Chando's Cantina Art

Walked past Chando's Cantina and admire the art by Raul Mejia:

This wall at Chando’s was created because of all the things being said against Mexicans in politics. It was necessary to create this, not for myself or the Mexican people per se, but for the youth. They need to know there’s still people fighting for them.

https://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/art-at-the-intersection/content?oid=26197130

From his Instagram, it's called the Mexican Legends mural (left to right):

1. Juan Gabriel, born Alberto Aguilera Valadez (1950–2016) 
2. Rocío Dúrcal, born María de los Ángeles de las Heras Ortiz (1944–2006)
3. Joan Sebastian (1951–2015)
4. Dolores del Río (1904–1983)
5. Chespirito, born Roberto Gómez Bolaños, in character as El Chavo del Ocho (1929–2014)

Many thanks to Raul for personally stepping in and naming #1, #2, and #4, above. : ) 

1. Frida Kahlo, born Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón (1907–1954) (note: not visible)
2. Selena Quintanilla-Pérez (1971–1995) (note: partially obscured)
3. Carlos Santana (1947–) (note: not visible)
4. Tin-Tan, born Germán Genaro Cipriano Gómez Valdés de Castillo (1915–1973)
5. María Félix (1914–2002)
6. Capulina, born Gaspar Henaine Pérez (1926–2011)
7. Cantinflas, known casually as Mario Moreno; born Mario Fortino Alfonso Moreno Reyes (1911–1993)

Cindy Mori - Artist

40" x 72" , 30 layers of painting: Bali *heart* Love

Cindy Mori

Saw this painting at Vital Body Therapy massage, in July 2017.

Ainsworth Custom Fabrication - Art Collective Storefront

This place represents my favorite Vancouver place, to-date:

http://granvilleisland.com/directory/ainsworth-custom-design

Felt right-at-home. Quirky and positive. Lots of care and thought put into almost every piece.

Wanted to purchase everything. Ended up with a Little Rabbit Notecard from Mary Kim.

Other links:
https://www.instagram.com/ainsworthcustomdesign/ (sporadically updated, since 2013)
https://www.facebook.com/Ainsworthcustomdesign/
https://www.yelp.ca/biz/ainsworth-custom-design-vancouver

Artist links:
https://chop-logik.deviantart.com/gallery/
https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/claudiasegovia/
http://www.sunny-shah.com/

Tom Killion

California's Wild Edge, by Tom Killion:

"This new volume captures the beauty of the California coast from Mendocino, Point Reyes, and the San Francisco Bay down through Carmel, Big Sur, Santa Barbara, and Santa Monica. Woodcut artist Tom Killion's prints combine exquisite color with dynamic composition to portray the coast's ever-changing moods and diverse formations: storm tides crashing at Point Lobos, serene moonlit coves at Mendocino, fog encircling the Golden Gate Bridge. Deepening our experience are poetry and prose from Gary Snyder, as well as selections from Native Californian traditional stories, accounts of travelers, and poems by Jane Hirshfield, Robert Hass, and Jaime de Angulo. As Tamalpais Walking and The High Sierra of California did for lovers of mountains, California's Wild Edge will delight anyone who has seen (or wants to see) the meeting of land and sea."

Saw it at Costco for $30.

Previously.

 

Charles Prentiss: Salinas Valley Farm

Salinas Valley Farm: 

Oil on canvas (#322.2013)   24x24

Seen at Kelly's French Bakery, Santa Cruz.

"Charles Prentiss is an artist, museum exhibit designer and architectural consultant living in La Selva Beach,  Santa Cruz County, CA"

Shepard Fairey Artwork: Debbie Harry (Blondie)

Saw this art, in the background, as part of a photo of Maria Popova, from the About page of her blog, Brain Pickings:

Great photo

The original artwork represents a 18 x 24″ handmade canvas silk screen print, from May 2010 by Shepard Fairey, depicting Blondie band member Debbie Harry. Photo by Bobby Grossman.

RESOURCES

http://www.obeygiant.com/prints/debby-harry-canvas-print

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepard_Fairey

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(band)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debbie_Harry

The Art Museum - Phaidon Press

Saw the masterly book "The Art Museum" by Phaidon Press, at the Santa Cruz Book Shop:

SPECIFICATIONS

Hardback

420 x 320 mm (16 1/2 x 12 5/8 in)

992 pp

2700 colour illustrations

9780714856520 | 0714856525 

ABOUT THE BOOK

The Art Museum is the finest art collection ever assembled between two covers. This revolutionary and unprecedented virtual art museum in a book, features 992 oversized pages of nearly 2,700 works of art. It is the most comprehensive and visually spectacular history of world art ever published. Ten years in the making, this unique book was created with a global team of specialists in all fields of art, including museum curators and educators, who have collected together important works as they might be displayed in the ideal museum for the art lover.

Unrestricted by the constraints of physical space, this luxurious book is organized by innovative color-coded "galleries," "rooms," "corridors" and "special exhibitions" which display hundreds of paintings, sculptures, frescos, photographs, tapestries, friezes, installations, performances, videos, woodblock prints, folding screens, ceramics and manuscripts that tell the history of world art. This is the only museum to house Leonardo’s Mona Lisa, a collection of Rembrandt’s finest self portraits, Velázquez’s Las Meninas and Picasso’s Guernica, as well as ceramics from China, Hokusai’s woodblock prints, gold artefacts from Peru, and works by Jackson Pollock in one place.

With intelligent in-depth text throughout, explanatory labels for each artwork, a comprehensive glossary and detailed location maps, The Art Museum, is accessible for everyone from casual art fans to experts in the field.

IN THE PRESS

'What is a great work of art? The question asks itself when you leaf through The Art Museum, a colossal new book that gathers together an ideal collection of superlative sculptures, paintings, vases, embroideries and installations.' The Guardian

'The 2,500 works that really matter in 1,000 stunning pages.' Readers Digest

'Unprecedented, unique, and vast in scope, this visually spectacular survey of world art belongs in large public, academic, and special libraries. Destined to delight, inspire, and educate, as well as become an invaluable, classic, art reference resource, it is very highly recommended.' Library Journal.com