I was accepted into the two watercolor shows I entered in January. A Few Garden Treasures was accepted in the WAS-H (Watercolor Art Society-Houston) International Exhibition in Houston and "Magnolia Fantasy" was accepted into SWA (
Society of Watercolor Artists) Juried Exhibition in Fort Worth. I’m so excited and pleased to be part of these two wonderful shows.
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Life is often referred to as ‘the Path’, but who is really on a path if there is nothing for attention to hold onto?
These works are about a looking into the action of attention.
It can be seen that attention is already present, because one is already seeing what is appearing, but can get caught up in trying to hold onto a reference point…a base from which to say “this is it…I’ve got it now” My life has been a continuous search. At first, I was not sure what I was searching for. I was just never satisfied. As this search intensified, I realized that my quest was for Enlightenment, eternal happiness and freedom from suffering. To stay in the moment became a priority to achieve. Teacher/Gurus, along the way, all pointed to the same simple fact. But I still did not ‘get’ this fact…or so I thought.
I had many glimpses(insightful spiritual experiences) of simply being the Seeing/Awareness of everything/Oneness. Each glimpse seemed to accentuate the desire to ‘stay there permanently’…
I have recently completed five tempera paintings executed with the above theme in mind…these can be viewed on an ‘online show’ in my portfolio: http://www.absolutearts.com/portfolios/l/lookwhos I would appreciate the feed back
…………TO BE CONTINUED…….I will be off-line until March 10th as I drive paintings out to San Francisco for a show! Yeah!
I have a web site in which I am able to invite other artists and I was wondering if you would like to join. The address is www.Labedzki-art.com It’s quite simple to join, click on "register", "login", "create/order album"(this is where you give your album a title only,) then "upload images", I usually only load two or three at a time .Once you’ve loaded you can go to home page click on "user gallery" and you’ll see your images! Of course there are no fees and your image upload is unlimited!
Thank you so much and I really hope to see your work there
Regards,
Annette Labedzki
I cordially invite you to join my fan page.
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This is the third painting from the 1 painting a day for the next 10 days. Now it’s 7 more paintings to go. I like seeing jewelry and fabric against the skin. This piece has texture of acrylic and the human image is in oil. smoothed over the textured paint. Enjoy…
This is the second painting from the 1 painting a day for the next 10 days. Now it’s 8 more paintings to go. I love dancers. Being a former child dancer, I understand poise, movement and the practice. Enjoy…
A Solitary Prima Ballerina
8 x20, oil on Wood.
Once you have already defined it…
The lack of abstract in abstract art
The abstract is the absolute nothing the same as it is the very everything that there is: every detail of every object in the realms of the six sense-doors. You cannot express infinity anyway else than by symbolizing it with a certain specific graphic sign, and you cannot draw the entire world and its sister onto one canvas.
There has to be some figurative element that would instill form into that which is formless, that would give a specific direction to that which turns all over, that would define a visual limit to that which is infinite, incomprehensible and beyond the sense limits of humans.
The abstract can only be experienced and therefore there is no abstract art. You can not paint experience. Abstract in sculpting means leaving an empty space, unbound by any means, in painting it would mean leaving a naked canvas, spread across the entire gallery and out through it’s door, and in architecture is would probably mean erecting a painfully thin and ridiculously high pillar in outer space.
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There is nothing abstract in the "basic forms" of squares, quadrangles and lines, neither there is in the "non-colors" white and black or the "primary colors" of blue, red or yellow. These are already definitions – perceptual as recognition is, conceptual as language is and semantic as name tags are – the very opposite of abstract. More over, once you combine all these definitions into a "composition", which is in fact the story telling of definitions, then you already got yourself pretty much and nothing less than of a work of conceptual art.
But I appreciate the effort, I really do.
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