HETEROGENOUS COMPOSITION WITH BASKETS/ A Figurative Abstraction by Eric Whollem/ MIXED MEDIA PAINTING

HETEROGENOUS COMPOSITION WITH BASKETS

1985

by Eric Whollem

mixed media on paper

Collection of the artist

9" x 6"

COPYRIGHT BY THE ARTIST

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THE BASKET BEARERS

by Eric Whollem

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BELOW IS A VIDEO

SHOWING SOME OF MY

WHIMSICAL ABSTRACTIONS

ERIC WHOLLEM                                            

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FIGURATIVE EXPRESSIONIST PAINTING/ 'Forms Spiritual' by Eric Whollem/ Notes on Kandinsky/ A PICTOGRAPHIC FIGURATIVE ABSTRACTION

FORMS SPIRITUAL

1984

by Eric Whollem

mixed media on paper

Collection of the artist

9" x 6"

COPYRIGHT BY THE ARTIST

NOTES ON KANDINSKY'S PIONEERING ROLE IN ART

When Kandinsky wrote his book, 'On the Spiritual in Art,'

he set a precedent that has influenced much of modern art. He

maintained that abstract forms and colors in of themselves

contain a spiritual message and meaning.

Kandinsky is considered by some as the father of abstract

painting. Organic, geometric, and expressionistic art were

all explored in Kandinsky's pioneering work at the Bauhaus.

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See my posts on KANDINSKY:

http://artblogericwhollem.blogspot.com/search/label/kandinsky

THE VIDEO

BELOW DEPICTS A

VARIETY OF MY GEOMETRIC

ABSTRACTIONS

ERIC WHOLLEM                                       

See also my posts on SPIRITUALITY:

http://artblogericwhollem.blogspot.com/search/label/spirituality

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CRONOS/ Figurative Expressionism/ MIXED MEDIA PAINTING by Eric Whollem

 

CRONOS

1986

by Eric Whollem

mixed media on paper

Collection of the artist

15" x 10"

COPYRIGHT BY THE ARTIST

CRONOS

This mixed media work utilizes gouache paints in conjunction

with parafin resist. Cronos is an ancient designation of the Greek god Saturn.

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DANCING COLOR

by Eric Whollem

BELOW IS A VIDEO

FEATURING MORE OF

MY FIGURATIVE EXPRESSIONIST

WORKS

ERIC WHOLLEM                                               

SHAMANISTIC ART/ 'Doctor Country' by Eric Whollem/ A Pictographic Abstraction/ CONTEMPORARY FIGURATIVE ART

DOCTOR COUNTRY

1986

by Eric Whollem

mixed media on paper

15" x 10"

Collection of the artist

COPYRIGHT BY THE ARTIST

SHAMANISTIC ART

This painting, painted in a pictographic style, depicts a 'doctor' or

shaman. Shamans in cultures across the globe have for innumerable

centuries been regarded as healers.

This painting shows the shaman's powers. Near the central figure of

the doctor is his retort where he grinds his medicines.

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THE BEETLE

mixed media on paper

by Eric Whollem

CELESTIAL COUNTRY/ 'The Valley of Heaven' /Artistic rendering of concepts from Concow Maidu Indian culture/ FIGURATIVE EXPRESSIONISM

CELESTIAL COUNTRY

1986

by Eric Whollem

mixed media on paper

Collection of the artist

15" x 10"

COPYRIGHT BY THE ARTIST

THE VALLEY OF HEAVEN

This work is an abstract rendering of a concept from Concow Maidu

Indian culture: The Valley of Heaven. This realm is called Hipiningkodom

by the Maidu. It is a name also given to the Sacramento Valley in Northern

California by the Maidu.

This figurative expressionist work utilizes forms found in pictographic and

petroglyphic art. The prehistorical arts of California have long been of

artistic interest to me in the pursuit of my art.

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http://artblogericwhollem.blogspot.com/search/label/maidu%20indians

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EARTH MOTHER

earth paints on  panel

by Eric Whollem

BELOW IS A VIDEO

THAT RELATES TO THE

CONCOW MAIDU

SPIRIT ANIMALS OF THE CONCOW MAIDU                 

by Eric Whollem                                     

DREAM STAMPS OF GHOST BEAR/ Faux Postage Stamps by Eric Whollem/ CONCOW MAIDU CULTURAL CONCEPTS: THE BASIS OF VIRTUAL STAMPS

GHOST BEAR

Maidem Kodom

2010

by Eric Whollem

virtual stamp

COPYRIGHT BY THE ARTIST

DREAM STAMPS OF GHOST BEAR

Ghost Bear is featured on these fantasy stamp issues from
Maidem Kodom, which is my own fanciful name for a Maidu
Indian postal authority. Such a postal service does not, of
course exist; for these are examples of faux postage stamps, or
artist stamps, or artistamps as they are called.

I used to dream of a small she bear with whom I would fly in
my dreams. We would travel to caves. The walls of these caves
were covered with paintings done with earth paints. These
dreams occured when I lived at Chi Chi Te, or Black Earth
Village, in Feather Falls, which is an area in the Sierra Nevada
Mountains of Northern California.

Dreaming is highly respected by the Concow Maidu Indians.
It is the basis of their traditional religion, called Kuksu. See
my link below to learn more about Kuksu:

http://artblogericwhollem.blogspot.com/search/label/kuksu

GHOST BEAR

Maidem Kodom

2010

by Eric Whollem

virtual stamp

COPYRIGHT BY THE ARTIST

The black bear is a medicine animal of the Maidu. In the old

days the healing shamans would often dress in bear robes when

they cured people of their sicknesses.

See my posts about the MAIDU INDIANS:

http://artblogericwhollem.blogspot.com/search/label/maidu%20indians

GHOST BEAR

Maidem Kodom

Mooretown Provisional Postage

2010

by Eric Whollem

virtual stamp sheet

COPYRIGHT BY THE ARTIST

Mooretown Ridge is the place where one can find Feather Falls, which

is both the designation of a town and a waterfall. The town today is

centered near the Gold Flake Bar on Lumpkin Road. Mooretown was

originally the name of a logging company town, now gone.

For many years there was another small logging town called

Feather Falls up at the end of Lumpkin Road. Now this is gone.

Camp Eighteen was another logging town going  up towards

Fall River, also now a part of the past.

The Mooretown Rancheria used to be located at Chi Chi Te on

Lumpkin Road. But Chi Chi Te went back into private ownership

a number of years ago. But there is a modern 'Mooretown Rancheria'

now down in the valley in Oroville, which is a contemporary Maidu

rancheria with a large and progressive Casino.

See my posts about FEATHER FALLS:

http://artblogericwhollem.blogspot.com/search/label/Feather%20Falls

NOTES ABOUT MOORETOWN PROVISIONAL POSTAGE

My fantasy stamps include the historical name of Mooretown, which

I have taken the artistic liberty of using  for my Maidu faux postage

postal system: Mooretown Provisional Postage. This is a fictional

postal system, of course. I am in no way connected officially with the

Mooretown Rancheria. These stamps are purely artistic fantasy.

Provisional Postage is defined by stamp collectors as postage used

where and when there is no mail delivery and local people take up the

burden of mail delivery. There is a history of  real provisional postal issues;

however these stamps are virtual, or imaginary stamps.

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SUMI MAIDEM KAKINI

by Eric Whollem

BELOW IS A VIDEO

THAT PRESENTS A FEW OF

MY MAIDU FANTASY STAMPS

SPIRIT ANIMALS OF THE CONCOW MAIDU                  

FIGURATIVE ABSTRACTION/ 'Concow Noon' by Eric Whollem/ A Pictographic Abstraction

CONCOW NOON

1984

by Eric Whollem

mixed media on paper

Collection of Rita Repace

9" x 6"

COPYRIGHT BY THE ARTIST

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THE JEWEL DESERT

by Eric Whollem

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THE VIDEO BELOW

SHOWS MORE OF MY

ABSTRACT ART

FIGURATIVE ABSTRACTIONS by Eric Whollem            

FIGURATIVE EXPRESSIONISM/ 'Celestial Pumice' by Eric Whollem/ An Evocation of the Volcanic Mileau/ CONTEMPORARY PICTOGRAPHIC ART

CELESTIAL PUMICE

1986

by Eric Whollem

mixed media on paper

Collection of the artist

15" x 10"

COPYRIGHT BY THE ARTIST

AN EVOCATION OF THE VOLCANIC MILEAU

Mt. Shasta and Mt. Lassen are two volcanic mountains which I have

visited many times over the years. 'Celestial Pumice' is a work, that

pays tribute to the spiritual energy of these mountains.

Mt. Shasta, in particular, has been focus of numerous pilgrimmages

on my part. I used to live up there as a child. . . in the communities

of Dunsmuir and Yreka.

BELOW IS A VIDEO

THAT TELLS MORE ABOUT MY USE

OF VOLCANIC PUMICE AS PAINT FOR

MY ART

                                     ERIC WHOLLEM

Many of the earth paints that I have made from natural earthen materials

come from the Mt. Shasta area. But the Lassen lava flows extend as far

south as Butte County, where mountains such as Table Mountain, near

Oroville, California,  has provided other volcanic ore, some of which

also has been utilized for paint.

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SCRIPT OF THE SEA

by Eric Whollem

BELOW IS A VIDEO THAT

DEPICTS MORE

OF MY ART

 

 ERIC WHOLLEM

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PICTOGRAPHIC ABSTRACTION/ 'Archaic Emanations' by Eric Whollem/ MODERN FIGURATIVE ART

ARCHAIC EMANATIONS

1984

by Eric Whollem

mixed media on paper

Collection of the artist

21" x 15 "

COPYRIGHT BY THE ARTIST

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BELOW IS A VIDEO THAT

DEALS WITH MY

APPROACHES TO

PICTOGRAPHS AND PETROGLYPHS

IN MY ART

                                                                                                                                                     ERIC WHOLLEM

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THE BEETLE

mixed media on paper

by Eric Whollem

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EXPRESSIONISTIC DRAWING/ 'Counterdirections' by Eric Whollem/ Pictographic Abstraction

COUNTERDIRECTIONS

1984

by Eric Whollem

India ink on paper

9" x 6"

Collection of the artist

COPYRIGHT BY THE ARTIST

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COUNTERPOINT IN BLACK GRAY AND WHITE

by Eric Whollem

THE PORTAL OF THE SEASKY/ A Mermaid Art Video by Eric Whollem/ Faux postage mermaid stamps from Amphora/ DIGITAL ART/ Cinderella stamps by Eric Whollem

THE SEA ROYALTY

The Empire of Amphora

2012

by Eric Whollem

virtual stamp

COPYRIGHT BY THE ARTIST

THE PORTAL OF THE SEASKY

The stamp above is just one of many new issues from the Empire

of Amphora to be seen on my new mermaid art video, 'The Portal

of the Seasky.' This faux postage stamp celebrates the many fantasy

mermaid kingdoms and their Sea Royalty.

       THE PORTAL OF THE SEASKY by Eric Whollem

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TOUCHING THE BROW OF NEPTUNE

by Eric Whollem

digital art

See my posts of AMPHORAN FAUX POSTAGE STAMPS:

http://artblogericwhollem.blogspot.com/search/label/amphora

CERAMIC SCULPTURE/ Cinderella Stamps from Amorphagos by Eric Whollem/ THE ISLE OF THE GOD OF DREAMS/ Virtual Etruscan Fantasy Stamps/ ARTISTAMPS BY ERIC WHOLLEM

CERAMIC AMULET

Amorphagos Post Office

2012

by Eric Whollem

virtual stamp

COPYRIGHT BY THE ARTIST

THE ISLE OF THE GOD OF DREAMS

Amorphagos Post Office

CERAMIC AMULET

Amorphagos Post Office

2012

by Eric Whollem

virtual stamp

COPYRIGHT BY THE ARTIST

AMORPHAGOS

Amorphagos is the name of the ancient Greek God of Dreams.

Ancient Etruscan art owes a lot to Greek artisans who greatly

contributed to the ceramic arts and murals of Tuscany.

I have taken the artistic liberty of presenting a few of my ceramic

pendants as relics of a fantasy Etrucscan island in the Tyrhennian

Sea. As such Amorphagos is one of my many micronational

imaginary countries, created mostly for philatelic enjoyment, the

creation of artist stamps.

CERAMIC AMULET

Amorphagos Post Office

2012

by Eric Whollem

virtual stamp

COPYRIGHT BY THE ARTIST

FAUX POSTAGE STAMPS

2012

CERAMIC AMULET

Amorphagos Post Office

2012

by Eric Whollem

virtual stamp

COPYRIGHT BY THE ARTIST

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SEAHORSE STAMPS

Amorphagos

by Eric Whollem

THIS MY VIDEO

OF 

STAMPS OF

AMORPHAGOS

ERIC WHOLLEM                                

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READERS MAY ENJOY

THIS VIDEO THAT FEATURES

A STORY FROM

ANCIENT ETRUSCAN MYTHOLOGY

CERAMIC SEAHORSE STAMPS FROM AMPHORA        

CALIFORNIA PICTOGRAPHY/ An artistic tribute to the preshistoric petroglyphs of California/ A FIGURATIVE ABSTRACTION by Eric Whollem/ Contemporary Painting

CALIFORNIA PICTOGRAPHY

1984

by Eric Whollem

wax emulsion on paper

Collection of the artist

10" x 8"

COPYRIGHT BY THE ARTIST

AN ARTISTIC TRIBUTE TO THE PREHISTORIC PETROGLYPHS OF CALIFORNIA

This work is based on my studies of pictographs and petroglyphs from

preshistoric California. I have visited a number of sites in California

where such images appear on the native stone: the Petroglyph Section

in Siskiyou County, high Sierra rock art in Plumas County near Long

Lake, at a site in the desert near Susanville, and at Milsap Bar along

the Middle Fork of the Feather River in Butte County.

Most of the pictographs in California are abstract in character. One

finds more representational images in the Eastern Sierras, where

the Great Basin Style with it's long horned sheep images proliferate.

The painted pictographs of the Chumash and Modoc Indians especially

have intrigued me insofar as I have made paints from raw earth pigments

since 1973. The Concow Maidu Indian culture has greatly influenced the

subject matter of much of my art.

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PAINTED STONES

by Eric Whollem 

photo copyright by the artist

THE VIDEO BELOW

EXAMINES MY

APPROACHES TO

PICTOGRAPHIC ABSTRACTION

 

ERIC WHOLLEM                                 

Readers may want to explore my posts on PICTOGRAPHS:

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