All that is from air must turn into art

Homage to Ferdinand Hodler (artist, painter):

Peter Paul Rubens still in SF:

The Venue:

The question bekones: "When is a Rubens no longer a Rubens?"
At the hand of: "Samson taken Prisoner"

Blurring reality, blurring the truth:

Nuda Veritas.
Don't even try to please everyone with your efforts,
evil comes with trying to please everyone.
Settle for pleasing a few, and yourself.
(Quoted freely after Friedrich von Schiller.)

Leading to:

Lossless compression is (as in JPGXS) finally making its inroads,

Our research branch has come up with just such an algorithm:
We compress an entire painting into a single pixel. The decompression
algorithm is proportionately still underfunded and needs to be
further resolved. Donations toward this goal are gladly accepted.

Meanwhile a compressed copy of your favorite artist's painting
may be purchased for $75.-/ 8x10, Including shipping.
The price will go up in October, so, order soon!
(Actual frame design may vary with availability,
depending on further developments with Chinese trade policies.)

(Contact info. at bottom of the page.)

Inspired by Balinese shadow theater:

shedding light on shady activities.
(Ever feel like the rat?)

When Henri Matisse kept looking at nude pictures on his death bed
when he was told by his lover to "cut that out." So he did:

                            Distortion appears to be fashionable in 2019.

                      square meal

continued below

Other inspirational experiments:
Going nuts with a "coco de mer" coconut, ( ca. 18"x22")

Pulling strings for ..........

Ultima Thule is located more than one billion miles beyond Pluto
and more than 4 billion miles from Earth.
"Landsmann"; right! Nuts!

Perhaps go back to the good old days:

Note: Who is holding the lance in the center panel? A bid for the presidency?

DelARTe from previous years - recent DelARTe.com samplers:

Covering approx.: 2019A 2018 2017 2016 2014 and more

Make sure to probe for active links inside all these images.

the Red Shoe Story continues,
just click.

"Balloon mein Frau, balloon?"

And now: From the devils playground:

Click on the devil to gage further implications.
If you wondered where this "slashing of the jeans
fashion" comes from? Well, it's a substitute symbol for
the self-loathing that can lead to slashing the actual self.

A seagull left its own opinion

and a sudden wind gust at the flea market.

Recent Proposals :

for

Chage of course:

Puddy on the far side.

My early computer work ~1984

found art

Using old solutions for some of the same old deceipt:

Re-elections will be duly promoted

with fear and deceipt and more broken promises. Such as:

Rescue the coal industry with larger trucks

Rescuing the coal industry:
With better, more efficient equipment!

"Putin Morgen, wie geht's ?" (Popular White House salute).

Too bad it's not a missing red square

As Stalin would say to our "Moskau Mule":
Mr. Trump, an "Iron Curtain" ?
Why,........ that's a Russian idea.

Браво

Rogues

Little has changed over the last 150 years.

Is "facial recognition" one of your concerns?

Could you ?

Wood you ?

Have you?

Did you?

Sit on this face?

Got to watch what you sit on these days!

Let's reclaim our nation for all of us!

When will the Senate own up to their mandate?
Mr. McConnell!

No more government against the people!

We know what you have done, we won't forget! Reckoning will happen soon.

And now, for something completely different:

Musings from the art history department at DelARTe.com:

Answering the Question: "Why is the cross on the crown at a tilt?

Talking about the holy crown of St. Istvan:

After reading several thousands of words written by the supposed experts,

I found that all participants basically conclude and agree upon

that they don’t know why the cross on top of the Hungarian crown is tilted.

Given the state of the art I too would like to add my theory to the fray:

The cross is seated on the top of the crown by design

(which appears to be verified by various scientific examinations).

I therefore submit that the notion of putting the cross at an angle

hearkens back to an eastern European and Mideastern

concept, where the display of perfection is considered blasphemous

and therefore a deliberate flaw must be inserted to a display, humble

deference to a higher authority for whom perfection is reserved.

The wearer of the crown with the tilted cross humbly

defers perfection to a yet higher authority, namely to God.

pointing to the skies

Your link to a Heinrich von Kleist story in English.

Or go to the menu options by clicking this line and scroll down to the Heinrich von Kleist entry.

Vienna at night: from the studio:

Furthermore: After the turn from the 19th century:

"Balloon mein Herr, Balloon?" (ref.: Third Man movie)

Der Tod des muas a Weana sein ......

Waiting for customers at the Simplizissimus Bar in Vienna
(see below).

from a hundred years ago amazing things at the flea market experimental (?) linoleum relief cut

(possibly a layout or a proposal.)

Mirrored for your viewing ease the magazine

Amazing what can sometimes be found at a flea market.

Cabaret "Simple" can still be seen in Vienna, Austria.

Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (FXM):

Click the picture above for an article in the Paris Review about

Friedrich Nikolai's travel account on meeting with FXM

translated and written by Herb Ranharter.

Otherwise see my legacy pages about Franz Xaver Messerschmidt

Other, recent discoveries from Vienna, Austria:

VER = Spring, SACRUM is just that, the Tail-bone.
Perhaps a little joke the Jugendstil movement afforded themselves?

Schnaxelmoos pattern

The trouble with Art vs. Art History:

(Art history vs Art, vs the Museum.)

You and many others have often wondered why there is so much “crap”

on the walls of museums you have visited, leaving you wanting for better quality

to meet your expectations. Well, this might be an explanation of how this perception,

that is vexing so many of us, came to be: Much of what hangs on museum walls

is not necessarily good art, but is, more often than not, simply part of Art History.

E.g.: the evolution of artistic expression. As such it reveals the development of an

artist’s progress and very often reveals what the museum can afford to purchase

of an artist’s legacy. It would be silly to assume that every artist has fully worked

at the peak of their artistic achievements throughout their carrier.

Only the mediocre work at their full peak of performance at all times!

Much of what constitutes an artist’s oeuvre is the struggle for surmounting

his or her conceptual difficulties and developing the skills required to make a

satisfactory whole of what plagues his or her mind and to bring the final

results to the appreciation of an audience.

What is typically done is part of an evolutionary process in the struggle for archiving a desired result.

Our newest Service has not been well received,
perhaps because of lack of understanding. Each letter in
the DNA sequence receives a color instead of a letter re-
sulting in an abstract color painting unique to your DNA.

it's in my DNA and vice versa.

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Have you pixured® your DNA yet?

Pixuring® is a process, much like creating a Fractal,
where your
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With cooperation of Banco di Spiriti Santo:

Indulgencies! 21st century style:

Indulgencies are back!

Remember you saw it here first;

Trump administration Discounts are available
for all the guilty accomplices!

Straight from our headquarters in Spain

Altogether scewed Views: (Scewism)
[Scewing around]

Scew your view:

Face it, we have been scewed!

Dying roses in search for a scewy vision:

                                             Organics under scewed vision by two different parties:


                            one way

Gustav Klimt would have liked these first impressions

Further Experimental inspirationals:

Games and other
Chromatose delights: :

the left

Plus - Scew you: Macro or or micro?
Microscopic or macro edit?
Or broken glass?

Where is the truth?

another one

                you ask?! - Only a view through a polarizing filter away.
        The whole nation appears to be polarized lately even though they
          don't know what it means. I, personally, find myself bi-polarized.

"What good is art if you can't abuse it?"
Another approach to scew you comes from a government associate who
lends her otherwise idle hands towards the death of art:
(She doesn't even understand the difference between art and craft.)

Attempts at art in the hands of (bordering on the criminal) incompetence.
Imagine Mrs. Pence leading young minds into a regressive abyss;
an effort to court the votes of feeble minded. Scewed up!

Tucks reader

You have heard of reading tea bags,
you have heard of reading coffee grinds,
reading sanitary Tucks brings the true
state of the union to light. Yes you have been scewed!

"What good is power if you can't abuse it?"

As the scandals spread into the far
regions of what wasn't much talked about:
Truth, is still the final frontier.
Everybody knows, but no one
wants to aknowlege anything
while fleacing their believers.

what the church tried to stonewall backfired

Like what the pope tried to stonewall;
an effort that clearly backfired.

Finally: Still looking for Susanna Wohlsein, actress.

missing

please contact delarte.com if you have information about her whereabouts.
A reward in the form of art work will be given.

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