Baren Digest              Tuesday, 3 October 2000      Volume 13 : Number 1165


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From: Sharri LaPierre <barebone@pacifier.com>
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 11:36:24 -0700
Subject: [Baren 11539] Re: Baren Digest V13 #1164 

From: Sharri LaPierre (barebonesart@home.com)
Date: Monday 11:30 a.m. October 2, 2000
Subject: Decalomania - Digest V13#1164

I missed the comments about decalomania - the painting technique discovered
and promoted by the surrealists in the 20s and 30s. The artist who really
took this technique to its ultimate is Remedios Varo, a Spanish painter who
fled to Paris during the Spanish Civil War, and then to Mexico when WWII
encroached - she couldn't return to Spain because she had been in the
resistance and Franco didn't favor her kind.  She credited one of her lovers
or husbands with the invention of the technique, I believe it was Lizzaraga.
Anyway, the technique is indeed sandwiching pigment between canvas and paper
and then seeing where it goes.  There is a website for Varo, and a great
book, Unexpected Journeys by Janet Kaplan, available thru Amazon & others.
 
 /www.ed.uiuc.edu/courses/EdPsy387-Sp95/steven-clark/project/varo/varo.html

Maria, you want results of the Quiz from the fantastic newletter? Probably
only those of us who got 100% will be willing to fess up! (Have to admit I
was very surprised - is it set up so everyone gets 100% regardless of what
they enter, I suspect??)

Sharri



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From: David Bull <davebull@woodblock.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 07:37:42 +0900
Subject: [Baren 11541] Any advice for her? 

This request came in this morning to 'Woodblock' ...

From: Kirsten Jessen
Email: ernie@tidepool.com

> Hello people at Woodblock! My name is Kirsten Jessen. I am a senior at
> Humbodt State Univ. in Northern California. I am an art education major
> with an assignment that may require your help. I am to devise a lesson
> plan for kids in the 9th grade. The topic is From Beyond the Western
> World. I thought Japanese Printmaking would be fun and interesting to
> teach. My question is... Is there a condensed and somewhat easier form
> of printmaking which could be taught in a high school where funding is
> low? I'm not sure if any of the tools needed could be found cheaply. Can
> one use something other than wood to carve into? Handing a group of
> students items like carving tools seems...a little dangerous. I imagine
> a class of kids wielding exacto blades! yipes! Any alternative supply
> ideas would be great! Thank You very much!

She's not on the list here, so any advice should be sent to her directly
...

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Nice to see sign-up for Exchange #8 getting off to a good start! Eleven
people are already on the participants list ...

Dave


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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Hor=E1cio_Soares?= <horacio@centroin.com.br>
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 22:21:42 -0300
Subject: [Baren 11542] invitation charset="iso-8859-1" 

Editora ROCCO e SICILIANO (ROCCO publisher house  and Siciliano Bookstores)
convidam para o lançamento do romance (invite you to the issue of the new
romance/novel)

"O Espelho  de Egon" (Egon Schiele Mirror)
de Horácio Soares

Terça-feira, 10 de outubro, a partir das 19h (Tuesday, October 10th , from 7
pm to 11 pm)
Siciliano Livros e Música (Siciliano mega music and bookstore)
Botafogo Praia Shopping (Botafogo Beach Shopping)
Praia de Botafogo, 400 - 4o pavimento (400, Botafogo Beach, 4th floor)
Tel.: (55 - 21) 559-9511 / 559-9513
Rio de Janeiro - RJ

I would love to see you there.
Horácio.
horacio@centroin.com.br
www.analisevital.com.br/xilograv.htm



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From: David Bull <davebull@woodblock.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 11:22:07 +0900
Subject: [Baren 11546] Re: Horacio's new book 


Horacio,
Congratulations! Could you tell us: is your new book illustrated? With
your own prints?

Dave


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From: Mike Lyon <mikelyon@mlyon.com>
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 21:57:21 -0500
Subject: [Baren 11547] Re: Baren Digest V13 #1164 

Hi, Maria -- Sonny and Cher may have redone it, but that song is by Joni 
Mitchell...  One of my 'old' favorites!

Mike Lyon

At 10:00 PM 10/02/2000 +0900, you wrote:
>"The Tree Museum"
>http://www.printmakingstudio.com/fullsize/treemuseum.html
>"

mikelyon@mlyon.com
http://www.mlyon.com


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From: "Maria Arango" <maria@mariarango.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 20:09:34 -0700
Subject: [Baren 11549] Re: tree museum charset="iso-8859-1" 

> Hi, Maria -- Sonny and Cher may have redone it, but that song is by Joni
> Mitchell...  One of my 'old' favorites!
>
> Mike Lyon

Gee thanks, Mike, I stand corrected! There is the corrected version with
full credit to the corrector :-):
http://www.printmakingstudio.com/fullsize/treemuseum.html

Horacio, congratulations. I wonder if my husband would let me sneak on down
to Rio for a day or two... hmmm, probably not unless I hit the Megabucks
slot machine.
De todas maneras buena suerte!
Maria

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Maria Arango, Printmaker
Las Vegas  Nevada  USA
http://www.1000woodcuts.com
maria@mariarango.com
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