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LILI BERNARD Multimedia Fine Artist Celebrating Father God, Mother Nature and the Human Race |
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The Sale of Venus Underneath the Ceiba Tree "Lili Bernard manifests the Orishas in an epic painting approach that combines historical ecstasy with spiritual expressionism pulsating in a lush painterly approach." Mat Gleason, Coagula Art Journal I made this painting after Boticelli's 15th century painting, "The Birth of Venus," for a group exhibition called TEL-ART-PHONE at the Beacon Arts Building in Inglewood, CA. The curator was Mat Gleason, who personally selected me for the show. Mat is a well-known Los Angeles-based art critic. Read more |
Blessed Mother & The Dragon Revelation 12:1-3 "A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars; and she was with child; and she cried out, being in labor and in pain to give birth. Then another sign appeared in heaven: and behold, a great red dragon having seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads were seven diadems. " I was inspired by my children's freely executed paintings to create this work without any planning -- no sketching, mapping, blocking or measuring. I impulsively took the paint Read more |
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The Legacy of Christopher Columbus, A Short Account in Technicolor: Memory One of Ceiba de Cuba, De Sus Raices Featured in the 8th annual Reel Rasquache Art & Film FestivalScreening: Sun, May 15, 2011, 6:00 pm The Festival showcased over 20 recently Latino-produced national and international films. Sponsored by Sony Pictures, The Walt Disney Company, Latin Heat Entertainment and California State University Los Angeles. WARNING: Viewer discretion advised. For more info click here. |
CEIBA DE CUBA VIDEO ABSTRACT
This is a video abstract of my interdisciplinary work-in-progress entitled, CEIBA DE CUBA. In a fusion of my paintings, poetry, playwriting, filmmaking and performance, the work weaves real-life stories and fiction to tell the stories my Afro-Amerindian Cuban ancestors and of life in my native Cuba. Read more To enlarge video, click here. |
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Oil Canvas 48"x30" © 2007 Lili Bernard My father’s father, José Rodríguez Figueroa, was a published author, poet, oil painter, multi-linguist, evangelical minister and Mambi (rebel Cuban soldier, during Cuba’s War of Independence from Spain). His publications are housed in Cuba’s national libraries. The text of the journal my grandfather is holding in this painting are excerpts of his actual writings. Read more |
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CHE CHANGO RENDEZVOUS
To the left is the mixed-media, "A La Memoria de Los Fusilados" (a memoriam to those executed by Che Guevara). To the right is a detail of the related large oil painting called, "Che Chango Rendezvous en La Habana 2013." Both of these works of mine coincide with the spoken word and performance art in part of Ceiba de Cuba. Read more |
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GOETHE'S DER ERLKONIG
Oil on Canvas 48"x30" I based this painting on a famous poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) called "Der Erlkönig." Goethe was a German poet, novelist, dramatist, scientist, theorist and painter. One of his well-known plays is "Faust." Goethe prided himself most for his scientific accomplishments, particularly with regard to his Theory of Colour. Read more |
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