Il pubblico usa il gesso per creare arte

One of the great things, one occasionally sees at Cleveland Museum of Arts are the chalkies in September. One needs to view from a specific spot to get the best effect of the forced perspective. Here is a visual trick with three dimensional chalk art, trompe-l'œil, meaning deceives the eye. The French know tromp is a deceiver.

This drawing was small and beautiful, a male hooded oriole.

There were oak trees dropping nuts. Someone gathered them.

Georges de La Tour. The Tears of St. Peter/Repentant St. Peter. Cleveland. 1645. 

His work was neglected for centuries, he was a tenebrist after the Dutch Caravaggisti. La Tour's subjects were religious, and often revisited. His tendency was to have the figures rounder, and bit more simple rather than sharply defined. The original sits in the museum meters away. The original cockerel is facing the other way, and not so judgemental. The New Testament tells us Peter would deny Jesus three times before the cock crowed. The legend attached was that Peter was always with a cockerel. Also, this is why the bird is on a weather vane.

James Earl Jones has recently died. An artist left a chalk portrait.

I guess the same artist drew Stephen John Nedoroscik, an American Olympian gymnast who specialises in the pommel horse. In past years, i have seen other athletes [click for Baker] limned by the same hand.

Sláva Ukrayíni

Year by year, the selections both vary and stay stay similar. There were many anime cartoon characters, which i can not identify. In years past there had been many Disney characters, less so this year. Snoopy on his doghouse, with and without Woodstock was popular. There were fewer copies of master paintings, a bunch of family dogs, a few birds, even more fish, fewer Hallowe'en images, a few chapter and verse citations, and few political themes. This one is on the bloody horror of assault weapons (euphemism for mass killing civilian version of military semi-automatic rifles).

Early Sunday morning two drawings considering Palestine, and the slaughter of thousands of children in Gaza.

Woman holding the shrouded body of a child.

A little later on Sunday morning, a crew came with materials, and tools to censor the political art.

Palestine censored, blacked out.