More Lutheran Surrealism

This year I decided to revisit the theme of Lutheran Surrealism, so here is a whole new batch of weirdness-
Martin Luther as Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros. (works for dia de los Muertos too).

C.F.W. Walther with Dali's mustache.

Phillip Melancthon can't sleep, based on one of Salvador Dali's more famous works.

Lutheran Surrealism

Last year, I was surfing the web and stumbled on this blog, http://lutheransurrealism.blogspot.com By this college professor who's into surrealist poetry and philosophy who became a Lutheran. His mind bending writing inspired me to PhotoShop a few of the great Surrealist paintings (that weren't totally lewd). Just in time for Reformation (October 31) Scary, huh?

Yeah, I stayed at school and waited for Parent/Teacher conferences to start, so I was REALLY bored. I promise I'm not on drugs, and I won't be offended if you don't "get it." I have kind of a weired sense of humor.

If you think they're funny, feel free to pass them on. Maybe we can start a cult or something.
Happy Reformation Day.

The persistence of litergy
Just like Salvador Dali's 'Persistence of Memory.' I used the LCMS's new "Lutheran Service Book from CPH because I couldn't find a good picture of the old blue 'Lutheran Worship' or what i was really looking for, the red 'Lutheran Hymnal.'


This is not a beer stein
ala Rene Magritte's famous, "This is not a pipe."

It's the Great Pumpkin, Karl Barth!
Robert L. Short in his book 'The Gospel According to Peanuts' pointed out that "Charlie Brown" may have been a cleverly devised literary device for cartoonist Charles Schultz to inject the ideas of the great twentieth century theologian "Karl (Charles) Barth (Brown)." Since he was one of my heroes, I always secretly hoped that since he was from Minnesota, Schultz was Lutheran, but I think actually he may have belonged to the Church of Christ or something like that. So what if Schultz wasn't a surrealist! Reformation and Halloween are the same day, so I'm allowed to take a little license. I always felt that Linus was more like Kierkegaard, but Barth's hair is kind of crazy like Linus's is in this picture. Really, Dietrich Bonhoeffer's face and head look more like Charlie Brown, but how can you satirize someone who was martyred by the NAZI's, I mean, come on, some things are sacred.

Some dark images

Merlin's Cave 1
A drawing, a painting, and an intaglio print melded together in photoshop. Spooky for Halloween, huh?
'Merlin' by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thy trivial harp will never please
Or fill my craving ear;
Its chords should ring as blows the breeze,
Free, peremptory, clear.
No jingling serenader's art,
Nor tinkle of piano strings,
Can make the wild blood start
In its mystic springs.
The kingly bard
Must smile the chords rudely and hard,
As with hammer or with mace;
That they may render back
Artful thunder, which conveys
Secrets of the solar track,
Sparks of the supersolar blaze Note.
Merlin's blows are strokes of fate,
Chiming with the forest tone,
When boughs buffet boughs in the wood;
Chiming with the gasp and moan
Of the ice-imprisoned hood;
With the pulse of manly hearts;
With the voice of orators;
With the din of city arts;
With the cannonade of wars;
With the marches of the brave;
And prayers of might from martyrs' cave.



I put a charcoal drawing and a pencil drawing together, but did a lot in photoshop. Frankly I think this final composition is a stronger artwork than either of the two originals. I call this "of two minds." You could think of it as someone who is treacherous and "two-faced," or you could imagine someone with multiple-personality-disorder. Or you could just interpret it your own way. I thought it would be fun to do make something scary for Halloween. Boo!

Surrealism

Teaching my photography kids about how to make composite images in Photoshop today, so I threw this together.

Eye infection

Playing around with the swivel-view screen on my camera, and of course Photoshop

Lutheran Surrealism

I was surfing the web and stumbled on this blog, http://lutheransurrealism.blogspot.com
By this college professor who's into surrealist poetry and philosophy who became a Lutheran. His mind bending writing inspired me to PhotoShop a few of the great Surrealist paintings (that weren't totally lewd). Just in time for Reformation (October 31) Scary, huh?

If you like Art, or Lutherans, you'll love these:
http://tmal.multiply.com/photos/album/72
Yeah, I stayed at school and waited for Parent/Teacher conferences to start, so I was REALLY bored. I promise I'm not on drugs, and I won't be offended if you don't "get it." I have kind of a weired sense of humor.

If you think they're funny, feel free to pass them on. Maybe we can start a cult or something.
Happy Reformation Day.

I can't eat anything that looks back at me

René Magritte. Portrait. 1935. NY:MoMA.

This was pretty creepy- just perfect for Halloween.

"Sasha's having a GOOD hair day" notice the much shorter title. Photoshop fun when I should be writing my column or finishing the yearbook, May 2005
Mallory

"Fallout," Digital image manipulated in Adobe Photoshop, April 2005
Mallory

Digital image, created in Adobe Photoshop, 2005
Mallory

Adobe Photoshop is a powerful tool for the artist to use to manipulate images. Look closely, this surreal image is of an eye withing an eye. Art isn't always pretty. Sometimes it's disturbing.
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