#asiatic portrait

[johnnyslittleanimalblog]

Are you my lunch ? by Regina Via Flickr: I hope the Asiatic lion just wanted to show me his perfect pink tongue and didn't want to tell me that he was hungry and I looked delicious ... 

[womeninfictionandirl]

The Asiatic by Travis Wilson

[creativelyryeblogs]

Afro-Surrealism & Afrofuturism: Mood Board

Afro-Surrealism

Behold the invisible! You shall see unknown wonders!

1. We have seen these unknown worlds emerging in the works of Wifredo Lam, whose Afro-Cuban origins inspire works that speak of old gods with new faces, and in the works of Jean-Michel Basquiat, who gives us new gods with old faces. We have heard this world in the ebo-horn of Roscoe Mitchell and the lyrics of DOOM. We've read it through the words of Henry Dumas, Victor Lavalle, and Darius James. This emerging mosaic of radical influence ranges from Frantz Fanon to Jean Genet. Supernatural undertones of Reed and Zora Neale Hurston mix with the hardscrabble stylings of Chester Himes and William S. Burroughs.

2. Afro-Surreal presupposes that beyond this visible world, there is an invisible world striving to manifest, and it is our job to uncover it. Like the African Surrealists, Afro-Surrealists recognize that nature (including human nature) generates more surreal experiences than any other process could hope to produce.

3. Afro-Surrealists restore the cult of the past. We revisit old ways with new eyes. We appropriate 19th century slavery symbols like Kara Walker, and 18th century colonial ones like Yinka Shonibare. We re-introduce "madness" as visitations from the gods, and acknowledge the possibility of magic. We take up the obsessions of the ancients and kindle the dis-ease, clearing the murk of the collective unconsciousness as it manifests in these dreams called culture.

4. Afro-Surrealists use excess as the only legitimate means of subversion, and hybridization as a form of disobedience. The collages of Romare Bearden and Wangechi Mutu, the prose of Reed, and the music of the Art Ensemble of Chicago and Antipop Consortium express this overflow.

Afro-Surrealists distort reality for emotional impact. 50 Cent and his cold monotone and Walter Benjamin and his chilly shock tactics can kiss our ass. Enough! We want to feel something! We want to weep on record.

5. Afro-Surrealists strive for rococo: the beautiful, the sensuous, and the whimsical. We turn to Sun Ra, Toni Morrison, and Ghostface Killa. We look to Kehinde Wiley, whose observation about the black male body applies to all art and culture: "There is no objective image. And there is no way to objectively view the image itself."

6. The Afro-Surrealist life is fluid, filled with aliases and census- defying classifications. It has no address or phone number, no single discipline or calling. Afro-Surrealists are highly-paid short-term commodities (as opposed to poorly-paid long term ones, a.k.a. slaves).

Afro-Surrealists are ambiguous. "Am I black or white? Am I straight, or gay? Controversy!"

Afro-Surrealism rejects the quiet servitude that characterizes existing roles for African Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos, women and queer folk. Only through the mixing, melding, and cross-conversion of these supposed classifications can there be hope for liberation. Afro-Surrealism is intersexed, Afro-Asiatic, Afro-Cuban, mystic, silly, and profound.

7. The Afro-Surrealist wears a mask while reading Leopold Senghor.

8. Ambiguous as Prince, black as Fanon, literary as Reed, dandy as André Leon Tally, the Afro-Surrealist seeks definition in the absurdity of a "post-racial" world.

9. In fashion (John Galliano; Yohji Yamamoto) and the theater (Suzan Lori-Parks), Afro-Surreal excavates the remnants of this post-apocalypse with dandified flair, a smooth tongue and a heartless heart.

10. Afro-Surrealists create sensuous gods to hunt down beautiful collapsed icons.

Black is the New Black, a 21st century Manifesto

by D. Scot Miller

This is Afro-Surrealism:

Ted Joans, Bob Kaufman

Krista Franklin

This is Afrofuturism:

Sun Ra, Earth Wind and Fire

[asian6chat]

Another angle of her lovely smile in her new profile: http://filipinachat.org/performer.php?model_id=183397

[amyylinchen]

Self portrait artwork 😇

what do you think? 🙈

[martinamurdaca-blog]

Portrait with rose and gold - watercolor

[thegreato1ne]

New on 500px : Scar by cvsk by cvsk Looks that could chill ! Face to face with a hunter. And this King knows how to put others in their place with his eyes. from 500px For download Click Here

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Scar by @cvsk

[johnnyslittleanimalblog]

Walking lion cub by Tambako The Jaguar Via Flickr:

[wellyring]

Guess whooo! Our sunshiiiine

[avalonium]

Fae Queen

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Cho Cho-San

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[diverso-blog]

Xue Mo nació en la Mongolia Interior y en la actualidad reside y trabaja en Pekín. Se graduó en 1991 con una licenciatura de Bellas Artes (pintura), y se dedicó a dar  clases en Bellas Artes en Beijing, durante siete años. Luego se dedicó a tiempo completo a su pintura, como artista profesional. Tras haber expuesto en Beijing, Singapur y Hong Kong, su obra cruza la fontera y  expone en  Los Ángeles (MB Fine Art Inc.) y Vancouver (Diane Farris Gallery) con gran éxito.

Retratos cautivadores, mujeres en actitud de ensueño y un embriagador misterio que recuerda a la “Mona Lisa” de Da Vinci. Muchos de los rostros serenos están respaldados por una luz  suave y  renacentista, con paisajes con bajas colinas y un cielo azul infinito. 

Imagen vía Pinterest

[etyileiet]

Asiatic Lion by Milan_Zygmunt

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Asiatic Lion