Gary J. Kirkpatrick Art and Travel Blog
Expressionistic art
“From the Banister” acrylic painting
We move in on the eye, it’s shimmering reflections, fluidity, how it conveys awareness.
I took a scene from The Shape of Water and placed fantasy images of my wife into the scene. It’s moody yet comforting simultaneously.
Couple looks out of windows as the solar eclipse reaches its apex
Among the notable things in Vilnius, the capitol of Lithuania, are the spires and the architecture, featured in the background of this painting. Lithuania is nominally a Roman Catholic country, with 75% of the population purportedly members. However the statistics show that half the population does not believe in the Christian deity. I have portrayed the irony of this apparent contradiction through the unusual placement and distortion of the spires, which serve at once to unite and divide the couple.
In the streets of St Petersburg you see people from all over Russia.
Some of the people from the far north are ghost like as they roam the streets of St Petersburg. This young woman is from Siberia.
Twice poisoned journalist and opposition leader Vladimir Vladimirovich Kara-Murza. Story below.
He is a well known opposition activist who has faced life threatening conditions twice over the past several years resulting from apparent attempts to assassinate him by poisoning. Close friend Boris Nemtsov, also an opposition leader, was shot and killed near the Kremlin in 2015.
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., called on the Trump administration and new U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to “make Kara-Murza’s cause America’s cause,” to question Russian authorities on the incident and to “ultimately hold Putin accountable if he was targeted by the regime.” Trump has not announced any action and given his unwilling to criticize Putin for anything at all he probably won’t do anything in response.