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Counterlight's Peculiars: The Second Wojnarowicz Series in its Current State
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Art is a lie that tells the truth" - Pablo Picasso. Saturday, April 25, 2015. The Second Wojnarowicz Series in its Current State. Steven Bates who has photographed my work for many years paid a visit to my studio recently and took pictures of 8 of my recent paintings from 2013 to 2015. Most of them are from the new series of paintings that I am working on about the artist and writer David Wojnarowicz. All of the paintings in the series are oil on canvas, 20 inches by 30 inches. Painting David, 2011.
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Counterlight's Peculiars: Eminent Victorians
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Art is a lie that tells the truth" - Pablo Picasso. Sunday, February 2, 2014. William Powell Frith,. A Private Viewing at the Royal Academy , 1881. The most eminent of all the Victorians, his work still widely known, was Frederick Leighton; Sir Frederick Leighton in 1878, Frederick Baron Leighton of Stretton in 1896 for one day before his death from a heart attack, the first artist ever granted a peerage in Britain, and the shortest peerage in history. Frederick Lord Leighton, Self Portrait, 1880. This i...
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Counterlight's Peculiars: The Taj Mahal: "Enter Thou Among My Servants And Enter My Paradise"
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Art is a lie that tells the truth" - Pablo Picasso. Friday, December 20, 2013. The Taj Mahal: "Enter Thou Among My Servants And Enter My Paradise". I've posted about the Taj Mahal before. A long time ago, five years. I posted about it as a kind of Advent meditation, and I'd like to do the same, only a little more expanded now. I should point out from the beginning that I've never visited the Taj. Mumtaz Mahal in a portrait that is probably posthumous. According to Muslim tradition on the Indian subcontin...
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Counterlight's Peculiars: Coming Soon to a Gay Pride Parade Near You ...
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Art is a lie that tells the truth" - Pablo Picasso. Thursday, July 30, 2015. Coming Soon to a Gay Pride Parade Near You . An orthodox man goes berserk and starts stabbing people. At Jerusalem's annual Gay Pride parade today. There were no fatalities*, but there were some very serious injuries. This is this same man's second attack on a Gay Day Parade. He did this once before in 2005. Let's be careful out there. Shira Banki, a 16 year old straight ally of the LGBT community, died of her wounds. The book o...
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Counterlight's Peculiars: New Paintings
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Art is a lie that tells the truth" - Pablo Picasso. Wednesday, October 28, 2009. Here are my new paintings from the past year. They were photographed by Steve Bates of Art Documentation. Steve Bates has been photographing my work for about 12 years now. Here are two paintings completed from a projected four painting series on Theseus. Theseus Discovers His Father's Sword. Theseus and Procrustes, detail. Theseus and Procrustes, detail. And finally, a rather frumpy self-portrait. Wednesday, October 28, 2009.
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Counterlight's Peculiars: Religious Freedom
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Art is a lie that tells the truth" - Pablo Picasso. Saturday, July 11, 2015. Your God-given right to be a pious asshole, and to feel superior while treating other people like shit. Here is a portion of the now famous video of a couple in Kentucky being denied a marriage license even though they are legally entitled to it under the recent Supreme Court decision. Saturday, July 11, 2015. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Passion of Christ: A Gay Vision. Promote Your Page Too. My Art on this Blog. Rembran...
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Counterlight's Peculiars: The Passion of David Wojnarowicz
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Art is a lie that tells the truth" - Pablo Picasso. Monday, October 26, 2009. The Passion of David Wojnarowicz. Put the kids to bed. Here's another post on David Wojnarowicz. Ten years ago, I did a series of paintings about Wojnarowicz based on his writings. It turned out to be a practice run for The Passion of Christ. If I was to do something again about Wojnarowicz, I would do it very differently. I'd make him much less of a martyr, and a little more of a radical hero. For me, it gives me strength to m...
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Counterlight's Peculiars: The Boy Scouts Come Out (Sorta)
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Art is a lie that tells the truth" - Pablo Picasso. Tuesday, July 28, 2015. The Boy Scouts Come Out (Sorta). A painting by Norman Rockwell that was in my edition of the Boy Scout Handbook. A photo from this year's Pride Parade in San Francisco that is making the rounds of the Internet today. How things have changed since I was a Boy Scout! Scouting used to be very mainline Protestant with Methodist, Presbyterian, and Lutheran churches all having Scout troops on their premises). The gay ban was a disaster...
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Counterlight's Peculiars: The Cleavers Today
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Art is a lie that tells the truth" - Pablo Picasso. Wednesday, October 20, 2010. Wednesday, October 20, 2010. Find a way to stay in the house, Ward&June: neither Wally nor the Beav will be able to move out ANYTIME in the forseeable future! JCF, lives w/ dad). October 20, 2010 at 6:39 PM. Not quite sure what you mean Anon. October 20, 2010 at 6:52 PM. Did I mention that June sold her pearls after the family spent their savings, and Wards unemployment insurance expired? October 20, 2010 at 6:54 PM. Subscri...
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Counterlight's Peculiars: Why I Do This
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Art is a lie that tells the truth" - Pablo Picasso. Monday, January 24, 2011. Why I Do This. Saint Luke , 1653. Why do I do this blog? I also use it to promote my own artwork, something that I'd always like to do more often, but my work tends to be labor intensive and my studio time is frequently limited. I'm far from being the only artist to deal with those issues. That's probably life for almost all artists these days. Why do I do those posts? Monday, January 24, 2011. And you do it so well! Doug, Im a...
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