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Kids Who Die (Ferguson to Baltimore)
Gregg Chadwick Kids Who Die (Ferguson to Baltimore) 24”x48” oil on linen 2015 inspired by Langston Hughes and the #BlackLivesMatter movement https://www.facebook.com/colorofchange/videos/10153460650661067/ Kids Who Die by Langston Hughes This is for the kids who die, Black and white, For kids will die certainly . The old and rich will live on awhile , As always, Eating blood and gold, Letting kids die. Kids will die in the swamps of Mississippi Organizing sharecroppers Kids will die in the streets of Chicago Organizing workers Kids will die in the orange groves of California Telling others to get together Whites and Filipinos, Negroes and Mexicans, All kinds of kids will die Who don't believe in lies, and bribes, and contentment And a lousy peace . Of course, the wise and the learned Who pen editorials in the papers, And the gentlemen with Dr. in front of their names White and black, Who make surv...
Growing Art Scene in Los Angeles
New Art Galleries Enjoy a Los Angeles Advantage: Space http:// nyti.ms/1ixmOoN
You Are Invited to "An Odyssey: 10 Year Anniversary of the Torrance Art Museum"
Gregg Chadwick Not a Morning Person 8"x8" oil on panel 2015 AN ODYSSEY: 10 YEARS OF THE TORRANCE ART MUSEUM Saturday, September 12, 2015 6:00pm – 10:00pm I am excited to have my painting "Not a Morning Person" in the Torrance Art Museum's 10 Year Anniversary Benefit Exhibit and Fundraiser. Guests will have the opportunity to purchase artworks from the various artists who exhibited at the museum over the past decade. All works will be sold for $100.00 USD and proceeds will go towards future museum renovations and to expand the museum's arts and education programs. Hope to see you there! - Gregg Chadwick Below is a list of confirmed artists who will have their work sold at the gala: Accardi, Charles Agito, Robyn Alexander, Peter Aliabadi , Shiva Alvarez, Tania Jazz Ano , Michael Apgar, Jonathan Appel , Kevin Aragona, Marisa Argote , Carmen Arrowsmith, Dawn Avesar , Nurit Baer, Nadege Monchera Baker Cahill, Nanc...
Great Read on Getty Museum's Blog "The Iris" -Looking at a Painting as a Conservator
Fascinating Article - Looking at a Painting as a Conservator https:// shar.es/1tUy0E via @ thegetty
World Elephant Day
RT @ NatGeo In honor of # WorldElephantDay , a gallery of the beloved animals in the wild: http:// on.natgeo.com/1J36JR3
Jersey Rain
Jersey Rain by gregg chadwick Via Flickr: Gregg Chadwick 30"x40" oil on linen 2015 Inspired by Robert Pinsky and Robert Chadwick JERSEY RAIN by Robert Pinsky Now near the end of the middle stretch of road What have I learned? Some earthly wiles. An art. That often I cannot tell good fortune from bad, That once had seemed so easy to tell apart. The source of art and woe aslant in wind Dissolves or nourishes everything it touches. What roadbank gullies and ruts it doesn’t mend It carves the deeper , boiling tawny in ditches. It spends itself regardless into the ocean. It stains and scours and makes things dark or bright: Sweat of the moon, a shroud of benediction, The chilly liquefaction of day to night, The Jersey rain, my rain, soaks all as one: It smites Metuchen, Rahway, Saddle River, Fair Haven, Newark, Little Silver, Bayonne. I feel it churning even in fair weather To craze distincti...
Basque Ghosts: A Review of Gabriel Urza’s First Novel — ”All That Followed”
by Gregg Chadwick Author Gabriel Urza’s family has roots in Spain’s Basque region. His new novel “All That Followed” http://amzn.to/2eyXpMY shows us the faces of civil wars — the Spanish Civil War of the 1930's, the Basque separatist movement, and the small wars that families and couples often find themselves fighting. Urza recounts a fictional tale based on real events that explores the kidnapping and killing of a young politician by even younger separatists in the late 1990s. Urza limns a town where everyone knows where bullet holes were left by Franco’s murderous thugs decades before. Ghosts of the murdered seem to arrive in the slanted rain — txirimiri in Basque. In a Rashomon like retelling of the politician’s murder, three disparate voices speak in alternating chapters: Joni, an aging American expat teacher. Mariana, the victim’s young wife. And Iker, a student activist turned abductor. Joni and Mariana’s pain and loss are balanced with Iker’s hunger for ...
The Golden Ratio in Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel Frescoes
A fascinating new study by Brazilian researchers* entitled "More Than A Neuroanatomical Representation in The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo Buonarroti, A Representation of the Golden Ratio" presents a compelling look at Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel frescoes. (*DEIVIS DE CAMPOS, TAIS MALYSZ, JO~AO ANTONIO BONATTO-COSTA, GERALDO PEREIRA JOTZ, LINO PINTO DE OLIVEIRA JUNIOR, ANDANDREA OXLEY DA ROCHA) "We report our use of Image Pro Plus Software 6.0 to demonstrate mathematical evidence that Michelangelo painted “The Creation of Adam” using the Divine Proportion/Golden Ratio (G R) (1.6). The GR is classically associated with greater structural efficiency and is found in biological structures and works of art by renowned artists. Thus, according to the evidence shown in this article, we can suppose that the beauty and harmony recognized in all Michelangelo’s works may not be based solely on his knowledge of human anatomical proportions, but that the artist also pro...