Running Hare

See also the previous posts:
• Running Hare I | II | III | IV
• Field Runners
• A Different Dimension

Image: Photographer unknown.

The Art of Stefano Junior

Notes Stefano Junior's official website:

Stefano Junior, is a fine artist and illustrator concentrating on cartooning and sequential art. He spent five years working in the publishing at Marvel Entertainment specifically working with collected and masterworks editions. He is drawn to the “transformative abilities of superheroes who live in a version of the real world, in which they are able to access potential which makes them better than they are. In that process, they benefit those that are around them.”

Stefano received his early training at the Ducret School of Arts as a youth and is an alum of the Parson’s School of Design with a certificate in Fine Arts. Currently he is completing his BFA in Cartooning at the School of Visual Arts. He teaches young adults the principles of cartooning at the Farmstead Arts Center. He also received sculpture training at the Art Students’ League in New Yotk and is a musician, performing as front man and songwriter for the band STEFANO and the TRUTH.

Related Off-site Link: Stefano Junior's Official Website

See also: The Art of Saul Lyons | Alexis Vera | Mauna Nada | Ego Rodriguez | Liam Campbell | Richard Vyse | David Jester | Aaron Moth | Travis Chantar | Douglas Simonson | Guglielmo Plüschow | Vilela Valentin | Dante Cirquero | Nebojsa Zdravkovic | Brenden Sanborn | Wilhelm von Gloeden | Richard Haines | John MacConnell | Leo Rydell Jost | Jim Ferringer | Juliusz Lewandowski | Felix d'Eon | Herbert List | Joe Ziolkowski

Night Visitor

Image: The Leveret.

See also the previous posts:
• Horace
• The Visitor

Morning Light

Image: Subject and photographer unknown.

Enchanted Night

Image: Sue Gardner.

See also the previous posts:
• All Is Enchanted
• Moonlight Hare
• Starlight Hare

Alireza Shojaian’s Richly Symbolic “Hamed Sinno et un de ses Frères”

“Hamed Sinno et un de ses Frères” by Alireza Shojaian. (Acrylic and color pencil on wood board, 150 x 220 cm.)

Notes Shojaian:

As a witness to the pregnancy of Gabrielle d’Estrées, a painting was commissioned and completed in the year of 1594. From an unknown artist, this painting shows Gabrielle d’Estrées in a bathtub with her sister pinching her nipple, in a sign of the upcoming motherhood while Gabrielle holds the ring of Henry of France, father of her soon to be child. This painting bears the same composition of a painting from 1571, “Diane de Paitieres” by Francoise Clouet.

Therefore, I decided to use the same composition as “Gabrielle d’Estrées et une des ses sœurs” to portray, in my very own way, a particular moment in our recent history when, during a concert by Mashrou’ Leila in Cairo on September 22, 2017, many concert goers were arrested by the police for waving the rainbow flag in support for the LGBTQ community during the performance. This governmental intolerance to this particular community is recursive in most Middle Eastern countries.

I captured this not-to-be documented event by dedicating this collaborative artwork to Hamed Sinno, the lead singer of Mashrou’ Leila and portraying him pinching the nipple of Anubis, the ancient Egyptian god, who holds Ankh, the symbol of immortality. The tree symbolizes the growth of this tolerance movement. In the background, the water fountain symbolizes water; the element that can take any form or shape yet can penetrate rock.

See also the previous posts:
• “A Painting of a Desired, and Desiring, Subject”
• “Like a Classical Sculpture”
• Symbol of Enlightenment

And at The Leveret's brother site, The Wild Reed, see:
• Coming Out in Africa and the Middle East
• Parvez Sharma on Islam and Homosexuality
• Omar Akersim: Muslim and Gay
• Progressive Perspectives on Islam and Homosexuality in the Aftermath of Orlando

Bel Homme

Image: Subject and photographer unknown.

Over the Moon

Image: “Hare Jumped Over the Moon” by Eileen Turner.

See also the previous posts:
• April Hare Moon
• Moonlight Hare
• Moongazer
• Hare in Moonlight
• Moon Hare

Headwear

Hats | Caps | Helmets | Headdresses

Images: Photographers unknown (except image 4 by The Leveret and images 5 and 10 by David Ryo).

See also the previous posts:
• Mon Bel Ami – January 22, 2015
• Bel Homme – May 20, 2012

Call Him Hare King

He is coming!
O'Hare is coming this way!
Call him Hare King.

– Zoë Greaves
Excerpted from Hare
Old Barn Books (2015)

See also the previous posts:
• Stag of the Cabbages
• Mostly Solitary
• Hare in Summer Field
• Hare in Field of Gold
• Among the Wheat
• A Still Moment

Image: Photographer unknown.

“Like a Classical Sculpture”

Notes the website The Art Story about Frédéric Bazille's 1868 painting “Fisherman with a Net.”

Bazille was eager to demonstrate his capability as a figure painter and, in keeping with the efforts of the Realists and early Impressionists to situate the figure in an outdoor setting and to accurately depict the effect of light and other atmospheric phenomena, he chose this very unusual subject of a naked fisherman.

Depicting nudes in landscape settings was not new; in fact, the motif dates back at least to the Renaissance. What was novel was, as art historian Gary Tinterow explains, “making the relationship between the naked body and its setting as accurate as possible in terms of proportion, depth and light.”

The results of Bazille's efforts are two expertly constructed male nudes that conform to the exacting principles of the academy in terms of construction of the human figure. The contours of their bodies are sharply defined, unlike an Impressionist work and, while Bazille locates them in the outdoors, he places them in the shade while still demonstrating his prowess at depicting natural light as the sun pierces the canopy of the woods here and there.

The male figure in the foreground stands with his back to the viewer, looking for all the world like a classical sculpture. He holds a net, which is preparing to cast into the river, a practice that was evidently common along the Lez River outside of Montpellier.

Bazille wrote to his parents about this work, telling them how his friends complimented him on this painting. He submitted it as well as another painting, A View of the Village (1868), to the 1869 Salon but it was refused.

Years later, at the 1910 Paris Salon, the painter Suzanne Valadon saw Fisherman with a Net and produced a similar version of the painting [right].

See also the previous posts:
• “A Painting of a Desired, and Desiring, Subject”
• Yesteryear
• Beauty

Summer Herbs and Hare

Image: The Leveret.