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Yadira Roman, Paul Simpson, Selas Smith, James Tailor, Aser Jameson,
Katrina Sevilla katrina@arttourinternational.com
ON THE COVER
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“ERA NOW” by Kyra Belán "Stardust" Oil On Canvas By Jerry Venditti
Sacred Waters
A Message from our Editor-in-Chief Dear readers, The time dedicated to this particular issue of our magazine has been, by far, the most challenging in the history of ArtTour International. It has been difficult to focus on this project, while the world has been in turmoil, pain, and uncertainty. Staying cool, even when we could feel the pain from thousands of people affected by a pandemic, took a lot of strength from every member of our team. Especially as most of us either know someone or have relatives affected by the virus. But something happened amid the storm. We discovered the best of us, thousands uniting in their efforts to help one another, creating a silver lining and the hopes of light at the end of the tunnel. We deepened our relationships, and our ArtTour International family came together closer than ever before. Then, nature took over and reminded us of what our planet would be like without pollution. Hundreds of dolphins swimming and playing near the seashores enjoyed the respite of clear water coasts without noise pollution. The sightings went viral, as if our oceans were sending all of us a message. Nature is healing itself. While humans are forced to stay inside and stop their activities, wildlife is reclaiming land and seas around the world. Just like that, we were reminded of the importance of our efforts to fight for an environmentally restored planet, to bring awareness through the arts, and to share the message of many artists who share our vision. Our mission is now renewed. We are honored to present to you "Sacred Waters," a magnificent new issue dedicated to our oceans, rivers, and planet. Through this pandemic, I have learned that, when human beings stand still, the oceans and air clear up and nature seems to come out and dance. No words will inspire you more to live an eco-friendly lifestyle and to become part of this universal environmental peaceful revolution than the works of our feature artists. The articles in this issue will also touch your heart. Soon, you will be joining us in our efforts for a world where water is sacred and appreciated as our source of life, where dolphins can continue visiting clean seashores, where nature can keep dancing, and where our children and grandchildren can join this dance.
Stay strong, steadfast, and inspired,
Viviana Puello CEO/Founder ArtTour International Publications, Inc.
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2020 SPRING ISSUE
Meet our Cover Artist!
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Agnethe Maagaard THE RAINFORESTS OF THE SEA ARE DYING
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GOING GREEN: EASY TO IMPLEMENT TIPS FOR ARTISTS Page 63
Kyra Belán
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Alice Cescatti Alison Barrows-Young Barbara A Tyler Ahlfield Carla Kleekamp Carol Taylor Cher Anderson Cătălin Alexandru Chifan Christine Storey-Lange Ed Morét Elaine Franz Witten Evelyn Adams Fiona Campbell Hélène DeSerres Henrik Saar Howard Harris Jacqueline Domin Janice Alamanou Jason Bryant Jelena Rukavina Jim Fitzpatrick John Nieman
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Lawrence R. Armstrong P-40 Manuela Eibensteiner P-35 Mari Carmen Fernandez P-39 Maribel Matthews P-42 Maya Vinokurov P-44 Nimi Trehan P-55 Patricia Karen Gagic P-46 Pokey Park P-39 Raymond John Westraadt P-37 Ric Conn P-45 Robin Babitt: -“The Bon Art-Petit Recipe” Art Book P-48
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Kyra Belán
“Our Lady of Florida” Colored Pencil on Paper, 30” X 47”
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by Yadira Roman
yra Belán is an award-winning artist, activist, and academic. Her art is grounded on environmental, social, and political issues, reaching a collective of crowds as her work has been used in political campaigns advocating for women's rights. She unapologetically asserts her devotion to women's rights through metaphorical depictions of idols that comment on violence, and female oppression. She depicts women as the compelling, independent protagonists of the story.
"During the four decades of my career as an academic and social issues activist, I have been producing art that brings attention to these issues. At this time, our Mother Earth is experiencing significant climate change problems that have been aggravated to the point of being critical to her survival. I feel that artists have an obligation to fight for Mother Earth, and plan to continue to create art that supports these vital issues. She is the only Mother we have, and she creates us out of her fertile body. We must pull all our forces together to act on her behalf. Many of my artworks, whether paintings, drawings, mixed or installations, are about social issues, and the use of color to create a certain mood or enhance a particular meaning always takes place. My colors are often intense, although the range and the nuances to convey a feeling depend on the subject matter. I try to capture and enhance the beauty of colors that Mother Earth creates. My art has always been about the beauty, majesty, and omnipotence of our planet, Mother Earth, and about the myths, symbols, and legends through the centuries that have celebrated our planet as the divine Mother. My love for her, and her beautiful animals and plants are always represented in my artworks. Whether they are created on an “Kyra Belán” Portrait Photo by Mila Bridger
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“Allegro Andante” Colored Pencil On Paper, 40” x 48”
easel, as an installation, generated on the computer, as land art, or as performance art, these artistic expressions are always about her, the divine feminine, and about women that help preserve her, or help promote the well being of the planet and the beneficial matriarchal environments for all. I have always been aware that current patriarchal civilization is not treating our Mother Earth well, and that this attitude not only deeply damages the environment but is ultimately endangering the whole planet – and the entire human race. There is a need today, more than ever, to pay attention to the leaders of the Climate Change movement, the scientific community, and the indigenous tribes. We must join our forces to save our planet, as time is running out. I feel that the artists must vigorously represent these issues through their arts. I hope that I am doing my part, and am inviting other artists to join this movement." Kyra Belán's rich educational background has played a crucial role in shaping her artistic career. With a deep, and proactive Cont. Next Page
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Agnethe Maagaard
“The Cry of the Oceans” Detail
“Danish glass artist in dialogue with nature”
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hrough 20 years, she has developed her unique working methods with the glass material, processes that are divided into many subprocesses from designing and shaping, through many slum-pings and fusions to hardening and finishing. Her inspiration comes from nature, symbols, words, thoughts, and the diversity of life.
great community. Everything in nature, both the human and nonhuman part, forms a coherent whole. Therefore we as artists have a unique opportunity through our art to convey our message visually and thereby emphasize our collective duty to treat nature with respect, consideration, and humility. We must take responsibility in our everyday lives for future survival."
Storytelling with glass "I tell stories in glass, using the light as my sparring partner. My gratefulness for life inspires me. Gradually, as you grow older, you start to think more about life and what matters. Therefore, I contemplate a lot over my glass art and conveys my thoughts and messages through them. I hope that my artwork gives food for thought. The significance of the genius and what we originate from, as well as the fantastic nature in West Jutland in Denmark, has shaped us into the people we are.
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My passion is for what drives, captures, fills and inspires, rejoices, and creates—that which an artist can't help but notice. The sea and nature are my greatest inspirations. My most significant source of inspiration is the landscape in West Jutland with the sea, the light, and the vast expanses. Here nature is under the skin. We are part of this rugged and fantastic nature that we must take care of. As a resident of a country like Denmark with only a few kilometers to the coast, most of us have a natural and loving relation to the sea - Denmark's last wilderness.” Art as climate intermediary "As an artist, I contribute to the climate debate via my glass art on this our fantastic planet. A reminder that every positive change begins in our hearts. We, together with the rest of nature, form a
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“The Cry of the Oceans” Sculpture Glass
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Alice Cescatti Cescatti spent her formative years growing up in A lice New Zealand. The nobility of the ocean held a strong
presence for her during these years. Her paintings express the fragility of the ocean which she sees as a source of origin, and according to the artist they have become globally compromised with the global inattention and disrespect for its grandeur, beauty, and essential presence as humans have chosen to pollute it with the dumping of toxic radioactive waste, and plastic which in turn is harming and threatening the very existence of its marine ecosystems and marine life.
Cescatti would like to see our Oceans restored to their former natural health and glory so that they can continue to support life for future generations and to support and maintain our planet's natural balance. Alice also touches on subjects such as Migration using the symbolism of empty boats adrift and sinking in the ocean, symbolizing the frailty of refugees escaping abusive political regimes and deserted landscapes under vast, imposing skies hinting at the possible trajectory of humanities future.
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“Ocean Wound I” Acid Etched Silver Leaf Panel, 40” X 50”
“Ocean Wound” Acid Etched Silver Leaf Panel, 40” X 40”
Carla Kleekamp creative activist Carla Kleekamp exhibits a deep D utch understanding of Eastern and Western traditional art in
her delicately detailed symbolic representations of society. She has used many different means and materials to express her concerns for the environment, including aquarelles, etchings, drawings, watercolor, and engravings. Still, her primary focus is etchings on rice paper. Kleeklamp portrays the impact of social separation through spacial elements and motifs. She addresses global economic and environmental
“Save the Sea” Japanese Pencil on Rice Paper Collage, 8” X 8”
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issues to bring forth a reflection about how humankind is suppressing, abusing, and exhausting nature by exploiting it in a non-sustainable manner.
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“The Last Fish” Nijimi- Drawing, 16” X 24”
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Barbara Tyler Ahlfield
a r b a r a Ty l e r A h l fi e l d , a successful fashion illustrator and established visual artist, renders larger than life realistic portraits that have a classical quality to them, with a contemporary twist. S k i l l f u l l y exe c u t e d a n d d e e p l y thoughtful, her extravagant settings bring her audience into a lavish and contemplative world. Luminous colors and luscious brushwork add a lively sense of nostalgia coupled with her acute attention to detail; every aspect of the image is captured from all ends. The textures she
“Yadira-Reign” Oil on Canvas, 60” X 48”
"Shrimp Taffeta” Oil On Canvas, 60”X36"
creates with paint seem to emerge from the surface with radiant clarity. Ahlfield uses natural elements to complement the essence of the mood of her subjects; creating an overall transcendental experience for her audience. Her background as lead fashion illustrator for Lord & Taylor allowed for years of experience in tapping into what is both alluring, and relatable to her audience, partnered with the inspiration she receives in her surroundings. She describes her home in Baltimore, Maryland, as a place that still carries the historical and classical elements that drove an American era of romanticism and elegance that is captured in her work.
www.barbaratylerahlfield.com “Aquatic Highway” Oil on Canvas, 60” X 48”
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Carol Taylor “River Geodes, Showing the Map of the St. John River From Maine, USA to the Bay of Fundy in Saint John Harbour in New Brunswick, Canada”
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eodes are rock-like and usually spherical, their hollow insides contain sparking mineral crystals or concentric layers of minerals. Often beautifully colored, they are frequently found near riverbeds.
My geodes contain drawn, and glazed miniature sections of the St. John River from its beginnings in Maine to its end in the City of Saint John harbor, reminding us of the river’s importance in our lives, and their form speaks of the preciousness of water itself.
Women, it was slated to open at the Saint John Art Center in March 2020 until the end of April. The 'opening' and the the venue itself was closed because of Covid 19, as was the May/ June exhibition at University of New Brunswick. This virus has changed many artists lives.”
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I grew from a toddler to a teenager on a country road outside the small village of Apohaqui, NB. Even then, art was a big part of my life, drawing my fashions for cut out dolls, drawing them for my friends. Later as a teen burying flat-50 cigarette tins in four places within my world to see if I would be able to dig them up when I got old. (About 30 I thought at the time, my mother’s age.) Now I look back from real age and experience, and those flat-fifties are long gone to bull-dozers. But the memory of doing it remains. Now I enjoy whatever medium I think an art project demands from thread to clay, from yesterday’s computer components to words. I attended Saint John Vocational School by the good graces of my high school homeroom teacher, Miss Crowe, who saw that I was an an artist and insisted to the principal of Sussex High that I be trained to become one. All my teachers have been my salvation, including Kay Smith, poet, English teacher. My current exhibition: PORTRAITS In And Out Of Court, (to compliment the book Carol Taylor Capturing Crime) was an exhibit of small courtroom portraits and 3 x 4 ft portraits of Brave
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CHEROKEE RIVERKEEPERS by Sam Dembling
When anthropologist James Mooney published the first of his influential studies of Native American culture in 1888, “Myths of the Cherokee,” he was struck by the centrality of water in the Cherokee world. Mooney had spent a season living with the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in the Great Smoky Mountains in North Carolina. In the following years, he published several foundational books on Cherokee culture, and became, according to JoAllyn Archambault, director of the American Indian Program of the National Museum of Natural History, the “first person to write Indian history with Indian thoughts about their history incorporated into the work.” VIRGINIA Water, Mooney discovered during his season with the Eastern Band, appeared at the very beginning of Cherokee cosmology. In “Myths of the Cherokee,” published in The Journal of American Folklore, he recorded the nation’s origin story, in which the Cherokee conceived of the earth as “a great island floating in a sea of water, and suspended at each of the four cardinal points by a cord hanging down from the sky vault. . . . When the world grows old and worn out, the people will die, and the cords will break and let the earth sink into the ocean, and all will be water again.” We begin in water, and we return to the water. In daily life, the Cherokee acknowledged the spiritual significance of their local rivers, streams, and ponds with a ritual called “going to water.” Each morning at daybreak, Mooney wrote, a healer would lead a party of Cherokee down to a running stream, where the group would face the rising sun and immerse themselves completely in the flowing water, enacting a kind of rebirth. This ceremony of communion touched on nearly all spheres of social life. Going to water, Mooney concluded, was “a part of the ritual for obtaining long life, for winning the affections of a woman, for recovering from a wasting sickness, and for calling down prosperity upon the family at each return of the new moon.” In his forthcoming book, The Riverkeepers: The Cherokees, Their Neighbors, and the Rivers That Made America, historian Gregory Smithers reminds readers of the importance water has had in Cherokee culture. Smithers, professor of history at Virginia Commonwealth University and research fellow of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, spoke on the subject at the Library of Virginia in Richmond on April 30. He pointed out that several prominent historical studies have rightly focused on the importance of issues like land, political sovereignty, and gender relations among the Cherokee people. “The thing that holds all of that history together is water, and just how sacred water is,” he said. Smithers calls Riverkeepers a “biography of the aquatic places” where the Cherokee lived, and the book’s protagonist is the massive Tennessee River. For centuries, before the Cherokee were forcibly displaced, starting in 1838, from their ancestral southeastern homelands by President Andrew Jackson during the Trail of Tears, the Tennessee River was so closely associated with them that English,
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Spanish, and French settlers often referred to the waterway simply as the “Cherokee River.” It stood not just at the political and economic center of much of the Cherokee world, but also at the spiritual center. The translation of the Cherokee word for river, “Long Man,” or, more literally, “person, long, he,” evokes something of the sacred essence of those bodies of water, which the Cherokee saw as living entities, endowed with their unique personalities and attributes. While American settlers saw the Tennessee River as a source of economic opportunity, many Cherokee opposed the largescale transformation of waterways such as damming. According to Smithers, from the Cherokee perspective, “[W]hat you’re doing when you radically alter the flow of the river is you’re killing the river. The rivers that do not flow and constitute large stagnant pools of water like a dam tends to produce are considered dead water. Then [the river] ceases to have that personality and that spiritual and ceremonial significance that it would have had otherwise.” Smithers is keen to add that while Cherokees had a different relationship with their environment from American settlers, they still altered the landscape around them in distinct ways. Across the Tennessee River, the Cherokee often built stone weirs, rock obstructions in the water designed to catch fish. The weirs did not halt the flow of the water but instead depended on the continuous motion of streams and rivers to sweep bass and trout into the fishers’ traps, a cooperation of sorts between the built and the natural environment. Today, in the Smoky Mountains, where James Mooney first spent time with the Eastern Band of Cherokee and where a substantial number fled to avoid displacement under President Jackson, an effort is underway to renew the mountains’ waterways. Some 30 miles of protected streams burble alongside quiet, forested areas and through the town center of Cherokee, North Carolina. Thanks to a fish hatchery, the Eastern Band keeps these waters stocked with trout and bass, and recreational fishers from across the region flock to the reservation to try their luck in the streams. While the hatchery has the capacity to harvest over a million fish each year, for environmental reasons, it releases just 250,000 or so into the streams annually. The Facebook page of Cherokee Fisheries and Wildlife Management, which oversees the hatchery, summarizes: “Biological diversity is intricately tied to Cherokee cultural identity. . . . Our program works to manage fish and game populations for subsistence and recreational purposes, restore and protect both culturally significant and rare species, and promote the connection between conservation and cultural values.” ABOUT THE AUTHOR Sam Dembling is a graduate of Macalester College and was an intern with Humanities magazine. “Originally published as “Cherokee Riverkeepers” in the Summer 2019 issue of Humanities magazine, a publication of the National Endowment for the Humanities.”
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Lawrence R. Armstrong
“Spectrous2.3” Acrylic On Board, 54” X 54”
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by Yadira Roman
awrence R. Armstrong is an award-winning American contemporary artist and Architect who uses his knowledge and creativity in architecture to create masterful works. Armstrong explores the depth of layers by connecting visual essentials through color, form, shapes, and texture. He uses unique details to grab the attention of viewers by highlighting elements that were buried in the background. What are you currently focusing on? “Abstract pieces based on layered paint and exploring the depth of color.” Have you experienced any significant changes in your work this last year? “These layered paintworks represent an evolution of my process, exploring conceptual layering.” Where are you from, and how has that influenced your art? “My extensive travels provide an unexpected and spontaneous vision for new work. I derive inspirations from many different environments and associated ambiance.”
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“Spectrous1.5” Acrylic On Board, 18” X 24”
“Spectrous1.0” Acrylic On Board, 18” X 24”
Lawrence R. Armstrong has exhibited his artwork in solo shows in New York City, Milan, Florence, and Los Angeles. He’s also exhibited his artwork in prestigious art shows, and fairs including the SOFA Art Fair in Chicago, Illinois, the Galleria 360 Emozion Arte show in Florence, Italy, and Art Comes Alive in New York City. His awards include the 2019 ArtTour International Magazine’s Masters Award, the Sandro Botticelli Prize in Florence, Italy, and the Kent State University Advocacy Award.
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“Series of Seven” Acrylic on Board
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Maribel Matthews
“The Spirit Of The Waters” Oil on Canvas, 23” X 33”
"For me, painting is a necessity and has become my passion. I love starting a new piece – the anticipation and excitement of creating something new, something from the soul, a piece of art that may give pleasure to others but more importantly, fulfills me”.
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aribel Matthews is a Gibraltar artist, who exhibits both traditional and abstract works. She remains connected to her roots and has made a name for herself both locally and internationally. Matthews enjoys her time in travel, and promotes the rapturing beauty of her home town through soft textures and dreamy color palettes, capturing the romanticism encompassing abstraction to Impressionist and landscapes to urban views. Employing mixed media with oil and acrylics, she layers each color with seamless transitions, resembling that of the natural environment. Thematically, Matthews champions environmental conservation and highlights the detrimental effects of global warming. Her abstract works depict the impending danger facing the earth, highlighting the forest fires, hurricanes, and droughts; while using her subjects as a metaphorical symbol of the strength and natural will possessed by such wonders. "The Rock of Gibraltar" standing as her point of inspiration and poetic muse. She achieves this by using bold colors that represent characteristics of each element, that brings forth an image that goes beyond the sight of a landscape and puts the spotlight on its impact on humanity.
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“New Autumn” Oils and Acrylics, 30”X40”
“Days & Nights of Suns & Stars” Acrylics on Card, 11” X 16”
"The Rock of Gibraltar stands proud as the Gateway to the Mediterranean. The turquoise waters that surround it have been my inspiration since I was a child. The Spirit of its waters has offered a safe haven to thousands of sailors, who have found a welcome to their vessels and people, which is second to none. It is my home and my muse.
In this painting, I have chosen a different angle of the rock that is not the usual iconic one that everyone recognizes. I wanted to show a more solid angle that portrays its resilience. Despite having been under siege many times, it has withstood them all. In the second painting, I aimed to show how the Spirit of the waters and its relevance to the Rock of Gibraltar have inspired me."
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“Gibraltar Standing Tall” Oil on Canvas, 36” X 48”
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Maya Vinokurov
“Vishuddha Chakra” Mixed Media, 16” X 16”
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aya Vinokurov's love for art began at a very tender age. Now an accomplished artist, Vinokourov, creates works permeated with life and purpose, representing what she describes as a "harmony between nature and life. Tell us about your mandalas of light? “They are beautiful drawings that are created based on mathematics and geometry. The foundation is code Fibonacci! It's
“Peaceful Mind” Mixed Media, 24” X 24”
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modules (positive energy programs) in figures and color combinations. Mandalas may have a different form (circle, square, triangle, and so. on.) but always symmetrical. For people, animals, and all nature, this vibration is positive and favorable. A great experience this year is the reaction of different people for my new pictures 'Mandalas of Light'. They said to me how these pictures create around their positive energy. This inspired me to create a new series, mandalas, for seven chakras.”
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“Svadhisthana Chakra” Mixed Media, 16” X 16”
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Ric Conn
“Anne Bonny Pirate Heroine for our Time” Oil on Canvas, 36” X 24”
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“End of the Road” Oil on Canvas, 36” X 24”
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ic Conn is a leading voice in speaking up about inequality and social issues women often face. Inspired by expressionist methods, both traditional and contemporary, he exhibits bold textures and calculated use of light in carrying the symbolic imagery in each visual narrative. Conn explores the opposition between reality and perception. His fascination and motivation are amped by realties that appear invisible in our everyday lives, cutting into the core of the hearts of his subjects and exposing hidden emotion. Layers of female characteristics are captured in each one of his paintings- focusing on the essence of courage and beauty in women.
“I believe in equality, and I want my work to reflect that. The stories in my paintings are situations that can happen to anyone. I paint them from the female perspective because, unfortunately, women are still mistreated. Since I am a man and the subjects of my paintings are women, I attempt to show equality because the stories can, and sometimes have, happened to me as well.”
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Shifra Levyathan
“The Guarding Earth” Fine Art Photography
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by Yadira Roman
hifra Levyathan is an award-winning fine art photographer, her symbolic urban photography portrays complex layers of life and reality. Levyathan uses computer software to manipulate the images into surreal artistic photographs. Inspired by the events taking place within each individual and their surroundings, she captures profound perspectives through her lens.
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“The Blessing of Water 2” Fine Art Photography
“Fifth Day of Creation” Fine Art Photography
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“The Black Lake” Fine Art Photography
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The Legacy of Dr. Masaru Emoto by Viviana Puello
The groundbreaking work of Japanese scientist Masaru Emoto, one of the most important water researchers of our times, leads to a new consciousness about our relation to Earth's most precious resource. According to Dr. Emoto's hypothesis, water takes on the resonance of the energy that is directed at it, and human consciousness can affect its molecular structure. For over twenty years until he passed away in 2014, Dr. Emoto studied the evidence behind his discovery of the ways in which the molecular structure of water transforms when it is exposed to human words, sounds, thoughts, and intentions. The astonishing photo documentation of his research about water revolutionized the idea that our thoughts and intentions impact our physical world. Dr. Masaru Emoto was a Doctor of Alternative Medicine, who was a graduate of Yokohama Municipal University and the Open International University. His books “Messages from Water 1 and 2” and “The Hidden Messages in Water,”
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were first published in Japan and sold over 400,000 copies worldwide. The Experiment As documented in Dr. Emoto's New York Times Bestseller, "The Hidden Messages in Water," he conducted his experiment by exposing glasses filled with water to different sounds, words, and thoughts before freezing them. Once each glass was frozen, he examined the crystal formations for patterns. With the use of Magnetic Resonance Analysis technology and high-speed photographs, Dr. Emoto demonstrated that water creates aesthetically pleasing physical molecular formations, when it is exposed to loving, kind, and compassionate words and thoughts. On the other hand, when water is exposed to harmful and negative words and intentions, it creates random, “unpleasant” physical molecular compositions. One interesting part of Emoto's studies was the discovery that different water sources produce different crystalline
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and the Hidden Message of Water structures when frozen. For example, when frozen, a water sample from a mountain stream shows structures of beautifully-shaped geometric design. In contrast, if the sample is taken from a polluted water source, these structures are distorted and randomly formed. Emoto thus proposed that contaminated water with a distorted crystal structure could be returned to normal with UV light (now used to filter water) or electromagnetic waves. His research also demonstrated how polluted and toxic water, when exposed to prayer and intention, can be positively changed and restored to the same beautiful geometric crystal formations he found in clean, healthy water. Other Findings In addition to the fact that Emoto discovered that our words and thoughts affect water, he made other important discoveries. For starters, the science experiments he conducted demonstrated how sound affects water. His music studies concluded that certain sounds, such as classical music,
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generated beautiful crystalline patterns. Heavy metal music, meanwhile, caused the creation of distorted crystalline formations. In 2008, Dr. Masaru Emoto published his findings in the Journal of Scientific Exploration. His legacy gives us the notion of water as a living consciousness. It opens up a dialogue about water as a powerful energy source, and there are many scientists now diving deeper into what’s possible with the energy of water. According to Dr. Emoto, water is the "blueprint for our reality," and emotional "energies" and "vibrations" can change the physical structure of water. One question comes to mind and that is, since we are made mostly of water, how can thoughts, sounds, and intentions affect us?
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Congrats to our “Stay Home, Save Lives� Art Contest Winners
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Enjoy This Awe-Inspiring Photo Gallery of all Finalists.
huge THANK YOU to all of the talented artists who participated. The judging was tough since all of the entries were such beautiful works of art from so many gifted artists. Thank you for devoting your creative energies to create art during these challenging times. We invite you to view ALL the entries here, and to please consider entering our next contest. Check the next page to see the theme and enter the contest.
TOP WINNERS FAZIAN Prize granted: A full week of free social media management, social marketing coaching, social media pages re-design, and social marketing strategy plan. LEONID GERVITS Prize granted: One full month of ArtTour International Digital Advertising on all of our platforms, including social media. Facebook Live events and the ArtTour International Website. FIONA CAMPBELL Prize granted: A double-page spread in our Spring 2020 "Sacred Waters" Publication with a full digital marketing campaign. SHELBY WILLIS Prize granted: A double-page spread in our Spring 2020 "Sacred Waters" Publication with a full digital marketing campaign.
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Fazian
Biosphere, Mixed Media on Wood Assemblage, Recycled Objects, Acrylic Painting, Pieces of Broken Porcelain, Iguana Toy, Synthetic Varnish
Leonid Gervits
"Homage to COVID19 Heroes” Oil on Canvas
Leonid Gervits
"Homage to COVID19 Heroes” Oil on Canvas
Fiona Campbell “Glut” (Detail), 2018, Recycled and Found Materials. Photo by Jennifer Moyes
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Skadi Engeln
"La Voiselle 1” Tempera, Charcoal, Pastels On Canvas, 20” X 40”
Nina Tokhtaman Valetova
"Life as Distorted Line” Oil on Canvas
Margot Cormier Splane
"Everyone Is Beautiful in Their Own Way” Acrylic and Serigraph Collage, 18" X 24”
Bente Halvorsen
"Bergen City by Night” Oil on Canvas, 60” X 30”
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hat can artists do to reduce their carbon footprint without interfering with their creativity? Here are eight simple actions artists can take right now to start going green: 1. Recycle, Reuse, Reinvent Some of the most famous artwork has been created using discarded, odd items (Duchamp's Fountain, for example) 2. Purchase Supplies from Eco-friendly Art Stores You'll find bamboo products, recycled paper, and drawing pencils made with reforested wood at these green shops. 3. Preserving Acrylic Paints Avoid throwing out dried acrylic paint unnecessarily by sealing paint in plastic wrap, palette lids, or impermeable containers. 4. Properly Dispose of Paint Never flush unusable paint down the toilet or dump them into sinks. Also, never toss artist paints in dumpsters or outdoor garbage cans where animals and pets can access them. Improper disposal of art supplies that are not eco-friendly can poison the soil, plants and reduce access to clean water.
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5. Reuse Panels and Canvases By Painting Over Unwanted Artwork Recycling old paintings done on canvas by painting over them can inspire you to create something in bolder colors needed to conceal old paint. 6. Recycle Packaging Materials Get creative with bubble wrap, cardboard boxes, Styrofoam, and other paper items used to mail things. Cut up large cardboard boxes and practice painting or drawing creative ideas on pieces of cardboard. You can also reuse packing material to pack your products for mailing. 7. Avoid Using Aerosols and Spray Paint Supplies Aerosols no longer contain chlorofluorocarbons. Instead, this toxic chemical has been replaced by volatile organic compounds that still cause damage to the environment. 8. Energize Your Studio with Solar Power Small artist studios can be easily powered by installing solar panels on the roof. Besides, relying on solar power to illuminate your art studio can save thousands of dollars in energy bills.
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