Mind Power- Light attracts Light

What we notice and observe is what we invite into our lives. Our consciousness creates reality. Certain thoughts produces a certain life.

cigar moments

Sharing Cigar Moments with Beethoven music.

A Virgen Spanking

This art is titled "The Virgin Spanking Christ" by German artist Max Earnest. In the painting there are 3 people on the left in a frame. This can mean perhaps the trinity, but are labeled as witnesses. These three people are Max Ernst, Andre Breton, and Paul Elard. These men are, as explained in the title of the painting, André Breton, the French writer who had written the Surrealist Manifesto of 1924, Paul Éluard, the French poet who was also one of the founders of the surrealist movement, and Max Ernst himself.This art work was created in 1926. *photocredit:http://onesurrealistaday.com/post/53062622060/spanking-christ

Blue Dancers

Edgar Degas is a French artist (19 July 1834 – 27 September 1917) famous for his work in painting, sculpture, printmaking and drawing. This photo above is titled "Blue Dancers" is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism although he rejected the term, and preferred to be called a realist. A superb draughtsman, he is especially identified with the subject of the dance, and over half his works depict dancers. These display his mastery in the depiction of movement, as do his racecourse subjects and female nudes. His portraits are considered to be among the finest in the history of art.
Early in his career, his ambition was to be a history painter, a calling for which he was well prepared by his rigorous academic training and close study of classic art. In his early thirties he changed course, and by bringing the traditional methods of a history painter to bear on contemporary subject matter, he became a classical painter of modern life.

*photocredit:http://www.edgar-degas.org/Blue-Dancers,-c.1899-large.html

Carmen Cicero Art

This photo titled "looking back" by Carmen Cicero and his eariler work made an impression in the art world. He joined the acclaimed Periodot Gallery on Madison Avenue in New York in 1957 and by 1965, Cicero had won two Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowships and a Ford Foundation prize, and was in important exhibitions at such venues as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. During 1950's studied at Hunter College. After a fire destroyed his studio and a large body of his work in 1971, he moved from New Jersey to New York City.Cicero returned to figurative expressionism in the later 1970s before embarking on a new approach to his work in the late 1980s: A kind of expression difficult to define and variously termed by critics as "fantasy," "mystery," "surrealism" and "visionary." These works produce a peculiar atmosphere, a strange, enigmatic spell—images that linger in the unconscious mind. Filled with beautiful pieces—watercolors, paintings, drawings, and collages—this fine book offers an expansive survey of the life work of Carmen Cicero.

*photocredit:http://www.carmencicero.com/image_display.php?category=figurative_exp&image_id=36

Ben Goossens Art

Ben Goossens creates fantastic Surreal art. According to his bio he started working and developing photo montages with surrealist images. His work has also been widely published. For more info see link below.

*photocredit:http://bengoossens.fineart-portugal.com/home

Surreal Artist

Rafal Olbinski is a Polish illustrator, painter, and educator, migrated to the United States in 1982 and shortly after started teaching in 1985 aat the school of Visual Arts in New York.
*photocredit: http://www.tendreams.org

Digital art

Saolta Ban is an Hungarian artist. Her art work is breathtaking, and as she states on her website, she prefers that her pictures talk. In this photo a tree is sitting on a bench. This art really displays creativity and imagination by the artist to make an ordinary everyday object and make it special and interesting.

*photocredit:http://www.bestofindian.in

Art of Sightseeing

This piece of art work is on display at St LUKES PARK in the Bronx. Its interesting how this art is setup because the sight seeing postion is looking downward instead of the normal postion one would expect like looking upwards.

Greek Art

Grigoriou Panagiotis is a Greek Surreal Artist, Anthropologist and Historian. This art work titled "Exit to Life", conveys so many abstract ideas because the image depicts a couple of objects ( a female, a door, birds, sky, light, chess, black and red colors) combined together to allow for one's own fascinating interpretation.
*photocredit:http://bloodyloud.com

Tree Art

This art is from Mark Ryden titled the  Tree Show. "Trees work in mysterious ways. A branch from a tree is a miniature replica of the whole tree." The artist also makes an historical reference on how ( "Buddha achieved enlightenment under the Bodhi Tree because he became one with the cosmic tree."). See more on artist statement at:http://www.markryden.com/biography/index.html

Art of Seven Sorrows

Daniel Martin Diaz is a Mexican American artist whose work has gained him international renown. His style is a combination of Northern European Art, Spanish Colonial Art, Surrealism, and … 

Daniel Martin Diaz is a Mexican American artist whose work has gained him international renown. His style is a combination of Northern European Art, Spanish Colonial Art, Surrealism, and Post-Modernism.  This photo on the left is titled "Seven Sorrows " from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Martin_Diaz

Poetry of Stars

Stars, Songs, Faces
Gather the stars if you wish it so.
Gather the songs and keep them.
Gather the faces of women.
Gather for keeping years and years.
And then...
Loosen your hands, let go and say good-bye.
Let the stars and songs go.
Let the faces and years go.
Loosen your hands and say good-bye.
By Carl Sandburg

Key points/insights: what does the word gather mean in this poem? What type of advice does the poem give?
*photocredit:http://sharfrancis.blogspot.com/2011/05/in-this-moment.html

Mirror

Conceit

I looked in the mirror.

Handsome is as handsome does, I thought.

So I decided to do something handsome

BBecause actions speak louder than words.

After acting handsome,

I looked in the mirror again.

Beauty is only skin deep, I thought,

I must have thick skin.

by Elizabeth Ruiz

*photocredit:http://lacunacoil-fans.deviantart.com/art/Mirror-Reflection-32789820

Observation: The writer uses several cliches in the poem; for example 'money  talks'.   Can you identify the four cliches, and which one shows most clearly the speaker is conceited

Breaklight

light keeps on breaking.
i keep knowing
the language of other nations
i keep hearing
tree talk
water words
and i keep knowing what they mean.
and light just keeps on breaking.
last night
the fears of my mother came
knocking and when i
opened the door
they tried to explain themdelves
                                                                                    and i understood
                                                                                    everything they said.

Observation: insight brings understanding when the light breaks.
*poem by Lucille Clifton
*photocredit:http://bocsupportnetwork.com/advantage-3-father-fix-it-romans-35-6/

Ancestors

On the Wind-Beaten plains
oncelived my ancestors.
In the day of peaceful moods,
they wandered and hunted.
In the days of need or greed,
they warred and loafed.
Beneath the lazy sun, kind winds above,
they laughed and feasted.
Through the starlit night, under the moon,
they dreamed and loved.
Now, from the wind plains,
only their dust rises.
 by Grey Cohoe
 photocredit:http://www.2baware.net/teachings/releasing-your-fears-a-practical-method/

Tower of Pisa

Tower of Pisa stands at 60 metres and until 1990 was leaning at about a 10 degree angle.

Although it was designed to be perfectly vertical, it started to lean during construction. Tower of Pisa is one of the most remarkable architectural structures from medieval Europe. In 1964 on Feb 27, the government of Italy ask for help to keep the Leaning tower of Pisa from toppling over. In 2008, it was estimated that the tower would be stable for another 200 years.

Grand Canyon

 The Grand Canyon is 277 miles (446 km) long, up to 18 miles (29 km) wide and attains a depth of over a mile (6,000 feet / 1,800 metres) For thousands of years, the area has been continuously inhabited by Native Americans who built settlements within the canyon and its many caves; it is a steep-sided canyon carved by the Colorado River in the state of Arizona. On Feb 26, 1919 U.S. President Woodrow Wilson signs an act of U.S. Congress establishing most of Grand Canyon as a National Park. Also considered as one of the seven wonders of the world.

ADRIAN ALICEA Fashion

Last night I had the pleasure of being invited to a fashion runway show by Adrian Alicea know as "Haute Couture". Adrian Alicea work is inspired by his Puerto Rican and Taino roots,and all is work is done by hand himself making every outfit unique. The show was sexy, provocative, and entertaining with a lot of drama and attitude. This event was hosted at 160 central park west on the corner of 76thst, which happens to be The Church of the Divine Paternity Fourth Universalist Society.

Thomas Paine common sense

Thomas Paine (January 29, 1737-June 8, 1809) political activist, author, political theorist and revolutionary was anti-slavery, and he was one of the first to advocate a world peace organization and social security for the poor and elderly.On Jan 10, 1776 publishes Common sense which challenged the authority of the British government and the royal monarchy.

*photocredit: http://www.writeawriting.com/write/thomas-paine-write-create-common-sense/