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| (iPhoneography) Horse Head or The Little Horse (sculpture by Sebastian) In the background Caballito Tower - SAT Office (IRS) [Taxes Office]
Sebastián (born
Enrique Carbajal on November 16, 1947) is an artist based in Mexico, and is considered the
country's foremost living sculptor. His smaller scale work includes jewelry,
sacristies, garden sculptures, and painting. However, he is most known for his
monumental structures constructed in iron or concrete, which decorate cities
throughout the world, from San Antonio, Texas to Osaka, Japan.
Sebastián was born
in the small town of Santa Rosalía
de Camargo, Chihuahua, Mexico
on November 16, 1947. He lived in Chihuahua until he began studying in the
Academia de San Carlos in Mexico City
in 1964.
When studying in
Mexico City, he survived by working at restaurants and buying clothing to sell
it for a profit in Chihuahua.
He studied in the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas (National School of
Plastic Arts) at the Universidad
Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). Persisting with deep
appreciation for Henry Moore
and Pablo Picasso,
he won first place in the 1965 Annual Exposition of the National Plastic Arts
School at UNAM.
In 1968 Sebastián had his
own show featuring his ceramic work in the Museum of Art of Ciudad Juárez. After
completing his formal studies he continued his work with short-lived schools
and movements such as the "Salon Independiente". He put on his second
individual exposition, where he displayed ostensibly simple paper carton works
that he called "desplegables" (folders). These seemingly small works
became the base of ideas for his later monumental works made with tons of iron
and concrete. [Wiki] |
Sunday, August 19, 2012
El Caballito
Friday, August 17, 2012
Moon Hooch I
Wenzl
McGown and Mike Wilbur, saxophones; James Muschler, drums.
Spawned from New
York City’s subways in 2010, the busking trio Moon Hooch seamlessly blends
house, dubstep, drum & bass and jazz into a style aptly coined “Cave
music.” Moon Hooch creates frenzied foot-stomping bashes with nothing more than
two saxophones, drums, and the occasional contrabass clarinet. Their
self-funded, self-released debut album ratifies the wild praise heaped upon
them by a dedicated–and rapidly growing–following. [Discover Jazz
THE CURRENT CHALLENGE
Fri Aug 17, 2012
This week's
challenge:
'Summer Colors'.
'Summer Colors'.
- Take 5 and Enjoy! -
⇑ - Soon... a video of that great session! - 06/28/2012 - ⇓
Thursday, August 16, 2012
Liquid Eyes
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Memory
demands an image. ~ Bertrand
Arthur William Russell
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Wednesday, August 15, 2012
The Triumph of Marius
The Triumph of
Marius
Giovanni Battista
Tiepolo (Italian, Venice 1696–1770 Madrid)
Date: 1729. Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions:
Irregular painted surface, 220 x 128 5/8 in. (558.8 x 326.7 cm)
The
subject of this triumphal procession is identified by a Latin inscription at
the top of the canvas from the Roman historian Lucius Anneus Florus (Epitome of
Roman History, 36:17): "The Roman people behold Jugurtha laden with
chains." The African king Jugurtha is shown descending a hill before his
captor, the Roman general Gaius Marius. A youth beats a tambourine while other
figures carry booty, including a bust of the mother goddess Cybele. The
thirty-year-old Tiepolo included his portrait among the figures at the left.
The procession was held on January 1, 104 B.C.
The picture—a masterpiece of Tiepolo's early maturity—is from a series of ten
canvases painted about 1725–29 to decorate the main room of the Ca' Dolfin,
Venice. [The Metropolitan Museum of Art]
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
The Sax Player
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