tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51274805927923854412024-03-17T20:04:26.132-07:00Stephanie GoldmanS T E P H A N I E G O L D M A N F I N E A R T Stephanie Goldmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14148242941055085601noreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5127480592792385441.post-41915700297312463152021-09-15T11:55:00.005-07:002021-09-15T11:55:57.699-07:00COMING OUT JURIED INTO SPRINGFIELD ART MUSEUM 2017 EXHIBITION<h1 style="text-align: left;">"COMING OUT" Juried Into Springfield Art Museum Watercolor USA 2017 Exhibition</h1><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></blockquote><div><span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a 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left;"><i>Juror Laurin McCracken, President of the Watercolor USA Honor Society</i></div><i><div style="text-align: left;"><i>Also accepted in Studio Visit Magazine Juried Exhibition 2017</i></div></i></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">Heat Sensing Thermal Paintings-</h3><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihyphenhyphen7nlaxzEsxekZvsk0oxmEyV_4xlgJiro5YhKLI7roD5BLyXqajj7q7hImrMd3jz3tdLymFc3O9CVXnColMR-SixXFtq7-hDwP-NdWdiua4RPf9p3wmsRghgeDdLwXGKoITwSFd-m8DIt/s2048/01The_Artist_18x10_Stephanie_Goldman_wc.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1135" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihyphenhyphen7nlaxzEsxekZvsk0oxmEyV_4xlgJiro5YhKLI7roD5BLyXqajj7q7hImrMd3jz3tdLymFc3O9CVXnColMR-SixXFtq7-hDwP-NdWdiua4RPf9p3wmsRghgeDdLwXGKoITwSFd-m8DIt/w354-h640/01The_Artist_18x10_Stephanie_Goldman_wc.JPG" width="354" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Artist, Watercolor, 18x10<br />San Diego iShow Juried Exhibition 2016<br /><br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div><span><br /></span></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAajWa0ZbgdWhQiQrzMG5HnCCojRn5Cbkqtaw20tqlhDMDimJhGpiS2HR2Ilb5MAXKS-o0aGJ3CBD7mFGUoJ48GuM8GyykLS99sWE1mffuGFilIpO0hyphenhyphenC7dFbk7bFfNRq7Ow35zPDtqQzh/s2048/07Majorelle_21x15_Stephanie_Goldman_wc.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1522" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAajWa0ZbgdWhQiQrzMG5HnCCojRn5Cbkqtaw20tqlhDMDimJhGpiS2HR2Ilb5MAXKS-o0aGJ3CBD7mFGUoJ48GuM8GyykLS99sWE1mffuGFilIpO0hyphenhyphenC7dFbk7bFfNRq7Ow35zPDtqQzh/w476-h640/07Majorelle_21x15_Stephanie_Goldman_wc.JPG" width="476" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Majorelle, Watercolor, 21x15<br />2017 NWS International Open Exhibition Catalog Board Member<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoqCZp9TKkwO0SguAVUyTNPW_8vzVS-AiRC8JW0tuDnhdMmYLa5bB-jbUFVMuK5-gIdsTyILhTQ-RqCFuJwOUfq4_MixSIweeUSSPCHJmMh33QxJS-aKaJdk3kdFbTbLVXm5eN37q9UiXx/s2048/08SelfPortrait_with_Two_Circles_25x12_Stephanie+Goldman_wc.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1030" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoqCZp9TKkwO0SguAVUyTNPW_8vzVS-AiRC8JW0tuDnhdMmYLa5bB-jbUFVMuK5-gIdsTyILhTQ-RqCFuJwOUfq4_MixSIweeUSSPCHJmMh33QxJS-aKaJdk3kdFbTbLVXm5eN37q9UiXx/w322-h640/08SelfPortrait_with_Two_Circles_25x12_Stephanie+Goldman_wc.JPG" width="322" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Self-Portrait with Two Circles, 25x12 <br />Northwest Watercolor Society 2018 Juried Exhibition</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div 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left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span>Translating thermal heat into visible light captured my imagination. As a colorist this type of photography drew me in immediately and I had to know more about it. How and why could developing this ability be important in daily life. I had so many questions about it uses and could it be adapted to picture making? The colors reminded me of the psychedelic era of the 60's and can now be purchased in a specialized camera by anyone for all kinds of personal uses.</span><span> </span></div></span><br /><a href="https://www.grainger.com/content/qt-thermal-imaging-applications-uses-features-345">https://www.grainger.com/content/qt-thermal-imaging-applications-uses-features-345</a><br /><br />Animals that can see with infrared light: Mosquitoes, vampire bats, bed bugs, and some snake and beetle species.<br /><br /><a href="https://sciencing.com/animals-can-see-infrared-light-6910261.html">https://sciencing.com/animals-can-see-infrared-light-6910261.html</a><br /><br />https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/08/6-animals-that-can-see-or-glow-in-ultraviolet-light/243634/ <br /> <br /><a href="https://www.nationalgeographic.org/media/infrared-vision/">https://www.nationalgeographic.org/media/infrared-vision/</a><br /><br />http://www.momtastic.com/webecoist/2009/01/14/animal-vision-color-detection-and-color-blindness/ <br /><br />Can humans see infrared?<br />https://io9.gizmodo.com/under-the-right-conditions-humans-can-see-infrared-1665448040 <br /><br />Plants that utilize heat production, the sacred lotus:<br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/01/science/heat-of-lotus-attracts-insects-and-scientists.html">https://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/01/science/heat-of-lotus-attracts-insects-and-scientists.html</a></div></div>Stephanie Goldmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14148242941055085601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5127480592792385441.post-91972182410728824672021-09-15T00:49:00.008-07:002021-09-15T10:30:23.491-07:00INVITATION TO EXHIBIT AT 2021 TAIWAN INTERNATIONAL WATERCOLOR BIENNIAL <h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">2021 FLOWING WATER </span></h1><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">TAOYUAN INTERNATIONAL WATERCOLOR BIENNIAL 9.10 - 10.3</span></h2><div style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(37, 37, 37); line-height: 36px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; text-size-adjust: auto;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3yDGvHv2xPxBMlVFoFZlbwDaYpvnLqiOACxDpXWj644DyEfzp7pyHwv09GjE4SGLwZE_OWhQu9uPEJ9K28Yjim8yFGYA_kbMCS4_IZIdarq73_m34uZN5v6IgfEMJQIrP8kPkzzD9Efyi/s1490/stephanie+goldmanfineart+water+and+air+II.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1490" data-original-width="1012" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3yDGvHv2xPxBMlVFoFZlbwDaYpvnLqiOACxDpXWj644DyEfzp7pyHwv09GjE4SGLwZE_OWhQu9uPEJ9K28Yjim8yFGYA_kbMCS4_IZIdarq73_m34uZN5v6IgfEMJQIrP8kPkzzD9Efyi/w435-h640/stephanie+goldmanfineart+water+and+air+II.jpg" width="435" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Water and Air II, Watercolor, 56 x 38cm<br /><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #252525; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; text-size-adjust: auto;">Biennial/Biennale is a term or a form of large exhibition popular over the recent decades, referring to an event taking place every two years. It was born in the end of 19th century in Venice, hailed as a carnival by the art scene. It established a platform for those involved in the art circle to compare and contrast arts produced worldwide, which is also known as the Olympics of art world. It implies a professional, strong meaning. Or rather, it is a venue that gives voice to art and the world trends without limit to medium, interdisciplinary, and experimental, dialectical over knowledge and ideas, and issue-oriented in terms of curatorial practice. After going viral in recent years, watercolor went for biennial as well.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #252525; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; text-size-adjust: auto;">This year, a total of 35 watercolorists were invited to this exhibition: 18 artists from Taiwan and 17 international artists from Australia, UK, Sweden, China, USA, Italy, Russia, Japan, Poland, India, and Republic of Moldova. The Department of Cultural Affairs, Taoyuan holds various watercolor activities. Furthermore, their renaming of this international watercolor exhibition taking place every other year as “biennial” signals their ambition for a sustainable promotion. Flowing Water – Taoyuan International Watercolor Biennial is the largest sustainable watercolor art event in Taiwan to date.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(28, 28, 28);"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: verdana;"><i><b>"Thank you to the Taoyuan International Biennial Committee for the invitation to exhibit my work along with other fine international watercolorists." Stephanie Goldman</b></i></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(28, 28, 28);"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: verdana;"><i></i></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeyBZskvaSJMsNmZ55Pxw9rKYUC7EeGzZ9bLqe89VDnPPHzwQ-37GlG7mPp3SzJYUM9EZXAFUS96F0jHNEOoAigRYB8lajbY3Z1rfYGQWCw7MzT0TK93hpuN3IbjCiOmSYBKtE8ZK8N3fR/s2048/Stephanie+Goldman_Water%2526Air+I_Watercolor_22X15.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1349" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeyBZskvaSJMsNmZ55Pxw9rKYUC7EeGzZ9bLqe89VDnPPHzwQ-37GlG7mPp3SzJYUM9EZXAFUS96F0jHNEOoAigRYB8lajbY3Z1rfYGQWCw7MzT0TK93hpuN3IbjCiOmSYBKtE8ZK8N3fR/w422-h640/Stephanie+Goldman_Water%2526Air+I_Watercolor_22X15.jpg" width="422" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Water and Air I, Watercolor, 56 x 38cm<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2MjY30TW_SbxDiaxCB8vMM1IdCuGf_fFbRgVF58mYzM62VefSUJ6g4MqnP9VMY1U4pc7RRS2TXwge1PwAY6rIHKp4U1qMqIjliEvyAdI1pZ9XUpr_Iyd7uRWas0nStve0sYPl5wF771ME/s1800/Stephanie+Goldman_Aussie+Gold_Watercolor_22x15+copy.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1205" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2MjY30TW_SbxDiaxCB8vMM1IdCuGf_fFbRgVF58mYzM62VefSUJ6g4MqnP9VMY1U4pc7RRS2TXwge1PwAY6rIHKp4U1qMqIjliEvyAdI1pZ9XUpr_Iyd7uRWas0nStve0sYPl5wF771ME/w428-h640/Stephanie+Goldman_Aussie+Gold_Watercolor_22x15+copy.JPG" width="428" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Aussie Gold, Watercolor, 56 x 38cm</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></span></div></div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 14px;">Official Website : </span><a href="http://taoyuanwatercolorbiennial.com/" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 14px;">http://taoyuanwatercolorbiennial.com/</a></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span><span style="caret-color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: verdana;">Invited Artists: </span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(37, 37, 37);"><a href="http://taoyuanwatercolorbiennial.com/artists2021/">http://taoyuanwatercolorbiennial.com/artists2021/</a></span></span></span></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; text-size-adjust: auto;"><p style="caret-color: rgb(37, 37, 37);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(37, 37, 37); line-height: 36px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 14px;">Official FB : </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/TaoyuanWatercolor/?ref=page_internal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 14px;">https://www.facebook.com/TaoyuanWatercolor/?ref=page_internal</a></p></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFiphwumuwoHVtBvgtlo2Ur9bkmLHrG6e2GJ98qso0P4L3w8SN8rzBWVz9YYVDQM1at4tDXFV7Iz2xeF6UXmdfGI6JqUAP5txYcQtumPAHFuMq1XW2chsGkVcQ0hJGhSZfrUexsdzJK7TK/s2695/Stephanie+GOLDMAN+%25E2%2580%2593+%25E6%25B4%25BB%25E6%25B0%25B4-2021%25E6%25A1%2583%25E5%259C%2592%25E5%259C%258B%25E9%259A%259B%25E6%25B0%25B4%25E5%25BD%25A9%25E9%259B%2599%25E5%25B9%25B4%25E5%25B1%2595.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2695" data-original-width="1167" height="1521" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFiphwumuwoHVtBvgtlo2Ur9bkmLHrG6e2GJ98qso0P4L3w8SN8rzBWVz9YYVDQM1at4tDXFV7Iz2xeF6UXmdfGI6JqUAP5txYcQtumPAHFuMq1XW2chsGkVcQ0hJGhSZfrUexsdzJK7TK/w658-h1521/Stephanie+GOLDMAN+%25E2%2580%2593+%25E6%25B4%25BB%25E6%25B0%25B4-2021%25E6%25A1%2583%25E5%259C%2592%25E5%259C%258B%25E9%259A%259B%25E6%25B0%25B4%25E5%25BD%25A9%25E9%259B%2599%25E5%25B9%25B4%25E5%25B1%2595.jpg" width="658" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Stephanie Goldmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14148242941055085601noreply@blogger.com957, Taiwan, 台東縣海端鄉利稻村23.1818188 120.964686615.300512001551013 112.1756241 31.063125598448984 129.7537491tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5127480592792385441.post-24261359357009144942021-05-05T21:06:00.006-07:002021-05-12T13:27:44.994-07:00Art & Mathematics - Intention & Meaning<p><b style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ArialMT;">What is it like to conceive of a mathematical equation so beautiful, so perfect, so sublime as to change the nature of reality and the world we live in?</b></p><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ArialMT; text-size-adjust: auto;">This is just one question I asked myself while reading the book by <a href="https://grahamfarmelo.com/" target="_blank">Graham Farmelo</a>,<i> The Strangest Man:The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac</i>. That question resulted in a series of images inspired by mathematical formulas that have been voted over the years to be some of the most consequential. Using my muse model, color, values, gesture and imagination to accompany each formula, I created these paintings after deep concentration and many hours of reading and watching videos explaining their significance and profundity. </div><p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ArialMT; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: auto;">As an artist, I could only capture their essence in flashes of insight while deeply admiring those minds that can read and write the language of numbers as well as conceive of formulas such as these. Here are four paintings from this series that have received awards and recognition in various international juried exhibitions.</p><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><div style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10px;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN-GqdD73uWE1G8wkpzPYVHZcvZHW63Y_xtlu7Xznd0UvBsZcxrRqMDKfMTqHVL4OJbjopJzUUa1JKKfxnZX8ZTQWOQc8bYQ8fPv1zpzRxRn08R78uXdjcxQDbVPqFr50eTnbQA0JRJxZV/s1200/Stephanie+Goldman+Ode+to+Dirac+Between+Ecstacy+and+Fear+Watercolor+30x22+.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="881" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN-GqdD73uWE1G8wkpzPYVHZcvZHW63Y_xtlu7Xznd0UvBsZcxrRqMDKfMTqHVL4OJbjopJzUUa1JKKfxnZX8ZTQWOQc8bYQ8fPv1zpzRxRn08R78uXdjcxQDbVPqFr50eTnbQA0JRJxZV/w470-h640/Stephanie+Goldman+Ode+to+Dirac+Between+Ecstacy+and+Fear+Watercolor+30x22+.jpg" width="470" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ode to Dirac Between Ecstacy & Fear, Watercolor 30 x 22</td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><i><span style="font-family: times;">Ode To Dirac, Between Ecstacy & Fear</span></i></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><i><span style="font-family: times;">2019 National Watercolor Society International Exhibition-Signature</span></i></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><i><span style="font-family: times;">2020 American Watercolor Society International Exhibition</span></i></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><i><span style="font-family: times;">2020 NWS The First 100 Years at Hilbert Museum</span></i></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><i><span style="font-family: times;">2020-21 Art Renewal Center Semi-Finalist</span></i></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><i><span style="font-family: times;">2021 American Women Artist Annual Spring Show</span></i></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><i><span style="font-family: times;">2021 Fallbrook Signature Exhibition-Best of Show</span></i></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ArialMT; text-size-adjust: auto;"><p class="p1" style="font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Paul Dirac believed “a physical law must possess mathematical beauty. He</span><span class="s2" style="background-color: white; font-kerning: none;"> was able to bring together two of the most important ideas in science: quantum mechanics, which describes the behavior of tiny objects; and Einstein's special theory of relativity, which describes the behavior of fast-moving objects. Dirac's equation describes how particles like electrons behave when they travel close to the speed of light. </span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">A student asked Dirac what it felt like to conceive the formula. He said "it was like being between Ecstacy & Fear." I created this painting to represent that<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>conceptual and physical moment of beauty, ecstasy and fear all happening simultaneously.</span></p></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg1eNNQmweElEAcYeYNEWCCMaNmTjd481tsChup0Crs08xYDYBDLUVCfiQjCocTI-L_nhpcZa1ZV3CU0A5LNkBEL3A0xYgkxrIgft5geSeXMv5J1hZpMPORpa9sOegXhwqjgvnpOeAUYu0/s1280/Stephanie+Goldman-Euler%2527s+Identity-The+Most+Beautiful.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="948" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg1eNNQmweElEAcYeYNEWCCMaNmTjd481tsChup0Crs08xYDYBDLUVCfiQjCocTI-L_nhpcZa1ZV3CU0A5LNkBEL3A0xYgkxrIgft5geSeXMv5J1hZpMPORpa9sOegXhwqjgvnpOeAUYu0/w474-h640/Stephanie+Goldman-Euler%2527s+Identity-The+Most+Beautiful.jpeg" width="474" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Euler's Identity The Most Beautiful, Watercolor 30x22</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: times;">Euler’s Identity -The Most Beautiful</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: times;">2020 Fallbrook Signature Exhibition 1st Place</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ArialMT; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT;">A formula so simple and profound, described as the Mozart of mathematics, said to link all of the constants of mathematics together. Leonard Euler, considered the most influential mathematician of the 18th century, contributed significantly to almost every major field of math. In 2004 a reader of <i>Physics World </i>magazine asked, “What cold be more mystical than an imaginary number interacting with real numbers to produce nothing?” </span><span style="color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.063px;"><b><i>: "e to the power of i times pi plus zero equals zero"</i></b></span></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.063px;"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEbBqWvB2D802i8NgDN5eXvJ3a43ZS29cL0274XnRvJhtKLRFBqFXsIiFO99kC4rjBbGcR50S4qA_cVk_bEQSk0rDl8xQGsu60GgsHmW91VsO67PFCjUdp7L5geU-Hw5iq4QMNaLeaYe9m/s1280/Stephanie+Goldman-Pick+a+Flower-Move+a+Star.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="944" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEbBqWvB2D802i8NgDN5eXvJ3a43ZS29cL0274XnRvJhtKLRFBqFXsIiFO99kC4rjBbGcR50S4qA_cVk_bEQSk0rDl8xQGsu60GgsHmW91VsO67PFCjUdp7L5geU-Hw5iq4QMNaLeaYe9m/w472-h640/Stephanie+Goldman-Pick+a+Flower-Move+a+Star.jpeg" width="472" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pick A Flower, Move A Star, Watercolor 30 x 22</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /><span style="font-family: times;">Pick a Flower, Move a Star - Paul Dirac</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><br /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT;">Can a person effect a star by picking a flower and what did Dirac mean by the statement, Pick a flower on earth and move the farthest star? One writer at Quora answered this way, </span><span style="font-family: arial;"><i> <span>"</span></i></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #282829;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span>Anything that has mass will have gravitational force, which means that even the smallest particle in the universe, as long as it has mass, is pulling at every other particle in the universe. The statement is also valued for the poetic and philosophical implications it contains, which is that everything is connected. What happens in one corner of the universe is bound to have some sort of impact, no matter how minor, in another corner.</span><span>”</span></i></span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"> In this painting I chose the flower of life and the mental or imagined act of picking a flower.</span></span></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #282829;"><span face="-apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, Segoe UI, Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, Helvetica Neue, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #282829;"><span face="-apple-system, system-ui, system-ui, Segoe UI, Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, Helvetica Neue, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #282829;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: ArialMT; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXo1qJWAapTPnq1Ocb7WEP8UQnfCbmHL8GWfw40etxeTItO574msoerHVavlpmwPHuyu7g3_GdvRELIYFWsCf2jEFdQUTaZJPmX5xOVOz49rEwUVc6hO4CVRKfAaYQnVSz1EsJPu9I-NmK/s1249/stephanie+goldmanfineart_Imagination-E+equals+mcSquared.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1249" data-original-width="960" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXo1qJWAapTPnq1Ocb7WEP8UQnfCbmHL8GWfw40etxeTItO574msoerHVavlpmwPHuyu7g3_GdvRELIYFWsCf2jEFdQUTaZJPmX5xOVOz49rEwUVc6hO4CVRKfAaYQnVSz1EsJPu9I-NmK/w492-h640/stephanie+goldmanfineart_Imagination-E+equals+mcSquared.jpeg" width="492" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Imagination E=Mc2</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: times;">Imagination-E=Mc2</span></span></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: times;">2020 Missouri Watercolor Society International Exhibition MEAM Spain</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: times;">2020 National Watercolor Society Catalog Board of Directors</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: times;">2021 Springfield Art Museum - Watercolor USA Honor Society Award of Excellence</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ArialMT; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ArialMT; text-size-adjust: auto;">Einstein conceived his famous formula in 1934, a triumph of simplicity and fundamental physics that is still relevant today. In this painting E is the energy of the human being, m is the mass of the physical body and c2 is the both squared. I sought to describe pictorially what it would look like for a human being to BE the formula E=Mc2.<br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><div class="byline" style="background-color: white; display: inline-block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; margin-top: 0.8em; vertical-align: bottom;"><div class="source-attribution-wrapper"><div class="source-attribution-detail"><ul class="seperated-list source-attribution" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></ul></div></div></div></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDYhUbxtS0kmiguHEg6BJxeoL1W5xhviq5M7ddmBu4SNb9k72Q-kskLYjhlHuMcZimK7izrJtfdaGXXNdGONEmpru4USVdtwcUS0-z5yGQ4le1uW4dBXsWwgq2-LtqGJtfftQNDGZJSD9-/s1192/stephanie+goldmanfineart+nws+2019+sig.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1192" data-original-width="1192" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDYhUbxtS0kmiguHEg6BJxeoL1W5xhviq5M7ddmBu4SNb9k72Q-kskLYjhlHuMcZimK7izrJtfdaGXXNdGONEmpru4USVdtwcUS0-z5yGQ4le1uW4dBXsWwgq2-LtqGJtfftQNDGZJSD9-/w640-h640/stephanie+goldmanfineart+nws+2019+sig.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stephanie Goldman at National Watercolor Society, San Pedro CA</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;">2019 National Watercolor Society 99th International Exhibition - Signature Award</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ArialMT; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ArialMT; text-size-adjust: auto;">Here is an interesting read on art and mathematics at medium online by <a href="https://medium.com/nice-slice/art-and-mathematics-a2677a515450" target="_blank">Luke Cooper.</a></div>Stephanie Goldmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14148242941055085601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5127480592792385441.post-82377876679101105312019-03-22T18:49:00.004-07:002019-11-30T15:15:35.446-08:00Imagining Bhakti @ OMA<br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Since 1850, California has been home to a large number of extremely talented and versatile watercolor artists. The National Watercolor Society (NWS), originally named the California Watercolor Society (CWS), was founded in 1920 by a small group of like-minded artists, many of whom were students at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles. Tired of being rejected by the American Watercolor Society for being too colorful and for leaving too much white paper, the group rebelled against the establishment and began exhibiting what became known as the California Style of watercolor painting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">This new representational art documented scenes and activities of everyday life on the Pacific Coast, from California’s cities and industrial sites, to its beaches and harbors, and its vast, open landscapes. This approach to watercolor painting generated a great deal of attention from the New York art market to the Walt Disney Studios where artists worked on classic films like Fantasia, Snow White, and Pinocchio.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Today, although the membership of NWS has expanded to include artists throughout the entire USA and abroad, its roots are still firmly planted here in Southern California with its own gallery in San Pedro. This exhibition highlights the works of 21 California masters who were involved with the early CWS, plus 58 selected paintings by current NWS members. Like their predecessors, each of the artists explores aspects of Southern California’s distinctive cities, rural cultures, unique lifestyles, or natural beauty from their singular interpretative points of view.</span></div>
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Walking on fire to get over the fear of being a professional artist at a Tony Robbins Seminar in the eighties is how my unique story started. After putting myself through Court Reporting School, Massage School and getting a Masters in Psychology, avoiding the passion in my heart was no longer an option. The Fire Walk experience changed the direction of my life and catapulted me into being an artist full time.</div>
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I started private art instruction with Ken Goldman, took myself on the Grand Tour in Europe for a couple of years and continued art tutelage with noted artists Wolf Kahn, Nelson Shanks and other professionals I respect and admire. My love of creative pursuits indulged and encouraged from my earliest memories has been an intense focus and driving force.</div>
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My artwork is comprised of the colorful, magical and scientific intertwined with spiritual and historical story telling. Contemporary, experimental techniques tamed by classical realist skills are the backbone of each piece. My hope is that my art will open a door in the viewer that brings about an unforgettable visual moment; that the image will live in the viewer’s mind’s eye for eternity. The meaning I have endeavored to incorporate into the image is sensed by the viewer and expanded upon with their own subjectivity.</div>
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Distractions. Artist need time to focus, observe, practice their skills, think, discover, be curious and play. Distractions of every kind are the artist’s worst enemy. Rather than give advice, I would suggest artists say YES to the opportunities that come their way and let their love of art and beauty guide their decision making.</div>
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The pieces I am showing in this interview are from my Heat Signature series created with watercolor. They are meant to create other ways we can see and relate to another with the perception of heat. My work can be seen by private appointment at my studio, at my website<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://goldmanfineart.com/" style="background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3366ff; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">goldmanfineart.com</a>at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://californiawatercolor.com/" style="background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3366ff; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">californiawatercolor.com</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>or signup for an art class at the Athenaeum Art School in La Jolla. They can also see the Healing Art my artist husband Ken and I have created at various hospitals in the area (i.e. Rady Children’s) and abroad. People can support my work by sharing it with others, purchasing a piece or ordering a private commission.</div>
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Stephanie Goldmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14148242941055085601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5127480592792385441.post-23723150329420837692018-03-01T19:42:00.000-08:002018-03-02T14:14:37.946-08:00Stephanie Goldman-Juror&Demonstrator<div class="paragraph_style_1" style="color: #8e3503; font-size: 24px; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 27px; opacity: 1; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">SDWS - UNIVERSAL NOTES - Juror</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2018 San Diego Watercolor Society </span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span class="style_2" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px;">In
Spring of March 2018, I had the pleasure of jurying the members
exhibition for the San Diego Watercolor Society. The members that exhibit
their work are some of the best watermedia artists in San Diego County.
The decision of which pieces to include from so many entries is a
difficult one. It takes hours to choose a show with such wide ranging
talent. I hope that those who see the show are as delighted with the work
they see as I was. Congratulations to all even to those who entered and
were not selected this time. Opening Reception, March 2nd, 5:00-8:00 pm.</span></span></span><br />
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SDWS - Fine Art Fusion - Juror<br />
2014 San Diego Diversity Cross Cultural Show</div>
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SDWS - Fine Art Fusion - Juror<br />
2014 San Diego Diversity Cross Cultural Show</div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span class="style_2" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px;">In
Spring of May, 2014 I had the distinct pleasure of jurying the
Diversity Cross Cultural Exhibition at the San Diego Watercolor Society.
This watercolor organization is one of the best run volunteer
organizations I have had the pleasure of working with. Their volunteers
could give workshops on the exuberance and rewards of volunteerism,
especially when it is in the service of your passions.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span class="style_2" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px;">JUROR’S STATEMENT</span><span class="style_3" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px; opacity: 1;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span class="style_2" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px;">Artists and the local art community rarely, if ever, get to see the breadth of artistic endeavors entered into an exhibition. Since the Fallbrook Art Center had the space to hang every piece, I jumped at the opportunity to include all of the artwork submitted. This is a chance for artists, aspiring “ wanna be’s”, teachers, admirers and connoisseurs at every level, to learn, grow, see, and appreciate the talent, creativity, challenges and successes, of fellow artists along the path of artistic development and maturation. </span><span class="style_3" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px; opacity: 1;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span class="style_2" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px;">When giving awards, I was looking for work where I felt that the artist most completely expressed their passion, idea, or intention. My personal taste in art is very eclectic and the pieces I chose reflect this, with their variety of styles, media and artistic expression. The process of jurying an art show is a completely subjective one, especially when the juror is given visual and contextual freedom. With that in mind, every person viewing this show can pick and choose from all the work exhibited, their own favorites and winners.</span><span class="style_3" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px; opacity: 1;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span class="style_2" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px;">I would like to thank all of the helpers and staff of the </span><a class="style_2" href="http://fallbrookartassn.org/index.htm" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px;" title="http://fallbrookartassn.org/index.htm">Fallbrook Art Association</a><span class="style_2" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px;"> for the wonderful experience to jury and meet their art community.</span><span class="style_3" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px; opacity: 1;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span class="style_5" style="line-height: 13px;"><span style="color: #990000;">President of FAA, Annie Youngblood with Stephanie Goldman.</span></span><span class="style_6" style="color: #4c2202; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px; opacity: 1;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span class="style_1" style="font-family: "arialmt" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 21px;">The </span><a class="class1" href="http://www.coalartgallery.com/demo.html" title="http://www.coalartgallery.com/demo.html"><span class="style_1" style="font-family: "arialmt" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 21px;">Coal Art Gallery</span></a><span class="style_1" style="font-family: "arialmt" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 21px;"> in Carlsbad, California invited me to Jury their monthly art show and give a painting demonstration at the Calavera Hills Community Center for their members. The gallery is located in a very beautiful and friendly part of Carlsbad not far from the beach and promenade. They have a lot of talented artists and the gallery is phenomenally well organized and staffed. Their artists turn out a very warm reception and ask many good and in-depth questions. It was a pleasure to meet them and a real honor to be invited as Juror and Demonstrator for the month of April. Thank you Karen Crowell for the invitation and beautiful lunch.</span></span></div>
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Stephanie Goldmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14148242941055085601noreply@blogger.comCarlsbad, CA, USA33.1580933 -117.3505939000000432.945315799999996 -117.67331740000003 33.3708708 -117.02787040000004tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5127480592792385441.post-73999239694935746902017-07-17T22:18:00.000-07:002018-07-18T08:26:51.483-07:00FIVE NEW MURALS IN BC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL British Columbia, CANADA<br />
FIVE NEW MURALS FOR <a href="https://www.bcchf.ca/" target="_blank">BC CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL</a> OF BC, CANADA. <br />
Ken Goldman and Stephanie Goldman<br />
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THEMES: WELCOME, FAMILY, STRENGTH, PLAY and PLACE<br />
With Anthropological graphics (from the Vancouver Museum of Anthropology) <br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">WELCOME 9ft. x 30 ft.<br />THE BEAUTY OF THE WORLD LIES IN THE DIVERSITY OF ITS PEOPLE</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"> FAMILY 9ft. x 15 ft.<br />"CALL IT A CLAN, <br /> CALL IT A NETWORK, <br /> CALL IT A TRIBE, <br /> CALL IT A FAMILY." <br /> WHATEVER YOU CALL IT. WHOEVER YOU ARE, YOU NEED ONE.<span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">STRENGTH 9ft. x 15 ft.<br />“WITH THE DAY COMES NEW STRENGTHS AND NEW THOUGHTS.” Eleanor Roosevelt</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">PLAY 9ft. x 18 ft.<br />“LIFE IS MORE FUN IF YOU PLAY GAMES.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">PLACE 9ft. x 12 ft.<br />NATURE IS NOT A PLACE TO VISIT.<br />IT IS HOME.<br /><br />“I’VE OFTEN SAID THAT THE MOST IMPORTANT THING YOU CAN GIVE YOUR CHILDREN IS WINGS…<br />THEY’RE GONNA HAVE TO BE ABLE TO FLY BY THEMSELVES.” Elizabeth Edwards</span><br />
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<br />Stephanie Goldmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14148242941055085601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5127480592792385441.post-23785341236795321932017-05-02T18:33:00.000-07:002017-05-02T18:36:19.838-07:00Self-Portrait with Two Circles<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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In my heat signature painting <i>Self-Portrait with Two Circles</i> I have drastically diminished the depth of field to bring the viewer into the intimate space of the artist. Using my hair as the electric source of creative energy and my gaze directed right at the onlooker. My color palette combines our modern age and the age of Giotto when feeling an individual personality is more important than physical representation.<br />
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My inspiration for this piece is the painting <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-Portrait_with_Two_Circles" target="_blank"><i>Self-Portrait with Two Circles by Rembrandt Van Rin</i></a>.<br />
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As well as, the emotional color work of the Great Florentine painter<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Statue_of_Giotto_di_Bondone_(Uffizi_Gallery)" target="_blank"> Giotto di Bondone.</a><br />
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<br />Stephanie Goldmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14148242941055085601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5127480592792385441.post-45001463312394945312017-04-06T22:15:00.000-07:002017-04-06T22:15:00.244-07:00The Librarian<br />
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I painted <i>The Librarian</i> as an homage to today's liberated woman. She is free
from eyes that demand demure chastity and is undeterred by modern society's image
of a perfect body. She sits comfortably on a stool,
enshrined in a pink diaphanous light emphasizing her sensual nature that
exudes femininity. Gazing upwards toward the light she is connected to eternal strength and confidence to endure the harsh realities of life. <br />
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My inspiration for <i>The Librarian </i>is the centuries old <a href="https://www.blogger.com/">Venus of Willendorf </a><br />
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and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Valpin%C3%A7on_Bather" target="_blank">Ingres "Valpincon Bather"</a>,<br />
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Stephanie Goldmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14148242941055085601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5127480592792385441.post-85942835800377375052017-03-11T17:54:00.000-08:002017-03-11T17:54:48.547-08:00The Value of VALUES<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The Value of VALUES </b></span><br />
When color just isn't getting your work across the finish line. This compendium of black and white drawings in various media reveals the truth of the age old saying "<i>Value does all the work, while color gets all the credit</i>."<br />
New digital book by Stephanie Goldman<br />
<a href="https://issuu.com/goldmanfineart/docs/the_value_of_values" target="_blank"> https://issuu.com/goldmanfineart/docs/the_value_of_values </a><br />
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<span id="goog_1019344509"></span><span id="goog_1019344510"></span><br />Stephanie Goldmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14148242941055085601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5127480592792385441.post-68709328349645522712016-10-05T21:55:00.000-07:002016-10-05T21:55:30.201-07:00The Artist<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I met him at the <a href="http://nationalwatercolorsociety.org/" target="_blank">National Watercolor Society</a> gallery and he was only ten and already making decisions for his chosen lifes path. The young man had the sobriety of focus that Rainer Maria Rilke writes about in his book "Letters to a Young Poet." I painted this portrait of him with a backdrop of <a href="http://bit.ly/1urFlSt" target="_blank">magic mushrooms</a>. The symbol since <a href="http://bit.ly/2dMbZ06" target="_blank">paleolithic cave art</a> of personal creativity and transcendence as The Artist. </div>
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The Artist, received the <a href="http://jainmalkin.com/html_site/home.html" target="_blank">Jain Malkin Award</a> in the <a href="http://www.sdws.org/" target="_blank">San Diego Watercolor Society</a> International Exhibition 2016. Thank you to Juror <a href="http://www.mehaffeygallery.com/" target="_blank">Mark E. Mehaffey</a> for including my painting with so many other excellent water media paintings. </div>
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<i> Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism. Only love can touch and hold them and be fair to them. Always trust yourself and your own feeling, as opposed to argumentation, discussions, or introductions of that sort; if it turns out that you are wrong, then the natural growth of your inner life will eventually guide you to other insights. Allow your judgments their own silent, undisturbed development, which, like all progress, must come from deep within and cannot be forced or hastened. Everything is gestation and then birthing. To let each impression and each embryo of a feeling come to completion, entirely in itself, in the dark, in the unsayable, the unconscious, beyond the reach of one's own understanding, and with deep humility and patience to wait for the hour when a new clarity is born: this alone is what it means to live as an artist: in understanding as in creating.</i></div>
Stephanie Goldmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14148242941055085601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5127480592792385441.post-59524110596577596572016-09-28T17:38:00.001-07:002016-09-28T18:09:52.900-07:00Urban Hermit<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<b>The Urban Hermit, watching and waiting in the personal sollitude of a noisy, modern city . He reminds me of Number IX in the Tarot Deck, and Led Zeppelin's song Stairway to Heaven. Is the Urban Hermit still a seeker, aspiring to the light of truth and wisdom or has he been distracted from his journey?</b><br />
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There's a lady who's sure</div>
All that glitters is gold<br />
And she's buying a stairway to heaven<br />
When she gets there she knows<br />
If the stores are all closed<br />
With a word she can get what she came for<br />
Ooh ooh ooh ooh and she's buying a stairway to heaven<br />
There's a sign on the wall<br />
But she wants to be sure<br />
'Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings<br />
In a tree by the brook<br />
There's a songbird who sings<br />
Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiving<br />
Ooh, it makes me wonder<br />
Ooh, it makes me wonder<br />
There's a feeling I get<br />
When I look to the west<br />
And my spirit is crying for leaving<br />
In my thoughts I have seen<br />
Rings of smoke through the trees<br />
And the voices of those who standing looking<br />
Ooh, it makes me wonder<br />
Ooh, it really makes me wonder<br />
And it's whispered that soon, If we all call the tune<br />
Then the piper will lead us to reason<br />
And a new day will dawn<br />
For those who stand long<br />
And the forests will echo with laughter<br />
If there's a bustle in your hedgerow<br />
Don't be alarmed now<br />
It's just a spring clean for the May queen<br />
Yes, there are two paths you can go by<br />
But in the long run<br />
There's still time to change the road you're on<br />
And it makes me wonder<br />
Your head is humming and it won't go<br />
In case you don't know<br />
The piper's calling you to join him<br />
Dear lady, can you hear the wind blow<br />
And did you know<br />
Your stairway lies on the whispering wind<br />
And as we wind on down the road<br />
Our shadows taller than our soul<br />
There walks a lady we all know<br />
Who shines white light and wants to show<br />
How everything still turns to gold<br />
And if you listen very hard<br />
The tune will come to you at last<br />
When all are one and one is all<br />
To be a rock and not to roll<br />
And she's buying the stairway to heavenStephanie Goldmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14148242941055085601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5127480592792385441.post-76654585370531780942016-07-17T10:12:00.000-07:002016-10-25T17:20:44.442-07:00Urban Hermit-Babushka<div>
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There she stood in the crucible of the vegetable market,</div>
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Do not go gentle into that good night</div>
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Do not go gentle into that good night,</div>
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Old age should burn and rave at close of day;</div>
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Rage, rage against the dying of the light.</div>
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Though wise Wmen at their end know dark is right, </div>
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Good Wmen, the last wave by, crying how bright </div>
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Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, </div>
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Rage, rage against the dying of the light. </div>
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Wild Wmen who caught and sang the sun in flight, </div>
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Do not go gentle into that good night. </div>
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Grave Wmen, near death, who see with blinding sight</div>
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Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,</div>
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Rage, rage against the dying of the light. </div>
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And you, my Mfather, there on the sad height, </div>
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Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray. </div>
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Rage, rage against the dying of the light.</div>
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Stephanie Goldmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14148242941055085601noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5127480592792385441.post-78531948573876878392016-02-01T01:11:00.000-08:002016-02-06T08:57:01.308-08:00NATIONAL WATERCOLOR SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL OUTREACH WITH CHINA<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 30px;">Ken & Stephanie's </span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://nationalwatercolorsociety.wildapricot.org/" target="_blank">Ken Goldman, NWS President and Stephanie Goldman, NWS Recording Secretary</a> went to Shenzhen China to attend the opening Ceremony of our <a href="http://www.shenzhenbiennial.com/" target="_blank">NWS International China/American Small Image Exchange and the </a><a href="http://www.shenzhenbiennial.com/" target="_blank">Shenzhen International Watercolour Biennial.</a><br /><br />We did not plan to stay longer than 10 days, but everything changed when the president of FEDERATED WATERCOLOR SOCIETIES OF CHINA published an interview with Ken throughout China, showing images from his earlier Chinese Brush Painting period <a href="http://goldmanfineart.blogspot.com/2015/07/chinese-reporter-zhang-hongbin.html" target="_blank">(1980 - 1983 - blog post)</a>, plus <a href="http://goldmanfineart.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2016-01-31T22:53:00-08:00&max-results=7" target="_blank">several images of his current work</a> in a Chinese Watercolor Magazine. <br />Because of this publicity, six Universities invited Ken to lecture, demonstrate and dialogue with all expensed covered for both of us.<br /><br />So, on December 3, we flew into Shenzhen and on December 5 attended the opening Ceremony of our NWS International China/American Small Image Exchange and the Shenzhen International Watercolor Biennial.</span><br />
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Always big Welcome Banners</div>
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We traveled to Xian to see the incredible sights, sounds and eats of the Silk Road. </div>
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<span class="s1"><b>D</b>rive the long way, the slow way, a more interesting route to your next destination. Leave early, enjoy the bumps, curves and vistas along the road. </span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b>J</b>ust driving, walking or sitting by, around and in our favorite views brings a delectable joy that lengthens the moments and slows the day. </span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b>T</b>hese "jewel" landscape paintings have been and continue to be places I love to view and paint over and over. Their ever-changing light and color conditions are never the same and endlessly paintable....</span></div>
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cartoonish, yet the staff requested we include Nemo and Dory type fish for the
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<span style="color: #660000;">K E N G O L D M A N<br />S T E P H A N I E G O L D M A N<br />will participate in an exhibition titled<br />"The Art of Jewish Educators" at the<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;"><a href="http://www.sdcjc.org/gag/season_1314.aspx#smART" target="_blank">G O T T H E L F A R T G A L L E R Y</a></span></span><br />
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December 11, 2013 - February 26, 2014<br />
<span style="color: #660000;"><br />OPENING RECEPTION WITH THE ARTISTS<br />December 11, 2013</span><br />
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Exclusive Friends of the Gallery Sneak Peek starts at 7:00 p.m.<br />
Friends of the Gallery RSVP to 858.362.1344 or gallery@lfjcc.com.<br />
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Featured Artists: Avril Butbul, Deborah Amerling, Sandra Berlin-Kroll, Garry Cohen, <a href="http://www.goldmanfineart.com/" target="_blank">Ken Goldman</a>, <a href="http://www.goldmanfineart.com/" target="_blank">Stephanie Goldman</a>,
Jacqueline Jacobs, Cathy Kamin, Mimi Levinson, Gail Littman, Eileen
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Rosenblatt, Susan Schiffer, Dorit Shaitrit, Ilanit Shalev, Lisa Slovis
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More info: 858.362.1344 or gallery@lfjcc.com<br />
Art is for sale. All proceeds benefit Gotthelf Art Gallery.<br />
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<span style="color: #991200;"><i><a href="http://goldmanfineart.com/goldmanfineart/SGoldman_Still_Life_Paintings.html" target="_blank">"Las Meninas Redux X Ten"</a></i></span><i> was inspired from a 3 dimensional clay sculpture created by my friend and sculptress Suzanne La France from a picture of Picasso's Las Meninas painting. Picasso created his opus sixty years after seeing the original painting by </i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_Vel%C3%A1zquez"><span style="color: #042eee;"><i>Diego Velasquez</i></span></a><i> which hangs in the <a href="http://www.blogger.com/" target="_blank">Museo del Prado</a>, Madrid. Hailed by the entire art world as a Masterpiece, Las Meninas has attracted countless artists across the centuries to, imagine, create and re-create ever more versions along this same theme.</i><span style="color: black;"> </span></div>
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genre come together tonight to create their art live right before your
eyes! CATHERINE CARTER, <a href="http://www.goldmanfineart.com/goldmanfineart/SGoldman_Galleries_MAIN.html" target="_blank">STEPHANIE GOLDMAN,</a> ROBERT POZOS, MICHELLE
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<a href="http://sdrep.org/show.php?id=92" target="_blank">Three years ago the actor/writer Herbert Siguenza (Culture Clash) had the audacity to write an original play and star as Pablo Picasso, the most influential artist in modern history. The REP hosted a 3-week workshop that quickly became a sensation. Now, after polishing the fully-realized work into a critical success that wowed audiences in L.A., the Bay Area, Houston, and Denver, Siguenza’s one-man tour de force returns stronger than a bull in a china shop </a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj27YhUBKStP28uiEZVVuZQhWMzMlcRmVlalJZg_TUSF93RTDRhqeen7rlS63Y3xxqXA-EvXuYShxgxOe8ttutnf6hNTjv4zoWiBXm6nPWVOLckVPe7u7sP8xSX4_eFgWDbaWfeW-TB8F4-/s1600/Las+Meninas+Redux+X+Ten.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"> </a><br />
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Meninas<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Meninas" target="_blank">Las
Meninas has long been recognised as one of the most important paintings
in Western art history. The Baroque painter Luca Giordano said that it
represents the "theology of painting" and in 1827 president of the R.A.
Sir Thomas Lawrence described the work in a letter to his successor
David Wilkie as "the true philosophy of the art".[4] More recently, it
has been described as "Velázquez's supreme achievement, a highly
self-conscious, calculated demonstration of what painting could achieve,
and perhaps the most searching comment ever made on the possibilities
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<a href="http://www.tufts.edu/programs/mma/fah188/russo/Modern-Replications.html" target="_blank">Pablo Picasso is one particular artist who was profoundly affected by the painting Las Meninas. Picasso’s viewing of the painting at the young and impressionable age of 14 left a lasting impact on him. In his later years he created upwards of 50 replications of Las Meninas.Over the course of Pablo Picasso's life he created around 58 replications of Diego Valezquez's Las Meninas. Picasso viewed Las Meninas for the first time at the impressionable age of fourteen. A few years later, Picasso's sister died at a young age. In many of these replications Picasso focuses on the Infanta Maria Margarita. Both of these young girls were blonde, and Picasso's younger sister was of a similar age to the Infanta when she passed away. Consequently, this is presumably why Picasso places so much emphasis on the Infanta in his replications of Las Meninas. One theme that also connects the two images is innocence. Both girls were innocent victims of their surroundings in their own ways, which undoubtedly affected Picasso's choice of emphasis on the Infanta Margarita. Further analysis of Picasso's renditions of Las Meninas are available here courtesy of the Museu Picasso.</a><br />
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In 2008, the Museu Picasso featured an exhibition entitled "Forgetting Velazquez. Las Meninas." This exhibition explored the influence that Velazquez had on Picasso. The exhibition featured artwork from many famous artists; including Manet, Courbet, Poussin, Delacroix, El Greco and Cranach.<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: large;">Pablo Picasso. Las Meninas. After Velázquez</span></span><br />
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<a href="http://pollocksthebollocks.wordpress.com/2008/06/30/pablo-picasso-las-meninas-after-velazquez/" target="_blank">Imagine a fourteen-year old aspiring artist quizzically examining an incredibly life-like painting that once had the foreboding inscription below it – “Obra culminate de la pintura universal,” which in English translates to “the culminating work of world art.” This is how Pablo Picasso was introduced to one of the most influential paintings in the world, Diego Velázquez´s Las Meninas (Maids of Honor). In numerous works of Picasso, remnants of ideas from Velázquez’s Las Meninas can be found. Picasso even devoted an entire series of paintings to variations of Las Meninas and its central characters in the late 1950s. To better understand the effect of Las Meninas on Pablo Picasso, we must first place the original Velázquez painting in an historical context as Picasso might have seen it. We must also examine the events surrounding and effecting the Las Meninas variations. Once that foundation is completed, we can then examine the message that Picasso tried to convey in these variations. After all, Las Meninas was the focus of Picasso´s works sixty years after his original viewing of the masterpiece. It must have made quite an impact on this fourteen-year-old aspiring artist.</a><br />
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<a href="http://pollocksthebollocks.wordpress.com/2008/06/30/pablo-picasso-las-meninas-after-velazquez/" target="_blank">Las Meninas did not only have an impact on little Pablo Picasso, but on the entire art world. Over the three hundred and fifty years since its painting, many different schools of thought regarding art have come and gone, yet they all proclaim Las Meninas as a masterpiece. A realist proclaims the painting because of its stark depiction of reality. A critic stares at the painting and can uncover new details that were previously overlooked. A deconstructionist examines the unending levels of meaning encountered in Las Meninas, and is overcome by the painting’s complexity. The Marxist loves the painting because of its subtle contrasts between rich and poor. The feminist praises the painting because of its depiction of female power residing in the infanta. Las Meninas is a painting for everyone – especially for the greatest Spanish painter of our time – Pablo Picasso. Who knows what he thought?</a><br />
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<a href="http://pollocksthebollocks.wordpress.com/2008/06/30/pablo-picasso-las-meninas-after-velazquez/" target="_blank">Las Meninas was first viewed by Pablo Picasso when he was fourteen years old. This was a pivotal time in his life – he was still seeking purpose as well as feeling out his artistic boundaries. A few months after seeing Las Meninas, his seven-year old blond sister María de la Concepción died from diphtheria. Picasso and his family (especially his father) never really recovered from their loss. This loss would follow Picasso for the rest of his life. In 1897, at the age of 16 – less than a year after the death of his sister, he produced his first sketch concerning Las Meninas characters – María Agustina (the head maid) and María Margarita (the infanta). It is no coincidence that both the infanta and his sister were blond. Yet, his greatest works directly concerning the infanta and Las Meninas were decades away.</a><br />
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<a href="http://pollocksthebollocks.wordpress.com/2008/06/30/pablo-picasso-las-meninas-after-velazquez/" target="_blank">When Picasso started to produce serious reproductions of Velázquez´s work, he was seventy-five years old. Picasso was distant to some in the art world because of the fame of his earlier works. Contemporaries were accusing Picasso of losing his touch – he was no longer the great Spanish painter that everyone had once thought him to be. These critics claimed he was merely a great painter who had left his best years behind. In the art world, it is not uncommon for a great master to be reviled in later stages of their lives. One critic summed up the situation by saying, “The late works of great masters, which come about at the period style of a subsequent generation, tower over the flow of history as solitudes, inaccessible to the context of time.” But, Picasso still had something to prove. In his early years, Picasso was uncomfortable taking on such a “lofty” Spanish painter as Velázquez. As he approached old age, he decided to go down that road.</a><br />
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<a href="http://pollocksthebollocks.wordpress.com/2008/06/30/pablo-picasso-las-meninas-after-velazquez/" target="_blank">After he completed the first and most widely recognized variation of Las Meninas (which has been discussed in a previous essay by this author), Picasso turned his gaze towards María Margarita, the infanta. This fixation was not chosen lightly. The age of seventy-five was a symbolically important one for Picasso because Picasso’s father had died at the age of seventy-five. This period of Picasso´s life brought back visions of his own mortality, which inevitably evoked memories of his sister´s death. By looking at the Velázquez variations of the late 1950s, the imagery of his young blond sister is clearly contained within the imagery of the blond infanta. There is yet another figure evoked by this infanta imagery – Picasso´s daughter Paloma, who was roughly the same age as both his late sister and the infanta at the time these paintings were conceived. Over a span of two furious weeks in late 1957, Picasso devoted fifteen separate paintings to this infanta image. Picasso depicted the infanta in a variety of ways – each vastly different from all of the others. After concluding these works, Picasso briefly turned his artistic attention to an entirely different subject – pigeons.</a><br />
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<a href="http://pollocksthebollocks.wordpress.com/2008/06/30/pablo-picasso-las-meninas-after-velazquez/" target="_blank">Pigeons. What a curious diversion. When Picasso donated his entire Las Meninas series to the Museu Barcelona in 1971, he included this series of paintings and mandated that they be shown with the rest of the Velázquez variations. For a period of about a week, Picasso painted the pigeons outside his studio porch with the same zeal he had when he depicted the infanta. Several corollaries arise between the Velázquez variations and the pigeon imagery – that of Picasso´s distortion of reality and the imagery of a window separating segments of the painting. Because Picasso was focusing solely on the infanta for the prior two weeks, he had disregarded the window and light sources so prevalent in Las Meninas. In these pigeon pictures, Picasso focused on the pigeons gathered outside his studio window. A case can be made that the window motif is Picasso´s distinction between here and there (and hence the distortion of reality) – “Here, I am painting an image – there, these creatures are going on with their merry lives unaware of what I am doing.” This same analysis can be made with Las Meninas – Velázquez painted the royal family and their maids, but the other figures in the painting are seemingly oblivious to Velázquez´s presence. After concluding this seemingly incongruous series of paintings, Picasso returned his main focus to Velázquez and Las Meninas.</a><br />
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<a href="http://pollocksthebollocks.wordpress.com/2008/06/30/pablo-picasso-las-meninas-after-velazquez/" target="_blank">After his brief diversion with the pigeons, Picasso painted one final image of the infanta by herself – full of rich colors and an amalgam of the previous three weeks´ exploration. Picasso then returned his focus to the entirety of Las Meninas. The infanta remains the central image in these works, but a mix of the other Las Meninas characters now surrounds her. Picasso painted six more canvases of Las Meninas variations in the next two weeks. Each of these canvases was approximately 50″ by 60″ in size – an incredible output for such a short span of time. Within these variations, some characters from the Velázquez original are omitted. On others, the characters are moved or emphasized in a decidedly un-Velázquez-like manner. The full cast of characters is present in one of the works, but the entire background takes on a radically different Cubist style. On yet another, the background changes to a fusion of colors and shapes to create yet another perspective on the work. Picasso´s interpretations of this work were seemingly endless. But at this point, Picasso gradually began the process of concluding his Las Meninas variations.</a><br />
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<a href="http://pollocksthebollocks.wordpress.com/2008/06/30/pablo-picasso-las-meninas-after-velazquez/" target="_blank">After these large paintings were completed, Picasso´s interest with Las Meninas subsided. Over the next few months, he painted another twenty-four paintings related to Las Meninas, but none were of the evident passion of these previous works. When he concluded the series, Pablo Picasso had painted approximately fifty-eight paintings concerning Velázquez´s Las Meninas. By creating so many variations of a single work, Picasso let us, his audience, glimpse into the workings of his inner mind. By way of Picasso´s variations, we can see how he interpreted Las Meninas.</a><br />
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<a href="http://pollocksthebollocks.wordpress.com/2008/06/30/pablo-picasso-las-meninas-after-velazquez/" target="_blank">By examining these variations in detail (especially the imagery containing the infanta), a central theme arises – innocence. Innocence is one of those weird catch-all phrases that defies interpretation. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition defines innocence as:</a><br />
<a href="http://pollocksthebollocks.wordpress.com/2008/06/30/pablo-picasso-las-meninas-after-velazquez/" target="_blank">1. The state, quality, or virtue of being innocent, as: </a><br />
<a href="http://pollocksthebollocks.wordpress.com/2008/06/30/pablo-picasso-las-meninas-after-velazquez/" target="_blank">1. Freedom from sin, moral wrong, or guilt through lack of knowledge of evil. </a><br />
<a href="http://pollocksthebollocks.wordpress.com/2008/06/30/pablo-picasso-las-meninas-after-velazquez/" target="_blank">2. Guiltlessness of a specific legal crime or offense. </a><br />
<a href="http://pollocksthebollocks.wordpress.com/2008/06/30/pablo-picasso-las-meninas-after-velazquez/" target="_blank">3. Freedom from guile, cunning, or deceit; simplicity or artlessness</a><br />
<a href="http://pollocksthebollocks.wordpress.com/2008/06/30/pablo-picasso-las-meninas-after-velazquez/" target="_blank"> 4. Lack of worldliness or sophistication; naiveté.</a><br />
<a href="http://pollocksthebollocks.wordpress.com/2008/06/30/pablo-picasso-las-meninas-after-velazquez/" target="_blank"> 5. Lack of knowledge or understanding; ignorance. </a><br />
<a href="http://pollocksthebollocks.wordpress.com/2008/06/30/pablo-picasso-las-meninas-after-velazquez/" target="_blank">6. Freedom from harmfulness; inoffensiveness.</a><br />
<a href="http://pollocksthebollocks.wordpress.com/2008/06/30/pablo-picasso-las-meninas-after-velazquez/" target="_blank"> 2. One that is innocent. </a><br />
<a href="http://pollocksthebollocks.wordpress.com/2008/06/30/pablo-picasso-las-meninas-after-velazquez/" target="_blank">3. Botany. See blue-eyed Mary (a type of flower).</a><br />
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<a href="http://pollocksthebollocks.wordpress.com/2008/06/30/pablo-picasso-las-meninas-after-velazquez/" target="_blank">It is no wonder that Pablo Picasso had such a hard time dealing with this notion of innocence in his works. The dictionary claims eight possible meanings for this one word. How could he possibly handle all of these meanings in one painting? The answer was that he could not – remember that Picasso painted almost fifteen paintings of the infanta. He was looking for something that he could not easily define. However, in a greater sense, all of these definitions do in fact define the numerous images of the infanta. She is free from sin. She knows no wrong. She lacks cunning. She is ignorant of her world. Those who love her shelter her. But, above all, the infanta epitomizes the notion of innocence. There is no better ideal of the word innocent than Picasso´s depictions of the infanta.</a><br />
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<a href="http://pollocksthebollocks.wordpress.com/2008/06/30/pablo-picasso-las-meninas-after-velazquez/" target="_blank">However, we must be reminded that it is futile to believe that this innocence can last. And, this is the reason for the image of the child. The image of the infanta in a plain white dress expressly provokes this sense of innocence and purity. We must recall that childhood is that precious time before our innocence is taken away by society. Children can not perform any wrong. They are perfect. And, it is the dream of all parents for their children to remain that way throughout time immemorial. Yet, it is only a mirage. Something happens to the children – they grow up and mature. The children gain something even more precious than innocence – life. And, another issue arises – the inevitable cessation of life – death. This was as much a central idea to Picasso in these Las Meninas variations as was innocence.</a><br />
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<a href="http://pollocksthebollocks.wordpress.com/2008/06/30/pablo-picasso-las-meninas-after-velazquez/" target="_blank">When Picasso created these works, he was constantly being reminded of his own mortality, and, hence, of his sister´s death. Picasso also had the benefit of wisdom and experience, something he lacked when he first saw Las Meninas as a child. It was this experience which finally allowed him to begin to discover his meaning of the original Velázquez work. For a period of a few months, he was compelled to create images of Velázquez´s infanta. He was obsessed by it. This obsession overcame Picasso. Some inner forced him to draw these paintings. In this way, his personal interpretations finally came to light. But, Picasso knew that his life was only temporary, so he put his ideas on canvas so that others in the future could examine his ideas. Through these variations, Picasso has preserved the infanta and his notion of innocence and purity forever. It was his legacy – his crowning masterpiece. It could never grow old unlike its flawed creator.</a><br />
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<a href="http://pollocksthebollocks.wordpress.com/2008/06/30/pablo-picasso-las-meninas-after-velazquez/" target="_blank">The question remains as to why Picasso created so many different versions of the infanta. The answer lies in Picasso´s quest for the perfect innocent child. When he started, he did not know exactly what that singular perfect image was, but he had a starting point with Velázquez´s infanta mixed in with his visualization of his sister. Picasso began to search for the perfect image through his work. This is where the relationship between the pigeon series and the infanta imagery becomes clear. When Picasso painted the pigeon imagery, he had already discovered what he was searching for. Instead of immediately concluding the infanta imagery, he took a brief break from his obsession of the infanta, and later returned to create that one final image of the infanta encompassing his idea of perfection and innocence. After that point, he did not paint the infanta by herself again, but went on to create variations of Las Meninas, which incorporated his ideal infanta into the larger piece. After so many years, Pablo Picasso had finally begun to understand Las Meninas and was able to express it in his works.</a><br />
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More Support Information:<br />
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<a href="http://arthistorynewsreport.blogspot.com/2013/06/picasso-challenging-past.html" target="_blank">Picasso: Challenging the Past</a><br />
http://arthistorynewsreport.blogspot.com/2013/06/picasso-challenging-past.html<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Meninas_(Picasso)" target="_blank">Las Meninas Picasso</a><br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Meninas_(Picasso)<br />
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<a href="http://www.bcn.cat/museupicasso/en/collection/mpb70-433.html" target="_blank">Las Meninas at Picasso Museum Barcelona</a><br />
http://www.bcn.cat/museupicasso/en/collection/mpb70-433.html<br />
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I am drawing "Picass-catures" at the San Diego Rep, Lyceum, "Live Art In The Lobby" Event. A good time was had by all, with many fascinating people and stories being told, i.e. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/I-am-Lubo-Lou-Pechi/dp/1478108967/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1379223778&sr=8-1&keywords=i+am+lubo" target="_blank">Lou Pechi, author of "I Am Lubo</a>.<br />
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<br />Stephanie Goldmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14148242941055085601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5127480592792385441.post-11701874517616861732013-09-07T21:24:00.000-07:002018-09-21T01:06:51.341-07:00PAINTING THE HAZE<div style="font-family: Helvetica; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>adj</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>1.</b> having or characterized by high moral principles</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>2.</b> <i>Archaic</i> arrogant; haughty</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/haze" target="_blank">HAZE </a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">noun</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">1. an aggregation in the atmosphere of very fine, widely dispersed, solid or liquid particles, or both giving the air an opalescent appearance that subdues colors.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">2. vagueness or obscurity, as of the mind or perception; confused or vague thoughts, feelings, etc.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">*</span><a href="http://www.lajollaart.org/artist_statements/Dana%20Levine.html" target="_blank">Thank You to Dana Levine for use of the Original Reference Photo: Dana Levine</a></div>
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<a href="http://bodyelectronics.iammendel.com/?page_id=805" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;">The Negative Health Effects of Marijuana</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://cosmic-living.com/uncategorized/is-marijuana-ok-from-a-spiritual-point-of-view/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Is Marijuana OK From a Spiritual Point of View</span></a><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://cosmic-living.com/uncategorized/is-marijuana-ok-from-a-spiritual-point-of-view/" target="_blank">No, it's not the magical doorway to cosmic consciousness that many hope for. Now it's possible that you didn't want to hear that brief and definite answer. However, this negative response is not a vague bias. There are specific adverse effects that marijuana has on your aura and on your soul, and this affects your spiritual development....</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><a href="http://www.narcoticnews.com/Marijuana-Information,-Is-Marijuana-a-Narcotic-.php" target="_blank">I<span style="color: #cc0000;">s Marijuana a Narcotic</span></a><a href="http://www.narcoticnews.com/Marijuana-Information,-Is-Marijuana-a-Narcotic-.php" style="font-size: small;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Marijuana is the most commonly abused illicit drug in the United States. A dry, shredded green/brown mix of flowers, stems, seeds, and leaves of the hemp plant Cannabis sativa, it usually is smoked as a cigarette (joint, nail), or in a pipe (bong)....</span></a></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/263936.php" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Marijuana in adolescence can cause permanent brain damage</span></a></div>
<span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-small;"><b><a href="http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/263936.php" target="_blank">New research may give backing to parents telling teens to "just say no." A study in mice from the University of Maryland School of Medicine reveals that regular use of marijuana during adolescence could damage brain function, potentially increasing the risk for schizophrenia and other psychiatric problems....</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.redicecreations.com/article.php?id=24230" target="_blank">I have received notification today that my recent 18-minute TEDx video presentation, “The War on Consciousness” (YouTube) which has at time of writing received more than 132,000 views, is to be deleted from the TEDx website because what I say in that presentation allegedly “strays well beyond the realm of reasonable science”, and because I allegedly make “non-scientific and reckless” statements about psychotropic drugs. I am fighting these charges from TED’s Science Board which in my opinion are untrue and amount to nothing more than an ideologically driven attempt to censor my work. All the indications, however, are that my presentation will be deleted some time today...</a></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.grahamhancock.com/forum/HancockG3.php" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Graham Hancock</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.grahamhancock.com/forum/HancockG3.php" target="_blank">Giving up the Green Bitch: Reflections on Cannabis, Ayahuasca and the mystery of plant teachers By Graham Hancock I have some personal stuff to share here and I intend to do so with complete openness in the hope that my experiences will prove helpful to some, thought-provoking to others, and might stir up discussion around issues of consciousness and cognitive liberty that are often neglected in our society....</a></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.redicecreations.com/article.php?id=24281" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;">TED: Some ideas Too fascinating - Hancock, Sheldrake's censored talks</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Molecules-Of-Emotion-Mind-Body-Medicine/dp/0684846349/ref=sr_1_sc_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1378394192&sr=8-1-spell&keywords=mollecules+of+emtion" target="_blank">Molecules of Emotion</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.dharmaocean.org/store/audio-download-store/?SoundsTrueprodId=1678" target="_blank">Your breath is a gateway to the vastness of the universe — and the path to your highest fulfillment. This is the premise behind Your Breathing Body, a landmark two-volume breathwork curriculum that will show you how to “fathom your breath to its full depths” for physical healing, emotional balance, and, ultimately, the direct experience of who you are and where you fit in the cosmos....</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.dharmaocean.org/" target="_blank">“The purpose of Mahamudra is to bring us into a state where our mind is so peaceful and so open and so available that every human experience appears as a kind of miracle.” So Reggie begins his description of Mahamudra, the topic of today’s podcast. This profound tradition of Tibetan Buddhist meditation provides a unique entry into the great space of our basic nature, grants us the freedom to be who we fully are, and shows us that our ordinary life is intensely real, vivid, and filled with meaning.</a></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Your-Body-Is-Subconscious-Mind/dp/1591792231/ref=pd_sim_b_1" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Gain an inside look at the molecular drama being staged within every cell of the human body-and a glimpse into the future of medicine-with Your Body Is Your Subconscious Mind. In her groundbreaking research, Dr. Candace Pert-a featured scientist in the fi lm What the Bleep Do We Know!?-has unlocked the secret of how emotions literally transform our bodies and create our health. Now, in her own words, this bestselling author and world-class neuroscientist describes her extraordinary search over the past two decades for the grail of the body's inborn intelligence. Building on the material described in her landmark book, Molecules of Emotion, Dr. Pert describes how our emotions directly </span>....</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.lifepositive.com/Spirit/Jaggi_Vasudev/Perfect_Health12007.asp" target="_blank">Life Positive</a><br />
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<a href="http://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2013/09/05/the-landscape-of-the-mind-and-mind-control/" target="_blank">The landscape of the mind and mind control</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2013/09/05/the-landscape-of-the-mind-and-mind-control/" target="_blank">The landscape of the mind and mind control by Jon Rappoport September 6, 2013 www.nomorefakenews.com Three important elements of mind control are: causing automatic responses to stimuli; loading the mind with false information; and propagandizing the idea that mental disorders are actual entities that exist in the mind...</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.populartechnology.net/2008/12/anti-marijuana-resource.html" target="_blank">Marijuana - The Real Facts (1 hr) Marijuana is a very dangerous drug that has been propagandized as "safe" by weak minded idiots. The reality is marijuana is an addictive drug that can cause brain damage, cancer, gum disease, heart disease, infertility, lung disease, obesity, pregnancy failure, viral infections and doubles the risk of car accidents....</a></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.addictionjournal.org/press-releases/what-twenty-years-of-research-on-cannabis-use-has-taught-us" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">What twenty years of research on cannabis use has taught us</span></a></h4>
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<a href="http://www.addictionjournal.org/press-releases/what-twenty-years-of-research-on-cannabis-use-has-taught-us" target="_blank">In the past 20 years recreational cannabis use has grown tremendously, becoming almost as common as tobacco use among adolescents and young adults, and so has the research evidence. A major new review in the scientific journal <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Addiction</span> sets out the latest information on the effects of cannabis use on mental and physical health.</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.addictionjournal.org/press-releases/what-twenty-years-of-research-on-cannabis-use-has-taught-us" target="_blank">The key conclusions are:</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.addictionjournal.org/press-releases/what-twenty-years-of-research-on-cannabis-use-has-taught-us" target="_blank"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Adverse effects of acute cannabis use</span><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></a></div>
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<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.addictionjournal.org/press-releases/what-twenty-years-of-research-on-cannabis-use-has-taught-us" target="_blank">Driving while cannabis-intoxicated doubles the risk of a car crash; this risk increases substantially if users are also alcohol-intoxicated.</a></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.addictionjournal.org/press-releases/what-twenty-years-of-research-on-cannabis-use-has-taught-us" target="_blank">Cannabis use during pregnancy slightly reduces birth weight of the baby.</a></li>
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<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.addictionjournal.org/press-releases/what-twenty-years-of-research-on-cannabis-use-has-taught-us" target="_blank">Regular cannabis users can develop a dependence syndrome, the risks of which are around 1 in 10 of all cannabis users and 1 in 6 among those who start in adolescence. </a></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.addictionjournal.org/press-releases/what-twenty-years-of-research-on-cannabis-use-has-taught-us" target="_blank">Regular cannabis users double their risks of experiencing psychotic symptoms and disorders, especially if they have a personal or family history of psychotic disorders, and if they start using cannabis in their mid-teens. </a></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.addictionjournal.org/press-releases/what-twenty-years-of-research-on-cannabis-use-has-taught-us" target="_blank">Regular adolescent cannabis users have lower educational attainment than non-using peers but we don’t know whether the link is causal. </a></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.addictionjournal.org/press-releases/what-twenty-years-of-research-on-cannabis-use-has-taught-us" target="_blank">Regular adolescent cannabis users are more likely to use other illicit drugs, but we don’t know whether the link is causal. </a></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.addictionjournal.org/press-releases/what-twenty-years-of-research-on-cannabis-use-has-taught-us" target="_blank">Regular cannabis use that begins in adolescence and continues throughout young adulthood appears to produce intellectual impairment, but the mechanism and reversibility of the impairment is unclear.</a></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.addictionjournal.org/press-releases/what-twenty-years-of-research-on-cannabis-use-has-taught-us" target="_blank">Regular cannabis use in adolescence approximately doubles the risk of being diagnosed with schizophrenia or reporting psychotic symptoms in adulthood. </a></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.addictionjournal.org/press-releases/what-twenty-years-of-research-on-cannabis-use-has-taught-us" target="_blank">Regular cannabis smokers have a higher risk of developing chronic bronchitis.</a></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.addictionjournal.org/press-releases/what-twenty-years-of-research-on-cannabis-use-has-taught-us" target="_blank">Cannabis smoking by middle aged adults probably increases the risk of myocardial infarction.</a></li>
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<a href="http://www.addictionjournal.org/press-releases/what-twenty-years-of-research-on-cannabis-use-has-taught-us" target="_blank">Professor Hall’s report is published online today in the scientific journal <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Addition</span>.</a></div>
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<b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Food-Gods-Original-Knowledge-Evolution/dp/0553371304/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1433266263&sr=8-1&keywords=food+of+the+gods" target="_blank">Food of the Gods by Terence McKenna</a></b><br />
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<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/nov/27/smoking-high-strength-cannabis-skunk-may-damage-nerves-brain" target="_blank">Smoking high-strength cannabis may damage nerve fibres in brain. The Guardian</a></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Upon first meeting Baron I knew he was a person whose visage required immortalization through portraiture because onlookers always ask "Who is he?"</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Baron describes himself as a "creation" and says the lyrics from the song <i>"Nature Boy"</i> by <a href="http://www.shadowboxstudio.com/edenahbez.htm" target="_blank">Eden Ahbez,</a> best express the sentiments of his life's journey. Beautifully sung by Nat King Cole <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq0XJCJ1Srw" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><i><span style="color: #660000;">"There was a boy, a very strange enchanted boy. They say he wandered very far, very far, over land and sea. A little shy and sad of eye, but very wise was he. And then one day, a magic day he passed my way. And while we spoke of many things, Fools and Kings, this he said to me. "The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.” The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return."</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Baron had a difficult and complicated life. He experienced trauma from his stepfather at a young age, ridicule and cruelty by his peers for being different and mental/emotional instability that was accompanied by controversial institutional therapeutic practices.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">He incurred ostracism by society when diagnosed with HIV aids in the early years, followed by an addiction to pharmaceutical drugs for chronic and severe pain. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The old adage "Don't judge a book by its cover" applies to him as Baron has successfully recreated himself with the help of a loving friend. He seeks to be in the world, free from prescription drugs, cigarettes and self-destructive habits, sharing himself and his life lessons with the friends who choose to love him as he is, and to be loved in return.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I painted Baron in his boudoir where he meticulously created himself for this portrait. Haute Couture stylings by<span style="color: #cc0000;"> <a href="http://us.versace.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Versace</span></a></span>, Make-up by <a href="http://www.lancome-usa.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Lancome</span></a>, fragrance by <a href="http://www.gucci.com/us/category/f/fragrance" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Gucci</span></a>, jewelry by <a href="http://www.debeers.com/the-art-of-diamond-jewellery/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Debeers</span></a>. Framed <a href="https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=Pablo%20Picasso%2Bgirl%20with%20red%20beret&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=VHJOUb6ECIm-qgHZs4G4Cw&biw=1498&bih=870&sei=WHJOUdjqJs2JqQHG9YCADg" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Pablo Picasso print of Girl with Red Beret </span></a>hanging on the wall.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Gold paint figures prominantly throughout the painting process, starting with the under painting and continuing into the flesh tones, accoutrements and atmosphere. This gives the painting the luster and refinement that Baron exudes in life.</span></div>
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The painting was inspired from this photograph of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Wilde" target="_blank">Oscar Wilde</a> by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_Sarony" target="_blank">Napolean Sarony</a> and Barons love of Wilde's story <a href="http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/oscar-wilde/dorian-gray.pdf" target="_blank">"A Picture of Dorian Gray."</a></div>
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<b>B A R O N ~ A Creation</b> is on display at the La Jolla Public Library from December 5, 2012 to February 26, 2013 during the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library Faculty Exhibition. <span style="color: #cc0000;">Artists Reception is January 13, from 2-4 p.m.</span> La Jolla Library, 7555 Draper Avenue, La Jolla, CA 92037. 858-552-1657. <a href="http://lajollalibrary.org/map0.aspx" target="_blank">www.lajollalibrary.org</a><br />
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<br />Stephanie Goldmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14148242941055085601noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5127480592792385441.post-33438901570990966312012-06-28T16:36:00.001-07:002022-07-28T10:51:29.990-07:00Portrait Unveiling: Erika Torri, Director of the Athenaeum<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">After months of secrecy Max Elliott and the Athenaeum Board of Trustees were finally able to unveil the Iconographic Portrait of Erika Torri. It was a wonderful surprise to Erika and all of those attending the 23rd Annual Patron Dinner. The iconographic portrait I created and a few pictures of the event follow as well as my statement. The portrait is in the collection of the <a href="http://www.ljathenaeum.org/home.html" target="_blank">Athenaeum</a> and may be seen at your next visit to the music and arts library in <a href="http://www.lajolla.com/" target="_blank">La Jolla</a>, CA.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Zandra Rhodes, Erika Torri and Stephanie Goldman<br /><br /><br />UPDATE: ERIKA TORRI Retires after 33 years of dedicated service to the Athenaeum Music and Arts Library and Art School in La Jolla, California.<br /><br />https://www.ljathenaeum.org/press-links/i-would-like-to-be-remembered-for-what-i-created-athenaeum-director-erika-torri-announces-her-retirement<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirj-cpTZd66X2GwHHnPPsQeYFiKTus3n27P3-pkhfZZbCLbtq-gppxQn2jhAcPlOp080qtcMkF05dch_Is4mRbepmRFmhaXTintdTaozRBMRlawn7L_F9QWID_e6IV-osqyAtYDemRpgLG7Ny1dsEBlilxu2Lcm2An3wOYvFGy6VlCJRjA1s4yVn0vuw/s1200/0goldmanfineart.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="647" data-original-width="1200" height="346" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirj-cpTZd66X2GwHHnPPsQeYFiKTus3n27P3-pkhfZZbCLbtq-gppxQn2jhAcPlOp080qtcMkF05dch_Is4mRbepmRFmhaXTintdTaozRBMRlawn7L_F9QWID_e6IV-osqyAtYDemRpgLG7Ny1dsEBlilxu2Lcm2An3wOYvFGy6VlCJRjA1s4yVn0vuw/w640-h346/0goldmanfineart.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Erika happy to receive a special retirement gift from the artist of the color study for the portrait. Congratulations Erika on a phenomenal legacy!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbO8Bs_VFD5JFEf2g2ZYefaJ-eL9lX8smYexa-u4t1CJu5cRw5zTNbox836VLk2_9_fI5JIoqDMriQPOw_3ipTexEHaFoJiuNy5rDGzd7J1vcHF6oGTcFmMOBwWBrOi9DSurAZ_MJo_rrL1euk2oiJbR9Pv_iSGdKv-txF7-GcmgqexkS73UXxZy9DFg/s1032/1goldmanfineart.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1032" data-original-width="774" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbO8Bs_VFD5JFEf2g2ZYefaJ-eL9lX8smYexa-u4t1CJu5cRw5zTNbox836VLk2_9_fI5JIoqDMriQPOw_3ipTexEHaFoJiuNy5rDGzd7J1vcHF6oGTcFmMOBwWBrOi9DSurAZ_MJo_rrL1euk2oiJbR9Pv_iSGdKv-txF7-GcmgqexkS73UXxZy9DFg/w480-h640/1goldmanfineart.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /></td></tr>
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</div>Stephanie Goldmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14148242941055085601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5127480592792385441.post-85942701476256378892011-11-11T07:42:00.001-08:002020-12-29T13:55:29.437-08:00The 180 degree picture-An Interview by Joe NalvenStephanie Goldman was explaining her portrait <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Woman_%28song%29" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="American Woman (song)">American Woman</a> to me as her husband Ken Goldman listened in. Stephanie made a remark about her 180-degree picture. I was puzzled. So was Ken. An interesting concept.<br />
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What is a 180-degree picture?<br />
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*SG:" The provenance of a painting is of great interest to me as a source of inspiration and historical inquiry. What 180 degrees refers to is that some of my portrait work, although initially inspired by historical paintings, adds a contemporary twist in content that places them about 180 degrees away from the historical portrait while still maintaining 180 degrees of similarity.<br />
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Stephanie Goldman / American Woman / 84" x 60"<br />
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What is the idea of your 180-degree from Sargent's <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrait_of_Madame_X" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Portrait of Madame X">Madame X</a>?<br />
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SG: When reading about <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Singer_Sargent" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="John Singer Sargent">John Singer Sargent</a>'s Madame X, you find out she was a wealthy American ex-patriot living in Paris. Madame <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginie_Am%C3%A9lie_Avegno_Gautreau" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau">Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau</a> (Madame X) was a famous young, celebrated beauty and high society socialite. Sargent originally painted her with a fallen strap challenging the fashion morals of the times and consequently creating a big scandal.<br />
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Everything about my painting titled American Woman is 180 degrees apart from this.<br />
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Pam Whidden lives in America; she is a professional artist model wearing an off-the-hanger no-name polyester gown. She is not young, famous, rich, or couture beautiful and she is not part of the high society social club.<br />
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She is an average, middle class workingwoman wearing a tiara, hand made by a male artist friend.<br />
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Instead of a European antique table, her hand rests on a pair of large handmade metal candlesticks that were given to her by an artist friend who owed her money.<br />
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Sargent’s painting created a scandal because of the fallen strap, which he later repainted back up on her shoulder. A woman today is free to wear a strapless gown showing off a large bosom and can lift her hem to reveal an ankle, which was unacceptable at the time of Madame X.<br />
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The painting, American Woman, instead of being shown at a professional juried guild, was unveiled at a 2008 <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=44.4414,26.0971&spn=0.01,0.01&q=44.4414,26.0971%20%28Romanian%20Athenaeum%29&t=h" rel="geolocation" target="_blank" title="Romanian Athenaeum">Athenaeum</a> Student Exhibition to students, family, friends and invited art appreciators. This method of unveiling created its own scandal and buzz in the art community, where Pam regularly models.<br />
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Can you tell me about your teaching classes at the Athenaeum?<br />
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SG: The Athenaeum asked me to teach over ten years ago and it has been a very worthwhile experience. The creative people I meet through the class have enriched my life in more ways than I could have imagined and I am grateful that my husband, Ken, always encourages me to teach and share. At present I teach Tuesday mornings to a small, limited size class where artists/students come to learn, practice, explore and create artwork that stretches and strengthens them in new and classic directions all by focusing on the static figure.<br />
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Portraiture is a compelling place in art. It is so compelling that some places, like hospital waiting rooms, will make a point of keeping people out of their art up on the walls. And most of us have a sense of what we expect in portraits - at weddings, standing in front of a tourist attraction, family stuff. So there is a challenge for an artist to make something other than what is expected, even if it looks like it is expected. Well, that's only my opinion.<br />
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What attracts you to portraiture?<br />
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SG: Some of my first memories are from seeing small-reproduced classic portraits and paintings and wanting to create like that. As a young girl, I thought only a person who was chosen by G-D was able to make pictures like that by some kind of magic act. I had no idea of anything regarding talent, process, skill, art school or even what the job of an artist was. In 1986 Ken Goldman took me to the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_Simon" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Norton Simon">Norton Simon</a> in Pasadena, my very first art museum. There we were walking through the Museum and I was crying like a baby. Poor Ken, we had not known each other that long and although he was my art instructor at the time, he had no idea how much it meant to me and had never seen anyone cry in front of paintings before. Since that first experience, I have traveled all over Europe and <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.history.com/topics/states" rel="historycom" target="_blank" title="The States">the US</a> crying my eyes out awed by the feeling that art, especially portraiture, can move the human spirit.<br />
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It is funny in a way that we met each other before I knew you were an artist and that you were married to Ken.<br />
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SG: Yes. I first got to know you when I was fencing at the Fencing Academy in North Park. Are you still fencing?<br />
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Stephanie Goldman / <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.amazon.com/Fencing-Master-Arturo-Perez-Reverte/dp/1860464556%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dzemanta-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D1860464556" rel="amazon" target="_blank" title="Fencing Master">Fencing Master</a> / 54" x 36"<br />
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Fencing is such an awesome sport and I wish it had been part of my youth. As you know, fencing can be hard on the joints. “Foil elbow” forced me to take up saber and then after contracting “saber wrist,” I took up epee. During the summer evenings, I was taking saber lessons from Maestro Buzz and would see him take this classic pose with the blue evening sky framing his silhouette through an open door in the salle. Edwin Hurst (Buzz), is a personality that is unaffected by modern mores and political correctness. Fencers who man-up and take lessons with him know they are in for a ride and will come out the other end not only a better fencer, but also a stronger more solid person.<br />
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Sword master paintings have been a recurrent theme in art history, including those light sabers in Star Wars. I felt this was an opportunity to call attention to a stoic personality that required a visual interpretation through a classical portrait.<br />
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In painting <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fencing_Master" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="The Fencing Master">the Fencing Master</a>, I was inspired by Gari Melcher’s painting of the fencing master garbed for a foil lesson. My painting is the Fencing Master garbed for the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89p%C3%A9e" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Épée">Epee</a> lesson where the whole body is target and requires the Master to wear more protective leather gear from head to toe. The painting was unveiled to an appreciative clientele at a special 15-year celebration of the Cabrillo Fencing Academy.<br />
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How do you go about creating a portrait?<br />
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SG: I use a bottom-up style that allows me to freely create with all of the elements of portraiture - who, how, what, where, when and why? This eliminates the compartmentalization that exists in portraiture today and lets the portrait evolve in a zen-like manner of now-ness by building on intuition, experience, and exchange upon another without the complexities of formal contracts and the like.<br />
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Joe Nalven<br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Georgia;">A trip to the hospital can be daunting, but for children, the prospect can be downright scary. To ease their fears, <a href="http://www.rchsd.org/" target="_blank">Rady Children’s Hospital</a> of San Diego turned to art. In 2009, <a href="http://www.aesthetics.net/" target="_blank">Aesthetics Inc.</a> commissioned fine artists <a href="http://www.goldmanfineart.com/goldmanfineart/Ken_Goldman_Public_Art_Resume.html" target="_blank">Ken and Stephanie Goldman </a>to create 18 wall coverings for the newly renovated Rady Children’s Hospital. The husband-and-wife team was charged with transforming patient rooms, corridors, and the neonatal intensive care unit, into whimsical and “fun” spaces. To that end, the pair painted outdoor scenes, featuring everything from tide pools to outer space, using transparent watercolors on Arches watercolor paper and non-water soluble ink pen that were then enlarged seven or eight times.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">Stephanie and Ken Goldman. Courtesy</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Georgia;">It was not the first time the couple worked together. In the mid-1980s, Stephanie completed an apprenticeship with Ken that then evolved into a marriage and artistic partnership based out of Point Loma. Ken has authored seven instructional books and exhibited across the United States, Europe and Mexico. His work is displayed in the permanent collections of numerous museums, including the San Diego Museum of Fine Art, and the San Diego Museum of Natural History.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Georgia;">Stephanie spent time living and studying in Europe, focusing on European and Renaissance art, as well as anthroposophic art therapy. Her child portrait series, “I Am A Child,” originally displayed in the Riverside Art Museum, is now in the permanent collection of the Osteopathic Center for Children and Families in San Diego.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Georgia;">Both Goldmans teach at the <a href="http://www.ljathenaeum.org/spring2011.html" target="_blank">Athenaeum School of the Art</a>s in La Jolla. They often collaborate, and have produced multiple large-scale mural projects, including works at the San Diego Humane Society and in private residences.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Georgia;">Reaction to their mural work at Rady has been overwhelmingly positive, and this year, the couple was asked by Sharp and Children’s MRI Center CEO Keith Prince to complete a series of murals and cartoon vignettes in Rady’s new MRI Center.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Georgia;">A child’s toy table with sea animals provided the inspiration for the art.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Georgia;">“When I described the theme and design ideas, they seemed to be very interested in conveying and developing the theme,” said Prince of the Goldmans. “They quickly provided renderings that matched the ideas we discussed. It was impressive how close the renderings were to the concepts.”</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"> The murals are whimsical and upbeat to address children's fears.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Georgia;"><span style="color: #222222; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Georgia;">Atypical of the art Ken and Stephanie usually produce, the murals feature cartoon images of sea life, and are intended to look like a seascape as viewed from a submarine — in this case, the MRI scanner.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Georgia;"><span style="color: #222222; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Georgia;">Completed three days early in a total of eight days, the MRI room mural is 9 feet by 19 feet, while the waiting room mural is 4 feet by 8 feet. Featuring colorful fish and scuba-diving children, the murals are upbeat and fun. The pair also painted approximately 30 smaller vignettes throughout the rooms, and four small images directly onto the MRI scanner.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Georgia;"><span style="color: #222222; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Georgia;">Like the artwork the couple previously completed for the hospital, the studies were originally done in watercolor and then scaled to fit the walls. The final works were done in acrylic, without airbrush or spray guns, due to potential interference with the MRI machine.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Georgia;"><span style="color: #222222; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Georgia;">When asked why two award-winning artists who have exhibited works internationally would devote time to painting cartoon images at Rady, Ken’s answer was simple: “Being able to bring artwork to kids who are frightened and need brightening up in a sterile environment was a great opportunity.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Georgia;"><span style="color: #222222; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Georgia;"><span style="color: #222222; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Georgia;">If the young patients who have seen the murals and vignettes so far are any indication, the Goldman's have succeeded. Children enter the room and immediately investigate the underwater scenes, pronouncing them “cool” and “fun.” Some have even developed stories for the creatures they see on the walls, a perfect distraction from what for many of the kids is a litany of medical procedures and tests.</span></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span></span></div>Stephanie Goldmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14148242941055085601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5127480592792385441.post-43462089754860711582011-02-22T00:22:00.000-08:002012-10-18T08:02:46.013-07:00Woman Peacemaker-Zeinab of the Sudan<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I met a courageous woman from the <a href="https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/su.html" target="_blank">Sudan</a> at the <a href="http://www.sandiego.edu/peacestudies/ipj/programs/women_peace_makers/women_peacemakers/africa/Sudan2.php" target="_blank">Joan B. Kroc Institute For Peace And Justice</a> who's "Ruya" or "Vision" was to create a sharing environment for women to come together and problem solve issues being fought over in their neighboring war torn villages.</div>
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<a href="http://sudancatholicradio.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=393:nuba-mountains-women-get-together-to-overcome-problems&catid=2:south-sudan&Itemid=84" target="_blank">Zeinab Blandia's</a> story <a href="http://catcher.sandiego.edu/items/peacestudies/Zeinab-Blandia-Sudan.pdf" target="_blank">"A View Through The Mountains"</a> was so moving to me I painted her portrait as an acknowledgement of how the conscious leadership efforts of one person can make a qualitative difference in the local lives of many people.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>UPDATE: </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The new book<span style="color: #990000;"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/35-Women-Building-Peace-PeaceMakers/dp/1935212982/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1350398230&sr=8-1&keywords=35+women+building+peace" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;">"35 Women Building Peace: A Tibute to the Women's Peacemaker Program"</span></a></span> includes Stephanie Goldman's portrait painting of <a href="http://www.sandiego.edu/peacestudies/ipj/programs/women_peace_makers/women_peacemakers/africa/Sudan2.php" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;">Zeinab Mohammed Blandia</span></a>, named Woman Peacemaker of the Year in 2009.<br /><br />Zeinab is a peacemaker and community leader from the Nuba Mountains in Sudan. She has dedicated her life's work to promoting the empowerment of women and their involvement in peace processes in South Kordofan, one of the worlds most conflict-affected and neglected areas. To read more about the current conflict in Sudan and her work there go<span style="color: #990000;"> <span style="color: #990000;"><a href="http://www.asafeworldforwomen.org/rights-defenders/rd-africa/3115-s-kordofan-whrd.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;">here</span></a>.</span></span><br /><br />The Women Peacemaker's Program was created in 2003 by the <span style="color: #990000;"><a href="http://www.sandiego.edu/peacestudies/ipj/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;">Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice at the University of San Diego</span></a> </span>to document how women overcome seemingly insurmountable challenges to build peace. </span></div>
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