Amy Crehore's Venus Show Painting

Painting: "Wild Cat Fever" copyright 2007 by Amy Crehore, oil on linen panel (with carved black frame 11" square)

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Here is the new painting I did for the "Venus Show" at Roq La Rue Gallery opening June 8, 2007. This one is a little bit different. It has more of a jungle motif. The cat is an oncilla which I blogged about earlier. Other artists in the show besides me are: Lori Earley, Audrey Kawasaki, Travis Louie, Marion Peck, Glenn Barr, Kukula, Stella Im Hultberg, Isabel Samaras, David Bowers, Lynne Naylor, Chris Reccardi, Sas Christian, Gail Potocki, Joshua Petker, Fuco Ueda, Boomer, Krysztof Nemeth, Derek Nobbs, Jessica McCourt, Nicole Steen, Sarah Joncas, Rik Garrett, Sarah Bereza , John Brophy, Esao Andrews, Panni Malek, and Robert Pitt. This will be a fabulous show!

That Ain't Art Blog has some of the other paintings on display.

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Go here for the link to MONOVITA Magazine with a new profile of Amy Crehore (me).

Free Readings

Just for fun, you can get free Tarot, Runes, Numerology and I Ching readings on this site. They have about 20 decks for the Tarot such as a "Cat People" deck or a "Voodoo Tarot of New Orleans" deck. I like the I Ching better than the Tarot, but the Tarot decks are cool.

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Early Tarot Deck

Tarot Cards are always fascinating- the older, the better:

"Tarot cards by Nicolas Bodet (1743-1751). An early example of the 'Rouen/Brussels' Latin-suited tarot, probably the earliest we know actually made in Brussels."

Bodet Tarot Cards

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My Drawings

First attempt for the "Banana Eater" copyright 2005 Amy Crehore
Drawing for the "Flower Muncher" copyright 2006 Amy Crehore
Drawing for "The Nibbler" copyright 2006 Amy Crehore
Drawing for "The Creature" copyright 2006 Amy Crehore

Drawing for "The Teaser" copyright 2006 Amy Crehore

I need to upload some of these drawings to my website drawing section. Right now, I only have my "Little Pierrot" drawings on display. But, the "Monkey Love" drawings (shown above) are pretty interesting and so are the "Blues Gal" drawings. There are other newsy things happening as well that I need to add to my homepage. I'm staying busy with a few little projects that I will tell you about later.

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Remedios Varo 1908-1963

Remedios Varo

Remedios Varo was a very unique and imaginative surrealist painter who was born in Spain. She hung out with other artists in Paris for a time, but fled to Mexico in 1941 where she remained for the rest of her life. She died at the young age of 55 during the peak of her success. Her best friend was Leonora Carrington, another well-known woman surrealist who used to be Max Ernst's girlfriend. These are the things that I find fascinating about Varo: her use of architecture, her inventions of strange vehicles, her big-eyed spooky characters that seem to emerge out of the ether and aren't quite real, crazy hairdos and weird costumes, her creative story-telling qualities, and the many different textures she created for backgrounds in her paintings. She had an imagination that didn't quit!

Varo was an intellectual and "was influenced by a wide range of mystic and hermetic traditions, both Western and non-Western. She turned with equal interest to the ideas of C. G. Jung as to the theories of G. I. Gurdjieff, P. D. Ouspensky, Helena Blavatsky, Meister Eckhart, and the Sufis, and was as fascinated with the legend of the Holy Grail as with sacred geometry, alchemy and the I-Ching. She saw in each of these an avenue to self-knowledge and the transformation of consciousness."-read more:

Remedios Varo

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100,000 people

As of today, this blog has had over 100,000 unique visitors since July 2006 (that's when I started counting).

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Carlo Carra and Metaphysical Art

La Figlie di Loth 1919 by Carra

Madre e Figlio 1934 by Carra
Daughters of Lot 1940 by Carra
Italians Carlo Carra and Giorgio De Chirico were friends. They created an art movement called Pittura Metafisica or Metaphysical Art (1917) which influenced surrealism and dada. Mysterious, poetic and dreamlike, their paintings looked to the past for inspiration - to the work of Italian artists like Giotto in particular. They made poetry out of familiar objects by isolating them or placing them together in claustrophobic rooms or outdoors in shadowy Italian squares. Both painters were concerned with giving the objects an inner life of their own through odd juxtapositions and simple, almost stark rendering that pointed to a "higher, more hidden state of being" (Carra). This selection of Carra paintings are later works, but they still show his metaphysical tendencies. I have always been very inspired by the works of Carlo Carra (I don't really relate to his early futurist works, however) and by the metaphysical works of Giorgio De Chirico.
Metaphysical Art
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