monotype samples for the class i taught last fall

04.24.2024

Andrew Wyeth (American, 1917–2009), Shade, 1981, Tempera on panel

Mauro Ariel Koliva - BRANDA-MEL (tinta sobre tela), 2022

Mauro Ariel Koliva (Argentinian, 1977), Branda-Mel, 2022. Ink on canvas

Alejandra Venegas; Jardín Irradiante, 2023, carved parota and cedar wood, gouache and wax, 42 × 30 × 5,4 cm, Alejandra Venegas; Agua que pudre, 2023, carved parota and cedar wood, gouache and wax, 46,5 × 46,5 × 5 cm, Alejandra Venegas, Ocelotes, 2023, carved parota wood, gouache and wax, 35 × 25 × 5 cm, Alejandra Venegas; Huacalxochitl, 2023, carved cedar wood, gouache and wax, 66,5 × 28,7 × 6,5 cm, & Alejandra Venegas, Sotobosque, 2023, carved parota and cedar wood, gouache and wax, 46 × 27,7 × 5,3 cm

body paintings by Karen Turner

April waters running clear

(c) gif by riverwindphotography, April 2024

Adrianne Lenker for The New York Times

Tim Lawnicki

Precious Lee for Area Couture SS 2021

Two Eggs, Photo by Kenji Nakahashi, 1984

"I’m personally a Holocaust survivor as an infant, I barely survived.

My grandparents were killed in Aushwitz and most of my extended family were killed.

I became a Zionist; this dream of the Jewish people resurrected in their historical homeland and the barbed wire of Aushwitz being replaced by the boundaries of a Jewish state with a powerful army…and then I found out that it wasn’t exactly like that, that in order to make this Jewish dream a reality we had to visit a nightmare on the local population.

There’s no way you could have ever created a Jewish state without oppressing and expelling the local population. Jewish Israeli historians have shown without a doubt that the expulsion of Palestinians was persistent, pervasive, cruel, murderous and with deliberate intent - that’s what’s called the 'Nakba' in Arabic; the 'disaster' or the 'catastrophe'.

There’s a law that you cannot deny the Holocaust, but in Israel you’re not allowed to mention the Nakba, even though it’s at the very basis of the foundation of Israel.

I visited the Occupied Territories (West Bank) during the first intifada. I cried every day for two weeks at what I saw; the brutality of the occupation, the petty harassment, the murderousness of it, the cutting down of Palestinian olive groves, the denial of water rights, the humiliations...and this went on, and now it’s much worse than it was then. It’s the longest ethnic cleansing operation in the 20th and 21st century.

I could land in Tel Aviv tomorrow and demand citizenship but my Palestinian friend in Vancouver, who was born in Jerusalem, can’t even visit! So then you have these miserable people packed into this, horrible…people call it an 'outdoor prison', which is what it is. You don’t have to support Hamas policies to stand up for Palestinian rights, that’s a complete falsity.

You think the worse thing you can say about Hamas, multiply it by a thousand times, and it still will not meet the Israeli repression and killing and dispossession of Palestinians.

And 'anybody who criticises Israel is an anti-Semite' is simply an egregious attempt to intimidate good non-Jews who are willing to stand up for what is true."

Mary Magdalene about 1430–1440 Master of Sir John Fastolf (French, active before about 1420 - about 1450) Not currently on view the getty

'woman wearing underpants in the street, usa' + '1995 french open, france' in the "(un)mentionables" chapter of (un)fashion - tibor kalman (2000)