I should know him, really, I've seen his illustrations in countless books, just never thought to look him up.
Anyways, metaphysical artist, one of the enlightened, famous for his occult and related illustrations. Reminding me a bit of William Blake, only - well, a little more refined, less spontaneous.
Link: Etidorhpa
Google Image Search: Images J. Augustus Knapp
Oddly enough not a lot written about him. The illustrator of Manly P. Hall's "The Secret Teaching of All Ages" deserves a little better than this...
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Now I've seen more of these than I ever wanted to, no kidding, Georgia O'Keefe covered it thoroughly and very nicely, thank-you-very-much, and unless you're bringing something new to the game I'm pretty sure I don't want to see it.
We get a lot of this style of art through the thrift shop, only it's rare that it comes with an "Artist's Statement".
But it's got me thinking, I mean, I wonder if I could make a living drawing crudely symbolic dick picks? I mean, just do an endless series in a variety of styles, claim that I was the ambassador of Male Sexuality, Virility, etc, what have you...
Nope. While it's one thing for a "woman" to own her sexuality, if a man should try to own his he's considered "juvenile" and "puerile".
Rightly so.
"Ooooooohhhhh
Dolores won't you show us...
More of your clitoris...
Don't think you can ignore us..."
I priced it affordable. Maybe I should pick it up and bring it as a visual prop to the next poetry slam...
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I've gone on about this before, about the camera, and the proof is in the absolutely amazing photos it takes. (See earlier posts).
And it's great as a phone and doing wifi and the internet and the Reddit app is certainly a five star time waster, but these things are common to most phones.
The feature I find most useful is the pen-stylus, that embeds in the bottom of the phone and when you pop it out it automatically prompts you with a note. It accepts handwriting or text, small drawings, etc. You can embed images in it. It's really useful. I use it a lot.
This is probably the best technology investment I ever made.
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