Saint Michael Archangel defeating the Dragon
Foto: J. Myztico Campo
Myztico.mosaicglobe.com
Category: EXHIBIT V
I am a big fan of the maverick Peace Doctor who represents Victoria, Texas, and Shepard Fairey, the Democrat-leaning serigraph poster artist who became famous making posters for Obushama, influenced by Cuban social realist and San Francisco psychedelic posters.
Here is a RON PAUL REVOLUTION Campaign for Liberty poster by an unknown artist, an homage to the one man who is most likely to confront and beat the incumbent Dictator in the coming 2012 Presidential contest, showing Mr. Fairey’s stylistic and colour influences, found at Alex Jones’ infowars.com, essential reading for anti-war, Liberty-loving people anywhere…
PRAY FOR PEACE IN 2012
- Goyo de la Rosa
Victoria, Vancouver Island
MONTSERRAT FIGUERAS:
NAMED AFTER THE HOLY MOUNTAIN
She is the Catalan Sybill, the eternal voice of Catalunya.
I wept deep tears on hearing of her death.
Deo Gratias.
‘Goyo de la Rosa’
[Please refer to the comments for links to new posts @ Rockland and Chant Cafe]
Henry Shimizu at The McPherson Library – Uvic
IMAGES OF INTERNMENT: PAINTINGS BY HENRY SHIMIZU
In 1999, Dr. Henry Shimizu created a series of oil paintings based on his
life as a teenager in the New Denver Japanese Internment Camp, BC, from
1942 to 1946. Images of Internment is an attempt to highlight the
activities and lifestyle of the internees in this camp; they are the
memories of a teenager and his friends.
According to Shimizu, despite isolation from mainstream Canadian Society
during this time, the development of young Japanese Canadians progressed
in almost the same pattern as any other Canadian teenager. One would have
thought that this internment experience would have embittered this group
and led to widespread despair and depression. Instead, says Shimizu, they
came away from the experience more determined to be successful Canadians,
contrary to the intention of those who promoted and carried out this
injustice of internment and exile.
Shimizu will also present a lecture on Nov. 23 at 3:30 p.m. titled ” A
Journey to the Past and Present: The History of the Japanese-Canadian
Internment in 1942 to 1946; Life in the New Denver Internment Camp” at the
Mearns Centre adjacent to UVic Archives.
This free exhibition runs November 19, 2011, to February 2, 2012, at the
Maltwood Prints and Drawings Gallery on the lower level of the McPherson
Library, University of Victoria.
For more information, please visit:
uvac.uvic.ca
exhibit-v – Efren Quiroz
METAMORPHOSIS
Sarah Jenkinson
Sarah Jenkinson has been painting since 2008, and her work is exhibited now in a salon next to the Spiral Cafe on Craigflower.
My wife and I were quite impressed when we intruded today to inquire whose amazingly psychedelic work was on display there.
Sarah Jenkinson’s mandalas brighten up the salon’s walls and are for sale, and Appointments are suggested for a visit, but the owners were very accomodating, nevertheless.
[Please refer to the comments for a link to see more at Sarah Jenkinson's Healing Arts Victoria blog.]
- ‘Goyo de la Rosa’
Dawn and I met the charismatic Mexican American
mural painter Emiliano Campobello
recently while in beautiful Santa Barbara, California.
Emiliano was hanging out one night in Live Culture Lounge,
a now-defunct groovy little hot spot in the newer Paseo that meanders around,
southwest across State Street from Casa de la Guerra.
Darin Fiechter and Sierra Falso had a heated patio on the shady south side of the Paseo Nuevo,
with an extensive interest in very special local and imported wines,
and a daily changing menu using fresh local produce.
There was live music most nights of the week, including, on occasion,
Maestro Darin, singing and accompanying himself on guitar.
It was also fun to hear and see him jammin’ with Nektare,
the hot band on stage, up from Los Angeles that night.
HEAVENLY CEILING
Just found Emiliano’s business card, and had my mind blown by his amazing murals
done with his fellow artist-healer-psychologist muse Mary Johnson.
They both met and worked together in Europe, so these two have quite a story to tell, no doubt.
Too bad that Live Culture folded,
as it was a great little place for live music in Santa Barbara and warm Californian hospitality…
‘Goyo de la Rosa’ alias for
Gregory Paul Michael Hartnell,
Artist-Editor-Historian
1357 Rockland Avenue
Victoria, Vancouver Island
British Columbia
CANADA, V8S 1V7
gregoryhartnell@yahoo.ca
gregoryhartnell.wordpress.com
goyodelarosa.wordpress.com
Tel. 250 382 97 67
FRIDA AND DIEGO
DIVINA COMMEDIA: MARY WITH PURGATORIO
DIVINA COMMEDIA: MARY WITH INFERNO
BED OF ROSES
TOWARDS THE SUN
MEXICAN MURAL 1
NICHE PANEL
JACK IN THE BEANSTOCK
MAYAN PYRAMID 3
EMILIANO CAMPOBELLO and MARY JOHNSON
www.nestdzyn.com
Santa Barbara, California
(805) 284 – 3419
[Please refer to the link in the comments section]
Leonora Carrington died in Roma, a district of Mexico City, at the age of 94, on Wednesday, May 27, 2011.
She arrived in that country in 1942, and ‘rarely left Mexico due to a fear of flying,’ according to Mica Rosenberg, in a Reuters report.
Instead of physical flying, Carrington, a major Surrealist who befriended fellow Mexican Surrealists Frida Kahlo and Catalan emigre Remedios Varo, allowed her imagination to fly in her truly strange paintings, which ‘sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars across the world,’ according to Rosenberg.
[Links to the Rosenberg article and other obituaries on the life of Leonora Carrington will be found in the comments section below.]
‘Goyo de la Rosa’, Artist-Historian
DAN HICKS LIKES TO DO HIS OWN GIG CARDS:
BAYSIDE JAZZ 1999
CLEMENT STREET SALOON, SAN FRANCISCO (above)
GET REAL: NOE VALLEY MINISTRY 1996 (below)
UNDER THE RAIL, SEATTLE (above)
LUTHER BURBANK, SANTA ROSA (above)
SWEETWATER, MILL VALLEY (below)
PHILIP MANTON WILLEY
I note with pleasure that Philip Manton Willey is back on the Victoria art scene blogosphere with an historically significant mini autobiographical sketch, complete with four photos of his recent paintings, and comments on Brian Grison‘s controversial condemnation of most of what passes for art in Victoria these days.
Mr. Grison is featured this month at Efren Quiroz‘ Exhibit V blogspot on the Victoria arts scene, circa 2010 or 2011, as it will be in just a few hours…
Brian Grison wrote an article at Quiroz’ blogspot entitled ‘Current State of Art and its Writing in Victoria‘, Willey commented on that, and I commented on Willey and Grison.
For a link to Exhibit V, and to Philip Manton Willey’s website, please refer to the Comments section below.
- Goyo de la Rosa’
PHILIP MANTON WILLEY
LA ROSA TRANSCULTURAL ARTS PROPAGANDA 2010
