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Where Is This Artful Waterfall?

Waterfal moving over stone image by Mardan KhanGoogle+ is often the last on my social media check-out-what’s-happening list. Today I found a treasure on Mediha Halce’s post.

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Have a soothing weekend.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Julaina Kleist-Corwin

Editor of Written Across the Genres

Author of Hada’s Fog

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Octavio Ocampo’s Surrealist Paintings Offer Two In One Optical Illusions

Octavio Ocampo couple or water with statue

Octavio Ocampo optical illusion

 

 

Octavio Ocampo is a Mexican surrealist painter born on February 28, 1943 in Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico. He also has studied acting, dancing, film and theater.  Since 1976, Ocampo works only in painting and sculpture and at present primarily in the metamorphic style. He superimposes and juxtaposes “realistic and figurative details within the images that he creates”.  The optical illusions fade back and step forward until the viewer notices details and then is able to recognize the larger intentions. For information click here.   Do you see the couple facing each other and then can you switch your view to the large body of water with a brown barren tree (or maybe it’s a sculpture) with faces below it?

 

Octavio Ocampo Metamorphic style

Octavio Ocampo Metamorphic style

 

 

 

In this next painting, can you train your eyes to see only the plants and the butterfly and then switch to the woman under the leaves and back and forth several times?

 

 

 

 

 

Octavio Ocampo face or daisyfield

Octavio Ocampo

 

Do you see a daisy field or a face under the daises in the foreground? Try to see both.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Octavio Ocampo birds and tree

Octavio Ocampo

 

 

Here there are three birds flying to a nest in the tree. Flip your view and see a large face close to the tree.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Octavio Ocampo face and one leaf

Octavio Ocampo

 

This one is my favorite. A single bloom and one leaf that changes the bloom to a part of a face looking to the upper right.

 

Which painting is your favorite? I’d be interested. Please put your answer into the comment section. Thanks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Julaina Kleist-Corwin

Editor of Written Across the Genres

Author of Hada’s Fog

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Edvard Munch’s “The Scream”

The screamEdvard Munch created four versions of “The Scream” in various media, three painted and one pastel. The latter was sold at a Modern Art action on May 2, 2012 for $119,922,600, the second highest price paid for a painting at auction.

“The Scream” has been the target of several high-profile art thefts. In 1994, the version in the National Gallery was stolen. It was recovered several months later. In 2004, both “The Scream” and “The Madonna” were stolen from the Munch Museum, and were both recovered two years later.”

A diary entry in 1892 by Munch described his inspiration for the painting:

“One evening I was walking along a path, the city was on one side and the fjord below. I felt tired and ill. I stopped and looked out over the fjord—the sun was setting, and the clouds turning blood red. I sensed a scream passing through nature; it seemed to me that I heard the scream. I painted this picture, painted the clouds as actual blood. The color shrieked. This became The Scream.”[8]”

Thieves stole the pastel version shown here on  the opening day of the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer. Three men were convicted of the theft in May 2006.

“Munch developed an emotionally charged style that served as an important forerunner of the 20th century Expressionist movement. He painted “The Scream” as part of his “Frieze of Life” series, in which sickness, death, fear, love and melancholy are central themes. He died in January 1944 at the age of 81.”

Edvard Munch

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scream

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-scream-recovered?et_cid=74519797&et_rid=1213882540&linkid=http%3a%2f%2fwww.history.com%2fthis-day-in-history%2fthe-scream-recovered

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The Rhetorical Device Ekphrasis

Dog with rhetorical deviceEkphrasis is a rhetorical device in which one medium of art tries to relate to another medium by defining and describing its essence and form, and in doing so, relates more directly to the audience, through its illuminative liveliness. Any of the visual arts can be used to highlight the vividness of what is happening, or what is described in a poem or descriptive prose. The visual arts then may enhance the original art and so take on a life of its own through its brilliant description.

For example a painting of a sculpture: the painting is “telling the story of” the sculpture and so becomes a storyteller as well as a story itself. It is the spirit of the story or poem that is retold with another medium in an authentic way and the original is impacted through synergy. (Information from Wikipedia.org./wiki/Ekphrasis.)

The Tri-Valley Branch of the California Writers Club has a Winterfest every two years where members send in photography, painting, sculpture, quilting, or whatever the member creates. A few assigned members choose one piece of art from each member to put on the Tri-Valley website and the other members write a poem, essay, or short story for any piece of art they choose. The written works are put up on the site with the piece of art for display to all the club members.

I entered photographs I had taken of the inside of several tulips from a friend’s garden. Notice tulips from their insides and see how different each one looks. I’m curious which of my photos will be chosen and what a member will write about it. The visual,the tulip, will be impacted by the writing.painting on body

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Quote by Alfred North Whitehead

Alfred North Whitehead said, “Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience.”

Do you agree?  Why or why not?

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