Jack Spencer

Jack Spencer (born 1951) is a self-taught American photographer.

Spencer was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi and his first love was music, performing in rock bands making a recording] He is probably best known for his series, Native Soil that featured deep sepia tones combined with deep-South imagery. Spencer heavily manipulates his photographs in the darkroom. Spencer’s Lost Boys series came about because of abuse he saw in Nashville where a young boy Pel Gai was murdered in a nightclub there. Pel Gai is from the Southern part of Sudan and about 150 refugees were sent to Nashville after reaching a refugee camp in Kenya.

Spencer’s work was also included in The South By Its Photographers with many other Southern artists including Shelby Lee Adams, William Christenberry, and Melissa Springer. This exhibition was shown at the Birmingham Museum of Art, Columbia Museum of Art, and Louisiana Center for Arts and Sciences. The exhibit spurred the careers of these photographers and was also made into a book by Susan Sipple Elliott. Spencer’s work was also chosen to be in Picturing the South curated by Ellen Fleurov

Patric Marin

Pàtric Marín was born in 1979 in Flix (Catalonia · Spain), graduated from the Massana School of Barcelona in painting. He began working on photography in 2001 and studied this area in the IEFC in 2010. He won Lux Photography Award 2014, Mark Grosset Award 2015, and XV EAC 2015. His work has been exposed in Festivals as PhotoScan, Incubarte 7, Barbastro Foto, Promenades Photographiques and Circulation

New mythologies….

AGLAOPE, LEUCOSIA AND PEISINOE THE MADNESS OF HERCULES-LA LOCURA DE HERCULES

ENDYMION’S DREAM-EL SUEñO DE ENDIMION

CRONUS ANDURANUS-CRONOS Y URANO

CASTOR AND POLLUX-CASTOR Y POLUX

ACHILLES AND CHIRON-ACHILES Y CHIRONTE

Photographs by Michel Koven

Joseph Smith

From “Inner city” 1From “Inner city” 2

From “The Loves of the Poets” 1

From “The Loves of the Poets” 2

From “The Loves of the Poets” 3

From “The Loves of the Poets” 4

From “The Loves of the Poets” 5

The act of Weeping, 2012

the Bone Heads, 2012

The Callous Woman, 2011

The Easter Bonnet , 2011

The Externalization of Guilt 2012

The frog in the Princess I, 2012

The melancholiac I, 2012

The Raw Deal, 2012The smoke that gets in your eye, 2012

The Styptic I, 2012

Untitled #181 (head, water & fire, detail), 1988

More information on Joseph Smith:

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/25890/camera-obscura

 

Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach

Coastal Landscape CapriSeagull in front of the Cliffs of CapriView of the coast of CapriToteninselTo the rescueThe Great Sphinx of Giza

Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach was a German Symbolist painter and radical social reformer. He attended the Munich Academy of Art and was deeply inspired by the works of fellow symbolist Swiss painter Arnold Bocklin. Diefenbach was a natural medicine practitioner living a nature-centered existence and mainly vegetarian, an oddity at this time. His lifestyle rejected many social norms of the age including religion which among other issues forced him for a time to flee to Egypt. This relocation saw his work focus of the ancient ruins and temples of that land. As a painter he is an independent representative of Art Nouveau and Symbolism. He spent his later years on the Island of Capri painting the rocky coast. Diefenbach’s life was as storied as his work and both paint a dramatic and original landscape.

Sea-nymphs in Grotta MinervaLanscaspe Capri

Costa-Caprese

Blue grotto CapriAn allegory of lost love

Thou shalt not killSeagull in front of the cliffs of CapriQuestion to the StarsCapriCapri

Magdalena Abakanowicz

Agora IIYellow AbakanAgora IIIAgoraCoexistenceCrowd IV,Crowd

Magdalena Abakanowicz (Polish, b.1930) is best known for her textile sculptures of biomorphic forms. At the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts she studied drawing and painting in the Socialist Realist style, as well as textile design, screen printing, and fiber design. Her early work includes a series of gouaches and watercolors on linen sheets, which depict imaginary plants and animals. After she graduated, the Polish government was less strict about the form and content of art, and artists were allowed to travel to Western cities. Abakanowicz was particularly influenced by the geometric structures of Constructivist art. Her series Abakans, begun in 1967, are giant sculptures, woven from a variety of fibers, that hang a few inches off the ground.

During the 1970s and 1980s, Abakanowicz made several series of anthropomorphic textile sculptures. Backs (1976–1980) was a series of 80 versions of the human trunk made from burlap and resin, and Embryology (1978–1980) consisted of approximately 800 round forms of various sizes, made from burlap, gauze, and hemp. These organic sculptures examine the role of individual creativity within the crowd. In the late 1980s and 1990s, Abakanowicz produced sculptures in bronze, wood, stone, and clay, including her Bronze Crowd (1990) and Puellae (1992) series. For the War Games series, begun in 1987, Abakanowicz stripped off the bark of trees that were abandoned by foresters near Warsaw, and remodeled each trunk with metal parts. This series represents her life-long interest in nature, dismemberment, and regeneration.

Mammal HeadCrowdPlecyRed AlbakanFour seated figuresFour on a BenchGrey AlbakanKlatka i plecyThe Group of Seven

New photographs……

THE VOYEUR Sardinia TANGIER PUGLIA SPACEMAN Munich ON GUARD Tangier AMALFIMARRAKESH

 

Photographs by Michel Koven

New photomyths…

ARIADNE’S DESPAIR-LA DESPERACION DE ARIADNA

PENELOPE

VESTAL VIRGIN

IPHIGENIA-IFIGENIAANDROMEDA V

BAUCIS

Michel Koven

New mythologies…..

LeviathanIcarusThe GraeaeCerberusAriadneApolloPrometheus

 

Photographs by Michel Koven

Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson

Aeneas Sacrificing to Neptune 1827.

Aurore C1812

Aeneas Sacrificing to Neptune 1827.

La Mise au tombeau d’Atala 1808

Le Combat 1814

Le deluge 1806

Mademoiselle Lange as Venus 1798

Mademoiselle Lange en Danaé, 1799

Orphee et Eurydice 1827

Psyché endormie, 1807

Phaedra Rejecting the Embraces of Theseus 1800

 

Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson(1767-1824)
After his father’s death in 1784, Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson joined the studio of Neoclassical titan Jacques-Louis David yet became a pioneer of French Romanticism. He won the Prix de Rome in 1789. Girodet’s Endymion Sleeping, painted in Rome and submitted to the Salon of 1793, showed the influence of Italian artists Antonio Canova and Correggio. Because Girodet’s paintings were coldly sensuous and atmospheric, rather than spartan and heroic like David’s, David disapproved. Girodet soon returned to Paris, where he earned his living by drawing illustrations and painting portraits. Although he scandalized the 1799 Salon with satirical sexual references in his portrait of a courtesan with her protector, Napoleon I nonetheless honored him with commissions. In 1810 Girodet won an important competition, beating out David’s famous masterpiece The Intervention of the Sabine Women.

A contemporary critic viewing Burial of Atalaof 1808 described Girodet’s style as having a “precision of drawing reminiscent of the masterpieces of antiquity, a fresh coloring, a studied effect, and a brush stroke at once generous, fluent, and delicate.” The picture won the Légion d’Honneur. In 1812 Girodet inherited a fortune, painted less, and dedicated himself increasingly to writing tedious poems on aesthetics in a house shuttered to daylight.

Pygmalion and Galatea 1814

The Death of Hippolytus c1810

Sleeping Bacchus 1790

The Sleep of Endymion 1791

Cephalus and Aurora 1810

The Birth of Venus 1810