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ArtLoverGuy

@artloverguy.bsky.social

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Live as relaxed and effortless as possible Art lover, Artist, Nature Photographer, Tucson AZ, All Around Freedom Seeker, Brain Science & Medical News Follower, Techy, Lifelong Democrat, Buddhist Peacenik

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ArtLoverGuy @artloverguy.bsky.social · 8h

Radioactive water bottle?

#BlueSkyArtShow #Glow #photography

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ArtLoverGuy @artloverguy.bsky.social · 9h

It might be edible. Munch munch. Glow from your insides out.

#BlueSkyArtShow #Glow #Flowers #Photography #Macro

ArtLoverGuy @artloverguy.bsky.social · 4d

Rock formations seen from the Soldier Pass Trail near Sedona, Arizona.
#RockinTuesday #EastCoastKin #photography #nature #Hiking #Sedona #Arizona

ArtLoverGuy @artloverguy.bsky.social · 6d

Beautiful sunrise (with just a little color shifting to the clouds).
#Stunday #Photography #Nature #Sunrise

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ArtLoverGuy @artloverguy.bsky.social · 7d

#BlueSkyArtShow #Relax
Lean back on a tree in the shade and take a break.

Lean back on a tree in the shade and take a break. A figure against an impressionist inspired painting of a tree and orange wall.

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ArtLoverGuy @artloverguy.bsky.social · 10d

A display of fluorescing rocks at the Gem and Mineral Museum in Tucson, Arizona, reminds me of all the black light posters I saw in "head shops" when I was 13, way back in the 1960's.

#Photography #ColorADay #Fluorecent #BlackLight #Rocks #GemAndMineralMuseum #Tucson #Arizona

ArtLoverGuy @artloverguy.bsky.social · 12d

Happy #BlueSkyMonday! Perfectly clear blue sky above the stacked rock formations at ‎⁨Chiricahua National Monument⁩ in SouthEastern Arizona.

#photography #photographersOfBlueSky #hiking #naturePhotography #Arizona #ChiricahuaNationalMonument⁩
#rockFormations #sky #blue

ArtLoverGuy @artloverguy.bsky.social · 13d

Enhanced Aster Mums.

#photography #flower #astermum #dyed #purple #edited #enhanced #alteredreality

Photo of fake purple Aster Mums edited to make the purple more vibrant.

ArtLoverGuy @artloverguy.bsky.social · 13d

Overlapping leaves of Fan Palms. Makes a fantastic wallpaper for your big monitor.

#stunday #photography #nature #green #fanpalm

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ArtLoverGuy @artloverguy.bsky.social · 14d

Walking down a road to the middle of nowhere.

#BlueSkyArtShow #TheRoad
#photography #landscape #arizona #DirtRoad

A red dirt road in the middle of nowhere with someone walking away.

ArtLoverGuy @artloverguy.bsky.social · 15d

Stop sign where Red Mule Lane intersects AZ Hwy 82 near Sonoita, Arizona on a bright September afternoon.

#photography #blackandwhite #streetsignphotography #arizona #sonoita #scenicroute #september

A black and white photo of a stop sign, backlit by the bright sun, at the intersection of Red Mule Lane and AZ Hwy 82 near Sonoita, Arizona.

ArtLoverGuy @artloverguy.bsky.social · 19d

I will never tire of getting up close to a freshly opened cactus flower.

#photography #closeup #macromonday #cactus #flower

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ArtLoverGuy @artloverguy.bsky.social · 19d

Portrait of a glass water bottle with added squiggles.
#monochromeMonday #minimalistmonday #photography #alteredreality #blueskyartshow

Portrait of a glass water bottle with added squiggles. Simple black and white photograph.

ArtLoverGuy @artloverguy.bsky.social · 21d

A pair of potted cacti photographed with an iPone 14, then edited to shift the colors and enhance the bokeh effect (out of focus background).
#BlueSkyArtShow #angles
#photography #cactus #bokeh #iphone14 #edited #falsecolors #alteredreality

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ArtLoverGuy @artloverguy.bsky.social · 23d

Artemizia Foundation Gallery 818, Bisbee, Arizona
www.artemiziafoundation.org

Keith Haring, 'Crack is Wack', 1984, white chalk

Devorah Sperber, ‘After Mona Lisa’, 2005, crafted from 5,400 spools of thread

#Art #BlueSkyArt #ArtemiziaFoundation #Gallery818
#KeithHaring #StreetArt #DevorahSperber

Keith Haring, 1984, 'Crack is Wack', white chalk

Keith Haring was an American artist and social activist known for his illustrative depictions of figures and symbols.

His white chalk drawings could often been found on the blank poster marquees in New York’s public spaces and subways. “I don’t think art is propaganda,” he once stated. “It should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.”

After briefly studying commercial art in Pittsburgh, Haring came across a show of the works of Pierre Alechinksy and decided to pursue a career in fine art instead. He moved to New York in the late 1970s to attend the School of Visual Arts, and soon immersed himself in the city’s graffiti culture.

By the mid-1980s, he had befriended fellow artists Andy Warhol, Kenny Scharf, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, and collaborated with celebrities like the singer Grace Jones. Diagnosed with HIV/AIDS in 1988, Haring’s prodigious career was brief, and he died of AIDS-related complications on February 16, 1990 at the age of 31.

Before his death, Haring established the Keith Haring Foundation, a non-profit committed to raising awareness of the illness through art programing and community outreach. Throughout his career, Haring made his art widely available through the location of his murals, as well as through the Pop Shop—Haring’s own storefront which he used to sell his memorabilia. The artist’s mural Crack is Wack (1986), can still be seen today on a retaining wall along FDR Drive in Manhattan.

Devorah Sperber, 2005, ‘After Mona Lisa’, crafted from 5,400 spools of thread

Made from spools of thread, pipe cleaners, tacks, pen caps, and other mundane objects, Devorah Sperber’s barely recognizable, pixelated, abstracted reproductions of Old Master paintings transform into exacting versions of the originals when viewed through optical devices like acrylic spheres or convex mirrors.

In deconstructing familiar images, Sperber encourages viewers to reflect on the discrepancy between what we actually see and how our brains process it. Consequently, she follows in the centuries-long tradition of exploring the processes of perception, a lineage including Leonardo da Vinci, Georges Seurat and the Pointilists, and Salvador Dalí, among countless others.

The Museum of Contemporary Craft, which has exhibited Sperber’s work, has described her practice as simultaneously conceptual, technical, and accessible.

ArtLoverGuy @artloverguy.bsky.social · 26d

#BlueskyMonday Yesterday was a gorgeous day for a road trip to Bisbee, Arizona. I went to see the progressive and feminist art at the Artemezia Foundation 818 Gallery. I took this shot on the way home along scenic route AZ Hwy 83.
#photography #landscape #BlueSkyArtShow
#AZHwy83 #southeastArizona

Some rolling hills of the high desert plain along scenic route AZ Hwy 83.

ArtLoverGuy @artloverguy.bsky.social · 27d

Wide open vista looking east along AZ Hwy 83 and sunbeams lighting the Santa Rita mountains to the west.

#photography #landscape #nature
#vista #clouds #mountains #sunbeams
#SoutheastArizona #AZHwy83 #HighDesert

Wide open vista looking East along AZ Hwy 82.

Sunbeams lighting mountains to the West along AZ Hwy 82.

ArtLoverGuy @artloverguy.bsky.social · 27d

#Stunday. Dyed agates for sale at a Mexican market.
#photography #colorful #rocks

Dyed agates for sale at a Mexican market. Bright shade of orange, red and yellow.

ArtLoverGuy @artloverguy.bsky.social · 28d

An appropriate sentiment for each and every day.

Photo of a bumpersticker with the letter "I" followed by two hearts. Interpret as "I love love."

ArtLoverGuy @artloverguy.bsky.social · 28d

We'll need to buy some furniture to put in that home.

#BlueSkyArtShow #home
#photography #shopping #furniture

ArtLoverGuy @artloverguy.bsky.social · Sep 10

Because I love Jimi Hendrix - that's why I am posting this street art of Jimi playing Cumbia music on an accordion.

#photography #JimiHendix #art #StreetArt #accordion #Cumbia #Oaxaca #Mexico

Jimi Hendrix playing Cumbia music on an accordion.

ArtLoverGuy @artloverguy.bsky.social · Sep 10

Someone sealed this entrance in a most peculiar way.

#RockinTuesday
#photography #StreetPhotography #PhotographersUnited

Someone sealed this entrance in a most peculiar way.
Metal bars surround an old arched doorway. Inside the bars, flat rocks have been stacked to nearly seal off the opening.

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ArtLoverGuy @artloverguy.bsky.social · Sep 9

#TwoferTuesday

#photography #art #bicycles #MexicoCity

Red electric bike next to a white bicycle stand.

ArtLoverGuy @artloverguy.bsky.social · Sep 8

OK - so you want me to get some chili from the booth at the market. But which chili and in what form - powder, paste or commercial product? Look at all the varieties!

#photography #chilis #colorful #Mexico #market

"OK - so you want me to get some chilis from the booth at the market. But which chili and in what form - powder, paste or commercial product? Look at all the varieties!"
Shows a booth at a Mexican market with chilis in powders, pastes and commercial products.

ArtLoverGuy @artloverguy.bsky.social · Sep 7

#Stunday Family ahead of me at a Mexican airport. I simply had to photograph the mother's sweatshirt. Not sure what it means, but for sure it is in your face.

#photography #art #wearableArt #ArtChallenge #EastCoastKin

Family ahead of me at a Mexican airport. I simply had to photograph the mother's sweatshirt. Not sure what it means, but for sure it is in your face. Sweatshirt image is of a tatted figure with tongue sticking out and both middle fingers raised, with crosses and a crown around the figure.