Love of Artists

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His dress was shabby; he was a solitary. In 1930 he settled into a second-floor room on Chicago's north side. It was in this room, more than 40 years later, after his death in 1973, that Darger's extraordinary secret life was discovered.
Amid a thick accumulation of debris- including hundreds of Pepto-Bismol bottles, nearly a thousand balls of string, old newspapers, magazines and comic books, religious kitsch and much more- his landlord, the photographer Nathan Lerner, found a creative life's work: an enormous literary and pictorial production. The key element was a picaresque tale in 12 massive volumes composed of some 19,000 pages of legal-sized paper filled with single-spaced typing entitled The Story of the Vivian Girls, in what is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion. The origins of this epic appear to be in 1909. It took more than eleven years to write it in longhand; in 1912 Darger began the task of typing the still incomplete manuscript...
the most important supplement to the book, however, exists in the several hundred watercolor paintings Darger left in his room, many of them illustrations for The Realms of the Unreal. They transform Darger’s apocalyptic text into a body of images that are among the most original and beautiful in outsider art.

http://www.hammergallery.com/artists/darger/darger.htm

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Still I rise - Dr. Maya Angelou



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RIO GRANDE DE LOIZA POEMA DE JULIA DE BURGOS



Homenaje a Julia de Burgos, los poetas Etaniris Rivera,
Marianela Medrano, Yrene Santos y Tomás Galán
visitaron la tarja junto al río donde está el poema.

Cada poeta lee un fragmento el homenaje a Julia de Burgos.

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Mary Oliver reading Wild Geese and other poems



One of our favorites.

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1/4. David Whyte: Jerry Wennstrom's artistic journey



David Whyte calls on his poem "Tilicho Lake" in describing artist, author Jerry Wennstrom's creative journey. He defines Wennstrom's encounter with the void as as "the ultimate artistic step." In 1979 Jerry Wennstrom took the ultimate artistic step -- he destroyed his large body of art, gave away his possessions and leapt into a creative void that required deeper faith and "trust in the Great Belonging."

David Whyte originally offered this testimony in the documentary film, "In the Hands of Alchemy: The Art and Life of Jerry Wennstrom" (Parabola and Sentient Publications videos.)

Jerry Wennstrom destroyed his life's work (all his paintings) when he saw that his art had become a "false god" to him. He looked instead find God and creativity in all that he did in everyday life. Following this experience Jerry lived with only what life presented to him.

In Part One, David Whyte's inspiring discourse is both gripping and challenging. Whyte talks about facing death in all its manifestations. He refers often to Wennstrom's art and his path, but Whyte's wisdom and message is for anyone who has faced the metaphoric death of an identity that no longer served their lives.

Thanks to Paul Adams and David Hoffman for use of their music "Zorro and the
Fat Man." See http://www.pauladams.org to listen to this piece and others.

For more information about Whyte visit http://www.davidwhyte.com. For more info about Jerry Wennstrom's recent art, films or his book, "The Inspired Heart" visit http://www.handsofalchemy.com

There is also a second channel with more videos about Jerry Wennstrom at
http://www.youtube.com/user/JerryWennstrom, or find them on this channel's playlist.

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2/4. David Whyte: Jerry Wennstrom, Finding Inspired New Life in Emptiness




3/4. David Whyte: Jerry Wennstrom - Companionship with the disappearing light




4/4. David Whyte: Jerry Wennstrom - Through darkness to innocence


As famed poet David Whyte sees it, Jerry Wennstrom's courageous journey through the eye of darkness led him not to a life of bitterness and sadness, but to a place of inner strength where he claims and expresses the heart of innocence in both his life and his art.

Is there a need for this in today's society? Whyte states, "I think one of the things that we are desperate for now in the Post Modern world is a first-hand experience of creation. And we're tired of talking about the world, and we're tired of observing the world through various media and we want to be actually present to it and affected by it in a very innocent way."

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Poet/Activist Joy Harjo

Nearly Unbearable Grace



Native American poet and performance artist Joy Harjo reads a selection of her work, and discusses the variety of influences (including music) on her artistic development.


The Poetry of Rita Dove

If You Can't Be Free Be A Mystery



Rita Dove, former Poet Laureate of the U.S. and recipient of a Pulitzer Prize, is one of the most honored figures in modern American literature.


The Poetry of Wang Ping

Flash of Selfish Consciousness



Chinese-American poet Wang Ping reads selections from her award-winning work and discusses the evolution of her style from ethnocentric influences to multicultural concerns.

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Richard Brautigan, Maxwell Anderson, Eugene O'Neill, Dorothy Parker, Lillian Hellman, Billy Wilder, William Wyler, Delmer Daves, John Dunn, Lisa Padovani, Bill Groom, George Hurrell, Vincent Fantuazzo, Roy Lichtenstein, Jonathan Yeo, George Gershwin, Ray Heindorf, Itzak Perlman, Issac Stern, Nigel Kennedy, Harry Warren, Johnny Mercer

[Asari]

Hayao Miyazaki (Film director, animator, screenwriter, manga artist since 1963, co-founder of Studio Ghibli)



Gregory Colbert (film-maker, photographer since 1983, creator of Ashes and Snow)



Jean-Léon Gérôme (painter and sculptor, 1824 – 1904)



John William Waterhouse (painter known for working in the Pre-Raphaelite style, 1849 - 1917)

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Richard Serra on his Drawing (2011)

on drawing...

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