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The Portal Keeper / El Guardian del Portal by Israel Alcala
Alebrijes (Spanish
pronunciation: [aleˈβɾixes]) are brightly colored Mexican folk art sculptures
of fantastical creatures. The first alebrijes, along with use of the term,
originated with Pedro Linares. After dreaming the creatures
while sick in the 1930s, he began to create what he saw in cardboard and papier
mache. His work caught the attention of a gallery owner in Cuernavaca and
later, the artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo.
Linares was originally from México City (DF), he was born June 29, 1906 in
México City and never moved out of México City, he died January 25, 1992. Then
in the 1980s, British Filmmaker, Judith Bronowski, arranged an itinerant
demonstration workshop in U.S.A. participating Pedro Linares, Manuel Jiménez and a textil artisan
Maria Sabina from Oaxaca. Although the Oaxaca valley area already had a history
of carving animal and other types of figures from wood, it was at this time,
when Bronowski's workshop took place when artisans from Oaxaca knew the
alebrijes paper mache sculptures. [Wiki]
“You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul”
~George Bernard Shaw
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Sunday, November 13, 2011
The Portal Keeper / El Guardian del Portal
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Who Are You?
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The Heroic Cadets Memorial
in Chapultepec
Park,
Mexico City. Monument designed by
architect Enrique Aragón and sculpted by Ernesto Tamaríz at the entrance to
Chapultepec Park in 1952.
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Esculturas del Monumento a los Niños Heroes. Chapultepec
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Thursday, November 10, 2011
The One Percent
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Music: Sleepers Awake! - Johann Sebastian Bach
Greed is a bottomless pit, which exhausts the person in an endless
effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
Erich
Fromm
“The old get older
And the young get stronger May take a week And it may take longer They got the guns But we got the numbers Gonna win, yeah We're takin' over” Come on!
Jim Morrison / The Doors
"Five to One" on the album Waiting for the Sun (1968)
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Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Despair
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“Poverty is the worst
form of violence.”
~Mahatma Gandhi
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Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Thirsty for Light
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- La mayoria de la gente muere antes de nacer
plenamente. La creatividad significa nacer, antes de morir. -
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