Month: March 2015

Cheyenne Jackson, “I’m Blue, Skies”

Cheyenne Jackson, “I’m Blue, Skies”

Cheyenne David Jackson was born at Deaconess Hospital in Spokane, Washington on July 12, 1975, and was named by his father after the 1950s Western series “Cheyenne”. The third of four children, he was raised in Newport, Washington, a “teeny mill town” of about 1,200 people in a rural area in north eastern Washington near the Idaho border. His father is a Native American and a Vietnam veteran.

His mother taught Jackson, his sister and two brothers to sing and regularly played music by Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan and Elvis Presley at home. Jackson moved to Spokane, Washington as a teenager and came out to his parents as gay at age 19. His parents were evangelical born-again Christians and his brother is a pastor who has preached on The 700 Club. They eventually accepted his sexuality.

Thiago Pethit, “Rock’n’Roll Sugar Darling”

Thiago Pethit, “Rock’n’Roll Sugar Darling” – featuring Joe Dallesandro

Published on Nov 10, 2014
Download “Rock’n’Roll Sugar Darling” no iTunes: https://itun.es/i6BD2HW
Novo Álbum “Rock’n’Roll Sugar Darling” (2014): https://itun.es/i6Bq4xf

Great track from this singer. Also Check out Thiago Pethit’s “Moon”

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

L. A. Meyer: “My Beautiful Ship Leans Over Ever So Gracefully”

Photographer Unknown, (Sailing Under Blue Skies)

“We clear the harbor and the wind catches her sails and my beautiful ship leans over ever so gracefully, and her elegant bow cuts cleanly into the increasing chop of the waves. I take a deep breath and my chest expands and my heart starts thumping so strongly I fear the others might see it beat through the cloth of my jacket. I face the wind and my lips peel back from my teeth in a grin of pure joy.”

― L.A. Meyer, Under the Jolly Roger: Being an Account of the Further Nautical Adventures of Jacky Faber 

J. C. Leyendecker

J. C. Leyendecker, “US Navy and What It Offers”, 1914-1918, World War I Naval Recruiting Poster

The image on this U.S. Navy recruitment poster for World War I  is based on a painting by J. C. Leyendecker.The same image was again used in 1973 for a Navy recruitment poster during the Vietnam War era, which promised a bonus for former Navy men.   

J. C. Leyendecker was one of the prominent American illustrators of the early twentieth-century. He is best known for his posters, particularly the series for Arrow shirts which featured ‘The Arrow Collar Man’. In his career, Leyendecker created three hundred and twenty two covers for the Saturday Evening Post magazine.

Note: Additional images of Leyendecker’s work plus a more extensive biography can be found at this site in the June 2016 article entitled “Joseph Christian Leyendecker”.

 

James Turrell

Light Installations by James Turrell

A MacArthur Fellow in 1984, James Turrell is an American artist primarily concered with light and space. He received his BA degree from Pomona College in the field of perceptual psychology.in 1965 and also studied mathematics, geology and astronomy at Pomona College. He began making artwork using light projection while enrolled in the graduate Studio Art program at the University of California, Irvine in 1966. Later in 1973 he received an MA degree in art from Claremont Graduate University and an honorary doctorate in 2004 by Haverford College.

Turrell is also known for his light tunnels and light projections that create shapes that seem to have mass and weight, though they are created with only light. Turrell’s 1968 projection of a suspended luminous pink pyramid, Raethro Pink, was acquired by the Welsh National Museum of Art. His work “Acton” is a very popular exhibit at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. It consists of a room that appears to have a blank canvas on display, but the “canvas” is actually a rectangular hole in the wall, lit to look otherwise.

“I had an interest in art, but my first interest was in light. I was fascinated by light.”

-James Turrell

Christian-Pontus Andersson

Ceramic Figures by Christian-Pontus Andersson

Christian Pontus Andersson (born 1977) is a Swedish artist and sculptor, living in Södermalm, Stockholm. He started studying ceramics at Konstfack, University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, in Stockholm in 2002. During his studies, Andersson  opened a ceramic workshop in the Chinese “porcelain capital” Jingdezhen where he produced in 2007 his master’s degree project, the large scale baroque series “Cry Me the Sorrows”.

Combining both high artistic and craftsmanship level, Andersson’s work gained a lot of attention at the annual Spring exhibition, and led to his first acclaimed solo exhibition at Christian Larsen Gallery. Andersson has also exhibited at the National Gallery of Art in Stockholm, and participated in group exhibitions in Tokyo, Munich, Frankfurt, and Milan

The work of Christian Pontus Andersson balances between kitch and stringent form, creating a contrast between the extravagant homoerotic appearances of the figures and the fragile material of which they are made As sources of inspiration, Andersson mentions Czech artist Alphonse Mucha, and his work also resembles of Michelangelo, Matthew Barney and Jeff Koons.

Richard McLean

Richard McLean, “Homoerotic Phones”, Date Unknown, Graphite on Paper

Richard McLean was an American painter and leading member of the Photorealist movement. Best known for his equestrian paintings, his intensely detailed and lifelike depictions of horses and their riders established him as a unique voice within the movement.

Born in 1934 in Hoquiam, Washington, McLean’s early artistic career was shaped by his study under painter and printmaker Richard Diebenkorn at the Bay Area California College of Arts and Crafts, where he received a BFA before going to on earn his MFA at Mills College in San Francisco. As one of the thirteen most prominent Photorealist painters during the 1960s and 70s alongside the likes of Chuck Close and Richard Estes, he is notable for his consistent use of Western subject matter in his works.

Before his death on January 3, 2014 in his hometown, McLean’s work was featured in many prominent international exhibitions, including the 1970 “Twenty-Two Realists” at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, and the 1972 “Documenta” in Kassel, Germany.