YAREAH Magazine Issue 20. January 2012
Mark Twain
Articles by Isabel del Rio, I.Zara, John Glass, Nieves Fernandez, ISartosa”. Interview about Yareah by Michael J. Metcalf. Flash Fiction by Martin Cid. Poems by Joseph Mailander. Eleanor Leonne Bennett’s potos. e work of the Indian sculpture Hemant Sonawane and the Spanish painter Paula Yestera. Special collaboration: Ann Timmermans, about Man Ray.
Yareah Magazine Issue 20: Happy New Year! by Isabel del Rio
2011 was a bad year, really bad. The most repeated word was ‘crisis’: economic crisis, collapse of the stock market, excessive amount of the external debt and so. I think it is not the economic crisis which has destroyed us but the contempt for the culture. In the late 19th and early 20th (avant-garde), culture started to be an economic value which was bidding and exhibited in markets.
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t first, it was good that paintings or books were well disseminated among the middle class in this way and there came a growing interest in knowledge and art, an interest that only the wealthy classes shared before. This worked well until the eighties of the last century. Afterwards, financial capitalism became too greedy and false, also in the world of culture. A lot of dealers and distributors began to handle books and master pieces, without understanding of culture and understanding too much about stupid transactions which benefited them. They bought vomiting canned, canvas with spots and books with a repeated plot about a papyrus of the Templars, hidden in a toilet, which contains a secret which can save mankind. Marketing and advertising and prices rose: who won? Neither the authors nor the artists nor the public, only them. Picasso’s time spent and now, only dealers make money. No culture = No ethics; and No ethics = Bad economy. Fortunately , internet has offered new ways and the collapse of the current financial system will require rethinking that culture is a serious thing: the foundation of everything else. Yareah magazine wants to help to revive culture, understanding the work of old great authors and artists (our teachers) and promoting the efforts of the new one (effort is not to can vomit). In this number of January 2010, we study Mark Twain (a classic author) and Murillo or Clara Peeters (two Baroque painters) but we also study the work of Paula Yestera and Eleanor Leonne Bennett (two current young artists) and the poetry of Joseph Mailander (a great writer from California). Ann Timmermans will write on art, the same as the usual collaborators. Still Life is a theme for meditation because an apple is not only a fruit, but something which spoils and it shows the frugality of life: we only have a life and we must seize it. I hope we seize 2012 and we do something more than money.
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Martin Cid speaks about Yareah Magaby Michael J Metcalf zine Q.- Yareah magazine has been several months “sleeping” but now you have pu blished a new issue (19) titled “Seven to Seven”. Why that break?
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artin Cid.- It is hard to maintain a free magazine. Of course, the good part is that you can publish what you like, without thinking in the economic benefit of this or that article. However, people have to work only for the pleasure of working and sometimes, everybody needs a rest. Q.- What have you been doing during this time? M.C.- Writing, as always. I wrote a book of short stories in English, which was an interesting experience since my other novels were written in Spanish. To me, the musical effect of the words and sentences (the rhythm) is really important and to change language is a challenge, very rewarding. Anyway, I didn’t forget Yareah magazine, and my team was planning the future. As you know, the old Yareah magazine was bilingual (English-Spanish) and we have thought internet is not still prepared for a bilingual magazine: it is not good to enter listings or to increase visits. Q.- I understand. You have to choose a language, why English?
M.C.- It is the international language. In Spain people can read English and they can continue reading Yareah magazine. What we want is to reach as many people as possible. But of course Spanish cultural background has not been forgotten. It is too much important! Q.- Are you happy with the new issue? M.C.- Really happy. We have changed the format and now, I think it is smarter. The current system for introducing photo galleries is better than the old one and new collaborators (English and American collaborators) have joined the old ones. Q.- Are you proud of your old team? M.C.- Really proud. Isabel del Rio, our arts editor, complements my literary work. She lives for art and it is very interesting her love for craft too. John Glass and Isadora Sartosa help her very well and Ignacio Zara is an old friend, a good journalist, I am very pleased… With you too, Michael, I don’t forget
you. Thanks, Martin, and everybody hopes that the new Yareah Magazine keeps on promoting authors and artists throughout the world. Martin Cid.- That was and that is our dream because, as Isabel del Rio used to say: “our religion is the art” and I will add “Literature is my blood”. I have been writing since I was 16 and now, 20 years after, I know it is necessary to share experiences and ideas. On the opposite, the life of an author is too isolated. Thank you very much, Martin. You are welcome.
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Mark Twain by I. Zara
John’s Dream, by Bartolome Esteban Murillo, 1663
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ark Twain is the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (better the pen name!), an American author, humorist and speaker, who grew up in Hannibal (Missouri), which would later provide the setting for “Tom Sawyer” and “Huckleberry Finn”, his two most famous novels. Rebel young, he had very many jobs (printer, typesetter, miner…) but it was his experience as a pilot in one of the boats which crossed the Mississippi river which marked him forever. Thanks to it, he wrote a humorous story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”, which made him famous throughout the country. In spite of it and all of the money he earned, he squandered his fortune and he had serious economical problems (a true writer!). Modern man, Mark Twain was very interested in science and technique. He
patented and adhesive photo album and other two silly invents. But this interest served to draw the plot of “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court” (a time traveler from contemporary America to Arthurian England, who revolutionized this last one with his technical knowledge) and, also, to be visited and filmed by Edison, Part of the footage was used in “The Prince and the Pauper”, a short film based on one of his works. His last years were sad due to successive deaths of friends and family (wife, daughters…). He received honors (Oxford University rewarded him with a D.Litt.) and died in 1919 as he had lived (as a true writer), because he had written ten years before: "I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year,
and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together." The fate can never contradict a true writer.
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Mark Twain’s nods to classic European literature Review by John Glass
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dventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel by Mark Twain first published in England in 1884 and a year later in the United States. Not only is Mark Twain one of the oldest authors from the United States (he was born in Florida, Missouri, on November 30, 1885, and he died in Redding, Connecticut, on April 21, 1910) but he is the first author who wrote in the vernacular language, not in the traditional English from the United Kingdom. The novel is told in the first person by Huckleberry Finn (Huck) and this allows Twain to express with local color regionalism: a regionalism which serves the author to recreate the life in the Southeast of the United States before the Civil War. However and although the language is newfangled, the winks to classic European literature are constant. The novel starts in fictional Langlem, Missouri, on the shores of the Mississippi river. There, the wild boy Huck is living with two strict sisters (Widow Douglas and Miss Watson) a doll life. But he and his friend Tom Sawyer have some money (we know how they got it for Twain’s previous novel ‘The Adventures of Tom Sawyer’) and Tom helps Huck to
run away. Bad thing, since he is trapped by his horrible drunker father, who wants his money. His sufferings remember us Dickens’ novels of innocent boys as Oliver Twist but afterwards, and when Huck escapes and joints Jim, a fugitive black slave, starting a crazy trip along the Mississippi river to arrive Ohio, a free land where Jim will not have problems anymore, we notice a parallel with Don Quixote and his Spanish tour. The novel has hundreds and hundreds of adventures, sometimes humoristic sometimes tragic, which serves Twain to criticize some aspects of Southern laws and behaviors while he displays his passion for the land of his birth (as every great novel, ‘Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’ has different levels of reading). When Huck and Jim meet The Grangerfords and the Shepherdsons, two feuding families since the dawn of time, we are meeting Shakespeare and his world of duels. And when we meet The Duke and the King, two grifters who remember us the bad partners of Pinocchio, we are meeting the fairy tales, even Cinderella when a gentleman, called Colonel Sherburn, warns a drunk man, called Bogg, that he can
behaving bad until one o’clock; afterwards he will kill him… because the spell will disappear. Adventures keep on, very many with Jim as protagonist, since everybody wants to capture him to collect the reward offered by his capture. Here, Twain’s pessimistic ideas about mankind emerge and that had not happened in previous books but perhaps this is an announcement of his later depression. Twain resolves the novel quickly, as in the theater of Spanish Golden Age. The horrible father of Huck has died, also Jim’s owner (Widow Douglas) and she has given him the freedom in the will. Everybody is happy and they can joint Tom Sawyer and his aunt Polly. Nevertheless, the wild boy Huck plans to flee west to Indian territory, because a free soul dislikes (as Mark Twain) this polite industrialized adult society. In this point, I think, it is Mark Twain who precedes the whole generation of European writers after First World War (Graves, Joyce…). Literature is a feedback and every great author assumes the legacy of previous authors and he sows the seeds of things to come.
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The Prince and the Pauper Review by Michael J. Metcalf First published in Canada in 1881 (a year later in U.S.), ‘The Prince and the Pauper’ tells the story of two boys who are identical in appea rance.
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t was the year 1547 and Henry VIII was in the throne of England. His son, Eduard, interchanges roles with Tom Canty, a pauper who has an abusive father. The incident happens by chance but afterwards, both boys will insist on proclaiming their false identities: nobody will believe them. People from the Court will think Tom is insane when saying he is a beggar, and people from the slums will think Eduard is a liar and, of course, he is not the future king of England. Many adventures and a happy end: all will be clear the day of Edward’s coronation (precisely!!), when the true prince helped by Miles Hendon, a disgraced noble, appeared in the ceremony and showed who is him using the real seal. Yes, I agree, it is not a fantastic plot. However, this first Twain’s historic novel is a master piece when describing the society of that time, their selfishness and thoughts and above all, the injustice of the moment, more evident
Henry VIII of England with Edward VI, the prince protagonist in Mark Twain’s book
when it is exercised on children. Mark Twain is an heir of Enlightenment. His bedside book was a history of the French Revolution (he died with it) and in this novel, the same as in ‘Tom Sawyer’ or ‘Huckleberry Finn’, he is trying to improve current mentalities. Is ‘The Prince and the Pauper’ a social novel? Not at all. Twain is great author and he never forgets Literature for the benefit of political ideologies. Literature is first and what he is creating it is a complete world, justifiable only in itself and in its fantastic prolific characters.
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Elijah Wood, an actor for Mark Twain’s novels by I. Zara
Yesterday night and since Yareah magazine is writing about Mark Twain, I decided to see some film based on Twain’s novels. It was not difficult, the majority of Twain novels has been brought to the screen.
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chose ‘The Adventures of Huck Finn’, a 1993 Disney adventure film, directed by Stephen Sommers. Why did I choose this film? Well, I knew nothing about the director (although he surprised me by his violence, excessive for a Disney Movie, and politically incorrect winks, as to film children smoking) but when I knew it was starring by Elijah Wood (Huckleberry Finn) and Courtney B. Vance (Jim), I felt great interest in view the movie. Furthermore, the movie was filmed entirely in Mississippi, a place for my dreams. Do you think I was a fan of Elijah Wood? Not at all. His performance in ‘Lord of the Rings’ was boring and flat in my opinion, with that permanent expression of stomach pain. However, I have been always curious about the reasons why he got the part of Frodo Bolson: only by his blue eyes? Then, I started to watch the film and I was impressed. Elijah Wood, as a child, was an expressive and likeable actor, able to captivate the viewer and able to communicate with his cast mates: a jewel of boy. This morning, I have discussed my surprise with some friends. ‘Well, they said, who will be able to performance Frodo Bolson, not even Marlon Brando’. I have been thinking about this issue and yes, I agree with them, it is impossible to performance a character who only is two big eyes seeing battles and more battles… and more battles. Therefore, the problem of Elijah Wood is to choose
YAREAH Magazine better his parts, because Brando would not accept it… or maybe yes? I must not forget he performance in ‘Superman’. Conclusion: How powerful is money! Other conclusion: Now, I like Elijah Wood. Bio: Elijah Wood (Iowa, 1981) at an early age he showed a talent for entertaining and wowing audiences, and his mother decided to take him to Los Angeles for an Annual International Modeling and
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Literature Talent Association convention. He His acting career took off from here, quickly began popping up in ads and in and he began appearing in films such small parts on TV. Afterwards, as Paradise (1991), Forever Young he got his part in (1992), with Mel Gibson or The Avalon (1990), Good Son (1993) with with really Macaulay Culkin. good criAlso, in 1996, he stat i c s. rred in a movie remake of an old TV show, Flipper (1996). He appeared in countless films after that. In 2000, he went to work on what has been called the biggest project ever to hit the movies, the ‘Lord of the Rings’ trilogy, based on the books by J.R.R. Tolkien.
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Children in Art and Literaby John Glass ture A
lways helpless, always asking for our protection, books and paintings are full of boys. I once read that Lady Di’s success was in her photos, impossible to take a bad photo of her because her helpless image aroused in the spectator the need to be her friend. The same happens with children main characters, when the book ends we continue having the need to be at their side. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, a Baroque Spanish painter, knew it. He worked for the Church and nobles but, in spite of it, whenever he could he transformed Virgins, Madeleines and Saints into girls and boys, preferably poor children… still more helpless. From Bartolomé Esteban Murillo to Mark Twain exits a gap of centuries and countries. But Twain also understood how a child catch our feelings and imagination. “The adventures of Tom Sawyer” have been a best-seller from its publication in 1876 but his next novel (continuation of this one), “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, it was a major success since Huck is much more helpless than Tom as well as his problems and sufferings. How many comics, films or cartoons have been made of both books? Countless. Psychologists used to say the worst time for a person is adolescence, when all the contradictions are present. Maybe, but if you need a living, Girl at the window by Murillo
if you don’t have food or a place to rest or an adult w h o takes care of yo u : then, childhood is worst, and readers o r spectat o r s f e e l i n t o t h e Boys eating melon by Murillo skin of this scabby cripple boys who are eating melon or bread in Murillo’s paintings. Recently, other children main characters have had great success: “Harry Potter”, “The boy in the Striped Pajamas” or even “Millenium”, because what moves us of Lisbeth Salander is her childhood, not her present of strong clever woman. I am going to read “Oliver Twist” by Dickens again and maybe “Alice in Wonderland”. Perhaps I will find inspiration and I can write about a child and I will be famous.
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Poems by Joseph Mailander The Chariot
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t is all good as gold, the silver morning riding high on excess, the redoubled bet that paid off once again. Get ready for the good laurel, the grand life, dahling, we are clipping along. We're going to blow right past the farms. At last, we have diagnosis and cure, triumph and two-in-hand. Behind us are your toady dreams, the envelope holds your tidy sum. You've been away long enough, now come, come dahling, ride the wind of sphinxes that draw this nomad's war machine-come, come, and scream from your womb to the top of your freed soul. **The Chariot is the Seventh Tarot trump card.
The Seven of Swords Cold steel people don't like.--Keith Richards
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y frivolous submissions to the sun, my gifts and thefts and subtle wisdom mornings, my energized service, my chaotic warnings, my redemption book hung with uncertainty.
My stories of clattering swords, my tempting, cheating, chattering mistress, my full forecast of rain and Nothing, pull my nap into the dazzle of an afternoon
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In which I dream the downside: my spent past, the punishment of waiting for the real. And I found nerve: I stole the shining steel, and made a fool of foolishness at last. **The Seven of Swords is a card about stealing something away.
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Flash-fiction by Martin Cid For the Bible tell Me So
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verything changes, as certain as the smiling moon, as hard as the accurate words of the lost gods of time. There are not flowers in the garden yet, there are not words for the wise man, there is not future for this, again and again, waste land of silent screams. Europe, my dear Europe, my dear Spain and its fate, our tragic fate of don Quixote’s ashes‌ time, again and again and, once more, the smiling disappointment of the past shattering the wise old promises. Once again, the empty future.
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irst: the ability to be as stupid as it may be a man. Second: a knack for lying, for faking, for writing, for eating and for spiting. Third: the strange human wisdom of never being wrong, especially when I am wrong. Fourth: the prudence to boast always at the right time. Fifth (just to finish, my faults are many but I have one virtue that I have never confessed): the proud to be, in every moment or occasion, as sincere as deceptive, as true as fake, as worst as better and‌ as human as possible.
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have lost him and I have forgotten his name. Years ago, he was mine, my fake creation and true fate, my only dream and the singular nightmare of my silent evening: The unnamed character went out last Friday evening. Where has he gone? Over the waste land, beyond the sea of fools, even far away of my dreams, he is lost. No more heartbeats of his waste aim, no more feelings for his tired heart, no more lies for his tired paragraphs, no more breaths, no more kills and no more kisses. At last, no more words.
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Time to progress: Thomas Alva Edison by Nieves Fernández E
dison was a close friend of Mark Twain. Both of them were fascinated by new techniques (as so many people at this time). In fact, Edison made a short film (2’) in 1909 performed by Mark Twain. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W NlG_FTCdQM Thomas Alva Edison (Tom) was born in Milan, Ohio (USA), on the 11th of February in 1847. February 11 was designated as National Inventor´s Day in recognition of the inventions which he contributed to mankind. Edison’s family was of Dutch origin. At the age of twelve, Edison became hard of hearing. He left school because his teachers called him scatter-brained! His mother had been a school teacher in Canada. She encouraged and taught him to read and do experiments. Edison saved a boy called Jimmie Mackenzi from being run over by a runway train. Jimmie’s father was so grateful that he took Edison under his wing and trained him as a telegraph operator. Edison's Youth He married a 16-year-old girl called Mary Stilwell. They had three children. Edison became a North-American inventor and business man and developed many devices which have influenced our lives. He applied the principles of mass production to the invention process. He created the first industrial research laboratory. However, above all, he is considered to be
one of the most prolific inventors in history, holding 1,097 patents in North America and many patents in France, Germany and the United Kingdom. In 1871, he invented the “teleprinter” so stock-market news could be transmitted immediately. With the money he earned with this, he set up a research laboratory – he started earning a living out of his inventions. Inventions Edison began his career as an inventor in New Jersey with the automatic repeater and other improved telegraphic devices. In 1877 Edison became known as “The Wizard of Menlo Park” due to the invention of the phonograph. In 1878 Edison invented and developed the carbon microphone which is used in telephones and in radio broadcasting and public address system. He also developed the electric chair as a demonstration of alternating current’s (AC) which created a greater lethal potential against the direct current (DC). As a part of this campaign Edison’s employees electrocuted dogs, cats and an elephant to demonstrate the dangers of alternating current (AC). Nowadays, the alternating current is used to im-
prove the efficiency of power distribution. High frequency AC (100.000 Hz) is used in medicine. DC has the advantage that batteries can maintain power through interruptions of the electric supply in elevators. In the 1880s Thomas Edison lived next to Henry Ford, the automobile magnate/tycoon. They were friends until Edison’s death. Edison contributed to automobile technology. Finally, in 1880 he invented the electric light bulb. In 1940, his life was made into a film, “Edison, the Man”, which Spencer Tracy starred as Edison. The movie starts with this sentence by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882): “The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man the country turns out”.
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The Death And the Maiden by ISartosa We find the origins of this theme in old mythological traditions. The abduction of Perse phone (Proserpine in Rome) by Hades (Pluto, god of Hell) is an antecedent of the conflict between Eros and Thanatos: Proserpine and her nymphs gathered flowers when she took a narcissus. Then, the ground opened and Hades went out of the hell and abducted her.
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his myth became very popular in Germany in the Middle Age (in many dances or pictures appeared the Death with a young lady or a nice virgin). At the Renaissance, something new happened, since artists discovered a relationship between death and sexuality and the lady is not dancing but in deep contact with the death and the didactic role lost its importance in very many works. However, other works are pointing the brevity of beauty of a woman.
Some artists who has painted “the Death and the Maiden” were: Hans Baldung Grien in 1517, Much in 1894, Egon Schiele in 1915 and Joseph Beuys in 1959. Recently, Jaime Hernández de la Torre (http://www.jhdelatorre.com ) is magisterially working on this theme which is in relationship with the pictures of his city of dreams. Bio: 1972 born in Madrid 1995-1996 Philosophie studies at UNED, Madrid 1993-1998 Fine arts graduate with Specialization in painting at UCM university, Madrid 1999 CAP degree at UCM university, Madrid 1999-2000 Art Teacher at public high school Ramiro de Maeztu, Madrid 2000-2003 Art teacher at private fine arts academy Estudio Artium Peña 2005 History studies at UNED university, Madrid 2003-2009 Owner, director and art teacher of Estudio de pintura Torre, Madrid 2009 Lecturer at Castalia Iuris gallery, Castellón 2010 Owner of art school La Mina, Madrid, 2010 Philosophie studies
The Death and the Maiden by Egon Schiele, 1915
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at UNED (long distance) university, Madrid Since 2010 working as a freelance artist in Berlin SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2008 IB gallery, Madrid 2007 Escuela superior de artes cerámicas de Alcora. 2006 Castalia Iuris gallery, Castellón 2005 Art D´am gallery, Castellón 2003 Art D´am gallery, Castellón. 2001 Art D´am gallery, Castellón. 1993 Art show-room Guadalupe, Madrid. 1993 Karikato gallery, Valencia GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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The Death and the Maiden by Jaime Hernandez de la Torre, 2009
2011 Meliá White House, London 2006 I.B gallery, Madrid 2005 Itinerant exhibition Villaviciosa de Asturias. 2005 Montcada i Reixac gallery, Barcelona. 2004 Drawing award Gregorio Prieto 2004, Madrid 2004 Fandós institution, Villareal 2002 Fine Arts Museum, Castellón 2002 Itinerant exhibition “In viagio”, Turín. 2000 Margarita Summers gallery, Madrid. 1997 Bulevares gallery, Madrid. 1994-95 Itinerant exhibition biennial of young artists from Europe and the Mediterranean Lisbon 1994. Madrid, Málaga, Sevilla, Huelva, Valencia, Al-
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Granada 1994 Exhibition biennial of young artists from Europe and the Mediterranean, Lisbon ART FAIRS 2007 Art fair "Artemanía", Madrid 2007 Art fair "Arte Sevilla", Sevilla AWARDS 2004 Honorable mention at national drawing award “Gregorio Prieto”. 1999 Art scholarship Estudio ARTIUM PEÑA. 1994 Biennial of young artists from Europe and the Mediterranean, Ilustration field representing Spain
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Clara Peeters: Sill Life by Isabel del Rio Clara Peeters (1594-1657) was a Baroque Flemish woman painter… too many adjectives and too important. Baroque! Yes, the golden age of painting. Flemish! Yes, a place to learn art since it was the country of Rubens or Van Dyck. Woman! Today a word which forces in vestigation since everyday we find more women’s works hidden in the cellars of the old mu seum
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he first time I saw Clara Peeters’ paintings was in Madrid, in the Prado Museum (they have 4 works of the Royal Collection). All of them are Still Life paintings and I was specially impressed by one of them: in a bronze vase was reflected the image of Clara, as a mirror which trapped her memory for us. In those years, Still Life meant the brevity of life and it had a religious call, it remembered that people was in the Earth only to reach eternity, a place where nothing is damaged. We are here as in a mirror, as in Clara Peeters’ bronze mirror, to learn how to behave correctly and to earn our place alongside the fair.
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I don’t know if Clara earned her site in Heaven but here (and after dark times), she is increasingly popular for her precise brushstroke, her perfect textures and, of course, her Baroque meanings. She is, as every old feminine artist, an enigma which data deleted the malicious time. We only can understand her trough her paintings: it is not nevertheless difficult, at least for a sensitive person. Written by Isabel del Rio. She has published “The Girls of Oil” (akron publishers, 2010), an essay about old woman painters.
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What is a Frog? by Isabel del Rio An amphibian which jumps (its long legs are adapting to improve a wonderful jumping per formance). It has a short body, web bed digits (fingers or toes), protruding eyes and the absence of a tail but above all, it has a smooth skin of suggestive colors which change with the dierent lights of the day: it is strange that frogs hadn’t been popular among pain ters.
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t inhabits wet areas (lakes or ponds) where it put its eggs, and their larvae (tadpoles) have gills and they develop in water while transforming their bodies. A miracle without wand, blue fairy or cauldron, a miracle which smell to death and resurrection, beginning and end: it is strange that frogs hadn’t been popular among authors. Nevertheless, frogs have captured the attention of Paula
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Yestera, a young artist from Spain who is currently living in Berlin. She has represented them as giants falling outside their frames, as nice colorful beings which look at the spectator trying to explain their miraculous transformations: brilliant, eternal frogs. I really like the work of Paula Yestera (http://www.paulayestera.com) and her effort to understand the enigmatic essence of such a tiny animal. Are we animals? Are we a miracle? Are we a frog? Paula Yestera Bio: 1986 born in Madrid 2009 Fine Arts degree at UCM university, Madrid 2010-2011 Filosophy studies at UNED university, Spain Solo Exhibitions Paula Yestera
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Reaching the Sky by Isabel del Rio According to the Christian tradition, we come from the earth and we will return there. Then, God creates the first man of clay, as a sculptor, and He gave him free dom to choose how to behave and how to rule the world. Hunters, farmers, ranchers… his descendants were creating towns, canals or roads.
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owever, some of them wanted to imitate his Creator and wanted to be sculptors too. They made wonderful figures of clay, of bone and, of course, of stone… of hard rock. It was a challenge to work the porous limestone but it was worse to face the brittle marble… How about the impossible granite? Hemant Sonawane accepted the challenge of working this hard material: he has called his master piece
‘Labor of Love’ and we easily imagine why. ‘Labour of Love’ is a giant piece emerging from the earth, with the appearance of a hand holding the globe, and trying to touch the sky. Pure forms and a primitivism that reminds us of our origins, lost in the mists of time, found in the eyes of a young artist from the land of
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light and color (India of One Thousand and One Nights). I have so many ideas seeing the strict shapes of ‘Labor of Love’. The globe, in black granite, is perfectly polished and in the mysterious nights of Mamallapuram, it dissolves in the air with whispers that springs from the bowels of the earth… Nobody can hear that strange litany. But when the dawn comes, it starts the miracle and the granite reflects all of the colors of the new lights, all of the voices of that busy society, all of the hopes of the young artists… now united in that hand of stone and reaching the sky. Granite is not an easy material, being a sculptor is not an easy job. ** 'Labour of Love' belongs to Hemant Sonawane’s Germinant Series of stone sculptures, that introspect on miracles of birth, survival and existence.
‘Labour of Love’ was created at the Pallava Symposium of International Sculpture 2011. The event was held at Mamallapuram (Tamil Nadu, India) - a World Heritage Site selected by UNESCO. Medium : Black Granite Dimensions : 38" X 43" x 108" (W x D x H) See more about Hemant Sonawane: http://www.facebook.com/#!/HemantSonawane
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Recently, Yareah magazine has discovered Eleanor Leonne Bennett’s work by Isadora Sartosa
She has a clear look which focuses on open details and on personal perspectives: a lile expressionist, with a drop of her dreams, always in love with nature.
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Her photos are young and fresh and World Photography Organisation, they capture our real world but trans- Winstons Wish, Papworth Trust, Menformed into an imaginary and com- cap, Big Issue, Wrexham science , Fenplete crystal ball which contains all: nel and Fern and Nature's Best fantasy and jokes, winks and hopes, de- Photography.She has had her photographs published in exhibitions and tails and open views. We hope you enjoy with her delicacy magazines across the world including and good work and above all, with her the Guardian, RSPB Birds , RSPB Bird frank and great sense of humor. Life, Dot Dot Dash ,Alabama Coast , Bio: Eleanor Leonne Bennett is a 15 Alabama Seaport and NG Kids Magayear old photographer and artist who zine (the most popular kids magazine has won contests with National Geo- in the world). She was also the only graphic,The Woodland Trust, The person from the UK to have her work
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displayed in the National Geographic and Airbus run See The Bigger Picture global exhibition tour with the United Nations International Year Of Biodiversity 2010.Only visual artist published in the Taj Mahal Review June 2011. Youngest artist to be displayed in Charnwood Art's Vision 09 Exhibition and New Mill's Artlounge Dark Colours Exhibition www.eleanorleonnebennett.zenfolio.co m
Paint where you can not photograph by Ann Timmermans When working on still life, the only subject in perceptual art which can be set out in ad vance, the artist is fully in control of the composition, so that he or she can entirely focus on colour and hue. However it can be somewhat boring
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mmanuel Radnitzky, better known as Man Ray(1890-1976) was a painter, photographer, filmmaker and object artist who created impressive impressions of objects, taking still life and photography to the next level. After seeing the 1913 Armory show in New York, the artist started painted in a cubist style.( Donna, 1915) Man Ray's first solo show of paintings and drawings was held at the Daniel gallery in 1915. He soon involved himself in Dadaism. Founders of the Dada movement Ray and Duchamp published the single issue of New York Dada. Dadaists Arp, Ernst, Picabia, Duchamp and Man Ray intentionally used banality, absurdity and provocation to shake the foundations of society, life and art. Like Duchamp Man Ray made ready-mades. His 1916 paintings( e.g. The Rope Dancer Accompanies Herself with her Shadows 1916) showed dada and abstract influences, flat forms in vivid colours. He spent most of his life in Paris, where his commercial fashion and portrait photographs of Parisian celebrities provided him with a steady income. Many of his fashion photos were published in Harper's Bazaar, Vu and Vogue. Man Ray and his assistant Lee Miller perfected the Sabatier or solarisation technique, which he utilized in portraits and nude photographs. His witty negative rayographs, which are photograms made by placing three-dimensional objects directly on or just above photo-
graphic paper and exposing the composition to light, were important creative impulses for camera less photography. His rayographs lyrically represent objects as ropes, spoons, pearl necklaces, light bulbs, ... They were published in the 1922 portfolio Les Champs délicieux. His first cine-rayographs, sequences of camera less photographic images, were to be seen in his Le Retour à la Raison(1923). The first surrealist exhibition at the Galerie Pierre in 1925 included works made by André Masson, Jean Arp, Miró, de Chirico, Max Ernst, Picasso and Ray. Man Ray's anarchical surrealist pieces show a fantasy world of contrasts. This pioneer of contemporary experimental photography created the Surrealist classic short films Emak-Bakia( 1926), L'étoile de mer(1928) and Les Mystères du Château. Ray's autobiography entitled Self Portrait was published in 1963. Ten years later 125 of his photographs were shown at the MET. This American artist played a promi-
nent role in the launching and portraying of the dada and surrealist movements. No wonder his substantial contributions to modern art, his avant-garde films and object assemblages, influenced Christo and Kienholz.