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Guido Vermeulen's mail art envelopes are like worlds into themselves and at the same time they are part of the much larger whole.

(a comment by NANCY BELL SCOTT, USA, on the IUOMA network)

Guido's paintings are like finding images in the clouds
(a comment by Kathleen D. Johnson, USA, on IUOMA)

Guido does not paint monsters but spirits and ghosts, full of love, tenderness and compassion
(LIZA LEYLA during a conversation, Belgium)

His ability to express emotions through painting is a beautiful gift. Allowing oneself to feel sadness is the most direct route through grief. His paintings feel peaceful and kind.

(STEPHEN WALKER, USA)


My life is shifting... Your work is intangible, ethereal, cosmically rewarding. i eat it up & savor it like a great sandwich! It made my day!
(Lisa PEREZ, USA, on IUOMA)

Thank you for the TALISMAN painting on the envelope. It is real cool and creepy at the same time. I haven’t seen a piece of abstract capture such as pain and emotion so well since I visited the museum of art in Toledo. Bravo!
(Sarah Jo Pender, USA, from the Indiana Women’s Prison)

I suppose you could characterize Guido's painting style as expressionist. I know he is very interested in dreams as a source for art and poetry, and these particular chapter pages seem like shadowy dream corridors filled with shifting images and scenes. The Michaux quotes work as a counterpoint, Guido's art is taking over when the limits of language have been reached.
(De Villo Sloan, USA, on my tribute pages to Henri Michaux, see LAMUSAR blog)

Guido’s art expressions are always poems and they show us the reality of our real faces and souls (Mariana Serban, Romania)

His titles have both inspired and educated me (Alicia Starr, USA)

dinsdag 23 augustus 2011

AGENT ORANGE



Painted collage A4 around the Night Town Poem by David Stone.
Inspired by these lines:
"Niemands Gott
burned the sky
orange"

I had a certain pleasure of turning images of nazi propaganda of 1941 against them in 2011!
Deze schaamte is Dutch for This shame
De kunst om afscheid te nemen is Dutch for the art to say good-bye
Verdeeling van het vuur bij het vliegen in verband is Dutch for distribution of fire during flying in formation

The G above the rat indicates that the rodent is the "Gott mit uns"

I liked the Höhe 1000 meters über Platz because it made a link with the "beyond the Plaza" lines

Agent Orange refers also to the biological warfare of the US against Vietnam, if this is not a crime against humanity I don't know what is? Google if you've never heard about it!

If you wonder what Napoleon is doing in the collage, Hitler admired Napoleon as his equal and the nazis transported his tomb back to Corsica with a lot of pump and circumstance. I had a row with my French teacher when I was 16 because I compared Bonaparte with Adolph. I'm sure it was the memory of the Signaal propaganda of 1941 that was in my subconscious (heritage of my dad).
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