Remember to thank the Indigenous American Artist

Wow isn't Google Great, an Art Museum where You don't have to pay at the door! I get this space for free, that is how I can share these works of Fine Art with you. You can even make your own files and have a large format copy made. I print from week to week, these images have never been shown period. By all means lets remember the Indigenous American Artist that mastered the art of print making so very long ago.

Man's Artistic Achievements

How many faces do You see?

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Look carefully!

In this post I would like to point out that it is often very difficult to see a design the first time that you study the image. There are several hundred prints in the archive of this blog page at the time of this writing. Some are very literal, while others are likewise obscure. Also do keep in mind that there may be a great difference in the age or time period between any two examples. I have no way of determining the age of these art works. The degree of skill is another factor that effects the visibility of any image. My printing is becoming very laborious and as a result is indeed quite poor. All in all you are left with only an approximation of the subject matter that is on the plate.

Here are the new images for this week

The Face of Reality

Just a short text this week, little more than to say Hello to you. I am still moving and settling in the new place, after 35 years that is hard. There will be a change of IP so I may miss some post. Part of this blog site will become a museum site. Here are the prints for this week.

Help save the Barnes!!!

I would like to take this opportunity to talk briefly about people who collect art. Many art collectors are not just investors,some are actually motivated by the desire to protect the art that they collect. Such individuals often go to extremes to look out for the art works that they buy. Last year a Cezanne painting sold for 250 million dollars. I do not need to point out that is a quarter of a billion dollars! The motivation of thieves to steal such a work is obvious. We all have a responsibility to help protect art works from theft.

One of our national treasures is in jeopardy,The Friends of The Barnes Foundation need our help. Doctor Barnes stated that he never wanted any of the art works in his collection to be moved from the residence that was his home in west Philadelphia Pennsylvania. I need no more than that to write this appeal. Please do what You can to help save the Barnes http://www.barnesfriends.org/

www.barnesfriends.org

"From one hand to another"

I find it very interesting to try to imagine the lives of the people that created these art works. They were probably much different from most of us. Some of these art works were created in the stone age. The stone age had ended by the time that many of these works were created. Dividing the art work into time periods is a current Anthropological endeavor. It is very likely that we will learn much about indigenous peoples by discovering when and how their art works were created. Stone effigy figures are probably mankind's oldest art works. Many of these “found” sculptures are thousands of years old. They were passed from one hand to another. Often they are highly polished from being carried on the person of their current owner. What kind of tales would such a treasure tell?