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RANCE HOOD (Comanche): "War Dancer"
- tempera on paper, 1975.
Hood's themes are mystical and mythic, developed through the Native customs and religious practices of his own life, #art that echoes the traditional Indian culture and spirituality of times now past.
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“It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve. I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing that I wanted to do. I'm frightened all the time. But I never let it stop me. Never!"
— Georgia O'Keeffe
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"I am independent! I can live alone and I love to work. Acceptance, under someone else's terms, is worse than rejection. #Women should be someone and not something."
— Mary Cassatt: #artist (self-portrait)
What a great lady.
In celebration and honor of:
#InternationalWomensMonth
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The radish is "a vulgar article of the diet" that has a "remarkable power of causing flatulence and eructation."
— Pliny: Roman author and writer of the encyclopedic Naturalis Historia, naturalist
KEVIN LEE AITA - "Radishes"
Oil on Linen, 22" x 33"
elevating radishes to high art
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What am I in the eyes of most people, a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person, somebody who has no position in society and will never have; in short, the lowest of the low. I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove.
“The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.”
― Ray Bradbury
To truly live is an incredibly rare state.
Most only exist and that's it.
One only lives once, but if done it right, once is plenty.
This seemingly eternal rhythm of motion
instills in me quite an unfettered notion
that you and I are part of a strange dance
brought together by something other than mere chance,
that there is a kind of deep and real meaning
in the condition we all know as being.
— Wilder Venture
"I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too."
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Un jour sombre dans la Ville Lumière alors que les émeutes à Paris se poursuivaient.
Pas un jour pour peindre en plein air.
A dark day in the City of Light as riots in Paris continued.
Not a day for plein air... facebook.com/PhantomCulture/…
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WITMOLTY - Aesthetic considerations pinterest.com/pin/3433995403…
#Facebook continues to unpublish this page (7 times) in an ongoing attack on culture, art and music. The page... fb.me/2yY4JSuGi
A quiet meditation from MAFO. Alchemical stuff.
The sounds of silence - within the magic... fb.me/8wz9kSYqu
"An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing...I do not need the musing of the... fb.me/8k5xbnMYy
This old Outpost friend took his paintbox to Colorado...
ROBERT GOLDSBERRY (1953-2014)
"Thunder Mountain Trading... fb.me/3XV8Z4ZAh
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To hunt big buffalo
in biting snow,
this little work,
so you would know.
Modern society, with it drive-through... fb.me/21IgHSUzx
The great, unsung American realist: Richard Wood transformed the mundane into stunning feats of sheer visual... fb.me/4mljGCvsy
Some peoples' favorite relatives.
Artist: KEVIN AITA
Title: "Dead Presidents"
Media: Oil on linen
Size: 33" h x... fb.me/6rvEmHP9v