It’s all over the news but in case you missed it the Google Art Project has expanded and there is a world of classic artwork to be seen. They even have their own youtube channel.
Too bad google is so intertwined with the spying and tracking racket. Next thing you know we’ll be on some kind of watch list for the art we admire.
There’s plenty of money for bombs, bullets and other insanities of war but for lack of funding there lies hidden in Washington DC a treasure trove of the art of war.
The paintings and sketches could be said to be either pro or anti-war but in any case should be on display for all to see.
ART: The Army Collection “Hidden Treasures,” a major art collection of works done mostly by United States Army soldiers about Army troops from America’s earliest wars to present day. The collection includes paintings, drawing and sculptures by famous American artists including Norman Rockwell, as well as by infamous Nazis including Adolph Hitler, all hidden from public view behind closed doors in the basement of an office building in Washington, D.C. Rita Braver reports on what she saw – and others can not.
Some of the collection…
The early artwork of Hitler…said to be kept hidden so as not to be used for propaganda purposes…
The more boring a child is, the more the parents, when showing off the child, receive adulation for being good parents — because they have a tame child-creature in their house.
The first thing you have to do if you want to raise nice kids, is you have to talk to them like they are people instead of talking to them like they’re property.
Children are naïve — they trust everyone. School is bad enough, but, if you put a child anywhere in the vicinity of a church, you’re asking for trouble.
It pays to make the U.S. school system a crock of shit because the dumber the people are that come out, the easier it is to draft them, make them into docile consumers, or, you know, mongo employees. There are plenty of yuppies out there with absolutely nothing upstairs. Graduate airheads with PhDs and everything but they don’t know anything.
Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you’ve got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read.
If you wind up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest or some guy on TV telling you how to do your shit, then YOU DESERVE IT!
We’re involved in sort of a low key war against apathy. Most of what we do is designed to annoy people to the point where they might just for a second question enough of their environment to do something about it. As long as they don’t feel their environment, they don’t worry about it — they’re not gonna do anything to change it. Something’s gotta be done before America scarfs up the world and shits on it.
Surrealist art is rooted in the subconscious, the places we can occasionally drift into but staying too long means not being able to function in the physical world.
It’s often said that art imitates life and Sonja Brandl-Tines gives us a view of how the bizarre social engineers for control of every aspect of our lives might view their handiwork.
Fear in the eyes and lying in submission, the ‘servant’ may know some of his controllers but all are masked and difficult to figure out. He only hopes he can live through the experiment to eat and maybe love again.
To ‘make all things new’ is one thing to those still in control.
In this final part of the Journey, a thirteen month commission, all the elements of the previous two paintings combine to end the cycle and begin the process all over again.
Part One dealt with the greed and envy associated with power and conquest at the transition point between the medieval world and the beginning of the industrial age. Part Two dealt with commercial excess built upon the falsified ruins of the past amid the blood and oil reflected in the waters that flow from what humanity chose to value.
In Part Three: the former city-states are evicting those that they find troublesome (lower left side of the image), in tightly formed knots of people that are being discarded from the systems of the powerful. One of these ‘balls’ has struck the reality of the rocks below which causes the individuals to break from their fellow prisoners in order to individually confront a mirror that shows them what their lives have been made of, and what they have not been living in.
Those with imagination and courage then pass through this mirror in spirit, where they rest a moment before beginning their individual assent, up the right hand side; until they become the one who holds the mirror and observes Prometheus unbound that brings the light of the sun to all that has gone before. It is the acceptance of this light of reality that enables us to free ourselves from the stranglehold of the owners and to try again “to mend the finished world”!
In this series of three, five and a half foot circles, I wanted to sound an alarm about what has happened and what was definitely coming back in 1973 but most people only saw a lot of very unusual colors and a lot of intricate ‘stuff.’ Because art was not supposed to ever be about anything – in 1973! So for whatever reasons, this work while extremely commercially-popular from the Continent to Australia as well as in the US and Canada, was also an artistic failure in my eyes. This was my first internationally published work (1)
However at this time it could serve to illustrate some of what has gone before that need not continue if only we can individually find ways to finally awake to see what we have done, and that what we say we want contradicts all that we have said we stood for- practically from the start of this blood-soaked Empire that we’ve spent over two-hundred years building!
Why not take this plunge yourself and see what you can learn about who you are and what your life has been about, while we’ve been killing and maiming and generally bullying the entire world for all these recent decades in broad daylight!
My three Associates have had a busy week producing more ‘weapons’ to be used in the ‘Fight For Peace’…
The first one represents Daniel Barenboim, Israeli musician that dared to ‘cross the line’ and became a Palestinian citizen this past week. It is the work of our brilliant Benjamin Heine. Please visit his newly updated Website…
Next we have this week’s contribution to the struggle by our very own Carlos Latuff. His works have inspired many an activist and angered many an oppressor… a true sign of success. More of his works can be seen HERE… this one is titled It’s not torture when U.S. forces are doing it.
Now we come to an American artist, deeply rooted in the struggle and a regular contributor to various Progressive causes. David Baldinger’s works have appeared in many Progressive newspapers throughout the United States. A sampling of those works can be seen on his Website…
The first one represents Daniel Barenboim, Israeli musician that dared to ‘cross the line’ and became a Palestinian citizen this past week. It is the work of our brilliant Benjamin Heine. Please visit his newly updated Website…
Next we have this week’s contribution to the struggle by our very own Carlos Latuff. His works have inspired many an activist and angered many an oppressor… a true sign of success. More of his works can be seen HERE… this one is titled It’s not torture when U.S. forces are doing it.
Now we come to an American artist, deeply rooted in the struggle and a regular contributor to various Progressive causes. David Baldinger’s works have appeared in many Progressive newspapers throughout the United States. A sampling of those works can be seen on his Website…
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