Alice in Winter Watercolor

12  x 16 inches on arches paper

to purchase

https://tendollarart.com/products/alice-in-winter-watercolor

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Random blast from past...my old apt/ Sistine Chapel Ceiling

Boy was that an adventure..

New Work for Sale by Gardega

https://tendollarart.com/collections/work-for-sale/products/a-winters-window

Here is a winter's sunset outside my Long Island Studio.

Watercolor on Arches 11.5" x 13"

ANDREW WYETH AT THE BRANDYWINE!

I just paid a visit to the Brandywine Museum (first time) and saw the Andrew Wyeth Retrospective! It was beyond words and I also got to visit NC Wyeth's studio which was amazing.

As I process it all I will give it a proper write up...

SAM KALA: a new fan!

209 Main Street (rear entrance)
Hyannis, Massachusetts, MA 02601

(508) 827-6150

Outreach Specialist at PIER Recovery Center of Cape Cod

Jane Austin: A New Fan on Gardega Art!

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100005697045437&hc_ref=ARScvKMJvb4o3be6UoY3BCgyvLrZPNB77-Du53giyAyHDtGioZ4t55WpDLlQJaoa1TM&pnref=story

Interesting take on modern culture

Art With Alex: Leonardo, Michelangelo and the Battle of Anghiari

Art With Alex: Watercolor With Gardega

THE ROCKWELL BEHIND THE DRYWALL

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/30/nyregion/30rockwell.html

Charles Barkley On Social Media Losers

NBA legend Charles Barkley doesn’t give a tweet what “unsuccessful” people say on social media.

“I never worry about social media because I think it is one of the worst things that have ever happened because it gives every fool in the world an opinion on everything,” the two-time Hall of Famer told us at the NBA Awards. “Their opinion does not matter to me because their life is unsuccessful. Just because you live in the basement with your grandmother, sitting in your underwear, and then say something about anybody does not make you important or significant. You should be out there working, making the world a better place.”

He has also said, “I do zero social media because . . . that’s where losers go to feel important.”

PISSING PUG GETS 1.1 MILLION VIEWS

THIS JUST IN...

May - what a month! The NYPost network hit an all-time record for pageviews while Pagesix.com hit its own for unique visitors and pageviews. The following four stories had over one million views each: Anonymous warns world to 'prepare' for WWIII (2.5 million), The sad new life of exiled Ruth Madoff (2.2 million), Pissed off artist adds status of urinating dog next to 'Fearless Girl' (1.1 million) and Principal kills himself in school parking lot after resigning (1 million).

MY BIGGEST CONCERN IS IT WILL GO TO HIS PAPER MACHE HEAD...

Gardega asks: Are You Offended?

Alex Gardega paints entire Sistine Chapel on apt ceiling just to see what it was like

I am going to see this soon!

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/sistine-chapel-exhibit-coming-world-trade-center-oculus-article-1.3266146

Sistine Chapel Repro. downtown, NYC

My repro. on my old apt ceiling....

                                                                     Photo: Daily News

PISSING PUG COMMENTS ON REDDIT

Mr. Gardega said his dog statue is poorly made on purpose.

“I decided to build this dog and make it crappy to downgrade the statue, exactly how the girl is a downgrade on the bull,” he said.

Crap (poorly made pissing dog statute) upon crap (corporate-sponsored feminist vandalism) upon crap (economic fetishism; may the great bull spirit save us from the evil bear spirit).

I can actually get with that.

the "fearless girl" has everything to do with pandering to feminism and virtue signaling.

The girl hasn't got a hijab on. This statue is Islamophobic.

I think I'm getting the hang of being an SJW

I'm kind of disappointed.

Even though I don't have strong feelings about this whole statue drama, "Pissing Pug" could have been an effective commentary if it was well made, instead of this turd-looking thing.

“I decided to build this dog and make it crappy to downgrade the statue, exactly how the girl is a downgrade on the bull,” said Gardega, who has never met the other statues’ creators.

The reason "Fearless Girl" is so damaging the original "Charging Bull" is that it's very similar in style, quality and building materials, giving the impression, to an uninformed viewer, that the two are meant as a pair.

Not only that lazily made "thing" clearly doesn't belong there, you can barely tell it's supposed to be a dog, so, it isn't anywhere as effective at "downgrading" anything, regardless of the artist's intentions/excuses.

For added hypocrisy, Rolling Stone, the corporation, criticizes this guy for not being "truly anti-capitalist" and for "obviously just having always been a misogynist who leapt into action as soon as he saw an opportunity to attack little girls, and fuck whatever he says his actual motives or message was".

Like, jesus fuck the cynical corporate appropriation of feminism here is thick.

I thought it was the complete opposite: it's pulled off really well, but the moment you look at who put it there and why it stops being a feminist symbol and becomes a cynical piece of corporate advertising.

Fearless Girl isn't worth defending, but I'd also argue that the pissing pug dude wildly overshot the mark on what he was trying to do.

Scholar Camille Paglia On Gardega's Pissing Pug

A lot of simpletons did not understand my statement I made with the pug, so when it went worldwide via media, I got a lot of hate mail etc..Art is meant to provoke thought, not be wall decoration. I decided to reach out to a feminist a scholar and someone Ive always respected Camille Paglia. She got right back to me and made my day! I no longer cared what losers in their mos basement typed to me as I had the stamp of approval of one of the great feminists minds of our time!

                                                      (photo taken from Patriotpost.US)

                                                         Camille Paglia (wikipedia)

she gave me permission to share this as long as I mentioned it was in reply to my email inquiry.

Dear Alex Gardega,

When I first read about your pug sculpture in Page Six, I whooped and thought it was great!  And I immediately forwarded the link to friends and allies--

It was exactly the right satirical response to that silly specimen of sentimental kitsch--

Your sculpture was an excellent illustration of my controversial argument about male urination as a form of commentary.  It appeared in the opening chapter of my first book, Sexual Personae (1990), and is reprinted in my new book, Free Women, Free Men (on p. 31).

As for the negative response, one can't do anything original without expecting counterattacks--it goes with the territory!

Best wishes,

Camille Paglia

               Not everyday you get an email from one of America's great intellects!

hes famous

A great read by Nake Fews

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1389893774/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1498658346&sr=8-1&keywords=9781389893773

The most touching thing anyone has ever written/ said about me

http://glendalecherrycreek.com/2017/06/crouching-tiger-sketchy-dog/