Two of my paintings and one drawing are touring with the Magical Dreams V exhibition organised by the Bator Art Gallery.
The next exhibition opens in Warsaw, Poland, Jan 9. 2020.
The exhibition will continue until January 30th 2020.
The exhibition is under the patronage of
Tomasz Kucharski,
Mayor of the Praga-Południe District of the Capital City of Warsaw.
Über meine Werke: Das sind universelle Archetypen, die tief im Inneren eines kollektiven Unterbewusstseins zu finden sind; während scheinbar ausserirdisch und fremd, sie sind gleichzeitig auch seltsam vertraulich. Ich nehme die Betrachter in ein Gebiet, das sie nur vorher noch in einer anderen Existenz, wie auch in Träumen, betreten haben. Es ist eine 'Methode in diesem Wahnsinn' doch entsteht Alles durch Ausschluss von bewusster Führung. Die Arbeit wächst scheinbar von alleine, wie Eisblumen auf einer Fensterscheibe.
About my work: These are universal archetypes that may be found deep inside our collective unconscious. While seemingly extraterrestrial and alien, they are also strangely familiar. It will take the viewer into an area that they might have been before in another existence or have entered in their dreams. It is a 'method in this madness' but everything arises by elimination of conscious guidance. The work grows seemingly by itself, like frost flowers on a windowpane.
BOGOMILS GEMÜSEGARTEN - BOGOMILS VEGETABLE GARDEN
TIAMATS NACHKOMME - OFFSPRING OF TIAMAT
DAS BIEST VON BABYLON - THE BEAST OF BABYLON
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DE ES SCHWERTBERGER
2015 habe ich einen neuen Werkabschnitt begonnen ,das „Neolithikum“, in dem ich das Thema der „Steinperiode“ (1970-1980) wieder aufgegriffen habe.
Mein Bestreben war es aber, durch Einbeziehung meiner abstrakteren Malweise der letzten Jahrzehnte , neue Vorstellungswelten, also frisches malerisches Terrain zu entdecken.
Das Zusammenspiel der Metaphern MAUER und STERNE eröffnet eine neue PERSPEKTIVE DER TRANSZENDENZ ,die in eine kollektive Lebenswelt jenseits der Mauer weist.
In diesem Sinne zeigen die ausgestellten Werke auch , wie ich durch die "Methode der Verwandlung“ meine Inhalte erweitere.
I started a new body of work in 2015, the „Neolithic“, in which I picked up the theme of the „stoneperiod“ (1970-1980) again.
Yet it was my intention to discover new minds capes, fresh painterly territory through the integration of my more abstract painting style of the last decades .
The interaction of the metaphors WALL and STARS opened up a new PERSPECTIVE OF TRANSZENDENCE into a collective sphere of life beyond the wall.
In this sense the exhibited works show also, how I expand my contents through the „method of transformation“.
ENTGRENZUNG - DISSOLUTION
JENSEITS DER MAUER - BEYOND THE WALL
TRANSZENDENZ - TRANSCENDENCE
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CORNELIA SIMON-BACH
Erstellt der Künstler tatsächlich seine Bilder oder ist seine Vorstellungskraft letztendlich nur eine Art magischer Empfangsapparat, Antenne und Verstärker? Der Künstler ist Empfänger zahlreicher Botschaften, Weisheiten, Symbole und Gleichnisse und kennt den Absender nicht. Der Träumer ist eine Brücke zwischen Schlafen und Wachen. Er ist die Brücke, die die beiden Ufer verbindet. Aber jeder für sich ist nur eine Hälfte, bis beide zusammen ein Ganzes ergeben.
Does the artist actually create his imagery or is his imagination in the end only a sort of magical reception apparatus, antenna and amplifier? The artist is the recipient of numerous messages, wisdoms, symbols and parables and does not know the sender. The dreamer is a bridge between sleeping and waking. He is the bridge connecting the two shores. But each by itself is only a half, until both together make a whole.
INNENWELT/AUSSENWELT - INNER WORLD/OUTER WORLD
TRAUM DER UNERLÖSTEN - DREAM OF THE UNREDEEMED
NACH DER FLUT - AFTER THE FLOOD
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besuchen sie die Webseiten der Künstler - visit the websites of the artists:
I have not checked lately about some of the art sites I joined, but until just now, there was a link listed here on my Blogger to a site ZEIGDEINEKUST: it does not exist anymore, except for some remnants that make no sense - see it here: http://www.zeigdeinekunst.de/ ◄ but careful, it may not be safe, so check it out in safe mode. I find it sort of goofy that they actually maintain a domain like this with bad web pages.
I am using some from that post, and also from my Website Page DEEP DREAM and Blog DEEP DREAM AND GIF CREATOR. So here is a summary of it all, with some updates and new images created.
As if I had nothing else to do -some time ago I was surfing the net
and found these sites where you can create great stuff with your photos.
Deep Dream I had used before, when it was in beta, but now you have to
sign up/sign in. It is free, and there are many more effects to chose
from now.
below is the original image from Hawaii
on the right is another more sophisticated Deep Dream portrait,
using one of my own paintings as a filter.
Of late I had made use of the Deep Dream Generator quite often. It is almost addictive, once you get started. I had been trying it when it first was introduced. At that time, it was a simple site with basically one Deep Dream style. I think I found the site via an article like this: Google robots dream up crazy psychedelic pictures using 'inceptionism' AI neural networks. Trying it out, I was hooked! For a time after that, I was not using the site and found when accessing it again, you had to create a account and log in. It is still free to use, but vastly improved since its early days several years ago. Because now, in addition to pre-set styles, you can upload your own styles as well.
SOME EXAMPLES OF DEEP DREAM Images I created to see them all, check my DEEP DREAM SITE.
And here it is - the ULTIMATE DEEP DREAM FREAK SELFIE
I blogged about this, as well as a GIF Creator Program in September 2016: DEEP DREAM AND GIF CREATOR.
At that time, I had combined photoshop images of my portrait with Deep Dream and created a GIF using this GIF GENERATOR WEBSITE
Making animated GIF images is a little complicated in Photoshop, so when I was looking for a tutorial, I found this website where it is easy to create animated GIF: all you have to do is upload your images, select the parameters and voila, done! This one here is also my first test, using images I had on hand (some of which were photo-shopped, some previously created in Deep Dream).
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eventually, I put together many different Deep Dream images of a close-up of my eye and created this
VIDEO - ARTISTS EYE
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But there are other sites where you can create fun GIF images to use as Avatars, for example.
I sorted through these sites and found the best AVATAR site, such as the NEWTON CRADLE which I had used for a while now as a funny closing pic on my Steemit and WeKu blogs.
Using the same image,
a more subtle "Starry Eyes"
the possibilities are almost endless - and playing with it can indeed become addictive!
....... and this makes me wink at you:
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Are you ready for more crazy stuff?
here is another video, where I went totally off the rails and got extremely silly - at the end, it uses progressions of a Deep Dream.
Warning: Mindbogglingly stupid content!
OTTO FREAK
the distortion effects are from a app on my computer called Cyberlink YouCam.
Earlier today, when I tried to access Weebly, Google Chrome flagged any and all links to Weebly:
I accessed Weebly from other browsers, and no problem, example IE:
would you have an explanation for this?
Considering that even your home page got the same treatment, I assume it must have happened to all your clients!
I checked right away with my Norton Security, and this were the results:
I remember years ago that Facebook once blocked all weebly sites. Is this just another similar attack?
The images were taken today, forenoon at my location Central Europe time.
Now that I checked again in the Afternoon, it was not happening anymore.
For purposes of information, here are (some of) my top websites hosted on Weebly:
For more than ten years, Prof. Arik Brauer has maintained a private collection in the basement of his Vienna villa in the Cottage Quarter. On about 200²m his most important oil paintings from the last decades, as well as his most recent ceramic sculptures are presented. A cross-section of his life's work, Fantastic Realism.
Arik Brauer, who celebrates his 90th birthday on 04.01.2019, continues to spend his days from early in the morning until the evening on the easels. Throughout his life as an artist he still works on several pictures simultaneously. He sees no reason to change this habit.
Source: Leuchtpunkte
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Various photos
Obtained from Facebook - authors unknown
Prof. Gotthard Fellerer, Prof. Ernst Fuchs and Prof. Arik Brauer
in the Phantastenmuseum - at that time a long-term exhibition in the Figarosaal.
It is now discontinued.
The artist celebrates his birthday on January 4, shaping the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism and Austropop in the 1970s.
As before, color-intensive oil paintings are created. Arik Brauer: "I can not help it. Painting is my life. "......... read more in the Kurier (in German)
As a fantastic realist often smiled at, as a political songwriter co-founder of Austropops - the artist has remained an uncomfortable to this day. A political conversation for a birthday ................. read more in The Standard
Note: I find it interesting that The Standard has put my video in this article!
His father was murdered by the Nazis, now Arik Brauer must again see hatred of Jews from several sides: Germanic as well as Islamist. As a witness he unleashes debates.
..... read more News.at
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VIDEOS (all videos are in German)
ARIK
Die wunderbar realistische Welt des phantastischen Herrn Brauer
1.04.2019
Incredible, the great universal artist, representative of the Viennese school of fantastic realism, songwriter, author, set designer and, and, and ... Arik Brauer is 90 years old!
Time for the Rabenhof to pay tribute to this Viennese suburban child, who has become a citizen of the world.
Who would be better suited than his daughter, the outstanding actress, singer and entertainer Ruth Brauer-Kvam.
A journey through time from the interwar period in Ottakring to Paris in the '68, from cycling trips to Africa to near-death experiences at Lake Neusiedl. Stories of love, nature and politics show the fantastic-realistic life of this exceptional artistic talent.
Premiere: 4 January 2019
with: Ruth Brauer-Kvam
Band: Carles Muñoz Camarero, Lukas Knöfler and Milos Todorovski
Book: Ruth Brauer-Kvam
Director: Thomas Gratzer
Musical direction: Kyrr. Kvam
Stage: Arik Brauer
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Selected music video:
Arik Brauer - Köpferl in den Sand
Chronologically selected from my video archive:
Immigration is the problem - 11.03.2018
"Immigration is the problem": Arik Brauer is an artist and contemporary witness of National Socialism. He sees less in Nazi songbooks as an anti-Semitic danger, than in the immigration from the Arab world.
Five years ago:
Cultural Monday, November 10, 2014, ORF2 - Leopold Museum
Brauer im Herbst is the title of the self-portrait painted especially for the exhibition. The Leopold Museum dedicates a retrospective exhibition to painters, authors and songwriters, stage designers and house designers, but above all to social critics and environmentalists. ....... read more
Ten years ago:
Arik Brauer at Wir sind Kaiser
Determined by the "lucky machine" to lead with his majesty an artistic discourse, the Austrian painter and founder of Fantastic Realism, Arik Brauer.
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I hope you enjoyed my contribution - and maybe, if you are in Vienna,
see if you can visit his art in his private museum ➧ Events
Commemorating the 87th birthday of Ernst Fuchs in the Fuchs Villa - 2017
