#luis cruz azaceta

[thefailurecult]

[ideasprincipales80]

Luis Cruz Azaceta - FOLLOW THE LIGHT **

[thunderstruck9]

Luis Cruz Azaceta (Cuban/American, b. 1942), Life Force, 1999. Charcoal, acrylic, gesso, enamel paint and shellac on canvas, 56 x 72 in.

[garadinervi]

Ron Padgett (poem) and Luis Cruz Azaceta (artwork), From a Cabin in the Woods, Gervais Jassaud, Collectif Génération, [France], 2016, from a series of eleven unbound folios, edition of 12 [© Ron Padgett © John Walker] [Granary Books, New York, NY]

[arte-historiaa-moved]

the dance of latin america (1983) / luis cruz azaceta (american b. 1942) 

[egoschwank]

al things considered — when i post my masterpiece #1102

first posted in facebook august 15, 2022

luis cruz azaceta -- "shit, my head is burning but my heart is filled with love" (1981)

"heart of mine be still you can play with fire but you’ll get the bill don’t let her know don’t let her know that you love her don’t be a fool, don’t be blind heart of mine" ... bob dylan

"living in a small apartment in ridgewood, queens during the late 1970s, azaceta was responding to the violence endemic in the city in his grotesque parodies of urban life. these feature dismembered, luridly painted and bleeding bodies, festooned with stabbing knives, shooting guns and littered with cigarette butts. both paintings and drawings, done in graphic, bright colors, are exuberant displays of casual atrocities with the helter-skelter action of a comic book ... despite the frenetic energy in this work, there is a sense of order to the flat, outlined forms that hints at a tendency towards abstraction. this coalesces in a 1981 self-portrait, 'shit, my head is burning but my heart is filled with love', where contained within azaceta’s head is a reductive version of his street scenes, while atop it sits a crown of flames" ... press release from the george adams gallery

"heart of mine go back home you got no reason to wander, no reason to roam don’t let her see don’t let her see that you need her don’t put yourself over the line heart of mine" ... bob dylan

"if your head tells you one thing, and your heart tells you another, before you do anything, you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart" ... marilyn vos savant

"heart of mine go back where you been it’ll only be trouble for you if you let her in don’t let her hear don’t let her hear you want her don’t let her think you think she’s fine heart of mine" ... bob dylan

"'shit my head is burning but my heart is filled with love', 1981, is an iconic depiction of the human condition, in which it is impossible to distinguish whether the figure’s head is consumed in flames or adorned with a crown. as if to emphasize this quasi-religious martyrdom, a knife pierces his cheek and blood drips down his cheek. in the most arresting part of the image, the eye of this post-modern christ figure pops right out of its socket as if he cannot stop himself from looking, yet can’t live with what he sees" ... thomas mcevilley

"heart of mine so malicious and so full of guile give you an inch and you’ll take a mile don’t let yourself fall don’t let yourself stumble if you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime heart of mine" ... bob dylan

"i could scream down 90 mountains to less than dust if only one living human had eyes in the head and heart in the body, but there is no chance, my god, no chance. rat with rat dog with dog hog with hog, play the piano drunk listen to the drunk piano, realize the myth of mercy stand still as even a child's voice snarls and we have not been fooled, it was only that we wanted to believe" ... charles bukowski

"what he said" ... al janik

[waittimegreaterthan60mins]

Luis Cruz Azaceta, Shifting States: Iraq, 2011, acrylic, prisma color pencil, oil stick, and shellac on canvas

[selfportraitsofcolor]

Luis Cruz Azaceta, b. Cuba, 1942 Self Portrait as a Guinea Pig US (1986) Acrylic on canvas [Source]

Wikipedia says:

Since the late 1970s the paintings and drawings of Luis Cruz Azaceta have been taking the moral and ethical pulse of this country. In usually large-format works, executed with highly expressive colors, Cruz Azaceta has dealt with themes of urban violence, the type of personal isolation that comes with living in a large and overcrowded city, the hellish conditions created by mismanaged government, the abuses and oppression of dictatorships and, in a number of highly affecting works done back in the late 1980s, the ravages of AIDS.

[terminusantequem]

Luis Cruz Azaceta (Cuban, b. 1966), Swimming to Havana - Tunnel, 2016. Acrylic, permanent ink on paper, 76.2 × 76.2 cm

[thephilosopheroftheboudoir]

Luis Cruz Azaceta

http://www.luiscruzazaceta.net/

[polkadotmotmot]

Luis Cruz Azaceta - Crack Up, 2003

[thefailurecult]

[ideasprincipales80]

Luis Cruz Azaceta A moment with

[moma-prints]

Lotto: The American Dream from 10: Artist as Catalyst, Luis Cruz Azaceta, 1992, MoMA: Drawings and Prints

Gift of Agnes Gund Size: composition (irreg.): 14 1/2 x 23 1/8" (36.8 x 58.8 cm); sheet: 26 x 25 15/16" (66 x 65.9 cm) Medium: One from a portfolio of ten screenprints

http://www.moma.org/collection/works/60365

[pwlanier]

THE SOLDIER: MEMORIAL DAY, 1986.

Luis Cruz Azaceta (American, born Cuba, 1942)

Oil on canvas, 90 1/2 x 74 in.

Crocker

[moodoofoo]

Luis Cruz Azaceta Lotto: The American Dream from 10: Artist as Catalyst, 1992 screenprint 26 x 25 15/16 inches edition of 100