Author: ultrawolvesunderthefullmoon

https://www.instagram.com/wolvesofgray This blog is a refugee and a survivor of the Great Tumblr Inquisition of December 17th, 2018. I am gay artist, who received training at the Rhode Island School of Design, and now, a retired high-end fine art framer living in Maryland, USA. My interests and studies in life run a wide gamut from art to history and from the scientific to the esoteric. I have been building this blog of images and texts for the last eight years. My wish is that my posts pique the interest of viewers and encourage them to experience more.

George Tooker

Paintings by George Tooker

George Clair Tooker, Jr. was an American figurative painter whose works are associated with the Magic Realism and Social Realism movements. Working with the then-revitalized tradition of egg tempera, Tooker addressed issues of modern-day alienation with subtly eerie and often visually literal depictions of social withdrawal and isolation. He was one of nine recipients of the National Medal of Arts in 2007.

Images from Top to Bottom;

George Tooker, “The Subway”, 1950, Egg Tempera on Composition Board, 46 x 92 cm, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

George Tooker, “Divers”, 1962, Egg Tempera on Gessoed Panel, 30 x 46 cm, Private Collection

George Tooker, “Lunch”, 1964, Egg Tempera on Gessoed Panel,  50.8 x 66 cm, Columbus Museum of Art

George Tooker, “Window II”, 1956, Egg Tempera on Panel, 61 x 46 cm, Collection of James and Barbara Palmer

Thomas Dekker: “In Peace, An Ornament”

Photographer Unknown, (Dark hair), Selfie

“Long hair will make thee look dreafully to thine enemies, and manly to thy friends: it is, in peace, an ornament; in war, a strong helmet; it…deadens the leaden thump of a bullet: in winter, it is a warm nightcap; in summer, a cooling fan of feathers.”

― Thomas Dekker, The Guls Horne Booke, 1609 

Valerie Ganz

Valerie Ganz, “Miners Changing After Work”, Date Unknown, Mixed Media, 53 x 44 cm, Private Collection

Born in 1936 in Swansea, Wales, Valerie Ganz studied art in her hometown, later working as a teacher and lecturer. She left teaching in 1973 to concentrate on full-time painting. Ganz became known as one of Wales’ most intrepid and original painters. Fascinated by the working life of Welsh coal miners, she regularly entered the mines the paint them as they worked and gathered.

Ganz eventually moved to Six Bells, Abertillery, where she took a house and studio to spend a year painting at the Six Bells Colliery. Her work formed the basis of many exhibitions, particularly the “Mining in Art” exhibition in 1986 at the Glynn Vivian Gallery in Swansea. Ganz also spent a year painting daily at the Central School of Ballet in London and painted behind the scenes at the Moscow State Circus. She died in September of 2015 at the age of seventy-nine, after struggling with ill health.

Hermann Lismann

Hermann Lismann, “Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta”, Date Unknown, Oil on Canvas

Born in Munich, Hermann Lismann belonged to the group of artists that met regularly at the Café du Dôme. After serving in the German army in World War I, he settled in Frankfurt, where many of his works were acquired by the local museum, and where for several years he taught aesthetics at the university.

After the rise of Hitler Lismann immigrated to France, residing in Tours. He was interned by the French at the outbreak of World War II as an enemy alien, but managed to escape to Montauban near Toulouse, in the unoccupied zone. However, in 1943 Lismann was deported to his death in the extermination camp of Majdanek.

Lismann’s post-impressionist works in the Staedelsches Museum at Frankfurt and in the museum of Wuppertal, were confiscated by the Nazis and disappeared. Nevertheless, a memorial exhibition held by the Frankfurt Kunstverein in 1959 was able to assemble 132 of his works.

Tenmyouya Hisashi

Paintings by Tenmyouya Hisashi

Tenmyouya Hisashi (天明屋尚, born 1966 in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese contemporary artist.

In 2000, Tenmyouya Hisashi instituted his unique Japanese painting “Neo Nihonga” which revives Japanese traditional paintings as a contemporary art. He also created in that year his new style called  “Butouha” which, through his paintings, shows a resistant attitude for the authoritative art system.

In 2010 Hisashi proposed a new Japanese art scheme named “BASARA” which is extravagant and extraordinary in style, embodiying a Samurai aesthetic like “Basara” in the Nanboku dynasty era and the “Kabuki-mono” aesthetic prevalent at the end of Sengoku era.

Hisashi currently lives and works in Saitama, Japan and is represented by the Mizuma Art Gallery in Tokyo.

Jean-Pierre Jeunet, “Amelie”

Jean-Pierre Jeunet, “Amelie”

“Amélie” is a fanciful comedy about a young woman who discretely orchestrates the lives of the people around her, creating a world exclusively of her own making. Shot in over 80 Parisian locations, acclaimed director Jean-Pierre Jeunet (“Delicatessen”; “The City of Lost Children”) invokes his incomparable visionary style to capture the exquisite charm and mystery of modern-day Paris through the eyes of a beautiful ingenue.

Release date: November 16, 2001 (USA)
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Featured song: La Valse d’Amélie (orchestra version)

A great film on the top of my favorites list- great photography, especially with the use of color filters; great soundtrack; actors who really know their characters; and a funny but heart touching story.