AT THE REPUBLI-CRATIC TEA PARTY
8" x 11" Tempera Painting/Kansan Paper
by Douglas L. Simmons
by Douglas L. Simmons
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“If you can’t spot the constituents from across the room, it is quite likely you are at the wrong party."
Of course, that is the “go to” claim of the surrealist, should one deign to speak critically of their art...or of their politics. (Then again, you may actually be the skunk in the works.)
(However, the noun does appear to apply in both instances).
sur·re·al·ism: noun
a style of...stressing the subconscious or nonrational significance of imagery arrived at by automatism or the exploitation of chance effects, unexpected juxtapositions, etc.
BEAUTY SLEEPS
8" x 10" Digital Ink
by Douglas L. Simmons
by Douglas L. Simmons
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by Douglas L. Simmons
Ink Rendering
7" x 9" 1
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Ink rendering from a photo of my friend Peter Katic and his Father Vaso Katic.
DESIRE
by Douglas L. Simmons
print 8" x 10" 1
Pencil/Digital Graphics (One work on two canvases)
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This work was painted from an original pencil drawing circa the 1970’s.
I drew “Letting in the Darkness” and then turned the canvas over and drew “Longing for the Light” on the back side of the canvas (to show the subject looking through the portal and gazing into the opposite drawing). How I expected to frame the thing I don’t have a clue...
I put the original aside and it sat untouched these many years.
Inspired by Sue to take up my art again I pulled it out and decided to complete it.
In the early months of 2014 the work as seen was completed using Windows Paint, Microsoft Digital Image and Ifranview.
--Doug L.
DISTRACTED
Ink on Paper
by
Douglas L. Simmons
print 8" x 10" 1
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print 16" x 20" 2
by Douglas L. Simmons
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by Douglas L. Simmons
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In an old black and white photograph I found a vision of time which the photographer had, knowingly or not, captured in his lens.
Inspired by this frozen flow I began a six month long attempt to say with pen and ink what I perceived with mind and heart: a passing moment that speaks of all eternity.
Inspired by this frozen flow I began a six month long attempt to say with pen and ink what I perceived with mind and heart: a passing moment that speaks of all eternity.
I can only hope for some small success.
The girl on the river walk, the water flowing past, the river and all about it, the buildings the mountains and the trees, the Earth even the Universe itself, whisper the word...
...ephemeral
Only time abides.
--Doug L.
by Douglas L. Simmons
print 8" x 10" 1
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Fallen...
...In 1972, while observing from the deck of a tour boat plying the Rhine river in Germany, sailing past the remnants of other ages I gazed upward to see two large stone towers and a smaller turret still standing next to them, all that remained of a once massive fortress.
As I drew with pencil on my sketch pad, I pondered in my mind how the mighty structure must have loomed above the river before it had fallen.
Judging by the cliff face and the hill which rose behind the remains of the stonework I sketched in what might have once stood above me but, in reality, had been confined to the rust of history, oxidized away by time, fallen in all but my imagination...
--Doug L.
FAWN IN THE SLOUGH
by Douglas L. Simmons
Print 7" x 9" 1
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This work was drawn from a pencil sketch made in Willow Slough, Indiana while sitting in the cold pretending to hunt rabbits.
FOLDED
by Douglas L. Simmons
Print 12" x 16" 1
(found a home 06-06-2015)
Humans did not recently become self absorbed
after discovering them-"selfie" in the "me phone".
The characteristic is folded into the very bedrock of our genetic structure.
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GROOVIN'
by Douglas L. Simmons
Print 7" x 9" 1
04-21-2015
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LAKE MICHIGAN SAIL BOATS
MONA WITH A SMILE
Print 8" x 10" 1
by Douglas L. Simmons
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by Douglas L. Simmons
original pencil sketch and water color painting 9" x 11"
framed side by side
Given as a gift in 2010 to my good friend Peter Katic,
who, by example, inspires me to become more than I am.
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VIEW FRAMED PRINTS OF ORIGINAL
original pencil sketch and water color painting 9" x 11"
framed side by side
Given as a gift in 2010 to my good friend Peter Katic,
who, by example, inspires me to become more than I am.
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VIEW FRAMED PRINTS OF ORIGINAL
Print 8" x 10" 1
by Douglas L. Simmons
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Print 8" x 10" 1
by Douglas L. Simmons
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print 5" x 7" 1
by Douglas L. Simmons
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NIGHT OF THE COMET
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by Douglas L. Simmons
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by Douglas L. Simmons
print 8" x 10" 2
06-30-2014
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print 8" x 10" 2
06-30-2014
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This is my second rendering of " Night of the Comet". The first painting was done sometime during the decade of the 1970’s using tempera paint on paper. It was completely destroyed in a flood ten years later.
All that remained of that work was a single Polaroid photograph.
Using the photo for reference I rendered a new sketch and completed this second work as an ink painting.
Such is life.
--Doug L.
All that remained of that work was a single Polaroid photograph.
Using the photo for reference I rendered a new sketch and completed this second work as an ink painting.
Such is life.
--Doug L.
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NIGHT SAIL
by Douglas L. Simmons
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As a youth I sat on the dock in Indiana Harbor and sketched the sailboats making their way home in the twilight. I did not realize that over 40 years would elapse before I brought the painting in to shore...
--Doug L.
March 2014
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