A response to some of the issues facing artists today...An ethical take...& a slap on the hand...

 

There are a few salient points for ARTISTS I would like to mention:

 

1) If you are at all worried about working with an agent or gallery,

do NOT sign any contract with them right away. Instead agree to a

trial period, where you can both prove your worth, trust, loyalty,

business practices etc.

 

 

2)If & when you discover something as horrific as a forgery of your

signature, terminate the contract immediately.Then take action on that

fact immediately...

 

3)If you are selling a painting for say $1,500.00, sell it to your

agent, then discover it has been re-sold for $15,000.00, you are being

cheated. if the work is only worth $1,500 then you should alert the

collector they have been duped. If the work really is worth that much,

then all of your subsequent prices must be increased

accordingly...Allowing this to happen without intervening is

tantamount to agreeing with this corrupt practice.

 

4)Original works of art are undisputably the work of the artist. Any

photomechanical printing is actually the work of a machine & a

printer. Signing 21 thousand photo-mechanical prints with your name in

pencil is in fact a soft form of fraud that the art market has

perpetuated...It floods the market with posters that are not actually

painted by the hand of the artist...Whether or not the signature was

forged or not, the act of allowing photo-mechanical prints of ones art

is questionable in & of itself...The presence of all limited edition

prints on the art market has destroyed the integrity of the

product...The signature is merely an insult to that injury. I suggest

all present day artists attempt to restrain themselves from allowing

photo-mechanical prints of their originals. That will dry up the

supply, & return the art world to the appreciation of the original

works.

 

5)Painting 10 paintings a month is a ludicrous schedule, only possible

through the advent of plastic fast-drying paints. The wastage of

materials to over-produce works that could not possibly have the same

soul as work done in a more lengthy manner is truly an anomoly in a

world that professes a neo-eco-paradigm...

 

Did the "Gallery" ruin this man's life? I am not sure...I think

that this man was possibly complicit in his own problem. There were

choices that he made along the way, choices that caused him to arrive

at this final destination.

As an artist, I think he should blame himself first. He got into bed

with the devil...He signed his soul away in a contract...

The devil will always be around to tempt...But as artists we must be

cautious...Re-watch that movie "Damn Yankees" for learning about

contracts...

So...Today the "Gallery" is selling Dali prints worth 100 dollars for ten

times that much? Why doth people protest so much? I do not see this

protest when the artist was made aware that his original sold for ten

times as much? Why? Perhaps, because he, as many artists know, that if

one work sells for that much, all works can be sold at that inflated

price & that the artist will become famous & perhaps later, rich...

...& "Artist who protests" is now famous...The very thing he says he despises has

given him much fame...

Fortune? Perhaps not. But that is only because for some reason he is

not able to sell his originals for the 15 thousand dollars.

He did not protest when signing 21 thousand photo-mechanical prints.

Why? because that was potential income for him. I see him protesting

after he cancelled his contract. Far far too late for this artist...

I agree, forging is wrong, signatures or otherwise. Hand embellished

work on photo-mechanical giclees is also crap- but why did he continue

to allow that to happen?

The excuse given is his family...Financial needs. Well, prostitutes

say that every day of the week. Drug dealers. Thieves. If your excuse

for doing bad things is financial need, you need to examine that issue

with yourself.

Because in the long run that is wrong. Not true. Financial joy comes

from honest work & ethical decisions.

There is nothing that will ruin you faster than being corrupt for

money's sake. It will kill you, cause divorces, destroy your family

ties.

The only thing we can now do is look back, learn & move forward with

integrity.

There are examples here of what Not to do. But not just the gallery

who is obviously corrupt. The artist & the art community must also

correct itself.

I am sure "Artist who Protests" will agree with me...

He writes himself of his misgivings all the way along, but the story

should have ended there...Why did he continue?

Mistake!

et tu brutus...

 

Also.

Why on earth would any artist sign anything that allowed people to

sign on the artist's behalf- whether dead or infirm?

Again, this is another form of fraud. If the artist dies or cannot

sign his own work, then so be it. That clause in the contract is

completely implausible. No self-respecting artist would allow anyone

to sign on their behalf, ever, conditions or no conditions, it is just

not right.

You can't sign someone else's name, anywhere, it is forgery, whether

it is in a contract or not.

Again, just because someone writes something into a contract does not

make it legal...This is the artist's fault. Never never never let

anyone sign your name...Why would you? For your family? Give me a

break. Your family doesn't want to perpetuate a fraud. That is just an

excuse. Again, the artist is complicit in a crime. Bad artist!

 

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Screencast Example of Sketch versus on the spot life drawing...   First lesson example shows a butterfly (Swallowtail black & gold & navy originally) sketched from life, then that sketch used a month later, transferred by hand to a prepped canvas...
  As compared to a flower drawing drawn directly onto that same prepped canvas the day the painting was worked...
  The butterfly became more of a turtle, while the drawing done directly that day before painting was vivid & exotic...
Conclusion: try & sketch from life directly onto canvas immediately & paint soon afterwards...Old sketches , though from life, change in your mind over time, & the resulting subject may not be what you were trying for...(though I like turtles very much)...

Gesso, Walnut Oil, Knife painting...
   So...three lessons here...White gesso can make yellows look brash...try a transparent gesso ...Your yellows will also look more transparent...This painting actually has a white gesso underneath called Art Spectrum from Australia...I prefer my yellows on a clear gesso like Liquitex clear gesso...But until I did this painting, I did not realise why...The yellow here should mellow out over time...I am letting it fade out a bit before varnishing...But I will probably be returning to clear gesso because of the yellow thing...
  Walnut OIl paint shown here is made by Kama Pigments in Montreal...I have switched to using Kama walnut oils completely...They smell great & are great...Local to Canada too, which gives me bonus points in the buy local game...(sure beats the buying from Germany thing I was doing for the past 5 years)...Note: You have to ASK Kama for the walnut oil paint- not available automatically yet...
  Painting with a knife means NO clean-up, no turpentines, No animal hair brushes...Plus it looks cool...cheaper too...



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Well, ok, I'm wrong...Not very wrong...More like I was looking at something from far away & now I am filling in details...

[url=http://www.serenity-resorts.com/en/]http://www.serenity-resorts.com/en/

So the above link shows a huge resort "Opening in 2010" , where? Haiti, on a peninsula just north & west of Port au Prince...

See, I was looking for a major piece of construction just before the earthquake to identify a trigger...

Serenity resorts looks like a good guess...Huge development, right timing, probable trigger...

Take a look at the link site- by the way the developers are from Kuwait...Gotta figure they have experience starting earthquakes...

Looks like these religious guys go around building ridiculously big developments near to countries they want to destroy by earthquake or other disturbance...

Guess they found Haiti to be not to their liking...Hence the decision to build the Serenity resorts which may have triggered this January 13, 2010 earthquake in Haiti...(wonder if the Kuwaiti Taliban are celebrating? Champagne anyone? Hmmm...They don't drink? Guess they'll be passing around the hookas then- they don't seem to stand on ceremony when it comes to drugs...)

December 26 – One of the worst natural disasters in recorded history hits Southeast Asia, when the strongest earthquake in 40 years hits the entire Indian Ocean region. The massive 9.3 magnitude earthquake, epicentered just off the west coast of the Indonesian island ofSumatra, generates enormous tsunami waves that crash into the coastal areas of a number of nations including Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Malaysia, Myanmar, Bangladesh, and Indonesia. The official death toll in the affected countries stands at 186,983 while more than 40,000 people are still missing.

December 31 – Taipei 101, at the time tallest skyscraper in the world, standing at a height of 1,670 feet (509 metres ), officially opens.

P.s. January 9, 2010 An earthquake around a 6.5 , hit 33 miles off the coast of Eureka California... It is possible that this first earthquake, was also triggered by the Burj Dubai, & helped to cause a chain reaction along the ring of fire that triggered eventually the Haiti devastation...

  The plot of a recent Michael Crichton book, was that a bunch of environmental fanatics were going around the world creating natural disasters on purpose, like earthquakes, in order to polarize the public against global warming...

  Considering the builders of Taipei 101 & the Burj Dubai would have known their buildings would cause earthquakes, one can only conclude that this is another form of terrorism...The causing of earthquakes on purpose in order to terrify people into some sort of environmental action...

  Again, I must reiterate, the builders of these two extremely tall buildings HAD to KNOW that earthquakes would ensue...Had to know...Why? Because by the time they built Taipei 101, the seismic data was known...The correlation between deep digging was known...Even the countries that would be affected were known...It was all known...

 Thus, both the tsunami in 2004 & the Haiti earthquake in 2010, were created on purpose by the people of Dubai & the people of Taiwan...(as well as their neighbours who gave them monies...)

  The book by Michael Crichton is called "State of Fear"...It is now a reality...Must read...

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  I have noticed that both men & women who take steroids, including birth control, display gender dysphoric symptoms- men act like ladies, ladies taking on male habits...
  I have also noticed this tendency passed on to the children of those who took steroids before they had children...
  The changes seem to be biological, not intellectual, not a choice really, more of a chemical change.
  The three things, in combination that I know remove steroid-like substances from the body are 1)gingko biloba 2)periwinkle(vinpocetine) 3)butcher's broom...I found one product on the market that contains all three, it is called HearAll made by NaturalCare in Oregon- yes, it is a hearing product, with additional B vitamins, but it does work as a detox from steroids solution- I have tried it & have used it myself.

p.s. You may not realise you have gender dysphoria: Notice this for example: If you are female, are you sporting only male style hairstyles, male style clothing, male style sports? Do you socialize only with other women , shunning men? Has your body type become masculine looking? Do you have extra hair in odd places? Is your voice lower than it used to be? Do you find yourself fantasizing about other women instead of your usual men? Gender Dysphoria may be caused by chemicals you or your parents took...This is not "natural" this is chemically induced...Just because something happened before you were born, does not make it "natural", know the difference...
 

 
  When you work very hard at something, something that requires concentration, your brain swells up, like a muscle...

 This brain swelling compresses the area of your brain you use to hear things...

   Normally, sound waves that you hear are received in a nice long form, appropriate for hearing the nice long waves of human speech...


  But when your brain swells, your receptors get compressed, & you can now only hear things at a shorter wave length...

  Thoughts, are transmitted at shorter wave lengths...

 If your brain is swollen, you start to lose your ability to hear longer wavelengths & gain the ability to hear shorter wavelengths...

  So you start hearing things you have not heard before...

 You start hearing the short wave length sounds people make when they are thinking...

  Those are the voices that people hear when they have swollen brains...

  Any trauma to the head can cause this phenomenon...

 Once the brain reduces its swollen state, those high short waves go away...

  If someone is hearing voices, they are not schizophrenic, they have a swollen brain...

 Anti-swelling medication should help-though avoid getting them addicted, because it can cause rebound effects...

  Anti-bruising agents like Arnica should reduce brain bruising too...

  People who hear voices have a physical cause, swollen brain.

I was watching the film The Soloist today...I do recommend it...

 

On a recent episode of CSI Miami, Callie gets abducted...We learn she has been taken to help criminals cover up a crime...But what she discovers, is that the criminals did not kill the victim, the bullet wound was too shallow...In fact, the victim had died of a heart attack, due to arsenic poisoning, just before falling towards the shooter, the shooter taking that as an aggression & firing, but in fact the victim dying of the arsenic placed in a flask strategically by a losing poker player earlier...
  The salient point we learn from Callie, is that the victim's blood shows a high level of heavy metal toxicity...She cites arsenic, mercury, valium & selenium as possible poisons...From that list, we can make a connection between mercury & arsenic- seeing as Callie's experiment lumps those two together as being similar properties...
  Why are arsenic & mercury similarity significant chemically? Because we know how to deal with arsenic poisoning...For example, if you eat one to three cloves of garlic a day you can get rid of 44 percent of arsenic in your system & it excretes in your urine well...Any sulfur food helps too (beans) Cysteine is good too (like alfalfa)...Charcoal tablets for immediate help- 5, should be a staple of any cupboard...
  Now...we know mercury poisoning can cause ADHD...Mercury can cause multiple sclerosis...mercury can cause autism...
  So...Knowing that mercury is similar to arsenic chemically, we can now detox from mercury by using remedies for arsenic removal...
  The artist Christo, as prepared by his wife Jeanne Claude, eats chopped raw garlic cloves in cool plain yogurt to take the heat off, daily for lunch while working on sketches...It helps with the acidity of turpentine as garlic is alkaline, the opposite...Arsenic, mercury are also, we can assume acidic- so adding alkalines to your diet helps to remove them...

   Saw John Travolta on Ellen today...Heard a story about how his first flight inside an airplane he peed his pants...Put together a thought....here it is...

  Severe dehydration can cause a mess of problems in the body...Airplane dehydration often is worst in the brain tissues...Combine airplane dehydration of brain tissues with a phobia about drinking created from peeing in your pants on your first flight...So, now you have intense brain dehydration combined with a lack of inflight rehydrating...(Probably common because getting to a bathroom on an airplane is often a challenge...)
  Now skip forward to your child...Your child is born of a father who flies alot & possibly doesn't rehydrate much...Now you have years of habit passed on through your genes...Brain dehydration passed on to your son will predispose the child to blockages in the brain...Brain blockages, if not cleared up regularly, can rupture...Or merely from the pressure of the block can cause violent seizures...
  I think this predisposition is what happened to John Travolta's son...
  This type of problem can also be seen in the children of potheads- since pot causes severe dehydration as well...
  The easiest way to prevent or attempt to reverse this tendency, both in yourself or in your children , is to rehydrate extensively daily for the rest of your & their lives...
  I know it doesn't sound complex enough, but merely rehydrating your body can change your physiognomy radically...You can save someone's life...You can prevent stroke or aneurysm or seizure or fits by ensuring your family gets plenty of liquid daily...Really...Nuff said.
  P.s. rehydrating a child with Krohn's disease can literally save the child's life...

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  It depends on where you live...Same with smoking...Nothing is all bad or all good...In cold climates, like where I live in Canada, extra bits of radiation can provide a bit of pep to people who are depressed when the light changes in October, November, March & April, the spike months here for depression...That said, I'm talking about people who are cold, living in a dark, windy place...Of course, extra radiation can be dangerous to those already getting it froma hot climate with lots of sunshine...
  What about airplanes? I'm still waiting to hear about the radiation risks from sitting in an airplane...Like being microwaved...All the people who fly frequently with hearing loss & increased brain blockages, when are we going to hear about that? & That is a far greater danger than cellphones, & has been for years...(not to mention the lead & other heavy metal poisoning you get from the plane fuel...)
  Smoking, well, nicotine, is an upper, stimulating the body to a faster cycle...Bad for some good for others...In our cold climate, nicotine keeps alot of people going from day to day...Psychologically...I think that those who sell nicotine products wanted to tout the benefits first, like anyone selling a product they believe in...Probably a bunch of depressed people who found tobacco to be an anti-depressant...Sure it can be harmful, like anything...Let the buyer beware...
  I guess what I am saying is that everything has its pluses & minuses, & a studied appreciation of both sides leads to more informed decisions...
  Most recently I got the flu & started getting worse from various cold remedies...I realised that possibly the word swine related to trichinosis, & that perhaps an 'upper' rather than a 'downer' would be a better route...Not being a smoker, I still ran out & bought some nicorette gum...Sure enough I was right, this nasty flu thing disappeared almost immediately with the nicotine infusion...At the moment I am thankful this 'evil' drug is around...Trichinosis can be deadly & requires a speeding up of metabolism rate rather than the slowing down that cold remedies provide...
  Thank you for writing...Please take all my opinions with a grain of salt...