Live to Inspire

Live to Inspire
Ideas and Concepts
acrylic by
Jean Hart
Inspire. ...
What moves you to the point that you must do something and then share it with someone?
Inspiring is doing something bold or courageous and then passing this high energy along to someone else.
How do you know if you are the one inspiring or being inspired?
I moved completely away from home at a tender age of 18. With no friends to a new city, college and barely no money.
Was that inspiring?
I married at 21 and again moved far from home to a city with no family or friends, with only $100.00 and no where to live.
Was that inspiring?
Being brave, vibrant, and as authentic as you can in living your life.
Yes, I think that's inspiring.
Telling how I left a job as a baker when I read a fortune cookie that said,
"Move in a different direction to begin your dream life".
Yes, that was inspired!
I hope that I don't just tell people about being inspired, I hope they are inspired by watching how I live my life. How sometimes taking a risk works out, being bold is exciting, taking chances makes your heart beat faster, by picking yourself up after a disappointment and moving forward after a good cry.
Keep moving forward...keep up the curiosity....keep the ideas and concepts coming.
I love this little abstract painting. It was my first attempt at painting concepts. Every time I look at it I see something new. It Inspires Me.
Show yourself to the world.
Breathe in, breathe out.
Be Inspired,
~Jean
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Minimalism

Minimalism

 

So what is the point of minimalism?

I went to Seattle and saw some of it at the Seattle Art Museum.

Looking at the one line drawn through a background of blue. I'm thinking, What's this all about?

Am I suppose to be transported to another realm? Am I using this art form to look deeper inside myself? Well, actually, I thought, as an artist, "I'm working too hard if this is whats getting into a serious museum."

Frank Stella once said of his paintings, "What you see is what you see."

Oh, okay, that clears it up.

When and where was minimalism popular, 1960-1975 USA.

Minimalism, because of its very form for having no subject or focal point to keep the viewer interested moved on to Conceptual Art.

Minimalism was a gateway to jump into Abstract and Conceptual artwork. It's place was needed for the cerebral movement to begin. Once people started to view the bold, daring, and emptiness in its simplicity. The viewer could easily move past it on to a piece they then could relate to in abstact form.

Some of the Minimalism artist you may want to look for are:

Carle Andre, Dan Flavin, Eva Hesse, Donald Judd.

http://www.theartstory.org/artist-stella-frank.htm

Be Inspired,

~Jean

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September's Blue Moon

owl blue moon, jean hart

September

This month took its name from its earlier position in the calendar. September, Latin for seventh month. It became the ninth month when Julius Caesar changed the calendar and made January the first month.

Full moon: Harvest Moon

Universal event: Autumn Equinox, nature comes into balance

Message: To create, to prosper, to appreciate

Activity: Arts, crafts, courting future mates

Healing properties: Prevention through tonics

Color: Brown

Tree: Hazel

Flower: Aster

Creature: Snake

Gen: Sapphire.

September comes with lots of learning for me this fall. I have signed up to take classes at my local college.

My Blue Moon mail art program in Romania is due by the 15th.

I'm still working on my studio...on going project......but each day brings clearing, cleaning and making room for new creations.

Enjoy September

Be Inspired,

~Jean

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4womenArt, how it came about

Look we are on the marque!!! 

 

 

We are so excited, and getting ready for the reception.

Friday, Aug. 23, 6-8 P.M.

It is open to the public and free.

There will be refreshments, music, fine art, and door prizes.

So many of you have asked me how we came up with our art group name?

4womenArt

It's a wonderful story.

4womenArt is a collaboration of five women artist,

Vicky Andrus,Dee Burton, Gay Carrillo, Jean Hart, and Barbara Hofheins.

 

Dee Burton, who usually holds a fine art show at the museum with artists from around the state of Nevada, with judge and jury entries, prizes, and a reception, was not able to do it one year.

 Dee asked if we could help keep the fine art show going.

 We were then only four of us:  

 a Wednesday night group called Attitude Adjustment.

 It was there one Wednesday night, painting, talking and probably eating too that we

 formed our art group titled

4womenArt

We are an art group with years of painting experience. Gay alone has been painting for 55 years, Vicky 35, Barbara since she was six.

We share the same ideas about art and art education and giving back to the community.

We saw this as a real opportunity to show our artwork and our commitment to painting new techniques, new ideas, new vision.

We had our first show with Dee's format. Two years later under 4womwnArt we had our second art exhibit, "4 square with Red".

When Dee came back to paint with us, the name 4womwnArt had clicked and people recognized our art group as the 4womenArt.  

We now do shows with only the original five artists.

The "Elements" art exhibit is our third at the Northeastern Nevada Museum.

This year we are featuring Joseph Carrillo, composer. He has created original music for this art exhibit inspired by our artwork.

Be Inspired,

~Jean

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Making of an Artist..last interview in this series

Jean Hart Artwork

Interview with an Artist

Jean Hart

 

 This is the last interview for this series.

"Making of an Artist"





Now that my paintings have been delivered to the  Museum for the

 Elements art exhibit.

Aug - Oct 2013

Northeastern Nevada Museum,

Elko, NV

I have been asked a few more questions. So, I will do my best to answer those questions here.

 

We have talked about what inspires me. Where I get my ideas from. What has attracted me to the style of painting I do.

What's next for Jean Hart Artwork?

Yes, that's the question I'm being asked.

Even before I have had the reception for this newest show!

Well, here it is.

There is a certain, let down, if you will, after the completions of a large body of work.

I've been working on the Element show for the last 8 months.

I thought I would take some time off. ....NO just kidding....

 

Exhibition are only part of what Jean Hart Artwork does.

I have just refreshed  my card racks with new note cards, key chains, magnets, to keep everything new and exiting.

Over the years I have learned about marketing and advertisement. I would like to expand

 Jean Hart Artworks to be an ART Agency for new and emerging artist.

 

Jean Hart Artwork, has also taken on a new Photographer, Kerry Hart.

 I will be marketing his photos of amazing landscapes of Nevada.

 

For me personally as an artist. I will continue to paint each day. Write my blog  http://jeanhartartists.blogspot.com/

on Art History, spot light new emerging artists,

critique artwork on ArtCanyon Art Galley, where I am an administrator.

This Fall I plan on making a new book with my artwork.

I will also be starting a new BOOK Club Blog called,

"Invisible Women" coming this fall.

 

I invite you to my on line store at zazzle, where I update with my newest artwork.

www.zazzle.com/jeanhar1*

 

Stay tuned,

Be Inspired,

~Jean

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Narcissuss painting

Here is the finial painting of Narcissuss
Acrylic
32" x 36"
Jean Hart
It will be exhibited at the Northeastern Nevada Musuem in Aug. 2013
In the Elements art exhibit
Please enjoy my artwork,
Be Inspired,
~Jean
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_noiFEY0pI

Narcissus, water painting

New painting for the Element Art Exhibit
I am painting five paintings for an exhibit coming up in August 2013 at the Northeastern Nevada Museum.
The group 4womenart, has come up with a theme of "Elements", water, air, fire, earth, and spirit.
Here is my Water painting,
Please enjoy my artwork.
Narcissus
32" x 36"
Acrylic
Jean Hart

In my studies of Greek Mythology I came across this story of Narcissus. I felt it was the perfect subject for a water painting. Although, I have made Narcissus and woman, I feel that this emotional state can just as easily be a woman's issue.

Narcissus -- in Greek mythology, the son of the river god Cephissus and the nymph Leiriope; he was distinguished for his beauty. His mother was told that he would have a long life, provided he never looked upon his own features. His rejection, however, of the love of the nymph Echo or of his lover AmeiniasThe story may have derived from the ancient Greek superstition that it was unlucky or even fatal to see one's own reflection. In psychiatry and especially psychoanalysis, the term narcissism denotes an excessive degree of self-esteem or self-involvement, a condition that is usually a form of emotional immaturity.

-- Encyclopedia Brittanica   Be Insired, ~Jean www.zazzle.com/jeanhar1*

How do you know if you are the one inspiring or being inspired?

LIVE TO INSPIRE

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IDEAS AND CONCEPTS, ACRYLIC
BY JEAN HART
 



Inspire.

What moves you to the point that you must do something and then share it with someone?

Inspiring is doing something bold or courageous and then passing this high energy along to someone else.

How do you know if you are the one inspiring or being inspired?

I moved completely away from home at a tender age of 18. With no friends to a new city, college and barely no money.

Was that inspiring?

I married at 21 and again moved far from home to a city with no family or friends, with only $100.00 and no where to live.

Was that inspiring?

Being brave, vibrant, and as authentic as you can in living your life.

Yes, I think that's inspiring.

Telling how I left a job as a baker when I read a fortune cookie that said,

"Move in a different direction to begin your dream life".

Yes, that was inspired!

I hope that I don't just tell people about being inspired, I hope they are inspired by watching how I live my life. How sometimes taking a risk works out, being bold is exciting, taking chances makes your heart beat faster, by picking yourself up after a disappointment and moving forward after a good cry.

Keep moving forward...keep up the curiosity....keep the ideas and concepts coming.

I love this little abstract painting. It was my first atempt at painting concepts. Everytime I look at it I see something new. It Inspires Me.

Show yourself to the world.

Breathe in, breathe out.

Be Inspired,

~Jean

www.zazzle.com/jeanhar1*

 

 

 

Friends are not by accident

Spring Creek Marina, acrylic, 16" x 24" Jean Hart

There are no accidents,
we don't meet people by accident. We meet them when we are out and about and open. People are meant to come into our lives for a reason.
Be Inspired,
artwork by Jean Hart
Spring Creek Marina
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Blue Monday

 

 

BLUE MONDAY

 

Rainbow Forrest, watercolor, by Jean Hart
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Everyday you step a thousand ways
Everyday you express yourself a thousand ways,
Everyday you choose a thousand ways to be you,
The line is unbroken, unspoken, and clearly chosen,
your path is your way.
Be Inpsired,
~Jean
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FINE ART FOR THE FINER THINGS IS LIFE

FINE ART FOR THE FINER THINGS IN LIFE.
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A Rose

A Rose,
colored pencil by Jean Hart
Every flower you see, try to remember,
that before it bloomed,
it had to push it's way through,
a whole lot of dirt and darkness.
... Be Inspired,
~Jean
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A Rose, colored pencil, by artist Jean Hart

People ask me why I paint???

WHY DO I PAINT?????

 

People ask me why I paint???

 I think it's a silly question, but, they look so serious when they ask me.

I think it's because as a child I was very shy. Words would not come to me. I think in a different life I expressed myself more clearly and concise.  Now as an adult words are flying all around me and my paintings help to express them in a more flowing and comprehensive way.

I paint because it's fun. Because it makes me feeling free. I paint my life mostly. If you are in my life, and some how have made an impression on me, there's a good chance that you will find yourself in one of my paintings. Of course, I will never tell.

I love to hear how people relate to my paintings. What they see, what they feel.

I paint with my soul of curiosity. I paint what I like and I put words to the painting that inspire me.

I hope people like what I do, enjoy the artwork and connect to it.

But if not, well, that's fine too. My job is simply to create. Not judge it, change it to fit someone else ideal of art or impress you.

The artwork is mine to share with you.

Paint your toes, your house, your face. Paint pictures of your family and your life.

 Just create and express yourself. That's what I do.

Painting is part of my healing. It was there when nothing else was. It gave me a way to express my pain, and my love, and my life.

I paint everyday. I read about art everyday. I look at artwork everyday.

Art is my life, I am art.

Be Inspired,

~Jean

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Are you feeling inside the circle, or do you hang outside the circle?

 

Blue Monday

Blue Monday, circles, by artist

Jean Hart

 

Circles, awe, what can I say about circles?

Circles are everywhere, mostly circles are about cycles. No ending, no beginning......

But not when you paint them. There is a beginning, and hopefully the ending,  if your lucky will match up with the beginning again.

Are you feeling inside the circle, or do you hang outside the circle?

My circle, your circle, inside the circle of trust, circle of friends....it goes on, on, and on....

Beware of running around inside the circle's, because a circle once inside can trap you in and hold you there.

I have painted a lot of circles. When I went through a period of mandala paintings. All the mandala paintings are circles.

Circles will make you crazy, but Mondays will make you manic.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47v-Zm-9Wgg&feature=player_detailpage

Be Inspired,

~Jean

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Art Exhibit

JEAN HART ARTWORK

 

I will be at the Highland Estates Art Sale today, selling cards and prints from 3-6pm The reception is 6-8pm, Come on over, I would love to meet you.

~Jean

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Blessed....What are merciful actions?

HEALING.....

SOMETIMES IT TAKES

EVERYONE TO HELP.

I was given a set of healing cards. They are so beautifully written.

By Caroline Myss and Peter Occhiogrosso

After I have pulled a card and sat with it for awhile, I like to try to give images to the words.

"Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

Mercy is a rare word, one hardly spoken. What are merciful actions?

Not judging another; speaking with kind words;

thinking compassionate thoughts about others.

May acts of mercy

come your way.

The first saying, from Psalm 41 of the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament, offers an astute psychological insight that is recognized increasingly today. Absorption in our own troubles, or in our unending need for gratification, creates a negative momentum that can lead not only to Narcissus, but to addictive and high-risk behavior as well. When we move the focus of our attention from ourselves to others, we also remove an enormous burden from our backs. The need to satisfy our unrealistically high expectations. As the Dalai Lama might put it,

 compassion is its own reward."

Well, there is it. So well put that I can not offer another word.

Be Inspired,

~Jean

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create, you can, you do

CREATE

 CREATE something from nothing, something wonderful, beautiful, something with your hands.

Create a garden big or small, something the butterflies will want to come and visit you in.

Create a song while you are cleaning, or bake a new dish.

So many times I hear people tell me, "I'm not creative", I can't draw or cook, or paint."

I say, you are creative in everything you do, everyday in your live.

I love wearing scarfs, but for the life of me, I tell my daughter every time I wear one, "I can't tie it right!!!" Thankfully, she shows me again, and again, and again. I'm getting better. She creates the folds so gracefully.

You can do it, you all ready do.

CREATE.

CREATE, COLORED PENCIL, BY ARTIST

JEAN HART

scraf

BE INSPIRED,

`JEAN

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Dance

Don’t move the way fear makes you move.
Move the way love makes you move.
~ Osho ~
Judy Jamerson, dancer,
drawing by artist
Jean Hart

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Npr3XWV0mlM

The Month of May, Guess who's birthday it is on the 18th?

 

May's Aspects

 

May Flowers, acrylic, Jean Hart

I love May.

Tulips are coming up and I even see green grass!!

The month of May was named after the goddess Maia, the goddess of spring, she who brings forth life. Appropriately enough, it became the month of the Virgin Mary, Mother of God.

Full moon aspect: Hare moon or frogs return moon.

Universal event: Flowers coming forth, the potential for creation of the new harvest.

Communal event: the May Eve festival initiates this month, but no other Sabbaths occur. This is still a month for chastity and cleaning up one's life. Making trysts, commitments, or marriages is not allowed, because the month of the queen of May is unlucky for tying the knot.

Message: To propagate or not, to enjoy sex or be celibate. your choice.

activity: Sexual encounters or complete abstinence

Healing properties: Fevers and infections.

Color: Hazel, pink

Tree: Hawthorne

Flower: Lily

Creature: Magpie, dove

Gem: Emerald

From:The Grandmother of Time

May is also the month that I will be participating in an

Invitational art exhibit.

Highland Estates, May 10 - 18, 2013

Six original fine art for sale.

I invite you to join me if you are in Elko, NV

 

DAYDREAMING
PASTEL
29x35
$500.00

Just one more fun little bit before I leave you to plan your month of May.

May 18, Feast of Pan, (Greek)

On this day, women and men celebrate men.

Pan is all that is male in the universe. Pan is represented by a wild, but good-looking man, not your deodorized modern type. He has hooves because many of the male animals he represents in nature have hooves. He has horns for the same reason: He is hairy, and he usually sports an erect penis. He plays the flute divinely. He is the son of the Earth. He is not a patriarch who oppresses women. He is, however, all male.

Pan likes parities with wine, song, and women. Invoke him in some wild place or burn patchouli on your altar in his honor. He is not that of a warrior but of the lover. Give a party for men today. Let the men define this,

What is manhood without violence or competition?

Well, I do love Greek mythology. There is another Greek story I love, you can visit my blog for that one. Psyche and Eros

Be Inspired,

~Jean

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Thank You new April Friends

Many, many thank yous!

Welcome all my New Friends who have come to join me during the month of April. Thank YOU ALL!!

Jean Hart Artwork continues to grow only because you allow me to share my artwork, thoughts, and life.

I am so grateful that you have supported my blog. With deep  respect and gratitude,  understand that I do this blog with my whole heart and soul.

Feel free to comment and share when you feel moved to. I love interesting conversations and would love to hear from all of you.

Be Inspired,

~Jean