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Alain Joannes, Paris compares
Lonvig to Johan Sebastian Bach!!! ...The composer was organizing motifs melodic and harmonic in an architecture known personally. And one notices a dramatic subjectivity in the organization, apparently neutral, standardized musical figures. Similarly in the work of Asbjorn Lonvig, it takes a singular intent in the layout, in script, rudimentary forms of brightly colored.  It is all about the concept of contrapointual music. Above to the right you can see some notes depicting the contrapointual concept. Read more ______________ Publishing childrens' books on LuluPress.com LuluPress  LuluPress.com brings the
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an easy choice! Orla Nygaard Orla Nygaard is a teacher. He teaches Danish and English for Danish children. Together with Morten Lund, an established school book author, he wrote a comprehensive English school book system for Danish children aged 10 to 16. The system consists of more than 75 books. A few years later he wrote the Danish version of Pauli Sandagerdis' music drama "Jesus and the Macedonian", which was performed by royal opera singers. He has as well written the lyrics to some of Pauli Sandagerdis' songs and ballads.  Asbjorn
LonvigBesides illustrating and writing fairy tales I am an artist. I produce art works for fine art printing. I use the renowned Hahnemühle fine art paper and canvas. The Hewlett Packard Z200 computer and Z3200cs printer offers an enhanced tool that enables easy calibration and profiling. Spectrophotometer and DreamColor technologies easily generate (ICC) profiles which simplifies accurate color matching and profiling. Added up it is "The World's Best in Fine Art...Nothing less". Orla Nygaard and Asbjorn Lonvig have joined to establish Nygaard & Lonvig, Denmark in order to publish children' books.  So far 2 books about a
Beagle dog called Beagy have been published in
English: “The World’s Best Beagy” and “Beagy will be
Beagy”. The two books are about a family who buys a
dog (a Beagle). The father is skeptical because he
does not think he has time enough to look after the
dog. However, he becomes so fond of the dog that he
decides to bring up and train the dog himself.
Unfortunately, things do not turn out the way he
thinks and hopes. Time after time things go wrong and
very far from what he had expected, which results in a
number of comical and bizarre situations. The 2 books have been published In Danish, too. Sammendrag: Bogen er om en familie, der køber en hund (en Beagle). Faderen er skeptisk, fordi han ikke tror, at han har tid til at tage sig af hunden. Han bliver imidlertid så glad for hunden, at han beslutter selv at opdrage den og gå til hundetræning med den. Uheldigvis bliver tingene ikke, som faderen havde håbet. Ofte går tingene skævt og er langt fra, hvad han havde forventet. Det besulterer i mange komiske og bizarre situationer. _______________________ Supporting the Gay Community in San Francisco Asbjorn Lonvig supports many charity programs, especially when they benefit minority organisations. Recently he was asked to support the gay community in San Francisco by MCCSF, which is a Christian Church Organisation supporting Gay's rights. San Francicsco is renowned for hosting a lot of gays. It becomes evident when you see all the Gay flags in San Francisco's windows and streets. MCCSF asked for permission to use Asbjorn Lonvig's motif "Golden Gay" in newsletters etc. to announce the yearly Pride Parade. Asbjorn Lonvig believed he could further support this matter by designing an e-shop called "SF GAY SHOP. Asbjorn created products on this shop on thr basis of "Golden Gay", 1080 Haight Street, "The SF Gay Area - The SF Bay Area and a motif titled "San Francisco". Origanally San Francisco is named after Francis of Assisi, whose comprehension of Christianity meant that he would obviously have supported the gay community. Recently the gaurdious Oscar winning actrice Charlize Theron, who looks like a silly blond, but indeed is not, said in a fantastic Piers Morgan Tonight interview: "It's a divine right," she says of the right to get hitched, which last week was extended to gay couples in New York, and when government starts to tell us who can love and what is good love, whether government or a government built on a certain religion, I do have a problem with that. If you want to bring it back to the politics...I do have a problem with the fact that our government hasn't stepped up enough to make this federal, to make this legal". Read more (The GAY GAY SHOP designed by Asbjorn Lonvig) _______________________ An Art Book about the concept of "The World's Best in Fine Art...Nothing Less" has been published.  The Art Book about the concept of "The World's Best in Fine Art...Nothing Less" has been published. You can buy it on LuluPress.com. Search for "lonvig" in LuluPress' search field. The background for implementing the concept and the details are covered minutely in the book. The 10 dogmas are described and images of the 325+ artworks are shown. |
| How to communicate through pictures "Communiquer par l'images"  The
French author Alain Joannes has written a book on this
subject. It is presented in March 2005 at the renowned
"Salon du Livre" (Books Fair) in Paris. He has written
the following about me - translated by himself from
French.The jubilation feelings given by forms and colors of Asbjorn Lonvig The art of the Danish painter Asbjorn Lonvig communicates at the first glance euphoria in a rough state. A so intense euphoria that the glance can not move away from the piece of his art. Of course, the saturated colours are decisive in this very great glowing. The coloured dazzling and the feeling of pleasure which prolongs it have multiple causes. As adequacy between artistic creation and the constraints of communication, the art of Asbjorn Lonvig illustrates an assumption of neurocognitives sciences: the neurons in charge of visual perception are first activated by patterns recognition, then by colors recognition, then by recognition of textures and movements recognition. In a piece of art like "Soul hurting still ", the sensory impacts of the forms and the colors are very strong and equal. The pleasure comes from what the eye and the brain receive from the red, the yellow, the green and blue at the same time as they recognize the squares, the rectangles, the circles, the triangles, the straight and broken lines and even the letter “A”. The glance thus filled by a profusion of feelings founds a generating mental state of pleasure. After and beyond the primary emotion, in a second phase of contemplation, the spirit endeavours to confer an overall significance on the table. It calls upon its repertory of already memorized forms. Then, the pleasure becomes ludic. Functioning like a rebus, the chart of an unknown territory, a coded language or a mysterious diagram, the piece of art asks to the witness: " What am I ?" The many possible answers are mental resonances which give to the artistic communication a richness higher than all the other ways to communicate. This communication is intersubjective. It organizes the meeting between the subjectivity of the artist and the subjectivity of the witness. The witness of the piece of art is free to refer to tropical sensory prints: association of a dominating solar yellow, sky blue, deep vegetal green. He can also associate the table with an intimate collection of primitive art. He shall perhaps remember the geometrical abstractions of Kandinsky and Mondrian. Surely, the piece of art will be kept in the long memory space into the brain with all its resonances sensory, emotional, ludic and cultural. It is may be interesting to know that the joyfull impact piece of art by Asbjorn Lonvig is closely related to its is canvassed artistic. High level data processing specialist then head of a software company, the painter found serenity in a pictorial creation which starts with digital drafts and finds its completion on a support – frame and fabric - entirely conceived and manufactured by the artist. ___________________________ JUST PUBLISHED New book on how to communicate through pictures in French "Communiquer par l'images" by French author Alain Joannes, Paris It was presented at "Salon du Livre" in Paris, France on 10 March 2005. Chapter about Asbjorn Lonvig's "soul hurting still" In English In French In Danish Order this new book at Dunod |
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about the concept of "The World's Best in Fine
Art...Nothing Less" has been published The Art Book about the concept of "The World's Best in Fine Art...Nothing Less" has been published. You can buy it on LuluPress.com. Search for "lonvig" in LuluPress' search field. The background for implementing the concept and the details are covered minutely in the book. The 10 dogmas are described and images of the 325+ artworks are shown. The 10 dogmas are:
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Offer to exhibit in
physical galleries around the world and 8 pieces of
advice to the alternative: Artist's Massive Presence
on the Internet. There is a new trend in the art world. More and more physical galleries around the world are threatend by on-line galleries. The effect of this threat is that physical galleries offers artists exhibition opportunities in return for paying a fee. To artists the alternative is massive presence on the INTERNET. This presence is achieved through artist's knowledge of the INTERNET possibilities. Here Asbjorn Lonvig gives the fellow artits 7 important pieces of advise and an 8th piece of device, about which he has some doubts: 1. Construct your own web site for exhibition of your own art work. Place banners on your own web site for on-line galleries you use with an URL pointing to your own pieces. 2. Exhibit at low cost galleries with great exposure. For example of this is World Wide Recourses in Columbus, Ohio. The web address is AbsoluteArts.com See50+ more examples. 3. Exhibit on a few selected high cost galleries with great exposure. See 50+ more examples. 4. Sign up for a MOD (or POD) web site, for instance Zazzle.com and Imagekind.com on 50+ more examples you will find galleries marked "MOD". MOD is Manufacturing on Demand. It is different from POD, which is print on demand. POD makes it possible for customers to order posters etc. on POD sites, that is payment, printing and shipment, without any intervienance of yourself. Using a POD site you only have 2 things to do, upload an image to the POD site, and then recieve your royalt y on a check or by PayPal. MOD is different as an artist you are able to design shoes, stamps, skateboards, watches, T-shirts, ties, mugs etc. All of them products, that are manufactured. Notice MOD. In some years you can design cars, clothes, houses in this way. Sign up and be ready for the future. In matter of achieving massive presence on the internet, the important thing about MOD is, that every simgle product is very quickly indexed by search engines, which gives you an imedeately and comprensive precsence. 5. Use RSS at each on-line gallery. In many cases the on-line gallery offers predefined RSSs, which you can use on your own page immediately. You might use the program FeedForAll to build your own RSSs. 6. Construct a blog. An example is Blog.com owned by Google. There is no proof, but it seams evident, by looking at number of visitors, that Google treats blog.com users in a favorable way. As stated above there is no evidence for this effect but it has been mentioned in on-line magazines. 7. Achieve knowledge on SEO. SEO is Search Engine Optimization. The most used search engine is of cause Google. However be aware that Goggle is a full text search engine in contrast to most other engines. This means that you must supply as much relevant text at your own web site, at on-line gallery's web site, on your blog, and at every other place you gow on the internet. Full text means, that using Google the effect of "Title", "Keywords" and "Description" in your HTML probably is minor. If we knew about the Google algorithm for search we were much better off. Then there is AdWords. To Asbjorn Lonvig's experience they have no effect. Through a research based on buying relevant AdWord in a relevant region, the AdWords facility seamed to have no effect. After having philosophized on this matter, Asbjorn Lonvig feel that the AdWords is good business for Google, but not for you. 8. Sign up for Facebook and Twitter. Asbjorn Lonvig has profiles at the 2 most popular social medias. But Despite all the fuss about these 2 social medias, Asbjorn Lonvig has some doubts about the commercial effect of the social medias. I this matter we can cite Jeremy Victor, Web Pro News, Canada. Jerimy Victor says: One of the most common questions about B2B social media is whether or not (and how) Facebook fits into the mix. There really isn't a simple answer and it's best to think of it in macro vs. micro terms. There are hundreds of variables to consider, but starting with these three important b2b social media questions should help. That said, some of the best expertise on the subject of Facebook for B2B comes from SocialMediaB2B.com's co-founders Kipp Bodnar and Jeffrey L. Cohen. At MarketingProfs B2B Forum , Jeffrey, along with Deirdre Walsh, and Susan Solomon, presented on the topic Facebook for Effective B2B Marketing. Read more (Full article by Jerimi Victor) Read more (Asbjorn Lonvig's article: Search Engine Strategies for Success) |
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"Jaco in South
Africa" and “South African Joy”
A South African Art Publisher MMX Art in Cape Town contacted me. MMX Art alias 2010 International Fine Art is licensed to use the phrase “Official Licensed Products of the 2010 FIFA World Cup™” by FIFA. 5 artists from each of the 32 qualifying countries to 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa™ were selected to participate in the 2010 International Fine Art project and form the 2010 International Fine Art Collection. After signing a contract I got the “Artistic Brief”: “The world is coming home to Africa, the cradle of humankind, the site where the story of our species started. It is – in essence – the home of all humanity. It is also the location for the greatest sporting event in the world – the 2010 FIFA World CupTM – the first time in its history that the tournament has been staged in Africa. The artwork must bring together the elements of this African heritage and fuse it with the energy and excitement of the World Cup, the heights of athletic excellence, the fervour of football enthusiasts, and pride of your country’s participation in the tournament. The original must incorporate at least an element of football in order to celebrate this extraordinary event being brought to African soil.”
The symbolism of
Jaco
in South Africa
The first draft was
created based on a Fairy Tale titled A 2010 FIFA
World Cup Fairy Tale
”Jaco in South
Africa”. Not approved by FIFA due
to appealing mostly to children and due to
fordidden text.
Jaco in South
Africa
 First
Draft
Not approved by FIFA "Jaco in South Africa", Asbjorn Lonvig, 2010 84 x 59,4 cm (33.1” x 23.4”). Hi, I am a Grey
Parrot and I live in the Monte Casino Bird
Park in Johannesburg. My name is Jaco.
Every Wednesdays
I fly to Cape Town to visit my cousins.
I love to flying
and I enjoy the magnificent scenery of South
Africa and talk to all my animal friends
during the trip. Zebras, Flamingos, Penguins,
Elephants, Giraffes, and not forgetting the
king of the animals, King Lion III.
Last Wednesday I
saw people were building new stadiums. The
FIFA World Cup is being held in South Africa
in 2010.
The world is
coming home to Africa, the cradle of
humankind, the place where the story of our
species started. It is – you could say - the
home of all humanity.
The first
animal I spotted from up there was Zebastian
the Zebra.
He is proudly
holding up the flag of the Republic of South
Africa. You can see Zebastian
in the top
left-hand corner with the flag. He knows about
what the colors of the Republic of South
Africa's flag symbolize:
Red symbolizes
the struggle for freedom,
Black and White
symbolize the different peoples of South
Africa,
Yellow symbolizes
the country’s mineral wealth, and
Green and Blue
symbolize the country’s fertility and its
magnificent scenery and wildlife.
Zebastian has two
zebra friends. They are looking forward to
attending the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
The Rainbow Flamingos
have an interesting story to tell. Desmond Tutu -
you know, the former archbishop who is always
smiling, called South Africa’s people the Rainbow
Nation.
That was because of the
country’s wonderfully diverse, colourful, and
utterly unique society.
Not only that, but
South Africa’s National Motto is "Unity in
Diversity".
The two Rainbow
Flamingos made a Rainbow Football – a Rainbow Soccer
Ball – to celebrate the Rainbow Nation and its
wonderful motto.
Zebras and Flamingos
are very common in South Africa.
But you might not have
expected Penguins. Penguins live in
Australia, South
America, and South Africa - not just the South Pole.
The Penguin P is
showing us Africa, and pointing out where South
Africa is situated.
As I flew over the
savannah I spotted Tall Charlie, who is a giraffe.
Tall Charlie’s favorite food
is the acacia tree and
its leaves. He can easily manage to eat leaves 18
feet off the ground.
Normally giraffes have
brown spots. Tall Charlie however has red spots.
On New Year’s Eve a few
years ago, a hunter had a pot of red paint - and he
wanted to have some
fun. One, Two, Three –
soon he had painted Tall Charlie’s spots red!
Tall Charlie was amused
- the red spots could easily be removed, he thought.
But as things turned
out – the red paint would not come off.
And a few months later
Tal Charlie had a son. His name was Not So Tall
Charlie and
he had red spots, too…
So if you see a Giraffe
with red spots in a Zoo or Circus or on the
Savannah, you can be certain,
it is Tall Charlie or
one of his descendants.
As I flew back from
Cape Town I followed the East coast of South Africa.
I really enjoyed the
spectacular Wilderness National Park between Cape
Town and Port Elisabeth.
I saw four Baby
Elephants dancing around the famous Baobab Tree.
This famous tree is also called boab, boaboa,
bottle tree, upside-down tree, and monkey bread
tree.
Some baobabs are
reputed to be many thousands of years old, which is
however difficult to verify
as the wood does not
produce annual growth rings as trees do normally.
As I came back to Monte
Casino Bird Park in Johannesburg I met Bernhard, the
mischievous Monkey.
He knows all about the
FIFA World Cup tournament stadiums and has made his
own map of the FIFA World Cup stadiums in South
Africa.
The stadiums are in
Cape Town, Durban, two in Johannesburg,
Mangaung/Bloemfontein,
Port Elizabeth,
Nelspruit, Polokwane, Rustenburg, and
Tshwane/Pretoria.
King Lion III, the king
of the animals, has got the ultimate job.
He has been asked by
FIFA to present the trophy to the winner of the 2010
FIFA World Cup in South Africa.
“I look forward to
shaking hands with the Brazilians,” said King Lion
III with a crafty lion smile.
The symbolism of South African Joy. This second draf was approved by the art publisher and FIFA. South African
Joy
First Draft
Not approved by FIFA "South African Joy", Asbjorn Lonvig, 2010 84 x 59,4 cm (33.1” x 23.4”). The Acacia tree and the Baobab Tree are significant trees in South Africa. I am looking for my inner giraffes eat the leaves of the Acacia tree. The South African Savannah in the East, the bush and dessert in the West are the domicile of a lot of exotic animals such as Zebras, Flamingos, Elephants, Lions, Penguins, and Giraffes. To me the most outstanding of them is the Giraffe. In “South African Joy” symbolized by a giraffe skin. The sun is important to all of us. In most of South Africa there is subtropical climate witch has an impact on everything. On nature as well as on people’s conduct and behaviour. From maps we know the shape of the African Continent. From the name we can guess where South Africa is, but I did not know exact shape of South Africa on beforehand. FIFA World Cup stadiums in South Africa are scattered around the country: The stadiums are in Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg, Bloemfontein, Port Elizabeth, Nelspruit, Polokwane, Rustenburg, and Pretoria. In a very short time – when the FIFA World Cup has started - the world will recognize the shape and the colors of the Republic of South Africa's flag: Red symbolizes the struggle for freedom. Black and White the different peoples of South Africa. Yellow the country's mineral wealth. And green and blue symbolize the country’s fertility and its magnificent scenery and wildlife. Desmond Tutu – you know, the former archbishop who is always talking and always smiling – called South Africa’s people the Rainbow Nation. That was because of the country's wonderfully diverse, colourful, and utterly unique society. Furthermore, South Africa’s National Motto is "Unity in Diversity". I know about an explorer that drew in his car down through the African continent from the Strait of Gibraltar to South Africa. He told that everywhere kids were playing soccer. To accommodate all the soccer playing children the soccer field is a double field. Double Soccer is the name of the game. There are 4 goals. Two balls in different colors. I have established a Facebook group to form the exact rules. “Help making the Double Soccer rules: As a point of departure I have mentioned a few keywords to the Facebook group members: Fun, fast, exhausting, tactics, strategy, chess, exciting to look at, appealing to electronic media”. The imaginative kids of Africa will probably some day amuse themselves by playing double soccer. You may percept many different run patterns in “South African Joy” – run patterns of players’ movements as you will see them on the stadiums of South Africa. Zigzag, forth and back etc. Stepping up the stairs – maybe reaching fame. Some day an African nation might win the FIFA World Cup™. Writer and Illustrator: Asbjorn Lonvig, Artist Lille Fejringhus Gallery 43 Fejringhusvej 8722 Hedensted Denmark +45 75890477 lonvig@mail.dk |
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