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Obama Art
Mikaela:
Yay! :)
I do love the photo series from yours and Meryl's various Brokie outings around NYC, and this is certainly no exception! Thank you for taking the time to share this with us. :)
I see Meryl has to make use of her Alaskan ear muffs, I guess that means it's not only DC that is icily cold these days?
I like the artworks, I especially found the one to our left in this photo very compelling. So.... intense!!
Aloysius J. Gleek:
Look! The smallest piece of Obama Art ever!
The MicroObama Family in the Eye of a Needle
by Willard Wigan
(enlarged) :o
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-01/21/content_10696350.htm
This undated image provided by UKFineArts Tuesday Jan. 20 2009, shows a micro sculpture by Willard Wigan showing U.S. President Barrack Obama and his family in the eye of a needle.
Aloysius J. Gleek:
--- Quote from: Mikaela on January 21, 2009, 06:34:00 pm ---
I like the artworks, I especially found the one to our left in this photo very compelling. So.... intense!!
--- End quote ---
Thank you, Mikaela! Yes, Mr. Fairey is something else! I think he's created a full-blown polemical iconography, the best since Irish artist Jim Fitzpatrick's stylized poster (1967) based on 'Guerrillero Heroico' (1960), Cuban Alberto Korda's famous photograph of Che Guevara.
(And I meant this in the best way imaginable, of course! ;D )
Strange footnote!:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevara_(photo)
Meeting Che in Ireland
According to Fitzpatrick, in 1962 while a teenage student at Gormanston College he worked a summer job at the Marine Hotel pub in Kilkee, the remote town of his mother's birth. One day Che Guevara walked in with two Cubans and ordered an Irish Whiskey. Fitzpatrick immediately recognized him because of his interest in the Cuban revolution. Knowing about the Irish diaspora and history in Argentina, Fitzpatrick asked Che vaguely about his roots. Che told Fitzpatrick that his grandmother was Irish and that his great-grandmother Isabel, was from Galway, with other family being from Cork. Guevara's father also bore the Irish surname "Lynch." Fitzpatrick describes Che as "curious" about Ireland "from a revolutionary point of view" and remarks that Che proclaimed his "great admiration" for the fact that in his view, Ireland was the first country to "shake off the shackles of the British Empire". Apparently Che was stranded on an overnight flight from Moscow to Cuba, and had touched down at Shannon airport, where the Soviet airline Aeroflot, had a refueling base. Unable to depart because of thick fog, Che and his accompanying Cubans took the day off for an "unofficial" visit. It was this experience according to Fitzpatrick, that gave him the impetus to follow the future actions of Che, including his ill-fated mission to Bolivia.
Aloysius J. Gleek:
http://pictureyear.blogspot.com/2009/01/mystery-solved-again.html
The Year in Pictures
New York City
James Danziger has been involved in photography for a long time. His blog "The Year in Pictures" is a record of photographs (and a few other things) that have captured his attention.
From British VOGUE:
THE CULT BLOG -
"If only all blogs were as life-affirming and tender-hearted as that of gallerist James Danziger. Whether his focus falls on the work of an individual artist or a particular theme, The Year in Pictures is compulsive reading."
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Mystery Solved - Again!
It's Manny Garcia - a freelance photojournalist based in Washington D.C.. I think!
This is a separate frame of the photograph from which Fairey's Obama image was taken. Who knew George Clooney would figure in the story! (In April 2006, Clooney was joined by then Senator Obama as he was addressing the National Press Club on his recent visit to Darfur.)
The credit for this discovery goes to Philadelphia Inquirer photographer Tom Gralish. Here's his account.
http://blogs.phillynews.com/inquirer/sceneonroad/2009/01/found_again_the_poster_source.html
I just spoke to Garcia who is currently on White House duty, but by next week expect to see Garcia's print in my exhibition CAN & DID. GRAPHICS, ART, AND PHOTOGRAPHY FROM THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN http://www.danzigerprojects.com/current/ .
What would we do without the internet!
j.U.d.E.:
Fantastic! Wow, John, how do you unearth all these stories!? Fabulous!
In the Eye of the Needle - that's so effing crazy! Excellent!
Oh, and there is George Clooney... :laugh:
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