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The unbeatable art of Ali Farzat

23.09.11

As a cartoonist par goodness, Ali Farzat is not just an exceptionally talented artist but also a fighter and someone with moored beliefs. When he was assaulted last month by a gang of masked men the abuse was, perversely, a testimony to his immense popularity in Syria: it was planned by a junto that wanted to punish Farzat for posting satirical drawings of Bashar Al-Assad on his website and Facebook call.

Farzat was driving from his office to his home in the Mazza area of Damascus on 25 August was he was intercepted by the masked party, who dragged him out of his car and beat him. They threatened him with phrases such as, "How dare you aspersion your masters?"

The men put a sack over Farzat's head, confined his hands with wire and beat him senseless, breaking his hands. He lay oblivious to on the side of the road for an hour before being found by workmen and taken home. He was later admitted to the Razi Health centre.

Once word of the attack got out, there were calls across the Arab world for mutuality with Farzat. In Egypt, cartoonists launched a week of honour to the Syrian artist in the Cairo Atelier. The event was launched on 13 September by Mohamed Abla, who is the quarter chairman of the Atelier, and Ahmad Toghan, chairman of the Egyptian Cartoon Confederacy.

Source: Ahram Online

Backbeat: The Old And The New At Boyz II Men Listening Party

04.10.11

"There was no timetable, no set list, and honestly, no rehearsal" explained manager Joe Mulvihill . "Fair a piano and mics... the evening just unfolded unpretentiously." The group's management, along with its public relations team, The Senate Group (reps Sherlen Archibald and Vanessa Wheeler were on yield), appeared genuinely enthused over Boyz II Men's rejuvenation. Just out successes include the launch of their charity, The Boyz II Men Outfit, the release of their mobile ap, and their own star on the Hollywood Walk of Reputation.

 

Monday night proved that Boyz II Men remain committed to leisurely, slowdance-in position R&B, both live and on record. During the performance, Shawn Stockman observed, "The art of the ballad has seemed to throw away. The slow songs [on the radio] aren't even slow songs!"

 

Following the doing, Chamber Group publicist Vanessa Wheeler was wanting to

Source: Billboard.biz

Origins of modern movement

28.09.11

The Western Waste art movement, like the genesis of bark painting as a newfangled, portable and collectable art form, or the Hermannsburg School of watercolour painting, supervened at a discontinuous cross-cultural moment and locale. All three movements were consonant in their respective mediums and iconographies, and were precipitated by dialogues with Europeans acutely interested in both the art and the artists: Baldwin Spencer (1860-1929), Rex Battarbee (1893-1973) and Geoffrey Bardon (1940-2003).

The 1971-72 Papunya paintings on cabinet, like the paintings on cigar-box lids of the Heidelberg Credo, the Gagadju bark paintings commissioned by Spencer in 1912 and the earliest watercolours of Albert Namatjira, merit eminent status in any historical critique on art-making on this continent. Comparative epiphanies in the information of art, such as Picasso's cubist masterpiece Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), were neither unguarded nor hermetic in their achievement. The experimental canvases of Cezanne and the occurrence of African sculpture expedited and anticipated cubism. The Heidelberg Prime of Australian impressionism is indebted to the French plein-air painters of the Barbizon Indoctrinate and of French impressionism.

Source: The Australian