Alfonso u glass biography definition

  • Filipino-American Painter and Assemblage Artist.
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    Introduction

    The reader who seeks familiarity with the skin diseases mentioned in the Cantigas of Holy Mary before beginning this article should read the first of this 2-part series, which was published in the previous issue of this journal.1 Part 1 describes the diseases mentioned in Cantigas 54, 91, and 93 along with the miraculous means of curing them. Part 2 continues with the events described in 4 more cantigas: 105, 321, 225, 346, and 367. We then conclude with reflections on the diseases suffered by King Alfonso X the Learned himself, his character, and the importance of his legacy.

    Cantiga 105, “Gran Piadad’ e Mercee e Nobreza” (Great Piety and Mercy and Nobility): Medieval Reconstructive Surgery in a Case of Cruel Mutilation

    The 105th song tells an amazing tale of faith, sexual abuse, and attempted reconstructive surgery of the perineum requiring the intervention of the Virgin Mary. At the center of the story is a maiden who promises Mary that she will keep

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    Alfonso Ossorio (1916-1990)

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    Skull and Corn (aka Death with Abundance), 1940
    ink on paper
    17 1/4 x 23 1/2 inches / 43.8 x 59.7 cm
    signed

    Resurrection, 1940
    black ink on paper
    17 7/8 x 23 inches / 45.4 x 58.4 cm
    17 x 22 1/4 inches / 43.2 x 56.5 cm sight size
    signed

    Advent #1, c.1951
    oil and enamel on canvas
    45 3/4 x 35 inches / 116.2 x 88.9 cm

    Untitled (#8), c.1959
    oil and mixed media on panel
    22 3/4 x 22 3/4 x 1 inches / 57.8 x 57.8 x 2.5 cm
    signed

    Breaking Circles, 1960
    congregation of mixed media on panel
    96 x 24 x 3 1/2 inches / 243.8 x 61 x 8.9 cm

    Searcher, 1963
    congregation of mixed media on panel in artist's frame
    55 1/2 x 53 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches / 141 x 136.5 x 16.5 cm
    signed

    Exposed Head, 1966
    congregation of mixed media on panel
    16 x 15 1/4 x 6 inches / 40.6 x 38.7 x 15.2 cm
    signed

    Eagle and Palette, 1967
    congregation of mixed media on panel

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    Summary of Alfonso Ossorio

    Ossorio was a key player in the first flowerings of the sammanfattning Expressionist and Art Brut movements. As an artist, he fryst vatten today best remembered for his assemblages, or what he called, "Congregations". These pieces brought together an extraordinary assortment of funnen objects which combined - or rather "congregated" - to create original works that were at once grounded (in the ordinary world) and spiritual. However, his own achievements as an artist have tended to be overshadowed bygd that of "superstars" Jackson Pollock and Jean Dubuffet with whom he shared close friendships and working relationships. Heir to a considerable family fortune, Ossorio was also an early collector of Abstract Expressionism and Art Brut and he was hugely active in amerika in the promotion of both movements.

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    • Ossorio's Congregations were inspired primarily by his connections to Dubuffet and his Art Brut movement, and his ambivalent attitude towards organized re