Heard the News? According to Angela Doland at the Associates Press released this past Friday, July 16th, French scientists say they have cracked a few secrets of the “Mona Lisa”. Through new technology they have determined that Leonardo da Vinci and his use of the “sfumato’ technique used up to 30 layers of paint to create his subtitles and his illusions of depth and shadow. The results of their findings were published Wednesday in the Angewandte Chemie International Edition, a chemistry journal. The article also stated that Leonardo da Vinci biographer, Giorgio Vasari and other artists hold that it took da Vinci four years to complete his masterpiece.

Think about it, 30 layers of paint about half the thickness of a human hair. And four years to complete. I dare say that this would knock out about 90% of all artists working today. However one must take into account that most artists work on several pieces at a time and as time goes on some take longer to complete.

We’re all familiar with the name, both the artist and the works, and most have seen some representation of both. It has a place in our heads born out of what we have grown up with in the teaching and training of life. This may not be true of today’s culture. Unless it’s some video branded artist, not of the painting genre, then nobody’s looking and nobody’s listening. How much can be spent on the latest game or Iphone branded item, the hot trend of the minute, is the important thing.

We’ve thrown away culture, class, manners , families and much of what made life worth living and believing in for the sake of thinking we too are the latest American Idol.

Artists, Painters and Paintings are all paying a price. We have great abilities, greater access to world markets, and great tools and methodologies to make it all better. That’s not the case because the world is changing so fast that four years of work of this kind wouldn’t be recognized as really having any unique value.

What we see is the knowledge; the discovery; the machinery; and the technology are the value. Who cares who is in King Tuts wrappings? We’ll shove him and his brown cloth into some museum and forget about it. He’s just some old dude anyway. Who cares if painting becomes a lost art I’m only looking at my TV Screen, Computer and phone anyway. Besides if I really want to see anything I just go on the internet.

If you ever got a chance to see someone’s true creative expression and it brought you to tears or shook your being then you know what a loss this will be. We need to foster and encourage and develop creative intuitive individuals who will give us messages that speak volumes to our heart, our soul and our mind. We need to get off the droids and get back to human relationships, human caring and cultivating relationships; relationships of love.
We need a few more intriguing smiles that cause us to ponder and think and live better. We could use a few more recognized masterpieces that turn the heart toward real love.

Well speak more of these things in the days ahead. For now have a wonderful day and look, carefully!

Douglas Auld
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July 18th’s Weekly Post. Enjoy!
Douglas Auld

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Is this a great country? Are we fortunate people or what? Even to be in the midst of one of the most horrific disasters in history, people are positive and hopeful. Oil spews out at some unknown rate making a living mockery of human greed. No one has a clue of the real costs, let alone the daily cost to all kinds of God’s creations. Workmanship, truth, and knowledge give way to delivery and speed of money. The Gulf region is a mess.

Then we hear of Jimmy Buffet having a free concert to help focus on the needs of region and people. The cool breeze of remembering better days and different things waves its way throughout the region. Business owners of all types reap a small fruit of reward with of course the hope of staying alive for better days ahead. The entourage of Buffet followers and the generation of his appeal show up in droves and of course, the media is there to almost tell you they planned it all. They’ll be there as well to tell you all the woeful things that went wrong and how many bathrooms didn’t work, how much oil was on the door handles or how many children were abandoned while their parents wasted away in “Margaritaville”.

And right now you’re saying to yourself, what has this got to do with art paintings? Well as I sat here and looked around I was taken by my paintings and the difference between photography and painting. While I looked around at some of the photographs of former things and recorded disasters in my own life I was taken in by the works of my hands and how different they were from the recording of a shutter. While both are and can be true applications of art in most cases they are seen truly different. Here I was reminded of the beauty and the creation our eyes and hearts allow us to take in daily as we encounter life and living. Then as I took some time to look and see into some of my own works I recognized how many of the internal things which I wanted to express were before me. How much I valued color, light, shadow, the play on relationships and the uniqueness that size plays on every canvas.

As these thoughts were bouncing around in my head, I saw how many messages were there for viewers to uncover and unfold. I saw how reminders and remembrances would spring up and take me to a place of hope. How seeing and looking and just taking a few uninterrupted moments in the midst of life, its struggles and its unpleasantries could give me a different vantage point.

Here not only did I ponder the benefits of having art paintings and what they do for the human spirit, but I was reminded of what we do for others to interrupt their own personal tragedies. Buffet gave of himself, his reputation, his time and interrupted the personal heartbreaks of many to bring them and a whole region of the country a change of focus and messages of hope.

There are hundreds of thousands of artists and art dealers offering millions of reminders of all kinds of things that have taken up space in your mind. Take the time and go see some, spend some time with them and see it for yourself. Take that lasting treasure home and place it on your favorite viewing wall and remind yourself daily of hope, that feelings forgotten can be feelings remembered.

We’ll talk more of these things soon.

Douglas Auld

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The Constitution of the United States of America is the supreme law of the United States. It is the foundation and source of the legal authority underlying the existence of the United States of America and the federal government of the United States. It provides the framework for the organization of the United States government and for the relationship of the federal government to the states, to citizens, and to all people within the United States.

Enjoy The Day! Celebrate well.

Our eyes are always prowling taking in all that they can. They open our minds to the processing of information, transposing it from visual into a cognitive form of new understanding, known understanding or added understanding. Somewhere and somehow the file cabinets open and shut at break neck, unheard of speeds that we can’t comprehend. The reality of Psalm 139 where it says “such knowledge is too wonderful for me” sets in.

Around the time the Impressionists photography was being birthed and the reality of artists being used in record keeping business gave way to the actual visual facts taken by this new wonderful process. Within this venue, the art of seeing and associating with what was before you have transposed our culture and the cultures of the world. Today the process is at work nonstop. We want to see and be associated with what we see. People demonstrate over and over again the record keeping of their own reality. In our society and throughout the world, we have taken this to a new level with the advent of video and the distribution of this medium to billions of people on our planet.

We love to see ourselves and be reminded of ourselves and focus on ourselves. This has now become an epidemic beyond control. It has led us away from our families, friends, neighbors and those fellow human beings with the focus moved to self. The idea of giving yourself to serving others for no other reason than it is the right thing to do has all but been forgotten. We act and react to worldwide disasters and catastrophes by giving a quick fix of cash and human kindness, but for the most part as soon as the media is off of it as a major story, so are we. The real devastation continues.

These thoughts lead one so away from the reality of what a painting can do for an individual that it’s like a quantum leap to get back. Within the realm of viewing and seeing art paintings lies that processing of the eyes capturing a visual expression. If we’re not caught up in the schedules, calamities and complications of life, we may just have a moment to let our eyes and our hearts travel to a place of quiet, restful calm. These can be the places we most treasure and the reality is we focus and see them totally different than we do a recorded photograph.

Test them. Try them. See them. Look at them. You will experience things you never thought possible and they will add to the beauty and harmony that life has waiting for you to taste and enjoy. They will add life and insight and joy. They will contribute to your health and well being and they will give you years, hours, and moments of pleasure.

Find art paintings that complete you. Find those that give you insight and show you that your heart is wide open and drawing from the waters of creative expression. Engage with them and let them give you that quiet refreshment you long for.

We’ll talk more of these things in the future. Have a great day.

Douglas Auld
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