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		<title>Iran</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With the ink of the Iraq Inquiry still wet, we&#8217;re gearing up to allow our governments to make exactly the same mistakes again, just replace the &#8220;q&#8221; by an &#8220;n&#8221;. The issue of the alleged Iranian push for an atomic weapon isn&#8217;t new, but dates back to (at least) the Bush administration. With two wars [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.paintings.name/?p=641</link>
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		<title>Freedom of expression</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Until fairly recently young Islamic women could be seen wearing headscarves as fashion items. They wore pants, hardly according to Taliban dress code, for women, so it seems unlikely the headscarve was imposed by dad or husband. One Muslima that particularly impressed me was dressed in black and white, wearing a shiny off-white headscarve. She [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.paintings.name/?p=613</link>
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		<title>Enlighten me!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new painting was added to this site today. As you can see it&#8217;s pure abstract art, pure meaning that there&#8217;s nothing from the real world in this painting, just the collection of blobs of paint which we call abstract art. Most of the paintings I&#8217;m doing now are purely abstract. This happens when I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.paintings.name/?p=604</link>
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		<title>Jesus 2.0</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You know&#8230;.I do actually read the news once in a while: Sir Elton John has claimed Jesus was a &#8220;super-intelligent gay man&#8221; in an interview with a US magazine. If Jesus is gay, then who isn&#8217;t? Is that the &#8220;wisdom&#8221; that Sir Elton is trying to impart on us? I&#8217;m glad I&#8217;m not a Christian. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.paintings.name/?p=572</link>
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		<title>Lovely!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Drawing parallels and differences with/between painting and music helps to understand both. The reader will excuse me from drawing from, and referring to, my own experience, because that&#8217;s the only source of originality a webmaster has to offer. Picasso fought a lifelong battle against lovelyness in his art. Partly that&#8217;s due to the time in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.paintings.name/?p=568</link>
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		<title>The Cinderella Syndrome</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On her blog someone makes mention of the Cinderella Syndrome, which goes as follows: As long as artists believe in the myth of the superheroes (gallery people &#8211; MJ) as judge and jury, they will not have domain of the universal house. The mythical dealer would prefer to be indemnified of even the greatest work, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.paintings.name/?p=450</link>
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		<title>My music</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Please take a listen to a recording I made, it&#8217;s called Composition One. Not a very imaginitive title, it also took me a long time before I was able to come up with decent titles for paintings. If the link above doesn&#8217;t work, try this (click on musical note on the left). Or else try [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.paintings.name/?p=411</link>
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		<title>God is not a golfer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know I drive people to despair with my cat fetish, but I think the&#8217;re great. If this painting looks like kids art, it&#8217;s because it is, but frankly, I don&#8217;t see what&#8217;s more mature about people rambling about their human kids&#8230;..God is not a golfer, but a professional breeder.]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.paintings.name/?p=391</link>
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		<title>Having fun with the palette knife</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is just a thingy from 1999 to keep you busy while I&#8217;m working on new paintings. Because the schools are out, this is a prime moment to address the art and/or design students among you and talk about art materials. As mentioned before my primary tool is the palette knife now (but not used [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.paintings.name/?p=367</link>
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		<title>Abstract Portrait No. 8</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This painting was made in 1999 (I think). Its main purpose was to test a new acrylics color I had bought: quinacridone gold, which is the brown color you see in the image. I figured it would work similarly to the burnt sienna acrylics I used in my Egyptian paintings, but it didn&#8217;t, maybe because [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.paintings.name/?p=342</link>
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