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Friday, August 9, 2024

MY ARTWORK POSTED ON FLICKR

I had posted most of my artwork to several albums on Flickr - one of them is my main album that holds all my work.

Here is a embedded view of this album:

I strive to keep this updated. The works are not in any order, some are early works, some most recent. The leading image is of course my signature image, a Surreal Selfportrait called SELFPORTRAIT WITH THE CRITICAL EYE.

Wednesday, January 15, 2020

Opening of the MAGICAL DREAMS V EXHIBITION - WARSAW, POLAND

Opening of the

MAGICAL DREAMS V EXHIBITION

WARSAW, POLAND

Photo credit: Katarzyna Bator, Gallery Bator

find more installation photos further down on this post.

Vernissage January 9th, 2020 at 7 PM.

Centrum Promocji Kultury

ul. Podskarbińska 2, 03-833 Grochów, Warszawa, Poland

9-30 January 2020

from 11: 00-19: 00

free admission

Culture Promotion Center in the Praga-Południe District of the Capital City Warszawy invites you to the exhibition "Magical Dreams V".

The exhibition will be on until January 30, 2020.

Exhibition under the patronage of Tomasz Kucharski, Mayor of the Praga-Południe District of the Capital City of Warsaw.

Video from the opening of the exhibition

"Magical Dreams V" in Warsaw

Here are the installation shots, just prior to the opening

photos are courtesy of Katarzyna Bator, Gallery Bator:

PREVIOUSLY POSTED ABOUT MAGICAL DREAMS V:

MAGICAL DREAMS V EXHIBITION WARSAW, POLAND

The Odyssey of my drawing Emrakul

prior to this, on Flickr, the opening of the show
at the Bator Gallery September 7th 2019

ALBUM ON FLICKR

MAGICAL DREAMS V - SZCZYRK

Opening of the Magical Dreams V exhibition
at Gallery Bator in Szczyrk, Poland
and some photos from the next day.

Otto Rapp talks about his experience
from his first stay in Poland...
and our gallery.

I remember being interviewed by Karolina Hajok at the opening of Magical Dreams V at the Bator Gallery in Szczyrk, Poland on September 7th 2019 but only found this clip now. Great memories, it was a super show!

I had previously blogged about my painting Yggdrasil:

YGGDRASIL

First exhibited at

MAGICAL DREAMS V

Friday, January 10, 2020

MAGICAL DREAMS V EXHIBITION - WARSAW, POLAND

As announced previously on my Steemit Blog

🎨 MAGICAL DREAMS V EXHIBITION - WARSAW, POLAND

and also here on Blogger

The opening of the exhibition on January 9th 2020 was a great success!

A live recording was posted on Facebook by the organizers, the Bator Gallery.

Here are a few installation shots, just prior to the opening

photos courtesy Katarzyna Bator:

The show opened January 9th, 2020 at 7 PM.

Centrum Promocji Kultury ul. Podskarbińska 2, 03-833 Grochów, Warszawa, Poland

The exhibition will continue until January 30th 2020

STAY TUNED FOR UPDATES!

Saturday, December 28, 2019

MAGICAL DREAMS V EXHIBITION – WARSAW, POLAND

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.

Opening January 9th, 2020 at 7 PM.
Centrum Promocji Kultury ul. Podskarbińska 2, 03-833 Grochów, Warszawa, Poland

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.

INVITATION FOR THE OPENING - PDF

FACEBOOK EVENT INVITATION

MY ARTWORK IN THIS EXHIBITION

YGGDRASIL acrylic on canvas - 2019 - 60 x 90 cm

BOGOMIL'S AVATAR REVISITED acrylic glazes on panel - 2018 - 40 x 50 cm

EMRAKUL graphite and charcoal on paper - 2019 - 42 x 29.5 cm

Sunday, September 23, 2018

MASSIVE COPYRIGHT VIOLATIONS ON MINDS

massive copyright violations on minds

Minds appears to be a haven for some copyright violators who scrape images off the internet and post them without attribution, trying to profit from other peoples work.

If you want to know about Copyright and related issues, I operate a website, Visionary Art Gallery, where I dedicated a page to this issue. Also, a link to that page appears in the footer and thus on each and every represented artists page (there are well over 500 artists represented). Check it out here: https://www.vagallery.com/copyright.html

About the specifics

^{The above image is a painting by MARTINA HOFFMANN,
a friend and fellow artist whom I published in my VISIONARY ART GALLERY}This painting, along with many others, was found on MINDS Visionary Art Channel without any attribution, posted by the user Ricky168

After this was initially discovered by @libaws and posted on her Facebook page, a discussion ensued, and Martina Hoffmann posted the following on Facebook:

I usually dislike getting involved in this sort of a thing but was made aware of this site (https://www.minds.com/) that is ‘The CRYPTO SOCIAL NETWORK”, which states: “We are an open source and decentralized platform for Internet freedom. GET PAID IN CRYPTO FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTION to the community”. Someone, unknown to me, (https://www.minds.com/Ricky168) created a page called “Visionary Art’…”https://www.minds.com/groups/profile/666722386204172306” and posted my work as well as the work of other artists without asking permission nor giving us proper credit. So I tried to post the following comment below my art on his page: “This image was published on this site WITHOUT MY CONSENT, and while I really do appreciate that the creators of this page did mark the fact that ALL OF MY WORK IS COPY RIGHTED, which makes it subject to my specific consent for any form of usage or second-party publication, they still did not respect it. They also neglected to add the proper title and name of artist next to my GODDESS TRIANGLE BY MARTINA HOFFMANN. My work is all over the net and performing a google search in order to gather all necessary information is not rocket science. Thank you for rectifying this on all of my images as well as on those by all other ‘un-named artists’ published on your page!”When I tried to post this comment below my art, I received this message: “The comment couldn’t be saved because @Ricky168 has blocked you.”

WOW!
So to make my complaint very clear: I DO APPRECIATE people sharing my art but I’d l’d like to be credited appropriately and feel ripped off when my art is used, without my consent to collect voting points to earn crypto currency while I’m (the artist) being compensated for the publication of my art….Thoughts anyone?

PLEASE FEEL FREE TO SHARE THIS WITH YOUR COMMUNITY and DOWN WITH THE PIRATES!!!

I have an account on Minds as well, which until now, is mostly idling: https://www.minds.com/TheMystic, but following this, I began some research, and after exhaustive scrolling came up with a large list of violations perpetrated by the user Ricky168.

MINDS – COPYRIGHT VIOLATIONS:

The first link on my list below is the Austrian Artist Fritz Aigner

and the second one is by my personal friend Vesna Krasnec, and I own this painting:

^{This list contains just the artists I know and, for the most part, are personal friends of mine.
The list covers less than a 3 week period of September 2018, and the ones I list are among hundreds of other scraped images that are also uncredited rip-offs.}

▲ up to here: Sep 4, 2018, 4:34:05 AM

Reacting to Martina Hoffmann:
https://www.facebook.com/martina.hoffmann.547/posts/10158205260354896
My Facebook comment:
Martina Hoffmann if you are a member of Minds (I don’t know if you can if you are not), you can flag each individual piece – down arrow drop down menu – and mark it copyright violation. What happens next is that they give you a e-mail address:
Please submit a DMCA notice to copyright@minds.com
Anyway, I scrolled around for a while on that users account https://www.minds.com/Ricky168 and between Sept. 23rd and September 4th I found 62 copyright violations of artwork by people I know very well – not counting oodles of photos and tattoo artists. It seems he is scraping a eclectic variety of websites to steal images, i.e. those 62 I copied the URL’s I must have scrolled through hundreds of images within that short time period, so we are looking at the tip of the iceberg!

^{as I said, this list is just the tip of the iceberg, it is just ONE OF THE USERS ON MINDS that stuck out like a sore thumb, but a cursory scrolling of the posts on this MINDS Visionary Art Channel would reveal several more.}

I also posted my 2 cents worth on a blog post discussion on Minds:
How to kill MINDS beauty

how to kill Minds? by having users on there that blatantly violate copyright, scraping images off the net and posting without attribution. Here is a comment I added to one post (you can see the post, I shared and pinned it to the top of my page) – and this is my comment: “a quick search between 22.9. and 4.9.2018 I found 61 copyright violations alone of artists works that I know personally, not counting possibly hundreds of others, photographers, tattoo artists etc. within just such a short time period alone. There appears NOTHING to be the work of the user @Ricky168 himself. None of the posts bear any attribution! Even so, copyright work can only be displayed with the permission of the copyright owner, particularly if the use of it is monetized! To clarify: If the artist himself posts a image, you are allowed to “share” it by re-blogging because then the image link will point back to the artist, but you are NOT allowed to scrape a image from the internet, even if you credit the artist!

This blog was originally posted to my profile on the Steemit Blockchain:
https://steemit.com/minds/@thermoplastic/massive-copyright-violations-on-minds
and re-blogged on my Wordpress blog:
https://ottorapp.wordpress.com/2018/09/23/massive-copyright-violations-on-minds/

Sunday, September 16, 2018

VISIONARY ART GALLERY – UPDATE

Initially posted on Steemit, this VISIONARY ART GALLERY UPDATE is the first in a series to highlight the changes to the Visionary Art Gallery Website. Artists featured in this blog are the tip of the iceberg – I had fixed many more pages (but still many more to do) and will publish additional pages in the next series of updates.

VISIONARY ART GALLERY – UPDATE

Seven months ago I posted about VAG ARTISTS ON STEEMIT, such as Peter Gric

This post is about a small selection of over 500 artists from my network. The main website is the VISIONARY ART GALLERY, which I am currently working on changing the look and artist pages. This because Flash is history and the Flash features such as embedded slide shows do not work anymore, since the host site on Ning has done away with Flash. Read more about it: THE END OF FLASH. So I am working on installing HTML 5 slide shows and at the same time updating the website to a more modern look. This will keep me busy for a long time.

some ARTISTS PAGES fixed:

GRAEME WILLIAM BALCHIN

LIBA WARING STAMBOLLION

SINISHA S KASHAWELSKI

SEAN KYLE ALLUM aka ELOH PROJECTS

JACKIE EDWARDS

CAMILLE DELA ROSA

ASSOCIATED ARTISTS

Some of our artist friends were not members of the private network on Ning, and they are listed under associated artists:

there are several more you find under that heading Associated Artists but I am also working on some of those pages that still need to be fixed.

We also have a section called Hall of Fame where we showcase some artists that were influencial to many of us:

EXAMPLE OF A HALL OF FAME ARTISTS

H R GIGER

I blogged about this cooperative project, where artists affiliated with us had worked on:

THE ANTIPODES PROJECT

VISIONARY ART EXHIBITION

A spin-off site from the Visionary Art Gallery is the VISIONARY ART EXHIBITION, where we showcase exceptional content, but there are also guest-blogs such as DREAMS & DIVINITIES (see below about affiliated sites), and ARCHAIC VISIONS