The Toledo of my dreams

by David Halliday

 

I have never visited either Toledo, the one in Spain or Ohio. There are so many cities in North America that have been named after sister cities in Europe. Their paths have been so different. And on the whole, American cities do not fare that well as places of interest.

 

lisa yuskavage

Between 1984 and 1990, Yuskavage painted women that she later characterized as demure in nature.^[5] At the suggestion of her husband, the artist Matvey Levenstein, Yuskavage began to imagine herself as the subject of her paintings, which allowed her to change her perspective and to assume a new character in her work.^[5] Her new style often features the nude female form as voluptuous and with exaggerated curves.^[6] These nudes have been compared to both classic pin-ups and soft pornography.^[7] The role of voyeurism is also key to the artist’s work.^[8] Yuskavage has previously cited the actor Dennis Hopper’s character, Frank Booth, in David Lynch’s Blue Velvet (film), as her inspiration for the source of the male gaze in her artworks

I find her work fascinating but am not sure I get it. Is she exploring female forms, male fantasies, or the cinema.

Homicide

 

 

El Greco

When I see an El Greco painting, I think I see Dali. His longated figures remind me of Modigliani. The angels and saints and all the religious paraphernalia of his age (the anti-gravity illusions) remind you of Magritte and the surrealists. And the paintings of crowds remind me of some collage works. And yet he was a figure of the 16th and 17th century. His work must have looked very odd to those people.

Hard Brush Soft Paint

 

alice neel

Her portraits are so interesting. Each one is distinctive almost as if painted by another artist. Not the style or even the colours but the subject itself.

the hole

Terrorism on tour…

by David Halliday

 

Isis has taken advantage of our television/internet networks move to make NEWS entertainment. Its not the coverage of the event that bothers me as it is the constant yammering on CNN, FOX, etc. They treat everything like a football highlight.

 

 

Yanzhou Bao

I loved the colours in this photographic/fashion collection. Yanzhou Bao is the photographer.  It as if the pics are bleeding.

Black Bird

 

Ms. Peel

by David Halliday

 

She’s my version of the Lisa Mona.

Valerie Hegarty

Valerie Hegarty. I love her work. Its filled with ideas. She rejects the 18th and 19th century glorification of American Manifest Destiny. And reinterprets that political agenda with the “now”, with ‘reality’. And the destruction of these representative pieces of work are beautiful in themselves. Or maybe I just enjoy sitting around a camp fire. And watching the wood burn.

The Box

 

Jessica Silversaga

Her photographs look like shots from a Bergman film. Is she sheepish, shy, or disturbed? Or is she manipulating us?

Sleeping Beauty

 

Ironing out the wrinkles…

by David Halliday

 

reality for human beings is a blind consensus, something we learn and something we are limited by our senses. But the mind feels the walls.