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La Belle et La Bête Original painting by Peter Bright . Media: Painting and Screen Print on canvas, signed and dated 2011. Size: 501mm x 1603mm Supplied in the original frame.

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Notes on Painting:

• The act of being creative is a love hate thing – The Beauty and The Beast someone fetch a priest(ref. David Bowie)Beauty and the Beast (French: La Belle et la Bête) is a traditional fairy tale. The first published version of the fairy tale was a rendition by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, published in La jeune américaine, et les contes marins in 1740. The best-known written version was an abridgement of her work published in 1756 by Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont, in Magasin des enfants, ou dialogues entre une sage gouvernante et plusieurs de ses élèves; an English translation appeared in 1757. The tale has perhaps been made most recently famous by the retelling in the 1991 Disney film.In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. liberated 12:47, April 7, 2011, from: http://en.wikipedia.org
• Action Painting – Pollock. Print dribbled paint.
• Soft pink landscapes (1980) Richard Hamilton A landscape of soft focus and toilet paper – a turgid landscape. Collotype and Screenprint – text and image. A  remembered exhibition.
• Rediscovering the printing process after nearly 40 years has been an interesting process – disappointingly modern inks are not as rich in colour (earthy colours are very plastic like) and modern water based inks don’t become part of the surface, they sit on it, which is incredibly frustrating – the reason I took up printing in the first place was because of the absorbed flatness of the pigments.
  
• ‘Stoned Moon Series’ was Rauschenberg’s ambitious response to the American space program and the landmark Apollo 11 mission that put Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the lunar surface in July 1969. At the invitation of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Rauschenberg witnessed the momentous launch of Apollo 11 at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.’
  Taken from: http://www.mmoca.org

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Original painting by Peter Bright . Media: Painting and Screen Print on canvas, signed and dated. Size: 600mm x 500mm Includes original 1970s frame… Contact here with any offer! (Any offer will be considered.) ARTIST + S T A T E M E N T …  Guy the Gorilla (May 30, 1946 – 1978) was a Western Lowland Gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) which was London Zoo‘s famous resident, something of a celebrity in the 1960s–70s and was often profiled on kids TV shows and natural history productions. Guy the Gorilla was one of London Zoo’s best-loved animals.He arrived at the zoo on 5 November 1947, Guy Fawkes Night, hence his name. He was a tiny baby, weighing just 23 lb (10 kg) and holding a small tin hot-water bottle. Guy was the replacement for the zoo’s previous gorilla, Meng, who died in 1941. Guy was captured in the French Cameroons on behalf of Paris Zoo and was traded for a tiger from Calcutta Zoo. It was organized that London Zoo would have Guy. The Paris Zoo Director sent instructions to their game department in West Africa to find a suitable female to mate with him.London sent a request to a variety of animal dealers and zoos worldwide to find a mate, and in 1969 the zoo was offered Lomie, a five year old female who had been living in nearby Chessington Zoo. She lived in the old Monkey House in London Zoo for a year before being introduced to Guy. Peter Bright (aka This Window)

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Found art - worth nothing

Old #drawing found in box – worth millions ?

Well to be honest this drawing is probably worth nothing but it was a pleasant surprise to rediscover it.

This drawing was created around 1981 – I’m not sure why I did it but I’m glad it wasn’t lost.

Drawing: Common tools for making marks include graphite pencils, pen and ink, inked brushes, wax color pencils, crayons, charcoal, chalk, pastels, markers, styluses, and various metals (such as silverpoint). An artist who practices or works in drawing may be called a draughtsman or draftsman.

It could be argued that photocopying machines and printers can create drawings.

The most common support for drawing is paper, although other materials, such as cardboard, plastic, leather, canvas, and board, may be used. Temporary drawings may be made on a blackboard or whiteboard or indeed almost anything. The medium has been a popular and fundamental means of public expression throughout human history. The relatively easy availability of basic drawing instruments makes drawing more universal than most other media.

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Peter Bright exhibitions #printmaking

Peter Bright (aka This Window) will be exhibiting at least three new prints at an exhibition called, ‘Offset‘. Offset is an exhibition of prints by North Devon Artists at West Buckland School which starts March 5th.

Below are a couple of recent exhibition contributions:

The Alabama Art Kitchen, USA

Here is an image that was exhibited at The Alabama Art Kitchen (An Art Collective) 2626 University Blvd. Tuscaloosa, AL 35401, USA, during February 2012.

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Peter Bright @ Cheim & Read

Has Jesus cast out the money lenders from the temple or is he charging rent?

This is the print was exhibited at Cheim & Read, 547 W 25th Street, New York, USA. (January 2012)

"I was delighted to be included in this exhibition which also featured artworks by Jeff Koons, Yoko Ono, John Waters, Donald Baechler, Marilyn Minter, Ed Ruscha, Polly Apfelbaum, Adam Fuss  and Kiki Smith."

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This Belongs to Us - Curated by Richard Haines

Every month, Visual AIDS invites guest curators, drawn from both the arts and AIDS communities, to select several works from the Frank Moore Archive Project. This month, Richard Haines curates the artwork of Archive Members; David B. Abbott, Marcelo Alves, Bern Boyle, Rene Capone, Joe De Hoyos, Jimmy DeSana, Bryan Hoffman, Jerry Hooten, Samuel Lewis, Eric Molnar, Daniel Roberts, Nelson Edwin Rodriguez, Joseph Stabilito, and George Towne.

From the Curator's Statement:

As I looked through the archive so many memories came rushing at me. Maybe this is why it's taken so long to curate this web gallery. It's incredibly painful to relive this amount of loss. This is my generation. I get the references, the styles. But now the work is everyone's generation, it belongs to all of us. That's part of the great beauty of art.  (read more)

About the Curator:

Richard Haines often refers to New York City as an endless runway; befitting of a man who moved to the big city to pursue illustration, became a successful fashion designer, and who has come full circle as one of today’s most sought after fashion illustrators. In fact, many look to Haines as the impetus of fashion illustration’s resurging popularity today.

Haines' illustrations regularly grace the pages of InStyle Magazine and his wildly popular website, What I Saw Today which feature his personal and professional works, has received accolades from respected critics at Paper Magazine, New York Magazine, men.style.com, refinery29.com and getkempt.com, to name just a few.  It is not uncommon to see Haines seated front row at fashion week’s most desirable shows busily sketching images for magazines and blogs who hire him to record what no camera is capable of capturing. In July 2009, Haines received his first solo show at one of the Lower East Side’s most respected galleries, Envoy Enterprises.

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Katerina Stamatelos - website feature

From the website of:

Katerina Stamatelos

I have been drawing since my childhood: models in fanciful dresses, but mostly entire cities. I also used to write poetry. 

By age nine, I knew exactly what I wanted to become in life: an architect! But then, by age fifteen, I listened to Khachaturian’s second symphony: my feelings were so intense that I immediately knew I HAD to become a musician. Composition never appeared into my fantasy world: I thought this was the privilege of musical geniuses and I did not consider myself being one.

Throughout my adolescence, several teachers of different disciplines were trying to talk me into this or the other artistic profession. All had one common demand: absolute devotion. I followed that by choosing piano performance and, over the next decades, I devoted myself to this art entirely. I was happy with my decision but not entirely happy to have chosen only one direction-and, secretly, continued drawing….. 

The good thing about my choice: I learned to focus. This ability would prove to be priceless during my later artistic development. But, one day, something inside me exploded: I allowed myself to study Fashion Design! What followed was a complete surprise: I started composing! Poetry seemed to flow naturally... Finally, serious painting followed.

Compositions List Compositions list: Katerina Stamatelos' official webpage where a complete list of her compositions can be found.

Music Reviews. Music reviews.Katerina Stamatelos's piano performance and composition music reviews.

Discography Discography. Katerina Stamatelos, New Music Composer and Concert Pianist: Discography.

 
Up and coming events:

Saturday, October 29. 2011 @ 7 p.m.
Solo recital
Music in Williamsburg
preceded by church dinner @ 5:30 p.m.
Gretchen Saathoff, pianist
First Congregational Church of Williamsburg
Williamsburg, MA

Sunday, November 6, 2011 @ 4 p.m.
Solo recital
Sunday Concert Series
Gretchen Saathoff, pianist
Applewood at Amherst Retirement Community
Amherst, MA

Wednesday, November 9, 2011 @ noon
Solo recital
Wednesday Concert Series
Gretchen Saathoff, pianist
The Interchurch Center
New York, NY

Program:
Bach/Busoni, "Ich ruf' zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ"
Bach, Prelude and Fugue No. XXII in B-flat minor, BWV 867, WTC Book I
Mendelssohn, "Songs Without Words" (selections)
Liszt, "Consolation No. 3"
Liszt, "Nuages Gris"
Katerina Stamatelos, "VARIATIONS and INVOCATIONupon a "Kyrie Eleison" and an "Anathema," Op. 4
In Memoriam Béla Bartók
Gershwin, Preludes:
Melody No. 17
Sleepless Night
Novelette in Fourths

Katerina Stamatelos - Interview

• You have a list of awards etc. as long as my arm, do you think you have had a privileged transition through your career or do you think it has been an extremely hard journey?

I had a normal musical life: studied at Conservatories and Universities for many years. I had a "strict" schooling and excellent teachers. In this, I do feel "privileged". But I also had to work very hard for that. I started as a pianist and continued as a piano teacher/professor for many years, concertizing at the same time. My transition to composition was abrupt: I wrote a choral piece in Greece and it was chosen to be performed at the greatest concert hall of Thessaloniki (my home town) next to Mozart's "Requiem" and Haydn's "Symphonie Concertante". That was a shock! Having my first composition performed in front of an audience of 1,200 people! Read more...

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•  A bombardment of self promotion from twitter, facebook etc.
  

  "Come and see my new products on my new website! ;) "   You know as soon as that pops up in front of you on your screen the prospect of ...
• Mail Art invented social networks

  Mail art is a worldwide art and music movement that began in the early 1960s. the principle is simple you send visual art (but also musi...

Art bits and pieces

  From thiswindow.org

Can a creative person ever be truly happy as they constantly strive for perfection in their chosen art? Listen to an interview with Garry Smout, who talks about the problems of using early portable black and white video cameras in the 1970’s, pioneering a literary review website the Barcelona Review, early synths and how to kill your babies. The problem with being creative is that everything has to be pushed to the limits.

I have decided to recycle some old preview invitations that I sent out for exhibitions over the years.

The ant and the word bug amused me.

The term mixed media has always made me want to reach for the puke bucket – I prefer the expression ‘Combine Painting’ or in this case ‘Combine Drawing’. I have always been a hoarder, newspaper clippings, postcards etc. It is only now that I have decided to recycle them. Juxtaposing images, either as a collage or printing is not simply a decorative process it is a complicated exercise. The mind always tries to create a narrative between images. The juxtaposition of arbitrary marks, color, photographs etc. will always tease and trick the mind into rationalizing what it is trying to process and attempt to make physical world references – in other words make sense of what it is trying to analyze.

BUg = aNT old exHIBitIOns

Invited to perform @ 3rd mail-art festival ( 14th April 1990) – OJC Clichee in Sint-Niklaas, Belgium, as ‘This Window’ Click here for This Window’s reviews in GAJOOB =======================

Royal Albert Memorial Museum Exeter March 2nd 1979 – 24th March 1979 Exhibition of Prints from Exeter College of Art

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10-31 mai 1979 École Regional des Beaux-Arts RENNES Une exposition commune des élèves

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  Below is an article from Technorati.com 

“Come and see my new products on my new website! “ You know as soon as that pops up in front of you on your screen the prospect of having a tooth removed without pain relief is more tempting. This constant relentless blitzkrieg of drivel makes me want to surrender. Quite frankly if your modus operandi is purely to get noticed, because you think  you are interesting, you need to get a life! Put some of your energy into saving the planet (or a Panda) and not just your ego. Better still get out there and make real friends and become interesting.

This constant bombardment of self promotion from twitter, facebook etc. is driving me nuts. The Internet is a more sophisticated tool than this. It is a travesty to allow it to become a vehicle for pure unadulterated, egotistical spam.

Read more: http://technorati.com/business/small-business/article/i-would-rather-have-a-tooth1/#comments#ixzz1Zz9fhNYg


Twitter has taught us to edit our content -  you only have 140 creative letters (characters)  to tell or sell your dreams. There are several ways small and large businesses can  entice prospective clients by using keywords.  Continue reading →

Mail Art - bring it back!

Mail art is a worldwide art and music movement that began in the early 1960s. the principle is simple you send visual art (but also music, sound art, poetry, etc.) through the international postal system. Mail Art is sometimes known as Postal Art or Correspondence Art. Mail Art is a network, based on the principles of barter and equal one-to-one collaboration.

After a peak in popularity in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Mail Art phenomenon has gradually migrated to the Internet, whose “social networks” were largely anticipated and predicted by the interactive processes of postal collaborations. Nevertheless, Mail Art is still practiced  by a loose planetary community involving thousands of mailartists from the most varied backgrounds.

See This Window the pseudonym of Peter Bright.

I will mail you a postcard of an image that was exhibited recently in an exhibition of mine. I have always loved the idea of Mail Art – the forerunner of the Internet! Mail art is a worldwide network… Continue reading →

Below is the original blurb and finished piece that was sent to a mailart exhibition in the USA in 2003. This was posted and accepted and an email was recieved confirming arrival on Sept 4th 2003.

"I just thought I'd let you know that your piece arrived today, completely in tact.  Not even bent!  I love the postal service!
Thank you so much for your contribution."
Melissa Muller

Capitalism = Terrorism exhibited @ “Gallery Night & Day, October 24th & 25th, 2003 – Kunzelmann-Esser Lofts, Milwaukee, Wisconsin“ Who buys Art online? Do people make impulse ART purchases on the Internet? If you have your paintings hanging in a gallery, shop etc then you can encourage people to look, touch even smell your works of art. High Street shopping and gallery purchases … Continue reading ?					In the eyes of the ones who have nothing….Capitalism = Terrorism Materials: Acrylic and Oil Paint with commercial vinyl. This image was created on a computer running Windows 98, manipulated and edited using Signlab. The finished version was cut out in vinyl with a Camm-1 Plotter and stuck onto board. 'Mass Production and The New Jesus and Mary' Memorial design is now almost completely originated on the computer. Standard designs can be purchased from catalogs. My work as a memorial designer has involved producing bespoke designs for commercial clients who reproduce images over and over again. Tue Apr 8 01:31:30 2003 'Christ the Capitalist' The corruption within the 'established church' has been exposed. Has Jesus cast out the money lenders from the temple or is he charging rent? Jesus Christ, a symbol of capitalism. Sun July 27 11:18:46 2003
Methodology
'Computer cut religious imagery; why look any further? ' Quote

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West Buckland Festival - Auction

SILENT AUCTION LOTS

Bidders are invited to make secret bids for lots in the 'Silent Auction' from 15th August by placing a sealed envelop, containing a sheet of paper with your name, address, bid and telephone number on it, into the 'Bid Box' in St Peter's Church, West Buckland. You may place an email bid here.

Sitemaps and Seo: Buy Art:

The winner of each Lot will be announced at ‘The Evening with Dana’ concert on Sunday 11th September.

Lot 1 : The choice of one of three paintings or drawings by Gerald Moore. These will be exhibited in St. Peter’s Church from 15th August until 11th September 2011.

Minimum Bid £200

The three paintings are part of the unique Collection of the Works of Gerald Moore and are due to be exhibited permanently soon in a London Gallery. Read more…

‘Dog in Landscape’

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Free Art Download

My art for free This page is lifted from www.peterbright.info.

This image is a version of a lithograph I did in 1978. To download it (high resolution) click on the image. This print was manipulated using Photoshop in 2002 and exhibited in 2004. The original lithograph, which is framed and signed is for sale at £85.00. If you want to buy it contact me.

If you download it, print it off and then mail it to me I will sign it and return it if you send me the postage costs.

Background info: 1978: I once had a girlfriend called Anne who wore ‘Charlie’ perfume. Every time we came close I sneezed.  I was allergic to her bottled smell…

During the 1980‘s I was involved with the Mail Art scene. Mail art is a worldwide cultural movement that began in the early 1960‘s and involves sending visual art (but also music, sound art, poetry, etc.) through the international postal system. Mail Art is also known as Postal Art or Correspondence Art. The term networking is often used to describe Mail Art activities, based on the principles of barter and equal one-to-one collaboration.

After a peak in popularity in the late 1980‘s and early 1990‘s, the Mail Art phenomenon has gradually migrated to the Internet, whose “social networks” were largely anticipated and predicted by the interactive processes of postal collaborations. Nevertheless, Mail Art is still practiced in the new Millennium by a loose planetary community involving thousands of mailartists from the most varied backgrounds.

Q U O T E : “The perfect conduit for This Window’s music and art was the Cassette Culture and Mail Art scenes. These networks of artists and musicians encouraged an early form of open source cooperation, with projects being shared and created. This methodology fitted in with This Window’s approach to creativity.”

above from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Window

Printmaking Workshop - North Devon

Peter Bright (aka This Window) will be giving a hands on introduction to woodcuts and how to create prints at West Buckland School in North Devon (UK). Within the time frame it is hoped that each participating member will be able to create a finished image. The techniques he will be introducing will be simple 'kitchen table' processes that will be easy to replicate at home. Read more about his work...

Printmaking Workshop:

Saturday 11th June 10-1.30pm £28.75

(venue: West Buckland School, NorthDevon, UK)

For further details of the available courses, or to request a booking form please contact Karen Wicks kaw@westbuckland.devon.sch.uk or telephone 01598 760281. 

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Printmaking Workshop

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Peter Bright - Exhibition

In preparation for an exhibition in June I have begun to draw again. My previous methodology relied on me subcontracting my creativity to either 'chance', allowing the medium to take partial control over the finished image or by letting the computer system deal with my creativity in its prescriptive manner - the program has ways of dealing with commands in a very limited way, hacking the software is the only way of producing images that are different from our everyday visual blitzkrieg of imagery...we are subjected to via the Internet, the printed page and video.

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A D V E R T 

Broomhill Art Hotel near Barnstaple, Devon  still have a few of Peter Bright’s paintings available for sale. Examples of his work are in collections in the USA, Switzerland, France and many other European countries.

"Going back to the basic skills of drawing is an interesting excursion - a journey I'm not sure I will complete. Drawing a life model for the first times in decades was a bit daunting but old tricks and shortcuts were soon remembered and in many respects drawing is a bit like riding a bicycle." 

Address: Broomhill Art Hotel, Barnstaple, Devon, EX31 4EX

Website: www.broomhillart.co.uk

Email: info@broomhillart.co.uk

Telephone: 01271 850262

Access: Good

Shipping Available

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A R T I S T' S * N O T E S

Ref. (actually it is bullshit)

Robert Rauschenberg was a massive influence on my painting, printing and music. Images (and sounds) that are arbitrarily spliced together in an apparent random manner will, when juxtaposed against each other, create a narrative. This meshing together of unrelated imagery may appear to be arbitrary but the intellectual decision making that goes with the process is absolutely phenomenal. It is therefore unrealistic to expect the uneducated masses to view these images as ‘real art’. The birth of Photoshop has enabled everybody to create ‘non-intellectual’ versions of Rauchenberg (and Warhol) – only the educated truly understand.

Taken from blurb of the show at Broomhill (June 2010)

Notes:

• Fingerprints on white borders – nightmare on a short print run. A fingerprint is an impression left by the friction ridges of a human finger = fingerprints are the traces of an impression from the friction ridges of any part of a human hand. Impressions of fingerprints may be left behind on a surface by the natural secretions of sweat from the eccrine glands that are present in friction ridge skin, or they may be made by ink or other substances transferred from the peaks of friction ridges on the skin to a relatively smooth surface such as a fingerprint card. Fingerprints records normally contain impressions from the pad on the last joint of fingers and thumbs, although fingerprint cards also typically record portions of lower joint areas of the fingers.
• Action Painting – Pollock. Print dribbled paint