January-February 2011 Newsletter

Art Club Of Belleview Newsletter

Our art club was established to have fun, and to promote art in the Belleview area. Our membership is $12 per year. If you would like to meet new friends, chat with other artists or promote your art, come see us. Our meetings take place the first Friday of each month at 4 p.m at the Belleview Library. We are open to new ideas and enjoy meeting new people. You'll love our friendly atmosphere, we are looking forward to seeing you.

Businesses exhibiting work from the Art Club of Belleview:Independent Bank
10990 S US Hwy 441
Belleview

Community Bank
10131 S US Hwy 441
Belleview

Belleview Chamber of Commerce
5301 SE Abshier Blvd.
Belleview

Cal's Place
11007 SE 66 Ter.
Belleview

State Representative Kurt Kelly Office
5612 SE Abshier Blvd.
Belleview

Blue Water Colon Care and Therapeutic Massage
5251 SE 113th St.
Belleview

Voice of South Marion
5516 SE 113th St.
Belleview

Community Links
9977 SE 58 Ave.
Belleview

B.D Beans Cafe
5148 SE Abshier Blvd.
Belleview

Humane Society of Marion County
701 NW 14th Rd.
Ocala

Mary Fox Tax & Acounting
5608 SE 113th St.
Belleview

The Cornerstone Team
KellerWilliams Realty
Spruce Creek South

Goin' Postal Belleview
11787 S US Hwy 441
Belleview

Solar Trek
202 SE 33 Rd. Ave., Unit C
Ocala

Liberty Tax Service
5518 SE Abshier Blvd.
Belleview

Goin' Postal
3535 SE Maricamp Rd., Suite 505
Cedar Shores Plaza, Ocala

Don Notthingham & Assoc.
11415 SE 62 Ave
Belleview

Ocala Affordable Airconditioners, Inc
11797 S US Hwy 441
Belleview

Edward Jones
5900 SE Abshier Blvd.
Belleview
Capt'n Jack's Boat Brokerage
12401 S US Hwy 441
Belleview

Famous Artists Quote

"Colour and I are one. I am a painter." - Paul Klee, 1914.

"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary" - Pablo Picasso

"Creativity is . . . seeing something that doesn't exist already. You need to find out how you can bring it into being and that way be a playmate with God." - Michele Shea

"The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless." - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Art Club Of Belleview April 2011 at City Hall in Belleview. The Art club of Belleview, with cooperation with Belleview City Hall , is organizing an international art exhibition "Colorful world around us" for children and students 6-18 years old. The art works will be divided into three categories: 6-9; 10-14; and 15-18 years.Art Club Of Belleview

Drop off days are March 20, 21,19,20,24, at the Chamber of Commerce in Belleview
Please note that we are accepting one picture of each participant. Each piece should be sign and have tag with name, age, school ( or phone number when particip...ant can be reached) Each art work should be unframed and signed on the back with full name and age , address and phone number .Winners will be announced April 10, 2011

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Famous Artist Biography:

born Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón - Coyoacán, Mexico - 6th of July, 1907 / Died 13th of July, 1954

Frida Kahlo is one of Mexico's most famous artists. Well known for her self portraits emphasizing her inner struggles, Kahlo managed to gain fame with both her artwork and her public persona before her death in 1954.

Frida Kahlo was born on July 6, 1907 as Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderon in Coyoacan, Mexico to Guillermo Kahlo and Henriette Kaufmann. Her father was of German descent, having changed his name from Wilhelm to the Spanish equivalent, Guillermo, upon his arrival to Mexico in 1891. Frida later acknowledged her German heritage during World War II by spelling her name as Frieda, the German equivalent to Frida.
Having two older older sister and one younger, Frida grew up in a home filled with feminism, despite the unhappy marriage between her parents. At the age of six, Frida contracted polio. Although she recovered from the disease, it left her right leg obviously thinner than her left. Later in life Frida would wear long skirts to cover the deformity.
Frida Kahlo attended local schools and, at the age of 15, was enrolled in Preparatoria, a primary school. During this time and throughout her childhood, Kahlo witnessed the Mexican Revolution evolve around her. It was so close, in fact, that she remembered the gunfire and revolutionaries hopping into her yard to take cover. She also witnessed extraordinary violence, much of which stayed with her throughout her life.
On September 17, 1925, Kahlo was involved in a serious bus accident and suffered several injuries including a broken collarbone, broken spinal column, broken rigs, a broken pelvis, and eleven fractures in her right leg. A metal handrail also impaled her, damaging her reproductive capabilities. Although she fully recovered her ability to move and function, Kahlo was plagued by pain for much of her life.
Although she originally wanted to study medicine, the accident left Kahlo with a new desire to study art. While in recovery, Kahlo began painting full time in order to focus her attention away from her pain. She began painting self portraits due to the solitary state of her recovery and constant immobilization. Her paintings began reflecting more than her outside appearance and she wanted them to represent her inner conflicts as much as they represented her outer body.
As an artist, Kahlo admired and respected local muralist Diego Rivera and solicited advice on art. They fell in love as a result of their correspondence and married in 1929 to the disapproval of Kahlo's mother. They were nicknamed "the Elephant and the Dove" due Rivera's large size in comparison to Kahlo's petite figure.
Although Frida Kahlo is well known as a famous artist, she and her husband were also notorious for their troubled marriage and extramarital affairs. Kahlo had affairs with both men and women and, although Rivera was tolerant of her affairs within her same sex, he was jealous of her relations with other men. Rivera, for his part, had an affair with Kahlo's younger sister, Cristina. Kahlo and Rivera divorced in 1940 but remarried later that same year. Their second marriage was no less tumultuous than the first.
Kahlo and Rivera travelled to the United States for exhibitions of her work in Detroit, New York, and later in Paris. The couple eventually returned to Mexico to settle down and continue painting.
It was during this time that Kahlo and her husband housed Leon Trotsky and his wife as they fled from Stalin's regime in the Soviet Union. It became known after some time that Kahlo had an affair with Trotsky and the man and his wife eventually moved out.
Frida Kahlo died from a pulmanry embolism on July 13, 1954, having spent the last year battling various illnesses and physical problems (including the amputation of her right leg). During her life Kahlo painted 143 paintings, including fifty-five self portraits. Her works are well known for their symbolic realism and her ability to incorporate traditional Mexican styles into her work.

Art Club of Belleview's Artist Member of the Month

Bill Marder

In the 1950s Bill Marder, was among the first to utilize photography as a method of photographing the advertiser’s merchandise for producing catalogs, controlling the photography and printing processes from beginning to the end. In 1970 he moved to Hollywood Florida to help manage Dukane Press, part of International Silver Company. with one of the worlds largest in house photography and printing facilities that included the earliest scanners and computers.

During the 1970s Bill Marder entered in the collecting field of photography, authoring numerous books and articles on the history of photography. Most of these were illustrated with his own photography. His largest book, Anthony, The Man, The Company, The Cameras, 365 pages, and over 1000 illustrations were co-authored with his wife Estelle. The forward was by the noted historian and photographer Beaumont Newhall. This book was acclaimed in numerous reviews for its superb documentation, research and photographs on the history of photography. Marder’s book The History and Technique of a New Diffusion Process, utilized an instant paper negative process, (before Polaroid) which Bill Marder pioneered along with taking photographs using the large wood cameras 8x10 to 20x24 from his collection. Bill Marder has traveled throughout the United States, including the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York. Canada, France and England lecturing on the history of photography. In 1984 Marder’s historic collection of cameras and his new Anthony book were on display at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

In the 1990s with the entrance of the first digital camera, Bill Marder was one of the first to own, learn and develop techniques for use with his Mac computer.

In 2006 Bill Marder was the only photographer with 3 other women Artists selected from a number of entries from Florida to exhibit their work at the 2006 Biennial at the Appleton Museum of Art in Ocala, Florida. At the present time in the year 2009, he now uses 2- Panasonic 10 mega-pixel digital camera for his photographs along with his primary software, Painter 7 and Adobe Photoshop CS 2. He prints on 2 converted 6 color Epson 1280 printers, one for B&W and one for Color utilizing special archival carbon pigment inks. With his newly developed archival 'Photographic Art Pigment Process', Bill Marder is able to create original photographs on canvas or other art papers in Color or Black and White that outlast previous processes of photography. He has defined his work as a new advance in the many processes of Photography. Marder will be experimenting in 2008 and 2009 with newer creative techniques.

Marder’s works have been and are now in galleries in Belleview, Ocala and Gainesville and Tampa, Florida, as well as Albuquerque and Santa Fe, New Mexico, New York City and Port Jefferson, New York, Williamstown, Mass as well as in a number of private collections.

Marder has received numerous awards and acclaims for his technique and mastery of digital photography and large archival canvas works. His new 237 page, documented book, Indians In The Americas, The Untold Story has recently been published with excellent reviews for its extensive (780) endnotes detailing the struggles of the American Indians. It is filled with over 1000 photos and illustrations including many of his American Indian photos.

Bill's email is: sacrcir@aol.com and website: http://www.billmarder.com

Exploring interesting techniques in art: Lithograph The design is drawn or painted on the polished, or grained, flat surface of a stone, usually Bavarian limestone, with a greasy crayon or ink. The design is chemically fixed on the stone with a weak solution of acid and gum Arabic. In printing, the stone is flooded with water which is absorbed everywhere except where repelled by the greasy ink. Oil-based printer's ink is then rolled on the stone, which is repelled in turn by the water-soaked areas and accepted only by the drawn design. A piece of paper is laid on the stone and it is run through the press with light pressure, the final print showing neither a raised nor embossed quality but lying entirely on the surface of the paper. The design may be divided among several stones, properly registered, to produce, through multiple printings, a lithograph in more than one color. A transfer lithograph (French, autographie) employs the same technique, but the design is drawn on special transfer paper and is later mechanically transferred to the stone. A zincograph is the same technique, but employing a zinc plate rather than a stone.

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Art Club of Belleview Presents




THE BELLEVIEW ART FESTIVAL



SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2010



9 AM – 3 PM



LAKE LILLIAN PARK




Local artists will be showing their work around Lake Lillian. Entertainment of all kinds will be provided all through the day. There will be food vendors as well. Come out and enjoy the day!




This is FREE to all artists displaying their art. Craft booths will be charged $5,

Food Vendors will be charged $25. The booth space will be 12 x 12. We will not provide tables, chairs, or tents. That will be your responsibility.

If you want more than one 12 x 12 space, the cost will be only $5 for another space.




For information, or an application, please call Daniela Banatova at 245-4728.

Applications must be in by Friday, November 5, 2010.




Here are just some of the activities that will happen throughout the day

Artist Booths – art will be judged and awards given

Craft Booths

Live music

Dance

Food

Fashion

Jewelry

Face Painting

Funniest Dog Dress Up Show – all profits will go to the Marion County Humane Society




JOIN US ON NOVEMBER 13, 2010 FOR

A FUN FILLED DAY OF ART IN THE PARK!

Belleview Art Festival Application
Saturday, November 13, 2010
9 AM – 3 PM
Lake Lillian Park, Belleview, FL 34420

Name or Business Name______________________________________
Address ___________________________________________________
City, State, Zip ______________________________________________
Phone ________________________ Cell_________________________
Email: _____________________________________________________

Your booth space will be 12 x 12. We will not provide tables, chairs, or tents. That will be your responsibility. If you want more than one 12 x 12 space, that will cost anyone only $5 for another space.

____ Artist Booth – Free (for one booth space) Type of art ____________________________

____ Craft Booth – $5.00 Type of craft __________________________

____ Food Vendor $20.00 Type of Food __________________________
____ Additional Booth Space $5.00 Need Electricity ____________

TOTAL AMOUNT DUE _____________ (Please make check payable to “Art Club of Belleview”)

I agree to indemnify the Art Club of Belleview or anyone connected with the show and exhibit and hold them harmless against all actions, claims, liabilities, losses, costs, and expenses which, in any way may arise in connection with or resulting from Belleview Art Festival, including claims for bodily injury or death of persons, and for loss of or damage to property, whether the same is due to negligent act of omission of this organization, their agents, employees, or otherwise.

Signature: ___________________________________ Date: _____________________


Set up for the Belleview Art Festival will be the morning of the festival. You can bring your vehicle
to your space to unload your items, but all cars must be out of the Festival booth area by 8:30 am.
Please mail this application and money to:
Art Club of Belleview
C/o Daniela Banatova
11782 SE 99 Terrace
Belleview, FL 34420

Application must be in by Friday, November 5. You will be able to find out where your booth will be on Saturday when you come to set up your booth. Someone will be at the large pavilion with the booth layout and will be able to direct you to your booth space.

Please make a copy of this application for your records before sending it to Daniela.

April 2010

Famous Artist of the Month: Sybil Andrews


Sybil Andrews biography

Sybil Andrews’ work has met with wide critical acclaim and ever increasing popularity. Her colour linocuts were featured extensively in the 2008 Fine Arts, Boston / Metropolitan, New York British Prints From the Machine Age - Rhythms of Modern Life 1914–1939 exhibition, and her work is held in major collections around the world.

Sybil Andrews’s interest in art began whilst working as an oxyacetylene airline welder in the First World War. During this time she took John Hassall’s* art correspondent course which introduced her to a number of different artistic media.

After the War she returned to her birthplace, Bury St. Edmunds, in Suffolk. Here she met Cyril Power who would influence her work, and with whom she would share a workshop for much of her early working life. They would also later collaborate on commissions from The London Passenger Transport Board, jointly signed with the pseudonym ‘Andrew Power’.

Wishing to pursue her interests in art Andrews enrolled at Heatherley’s School of Fine Art, London. But it was not until she became school secretary and attended Claude Flight’s linocut classes at the Grosvenor School of Modern Art that Andrews really found her métier, and she quickly became another acolyte of Flight’s enthusiasm for the colour linocut.

Whilst Andrews’ works evidence this assimilation of Flight’s formal language, they often depart from a depiction of the kinds of subjects – the dynamism of the modern world, its concern with speed and with technological advances – that Flight encouraged. Instead, Andrews more often sought to capture the rhythms and living movements of the human figure. She explored various sporting activities to this end, including football, horseback riding and motorcycle racing, as also activities associated with men’s physical work.

During the Second World War Andrews worked in a shipyard where she met her husband, and soon after (1947) the couple emigrated to the remote logging town of Campbell River on Vancouver Island, Canada. Here she achieved a large following which lasted well into the 1950’s. In the ‘60’s she fell into obscurity, but was rediscovered in the 1970’s. She died in 1992 leaving a body of work totalling almost 80 linocuts.



Please Copy and Paste the Following Link to See the Some of Our Members Painting A Mural For the Shepard's Lighthouse In Belleview:

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Art Club of Belleview Artist of the Month

James Dentici

James is from Long Island, New York, where he was a supervisor for the New York Telephone Company for many years. After moving to Florida in 1995, he became interested in photography, which became one of his hobbies, along with fishing.

James and his friends are always ready to look for some unusual photo opportunities to shoot, whether it be day or night, they're always ready with their cameras. Some of James' photographs have been displayed in local businesses in and around Belleview, Florida.

You can contact James at 352-821-3767 or email him at dancinggator1@yahoo.com


Famous Artist Quotes:

Art is made to disturb. Science reassures. There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.
Georges Braque


What moves men of genius, or rather what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.
Eugene Delacroix

I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.
Frida Kahlo

There is no must in art because art is free.
Wassily Kandinsky

Exploring New Techniques In Art:

http://graffitila.com/technique-and-aesthetics

Click on the above hotlink to learn a little about 'street art'. Graffiti is not just defined as writing or drawing on a train car, wall or some other type of object...Graffiti has grown into an expression of counter-culture. Some very creative energy and skill is in this mostly urban brand of art. There is a lot more than meets the eye!

Membership application

Art Club of Belleview
www.artclubbelleview.zoomshare.com
MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION
Membership Type: Individual Family

Name: Phone: (................................................................ )

Cell:(............................................................................)

Address:.............................................................................................................................................



City: State: .................................................................................................................

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E-mail: ...............................................................................


Artistic Interests:





The Art Club of Belleview is a non-profit organization with a dedicated purpose of promoting the arts. By signing this application, you and your family agree to abide by all club rules and to hold the Art Club of Belleview faultless, legally or otherwise, for damages suffered by you or your art while participating in any Art Club of Belleview meeting or event. The Art Club of Belleview reserves the right to terminate any membership, for any reason, at any time upon a fifty-one percent, (51%), majority vote of the board of directors. By signing this form, you agree not to sue the Art Club of Belleview, any member or any officer thereof, for any reason. The Art Club of Belleview board of directors and membership shall not be held liable for financial obligations or debts incurred by any member. Dues are $12.00 per year for individual or family memberships. Completed applications along with checks, payable to The Art Club of Belleview, should be mailed to:
The Art Club of Belleview
c/o James G. Dentici, Treasurer
17171 S.E. 165th Avenue Weirsdale,
FL 32195
Please call James or Carol at 352.821.3767 for membership information.


Signature:

Businesses exhibiting work from the Art Club of Belleview:
Independent Bank-10990 S US Hwy 441 Belleview
Community Bank-10131 S US Hwy 441 Belleview
Belleview Chamber of Commerce -5301 SE Abshier Blvd. Belleview
Cal's Place-11007 SE 66 Ter. Belleview
State Representative Kurt Kelly’s Office -5612 SE Abshier Blvd. Belleview
Blue Water Colon Care and Therapeutic Massage-5251 SE 113th St. Belleview
Voice of South Marion-5516 SE 113th St. Belleview
Community Links-9977 SE 58 Ave. Belleview
B.D Beans Cafe -5148 SE Abshier Blvd. Belleview
Humane Society of Marion County-701 NW 14th Rd. Ocala
Mary Fox Tax & Accounting-5608 SE 113th St.Belleview
The Cornerstone Team
KellerWilliams Realty
Spruce Creek South
Goin' Postal Belleview-11787 S US Hwy 441 Belleview
Solar Trek-202 SE 33 Rd. Ave., Unit C Ocala
Liberty Tax Service-5518 SE Abshier Blvd. Belleview
Goin' Postal-3535 SE Maricamp Rd., Suite 505 Cedar Shores Plaza, Ocala
Don Notthingham & Assoc.-11415 SE 62 Ave. Belleview
Ocala Affordable Airconditioners, Inc-11797 S US Hwy 441 Belleview
Edward Jones-5900 SE Abshier Blvd, Belleview, FL

Thank you for helping Belleview's artistic community grow!

A message from the mayor of Belleview,
Florida-Tammy Moore:
participate and enjoy art. This grant was supplemented by in-kind services by City staff as well as donations for prizes from our individual Commissioners and other local citizens. The children’s artwork was displayed on the walls of the Commission Chamber for all to see and enjoy. The children were recognized in a Commission meeting and also at a special reception held in the Commission Chambers. This has been a great project, and one that the City Commission has been proud to participate in.
The City Commission received a $500.00 grant from the Marion County Art Council that was to be used to encourage children of the area to
Mayor
Tammy Moore

Art Club of Belleview is preparing Colorful world around us, international student exhibition in December.


Goings On!

We will host a reception at Libery Tax September 18th. More information will be available soon.
September 25 is day of reception in Belleview Chamber of Commerce. Come to have fun with us. 5-7:30 pm

During the Nine-Mile Pond festivities at Lake Lillian in Belleview October 3th, 2009 There will also be a fashion show taking place at 1 p.m.
sponsored by Chamber of Commerce, Art Club of Belleview, All About Art and Soul Essentials of Ocala.
Walking Art Gallery: Chamber of Commerce and Art Club of Belleview are organizing Walking art Gallery at Nine Mile Pond. This will start at noon. We are inviting all artist from Marion County or farther to attend this event. Our goal is to show the public the art community here in Belleview) The artists will walk around Lake Lilian. Each artist should bring one of his/her works. The sign-up fee is a symbolic $.50 ( fifty cents). Money will be used through the Chamber of Commerce to promote the children's art show in December 2009 and for prizes.All children age 3-18 are welcome to join our fun event for free. Children age 3- 15 must be accompanied by one parent.Please get sign up sheet at Chamber of Commerce of print it our from http://www.artclubbelleview.blogspot.com/ and send it to Chamber of Commerce no later than 28 of September. $50 will be payable during the event.You name will be read.

Humane Society of Marion County, Belleview Chamber of Commerce and Art Club of Belleview are organizing Funniest dress up dog contest which will take place during 9 mile pond event in Belleview October 3, 2009 at 10 A.M Let your imaginary to flow with out border in dressing your dog for this event.......Registration fee is $5 per dog. Check should be made to Human society. Registration form could be obtain in Chamber of Commerce in Belleview, in Human So

ciety or it could be downloaded from http://www.artclubbelleview.blogspot.com/Registration with the fee, please, sent to Humane Society ( P.O.BOX 1542, Ocala Fl 34478-1542) attn Dog contests no later than Septenber 28

Prizes are :1.place 40 pounds of dog food2.place 30 pounds of dog food3.place 10 pounds of dog food3 honorable mentions dog goodies and toys.All proceeds from this event is going to benefit Humane Society.Please, do come to have fun with us.

October 23rd, the Art Club of Belleview will be sponsoring an Art Tour-stay tuned for more information.
http://www.artclubbelleview.zoomshare.com/re.com/

Art Club of Belleview has a member's exhibition in the Belleview City Hall and the Belleview Chamber of Commerce. Please come out and take a look!
We are also pleased to announce that Art Club of Belleview has art works on exhibit with our international friends and members from Poland, Holland, Czech Republic and Germany!


Our Featured Artist Member of the Month

Kazuko de Bie

Kazuko was born in Japan, and came to the United States as an exchange nurse. After raising a child, she began to create oil paintings. Kaziko specializes among other things in landscapes, cityscapes, and still-lifes. She works mainly in oil, and occasionally in water as medium. Kazuko has won many awards. Her cityscapes of Waukesha, Wisconsin are a permanent collection at the Waukesha Court House and City Hall. For these works she was awarded the key of the city. Currently two of her works, 'Chamber of Commerce' and 'Brickcity, Center of Art' are on display at the Planning Management building in Ocala. Her style of painting is mostly in impressionism, and sometimes in realism. You can contact Kazuko at: edmond@mfi.net

Featured Master Artist of the Month:

Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) was one of the most innovative and controversial artists of the early twentieth century. The son of an engraver, he studied at the State School of Applied Arts in Vienna. In the 1880s and 1890s he produced murals for public buildings -- including Vienna's Burgtheater and new Kunsthistorisches Museum (Art History Museum) -- in the prevailing classical-realist style. Klimt's style grew increasingly experimental, however, and his murals for Vienna University, commissioned by the State in 1894, were roundly attacked by critics for their fantastical imagery and their bold, decorative style. Partly in response to this reaction, in 1897 Klimt helped form the Secession, a group of artists dedicated to challenging the conservative Academy of Fine Arts. Influenced by European avant-garde movements represented in the annual Secession exhibitions, Klimt's mature style combined richly decorative surface patterning with complex symbolism and allegory, often with overtly erotic content. After 1900 he concentrated on portraits and landscapes, although he also produced two of his greatest murals during this period -- The Beethoven Frieze, exhibited at the Secession in 1902, and decorations for the Palais Stoclet in Brussels (1904-1911). Klimt spent most of his summers on the Attersee, near Salzburg, where he drew inspiration for many of his landscapes, and where he painted some of his best-known works, including The Kiss of 1907-8.

Famous Artist Quotes:

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream. Vincent van Gogh

Everyone wants to understand art. Why don’t we try to understand the song of a bird? Why do we love the night, the flowers, everything around us, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting, people think they have to understand.Pablo Picasso Quotes

"Colour and I are one. I am a painter." - Paul Klee, 1914.

"The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves." - Willem de Kooning, 1968

Exploring New Art Techniques

Naked Raku or Slip Resist Rakuis a relatively new technique which has risen out of the traditional Eastern and Western Raku Movements. As with traditional Raku, Naked Raku works are fired quickly in a rush of excitement, smoke, and frantic activity.Naked Raku works are constructed using traditional methods of hand building, wheel throwing or a combination of these techniques. The types of clay used will vary among artists; however, all clays used must be able to withstand the tremendous stresses of rapidly changing temperatures during the final firing. Once constructed, works are allowed to dry completely. They are then burnished or polished using an agate or other hard, smooth object. This process is very tedious and time consuming, often taking several hours to complete one piece. The finished works are not covered with glazes or surface preparations of any kind. The fine surface and beautiful shine is merely polished clay. The quality of the surface is directly proportional to the time the artist spends in burnishing. Upon completion of the burnishing stage the works are bisque fired to help strengthen them for the final firing process.Bisqued works are covered with a thin coating of liquid clay called slip. Once this layer is dry a thin layer of sacrificial glaze is then applied to the slip. These two layers dry and shrink at different rates and begin to produce a crackled surface. The work is then fired in a propane fueled Raku kiln to temperatures approaching 1800˚ F. The glowing hot works are quickly removed from the kiln and placed into metal cans containing newspaper and sawdust. The cans are then sealed allowing heavy black smoke to penetrate the works and seep through the cracks in the slip/glaze layer. When the works are cool the sacrificial slip and glaze layers are gently peeled away leaving the “Naked” clay surface with a randomly beautiful smoked design.Naked Raku works are one of a kind pieces of fine art. They are not intended for food or as containers for liquids. As with all works of fine art, Naked Raku pieces should be handled with care and protected from direct sunlight.


Florida landscape painter Jackie Schindehette and Equine artist Sharon Crute have partnered to help in the revitalization of historic downtown Ocala. Voilart! Art Gallery and Working Studio opens September 1, at 108 East Ft. King Street, just one block south of the Central Square. The public is invited to A Ribbon Cutting Opening Reception scheduled for Friday, September 4 from 5PM-8PM.
The gallery offers the finest in artistic excellence from these two accomplished artists. Sharon Crute’s dynamic paintings are a colorful and bold interpretation of the horse racing industry. Jackie Schindehette’s oil paintings give the viewer a glimpse of old Florida with sweeping vistas and moss draped oaks.
Voilart! Art Gallery is not only a gallery where people can see art at its best but is also a working studio offering the unique opportunity for the public to watch as these two artists actually create paintings from conception to the last brush stroke. Schindehette points out that "Sharon and I will be painting in the studio/gallery and invite people to stop by, sit a while, learn a little more about art and share our passion."
"The gallery will showcase our own paintings, but we are also on a mission to actively support all cultural events within the community, educate the public about the arts and provide a powerful presence in the downtown art scene", says co-owner Sharon Crute.
Crute and Schindehette have already begun to work for the arts community. The gallery will be headquarters for all painters participating in the World Wide Plein Air Event to be held September 12 in downtown Ocala from 7 AM - 5 PM. Maps of downtown charting the location of each artist will be handed out so the public can find and watch each artist working.
Original paintings by Crute and Schindehette will be available at Voilart! Art Gallery as well as giclee reproductions and gift items created from works by these two nationally recognized artists.
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Walking art gallery registration

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What is your favorite medium?.............................................................................



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Please send this registration form to Belleview Chamber of Commerce -5301 SE Abshier Blvd. Belleview 34420, attn Walking art gallery





Walking Art Gallery: Chamber of Commerce and Art Club of Belleview are organizing Walking art Gallery at Nine Mile Pond October 3,2009. This will start at noon. We are inviting all artist from Marion County or farther to attend this event. Our goal is to show the public the art community here in Belleview. The artists will walk around Lake Lilian. Each artist should bring one of his/her works. The sign-up fee is a symbolic $.50 ( fifty cents). Money will be used through the Chamber of Commerce to promote the children's art show in December 2009 and for prizes.All children age 3-18 are welcome to join our fun event for free. Children age 3- 15 must be accompanied by one parent.Please get sign up sheet at Chamber of Commerce of print it our from http://www.artclubbelleview.blogspot.com/ and send it to Chamber of Commerce(5301 SE Abshier Blvd, Belleview, Fl 34420) no later than 22 of September. $0.50 will be payable during the event.You name will be read. The best 3 art works will be recognized in both categories (Children and Adult)

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Please send this registration form with check made up to Humane society to this address:
Human Society of Marion County attn Dog show
P.O. Box 1542, Ocala Fl 34478-1542
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Humane Society of Marion County, Belleview Chamber of Commerce and Art Club of Belleview are organizing Funniest dress up dog contest which will take place during 9 mile pond event in Belleview October 3, 2009 at 10 A.M Let your imaginary to flow with out border in dressing your dog for this event.......Registration fee is $5 per dog. Check should be made to Human society. Registration form could be obtain in Chamber of Commerce in Belleview, in Human Society or it could be downloaded from http://www.artclubbelleview.blogspot.com/Registration with the fee, please, sent to Humane Society ( P.O.BOX 1542, Ocala Fl 34478-1542) attn Dog contests
Prizes are :
1.place 40 pounds of dog food
2.place 30 pounds of dog food
3.place 10 pounds of dog food
3 honorable mentions dog goodies and toys
All proceeds from this event is going to benefit Humane Society
Please do come to have fun with us.

June

Art Club will be holding a reception at the Belleview Chamber of Commerce from 5-7 p.m. On June 26th for our artists. Please come and support our local artists with your presence. Refreshments and door prizes will be available.

A special thank you to the following:
The Chamber of Commerce, T.J. Trophies of Ocala, Smith Lake Village Homeowners Association, Don Nottingham and Edward Jones in Belleview for their generous donations to our Children's Exhibition! The award ceremony was on May 19 during City Commissioners meeting.

Our Featured Artist of the Month:
Carol DenticiCarol is originally from Long Island, New York. For the past 25 years she has worked in stained glass. Since she was about four years old, Carol has been working with watercolor painting and graphite drawings, and now is trying her hand at colored pencil and acrylics.Her hobbies are painting gourds, creating cement/stained glass stepping stones, taking care of her garden and her animals, which include two Rat Terriers, a mini Dachshund, a full size Appaloosa horse and a miniature Appaloosa horse. Animals are one of the themes that often pop up in her watercolor paintings, like race horses and jungle animals.
Carol has been a great asset to our club since it's first meeting!

Exploring New Techniques:

Image Transfer
Ever wanted to print or copy a favourite picture onto another piece or paper or card? This simple process makes it easy:
Take the image you want to transfer and get a Canon colour photocopy made; you may need to reverse the image for it to transfer the right way It has to be a Canon photocopy because of the type of ink they use.
Take the photocopy, place it face down on the paper you wish to transfer it to and rub the back of the photocopy with a sponge soaked in a little acetone. Make sure you don't move the photocopy or the target paper while you do this.
The image will transfer from the photocopy to your paper.
Warning. Acetone is not a very nice material to breath so make sure you do this in a well-ventilated area or preferably outside. We braved the elements and did out transfers out doors. You can get acetone from hardware stores. Read the warning labels.

Famous Artist Quotes:
Cy Twombly A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.
Giorgio Morandi A sincere artist is not one who makes a faithful attempt to put on to canvas what is in front of him, but one who tries to create something which is, in itself, a living thing.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness
Diego Rivera ::: I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.
Rousseau, Henri,

Henri Julien Félix Rousseau

known as Le Douanier Rousseau (1844-1910). French painter, the most celebrated of naïve artists.
His nickname refers to the job he held with the Paris Customs Office (1871-93), although he never actually rose to the rank of `Douanier' (Customs Officer). Before this he had served in the army, and he later claimed to have seen service in Mexico, but this story seems to be a product of his imagination. He took up painting as a hobby and accepted early retirement in 1893 so he could devote himself to art.
His character was extraordinarily ingenuous and he suffered much ridicule (although he sometimes interpreted sarcastic remarks literally and took them as praise) as well as enduring great poverty. However, his faith in his own abilities never wavered. He tried to paint in the academic manner of such traditionalist artists as Bouguereau and Gérôme, but it was the innocence and charm of his work that won him the admiration of the avant-garde: in 1908 Picasso gave a banquet, half serious half burlesque, in his honor. Rousseau is now best known for his jungle scenes, the first of which is Surprised! (Tropical Storm with a Tiger) (National Gallery, London, 1891) and the last The Dream (MOMA, New York, 1910). These two paintings are works of great imaginative power, in which he showed his extraordinary ability to retain the utter freshness of his vision even when working on a large scale and with loving attention to detail. He claimed such scenes were inspired by his experiences in Mexico, but in fact his sources were illustrated books and visits to the zoo and botanical gardens in Paris. His other work ranges from the jaunty humor of The Football Players (Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1908) to the mesmeric, eerie beauty of The Sleeping Gypsy (MOMA, 1897). Rousseau was buried in a pauper's grave, but his greatness began to be widely acknowledged soon after his death.

Focus On:
All About Art-Unique Gift Shop and Gallery-5162 Southeast Abshier Blvd.

(Hwy. 441) Belleview, Florida-352 307-9774
Donna D'Amato-owner/proprietor
ACB: Donna, how long has All About Art been in business?
Donna: Since 2000.

ACB: What kind of place is All About Art?
Donna: We are a co-op of local artists, New Age classes/teachers and a shop that sells stones, clothing, and works of art.
ACB: What is your criteria for artists to be able to sell or exhibit their work here?
Donna: We have a panel of three who look at the sale-ability of a particular piece. However, if you can't fit in to the gallery, we have 'StarvingArtst” shows where you can bring your items to sell.
We really try to take in all aspects of art, greeting cards, clothing and pottery. We want to display all levels and styles of original artwork.
ACB: Can you tell us a little bit about what future events you will be involved in?
Donna: We are planning a children's pottery classes and in the spirit of Independence Day, we will be having a 'Made in America' 10% off discount sale on all items in our shop throughout the month of July. Also, Joy Scroggie will host classes on Organic Gardening, we are also planning a Parapsychology event on the 31st and June 18th, we will be hosting a special fashion show at the Villages.

Exhibition around the Globe

:This time we are going to see Palzzo delle Esposizioni in Rome

Bulgari. From History to Eternity. 125 Years of Italian Jewellery
Curated by Amanda Triossi22 May 2009 - 13 September 2009
Palazzo delle Esposizioni presents a landmark show devoted to the jewellery of Bulgari which marks the 125th anniversary of the opening of the first store in Rome in 1884. It is an event that is extremely significant for Italian decorative arts, in particular, for the history of jewellery, inasmuch as it makes it possible to survey the evolution of European jewellery through the production of one of the leading jewellers in the world.By bringing together nearly five hundred objects created between 1884 and 2009, the exhibition intends to illustrate the origin and success of an absolutely distinctive style and, at the same time, celebrate the extraordinary technical and creative quality of the famous Roman maison.Articulated in chronological and thematic sections in the eight monumental galleries of the piano nobile, the exhibition begins with a display of silver artefact's manufactured by the founder of the firm, Sotirio Bulgari, a Greek silversmith who settled in Rome in 1881. The following section is dedicated to the splendid diamond-set jewels in Art Déco style, which clearly illustrate the success the maison had achieved in the field of jewellery by the 1930s when the second generation of Bulgari, Giorgio and Costantino, succeeded Sotirio in running the firm. The exhibition continues with the most representative examples of the 1940s and 1950s, which were still stylistically influenced by the Parisian jewellery in vogue at the time, and then leads the visitor to the creative turning point of the 1960s. The jewellery here, marked by compact, rounded shapes and an abundant use of coloured gemstones in surprising and unusual combinations, reveals the beginning of a distinctive new style that coincides with the arrival of the third generation of Bulgari, that of Gianni, Nicola and Paolo. The extremely eclectic and original creations of the 1970s, ranging from jewellery evocative of the Indian tradition to that inspired by Pop Art, then develop into the innovative and daring designs of the 1980s and 1990s. The central rotunda of Palazzo delle Esposizioni, the visitor's final destination, is entirely dedicated to the most precious and exclusive creations of the new millennium which testify the continuing success of Bulgari, now under the guidance of Francesco Trapani of the fourth generation. Here, a diamond necklace of incomparable beauty and overwhelming economic value represents the most spectacular conclusion possible.The exhibition devotes special attention to some of the most significant themes of the Bulgari style such as: coins mounted in jewellery, serpent motifs, the so-called Tubogas and the BVLGARI logo used as a decorative element. An entire section is dedicated to the Dolce Vita and the company's close ties with the film industry of the 1950s and 1960s. For the first time ever, visitors will be able to admire the spectacular jewels worn by such great film stars as Ingrid Bergman, Gina Lollobrigida, Sophia Loren, Anna Magnani, as well as other celebrities, along with photographs and film clips. An entire room will be reserved for the extraordinary Bulgari collection belonging to Elizabeth Taylor: enormous emeralds and sapphires in magnificent diamond surrounds characterize the celebrated jewels of her love story with Richard Burton.Approximately two hundred and fifty items in the exhibition are part of the Bulgari Vintage Collection (a retrospective collection not for sale) while the jewels that come from private collections are on display here for the first time.This extraordinary exhibition is complemented by a richly illustrated catalogue of 376 pages, which is available in Italian, English and French.

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Art Business Centre

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Basic information about the Internet trade of Art Business Centre, ltd company:The Internet trade of Art Business Centre, ltd company is realized by form of sale, not by form of auction.The Internet trade of Art Business Centre, ltd company is conceptually organized as a visual salon of different areas of visual art, in sit and folk art. Apart from these areas the independent sections are antiques and services to customers/purchasers and services to artists.To participate this way of trade can every professional creative artist, author of work, in sit or folk artist, also any natural person or corporate body who is just owner of a work of art, regardless of EU state they come from or work in. To participate this trade can sellers come from other states too.The seller is responsible for the level of work, also for its technical value and property rights to it.The Art Business Centre, Ltd company by this way offers complex range of various artistic areas and their creative sections in one Internet portal to every fan of art.Information, services and offers provided in the Internet domain of Art Business Centre, Ltd company will be progressively extended and filled up according to necessities, interests and offers of creative public, culture institutions and the persons interested in art.

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Art Club welcomes new members:

Noreen Floden, Janice Floote,William Marder,Peggy Newsome,Sylvia Richardson,Clay Waldron, Sidney Wechter

Our internationals members: Katarzyna Bednarska, Poland; Aleksander Kednarski Poland

to read more about our artists http://www.artclubbelleview.zoomshare.co/

Businesses exhibitiong art in our area:

Independent Bank 10990 S US Hwy 441 Belleview
Community Bank10131 S US Hwy 441Belleview
Belleview Chamber of Commerce 5301 SE Abshier Blvd. Belleview
Cal's Place11007 SE 66 Ter. Belleview
Blue Water Colon Care and Therapeutic Massage5251 SE 113th St.Belleview
Voice of South Marion5516 SE 113th St.Belleview
Community Links9977 SE 58 Ave. Belleview
B.D Beans Cafe 5148 SE Abshier Blvd. Belleview
Humane Society of Marion County 701 NW 14th Rd.Ocala
Mary Fox Tax & Acounting5608 SE 113th St. Belleview
The Cornerstone Team KellerWilliams RealtySpruce Creek South
Goin' Postal Belleview11787 S US Hwy 441Belleview Solar Trek202 SE 33 Rd. Ave., Unit C Ocala

Belleview City Hall 5343 SE Abshier Blvd Belleview

New businesses:

Liberty Tax Service 5518 SE Abshire Blvd ,BelleviewDon Notthingham &associates 11415 SE 62 Ave, Belleview

Goin' Postal 3535 Se Maricam Road suite#500 Cedar Shores Plaza,OcalaAffortable Conditioners Inc.11797 HWY 441 Belleview ( Almeida Plaza)

In June we changed art in most of the businesses, please, do come to see new exhibitions

Polish women artists living in USA

by Ewa Maria Hunca
Our Art Club of Belleview unites a group of people who represent various fields of fine arts and work with various media - we are painters, graphic artists, photographers and makers of variety of such objects as for instance cards and papier mache artifacts. Our chairman Danela creates unique abstract pictures using bobbing lace technique. We are professionals and amateurs. As is typical for Florida, we have come here from all over the United States. Thus, we represent a substantial amount of experience we can share with each other. But our variety is even larger: some of us represent various ethnic backgrounds like Czech, German, Dutch, Japanese, Polish. We can give first hand information about our old homelands and I find this very appealing.So when Danela asked me to write something about Polish art, I felt very happy and excited.Though, of course, it did not seem an easy task.What to choose? What do you know about Poland?Perhaps you recollect Nicolaus Copernicus and his heliocentric system? When you come to Poland you will be able to visit his beautifully gothic native town of Torun or Cracow , where his Alma Mater, the Jagiellonian University, was founded in 14th century. Or perhaps you saw the film 'Quo Vadis', (about Christians in the ancient Rome of Nero), based on the book written by the Nobel Prize winner Henryk Sienkiewicz?Well, to let you know about some famous Poles - some ofthem being especially tied to the history of America.Frederich Chopin, Joseph Conrad, Pola Negri, Maria Curie Sklodowska, Kazimer Pulaski, Karol Wojtyla..... But it is much more difficult to find Polish artists being so generally known. Probably only art historians will know who Henryk Rodakowski was - a famous portraitist and a winner of the Paris Salon 1st Class Medal in 1852, and it was just this once that the 1st Class Medal was won by a foreigner (Rodakowski was nominated for this award by Eugene Delacroix himself). Well, perhaps when you visited the Appleton Museum in Ocala you happened to notice an oil by Alfred Wierusz-Kowalski, a representative of the so called Munich School (many Poles studied art either in Paris or in Munich, Dresden and Vienna). Or maybe if you visit South Dakota you will be willing to see there the gigantic mountain sculpture of the Indian Warrior Crazy Horse. In 1939 the Dakota Indian Chief wrote to a Polish sculptor Korczak-Ziolkowski (1908 - 1982), living then in the USA) :" My fellow Chiefs and I would like the White Man to know that the Red Man has also great heroes." and he asked Ziolkowski to curve a sculpture of Crazy Horse in the mountain and the Pole worked on this sculpture for 40 years without any payment and his family is continuing the project.Or maybe when you enter New York galleries you will spot a sculpture by Magdalena Abakanowicz, a contemporary Polish artist who is very famous and asked to exhibit in the most prominent galleries all over the world.But there are really many contemporary Polish artists living in the United States and selling their art with a great success.

I have chosen 3 women artists to whom I have a more personal attitude and they will be the main subject of this essay. The 3 artists are:Joanna Zjawinska in San Francisco - who attracted me years ago when I saw her works for the first time in Poland;Anna Socha VanMatre in Cincinnati http://www.annavanmatre.com/home.html - a daughter of my mother,s school girlfriend;Maja Godlewska in Charlotte, a friend of my friend, both of them teachers at the University in North Carolina. Joanna Zjawinska graduated from the Warsaw School of Architecture in 1972 and then in 1978 from the Warsaw Fine Arts Academy. She moved to San Francisco in 1979 with her husband and started a very successful artistic career there.I have prepared the attachment no 2 so that you can see some of her works but you may also go to Google to see more.I suppose that Zjawinska's works can be an excellent topic for a discussion - How can one sell successfully and to paint more and more - does quantity of work influence its quality ? Of course it can be either way! But is it not a bit disturbing to paint so much and to sell one's works in every possible way so that one painting can be sold as an original, as a print, and as a copy on canvas with paint added to it at the same time? And again, of course nowadays our contact with art is so very often through reproduction - a music record (not in a concert hall), TV (not theatre), an album book (not a piece of art itself). Does it have any implications? If so which? And if you sell so well, do you intend to woo your buyers more and more or the opposite - you tend to be more independent in your art? What I like in Zjawinska's art is mainly her sense of theater and literature (maybe not so many people agree with me - not everybody likes a story in a painting), her ability to create a world of her own but with many literary and artistic references and digressions; hers is the world full of reminiscences of the French Belle Epoque or the world one may perhaps name the Great Gatsby's world. It is also the world of modern fashion and high society magazines, not without a hint of satire. But take a look and decide for yourself.Anna Socha VanMatre is a well known personality in Cincinnati - and she exhibits a lot in New York (right now in the NYC Gallery at49 ) . Critics say that her art is influenced by music - maybe because her husband is a well known musician; he a jazz saxophonist Rick VanMatre.Anna grew up in Cracow and graduated from the Cracow Fine Arts Academy. Her works are usually of enormous sizes, painted on floor. But look for yourself And the last - but not the least - artist to be introduced now - is Maja (Maria) Godlewska , a professor of painting in the University of North Carolina in Charlotte. She was born and educated in the Polish city of Wroclaw and later on studied art in Dublin, Ireland and then lived for a couple of years in West Africa.She is a well known artist in Charlotte (and not only) you can see some of her art http://www.lassitergallery.com/Godlewska/maja0506.htm - critics see in it recollections of nature: trees, clouds, water but often not without a human body.

Question of this month is what Henri Rousseau nick name?

Send answer to artquestion@hotmail.com no later than July 25 and you can winn art work from one of our members. Winner wil be announced in our September e-news letter.

e-mail editor Eileen Slattery