!
Let an impure blood
Water our furrows!
What does this horde of slaves
Of traitors and conspiring kings want?
For whom have these vile chains
These irons, been long prepared? (repeated)
Frenchmen, for us, ah! What outrage
What furious action it must arouse!
It is for us they dare plan
A return to the old slavery!
Refrain
What! Foreign cohorts!
Would make the law in our homes!
What! These mercenary phalanxes
Would strike down our proud warriors! (repeated)
Great God! By chained hands
Our brows would yield under the yoke
Vile despots would themselves become
The masters of our destinies!
Refrain
Tremble, tyrants and you traitors
The shame of all parties,
Tremble! Your parricidal schemes
Will finally receive their prize! (repeated)
Everyone is a soldier to combat you,
If they fall, our young heroes,
Will be produced anew from the ground,
Ready to fight against you!
Refrain
Frenchmen, as magnanimous warriors,
Bear or hold back your blows!
Spare those sorry victims,
For regretfully arming against us (repeated)
But these bloodthirsty despots
These accomplices of Bouillé
All these tigers who, mercilessly,
Tear apart their mother's breast!
Refrain
Sacred love of the Fatherland,
Lead, support our avenging arms
Liberty, cherished Liberty
Fight with your defenders! (repeated)
Under our flags may victory
Hurry to your manly accents
So that your expiring enemies
See your triumph and our glory!
Refrain
Children's verse:
We shall enter the (military) career
When our elders are no longer there
There we shall find their dust
And the trace of their virtues (repeated)
Much less keen to survive them
Than to share their coffins
We shall have the sublime pride
To avenge or follow them.
Cville Artists for Women: Exhibit will open at the following venues on 8/5/2022: Chroma, The Vault, IX Art Park
This
How to find joy in Climate Action. Avoid burnout. Find your purpose.
This video.
Euskera
A storybook illustration
Going to a happy place. And then getting out there to fight. No stealing my joy. Joke’s on them.
You're feeling nervous, aren't you, boy?
With your quiet voice and impeccable style
Don't ever let them steal your joy
And your gentle ways, to keep 'em from running wild
They can kick dirt in your face
Dress you down, and tell you that your place
Is in the middle, when they hate the way you shine
I see you tugging on your shirt
Trying to hide inside of it and hide how much it hurts
Let 'em laugh while they can
Let 'em spin, let 'em scatter in the wind
I have been to the movies, I've seen how it ends
And the joke's on them
You get discouraged, don't you, girl?
It's your brother's world for a while longer
We gotta dance with the devil on a river
To beat the stream
Call it living the dream, call it kicking the ladder
They come to kick dirt in your face
To call you weak and then displace you
After carrying your baby on your back across the desert
I saw your eyes behind your hair
And you're looking tired, but you don't look scared
Let 'em laugh while they can
Let 'em spin, let 'em scatter in the wind
I have been to the movies, I've seen how it ends
And the joke's on them
Let 'em laugh while they can
Let 'em spin, let 'em scatter in the wind
I have been to the movies, I've seen how it ends
And the joke's on them
UNDERGROUND MODERNIST: E. MCKNIGHT KAUFFER
His later, mod, work
UNDERGROUND MODERNIST: E. MCKNIGHT KAUFFER
At the Cooper Hewitt, saw an exhibit of the graphic designer’s work and wow can I relate. Clear to see how I vibe with the travel poster/fruit labels but also the dip in his creativity as the ad agency system got underway and his design choices were constrained by the usual: money; focus groups; executives.
Here are some goodies:
Fruit Labels, California
Spring green
Apologies to William Morris and his workshop, of course the original wallpaper this image is from was more subtle but out my window, after the spring rain, this glowing green is what is going on in Virginia right about now.
Virginia State Parks
They are excellent and some have historic log cabins. Many happy memories.
New poster, actually five years old
I never settled with this one, yet coming across it now it looks very good - as a small graphic. Have to work on the details before it gets printed full size.
New poster
Reston, VA
Albert Pinkham Ryder
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of John Gellatly, completed by 1887
Flying Dutchman. Ryder inherited some kind of psychedelic mind from his fellow New Bedford born Herman Melville? He carried on after Eugene Delacroix died? The glowing ship forever doomed to sail turbulent seas. The dead communicating urgently with the living. The Flying Dutchman theme appears in many art forms, famously in Wagner’s opera of the same name.
Ryder’s paintings are always small, thick and cracking from careless technique and nuts. Gloriously so.
Cooper Hewitt exhibit of a commercial artist omg
Yay for the Cooper Hewitt, which is the Smithsonian’s museum of Design. It is exhibiting the work of Kauffer and I am here for it!
from the Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt exhibit; The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of the designer, 1939 Thanks for letting me show this, for educational purposes and for admiration purposes I do not intend to monetize it in any way Thank you
E'rybody watch this movie
So joyful and full of life. This is a great way to start the New Year! LOVED it
https://www.biggestlittlefarmmovie.com
Wayne Thiebaud
A painter’s painter. Brilliant colorist, the definition of a California artist. Thank you for your genius.
In his paintings there will often be a fascinating and surprising line of vivid color that I very much thought of when doing some recent landscape-oriented pieces (The Early Mountain vineyard, and the Dyke Marsh) in this perhaps the ultramarine shadows
Photo is from Smithsonian? I was googling around, and this is really a photo of me googling around . . .
