Comments on: Awesome American Artists http://99daz.com Inspire, be inspired and appreciate. Fine arts modern and from history for us to enjoy. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:02:47 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: <img class="monsterid" src="http://99daz.com/dazcox/wp-content/plugins/wp-monsterid/monsterid/5680729ec4ae8ad.png" alt="Donna Zoll MonsterID Icon" height="65" width="65"/> Donna Zoll http://99daz.com/awesome-american-artists/comment-page-3#comment-1847 Donna Zoll MonsterID Icon Donna Zoll Thu, 18 Feb 2010 03:23:23 +0000 http://99daz.com/?page_id=749#comment-1847 Hi there Daz, Thank you for the appreciation of my artistry AND putting me on your “Awesome American Artists” list. I really enjoyed looking at your content. You are so funny. I like your fun spirited perspective. Thanks a lot for working on your site over time. It is wonderful. Cheers! dz:) Hi there Daz,

Thank you for the appreciation of my artistry AND putting me on your “Awesome American Artists” list. I really enjoyed looking at your content. You are so funny. I like your fun spirited perspective. Thanks a lot for working on your site over time. It is wonderful.

Cheers!
dz:)

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Here’s my blog too!

http://kaiathomas.blogspot.com/

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This is pretty cool…need I say I typed my name in google?
Your artwork is wonderful! Thank you for the support♥

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I stumbled on your list and was honored to find myself included. What a great way to share your work with everyone. I love the whimsical tone of this web page!

If you meet any new artists striving to become professionals, please feel free to refer them to my new book, An Artist’s Path: Two Years Toward Professionalism:

Penned by an award-winning artist, this journal reveals one painter’s struggle to balance her home life as she becomes a professional. While filled with marketing trials and technical tips for the emerging acrylic artist, it also includes instruction on framing, photographing artwork, and entering competitive exhibitions.

The link to the book follows.

http://bit.ly/7TKrSu

Thanks.

Carol

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]]> By: <img class="monsterid" src="http://99daz.com/dazcox/wp-content/plugins/wp-monsterid/monsterid/ccb8fbe2371c594.png" alt="critico d'arte siciliani MonsterID Icon" height="65" width="65"/> critico d'arte siciliani http://99daz.com/awesome-american-artists/comment-page-3#comment-1709 critico d'arte siciliani MonsterID Icon critico d'arte siciliani Sun, 10 Jan 2010 23:50:11 +0000 http://99daz.com/?page_id=749#comment-1709 Gaetano Porcasi is a Sicilian artist and school art teacher. His paintings are considered unique not only for their social and political commitment but also for the technique and choice of typical Mediterranean colours from which a strong and deep Sicilitudine (Sicilian mood) emerges. The 2003 itinerant exhibition Portella della Ginestra Massacre is a good example: in 1947 a group of Sicilian farmers was shot and killed in Portella by the outlaw Salvatore Giuliano and his men under orders from the local Mafia mobsters and big landowners in order to stop the farmers’ attempts to occupy and plant uncultivated local land. His historical paintings which denounce the violence and oppression of the Mafia find their counterpart in his paintings which depict sunny Sicilian landscapes rich in lemon, orange and olive trees, in prickly pear, agave and broom plants. They show the wealth of a land that has been kissed by God but downtrodden by man. In painting the sky of his native Sicily Gaetano uses several different hues of blue and it’s from this sky that his pictorial journey starts. In his paintings the history of Sicily, which has always been marked by its farmers’ sweat and blood and by their struggles for freedom and democracy, finds its pictorial expression in the fusion of the red flags of the workers with the Italian flag in a sort of Italian and Mediterranean epopea. The red flags and the Italian flag stand out against the blue sky that changes its hues according to the events, the seasons, the deeds and the moods that are painted on the canvas. The luxuriant nature of Sicily with its beautiful, sunny, Mediterranean landscapes seems to remain the silent, unchangeable and unchanged witness to events and the passing of time. Here people are only accidenti, they aren’t makers of their own life. Thus Gaetano makes a clear-cut metaphysical distinction between a benign, merciful nature and Man who breaks the natural harmony to satisfy his wild, unbridled ambition and selfishness and who becomes the perpetrator of violence and crime. Gaetano is also an active environmentalist and his fight against all forms of pollution has already cost him a lot of aggravation. Gaetano Porcasi is a Sicilian artist and school art teacher. His paintings are considered unique not only for their social and political commitment but also for the technique and choice of typical Mediterranean colours from which a strong and deep Sicilitudine (Sicilian mood) emerges. The 2003 itinerant exhibition Portella della Ginestra Massacre is a good example: in 1947 a group of Sicilian farmers was shot and killed in Portella by the outlaw Salvatore Giuliano and his men under orders from the local Mafia mobsters and big landowners in order to stop the farmers’ attempts to occupy and plant uncultivated local land. His historical paintings which denounce the violence and oppression of the Mafia find their counterpart in his paintings which depict sunny Sicilian landscapes rich in lemon, orange and olive trees, in prickly pear, agave and broom plants. They show the wealth of a land that has been kissed by God but downtrodden by man. In painting the sky of his native Sicily Gaetano uses several different hues of blue and it’s from this sky that his pictorial journey starts. In his paintings the history of Sicily, which has always been marked by its farmers’ sweat and blood and by their struggles for freedom and democracy, finds its pictorial expression in the fusion of the red flags of the workers with the Italian flag in a sort of Italian and Mediterranean epopea. The red flags and the Italian flag stand out against the blue sky that changes its hues according to the events, the seasons, the deeds and the moods that are painted on the canvas. The luxuriant nature of Sicily with its beautiful, sunny, Mediterranean landscapes seems to remain the silent, unchangeable and unchanged witness to events and the passing of time. Here people are only accidenti, they aren’t makers of their own life. Thus Gaetano makes a clear-cut metaphysical distinction between a benign, merciful nature and Man who breaks the natural harmony to satisfy his wild, unbridled ambition and selfishness and who becomes the perpetrator of violence and crime. Gaetano is also an active environmentalist and his fight against all forms of pollution has already cost him a lot of aggravation.

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