APPLES Exhibition

Few pictures to share with you of the APPLES Exhibition I went to yesterday... My little helper in taking these snaps was cute lil miss Nujood (Shurooq Amin's daughter) who also volunteered to model for me holding the red apple :-)

Enjoy!

PS: The exhibition is still ongoing until Saturday, March 14, 2009

Happy IWD

Happy International Women's Day everyone :-)

Dont miss out today's exhibition, APPLES, at Marina Hotel :-) I hope to see you there... males and females welcomed hehehe ;-)

Cheers!

APPLES

You are cordially invited to APPLES Art Exhibition on Sunday March 8th in Marina Hotel at 7:00PM. The exhibition features paintings, sculptures, and installation by five Arab artists, including my amazing friend Shurooq Amin :-)
It is organized to celebrate womens day.

You can check the event on facebook...

"The 8th of March is Women's Day, and what better way to celebrate and honor it than by organizing a wonderful art exhibition, as Ms Fatina Al-Sayed from Fine Arts has done. She has gathered five talented Arab artists, each of whom will contribute their own style and technique of talent to the show, by paintings, sculpture, and installation to express what it means to be a woman, how it affects their artistic vision, their craft and their philosophy. Don't miss this fine unique experience"


Hope to see you there ;-)


You can join Shurooq Amin's Art Consultancy Group on facebook by clicking here :-)

Cloud Gate - Chicago

My manager was showing me this amazing piece of art -sculpture- in Chicago Millennium Park called Cloud Gate, nicknamed the Bean. It is inspired by mercury and made out of stainless steel. You can walk around and under it.

You can read about it more if you click here!

Enjoy the pics -from google's images-

You can also check the Jay Pritzker Pavillion centerpiece of the Millennium Park.

What great displays of public art :-)


UPDATE
OK this is funny, the video below will show towards the end Kefaya and Jenan's dance under the Jay Prtzker Pavillion.... NO comment LOL

Alphabet My Way

My collaborative work ;-)
I was tagged by Grey for a mosaic thingy, but decided to post this instead :-D
Whadya all think?

Japanese-Inspired Simpsons

The Gift

Just a friendly reminder!
Do not forget to attend Dr. Shurooq Amin 6th Solo Art Exhibition, The Gift, this Sunday March 23rd at 7:00PM in Al-Khorafi Hall at the Kuwait Art Association in Hawalli (Behind Al Muhallab)



For more info on the artist, click here.

Art Exhibition

Dr. Shurooq Amin is having her 6th Solo Art Exhibition "The Gift" on Sunday March 23 at 7:00PM. It will be held at Al Khorafi Hall at The Kuwait Art Association in Hawalli (Behind Al Muhallab) and will be composed of more than thirty large oil paintings.

Please feel free to invite (or forward this invitation to) your friends or other art aficionados.

Amazing

My co-worker (and someone I consider as a dear friend to me) D.D. sent me an email of paintings... some magnificent work! The artist behind it is her cousin :-)
I want your feedback :-) Fabulous or what?

Into the Land of Futility

Into the Land of Futility
By Shurooq Amin
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Gothic women

Embracing the sky

“Come with me

And i will take you

Into the Land of Futility”



Light calls to me

From whence my father resides,

An extra burden on the angles.

Warm chills flutter

On wings of crystal.

Darkness beguiles me

From whence Lucifer towers

Lord of a child’s nightmare

Up till the age when she cries

“daddy, daddy”

And finds no one there

But the faces

Of mother, brother

And the embryo of a sister.



Unborn as yet.



Catalytic presumptions.

Daddy has gone.

Sister has come.

Irreplaceable replacement.

God’s gift to you, mother.

ART 20 x 30

As received by email:


DAR AL FUNOON will hold a very special exhibition ART 20X30 a fund raising event for BAYT ABDALLAH. Artists from Kuwait and all over the world have donated their work. With care and remarkable talent, famous, yet to be discovered, professionals and students have joined the campaign to offer help to a good cause while giving you the opportunity of owning incredible artwork.

Generosity produced this event and put forward art in its beauty, esthetics, expressions, and feelings. Art 20X30 was the product of many more, sponsorship, input, and ideas that contributed to the success Art 20x30.

The last part of this chain of hope is the viewer and buyer.

I would like to express my deepest gratitude in advance to each one of you who will purchase a 20x30 canvas, as your gesture will allow this idea to flourish into its best form and make it a reality.

Sales of artwork will start on Monday the 18 and will go through the 19th of February.

The gallery will stay open from 10am to 8 pm to give a chance to everyone to visit, pick their choice of art from the walls and acquire valuable art at the price of KD 50/- each.


Introduction to Bayt Abdallah

Bayt Abdullah is a children’s hospice that has been commissioned by KACCH to provide specialized care for children who are not expected to reach adulthood, and their families, enabling them to live their lives as fully as possible for as long as possible.

The focus of the design is on the individual needs of children and their families delivered within a very attractive, child-friendly and playful environment supported by highly skilled pediatric palliative care staff.

Surrounded by beautifully landscaped gardens and terraces and fronted by an inlet of the Arabian Gulf, Bayt Abdallah will offer children expert pain and symptom management as well as opportunities to play and socialize with other children.

Bayt Abdallah is named after a four-year old boy called Abdallah who returned to Kuwait from London when treatment failed to cure his life-threatening condition. His mother promised that he would never again have to stay in a hospital and took care of him at home with the support of KACCH and a team of very special people. This experience inspired KACCH to work towards making this specialized care available for other children with terminal conditions in Kuwait and has resulted in the design of Bayt Abdallah, the first children’s hospice in the Middle East, designed by Alia Al-Ghunaim, a young Kuwaiti architect.

Anne-Julie Aubry

Last week I was browsing through 248am and read a post about Anne-Julie Aubry. I checked out her website and fell in love with every piece. She is an amazing artist! I LOVE her style! I am looking forward to buying some of her paintings to hang on my bedroom walls!! As a matter of fact, I changed my header image to one of her paintings... which goes well with the title of my blog (Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May)

That piece is called "A life with Flowers"

The image above in this post is called "The Bath" it is so cute. Isn't it?

Anne-Julie Aubry, born in 1980, in a small town in Eastern France. A graduated from Beaux-Arts in 2001, Ecole de L'Image of Epinal with a degree in Illustration.



Check out;
her website
and her blog
and to shop

Orientalism - Paintings

As promised ;-)

PS: I dont have the artists' names to include. I got these pictures/paintings from the net.

Orientalism

Orientalism is the study of Near and Far Eastern societies and cultures, languages and people by Westerners. It can also refer to the imitation or depiction of aspects of Eastern cultures in the West by writers, designers and artists. It encompasses art, music, literature, architecture and design but, as far as Oriental Art is concerned, it is characterized by its focus on a common fascination with a region rather than a movement or a style.

The term "Orient" is derived from the Latin word "Oriens" which means "east" (or literally "rising sun")

The paintings are basically a style of art associated with a group of 19th-century artists who were fond of depicting harem girls, sheikhs and Middle-Eastern scenery - whether or not the artist had actually spent time in the Middle East. Delacroix, Ingres and (Henri) Rousseau - to name the three best-known artists - all employed "oriental" touches to various

Depictions of Islamic "Moors" and "Turks" (imprecisely named Muslim groups of North Africa and West Asia) can be found in Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque art. But it was not until the 19th century that "Orientalism" in the arts became an established theme. In these works the myth of the Orient as exotic and corrupt is most fully articulated. Such works typically concentrated on Near-Eastern Islamic cultures.

Source: Dictionary and Encyclopedia

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My View on Orientalism:

I have always appreciated Islamic art and architecture! I am also a fan of Orientalism Art.
The paintings are so warm and live.. I would stand in front of one and stare for long time.
It is very rich! When I was looking at one of those paintings at my uncle's house I felt the warmth. I saw live coming out of it.. it was somehow in movement! I felt the heat of the climate/desert... I swear these paintings are so live.. Some good ones can appear photographic too! They look real, and are able to take you into other dimensions.. way beyond it!

As for owning one... hmm I don't really know! I can absolutely say these are amazing pieces and work of art (actually on of my favorites).. To me, they are something I would appreciate looking at and enjoy... (basically having the pleasure to simply look at without having to own it)..

My style is rather simple chic to modern.. with some art deco maybe! But if I have one of those painting, I know I would create the atmosphere for it in a corner of the house to compliment the whole look... so to speak!

I will add another post with more paintings later today.

Apetalous Poet

To one powerful Kuwaiti Woman, Shurooq!

With lots of admiration and respect,

-Ansam

Dr. Shurooq Amin is an Anglophone poet, an artist with five successful solo art exhibitions, a certified interior decorator, a university professor, and is the Head of the English Language Unit at the College of Business Administration, Kuwait University. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing and an MA in English Literature.

Check her official website: http://www.theapetalouspoet.com/index.htm

Recent Publication(s): http://mirandamagazine.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=169&Itemid=27

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may - Robert Herrick

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying;
And this same flower that smiles today,
To-morrow will be dying.
The glorious lamp of heaven, the Sun,
The higher he's a-getting;
The sooner will his race be run,
And nearer he's to setting.
That age is best, which is the first,
When youth and blood are warmer;
But being spent, the worse, and worst
Time still succeed the former.
Then be not coy, but use your time,
And while ye may go marry;
For having lost but once your prime,
You may for ever tarry.

Image 1: Oil painting on canvas created in 1908 by British Pre-Raphaelite artists John William Waterhouse

Image 2: Oil painting on canvas created in 1909 by British Pre-Raphaelite artists John William Waterhouse