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Crystal Neubauer / Art and Words: May 2015
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A b o u t the A r t i s t. Thursday, May 21, 2015. Little Pockets of Joy (or how do you eat an elephant? Work In Progress: S.O.S. (Save Our Souls) 30" x 36" collage by Crystal Neubauer. I drive back to my studio several days a week, but I'm limited to a set number of hours when I'm there or I deal with heavy traffic that lengthens my commute to nearly twice it's already long drive. I am a work in progress. Back at the studio this piece is nearing completion. It speaks of the global impact one person'...
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German Girl Art: These are the days we live for
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Sunday, April 19, 2015. These are the days we live for. Surviving another arctic winter in the Midwest, I cherish mornings like today's. Before the neighborhood wakes and the endless cacophony of automobile engines, it's serene and along with my two companions, Max and Mollie, we absorb the quiet around us. The morning, the mourning doves and a singular cardinal inspired this little poem. Serenading the loss of the moon. And the ascension of the sun. Cardinal singing his sermon of praise -.
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German Girl Art: A bride married to amazement
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Thursday, April 23, 2015. A bride married to amazement. Beneath The Surface no 2. 30 x 22 inches. The abstract expressionist painter, Joan Mitchell, when asked to describe her art volleyed back, "I can't explain it. It's poetry on canvas! I don't care for poetry that dances at the edges of allegorical ambiquity; such a tease. I like poetry that dances on the solid imagination, where the mind lands on a knowable surface. Like the hungry bear in autumn;. To buy me, and snaps the purse shut;. And I think of...
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German Girl Art: Morning Prayer
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Wednesday, June 24, 2015. Collage, acrylic, oil, cwm, gold pigment. These were the two words that escaped,. As I walked out of my house. Resting high in the sky. Was a perfectly round heart,. Pulsing crimson red with life sustaining light. It was the sun-. Burning through the morning mist,. All the color of the sky,. Resting in her hemoglobin red round face. True beauty stops you in your tracks-. True beauty takes your breath. And gives it back with wonder. She opened my day with poetry,.
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German Girl Art: Where Is the Creative Connection Between the Hand and the Mind?
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Tuesday, June 23, 2015. Where Is the Creative Connection Between the Hand and the Mind? Pentimento no. 2. Acrylic on cradle board. 8 x 16 inches. When did cursive become a dying art? But in the last three years I have been confronted by the same numbers who, often shamefacedly, say, "I don't know how to read cursive-what's this say? After doing a bit of digging I learned since. Where will our future artists find that creative communication between the hand and the mind if they aren't taught cursive?
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German Girl Art: Thank you, Mary Oliver
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Thursday, April 30, 2015. Thank you, Mary Oliver. Acrylic. India ink. Thank you, Mary Oliver. For bringing the miracle of the everyday. Your love of all free and easy things;. The wind swimming across a field,. Flower heads drowsy, intoxicated by the sun,. Bees drunken-heady with nectar-. You remind me of the grandeur of simplicity. You seem to say. When I do,. My eyes soften,. My breath catches,. I bow and my heart sings. Thank you, Mary Oliver. For bringing the miracle of the everyday.
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German Girl Art: The man I married, and the man I almost married
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Friday, January 9, 2015. The man I married, and the man I almost married. Oil, cold wax on paper. A wild time in the late 1980's and I was fiercely in love with two men - the man I would marry and the man I almost married. And, that we are capable of deep, multiple loves. One not taking away from the other. Canadian author, Merle Shain, likened it to knowledge; when a teacher shares her knowledge with a student, she doesn't have less knowledge to give to the next. Instead, I crossed over the threshold in...
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German Girl Art: The wonder of smallness
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Tuesday, December 30, 2014. The wonder of smallness. Ink and metallic powder. Each day is filled with precious little gifts,. If only we take the time to breathe in,. And in that breath,. One sunny, warm day, while walking my dogs, Max and Mollie, a dragonfly appeared inches from my eyes. "Oh, how wonderful! And I walked along in amazement as that beautifully, iridescent, small dragonfly kept me company all the way to my driveway, then off she flew. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Do you understand a...
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German Girl Art: What is Modern Art?
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Saturday, November 1, 2014. What is Modern Art? Oil and cold wax. The function of the artist is to express reality as felt. It is because reality has a historical character that we feel. The need for new art. The past has bequeathed us great works. Of art: if they were wholly satisfying, we should not need new ones. This is the origin of our desire for new art. In our case, for modern art. Robert Motherwell, The Modern Painter's World. 1944. From The Writings of Robert Motherwell. How are the events surr...