#artspeaks

[just-a-wri1er]

Seraphima

Your skin as dark as oak, seemingly like coffee; dark.

Your eyes shine a light I've never seen.

Your eyes a deep brown, like chocolate.

A whirling pool I could drown in.

Your arms, for me, are open wide

With a love forsaken.

Your voice dripping honey.

It was a symphony for my ears.

But all this a blur.

For people will abandon us tonight,

And people will hurt us for the most innocent of things.

Love, is neither a poison nor a cure,

But two people accepting another even despite all one's flaws.

So as I open my eyes again

And see the earth once more.

My heart breaks not once but twice.

"Sera?"

Now I live with the alive, with a broken heart, a shattered person and half a soul.

With the half of me gone, half of me missing.

The moon is ever eternal, a Goddess, a beauty,

Isn't she, My lovely phoenix?

©2023 Debbie Duran. All rights reserved.

[davidcrunelle]

Always a strange feeling to observe in real a piece not seen in years. This attempt at some soft pouring and silicone oil mix was done on aluminum plate. Sounds fancy but it was actually quite boring to make. #dailycollage #surrealillustration #collagearts #analogcollageart collageartoninstagram #brusselsart #collaging #collageofinstagram #analogueart #analogcollageartist #igcollage #surrealcollageart #artisttofollow #surrealportrait #artspeaks #artistvisual #visualartwork #belgiumartist #artwatcher #belgiumart #fineartwork #fineartcollector #fineartists #contemporaryartcollection #contemporaryartdaily #artcollectorsoftheworld #fineartcollectors #artforcollectors #galleryofmodernart #modernartworks #davidcrunelle (à Wavre) https://www.instagram.com/p/Chf6RlKqjrh/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[paulawiegmink]

In celebration of World Wildlife Day 2023! #wildlife#wildlifeart#animalsinart #worldwildlifeday2023#conservation #celebration #savewildlife #artspeaks #artistsforconservation#animals#nature #natureinart #naturesbeauty#art#arte #nature_perfection #fineartcollection #fineart#naturesinspiration#instaartist #natureconservation #naturelover (at Dunsborough, Western Australia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpYmrAvBHfQ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[newrainy]

Week 6 Activism, Protest / Digital Citizenship

How do Art-forms and popular culture become symbols of a social movement?

Art Activism is a term derived from another form of expression of activism through an artistic medium and utilizes it. Because I’m not socially partaking in activism. Still, when I heard about the creative activism that challenges the creative way, I was instantly interested because, as a designer, I am a sucker for art expression and analyzing creative thinking.

By further investigation, Creative Activism stems down to the colonial rule of Britain during the 18th century that was evident in America, according to The Black Sheep Agency (2021). Some famous art activism pieces are the painting of ‘George Washington crossing the Delaware,’ which symbolizes the message of the Pro-American Revolution.

During the 20th century, it happened to occur a twist in the narratives of the art protests because this new era of creative activism addressed civil rights and the people’s dissatisfaction in society.

However, when we define art, it comes in different shapes, such as Murals, Drawings, paintings, et cetera.

One form of a progressive movement is the 20th-century protest art of feminism by the citizens who used their message through art by advocating FOR working women, femininity who were self-deprived from any sort of public political engagement such as voting. The infamous work of “Sash and strict Edwardian dress code” where a weapon and a symbol of feminism against their opposition. By any means, artworks like these have an extensive outreach today with their evolution.

(Three Suffragist, 1916 by Ed. Markel)

Another example of creative activism in the form of art is evident in Mainland China, where the voices of people are censored and silenced. The Guardian (2020) shows the way art speaks the minds of the citizens in China. One example of this phenomenon was the year 2020, with the Hongkong protest intending to fight for pro-democracy, which was shown as socially unacceptable by the law. The empty white paper sheets were the voice for the freedom of speech. And with the new protests in 2022, the white paper blanks came back with the same public message, and I’m sure statements like these become a symbol of bravery and fights for justice.

(White paper sheet activism, Anthony Kwan/ Getty Images)

Art speaks for itself and carries messages that cannot be directly criticized. The impactful messages become a powerful tool for people without freedom of speech and a threat to the higher-ups. The standard transmission in a large community creates a shield against the opposition. Art is in the eye of the beholder, as it is often said. It outlives the generic, standardized idea of society.

Reference

The Guardian 2020, Hongkongers find creative ways to voice dissent in pictures, The Guardian, viewed 4 December 2022, <https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2020/sep/29/hong-kong-people-find-creative-ways-to-voice-dissent-in-pictures>

The Black Sheep Agency 2021, A Short History of American Protest Art, The Black Sheep Agency, viewed 4 December 2022, < https://theblacksheepagency.com/blog/protest-art>

[theuniquegivercollectionposts]

“STOP” by #todpardon Sometimes art just says it better. #wearableart #expressyourself #sculpturaljewelry #mixedmedia #artspeaks #oneofakindjewelry (at Aaron Faber Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cf_cIMJuG0a/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[neurolinkinstitute]

So blessed to have Sisterhood in our lives. #sisterhood #gratitude #satsang #artspeaks #contemplation https://www.instagram.com/p/Co22cKsvtau/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[xxkitkat17xx]

[isabelbrison]

[jtsteiny]

Big Pages From Big Books One Hundred And Eighty Nine - ABAW Publishing Companies #lineattack #lineattackactivitybook10 #lines #lineover #lineattack12 #artsweep #artout #artspeak #comictrys #poetryfumble #wordroll #oktweet https://www.instagram.com/p/CqEHp0fyU6T/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[xiomaro]

I could not stop laughing when I entered this prompt to Chat GPT: "Write Xiomaro's artist statement about his New York City street photography but using lots of academic art speak and pretentiousness" and it immediately generated this. 

[just-a-wri1er]

"What do you want from me? You want a child. You want me to spoil you with gifts and kisses. You want my time. You want everything as far as the eye can see."

"Wanting a life where I can grow old with you with a child or two, celebrating valentines with a romantic candlelight dinner isn't impossible. Why do- why are you talking as if it is? I don't understand-"

"I have given you everything I could. But you need too much. I'm not saying it's impossible. I'm saying that you've outgrown our relationship and our interests just aren't complementing each other anymore, you know? You want that now, but I don't think I do."

"So what? You're throwing away seven years down the drain? Like it'd be gone just like that?" She snaps her fingers as a gesture.

"Don't word it like that. I'm not throwing anything away. I'm just saying that we don't work anymore. It's not that you're too good and I feel like I'm not good enough for you. I feel as though the two of us want and are needing different things right now and that maybe ending this relationship could be beneficial to your growth to finding love for yourself and help me trust people without a safety net to fall to. I just want you to see and love yourself because you are hurting the very woman I'd write stories about, you are damaging the soul of the very being that reassures me that love exists, you are breaking the body of the only Goddess I would worship just because you don't think I deserve you. I am breaking up with you, cancelling the wedding, removing this ring on my finger till you look at the mirror and realize how much you've hurt yourself that I couldn't look at you because it is too painful to see you hating yourself. I love you. I love you so much and I just can't see you hurt yourself any longer."

"I love that you've become my rock. The shoulder I cry on. The anchor that keeps me from being washed away. The float that keeps me from sinking. And I've been with you for so long, through everything I've been through you're the only person that stayed long enough to see me change. Our relationship isn't toxic but I feel that maybe our relationship could grow with the space from the lack thereof. I've been with you so long. I've never had trusted anybody else as much as you and I realized that was bad. I shouldn't always count on you. You are stressed, working, studying and saving for your future but always made time for me because you knew, I would only ever trust you with my self and well being. I shouldn't let you do this by yourself. I need to learn to trust other people again without the safety net that is you. Because that isn't fair. We both have battles we need to fight alone and loving yourself is yours and learning to trust again is mine."

©2023 Debbie Duran. All rights reserved.

[davidcrunelle]

Remember when I actually had le time during the summer break and make new stuff. That was when summer break had a meaning. #artspeaks #artcollectorsofig #contemporaryartwork #artistvisual #artscene #artshare #visualartwork #artistavisual #contemporaryartists #belgiumartist #surrealismart #collectart #artwatcher #artworkdaily#modernartist #belgiumart #collagecommunity #fineartwork #analoguecollage #fineartcollector #thecollagecommunity #fineartists#collageartistsoninstagram #contemporaryartcollection #contemporaryartdaily #artcollectorsoftheworld #fineartcollectors #davidcrunelle (at City of Brussels) https://www.instagram.com/p/CfmmtGeqbhA/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[paulawiegmink]

A huge thank you to Captain Paul Watson for supporting our Say No campaign, in support of FLOE and Betsy the rescued laboratory Beagle♥️ It is indeed a great honour to have this dedicated man's support! For further information follow @onefight.unite @betsyambassador #campaigns#artforconservation #artistsforconservation#beagles #betsybeagleambassador#chimpanzee #rabbits #artspeaks#standingtogether #conservation#alllifematters#art#arte #sayno #saynotovivisection#paintings #join#follow#followers #following #followme#fortheloveofart#artforanimals #changeisneeded#fortheanimals (at London, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cnrs0LGvBko/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[neurolinkinstitute]

Loved sharing culturally centered mindfulness and self care practices at the 2022 Latinx Connect Conference! #latinxconnectconference #mindfulness #artspeaks #radicalselfcare (at University of Pittsburgh) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkWKr_OrEmJ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[jenniferlinderman]

I went to Blake Gardens in Berkeley yesterday and took some photos in hopes of using them as reference photos for more pastel paintings. This is one of them painted in soft pastels on Lux Archival sanded paper. I love how bright and bold the pastels are and how you can layer and layer and layer between darks and lights! 🫶🤩 Today, I am teaching an online Pastel class from 1-3p, PDT of a landscape. Join us! Sign up on my website! ✍️ . . . . #learnpainting #virtualartclass #artteaching #pasteldrawings #paintinglessons #artclassesforadults #pastelartwork #artspeaks #practicepainting #learningtopaint #botanicalartlovers #maketimeforart #onlineartclass #artforfun #drawingideas #arttutorials #artmaking #pastelartist #drawingclass #artisfun #drawingoninstagram #paintingclass #lovetopaint #makingart #originaldrawing #botanicalpainting #lovetodraw #drawingpractice #artworkshop #pastelart https://www.instagram.com/p/Cj-2JQApyTH/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=