Style1½ inches thick (3.75 cm) Product Details Artist grade canvas, archival inks, wooden stretcher bars, and UVB protective coating
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Description An old Siberian woodsman, Ahmed Soulaman, once told the Story of the Sparrow to Vasily Michailovitch Tolmatchoff who spent twenty years in a Siberian Gulag. No one knows how Ahmed Soulaman came upon this tale. Nevertheless, Tolmatchoff retold the story to Tiberi Pskuy of Romania, who spent seven years in jail, where he met Mircea Crtrescu, who was also imprisoned for seven years for creating subversive poetry, and while in jail Tiberi told Mircea the story. After Mirceas release from jail, he told the story to Gezim Hadaj of Albania, who after having been tortured and condemned to death for refusing to kiss the feet of the Albania President, managed to flee to Romania; and there in a Bucharest caf he met Mircea, where they exchanged the Story of the Sparrow. After eight years of wandering, Gezim arrived in Czechoslovakia and reunited with one of his cousins who had also escaped. And there in Prague, Gezim told his cousin Pter the Story of the Sparrow. Pter then told it to his best friend, Ivo Hlavizna, a young rebel who had nearly been killed by a Russian tank, when the Russians had occupied Prague. On a train traveling from Prague to Warsaw, Ivo met Maciej Swierkocki, as both of them were on their way to a conference on Ways to Improve Your Life in the Socialist World, and Ivo told Maciej the story. During the conference, Maciej then told the story to Jurek Patkowski, a friend he had not seen in years, because Jurek had been in jail for twelve years for reasons undisclosed to him; and when Jurek finally returned home to Krakow he told the story to Andreij Slominski, who had helped Jews escape from the death camps during World War II. Andreij then told the story to Rabbi George Goldstein, a survivor of Auschwitz, who many years later in a small U.S. town in New York told me the Story of the Sparrow. And now my dear reader, I will share with you that story, and perchance after you have heard it, you too may want to tell it to a friend, a kinsmen, or
I.M. Spadecaller, Clearwater Member Since March 2010 Artist Statement Welcome to Spadecaller's Galleries.
About the Artist: Spadecaller (Matt Schwartz) is the pseudonym he uses for his visual art, writing, poetry, and video creations; initially, the name came about by his direct approach on subjects that focus on humanitarian issues that impact our world today. He's known to call a spade a spade.
In the late 1950’s, Spadecaller’s formal training in traditional oil painting techniques commenced. He was eight years old, when he started private painting lessons. Through considerable personal sacrifice, his mother, who has since passed away, nurtured his artistic talents and provided him with many of the tools and circumstances to launch his creative journey. Memories of art exhibitions in New York City that his mother introduced him to continue to motivate his quest for excellence. Spadecaller attended The School of Visual Arts in New York City (1970-71), and during the 70's up until the late 80's, he exhibited acrylic and oils in Montreal and New York. As a realist painter, he strives to capture the beauty of nature and the soul of humankind. Due to the onset of chronic illness in the late nineties and with the advent of image editing software, he turned to creating digital hand painted images, mixed media and photographic art - fusing these into an art form worthy of the same gratification that he had once found in oils.
- Spadecaller (Matt Schwartz)
All Spadecaller artworks are original creations by Matt Schwarz. Gallery prints and canvases are fulfilled by Imagekind. If you have questions please contact Imagekind; however if you have any concerns, please contact Matt Schwartz, as well. He can look into matters to get answers for you. We want to make sure your experience purchasing Spadecaller art prints will be positive and successful. For inquiries, please contact the artist at: spadecaller@gmx.com