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Art history Drawing Sculpture

‘A line can go anywhere’

Wire sculptures The opening chapter of our new project starts with the introduction of two female artists who create using a wire line – transparent hanging sculptures, tri-dimensional drawings, installations.. Organic hanging crocheted wire sculptures of iconic Ruth Asawa meet exaggerated wire faces popping out of canvases of Fiona Morley. Separated by time and cultures, […]

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Art history Landscape Oil paintings Paintings

The Essence

Oil sketches by Tom Thompson Escaping a ‘hamster wheel’ of daily grind, for twenty years now I found a solace and calming peace on Madawaska river – on our 2.5 acres of untouched nature, deep waters shimmering with mirages of seasonal colors, a bliss of cleansing in deep waters of the lake and immersing in […]

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Art history Collage Mixed media

Without a Map

Surrealism and collages of Jasmine Kukic My first serious attraction to art was surrealism. Andre Breton’s manifesto, Marcelle Duchamp, da-da, Chirico, Dali, of course –  a young soul searching for the identity in subconscious, mysterious, illogical, defying ‘prescribed, ordinary, routine’. The attraction never stopped since then – only recently, though, I realized that it was […]

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Art history Murals

Another Brick in the Wall

Murals and Street Art This Pink Floyd’s song is a rebellion of my youth – I was an exemplary student of mathematics by the day and a member of a secretive avant-garde multi-media art group by the night.  We did not do graffiti but did glue artistic posters on walls and lamp posts of cobblestone […]

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Art history Pottery Sculpture

Alter Ego

Masks – Anthropology, Art and Covid Our identity is expressed in different ways, but most often through facial expressions -a mirror of our souls. Smile, wrinkled forehead, eyes shining with excitement or drowning in tears. But, we often cover our face – out of necessity, or belief, or deceit, or playfulness – to assume an […]

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Art history

Women Artists: Collection

They belong to different cultures and lands. They lived in renaissance, revolutions, modernism, or are contemporaries. In some provocative takes, they may even ‘live’ and create in the future. In some instances, these presentations were meant to bring them out of ‘obscurity’ and to stimulate others to read and learn more about them. In other […]