tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85719567700256001772024-03-05T15:23:30.235-08:00Turner Carroll Gallery Art InsightsComments on art and culture by art historian Tonya Turner Carroll.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06676625668782722564noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8571956770025600177.post-41832030860398819682016-11-07T22:35:00.003-08:002016-11-08T07:53:00.609-08:00Art as a Universal Language, Part 7: Why We Should All Be Feminists<div style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 23.8px; padding-bottom: 1em; text-indent: 0px;">
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<span style="font-size: small;">She recounts an instance when she went to a restaurant with a male friend in her home country of Nigeria. She had to have a man accompanying her in order to enter the restaurant, to guarantee she wasn't a prostitute in search of business. When she tipped the man who helped them find a parking spot, rather than thanking her, the man thanked her friend. The man thanked the friend when she paid him because it was inconceivable to </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">him that a woman could be successful, educated, possess her own money, or make any independent decisions. Just as Chimamanda Adichie felt overlooked and discounted, this </span><br />
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November 8, 2016 may be the final day of the 227 year history of exclusively male Presidents of the United States. The population of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>the United States has been 51% female for a long time. <span style="line-height: 23.8px;">Likewise, 51% of visual artists today are women, according to the</span> <a data-mce-href="https://nmwa.org/advocate/get-facts" href="https://nmwa.org/advocate/get-facts" style="color: #2ea3f2; line-height: 23.8px; text-decoration: none;">National Museum of Women in the Arts</a><span style="line-height: 23.8px;">. In spite of this, the Guerrilla Girls (an art-oriented group of women who fight discrimination), remind us that "Less than 4% of the artists in the Modern Art section of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art are women, but 76% of the nudes are female."</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 23.8px;">Is this really who we are--a society that views women so overwhelmingly voyeuristically, but not intellectually or by their level of skill? Unfortunately, the lack of outcry among women (and men) against remarks by Donald Trump in the 2016 election make it seem so. </span><br />
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In 1971, Linda Nochlin's essay <a href="http://deyoung.famsf.org/files/whynogreatwomenartists_4.pdf">"Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?"</a> was published. In it, she writes: </div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Why have there been no great women artists?" The question tolls reproachfully in the background of most
discussions of the so-called woman problem. But like so many other so-called questions involved in the
feminist "controversy," it falsifies the nature of the issue at the same time that it insidiously supplies its
own answer: "There are no great women artists because women are incapable of greatness....</span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The question "Why have there been no great women artists?" is simply the top tenth of an iceberg of
misinterpretation and misconception; beneath lies a vast dark bulk of shaky <i>idees recues</i> about the nature of
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45 years after Nochlin's essay, in 2016, Artnet News posted the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a data-mce-href="https://news.artnet.com/market/top-100-collectible-living-artists-504059" href="https://news.artnet.com/market/top-100-collectible-living-artists-504059" style="color: #2ea3f2; text-decoration: none;">Top 100 Lots by Living Artists: 2011-2016</a>. This list features the 100 most expensive works of art that sold throughout the world for the highest prices during this most recent five year period.<i> Not one</i> of the works in those top 100 highest priced acquisitions was by a female artist. <br />
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It's certainly time to appreciate the phenomenal women artists in our midst. They are not only <i>capable </i><span style="font-weight: normal;">of greatness; they've already achieved it ten times over. It is time to spread knowledge of their works by writing about them, visiting their exhibitions, and collecting their works. We need to do this not just because they are women, but because they are making incredibly important art that communicates with us through a different lens.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.turnercarrollgallery.com/">Hung Liu</a> <i>Duohua: Falling Flowers </i> 50 x 50" mixed media on panel, 2016</td></tr>
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<a href="http://www.turnercarrollgallery.com/" style="line-height: 23.8px;">Hung Liu</a><span style="line-height: 23.8px;">, for instance, is one of the most influential of all women artists painting in the United States today. Hung labored in the wheat fields of China during Mao's Cultural Revolution; she worked tirelessly for years to get her passport from the Chinese government so she could attend art school in the U.S. She left all she knew behind in China, and came to the U.S. with nothing. Thanks to her unfaltering work ethic and skill, <a href="http://www.turnercarrollgallery.com/media/tcg_hliu-cv.pdf">Hung Liu's paintings are now in virtually every major art museum in the United States. </a></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 23.8px;">Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie speaks of being suspected of being a prostitute when she entered any restaurant or hotel alone in Nigeria, but Hung Liu gives the concubines and peasants of China new life in her paintings. She paints the images of these bedraggled women as if they are royalty, surrounding them with fortuitous symbols and gold. </span><br />
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Day." She memorializes the grit and determination of so many American
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<span style="line-height: 23.8px;">Hung Liu's artwork </span><span style="color: #666666; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23.8px;"><span style="line-height: 23.8px; text-align: left;">is currently the subject of a </span><a href="http://www.american.edu/cas/museum/gallery/2016/hung-liu-daughter-of-china.cfm" style="line-height: 23.8px; text-align: left;">solo exhibition at American University's Katzen Art Center</a><span style="line-height: 23.8px; text-align: left;">, coinciding with this momentous election. </span><span style="line-height: 23.8px; text-align: left;">This
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In a true coup for women in contemporary art, the National Portrait
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This year, we have not only an opportunity to make our world--but also the art world--more just for both women and men. Women are certainly capable of excellence--and they demonstrate it--as often as do men. This is why every one of us, no matter our gender, should all be feminists.<br />
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Art as a Universal Language: Why We Should All be Feminists<br />
Tonya Turner Carroll<br />
edited by Augustus Finn Carroll (a proud feminist) <br />
Turner Carroll Gallery and Art Advisors<br />
Santa Fe, New Mexico<br />
November 7, 2016<br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Contemporary Syrian war poster portrays the reality of childhood</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Image by Australian street artist “Meek”, stencil art of his “Begging for Change”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Victory Stele of Naram Sin, c. 2200 BCE</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">reflect its own ideology. Roman emperors stole Egyptian obelisks</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">The Romans erected these obelisks, like cultural hostages, in</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Likewise, when Christianity replaced pagan spirituality in Rome, </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Pantheon. </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">This communicated the ultimate triumph of Christianity, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">over the </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">pagan religions of the past. This one image of the Pantheon </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small; text-align: start;">The Taliban’s <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-31813681">destruction of the Buddhas in Bamiyan</a>, <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-31760656">Isis’s </a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small; text-align: start;"><a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-31760656">obliteration of great artifacts in Nimrud</a>–these acts of </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small; text-align: start;">significance to humanity. Destroying them is like wiping </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small; text-align: start;">out an entire society’s visual language or history. It is only </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small; text-align: start;">due to their fear of the power of those spiritual images, that </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small; text-align: start;">the Taliban and Isis chose to destroy them. Perhaps it is the </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">What if, instead of destroying works of art because we fear </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">their ability to convey important cultural truths, we embrace </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">the power of art to help unite turbulent societies?</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">In our current environment of </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">incredibly oppressive, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">xenophobic rhetoric, art can--</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">literally--show us a different </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">country was a mixture of many diverse cultures. </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Rather than </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Tal is fascinated by different customs and beliefs. </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">He uses his </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">photographs to mirror </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">human realities in a neutral </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">manner. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">In his “Revelation”, Tal gives the brave words “I Am” to </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">a </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">In presenting this unidentifiable woman to us, Tal reminds us that </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">The symbolism in Tal’s “Revelation” is dense. He “reveals” to </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">appearing in Exodus 3:13–15, when Moses says to God, “If I </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">human being, </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">regardless of political, religious, cultural belief. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Tal’s art is the kind of </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">imagery that can effect change in the world.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">engaging </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">artists, </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">using his art to help people all over the world </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">JR takes photographs of people </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">in their communities, or has </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">locals photograph themselves, all over the </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">world. This helps </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">people see that they can literally create their own </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">reality, by </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">community. </span><a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/jr_s_ted_prize_wish_use_art_to_turn_the_world_inside_out?language=en" style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: medium;">JR won the TED prize</a><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">. He asked Israeli and </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">images of them, and </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">mixed them together on each side of the </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Visual images transcend barriers of specific spoken and </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">each human being on a shared somatic level. Therefore, </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">to confront as a global human family. By changing the context </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">way forward. Art can, in fact, change the world in a positive </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 1.38;">Turner Carroll Gallery and Art Advisors</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 1.38;">Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 1.38;"><a href="http://turnercarroll.com/">turnercarroll.com</a></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06676625668782722564noreply@blogger.com1725 Canyon Rd, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA35.680782100000009 -105.9251628000000135.680580600000006 -105.92547780000001 35.680983600000012 -105.92484780000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8571956770025600177.post-46678406073097817002016-06-23T18:23:00.000-07:002016-06-23T18:32:05.130-07:00Art as a Universal Language, Part 5: Color as Communication<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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written language, color was the universal language of mankind. Prehistoric
humans used color to describe every aspect of their lives. Red= blood; orange=
fire; yellow=sun; green=natural vegetation/food source; blue=air; indigo=water;
violet=the color of sunset/sunrise transition. </span></div>
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c. 17,000 BCE</td></tr>
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Dar el-Medina, Egypt<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "univers 55"; font-size: 11pt;">Ancient Egyptians valued color
symbolism in their tombs and temples so deeply that their desire for additional
color options fueled their efforts in mining and trade. </span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "univers 55"; font-size: 11.0pt;">We know for certain
that the Greek and Roman sculptures we think of as monochromatic white, were
originally polychromatic! They had red lips, colored eyes, brilliantly hued
garments--all painted with painstakingly created paints from pure pigment. The
more rare the pigment, the more exalted the subject.</span><span style="font-family: "univers 55"; font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/museum/museum-images/peplos-kore">Peplos Kore</a> (Acropolis Museum), Peplos Kore cast, (University of Cambridge)<br />
c. 530 BCE, <a href="http://www.theacropolismuseum.gr/en/content/archaic-colors-1">Acropolis</a>, Athens, Greece<br />
<a href="http://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/museum/museum-images/peplos-kore">University of CambridgeFaculty of Classics</a></td></tr>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "univers 55"; font-size: 11.0pt;">In 1025,
Persian philosopher Avicenna included the use of color as medical treatment in
his encyclopedic <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The Canon of Medicine</span>.
Since then, chromo therapy has been used to stimulate various physical and
psychological responses. Modern scientific research suggests that viewing
bright colors causes the brain to release the “feel-good hormone” dopamine;
while cool blues provoke release of oxytocin, causing feelings of calm.</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "univers 55"; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">In the
mid 1600s, Sir Isaac </span><span style="background: white; color: #191919; font-family: "univers 55"; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">Newton discovered that by
shining light through a prism, he could separate light into the colors naturally
occurring in a rainbow. The resulting colors: </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "univers 55"; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">red,
orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet, give us the pithy acronym Roy
G. Biv, which has helped multitudes of school children master the visible color
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://turnercarroll.com/">Fausto Fernandez</a>, "<a href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/04/150413214343.htm">Sound to Color Synesthesia</a>" Collage, image transfer, acrylic, and glitter on canvas</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://turnercarroll.com/">Fausto Fernandez</a>, "I Ate Some Mushrooms on Friday and Remembered I was Madly in Love with Her"<br />
Oil, collage, glitter, spray paint, and oil crayon on canvas<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "univers 55"; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">Many contemporary artists use color as the visual
language of artistic ecstasy. </span><a href="http://turnercarroll.com/" style="font-family: 'univers 55'; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">Fausto Fernandez</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "univers 55"; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">, a Mexican artist now living in the
U.S., places layer upon layer of color, embellishing his paintings with diamond
dust glitter, to magnify and reflect the chromatic effect. Undeniably
influenced by the festive use of color in Mexican culture, he collages colorful
flowers; draws energetic lines with crayon, and his works emerge as a triumph
of colorful beauty. Fernandez’s works were recently featured in the touring
museum exhibition, </span><i style="font-family: 'univers 55'; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/goog_738777922"><span id="goog_738777923"></span>Beauty Reigns:
Baroque Sensibilities in Contemporary Art.</a></span></i></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.turnercarroll.com/">Robert Townsend</a>, "Oh Lolly, Lolly"<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "univers 55"; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">Like Fernandez, <a href="http://www.artweek.com/events/united-states/art-exhibition/santa-fe/roy-g-biv-fausto-fernandez-jamie-brunson-and-robert">Robert Townsend </a>uses explosive color and celebratory themes in his hyper-realistic
watercolors. Candy and lollipops, polka dots, and modernist analog clocks, all
express the child-like excitement of color. Townsend’s colorful pop works
are included in top museum collections such as the Getty Museum and the
<a href="http://artweek.la/issue/november-21-2011/article/robert-townsend-new-paintings">Frederick Weisman Art Foundation in California</a>.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.turnercarroll.com/">Jamie Brunson</a>, "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_cochineal">Kirmiz</a>"<br />
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more of a pure colorist, and she uses deep hues and bold shapes to achieve
meditative transcendence. Brunson has received numerous art residencies, and
her works are included in the American Embassy in Doha, Qatar, and museums
throughout the U.S. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.turnercarroll.com/">Jamie Brunson,</a> "Sway"<br />
oil, alkyd on polyester, over panel</td></tr>
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<a href="http://turnercarroll.com/">Brenda Zappitell,</a> "Sunset in Santa Fe"<br />
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">Contemporary artists, like artists since the beginning of
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-769f620f-62b3-c7e7-5522-9415d4b9a8f6" style="font-weight: normal;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-769f620f-62b4-0460-5957-c2d5b7a88362" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">First freedom and then Glory--when that fails,</span></b></b></div>
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</b></b></b></b><b id="docs-internal-guid-769f620f-62b3-c7e7-5522-9415d4b9a8f6" style="font-weight: normal;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-769f620f-62b4-0460-5957-c2d5b7a88362" style="font-weight: normal;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-769f620f-62be-2553-e36d-4e06c1e057c7" style="font-weight: normal;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-769f620f-62bf-0de3-61a4-73ba227f2d33" style="font-weight: normal;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-769f620f-62bf-db83-b87c-7ddb33e5a413" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In "SNAFU" (military slang for Situation Normal, All F’d Up), </span></b></b></b></b></b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">an</span></span></span></span></span></span><b id="docs-internal-guid-769f620f-62b3-c7e7-5522-9415d4b9a8f6" style="font-weight: normal;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-769f620f-62b4-0460-5957-c2d5b7a88362" style="font-weight: normal;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-769f620f-62be-2553-e36d-4e06c1e057c7" style="font-weight: normal;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-769f620f-62bf-0de3-61a4-73ba227f2d33" style="font-weight: normal;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-769f620f-62bf-db83-b87c-7ddb33e5a413" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> overflowing suitcase becomes</span></b></b></b></b></b><b id="docs-internal-guid-769f620f-62b3-c7e7-5522-9415d4b9a8f6" style="font-weight: normal;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-769f620f-62b4-0460-5957-c2d5b7a88362" style="font-weight: normal;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-769f620f-62be-2553-e36d-4e06c1e057c7" style="font-weight: normal;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-769f620f-62bf-0de3-61a4-73ba227f2d33" style="font-weight: normal;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-769f620f-62bf-db83-b87c-7ddb33e5a413" style="font-weight: normal;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-769f620f-62c4-ff6e-a3e3-c33187e956c5" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> an allegorical symbol for our generation’s decadent opulence. I see the suitcase as an overstuffed container of human life, spilling out the excess we have accumulated. I am reminded of a formal painting by Ingres, from the early days of Industrial Revolution. Ingres paints the young countess wearing a gorgeous blue</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">silk dress; satin ribbons in her hair. The interior in which she stands is adorned with rich furnishings and flowers. She seems young, hopeful, and confident about her future. In Ingres’ painting, the earth had not yet been severely polluted by industry, so there was a lot of prosperity and possibility on the horizon. But by 2015, when Greene painted "SNAFU", humankind had definitely “F’d Up” the environment. Marshmallows are strewn on the dirty ground; the only green in site is discarded fabric or carpet, standing in for the absent grass. A pink chemical bonfire burns from thrown out pipes.</span></b></b></b></b></b></b><b id="docs-internal-guid-769f620f-62b3-c7e7-5522-9415d4b9a8f6" style="font-weight: normal;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-769f620f-62b4-0460-5957-c2d5b7a88362" style="font-weight: normal;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-769f620f-62be-2553-e36d-4e06c1e057c7" style="font-weight: normal;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-769f620f-62bf-0de3-61a4-73ba227f2d33" style="font-weight: normal;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-769f620f-62bf-db83-b87c-7ddb33e5a413" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></b></b></b></b></b><b id="docs-internal-guid-769f620f-62b3-c7e7-5522-9415d4b9a8f6" style="font-weight: normal;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-769f620f-62b4-0460-5957-c2d5b7a88362" style="font-weight: normal;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-769f620f-62be-2553-e36d-4e06c1e057c7" style="font-weight: normal;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-769f620f-62bf-0de3-61a4-73ba227f2d33" style="font-weight: normal;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-769f620f-62bf-db83-b87c-7ddb33e5a413" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></span></b></b></b></b></b>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial"; font-size: 13.3333px;"><i>"SNAFU" is a parable of sorts about making the best of a bad situation. It depicts a make-shift bivouac with a blazing campfire for warmth. Wood appears to be scarce, so a pile of PVC pipes are used instead. Bits of food and debris are strewn about, with all the fix’ns for some very smoky s’mores. I was inspired by a homeless person (possibly a whole family) who established an encampment in our irrigation ditch last summer. It was a very organized campsite, with tarps, suitcases, backpacks and cooking utensils. Because of the nature of the objects (specifically food and fire) and their close proximity, I also see this belonging to the genre of vanitas painting - meaning art that reminds people of mortality and that material things are ephemeral.</i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The painters of the Hudson Valley School were inspired by Romantic painters such as </span><a href="http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/turner-inspired-in-the-light-of-claude-14-march-2012-1200" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">J.M.W. Turner</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, as they painted the sublime beauty of unspoiled nature in the United States. They would paint views from afar; dreamlike visions of the landscape. Scott Greene employs some of the same aspects of romanticized, mystical landscape as Hudson Valley painter Sanford Gifford, in his "Big Dish Candy Mountains". In Greene’s painting, however, mountains of satellite dishes become the view--evidence of human imposition on the environment. The painting is part of a series of works he made in which the satellite dish symbolizes our inability to communicate, in spite of the proliferation of communication technology. Greene writes that "Big Dish Candy Mountains" was inspired by the "great hobo song 'Big Rock Candy Mountains,' about a make-believe place where lemonade rivers flow, and trees sprout cigarettes. A place where all your dreams come true, and you are never wanting for anything."</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.turnercarroll.com/index.html" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.38; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-769f620f-62d1-b6bc-90ea-659377b63a85" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.3333px; vertical-align: baseline;">Scott Greene, "Course of Empire" series ("Peace Offering", "Manifest", "Testing One Two", "Eminent Domain", "Shelf Life"), 2015, </span></span></a><span id="docs-internal-guid-769f620f-62d1-b6bc-90ea-659377b63a85" style="color: #222222; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.3333px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.turnercarroll.com/index.html" style="text-decoration: none;">Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico</a></span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.3333px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Scott Greene, "Mistletoe", 2015, </span><a href="http://www.turnercarrollgallery.com/" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.38; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.3333px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico</span></a></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To<a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/567062920139456/"> hear Scott Greene speak about the environmental symbolism in his paintings, please join us on Friday, March 11, at 6 pm at Turner Carroll Gallery</a>, 725 Canyon Road, Santa Fe, New Mexico. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You can also view Scott's paintings at the <a href="http://www.nmartmuseum.org/site/exhibitions/current/alcoves-2016/">New Mexico Museum of Art</a>, until April 24; <a href="http://turnercarroll.com/">Turner Carroll Gallery</a>, and <a href="http://roswellamoca.org/">Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art</a> in Roswell, New Mexico.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.38;">Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA</span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8b78e485-d928-550d-6959-de2537aee16f"><br /><span id="docs-internal-guid-8b78e485-d929-23b8-e7cc-4b560b22b9b8"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Traian exhibited imagery such as this, throughout the world, to tell the </span><a href="http://www.pacificaradioarchives.org/recording/kz1662" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Romanian story of oppression</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. He could not attend these exhibitions himself, but his images told the secrets of the repressive Ceausescu regime. When Filip’s etchings were exhibited in Sweden, the Swedish government understood his visual messages and initially helped him escape. Filip’s highly symbolic images are now found in museums throughout the world. I wrote (with Michael Carroll) a book about Traian, titled </span><a href="http://www.turnercarrollgallery.com/publications.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Traiain Alexandru Filip: His Art and Life. </span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></span></div>
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