We now live nature in two senses: that ancestral one of the "granted", planetary, and the modern one, of the "acquired", industrial and urban. We can chose one or the other, denying one for the other ; the important thing is that nature, in these two senses be lived and understood in the integrity of their ontological structure, under the universalization perspective of the perceptive awareness - the Self embracing the world, making it one, in agreement and harmony with emotion understood as the only reality of human language.
The above words are from http://www.frans-krajcberg.com/fkmanifesteenglish.html
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Forests came before civilization,the deserts after them ....Chateaubriand above image I am working on for WLT landscape
TUESDAY 23
Through all the research I have done based on the artists books, song, lyrics .......
Leon Golubs work on social concerns such as protest art on the Vietnam war
Frans Krajcbergs Activist art against deforestation in Brazil
Paul Nash's war art looking at destruction on people land and forests
Along with Bruce Cockburns Lyrics..... If a tree falls in the forest does anybody Hear......
A book based on Brazilian activist Chico Mendes 'Fight for the forest'
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I have been able to create work and base images that have been informed by researching the above please see previous blogs for further information
Working on images based on effects of deforestation......
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| Mixed media based on effects of deforestation the land forest wild life and people
Contextualising and researching artists such as Paul Nash, Leon Golub, and Frans Krajcberg has inspired
and informed and shown me how art can be used as a channel/vehicle to put a visual message across about subjects that are not always pleasant on the eye or restful to the soul, images that are uncomfortable, create an
unease, disrupt and challenge my human complacency ........In an article by Katherine Calak she says 'Art is not truly art unless it stands for something, gives a point of view, relays a message in some way. There is no possible way to create a visual piece that does not involve communication . A piece of art sends out some sort of message for the viewer to process even if only for a split second '.Calak.
The imagery that I have dealt with in the latter part of my collaboration has dealt with issues and themes of
struggle and contestation. It confronts the viewer with aspects of the human condition, of the inequality of one groups dominance over another. It deals with control and its consequences.
THE WORDS OF Frans Krajcberg We are all born in some place I prefer to say that I was born in this planet thus I leave behind the reference of countries and boundaries, but I must emphasize that it was in Brazil that nature caused me a huge impact and as time went by allowed the transformation of my revolt. |
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| Preparing work for mixed media image |
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| Sketch prep for effects of displacement |
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