Brushed Voices

Shelter Rock Art Gallery Unitarian Universalist Congregation 48 Shelter Rock Rd, Manhasset, NY 10030 February 26, 2012

Stefan Arteni (Geizan

Calligraphy Demonstration and Artists Talk

Stefan Arteni (Geizan), A circle fits not with a square design, a verse from Li Sao (Encountering Sorrow), a poem about exile composed by Qu Yuan, Seal Script, monotype on paper, undated

SolInvictus Press 2012

Stefan Arteni (Geizan) performs A Calligraphy Demonstration

Photo Gloria L. Duque

Photo Gloria L. Duque

Photo Gloria L. Duque

Photo Gloria L. Duque

Photo Gloria L. Duque

Photo Marilyn Carter

Photo Marilyn Carter

Stefan Arteni (Geizan) An Artists Talk in Images

NIHON SHODO GEIJUTSU KYOKAI

(JAPAN CALLIGRAPHY ART ASSOCIATION: THE LINEAGE)

Zhang Yuzhao | Miyajima Eishi 1. Tradition

Hidai Tenrai |

/ Hidai Nankoku

Kamijo Shinzan
| Yusho Tanaka (Setsuzan) | Stefan Arteni (Geizan)

Katsu Kaish 1823 1899 kashimaarts.com/kakejiku/kind ai_sho/gallery/katsu.h tml

Zhang Yuzhao 1823 - 1894 www.huachenauctions.com/ auction_list_en.php?pid=521 5&PB_page=8

Miyajima Eishi 1867 - 1943 pupil of Katsu Kaishu disciple of Zhang Yuzhao www.nagaragawagarou.com/visu almuseum/m-c-065.html

Miyajima Eishi 1867 - 1943 http://www.nagaragawagarou. com/ga/eishi-nigyousyo1.jpg

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Details, Miyajima Eishi 1867 - 1943

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Miyajima Eishi 1867 - 1943 http://www.nagaragawagar ou.com/ga/eishiyongyou1.jpg

Detail, Miyajima Eishi 1867 - 1943 http://www.na garagawagaro u.com/ga/eishi -yongyou2.jpg

www.nihonsun.net/topic-1576-0.html Leaping Dragon

Hidai Tenrai 1872 - 1939

www.japanforum.com/forum/japanese-art/33368calligraphy-my-rec...

Hidai Tenrai 1872 - 1939 wp1.fuchu.jp/~sei-dou/rekisisiryou/00090hidai-tenraihyakusen...

Zhang Meng Long Bei rubbing, Northern Wei Dynasty (522) http://pds.lib. harvard.edu/ pds/view/10 738071?n=7 &printThumb nails=no

Kamijo Shinzan 20th century (interpretation of the Zhang Meng Long Bei brushwork)

Kamijo Shinzan 20th century

Kamijo Shinzan 20th century

Kamijo Shinzan 20th century

Tanaka Setsuzan knsh.kr/web/bbs/board.php?bo_ta ble=z4_3&wr_id=12

Tanaka Setsuzan

Tanaka Setsuzan

Tanaka Setsuzan

Stefan Arteni (Geizan)

Stefan Arteni (Geizan)

Seal carving: the art of the iron brush

Stefan Arteni (Geizan)

Seal carving: the art of the iron brush

Stefan Arteni (Geizan)

Seal carving: the art of the iron brush

Stefan Arteni (Geizan)

2. The Far East and The West

Stefan Arteni (Geizan), A circle fits not with a square design, a verse from Li Sao (Encountering Sorrow), a poem about exile composed by Qu Yuan, Seal Script, monotype on paper, undated (the work was realized with the palette knife on a plexiglass plate)

Stefan Arteni (Geizan), Time Waits For No Man, Seal Script, monotype on paper, undated (the work was realized with the palette knife on a plexiglass plate)

Stefan Arteni (Geizan), Art Endures Forever, Seal Script, monotype on paper, undated (the work was realized with the palette knife on a plexiglass plate)

3. Transient Calligraphy

An artist may perform water calligraphy to focus the mind, body and soul on the moment - value is in the solitude, the transient singularity of that particular moment.

Taoist monk practicing water calligraphy, photo Antoine Taveneaux

Stefan Arteni (Geizan), preparatory water calligraphy exercise

Stefan Arteni (Geizan), preparatory water calligraphy exercise

Stefan Arteni (Geizan), preparatory water calligraphy exercise

4. Ink

Stefan Arteni (Geizan), preparatory ink calligraphy exercise

Stefan Arteni (Geizan), preparatory ink calligraphy exercise

Stefan Arteni (Geizan), preparatory ink calligraphy exercise

4. The Icon, Romanian Painters and Japanese Aesthetics

In an article written for the online journal Theandros, Thorsten Botz-Bornstein argues that there is a striking parallel between Byzantine and Japanese aesthetics. The mute-optical element has priority. Acts of formalization create a reality of their own, a reality that is strictly a formal one, a style mediated only through style, a reality which presents nothing but itself - style as a virtual world, or, paradoxically, as virtual irreality.

Icon, Romania, 18th century? http://www.okazii.r o/catalog/4287805 9/icoana-lemn-secxviii.html

Nicolae Tonitza 18861940 blogu.lu/exergy/ index.php/2011/ 11/05/japonismtonitzian/

Nicolae Tonitza 18861940

Nicolae Tonitza 18861940

Nicolae Tonitza 18861940

Alexandru Ciucurencu 19031977

Alexandru Ciucurencu 19031977

Stefan Arteni (Geizan), oil on canvas, 1972 -1976

Stefan Arteni (Geizan), oil on canvas, 1972 - 1976

Stefan Arteni (Geizan), from Icons for a Spiritual Exercise, album, collages and ink on paper, undated

Stefan Arteni (Geizan), from Icons for a Spiritual Exercise, album, ink on paper, undated

Stefan Arteni (Geizan), from The Prayer of Jesus, artists book, ink on paper, undated