William L. Hawkins

Juke Box

1987

Erin Hammond is a contemporary abstract expressionist artist whose free-form paintings capture the essence of her inner, subjective realities. With a vibrant palette and dynamic mark...

A wonderful composition of one of Slonem's most iconic subjects of Mrs. Kennedy. The thick use of paint is greatly recognizable as he slathers on layer after layer of Cobalt blue oil...

Gloria Dudfield (1922-2015) Untitled c.1960s Mixed media: gouache, pastel and encaustic on newsprint 12"x19.5" paper cut unevenly, unframed Unsigned Gloria (Fischer) Dudfield July 1...

SIGN OF THE TIMES The paint is made in the author's technique of painting by Vasili Zianko based acrylic painting on canvas using a variety of textures, washes, the finest glazing, volumetric contours. The art-work is readable for blind and visually impaired people by touch. The painting metaphorically depicts Ouroboros wheel - a curled snake biting its tail. Ouroboros is a symbol of eternity and infinity, especially of cyclic nature life, alternation of creation and destruction, life and death, constant rebirth and death, the movement of space. My end is my beginning. In many myths, Ouroboros embraces the whole world and identified with the circular flow of waters surrounding the earth. It maintains the world and its existence, and at the same time, it brings death into life, and life into death. Unmoving in appearance, Ouroboros personifies perpetual motion, always returning to oneself. In Orphic cosmology, Ouroboros embraces the Cosmic Egg...