faces

[panta rhei]

three examples of some quick acrylics drafts i did last month.... they're all small, about 18 x 18 cm ( about 7 x7 inches?), which makes it much easier to not think much about them and just paint away.








all acrylics on canvas, august 2006

posted on http://www.flickr.com/photos/panta/

[Zlatko Waterman]

Dear Panta:

I particularly like the downward gaze of the second one.

It looks a little like Isaiah Berlin . . .

Nice, free brushwork.

Alles gut!


Zlatko

[jimboloco]

i had a male patient last week
having pain
he wanted to take his t shirt off
so i helped him take it off
over the iv lines
then his wife wanted him to put on another clean t shirt
but he didn't want to
and got miffed at her
because shhe kept at it
all in spanish
finally i said
"you look like picasso!"
an he smiled
and said
"picasso es un pintor"
shaking his head, no
memories of faces
on with th show!

[panta rhei]

yes, zlatko, that one is my favourite one of that series as well.
thank you!

and now i'm trying to picture isaiah berlin without his glasses...


jim - even when there are no memories of faces, there are always memories in them.

[jimboloco]

looking up
looking down
remembering the breath
beyond this room
personally
i always liked irving better

[Artguy]

I have to agree with Zlatko...a certain mood is captured.
Good work PR.....

[Dave The Dov]

Who is Isaiah Berlin???? Like the third one very expressionistic!!!! The eyes of the third one reminds me of "The Scream" by Munch!!!!
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causes of recession

[Doreen Peri]

Let's face it. I love them!

[~K]

Fantastic. 2 is also causing me to marvel!

[Zlatko Waterman]

Dave the Dov:

Try this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaiah_Berlin


( paste)

"All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate."

— Isaiah Berlin, Two Concepts of Liberty

"The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past."

— Isaiah Berlin, Two Concepts of Liberty




--Z

[panta rhei]

kurt, doreen, k... thanks to all of you!

[mtmynd]

I, like DtD, favor #3... there is something 'Munch-ess' about it that causes me to stare.

me gusta, panta! thanks for sharing...

[panta rhei]

the "munch-ness" of the third one, you, cecil, and dave mention... very interesting.

someone else has told me it looked like ariel sharon! hm.

and then there's isaiah berlin, and another one that looks like dickens' fagin, i've been told (not posted) -- interesting collection of characters. i wonder where they all came from!

i shall paint some more and see who else is gonna come to my party.....

[panta rhei]

fagin
also acrylics on canvas, 18 x 18 cm, august 2006

artistically not relevant, a brush draft, merely; but interesting that he showed up...

[jimboloco]

i'm talking in low german
you know what i mean
evergreen
winter
coming on
summer's over
but you got fall
autumn
el otoño
mercy
what neruda loved
las hojas que caen a la tierra

ok
at first
i thought they was kinda crude
right
coarse is a better word
oh yeah
then i started seeing a sculptural quality
and it was over mercy
i like the third one best also
love that yellow and braun
yes the first two very mask like
the third looks like picasso
you can't fool me
someone you know?
the last mercy
rasputin's gnome
at home
in the deep forest winter
peter and the wolf
old fairy tales
black forest van gogh
potater eater
absinthe drinker
hoy
prozit!

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