Gilbert Roland in Mexico | 1954

Gilbert Roland

Vintage Vice | Men of Miami 1984

Miami Vice

Zohma & Jean Charlot | 1933

Zohma & Jean Charlot, photographed by Edward Weston, 1933.

Portrait of Jean Charlot by Henrietta Shore, 1927 on view at LACMA.

Although Jean Charlot was born in Paris and descended from parents he later described as “sundry exotic ancestors” – his father, a French businessman reared in Russia, and his mother, with her French, Mexican and Jewish lineage – Charlot was drawn to the Mexican part of his heritage. From the age of two, he was surrounded by pre-Hispanic antiquities.

He studied in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, exhibited in the Autumn Salon, and made the usual training tour of Brittany. In 1920, his mother introduced him to Mexico where he sketched for archeologists excavating Mayan ruins. In 1922, after fighting in the First World War he decided to move to Mexico. He shared a studio with the painter Fernando Leal and became involved in the booming artistic scene promoting wood engraving and lithographic techniques.

He quickly established himself in the art community of Mexico City and befriended Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and Jose Clemente Orozco, main figures in the Mexican Mural movement of the early twenties known as the Syndicate of Painters and Sculptors. The movement quickly spread to the USA. Charlot is credited by Rivera for reviving and refining the art of true frescoes.

Read the full biography here (Courtesy of the Isaacs Art Center)

Inspiration, Study, Creativity
Fresco, 1967

Long Live Love!

Arthur Lee & LOVE

First Fridays at HDV | Charon's Pantheon at La Luz de Jesus

Hotel De Ville will be open late this evening for the First Friday Art Walk in Los Feliz. Stop by Bar Covell for a glass of wine, and check out opening night across the street at La Luz de Jesus for this new exhibition by Myron Conan Dyal & Jennifer Logan:

CHARON'S PANTHEON | Opening Reception & Book Release: Friday, February 4th; 8-11 PM

Myron Dyal is a modern mystic, a classically trained musician, and a self-taught Southern California artist. He has spiritual visions connected to Temporal Lobe Epilepsy that are the catalysts for the vast oeuvre of his work that spans nearly three decades. His figurative and organic forms are derived from visions he experiences during epileptic seizures and from self-induced trances he encounters on the spiritual journey.

Charon has been with Myron ever since his "second birth," as he terms it; a three-month coma at the age of four from which emerged a lifetime of visionary experiences. Charon has been his spiritual mother, father, friend and guide. He is the unifying factor in Myron's life and has been the primal factor in his healing process. Charon acts as a counterbalance to the dark forces, often times restraining them to allow Dyal's consciousness to recover from their ravages.

While developing the concepts for this show, composer and friend Dr. Jennifer Logan developed an aural counterpart for Myron's creations. Each composition is an harmonic and transcendental representative of each goddess within the pantheon.

On View at La Luz De Jesus through February 27, 2011

More La Russo | Herbie and Ella On View at SMC Thru Friday

Herbie Hancock, 1982

Ella Fitzgerald, 1985

See the full collection of Joe La Russo's Jazz Photography here:

Emeritus College Gallery
1227 Second Street
Santa Monica CA, USA
(310) 434-4306

HDV Likes: Jazz Photography by Joe La Russo | On View at SMC Emeritus Gallery

Ramsey Lewis

Miles Davis, 1985

* Where: 1227 2nd St, Santa Monica, CA 90401 (The Emeritus College Art Gallery)
* Date: Weekly on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays
* Time: 5:30pm–6:30pm
* Exhibition on view through February 4, 2011

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