THE MINOTAUR - A EARLY PAINTING FROM 1976

“I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.”
― Frida Kahlo

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In 1976, the year before I entered the Art Department of the University of Lethbridge as a student, I had painted, among many works since the start of the seventies, this Dali inspired piece.

Just recently I realized I had not even added it in my Catalogue raisonné nor is it on my website. The only place I had posted it once was on DeviantArt. So closing that gap I published it yesterday on my Wordpress Blog
..... did I mention Dali? He was my earliest influence: the following year, prior to entering my student years at the University of Lethbridge, I painted this piece about Dali
But I digress. About the Minotaur painting, the Philippine writer Kristine Ong Muslim included a poetic description in her book We Bury the Landscape (she had also written about several more of my paintings) - I have no idea where I had found this excerpt, perhaps at the time I saved a screenshot it was available on line:

All the links to the paintings she discussed in her book are found on this page:Several of my works are found, among some of the greatest works by artists of my genre.Except one, all the links to my works she had written about are working, but one is not, because it linked to the defunct Google Picasa album - but just for your edification, should you have checked her page, this piece is also found on my DeviantArt page:My early works period goes back to 1972, this painting 'The Longing' is also one of my earliest pieces. It was sold to a private collector in Canada (btw, it is another one not in my catalogue raisonné - like so many of that period where I don't even have proper photos of).

Back to the subject of THE MINOTAURHERE HE IS LOOKING AT YOU - THE EYE OF THE MINOTAUR

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Final Words of wisdom and a pet concern of mine, especially about art diplomas:
I had in years past come across quite a few 'fake diplomas' that pretend to be academic credentials. Next to 'Pay to Play Galleries' they are the scourge to be avoided. The summary of a paper about this spells it out
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^{If you google the title you will find where this book is available, but also there are many videos on this subject.}