Category Archives: New Art Project
Infinity Mirrors: Yayoi Kusama Rooms 6 and 7
Dots Obsession-Love Transformed into Dots 2007, installed 2018 After viewing room 5, the pumpkin room that I could not photograph because of some previous fool, you move down a corridor and then make a turn into room 6 which brings … Continue reading
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yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors Room 4
Room 4: Love Forever 1966/1994 I loved this installation. You did not walk into this room but rather there were four windows cut into the room and you looked through them. To the left is Liz looking at me in … Continue reading
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Yayoi Kusama Infinity Mirrors Room 3: Aftermath of the Obliteration of Eternity
Before we got to room three, there was a side room with video from the late 60’s and early 70’s of Yaoi’s happenings. A lot of it was down in The Factory, Andy Warhol’s infamous gathering place. While watching the … Continue reading
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Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors Room 2
Yayoi started working in earnest with the dot and net motifs when she came to New York City in 1957. Her career really took off and she began doing her soft sculptures (see below), installation work and staged performance based … Continue reading
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Yayao Kusama: Infinity Mirrors
As I explained earlier The Infinity Mirrors show only went to five museums in the United States as directed by the artist Yayoi Kusama. She very much controls who and how her works get seen. The museums had to bid for … Continue reading
Jon Gardella’s new book
Hey all of you out there in the blogosphere, an early post. I got a surprise from our favorite other artist Jon Gardella, and it was wonderful. They are doing a new book on Jon’s work. Below is the email … Continue reading
Posted in Groningen, Jon Gardella, Netherlands, New Art Project, New Art Work, Rodin, School of Rodin, sculpture
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Rainbow Glass In America and Our Own Version of Antiques Road Show
Rainbow glass was machine produce glass and lots of people were able to buy it. These are of course spectacular examples of it as my friend is a collector. This is a typical example of a rainbow bowl. I shot … Continue reading
Rainbow Cut Glass
Hello my blogosphere pals. I will have an exciting post. I had an extraordinary opportunity this week to photography some antique rainbow cut american rainbow glass. I am still working with the collector getting the text correct and editing the … Continue reading
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A Gentleman in Moscow, by Amor Towles
This is a provocative book, a book that will make you laugh, cry, be infuriated, cheer and feel utterly defeated and sometimes all at once. It’s a Russian novel what else would you expect. It’s a great story, it’s a … Continue reading
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The Atlanta Botanical Gardens – THE DRAGON Part Trois
I got a tremendous amount of email this past week asking if I could show more photos of each installation and the detail of each piece. Naturally I am happy to comply so we will still have to cover next … Continue reading
Imaginary Worlds 2; Fire and Ice; Jon Gardella Workshop; The Queen of Soul
Lots to cover in the blog today. First there is the closing of my friend’s show Michael Dominick’s show. I should have posted this a few weeks ago. I have known Michael for a long time, we had the same … Continue reading
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The Atlanta Botanical Gardens – Imaginary Worlds
This is the entrance hall to the gardens where one buys tickets, can go to the rest rooms and take a rest in air conditioning. I love these metal leaves. I could not see where there was a sign for … Continue reading
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Jon Gardella’s town in the Netherlands and his studio
Garnered, Netherlands I had to find where Jon was located, no small feat. So if you look at the map, up at the top you will see a blue line north of Groningen which is the major town near where … Continue reading
Jon Gardella, Sculpture Extraordinaire, Part Deux
Explanations and corrections: Because of the time difference between the US and the Netherlands, I did not get Jon’s email until after I had posted the blog. He sent me a lot of information, and last week’s blog on Jon … Continue reading
Prints and Catastrophyes
Prints I have opened a website at FineArtAmerica.com so that people can select the print they want, frame, matt it, and make it the way that fits their decor and at a price that I never could compete with. And, … Continue reading
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Design and Symbolism
http://www.jleone.com http://www.zazzle.com/J_leone_designs Well first let me apologize for being late, really late today. My statistics tell me that people went to blog today and found nothing new. But in my defense, we have had endless rain down here … Continue reading
Cars As Art
http://www.jleone.com www.zazzle.com/J_leone_designs The Hill Climb Road Race, Doune, Scotland While in Doune, visiting my friend, we went to the Hill Climb Race. Her Husband was a member of one of the racing clubs and they always held the … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Auto racing, Britain, Car racing, Cars, Classic Cars, Doune, New Art Project, Photography, Scotland, UK
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Something To do
The blog is actually dark today as I am out-of-town. However, if you need something to do go to my http://www.zazzle.com/J_leone_designs and look at the new designs I did, one is an actually photography that I did not alter in … Continue reading
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Gone to Scotland – Back from Scotland
Heavy Flames Rock Band http://www.maharajablues.com Maharaja Blues DA PLANE: So on the plane on the way over, my seat mate was the fabulous Jonathan Browning! He plays in two bands, Heave Flames which is a rock band and Maharaja Blues … Continue reading
Dazzle, Razzle and Zazzle
zazzle.com/J_leone_designs Despite all the disasters, I still worked everyday. I spent a lot of time developing designs, from my photographs for fabric design. Getting a design to repeat across yards and yards of fabric is NO EASY THING. I now … Continue reading
I AM BACK!
As we all know when I disappear for a long period of time this can only mean that disaster of a catastrophic nature have befallen me and that certainly can be said of 2017 and the first three months of … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Fabric Design, Fashion, fashion designers, New Art Project, Photograpy
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Change in Frequency of Blog Posting
Happy New Year to All. 2017 in the realm of numerology is a one year (you add the digits together until you come up with a single digit). A One year means the beginning of a new 9 year cycle. … Continue reading
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Blog Dark Until After The New Year
Hi everyone, hope your Thanksgiving was thankful and spent with family and friends. No turkey shot as my bird took a dive. The blog will be dark until after the first of the year as I have two projects that … Continue reading
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Thanksgiving and really bad cooked turkey photography
“The First Thanksgiving 1621, oil on canvas by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris (1899). The painting shows common misconceptions about the event that persist to modern times: Pilgrims did not wear such outfits, and the Wampanoag are dressed in the … Continue reading
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Thank You to Our Veterans
The Blog post early this week so that I can thank our Veterans for their service to us and our country. For every man and woman, and their families, that have stood on that line for us, I am … Continue reading
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Textures and Patterns
Okay all of you out in the blogosphere a little test for today: look at the four pictures below, take into account what I named them and then take a guess at what you are looking at. After years of … Continue reading
Chihuly Part Deux
By popular demand more of the Dale Chihuly Installations: So many people emailed me about the Chihuly Exhibit that I felt I had to do the second part this week so here are the rest of the installations: I loved … Continue reading
Scale, Size and Perceptual filters
I stumbled onto this book, Visual Intelligence, by Amy E. Herman, while at the library last week. It’s a new book and really interesting in the area of what people actually see. This is of course what my own art … Continue reading
Dale Chihuly at the Atlanta Botantical Gardens
http://www.jleone.com Remember, clicking on any photograph will open the photograph in a larger window. In 2004, Dale Chihuly did a set of installations for the Atlantic Botanical Garden. Over the last 12 years, Chihuly has advanced his site specific glass … Continue reading
Project Runway
Project Runway is one of the most creative shows on tv. If you have never seen it do yourself a favor and watch it just once and you will be hooked. It is on Lifetime tv and you can watch … Continue reading
artdaily.com
http://www.jleone.com Great art website: PARIS.- The exhibition “Magritte: La trahison des images” offers a completely new approach to the work of the Belgian artist René Magritte. Featuring both well-known masterpieces and other less familiar works, all drawn from leading public … Continue reading
Remembering 9/11
On 9/11/01 I know I promised the closing remarks from Masud Olufani today. But today is 9/11 and even though it is 15 years later, it is a hard, hard day for me. It is a hard day for anyone … Continue reading
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The Visible Becoming Invisible Part Deux
Beginning note, if you click on the image it will open in a separate window at a larger size. Where we started: When I have the wall mural worked out, the first frames will started in January, but this is … Continue reading
The Visible Becoming Invisible
This was the last panorama on the site, that you all saw, dated March 18. One of the issues I am having is how to incorporate into the time-lapse mural, the details of the project. In the far right back … Continue reading
Comments from past blogs
A lot of times people send me comments about the past week’s blog. Also, for some reason I can’t figure out, but I will, the comments used to show below the post. WordPress has changed the back-end of blog site, … Continue reading
The Art of a Parade
Small Town Americana Leaving New York City and moving down to Roswell, GA induced deep catatonia in me. Not at first mind you because I had my brother, and he was like having the entire New York Public library at … Continue reading
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Studio News
Website: http://www.jleone.com Installation Work: As promised many, many moons ago, I have finally gone back to work on Man’s Abandonment of God/God’s Abandonment of Man. So here we are looking at the working model, hanging in my old New … Continue reading
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Work In Progress
“The Visible Becoming Invisible,” new installation I have been working on a new installation since the second week in January. I go to a construction every Friday and photograph it from the same vantage point. I have always been fascinated … Continue reading
Piece for the Stephen F Austin State University Auction
Voting Results Rule! Overwhelmingly the vote, from Facebook, Linked-In and my personal email was to continue on with the Flag piece. So here it is: A Lone Star 4th of July:
FABRIC! FABRIC! FABRIC DESIGN!
J. Leone Website: www.jleone.com Yes, I actually was working on the fabric design, despite the fact that I have not had time to update my website with Fabric Design. I am going to use this fabric that I designed … Continue reading
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The Texas National Catalogue came out and I am furious
Last week’s poll: By a landslide the vote was to make the flag work out so that the University would make a sale. The comments that people sent to me or posted were helpful. At the forefront was the objective, … Continue reading
In Serious Trouble – Cast Your Vote! Vote here or on Facebook or Linked-in or email me leonejean@aol.com
Which piece of art do you think will sell: When I was down at the Texas National, the Art Department at Stephen F. Austin State University asked me if I would be willing to make and donate a piece of … Continue reading
Roswell Clay Collective
J. Leone website: www.jleone.com Surprising the things one can find in one’s backyard! I have lived across the highway from the Art Center West for almost 2 1/2 years. I hike in the park behind the center. I drive by … Continue reading
NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS – GO FOR A WEEKEND!
J.Leone website: www.jleone.com Main Street: The Visitor’s Center: Nacogdoches has two huge claims to fame: The oldest Town in Texas and the Gateway. The Gateway because as the early settlers headed west, Nacogdoches was the last town they passed through before … Continue reading
THE TEXAS NATIONAL, NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS
J. Leone website: http://www.jleone.com How to Run a Juried Show: The people down at Stephen F. Austin State University, really know how to do a juried show. It’s more akin to a happening than a single opening. If you are … Continue reading
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MASUD OLUFANI: Closing Remarks on his exhibition
Website: www.jleone.com On Race, Memory and Rememberance: Masud started his remarks by having his sister, Shala Whitehead, dressed in a long white sheath, standing on a wood block in front of one of his videos, sing a negro spiritual hymn.(She has … Continue reading →