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Uncle Orson (Continued from page 14) wallpaper on my Android phone and my Nexus. I literally cannot get enough. David Ligare’s work is bright and beautiful, yet conceptually rich and rewarding. Simple pieces of cloth being carried on the wind bring new perspectives to the old tradition of draping in art, but he is as illuminating when he paints landscapes, herbs and still lifes: http:// sn.im/ligare-art. When you go to Spanish surrealist Alex Alemany’s site, click on “galeria.” Some of his work has a too-pretty feel to it, but there is much excellent surrealism. My
favorite is “Entorno privado,” a shadowbox with a human in one jar, a storm in another, and bowl of water with waves crashing: http://sn.im/alemanyart. Perhaps the most wide-ranging of these artists is Stanislav Plutenko, a Russian who seems determined never to allow himself to get in a rut: http://sn.im/plutenkoart. Click on the year, and you’ll see the great variety of his work, from contemporary social satire to magic realism, from humor to fantastical arabesque. But another Russian, Peter Gric, offers the opposite: a consistent, strange vision of a future that is both beautiful and terrifying. Human figures are most frequent when they
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are deeply involved in stone and concrete. His Russian website is http://petergric.ru/; to see English-language titles, go to http:// www.gric.at/home.htm. The Russian site is organized by year. He also has a book, Peter Gric: Paintings from the First Decade of the New Millennium, which you can order from his site (but not from Amazon). I look at image after image and want to write stories that explain and fulfil his visions. Let me close with a couple of collectives where many artists come together to offer glimpses of their work. The surrealist site “Beinart International Surreal Art Collective” is somewhat perilous. While there is some absolutely brilliant, illuminating work, the quality is not even, and some of the images are unbearably disturbing: http://sn.im/surrealcoll. Moving away from surrealism now, the Academy of Arts Foundation in St. Petersburg, Russia, has created an
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absolutely gorgeous gallery of the works of three dozen artists. All of them are at least interesting and fall well within the realistic/ surrealist continuum: http://academart. com/index.htm. Look especially at the work of Julia Bekhova at http://academart.com/bekhova_ imaginary_paintings.htm, Oleg Dosortsev at http://academart.com/dozortzev.htm, and Igor Samsonov at http://academart.com/ samsonov.htm. All three of them show the influence of Russian Orthodox religious icons, but in wildly different ways. I hope you actually go to these sites and look at these works. It’s as close as I can come to piling you into my car and taking you to a whole bunch of galleries, where I’ll point inarticulately and say, Isn’t that so cool? Don’t you love that? Only you get to look at the art without me actually watching you look at it – isn’t that better?
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We thank you for the diverse opinions of all people, Democrat, Independent or Republican. The Rhino has to talk about the Republican National Convention. I hear of them talking about family values. I’ve heard that throughout the whole convention talking about family values, and the founding fathers, and the Constitution. And to me our founding fathers when they created the Constitution first of all the 47 percent that Mitt Romney is talking about were not included in that Constitution. %%% Continuing. When the Constitution was written, they did not include the 47 percent that Mitt Romney is talking about, which includes Native American Indians, and Africans, which now are African Americans, who were brought in chains to this country to build the wealth of now the rich and the well-connected. So, when the Republicans are talking about family values and the founding fathers, and what they believe, what are they talking about? Politics has always been about race, and class, and it continues to be about race … %%% A taxpayer who votes for Obama is like a chicken who votes for Colonel Sanders.
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