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Telling art with redemptive associations.
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| Raw and redolent Nullarbor Nymph. |
[May. 11th, 2009|01:38 pm] |
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Title: Nullarbor Nymph humpy.
Painter: Jesper Andersen.
Medium: Oil on paper
N.F.S. {not for sale}
The myth of the Nullarbor Nymph was born in December of 1971, and has become outback folklore. A young woman was photographed, wearing some strategically placed animal skins, running along the Nullarbor Plain. The female beauty lived in the desert with the kangaroos. National and world wide media organisations flocked to the tiny town of Eucla just over the Western Australian border. Eucla is so small that if you blink on your way through, you’d miss it. A motel, a petrol bowser, one phone box, and the population of eight. There where even suggestions that she might be an itinerant Adelaidian who had disappeared from the motel the year before, leaving all her belongings behind. Out there, in the middle of nowhere, it seemed possible, even likely. The locals were taking tourists out into the scrub and surrounding bushland, showing them imprints of a woman's feet in the sand, and a place where it was believed the Nullarbor Nymph had her humpy.
Thank you.
Shalom Aleichem ! - Peace be unto you. |
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| Brave art. |
[Dec. 18th, 2008|08:29 am] |
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Title: Braveart.
Painter: Jesper Andersen.
Medium: Oil on paper.
N.F.S.
I was browsing an art magazine - Fine Art of Today's West. When I saw an advertisement for an exhibition at “ Red Cloud Indian School “ by the American Sioux Lakota artist, Braveheart. After contacting him via E-mail, I painted the above autobiographical oil painting titled " Braveart " as a homage to Braveheart.
The motif in the painting shows a “ blue hand, blue meaning heavenly origin; the Lord from heaven, a white finger print; white meaning light, righteousness, purity, and three Sioux Indian words, floating on oval cells, suggesting movement of the Internet and different tribes of post-modern people meeting one another in cyber space. I understand the two Sioux words , " Lakota and Ohitika ". Lakota; meaning friend, and Ohitika; meaning brave.
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My art consists of works produced by myself, who for various reasons I have not been culturally indoctrinated or socially conditioned. They are all kinds of art works on the fringes of society. I am working outside fine art "system" (schools, galleries, museums). These pictures have been produced, from the depths of my own personalty and for myself, and exhibited only on this Internet blog site. Works of outstanding originality in concept, subject and techniques. They are works which owe nothing to tradition or fashion. They form a truly singular reality of their own.
Thank you.
Shalom Aleichem ! - Peace be unto you. |
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| Willunga Hills. © |
[Oct. 13th, 2008|12:23 pm] |
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Title: Willunga Hills.
Painter: Jesper Andersen
Medium: Oil on paper.
N.F.S.
Painting and creating is not a musty old-fashioned activity, it's alive. To express yourself well in this age get to know your substance and how it can hold meaning. Science and technology has given us reason and explanations but still art holds unanswered and unnameable experiences.
If we consider the several components manifested in this work of art, foremost is the painter myself. There is also my particular social and cultural environment. But equally the act of creating in the use of my intuitive faculties. To appreciate fully this auspicious work of art, one must use the same sense of intuition as I used, together with your conscious knowledge of my other works of art on this "livejournal," and other bloggs in order to judge, the quality of my abstract realism.
This painting was painted from memory. I am expressing myself in a cursive, gutsy way, but not overtly 'thick,' but full of Spiritual presence and power. See"...This {is} the way, walk ye in it,..." -Isaiah 30:21. KJV.
Thank you.
Shalom Aleichem ! - Peace be unto you. |
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| Solitude of the Ark. © |
[Sep. 15th, 2008|04:25 pm] |
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Title: Catherine and Jessica.
Painter: Jesper Andersen.
Medium: Oil on paper.
N.F.S.
In fiction, when one person reads the mind of another, it is often described as being able to hear this internal monologue as if it were said out loud.
Internal monologue, also known as inner voice, internal speech, or stream of consciousness is thinking in words. It also refers to the semi-constant internal monologue one has with oneself at a conscious or semi-conscious level.
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Title: I am in the River.
Painter: Jesper Andersen.
Medium: oil on paper.
N.F.S.
What viewers of my oil paintings on this blog have expressed;
I like the serenity (I am in the River) and control (Louds hill road
autumn) that has come into your paintings. Kuitpo vineyards near the
Range and Baker Gulley - Kangarilla SA are reminiscent of the school of
artists who's work in the Fleurieu in (I think) the 1930's. Willunga
Hills is challenging and it is interesting that the Braveart paintings
take you in a new direction. I expected you to start exploring use of
DNA and materials from the environment - direct contact with your
sources - but you are more drawn by the spiritual, I think.
- Comment by David of South Australia.
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Title: Solitude of the Ark
Painter: Jesper Andersen.
Medium: Oil on paper.
N.F.S.
It has been argued that the continuing popularity of the Social artistic secretary in abstract realism and popular culture may be based on the recognition that a person is fraught with human frailties, unlike the archetypes of the olive-hatted jackaroo and the noble aboriginal, and is therefore more accessible to the beholder and unseen. This popularity may also be symptomatic of the rejection by the post-modern of traditional values after the counter-culture.
Thank you.
Shalom Aleichem ! - Peace be unto you. |
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| Catherine and the Ark. |
[Aug. 31st, 2008|05:30 pm] |
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Title: Catherine and the Ark.
Painter: Jesper Andersen.
Medium: Oil on paper
N.F.S.
Catherine the Aldinga Beach artist, and myself, was the original members of a circle of painters who meet once a month at the home of Catherine that produced 'The Gap' painting.
This was the beginning of a series of painting the female torso in the landscape. It was then that I developed the second painting
" War and Peace ". Over time the 'ark' developed atop of the female form, in this way the ark became the symbol of the covenant, in a sense the gathering, between a group of people painting together.
'To marry the curves of women to the rumps of the hills'.
" The Gap " painting along with three other unrelated paintings had been up for sale at a local commercial art gallery, the gallery director informed me that he could not sell the paintings, he would figure out a way how to send them back to me. Around the same time, another local gallery nearby the [ Tin Cat Cafe], the exhibition curator contacted me for a donation of some art works, to be auctioned at a live charity, to raise money for " The Bobonaro Project " an IMOG initiative. For more information on IMOG, see http://www.imog.org
Thank you.
Shalom Aleichem ! - Peace be unto you. |
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| Winter landscape blanket © |
[Jul. 9th, 2008|05:32 pm] |
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Title: Winter landscape blanket.
Painter: Jesper Andersen.
Medium: Oil on paper.
N.F.S.
The several components manifested in " Winter landscape blanket” there is also the particular social and cultural environment, the influence of my sayings sink down into your ears, fused by the intuitive processes. I used a quantity of Titanium White paint, painted spontaneous, rough handling of patched white oil paint, suggesting direct observation, over a dark green older landscape underneath, [this is called - Pentimento]. To create spatial ambiguity shape, against the space while portraying the irregularities in nature. Its both a post-modern landscape, prophetic and a tablet, a flat slab. Space is a presence not just interplay, of distance in pictorial space.
Thank you.
Shalom Aleichem ! - Peace be unto you. |
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| Louds hill road autumn. © |
[Feb. 10th, 2008|01:15 pm] |
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Title: Louds Hill road autumn.
Painter: Jesper Andersen
Medium: Oil on paper
N.F.S.
Protective powers of the colour red against evil influence were common belief. Objects, animals and trees were covered in red paint, warriors painted their axes and spear-catapults red to endow the weapons with magic powers. Some of the Australian aborigines abide by this custom up to the present times. Neolithic hunters and Germanic warriors used to paint their weapons and even themselves in blood of slain animals. Roman gladiators drank blood of their dying adversaries to take over their strength. In other cultures, the newly born were bathed in blood of particularly strong and good looking animals. Wearing a red ruby was supposed to bring about invincibility. Red bed-clothes were customary in Germany up to the Middle Ages as protection against the "red illnesses", such as fever, rashes or even miscarriages (famous example is the painting Arnolfini Wedding by Jan Van Eyck, dated 1434). Your Bible has a crimson core. It begins with God Himself, shedding the blood of the first sacrificial lamb to cover Adam's sin, and ends with a multi-national chorus singing, "You . . . have redeemed us to God by Your blood out of ,every. . . nation" (Rev.5:9). The blood will always offend those with sins to hide, a rebellious will to protect, or a Gospel that offers salvation through good works or social evolution. The blood not only saves the repentant, it condemns the defiant, for "And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without the shedding of blood there is no remission."
Thank you.
Shalom Aleichem ! - Peace be unto you. |
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| Yashepheh as Ned Kelly. |
[Nov. 10th, 2007|04:54 pm] |
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Title: Yashepheh as Ned Kelly.
Painter: Jesper Andersen.
Medium: Oil and collage on paper.
N.F.S.
Ned Kelly, - An Australian bush ranger and social bandit.
Yâshephêh is Hebrew for jasper, the name Jesper being a Danish spelling of jasper,another words Yâshephêh as Ned Kelly is the artist seeing himself as Ned Kelly in this painting . The red under paint give the painting depth. With red underlying large areas of the two dimensional painted surface, like a lifeblood. Complemented by the geometry of the painting.
" While philosophy creates concepts, the arts create new qualitative combinations of sensation and feeling " – Gilles Deleuze.
'The present post-modern era is vastly removed from times when God was commonly at the core of human thinking about life, made manifest through architecture, art, music, and literature, and seriously considered in philosophical thought. But a fundamental change has occurred. So much of society, impressed with its achievement, has gradually crowded God out of a central place in thought and values. Still, the reality is that human nature hungers for God, and thereby many people cultivate private pursuits for Him on their own terms, inevitably becoming confused about spiritual reality.' - " New Spirit Filled Life Bible NKJVersion " 2002 Thomas Nelson, Inc. page...1884 " Personal Evangelism by Brent Price."
The Danish Community in Australia.
Arrival;
Some of the earliest accounts of Danish contact with Australia date from the mid-1600s when Peter Petersen, First Mate on Abel Tasman vessel the Zeehan , set foot in Van Diemens Land, modern-day Tasmania .
Another early visitor was Johannes Bremer , second –in-command on the
Geelvinck , which arrived in West Australia to explore the Swan River in
1696.
The first Danish ship to sail into Australian waters is believed to be the frigate, The Fredensborg Slot in 1718.
Settlement;
The disbanding of the Danish army in Schleswig - Holstein after the war in 1849/51 led to a comparatively large emigration of young Danes to the
Victorian gold fields. They settled in Bendigo, Castlemaine and Ballarat.
The last decades of the nineteenth century saw significant growth in the
Danish population in Australia.
Thank you.
Shalom Aleichem ! - Peace be unto you. |
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| This oil painting is titled ' War and Peace '. © |
[Aug. 7th, 2007|12:45 am] |
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Title: " War and Peace ."
Painter: Jesper Andersen
Medium: Oil on paper.
N.F.S.= Not for sale.
'War and Peace' is a homage to the youthful Virginia, a beautiful muse.It deals with the ravages and battle for peace in the body. Behind the central green female figure in the middle of the landscape, is the oil painter in red, laying down. This painting express a sense of climatic character, and stinging precision, with the splurge of paint and design. Which have meaning beyond simple description.
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This was the first oil painting on the subject of the female form in the landscape series.
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Title: The Gap.
Painter: Jesper Andersen
Medium: Oil on paper.
Donated to charity.
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Title: Kuitpo vineyards near the Range.
Painter: Jesper Andersen
Medium: Oil on canvas
Donated to charity.
This painting is a primitive style, composite rendition of a vineyard. The painting developed out of the lower half of another oil on canvas landscape titled; " First water,fire tracks and vineyards." See below.
The original painting shown here in the photograph below;
' First water, fire tracks and vineyards 'has since been destroyed.
7a.
Title: First water, fire tracks and vineyards. {Destroyed}.
Painter: Jesper Andersen
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 167 x 122cm
Date: 10/07/2002.
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Title: Willunga Hillock.
Painter: Jesper Andersen.
Medium: Oil on paper.
Donated to charity.
These three paintings # 6,7,8; -
'The Gap, Kuitpo vineyards... and Willunga Hillock' was donated to the initiative, live auction charity, the " The Bobonaro Project " an exhibition raising funds for the provision of healthcare in East Timor an IMOG initiative. For more information see; http://www.imog.org
Thank you.
Shalom Aleichem ! - Peace be unto you. |
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| Australian aerial landscape. © |
[May. 10th, 2007|02:30 pm] |
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Title: Australian aerial landscape. ©
Painter: Jesper Andersen
Medium: Oil on nine stretched Chinese canvases
N.F.S. : Not for sale.
Terra Australis Incognita, this painting portrays the irregularities in nature as seen from above the Australian landscape. The absence of the human figure in my landscapes does not mean that my landscapes lack human feeling. My landscapes are abstract realism. Leaving humans out of the landscape so that the things I put into them can invoke in the observer all the human feelings.
Thank you.
Shalom Aleichem ! - Peace be unto you. |
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| Red tape for divorce. © |
[Apr. 5th, 2007|06:09 pm] |
Art is to behold, not to be prescribed.My art work shown here and various
other blogs are " not for sale " :- N.F.S.
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Title: " Red tape for divorce " ©
Painter: Jesper S. Andersen
Medium: Oil on paper
N.F.S.
I have painted since I first found my artist's father's oil paint box and palette as a toddler, and rubbing the oil paint into the floor covering carpet with my hands.
Now I prepare the unpainted surface, to be painted on, with a coat of red primer, as if to protect it from the weather. It's applied in a ouvrier like manner, and then my painting process can begin. If you have to ask, then you can't afford it.
The origins of the - " Red tape," was first noted in historical records in the 16th century, when Henry VIII besieged Pope Clement VII with around eighty or so petitions with red wax seals, for the annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon. A photo of the petitions from Cardinal Wolsey and others, now stored in the Vatican archives, can be seen on page 106 of "Saints and Sinners, a History of The Popes", by Eamon Duffy (published by Yale University Press in 1997). The pile of documents can be viewed in all their glory, rolled and stacked in original condition, each one sealed and bound with the obligatory red tape, as was the custom. Traditionally, official Vatican documents were also bound in red cloth tape.This interpretation would explain the term red tape.
Thank you.
Shalom Aleichem ! - Peace be unto to you. |
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| Baker Gulley - Kangarilla SA © |
[Jul. 12th, 2006|08:32 pm] |
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Title: Baker Gulley - Kangarilla SA ©
Painter: Jesper Andersen
Medium: oil on paper.
N.F.S.
This landscape interspersed with natures peaceful elements such as rolling hills, valleys into flat upland areas and sun baked trees.
The subject is located in the McLaren Vale wine growing region, the undulating hills and gully's of this landscape shows there’s introspection loneliness and longing for rain. A melancholic, austere rugged 'Baker Gully.' Its red brown soils on a late summer afternoon, near the settlement of Kangarilla on the upper Fleurieu Peninsula, in South Australia.
Thank you.
Shalom Aleichem ! - Peace be unto you. |
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| Salvation Jane and Vineyard. © |
[Jun. 18th, 2006|05:12 am] |
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Title: Salvation Jane and Vineyard.
Painter: Jesper Andersen.
Medium: Oil on paper.
N.F.S.
This post-modern oil painting shows vineyards in the Fleurieu Peninsula wine growing region. Its an intuitive representation of colour and form that I perceive,and have reduced the pictorial space to a two-dimensional plane, eliminating illusion and representing objects as geometric shapes.
It has shallow red brown ironstone soils with limestone, surrounded by white flowered Almond blossom flora, with a suggestion of mega fauna in the Salvation Jane vineyards.The painting is a self-sufficient entity independent of the external world of Willunga. Which lies south of Adelaide, the capital city of South Australia.
Thank you.
Shalom Aleichem ! - Peace be unto you. |
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| Seaview road, McLaren Vale. © |
[Jun. 17th, 2006|09:12 am] |
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Title: Seaview road, McLaren Vale
Painter: Jesper Andersen
Medium: oil on paper
N.F.S.
Seen from a high vantage point, this approachable landscape embodies a pioneering spirit with our impact on the natural environment, as roads cut into the landscape, and with it's frontal aspect of the Seaview sub region. An enthusiasm for lemon citrus colour, adding a tangy note to this animated subject, with a hint of vineyard. This painting is as fiercely original as the beautiful country of the Fleurieu Peninsula is remote.
Thank you.
Shalom Aleichem ! - Peace be unto you. |
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| Oil painter pallet-speak. © |
[Jun. 13th, 2006|06:33 am] |
The social and spiritual agenda of my oil painting, search for a distinct style, of colour and geometric shapes.I use my intuition to create the landscape. I am led by revelation, by the using a limited repertoire of recurring motif or subject matter. The painting which is at times primitive, even peculiar. My landscapes are developing towards the figure in the landscape, indicating elements of human habition in the landscape.
The Brand of oil paint that I use;
" ART SPECTRUM. "
The main colours that I employ on my pallet.
1. Spectrum Yellow
2. Golden Yellow
3. Phthalo Blue
4. Ultramarine Blue
5. Spectrum Red Deep
6. Permanent Crimson
7. Phthalo Green
8. Titanium White
Medium used: 'Archival Oils' Lean Odourless medium.
Links: http://www.blognow.com.au/jespersa4
Thank you.
" Shalom Aleichem !" - Peace be unto you. |
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