#cacti and semaphore

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Cacti and Semaphore (Kakteen und Semaphore) by Georg Scholz (1923)

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Georg Scholz - Cacti and Semaphore, 1923

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Martin Wong, Top Cat, 1990

“In his art, Martin Wong portrayed loud people hanging in dank stairwells, graffiti artists who worked in the dark, and men who lost, especially those who had lost big, with years of their lives in the state prison system. At a 1984 exhibition at New York’s Semaphore Gallery, he displayed an artist statement scrawled on cardboard. In it, he wrote: “Taking down to street level this time, I wanted to focus in close on some of the endless layers of conflict that has us all bound together… Always locked in, always locked out, winners and losers all…”

During the ’80s, in an era when Neo-Expressionism was the dominant mode, the largely self-taught artist stood out in subject and style. He sported a long mustache and cowboy duds. He was an openly gay Asian-American man during a period when the city’s Asian diaspora was treated as invisible. (Only 10 years prior, Chinese activists had realized the state census hadn’t bothered to even count hundreds of immigrants living in downtown tenements.) He also made it so that pinning him down on the basis of any one identity was impossible. Wong wasn’t deaf, but he used ASL. He hung out with Puerto Ricans, though he didn’t speak Spanish. He often felt anxious, but he used parody to sublimate his insecurities. In some outsider circles, he was an insider.

As Wong himself began dying of AIDS during the mid-’90s, he returned to San Francisco. He made three paintings in 1998, the year before his death. In these black-and-white works, cacti from his mother’s garden are reduced until they appear alien, and not a single human is present. The mood is somber and spiritual. It’s the kind of work only a mystic peering inward could produce after a lifetime looking out.” 

- https://www.artnews.com/feature/who-is-martin-wong-why-is-he-important-1234594299/

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George Scholz (German, 1890-1945) - Cacti and Semaphore (Kakteen und Semaphore) - 1923 - Oil on hardboard - 27 3/16 x 20 9/16 in. (69 x 52,3cm)

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Cacti and Semaphore Georg Scholz oil on hardboard, 1923

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Cacti and Semaphore (Kakteen und Semaphore) by Georg Scholz

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Cacti and Semaphore (Kakteen und Semaphore) by George Scholz (1890-1945)

1923 

Oil on hardboard

via Stephen Ellcock, who is building a truly delightful and awesome repository of art on Facebook. Call it a virtual gallery, if you will. Check it out!

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Georg Scholz, <I>Kakteen und Semaphore (Cacti and Semaphore)</I>, oil on board, 1933

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Georg Scholz - Cacti and semaphore (1923)

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George Scholz (1890-1945) , Cacti and Semaphore (Kakteen und Semaphore) , 1923 Oil on hardboard

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Cacti and Semaphore, 1923 – George Scholz

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Georg Schulz, “Cacti and Semaphore”