Category: Painting
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Surrealist Smorgasbord
The following photos were captured during a recent trip to the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s Perelman Building, which is hosting an exhibit entitled “The Surrealists” on display through March 2, 2014. Joan Miró’s Dog Barking at the Moon, (Oil on canvas, 1926). (Viewer please note: the photograph I captured is an alternate take on the…
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Philadelphia Dreaming
Philadelphia Dreaming is a simple digital collage created by blending two jpeg images. The image below left was found via Google image search using the search term “Philadelphia skyline view.” The image below right is a photo collage based on the painting, “Flaming June,” by Sir Frederic Leighton. Each image was scaled to match the…
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A Day in the Life of a Mobile Phone
This is one of the murals commissioned by the Philadelphia Mural Arts program, the largest public art organization in the U.S., linking artists with neighborhoods to beautify public spaces. The mural transforms an otherwise drab brick facade into a veritable masterpiece. The Birth of Venus sculpture at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. A few feet…
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Mix and Match Images
For the record, only one of the images you see below is mine. The lady on the left is a Post-Impressionist painting called “The Corn Poppy” by Kees Van Dongen, located at the Houston Museum of Art. The image in the middle is something I pulled anonymously from the internet. The image on the right…
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Thought for the Day
“Only when we know our own darkness well can be be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.” -Pema Chödrön, from p. 73 of Comfortable with Uncertainty Warsaw Ghetto, (Acrylic on Canvas, 2001)
Virtually Gina 