seriously groovy artwork for @gmuxx 's Art Prompt Contest

I need to start today by sharing this crazy meme

that came from the PAL room in discord, from @clayboyn
in celebration of the eclipse that some of our people have surely seen today

that's the wittiest thing I've seen today.

I have installed Grammarly at the urgings of a friend (who shall remain nameless although named at the same time, hint, hint)(no, not @clayboyn) and I am very tempted to take it off again.

It's a bit of a pain in the arse,
considering how carefully I manually proofread,
and how I like to use unconventional language.

So when you see what looks like a scotty typo, it might be, but it's probably not.

As Pablo Picasso said to an impertinent woman who inquired about a spill of paint, "if there's a splash of paint in the finished work you can be sure it was put there deliberately"

or words to that effect.
I went surfing to find it,
but only found pages and pages of other gems

I love too many quotes by this arsehole, but these two are new and speak deeply to me.

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​ In my opinion to search means nothing in painting.
To find is the thing.
Nobody is ​interested in following a man who,
with his eyes fixed on the grounds,
spends his life ​looking
for the pocketbook that
fortune should put in his path…
(Paris 1923). ​*​
source of his quote by: ​‘Picasso speaks’, text by Marius Zayas, in ‘The Arts’, New York, ​May 1923 ​

​ Among the several sins that I have been accused of committing,
none is more false ​than the one that I have,
as the principal objective in my work,
the spirit of research.
​When I paint my object is to show what I have found
and not what I am looking for.
In ​art intentions are not sufficient and,
as we say in Spanish,
love must be proved by facts ​and not by reasons…
(Paris 1923). ​*​
Picasso on painting – source of his quotes, writings and comments: ​“Futurism”, ed. By ​Didier Ottinger; Centre Pompidou / 5 Continents Editions, Milan, 2008, p. 311, note 721

source

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but we are not here to talk about the hard working Pablo Picasso.

beware, the following image is just an intermission,
allowing time for cleansing the mind of Picasso
and getting ready for the work of the el gran bicho
scroll like you've never scrolled before,
unless you have been on one of my posts lately of course,
and then maybe you are getting tired of it.

Are you still with me?

good

Everything ok, you are looking a little queasy, hellooo, is there anybody out there

ok, so back to the task at hand, some Art for muxxy's next contest.

I propose that he choose one of the images from my fuck squared cubed work.

I just made that name up on the spot.

These are a series of three diptychs that I did three years ago as the centre pieces of my show at Nando Arguelles Art Projects then located in Sotogrande in Cadiz, not far from the famous peñon de Gibraltar
The show was called "Estamos Hechos de Polvos" which I think works pretty well indeed.
This post will just get longer and longer if I continue down each side path, so I'll just go down the main road and cruise the scene see if there's any hot chick action.
lol
not really
but yes really too
of course
anyway, as long as they've got a brain, or they're cute, or they like me which is worth bonus points.

by the by.

The work I am specifically thinking of, is maybe more poetry dice than you wanted.
(note, I had never heard of poetry dice until like two days ago, or two weeks or something)

I have decided to put the names of these works further down the page, so those who don't want to be swayed by my titles, don't have to be.

companion work is this one

I literally have tens of works that I think would be great for such a comp. (or more, depends how wide you cast your net)

Maybe I could sponsor for exclusivity?
What do you think, I'll put 10 sbd towards the pot and use something of mine each time?

anyhow, that's probably not kosher to say that but maybe you like the idea,
although this art comp is great too

maybe I'll have to revive my competing contest.

lol

The next diptych

and the final one, for now, is called

all these works are watercolour, on acrylic paint, on heavy watercolour paper 42 X 30 cm and were for sale at 1.200€ the sheet

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now I am going to ruin it for some people by putting here a heap of text.

If you don't want to know anything about the works, stop reading here.
I will reproduce the text written by my beloved @menoslobos specifically for the catalog of this expo.

But first the titles of the above works too, in the same order
first diptych

the second coming, after Yeats, ¡claro! (sheet 1 and 2)

and the the second diptych is titled

for the love of gold, where were you when I was getting stoned (sheets 1 and 2)

and the third

turn in, tune up, take off, oh mama, this surely is a dream (hoja 1)

but first, the invitation, which I am sure you can see is based on the last painting presented here.

the text referred to the overall exhibition which had about 51 works hanging.

lol

Scott Charles Leichhardt Hollingsworth

“To exist is to change; to change is to grow; to grow is to continue to create oneself without end”
Henri Berson

Scott Charles Leichhardt Hollingsworth's body of work is change,
just as life,
a constant transformation.
In his work the complex becomes simple and the simple complex,
a contradiction,
or not?
We don't always see an artwork in the same way,
the contemplation of these works is pregnant with
our own state of mind.
The painting we look at today is not
the same painting we saw yesterday,
simply because we are a different person than
the one we were yesterday.
And what do we feel when we see these works?
They are the present moment,
the channel of our emotions;
today one might be lifted to happiness,
and tomorrow dashed down to long hidden sadness.
In his exhibition Scott proposes a special relationship with his works,
less rational, less conceptual and more sensorial.
An abandonment to the pure contemplation of form and colour...
when we look at these works the enjoyment is purely aesthetic,
we don't need to have special knowledge or training,
only a desire to see.
It may seem the work presented here in
Nando Argüelles Art Projects share no common ground,
but a closer look reveals them to be complementary,
as if some were the original work and the other,
an image reflected in a mirror.
On one hand colour invades the space,
with a series of brightly coloured works,
full of life and movement.
Warm, alive and glowing and although the compositions might remind us of geometric abstraction,
they move away from the cool and hyper rational nature that one would associate with this tendency, reaching textures of an almost organic nature,
stemming from the use of multiple layers of superimposed colours.
A long process of painting and repainting.
He calls this work Abstract Pointlessism.
In this work, despite the appearance of regularity and sequential repetion, there is, in the painters actions, a desire to break with order.
This is accentuated by the use of forms or words that could be considered irreverent, at the very least,
and in this work make for an attractive and eccentric nod to the viewer On the other hand, with the diptychs, unpaintings, as the artist is calling them, the most recent work in the show, the work takes another turn.
This is in as much for the technique employed as for the content and aesthetic. Are these works woven from dreams, or perhaps from awakenings?
Are they dreams that have been painted, or are they painting that has changed into dream?
Mysterious and brooding,
they are unsettling works,
with great expressive force.
Forms emerge from the darkness and become tangible,
without losing their ethereal essence.
The work of Scott Charles Leichhardt Hollingsworth is something alive and won´t leave us indifferent.
The viewer will identify with it or they will reject it.
There is no objective explanation,
this will always depend on the eye that contemplates the work.

Painting isn't about an experience, it is an experience.

Mark Rothko

Texto; Gloria San Jose, Cultural commentator
Translation from Spanish; Scott Hollingsworth

all images and all artworks are by el bicho mismo @spaingaroo

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I have played with including a little story in each post about my reality here with all the mouths to feed.
How about another gif instead.

I might well write a post and then start linking it
That sounds better

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I have been forgetting to mention that I am in the running for MAP 12 so if you would like to vote for me you can do it at the linked post

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if you want to see a few more of my things try

my previous entry in muxxy's competition of which this post is, and only one so far

• Bubba stirs but doesn't wake

and a couple of entries in the creativity comp

• Collision Clouds are Gathering
• Confusion, Steemit be thy Name

poems and artlols (more gifs and images)

• Newton's Night time vigil /(poetrydice entry/)
• Truth is a theme important to me, /(runaway rhymes entry/)
• Stand and Deliver, your cryptos or my life
• Do we really need drugs?
• I got my eye on you
• experiments in AI

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lol

maybe this is common place,
tomorrow.
remember where you saw it first.
The blockchain doesn't lie
images by @spaingaroo, artwork by @spaingaroo, incredible chewy goodness by @spaingaroo

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