"Painting stripe paintings is a vigorous kind of thing.
Artist Alejandro Amarez explores depictions of authority by superimposing paintings and photographs of consecutive leaders and rulers from a chunk of history into one single image for a photography series called Portraits of Power.
The series of paintings ran on four consecutive weeks in The Saturday Evening Post, accompanied by essays from noted writers: Freedom of Speech (February 20), Freedom of Worship (February 27), Freedom from Want (March 6) and Freedom from Fear (March 13).
Each one of these paintings is based on a different range of consecutive decimal places of the number pi (3,14159… the mathematical constant which is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter).
The paintings were reproduced in The Saturday Evening Post over four consecutive weeks in 1943, alongside essays by prominent thinkers of the day.
The series of paintings ran in The Saturday Evening Post accompanied by essays from noted writers on four consecutive weeks: Freedom of Speech (February 20), Freedom of Worship (February 27), Freedom from Want (March 6), and Freedom from Fear (March 13).
It is a room of paintings by Leonard Peltier, a citizen of the Anishinabe and Dakota and Lakota nations who is serving two consecutive life terms in Pennsylvania for the murder of two F.B.I. agents on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.
Paintings, paintings everywhere.
