‘Action, with all its uncertainties, is like an ever-present reminder that humans, though they must die, are not born in order to die but in order to begin somethig new’. Hannah ArendtTumblr (3.0; @kamala007)http://kamala007.tumblr.com/<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5lv6gtMUB1rw2ea2o1_500.jpg"/><br/> Andrei Roiter<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5lv6gtMUB1rw2ea2o2_500.jpg"/><br/> Andrei Roiter<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5lv6gtMUB1rw2ea2o3_500.jpg"/><br/> Alfred Kubin<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5lv6gtMUB1rw2ea2o4_500.jpg"/><br/> Alfred Kubin<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5lv6gtMUB1rw2ea2o5_500.jpg"/><br/> Johan Thorqvist<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5lv6gtMUB1rw2ea2o6_400.jpg"/><br/> Zhang bu<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5lv6gtMUB1rw2ea2o7_500.jpg"/><br/> Yves Tanguy<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5lv6gtMUB1rw2ea2o8_500.jpg"/><br/> Yves Tanguy<br/><br/> <img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5lv6gtMUB1rw2ea2o9_400.jpg"/><br/> Nosferatu<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5lv6gtMUB1rw2ea2o10_400.jpg"/><br/> Emma Florence Harrison<br/><br/> <p>…”the translation of the hybrid ingredients of consciousness into visual evidence”</p> <p>John Yau</p>http://kamala007.tumblr.com/post/25086093517http://kamala007.tumblr.com/post/25086093517Thu, 14 Jun 2012 07:42:16 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5lafqYBSl1rw2ea2o1_500.jpg"/><br/> Cy Twombly<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5lafqYBSl1rw2ea2o2_500.jpg"/><br/> Richard Hoglund<br/><br/> <img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5lafqYBSl1rw2ea2o3_400.jpg"/><br/> Richard Hoglund<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5lafqYBSl1rw2ea2o4_500.jpg"/><br/> Shantell Martin<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5lafqYBSl1rw2ea2o5_500.jpg"/><br/> Victor Timofeev<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5lafqYBSl1rw2ea2o6_400.jpg"/><br/> Picasso<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5lafqYBSl1rw2ea2o7_400.jpg"/><br/> Egon Schiele<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5lafqYBSl1rw2ea2o8_500.jpg"/><br/> Natsuki Lee<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5lafqYBSl1rw2ea2o9_500.jpg"/><br/> Natsuki Lee<br/><br/> <p>good lines…and bad lines…</p>http://kamala007.tumblr.com/post/25072278929http://kamala007.tumblr.com/post/25072278929Thu, 14 Jun 2012 00:14:14 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m56dx1y6lw1rw2ea2o3_500.jpg"/><br/> Queen Nanny of the Maroons<br/><br/> <img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m56dx1y6lw1rw2ea2o1_500.jpg"/><br/> Kehinde Wiley<br/><br/> <img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m56dx1y6lw1rw2ea2o2_250.jpg"/><br/> Asad Faulwell 2010<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m56dx1y6lw1rw2ea2o4_500.jpg"/><br/> Wangechi Mutu 2009<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m56dx1y6lw1rw2ea2o5_400.jpg"/><br/> Rose Piper 1994<br/><br/> <img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m56dx1y6lw1rw2ea2o6_500.jpg"/><br/> Xaviera Simmons 2005<br/><br/> <img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m56dx1y6lw1rw2ea2o7_500.jpg"/><br/> Xaviera Simmons 2009<br/><br/> <img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m56dx1y6lw1rw2ea2o8_500.jpg"/><br/> Toylin Odutola <br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m56dx1y6lw1rw2ea2o9_500.jpg"/><br/> Toylin Odutola<br/><br/> <p>…’people of color’ artfully diluting their essence behind elaborate paravans of pattern and decoration…’becoming colorless ghosts’ (John Yau) </p>http://kamala007.tumblr.com/post/24517131290http://kamala007.tumblr.com/post/24517131290Tue, 05 Jun 2012 23:05:00 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m56bfdUdbg1rw2ea2o1_500.jpg"/><br/> Masaccio-Expulsion from the Garden of Ed<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m56bfdUdbg1rw2ea2o2_400.jpg"/><br/> Albrecht Durer 1505<br/><br/> <img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m56bfdUdbg1rw2ea2o3_500.jpg"/><br/> Carolee Schneemann 1975<br/><br/> <img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m56bfdUdbg1rw2ea2o4_500.jpg"/><br/> Georgia O'Keeffe 1917<br/><br/> <img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m56bfdUdbg1rw2ea2o5_500.jpg"/><br/> Taravat Telepasand 2012<br/><br/> <img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m56bfdUdbg1rw2ea2o6_500.jpg"/><br/> Francesca Woodman<br/><br/> <img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m56bfdUdbg1rw2ea2o7_400.jpg"/><br/> Francesca Woodman<br/><br/> <p>…nudity or nakedness? does our dregree of discomfort vary according to the figurative proximity intimated by the medium…drawing, art photography, painting or performance…? when does a ‘nude’ become a naked body?</p>http://kamala007.tumblr.com/post/24513496136http://kamala007.tumblr.com/post/24513496136Tue, 05 Jun 2012 22:11:36 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4c6s49vjJ1rw2ea2o1_400.jpg"/><br/> Louise Nevelson 1960<br/><br/> <img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4c6s49vjJ1rw2ea2o2_500.jpg"/><br/> Anthony Caro-Chemical Box 1987<br/><br/> <img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4c6s49vjJ1rw2ea2o3_500.jpg"/><br/> Arne Quinze<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4c6s49vjJ1rw2ea2o4_400.jpg"/><br/> Naum Gabo<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4c6s49vjJ1rw2ea2o5_500.jpg"/><br/> Benedict Campbell<br/><br/> <p>Gestalt: a unified whole. Entropic designs in uniformity born out of many parts*  </p>http://kamala007.tumblr.com/post/23432170094http://kamala007.tumblr.com/post/23432170094Sun, 20 May 2012 15:43:16 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4byv3eUFG1rw2ea2o1_500.jpg"/><br/> Anish Kapoor-Cloud Gate<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4byv3eUFG1rw2ea2o2_400.jpg"/><br/> Lucio Fontana-Concetto Spaziale 1967<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4byv3eUFG1rw2ea2o3_500.jpg"/><br/> Anish Kapoor<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4byv3eUFG1rw2ea2o4_400.jpg"/><br/> Lee Bontecou 1960<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4byv3eUFG1rw2ea2o5_400.jpg"/><br/> Robert Morris<br/><br/> <p>‘The reductionist tendencies’ of new art - massive scale/intimate, interactive spaces, singleness, indivisibility, infinite wholeness - suggested by the representations of ‘dark holes’ whether on physical structures or literally cut into canvas. </p>http://kamala007.tumblr.com/post/23421467588http://kamala007.tumblr.com/post/23421467588Sun, 20 May 2012 12:52:00 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4butqFsW21rw2ea2o1_500.jpg"/><br/> Banksy-Butterfly Suicide<br/><br/> <img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4butqFsW21rw2ea2o2_r1_400.jpg"/><br/> Rita Ackermann<br/><br/> <img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4butqFsW21rw2ea2o3_500.jpg"/><br/> Irina Minaeva-Temptation<br/><br/> <img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4butqFsW21rw2ea2o4_500.jpg"/><br/> Jules Olitski-Cleopatra<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4butqFsW21rw2ea2o5_500.jpg"/><br/> Henry Matisse-The Red Studio<br/><br/> <p>From graphic design, to heavy brush strokes to fine drawings - line, shape and colors unite in form and construct the visual language of pictorial renditions. </p>http://kamala007.tumblr.com/post/23416513069http://kamala007.tumblr.com/post/23416513069Sun, 20 May 2012 11:25:00 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4964tHBmZ1rw2ea2o1_250.jpg"/><br/> Calabi-Yau<br/><br/> <img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4964tHBmZ1rw2ea2o2_500.jpg"/><br/> Antoine Pevsner<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4964tHBmZ1rw2ea2o3_500.jpg"/><br/> Antoine Pevsner<br/><br/> <img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4964tHBmZ1rw2ea2o4_250.jpg"/><br/> Micheangelo Pistoletto<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4964tHBmZ1rw2ea2o5_500.jpg"/><br/> Lee Bontecou<br/><br/> <p>Interpreting modern/contemporary art need not be about establishing which prescribed theoretical edict is right or wrong, it’s simply about being able to understand the conceptual and intellectual vision the artist aims to communicate through their work - seriality, repetition, indefinite duration, infinitely spatial, navigate light and space, negate form, reduce elements to shape and object=endless presentness…  </p>http://kamala007.tumblr.com/post/23333481125http://kamala007.tumblr.com/post/23333481125Sat, 19 May 2012 00:36:00 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m493rtZ9Ps1rw2ea2o1_500.jpg"/><br/> Elizabeth Peyton<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m493rtZ9Ps1rw2ea2o2_400.jpg"/><br/> Elizabeth Peyton<br/><br/> <img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m493rtZ9Ps1rw2ea2o3_r1_250.jpg"/><br/> Elizabeth Peyton<br/><br/> <img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m493rtZ9Ps1rw2ea2o4_400.jpg"/><br/> Egon Schiele<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m493rtZ9Ps1rw2ea2o5_500.jpg"/><br/> Egon Schiele<br/><br/> <p>“In the third tribe, the Tchambuli, we found a genuine reversal of the sex-attitudes of our own culture, with the woman the dominant, impersonal, managing partner, the man the less responsible and the emotionally dependent person. If those temperamental attitudes which we have traditionally regarded as feminine, such as passivity, responsiveness, and a willingness to cherish children-can so easily be set up as the masculine pattern in one tribe, and in another be outlawed for the majority of women as well as for the majority of men, we no longer have a basis for regarding such aspects of behavior as sex-linked” (Sex and Temperament - Margaret Mead 279).</p> <p>Gender….x/y…??? read on…  </p>http://kamala007.tumblr.com/post/23330913069http://kamala007.tumblr.com/post/23330913069Fri, 18 May 2012 23:45:00 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3xx8zTagm1rw2ea2o1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><br/> <img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3xx8zTagm1rw2ea2o2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3xx8zTagm1rw2ea2o3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3xx8zTagm1rw2ea2o4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3xx8zTagm1rw2ea2o5_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>Contemporary art aims to exist directly besides us, in our space, no longer relegated to the wall, the stand or the vitrine.</p>http://kamala007.tumblr.com/post/22945064592http://kamala007.tumblr.com/post/22945064592Sat, 12 May 2012 22:50:00 -0400