11 Works, RELIGIOUS ART - CONTEMPORARY & 20th Century Interpretation of the Bible! Vincent Serbin's Toward Omega, with Footnotes - 24

Vincent Serbin

Detail; A Meditation on a Number 10

Gelatin silver print

14 x 11 inches

In 1990 or so, Steven Albahari, 21st Editions' publisher, decided to purchase his very first photograph. It happened to be by Vincent Serbin, who 13 years later, he ended up crossing paths with again and decided to publish, provided that he was able to make all of the prints for the project. He did. John Wood, 21st Editions' editor, paired Vincent's photographs with the brilliance of Daniel Westover (poet, professor and literary critic) who constructed a poem for each image, which is a difficult task indeed. 

Vincent Serbin

A Meditation on a Number 10

Gelatin silver print

14 x 11 inches

Private collection

Omega is the last letter of the Greek alphabet, and has come to signify an "ending" of sorts - a finality. Vincent Serbin has used it here to describe his metaphysical meditations of the nature of time as it relates to our existence and ability to function in the present moment, a confluence of past and future. 

Vincent Serbin

Antagonistic Forms

Gelatin silver print

14 x 11 inches

Private collection

Heading Toward Omega breaks new ground in the field of near-death studies by focusing on the meaning of the near-death experience (NDE) for the survivor and for human evolution. Dr. Kenneth Ring's intensive three-year study of more than one hundred experiencers found that NDEs cause a provocative pattern of very positive changes in outlook, values, and behavior -- and are often powerful catalysts for spiritual awakening and psychic development. Moreover, deep NDEs frequently include strikingly similar visions of our planetary future. The depth and consistency of these life transformations -- as well as the apparent widespread and increasing incidence of NDEs -- lead Dr. Ring to a startling conclusion: Near-death experiences may be part of an evolutionary thrust toward higher consciousness for all humanity. Thus they may foreshadow the birth of a new planetary consciousness as we head toward Omega, the final goal of human evolution. More on Heading Toward Omega

Vincent Serbin

Gelatin silver print

14 x 11 inches

Private collection

Vincent Serbin

Gelatin silver print

14 x 11 inches

Private collection

Vincent Serbin

The Essence of Nature

Gelatin silver print

14 x 11 inches

Private collection

Vincent Serbin

Earth Angel

Gelatin silver print

14 x 11 inches

Private collection

Vincent Serbin

Gelatin silver print

14 x 11 inches

Private collection

Vincent Serbin uses drawing, set construction, multiple-image printing and “negative collages” to create his dense works, which cover a multitude of subjects.

Vincent Serbin

Nieve Grace

Gelatin silver print

14 x 11 inches

Private collection

In constructing his collages, Serbin combines upwards of three or four negatives, cutting or tearing out selected image areas from each negative and taping them together to create a single master negative. Serbin also incorporates words, graffiti-like doodles and outlines etched into the emulsion or marked on the surface of the negative.

Vincent Serbin

The Beautiful Illusion

Gelatin silver print

14 x 11 inches

Private collection

Although Serbin describes his darkroom procedures as fairly straightforward and conventional, he has developed some highly refined toning techniques that combine selective applications of selenium, sepia toner, and bleach to create what he describes as a “speckled effect.”

Vincent Serbin

The Power of Imagination

Gelatin silver print

14 x 11 inches

Private collection

Serbin noticed piles of expired photo paper collecting in his studio. It occured to him that it might be well-suited for painting. He experimented and in fact discovered that several layers of gesso resulted in supremely durable and archival paper on which to paint. 

Vincent Serbin

Untitled

Photogravure, Hand-pulled

14 x 11 inches

Private collection

Vincent Serbin, who was awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship grant in 2000, boasts an impressive resume of exhibitions spanning more than a quarter of a century. More on Vincent Serbin

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01 Work, CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! Kasia Derwinska's Prayer, with Footnotes - #51

Kasia Derwinska, Spain

Prayer

Digital, Black & White, Manipulated, New Media, Paint on Paper

15.7 W x 15.7 H x 0 in

Private collection

I talk to God but the sky is empty. Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist, and short-story writer. Plath was clinically depressed for most of her adult life, and was treated multiple times with electroconvulsive therapy. She died by suicide in 1963.  More on Sylvia Plath

Kasia Derwinska "Photography is my way of communicating with the world. In my work, I talk about own experiences, thoughts, doubts, fears and hopes trying to reflect my own life's path. In addition to my experiences, my creations are inspired by night dreams as since childhood I remember most of them and I believe that dreams are the most simbolic language of our subconscious, a guide to navigate in the modern world. I am autodidactic and I don´t recognize myself as a photographer. I use photography as a tool, like a brush for painting or an instrument to play music. My work is an attempt to connect substantiality of the world that surrounds us with elusiveness of feelings and thoughts. For that reason I describe my creations as building a bridge between the visible and the invisible. My works are divided in four basic series: fairytales and fantasies, conceptual black and white, night dreams, and the color serie called "who sings, frightens away his fears"  More on Kasia Derwinska

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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART - Interpretation the bible, Lidia Wylangowska's Bohemian Angel, with Footnotes - #129

Lidia Wylangowska, United States

Bohemian Angel

Original Oil Painting

108 W x 80 H x 1.5 in

Private collection

An angel is generally a supernatural being found in various religions and mythologies. In Abrahamic religions and Zoroastrianism, angels are often depicted as benevolent celestial beings who act as intermediaries between God or Heaven and Humanity. Other roles of angels include protecting and guiding human beings, and carrying out God's tasks. More on Angels

Lidia Wylangowska: "My art tells my story. It's a story of my world, of my thoughts and emotions entwined in an internal dialogue. And some of it can be expressed only through painting. It is incredible, how fairy-tales I heard once-upon-a-time, in my childhood actually influenced my life and defined who I am. 

The technique I use in my works is changing and evolving as I do. There is a lot my very own inventions in it but the very base comes from Renaissance Masters. Masaccio, Leonardo da Vinci , Raphael are commonly considered to have pioneered the use of chiaroscuro to create the illusion of relief - notably in the modelling of the human body. Chiaroscuro modeling is supporting the effect of color. In order to use the under painting efficiently, I put the color transparently. The transparent layer of paint spread over the top of an opaque passage that has been given some time to dry. Light travels through the glaze and is reflected back off of the opaque layer below. The light in the painting constructed this way lit the color from the bottom. More on Lidia Wylangowska

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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART - Interpretation the bible, Henri Fantin-Latour's Stabat Mater, with Footnotes - 128

Henri Fantin-Latour, (French, 1836-1904)

Stabat Mater, c. 1896

Oil on canvas

18 ¾ x 26 ½ in. (47.6 x 67.3 cm.)

Private collection

The Stabat Mater is a 13th-century Christian hymn to Mary, which portrays her suffering as Jesus Christ's mother during his crucifixion. Its author may be either the Franciscan friar Jacopone da Todi or Pope Innocent III. The title comes from its first line, "Stabat Mater dolorosa", which means "the sorrowful mother was standing".

The hymn is sung at the liturgy on the memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows. The Stabat Mater has been set to music by many Western composers. More on Stabat Mater

Henri Fantin-Latour (14 January 1836 – 25 August 1904) was a French painter and lithographer best known for his flower paintings and group portraits of Parisian artists and writers.  He was born Ignace Henri Jean Théodore Fantin-Latour in Grenoble, Isère. As a youth, he received drawing lessons from his father, who was an artist. In 1850 he entered the Ecole de Dessin. After studying at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1854, he devoted much time to copying the works of the old masters in the Musée du Louvre. Although Fantin-Latour befriended several of the young artists who would later be associated with Impressionism, including Whistler and Manet, Fantin's own work remained conservative in style.

Whistler brought attention to Fantin in England, where his still-lifes sold so well that they were "practically unknown in France during his lifetime". In addition to his realistic paintings, Fantin-Latour created imaginative lithographs inspired by the music of some of the great classical composers.

In 1875, Henri Fantin-Latour married a fellow painter, Victoria Dubourg, after which he spent his summers on the country estate of his wife's family at Buré, Orne in Lower Normandy, where he died on 25 August 1904. More on Henri Fantin-Latour 

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01 Work, CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! Joel-Peter Witkin's Ars Moriendi, with Footnotes - 50

Joel-Peter Witkin, (American, 1939-)

Detail; Ars Moriendi, c. 2007

Tirage argentique

66 x 71 cm

Private collection

Joel-Peter Witkin, (American, 1939-)

Ars Moriendi, c. 2007

Tirage argentique

66 x 71 cm

Private collection

Joel-Peter Witkin is known for his grotesquely beautiful photographs that explore themes of death, religion, and the experience of being socially outcast. Witkin stages surrealistic scenes with cadavers, skeletons, and dismembered body parts so they recall Classical paintings and religious imagery. More on this work

The Ars moriendi ("The Art of Dying") are two related Latin texts dating from about 1415 and 1450 which offer advice on the protocols and procedures of a good death, explaining how to "die well" according to Christian precepts of the late Middle Ages. It was very popular, and was the first in a western literary tradition of guides to death and dying.

There was originally a "long version" and a later "short version" containing eleven woodcut pictures as instructive images which could be easily explained and memorized. More on Ars moriendi

Joel-Peter Witkin (born September 13, 1939) is an American photographer. His work often deals with such themes as death, corpses, and various outsiders such as dwarves, transsexuals, intersex persons, and physically deformed people. Witkin's complex tableaux often recall religious episodes or classical paintings.

Witkin's parents divorced when he was young. In 1961 Witkin enlisted in the United States Army with the intention of capturing war photography during the Vietnam war. However, Witkin never saw combat in Vietnam and spent his military time at Fort Hood, Texas, and was mostly in charge of Public Information and classified photos. In 1967, he became the official photographer for City Walls Inc. He attended Cooper Union in New York, where he studied sculpture, attaining a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1974. Columbia University granted him a scholarship for graduate school, but his Master of Fine Arts degree is from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque  More Joel-Peter Witkin

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01 Work, CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! Jean Jansem's Lot and his two daughters, with Footnotes - 44

Jean Jansem, (1920-2013)

Loth et ses filles/ Lot and his two daughters, c. 1999

Oil on canvas

51 3/16 x 63 3/4 in

Private collection

Lot and his two daughters, Genesis 19:30-38,  left Zoar and settled in the mountains, for he was afraid to stay in Zoar. He and his two daughters lived in a cave. 31 One day the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man around here to give us children—as is the custom all over the earth. 32 Let’s get our father to drink wine and then sleep with him and preserve our family line through our father.”

That night they got their father to drink wine, and the older daughter went in and slept with him. He was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up.

The next day the older daughter said to the younger, “Last night I slept with my father. Let’s get him to drink wine again tonight, and you go in and sleep with him so we can preserve our family line through our father.” So they got their father to drink wine that night also, and the younger daughter went in and slept with him. Again he was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up.

So both of Lot’s daughters became pregnant by their father. The older daughter had a son, and she named him Moab; he is the father of the Moabites of today. The younger daughter also had a son, and she named him Ben-Ammi; he is the father of the Ammonites of today. More Lot and his two daughters

Hovhannes "Jean" Semerdjian (9 March 1920 – 27 August 2013), also known as Jean Jansem, was a French-Armenian painter. Jansem's artworks are internationally known, and are part of museum collections throughout France, Japan and the United States. A Foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia (2002).

He was awarded the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1953 and by the Knight of the French Legion of Honour in 2003. The President of Armenia awarded Jansem a Medal of Honor for his “reinforcement of Armenian-French cultural ties.” 

Hovhannes Semerdjian was born in 1920 in Bursa, Turkey. In 1922, his family fled to Greece. He spent his childhood in Thessaloniki. They arrived to Issy-les-Moulineaux suburb of Paris, France in 1931 when he was 11 and that is when he begin to paint. The first professional schools for Jansem became free academies of Montparnasse (1934-1936). He studied in the Ecole des Arts Decoratifs. Jansem also studied at the Sabatie studio for a year. Early paintings by Jansem were mainly to national issues. He had individual exhibitions in Paris, New York, Chicago, London, Tokyo, Rome, Brussels, Lausanne, Beirut etc. Hovhannes Semerdjian was elected the President of the Young Artists' Saloon in 1956.

Jansem’s primary sources of inspiration were Goya and Brueghel. His mother and his children were the main heroes in his earlier works. Jansem was characterized as a miserablist, an artist of unfortunate people.

Jansem died on 27 August 2013, aged 93, outside Paris. More on Jean Jansem

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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART - School of Prague's Ecce Homo, With Footnotes - 179

School of Prague - 1st half 17th century

Ecce Homo

Oil on copper

40.5 x 29.5cm

Private collection

Ecce homo are the Latin words used by Pontius Pilate in the Vulgate translation of John 19:5, when he presents a scourged Jesus Christ, bound and crowned with thorns, to a hostile crowd shortly before his Crucifixion. The Douay-Rheims Bible translates the phrase into English as "Behold the man!" [John 19:5] The scene has been widely depicted in Christian art. More on Ecce homo

School of Prague. Starting in the early 18th century a series of organizations were formed in Prague with an interest in promoting art and education. Thanks in part to their efforts, the Academy of Fine Arts was founded by Imperial Decree on September 10, 1799. It began with instruction in drawing. The academy was gradually expanded to include programs in architecture, painting, printmaking, and sculpture, among others. More on School of Prague

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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART - Pier Francesco Foschi's Madonna with child and the John the Baptist, With Footnotes - #124

Pier Francesco Foschi, (1502 Florence 1567)
Madonna with child and the John the baptist
Oil on wood.
109 × 85 cm
Private collection

The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne, or Madonna and Child with Saint Anne, is a subject in Christian art showing Saint Anne with her daughter, the Virgin Mary, and her grandson Jesus. This depiction has been popular in Germany and neighboring countries since the 14th century.

The relationship of St. Anne to the immaculate conception of her daughter is not explicit, but her mystical participation is implied. This should not be confused with the perpetual virginity of Mary or the virgin birth of Jesus. Although the belief was widely held since at least Late Antiquity, the doctrine was not formally proclaimed until December 8, 1854 when it was dogmatically defined in the Western Latin Rite by Pope Pius IX via his papal bull, Ineffabilis Deus. It was never explicitly so in the Eastern churches. More on Saint Anne, the Virgin and the Child Jesus

John the Baptist, known as the prophet Yahya in the Qur'an, was a Jewish itinerant preacher in the early first century AD. John is revered as a major religious figure in Christianity, Islam, the Bahá'í Faith, and Mandaeism. He is called a prophet by all of these traditions, and honoured as a saint in many Christian traditions.

John used baptism as the central sacrament of his messianic movement.[ Most scholars agree that John baptized Jesus. Scholars generally believe Jesus was a follower or disciple of John and several New Testament accounts report that some of Jesus' early followers had previously been followers of John. John the Baptist is also mentioned by the Jewish historian Josephus. Some scholars maintain that John was influenced by the semi-ascetic Essenes, who expected an apocalypse and practiced rituals corresponding strongly with baptism, although no direct evidence substantiates this.

According to the New Testament, John anticipated a messianic figure greater than himself, and Jesus was the one whose coming John foretold. Christians commonly refer to John as the precursor or forerunner of Jesus, since John announces Jesus' coming. John is also identified with the prophet Elijah. More on John the Baptist

Pier Francesco Foschi (1502–1567) was an Italian painter active in Florence in a Mannerist style. Also called Pier Francesco di Jacopo Foschi or Toschi. He was the son of Jacopo Sandro Foschi, known for his Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John. (Utah Museum of Fine Arts). He completed 3 altarpieces, commissioned in 1540–1545 for the church of Santo Spirito in Florence: an Immaculate Conception, Resurrection, and a Transfiguration. Foschi was also influenced by Il Bronzino.

Foschi is best noted for his portraits painted between 1530 and 1540. In his portraits he adhered to the Mannerist style, utilizing a slight Contrapposto in the sitter with their head turned from the body. This pose gave the depiction a spontaneity and sense of movement for the innovative Mannerists, but was eventually so formulaic that it lost its intention of originality. More on Pier Francesco Foschi

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02 Works, CONTEMPORARY & 20th Century Interpretation of the Bible! The Vale of Rest, With Footnotes - 45

Josh Honeyman, (b. 1976)

Millais''s Two Nuns/ The Vale of Rest, 2008 (diptych)

Mixed media on canvas 

122 x76cm (each)

Private collection

This painting is Honeyman's interpretation of John Everett Millais' The Vale of Rest, below. 

Josh Honeyman lives near Blackheath close to the highest point of the Blue Mountains. He takes us there, into visionary landscapes, reimagining the world through a host of signs, symbols and haunting scenarios. Arcane narratives are suggested, ones steeped in myth, portents and divinations. There's love, death, poetry, mystery, wizardry, far beyond anything the camera can offer. The fact that Honeyman is a highly skilled painter allows him to convince us of the validity of these alternative realms. Let's go there, not all the time, but long enough to recognise that the human spirit is more than just a receptacle for the banal pragmatism and dull conventions of Western rationalism. Robert Hollingworth, 2019

Josh studied at the College of Fine Arts, Sydney. He has exhibited in a range of solo and group shows across Australia and in Los Angeles, USA in 2006.

John Everett Millais, (1829–1896)

The Vale of Rest

Oil on canvas

1029 x 1727 mm

Tate Britain

Art critic Tom Lubbock said of the painting:

"Graves. Dusk. A walled enclosure. The spooky, looming trees. Nuns. Catholics (in England then, still an object of suspicion). Sexual segregation. Religiosity. Mistress and servant, a power relationship, maybe some deeper emotional bondage. Female labour. Something being buried or exhumed. Twin wreaths. The deep dark earth. Corpses, secrets, conspiracy, fear. It's a picture that pulls out all the stops." More on this painting

Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet, (8 June 1829 – 13 August 1896) was an English painter and illustrator. he was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.

A child prodigy, at the age of eleven Millais became the youngest student to enter the Royal Academy Schools. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded at his family home in London. Millais became the most famous exponent of the style, his painting Christ in the House of His Parents (1850) generating considerable controversy. By the mid-1850s Millais was moving away from the Pre-Raphaelite style and developing a new and powerful form of realism in his art. His later works were enormously successful, making Millais one of the wealthiest artists of his day. While early 20th-century critics, reading art through the lens of Modernism, viewed much of his later production as wanting, this perspective has changed in recent decades, as his later works have come to be seen in the context of wider changes and advanced tendencies in the broader late-nineteenth-century art world.

Millais's personal life has also played a significant role in his reputation. His wife Effie was formerly married to the critic John Ruskin, who had supported Millais's early work. The annulment of the marriage and her wedding to Millais have sometimes been linked to his change of style, but she became a powerful promoter of his work and they worked in concert to secure commissions and expand their social and intellectual circles. More on Sir John Everett Millais

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01 Work, CONTEMPORARY & 20th Century Interpretation of the Bible! Borys Fiodorowicz's Madonna and Madonna. With Footnotes - #44

Borys Fiodorowicz

Madonna  and Madonna, c. 2018

Acrylic, Wood

40 cm x 30 cm x 2 cm

Private collection

A Madonna is a representation of Mary, either alone or with her child Jesus. These images are central icons for both the Catholic and Orthodox churches. The word is from Italian ma donna, meaning 'my lady'. 

The term Madonna in the sense of "picture or statue of the Virgin Mary" enters English usage in the 17th century, primarily in reference to works of the Italian Renaissance. In an Eastern Orthodox context, such images are typically known as Theotokos.  More on Madonna

Borys Fiodorowicz is the graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. The artist comes from Ukraine but currently he lives and works near Cracow, Poland, where his closest entourage became a great source of inspiration. He took part in numerous individual and group exhibitions and charity auctions. His permanent exhibition can be seen in Parish House in Paszkówka. More on Borys Fiodorowicz 

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