Coffee & Cigarettes
Buffalo '66
Sånger från Andra Våningen
Stalker
Sacrifice
Run Lola Run
The Triplets of Belleville
Bottlerocket
Magnolia
The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Napoleon Dynamite
Arg!!! the Movie
Team America: WorldPolice
The Straight Story
Annie Hall
Rushmore
Iron Giant
The Incredibles
Meatballs
Blue in the Face
Lone Star
Thank You for Smoking
The Brown Bunny
Brasil
Birdie
Mean Streets
Hear My Song
Desperado
Down by Law
Ghost Dog
High Fidelity
Almost Famous
Say Anything
Television
Northern Exposure
Twin Peaks
Mr. Show
Arrested Development
The Sopranos
Six Feet Under
St. Elsewhere
The Dukes of Hazzard
That's Incredible
Miami Vice
Gilmore Girls
X-Files
My Name is Earl
Law & Order
Heroes
Ben Franklin Ira Glass Sally's husband Matt George Washington Carver Harriet Tubman Frederick Douglass Egon Schiele Ben Shahn Anselm Keifer Josef Albers Claes Oldenburg Robert Rauschenberg Cy Twombly Jean Dubuffet Alberto Giacometti Alex Katz Edvard Munch Bruce Nauman John Singer Sargeant John Currin John Singer Sargent Richard Estes Joe Raposo The Smothers Brothers Don Knotts Martin Short Dana Carvey Bob Hope Robert Risko Phillip Burke C.F. Payne Natalie Ascencios Mark Summers Laura Ljungkvist Al Hirschfeld
I thank you kindly for the friendship, it is a pleasure to make your acquaintance! Thought I'd just point out that the works featured in my myspace gallery are just small "detail" sections of much larger drawings, all of which are shown in full alongside more of my art in my external website GRANDPASTUDIOS.COM's gallery!! Please take a peek if you have time.
thanks a lot. I'm happy to became your friend ;) IONONSOIONONSONOUNARTISTA www. gaetanoleonardi. com
ITA:
"Il mito è uno strumento di trasposizione della realtà, il mito e' spiegazione di un rito, di un atto formale che corrisponde a esigenze della tribù, il mito e' struttura delle credenze di un gruppo. Oggi il mito si evolve, muta, divenendo icona, icona commerciale, sexy e nello stesso tempo divoratrice di uomini, plasmatrice di luoghi comuni del pensiero. Nell'ultimo decennio l'arte si beffa della socio-cultura attraverso la raffigurazione delle nuove icone. La scelta e il richiamo ai "super-eroi", il mito antico letto attraverso la chiave moderna degli ultimi 50 anni, non deriva da un fattore estetico bensì dalla volontà di rappresentazione della vacuità dello status symbol. Una iconografia lasciva, lussuriosa, audace si abbraccia agli eroi attuali generando lo scontro etico tra il mito classico e contemporaneo."
ENG:
"Mith is a tool to translate reality, mith is the explanation of a ritual-a formal way to express tribe needs-mith is a structure from the believings of the group. Nowadays mith is evolving, changes, becames an icon, a commercial icon, sensual and "man-eater", molding common ideas and archetypes. In the last decades art mokes on social and culture through the representation of new icons. The idea of evoking superheroes-ancient mith through the modern view of the last 50 years-is not taken from an aestethic reason, is derived from the willing of represent
