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GAZA CITY, GAZA - DECEMBER 14: Dismissed Palestinian Prime Minister and Hamas leader, Ismail Haniyeh, speaks to his supporters during a mass rally on December 14, 2008 in Gaza City, Gaza Strip. Hundreds of thousands attended the Hamas rally to mark the 21st anniversary of the founding of the militant group, Hamas. (Photo by Abid Katib/Getty Images)
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.. at the dargah of a muslim saint sayeed zain-ud-din, popular as auranzeb's 'guru' .. wish, he should have taught him to respect art 'n other religions!
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(Photo by Rob Mattson/Amherst College, Office of Public Affairs) Students remaining on campus were treated to a traditional Thanksgiving dinner, courtesy of Amherst College President Biddy Martin, at the Lord Jeffery Inn, near the Amherst College campus, in Amherst, Mass., Tuesday afternoon, November 20, 2012.
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SEDUCED BY ART - Photography past and present
LOCATION: National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London (31 October 2012 – 20 January 2013)
VISIT DATE: 10 November 2012
Adult ticket: £12
A superb arrangement of flowers are pictured exploding; petals flying through the air like shards of multi coloured glass. It is a light jet print, mounted on aluminium called “Blow-Up: Untitled 5” (2007) by Ori Gersht. It is hung to the right of the painting which inspired it, a still life entitled “The Rosy Wealth of June” (1886) by Ignace-Henri-Theodore Fantin-Latour; a painting in which flowers beautifully spill from a vase in oil on canvas.
Though both are hung towards the end of this exhibition, their comparison sums up what the event is about; the telling of a story of how paintings have influenced photography both at its outset and with more recent contemporary photographers.
If you leave the exhibition cinema to the end, it’s story begins with the Romanticism movement oil painting “Death of Sardanapalus” (1827) by Delacroix. Modern contemporary photography which the painting has inspired follows on which includes work by Jeff Wall, Tom Hunter and Sarah Jones.
Wall’s “Destroyed Room” - a huge Cibachrome transparency in a light-box - is, at first look, a well lit studio tableaux of quite literally a destroyed room, but take one glance to your left at the Delacroix and it hits you with a kind of “ah I get it,” factor when your mind registers that they are cleverly the same. Same in layout, colouring and style, but wholly different with the Wall image being very unromantic with no people in it.
I’ve covered the work of Tom Hunter before having been to his exhibition at Warwick Arts Centre in 2011. He is a contemporary photographic artist who recreates the work of historical artists (including Pre-Raphaelite painters, Romanticists and playwrights) in photographs based in the modern settings in and around his adoptive home of Hackney. His 2009 C type print, “Death of Coltelli” is a reconstruction of one of the central figures from the Delacroix painting, leaning over a bed in true Hunter style in an East London bedroom. It is difficult to comprehend that this image was shot using film and not via digital recording techniques when you examine the amazing tonal range in this image, which sweep from the pinky whites of the woman’s skin to the darkness of the edges of nearby furniture.
The exhibition moves on from room to room of the basement section of the National Gallery’s Sainsbury Wing, covering portraiture, the human figure, tableaux, still life, landscapes and three short films. Though I doubt he thought of it at the time, Martin Parr’s “Signs of the Times” (1991) is delightfully compared alongside Gainsborough’s “Mr and Mrs Andrews”. Both are essentially new couples in their new homes and it is pointed out that Parr has delayed taking his photograph until they have become self conscious, thus deliberately creating rigid postures, showing discomfort.
In the portrait section a loose attempt is seemed to be made to link a whole plethora of photographic portraiture to the painting of Anthony van Dyck. Amongst some other splendid works a compare is made between a photograph called “Calliope” (1989) by Maud Sulter and the much more famous portrait of Sarah Bernhardt by the great Paris portrait photographer Nadar (only a small reference picture of the Nadar work is shown). A clear influence can be seen here, but, of course, both works are photographs.
Comparison of the human figure in painting and photography would not be complete without one of Rineke Dijkstra’s beach photographs and the obvious influence of Botticelli’s “Birth of Venus”. The Dijkstra image shown is a C-type print “Kolobrzeg, Poland, July 26 1992”. Even the National Gallery could not, however, get hold of the Botticelli and a small reference picture is shown.
This exhibition positively spoils the viewer with other works by the likes of Oscar Rejlander, Roger Fenton, Gustav Le Gray, Edweard Muybridge, Karen Knorr, Richard Learoyd, Thomas Struth, Richard Billingham, Nan Goldin, Coventry’s John Blakemore (Coventry being my home city) and others.
In the cinema area, I particularly enjoyed “Big Bang 2” which is another work by Gersht. We see what appears to be a painting very similar to the oil painting “Hollyhocks and Other Flowers in a Vase” by Jan van Huysum. The image at first appears two dimensional until it suddenly explodes!
I also enjoyed the film entitled “An Ode to Hill and Adamson” (Masie Broadhead and Jack Cole 2012) where in a three minute movie, a set is built in which a living portrait is created within a frame with a woman posing in the style of a nineteenth century photograph by Hill and Adamson.
Although I (unlike some critics), with open arms, welcome the National Gallery finally accepting photography on to its walls, the story this exhibition tells is, however, from a narrow viewpoint. Firstly I didn’t see a single mention or acceptance of photography being art (though the wonderful accompanying book that I purchased absolutely does), merely referring to (in the tableaux section) it as a ‘mechanical medium’. And, whist the walls show off the works of Pictorialist movement photographers such as Julia Margaret Cameron there seems to be no mention of the actual word “Pictorialism” or any criticism of the late nineteenth century movement that in fact held the development of art photography back, by keeping it associated totally with painting techniques.
Modernism, Surrealism, and work from outside the edges of Europe barely get a mention; probably because they all contain some great examples which have truly developed photography as an independent art medium. There is a little Americana, but only enough to support the story being told. Also missing are examples where photography has indeed influenced painting.
It would have been nice to see something like “Bal Au Moulin de la Galette” (1876) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir - a good example of a painting influenced by photography, where brushstrokes depict movement and elements around the edge of the picture only partly appear in the frame.
The exhibition’s story aside, and forgetting the Luddites who still might fail to recognise photography as an art medium, this is a chance to see some amazing photographic art; my favourite being the image I began with - Gersht’s “Blow-Up: Untitled5”. The flowers were frozen with liquid nitrogen and arranged with hidden explosive charges; the explosion captured using a high speed digital camera. The picture’s semiotic content includes the powerful showing of red, white and blue petals, the colours of the French flag, the native country of the inspiring Latour, plus the explosion itself, Gersht’s outpouring of his feelings on terrorism and war from experiences in his native Israel.
At the end of the day though, in life, everything we see influences everything that we do; whether that be consciously or subconsciously. Art is no different, whatever the medium. Any kind of artistic image(s) whether it be two dimensional, three dimensional, still or moving can influence another. Welcome to the 21st century National Gallery and please don’t listen too much to those dinosaur critics, such as Brian Sewell, who have slammed you for putting on this show.
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Congolese refugee children attend catch-up classes in Rwanda
KIGEME, Rwanda, November 12 (UNHCR) – Hundreds of young Congolese refugees have been catching up on their education before joining the Rwandan school system in January. For some, it's proving to be a cathartic experience and helping them to cope with the trauma of displacement.
The orientation classes began in the southern Rwandan town of Kigeme last month and will last until the end of the year. Organized by the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) and aimed at preparing the children for the Rwandan curriculum in primary and secondary schools, they are proving very popular.
To date, almost 2,800 students have registered for the classes and more are expected to join. "More and more children are coming to join the classes," explained Damascene Muvandimwe, ADRA's education facilitator at the nearby Kigeme refugee camp. "Education is their right," he added, echoing a principle promoted by UNHCR, which supports ADRA's work in Kigeme.
Before June, there were no refugees in this hilly region of Rwanda. But the camp was opened to cope with an influx of thousands of Congolese civilians fleeing fighting that erupted last April across the border in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's North Kivu province. More than 60 per cent of the 14,100 refugees are aged under 18 years.
Getting them back into school as soon as possible was always going to be a priority for UNHCR and its partners, not only to equip them with knowledge but also to keep them in class and away from negative influences.
The catch-up classes are also helping ADRA and teachers to identify children suffering from trauma and to help them to deal with it and make new friends. Sometimes it could be unsettling, said Agathe Ragira, ADRA's psycho-social counsellor.
"One day I asked the students to draw for me. One child did a nice drawing of the sun, the grass and cows, but the cows were headless," she told UNHCR visitors. "When I asked why the cows had no heads, he said that the militias had cut off the heads."
Ragira said she had trained the teachers to identify children who were still suffering from trauma and those who had been physically or sexually abused. She encouraged the children to open up. "If they want, they can then come and see me in private. Many children do that and we organize discussions and counselling for them."
ADRA has hired about 60 teachers to conduct the classes, but the agency plans to engage another 30 to cope with the extra demand – even some adults have asked if they can register.
Lessons are conducted in both English and Kinyarwanda by teachers hired locally or from among the refugee population in the Kiziba, Nyabiheke and Gihembe camps, which house more than 50,000 Congolese who have fled to Rwanda since the 1990s.
Leon has a gift for languages and teaches English and Kinyarwanda. The 22-year-old was a teacher back in North Kivu, but fled in May to escape forced recruitment by any of the rival armed groups that terrorize parts of the province. His family remains on the other side of the border.
One of Leon's language students, Yvonne, fled her village in North Kivu's Masisi territory when it came under attack. She said it took her three days to walk to the border. UNHCR arranged for her transport to the Nkamira transit centre in Rwanda, where she was reunited with a brother.
She said Leon, who is only four years older than Yvonne, had good reason to be worried. "In [the North Kivu town of] Mushake, armed men chained young boys [for forced recruitment]. My brother fled into the fields," said the young woman, whom she last saw during the attack.
Yvonne said she was so happy when she realized that she would be able to continue studying after she had been transferred to Kigeme camp. "I like to go to school. If you go to school, life will be easier for you," she said, while adding poignantly: "I do not know when I will leave Rwanda." But studying gave her hope for the future.
Another student, 16-year-old Patrick Mwiseneza, is in the camp with his mother and father after leaving the town of Kilolirwe in mid-June. "I think that English is difficult, but step by step I will learn it," said the teenager, who was used to French and Kiswahili. He said he wanted to return home, but in the meantime, "I want to be a good student and become a teacher, or someone important in the responsible management of my country."
Meanwhile ADRA's Damascene Muvandimwe was impressed by the enthusiasm shown by so many young people in studying, despite their bleak outlook and the cycle of suffering. "Before these orientation classes started, the road next to this school was always full of children, but now you can see that they are all in class."
By Céline Schmitt in Kigeme, Rwanda
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The daughter of a U.S. Air Force member holds an American flag as she leans against a newspaper stand while attending a Veterans Day Parade in Columbia, S.C., Nov. 12, 2012, just days after the United States presidential election. The newspaper stand contains The State’s most recent publication headlining South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley’s having reached a crossroads’ as a result of the Obama reelection. According to examiner.com Haley stated, “I will work together with President Obama wherever I can for the betterment of our state and country.” During Veterans Day Haley released a statement saying “May god continue to bless our veterans and their families and keep them strong and may he continue to bless the United States of America.” (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Kenny Holston/Released)
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I am going to have nightmares about drawing those hands. Seems simple enough, right? Especially after doing it once?
Ugh. So disgusted with myself. I need a hand-drawing clinic.
Anyway, this advances things ever so slightly. A new MYSTERY character! Bonus!
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We take a deep look into the psyci of the Joker! Just deemed sane by Dr. Wolper, we’ve got first dibs on this crazy clown! What’s it like for a criminal turned citizen?! How is he coping with the closure of the Laugh Factory?! Who is this devious Coco that’s the latest hot news?!!
Tune in tomorrow night, on 11/11 at 11:00 to find out! You won’t want to miss this episode! I’m Jack Horen—with Late Night Gotham! Goodnight everybody!”
The Joker falls from the rooftops to neutralize Gotham Radio Tower (#69), from the Batman.
Obviously…this means I’m back. My sudden departure was due in part to arguments between staff members, and my physical movement away from a computer for two days while I was out of state. Anyways, I’m back—I’m working with the staff to mend our feelings—and I’ll be continuing with the map. I am however now looking into the possibility of working on future maps with Chaos—a collaboration I look greatly forward to.