Visual Language Magazine Contemporary Fine Art Vol 2 No 6 June 2013
Visual Language Magazine is a contemporary fine art magazine with pages filled with dynamic fine art, brilliant color and stimulating composition. Visual Language is the common connection around the world for art expressed through every media and process. The artists connect through their creativity to the viewers by both their process as well as their final piece. No interpreters are necessary because Visual Language crosses all cultures around the world.
Visual Language Magazine is a contemporary fine art magazine with pages filled with dynamic fine art, brilliant color and stimulating composition. Visual Language is the common connection around the world for art expressed through every media and process. The artists connect through their creativity to the viewers by both their process as well as their final piece. No interpreters are necessary because Visual Language crosses all cultures around the world.
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Gerald Barnes GeraldBarnes.artspan.com<br />
East of Suez<br />
I am very fond of this old red Egyptian lottery ticket - the central background<br />
of the image - but the size was too small for the dimensions I<br />
work in so I duplicated and flipped it and butted the two pieces together.<br />
Egypt is synonymous with the Suez Canal (as well as pyramids and<br />
pharos of course) which my father transited on his way to Australia in<br />
the 1930’s but which I didn’t get to cross until 2001. With the added<br />
stamps and franks the whole piece looks like it could have been an official<br />
transit document in itself - except for the rectangular frank on the<br />
bottom left which is actually a modern-day frank from Cairo airport.<br />
The building of the canal was a enormous feat for its day and took a<br />
huge “can do” effort on the part of the French. Slightly tongue in cheek<br />
I’ve added on the edge of the photo (of a non Egyptian!) “Is feidir linn”<br />
– “Yes we can”!<br />
Entry Restricted.<br />
One of the first ever-coloring books I got as<br />
exotic Arab city. Through the arch of the ga<br />
water at a well and nearby a camel carava<br />
I was immediately taken back to that first<br />
and his nephew William were artists and e<br />
tion at the Victoria Monument in Calcutta<br />
it. I never intend my work to be politically<br />
Despite drawing inspiration from many ar<br />
what’s going on below (except perhaps for t<br />
to the piece. Free movement is something<br />
Sometimes our movement is denied or rest<br />
cent face is surrounded with the message “
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