Hello, and welcome one and all to the second part of Kos’ Wonderful Internet Museum Art Expo ‘20 of the Curious and the Beautiful. Please feel free to come in, browse and enjoy!!
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Up the stairs — I love to tell visual stories of the “small events” that snowball together to make a really BIG happening.
This painting takes place on a hot August day. Women had just won the right to vote with the passage of the 19th Amendment. That passage of the 19th Amendment, happened after Tennessee became the last of the 36 states needed to pass the constitutional amendment. Newly enfranchised female voters had to register before going to the polls to actually cast their votes. These two women are doing just that at the Clarksville courthouse.
Using the restored Clarksville courthouse as my model, I painted these two ladies in their lovely “Sunday best” hats trudging up the stairs in the hot August sun. I also imagined a few men hanging out at the courthouse doors, looking on some what disdainfully as the two women climbed up the stairs to exercise their right to register to vote.
Going up the stairs or a “ladder” to success was an often used metaphor in political cartoons of the time. I painted the metaphor as it might have been in real life.
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CHOROS
I am the first and last;
I am the honored and the reviled,
I am the whore and the anchorite.
The number of eight is a dancer—
All of you dance!
I am the bride and groom;
My wedding is tremendous,
And I have never taken a spouse.
The number of twelve is a dancer—
All of you dance!
I am the mother and father;
I am the barren woman
Whose children are many.
The One Above is a dancer—
All of you dance!
I hid myself in everyone,
And show myself in every one,
And the Word speaks in my voice:
The grace of God is a dancer—
All of you dance!
—Clio2
Fun facts -- “Choros” was stitched from fragments borrowed out of three early Christian texts. “Three Forms of First Thought” and “Thunder: Perfect Mind,” are among the Nag Hammadi library of texts discovered in 1945; the Acts of John is one of the traditional Apocrypha. In the original Greek there is verbal play on the word for grace, charis , and the verb to dance, chorein. Choros = the dancers, or the dance. --Clio2
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Nature Photography
by OceanDiver
(“Moods of the Maritime Pacific Northwest” series)
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MEL in PGH
Fish Soap Dishes
Cone 6 glazed porcelain
Price: $35 each
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This is Political Art from our friend nonnie9999, beautifully done. It is from her post here, which is entitled “A Dyed-in-the-Wool criminal.”
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