Jim Carrey After 6 Years

 Jim Carrey acted and sketched since his childhood and for the last six years he painted as a healing process. “For the last six years, he has thrown himself into painting, working so prolifically that some might mistake his home for a museum.” (Cascone). He felt his painting, sketching and sculpture work took over and he became a tool of this creative process. He created the most colorful and at times, outrageous, artwork. By contrast his work was trashed by Guardian art critic Jonathan Jones.

He kept a low profile until he started having a series of art shows. “Carrey kept his artistic compulsion secret until he felt the need to reveal it in the video I Needed Color released by Signature.” (Cascone). I Needed Color first came out in July 2017 and has over five million hits. It can be viewed on Vimeo at the link provided. His work includes sculpture like Ayla, which is life-sized as well as smaller works.

His most controversial work involves political satire especially aimed at President Donald Trump whom he detests. “It's not the first time this year that Carrey has expressed his anger toward the nation's problems, and he usually sums up his angst in the form of original artwork.” (Clark). His anti-Trump artwork depicts Trump in the most unflattering roles possible. Although pro-Democrat he even took a swipe at Congressman Adam Schiff for not being able to stand up to President Trump. He dislikes Mark Zuckerberg and his Facebook, depicting it as Fakebook. Carrey himself described his art in the above video as “You can tell my inner life by the darkness in some of them and you can tell what I want from the brightness in some of them.” (Russian). His visual art may surpass his movie work in the years to come. 

Jim Carrey Reveals His Impressive Art Talents in New Mini Documentary: See His Vibrant Paintings

Jim Carrey Spent the Last Six Years Painting. Now, See What the Actor-Turned-Artist Has Created. 

Actor Jim Carrey has emerged as an unlikely political artist and activist — and has attracted over 17 million Twitter followers 

Jim Carrey: I Needed Color 

David Huggins as Painter of Extraterrestrials

David Huggins is a painter living in Hoboken, New Jersey as well as a graduate of the Art Students League of New York City. He claims to have met extraterrestrials when he was eight years old and continues to have encounters with them to this day. He even stated he had sex with a female alien when he was seventeen and future sexual encounters even brought forth human hybrid children. ”Condemnation without investigation is its own form of insanity. I’m writing this piece not to give the impression that I know David is telling the truth, because I don’t know; I’m on the fence about all of this. I celebrate the world of ideas no matter how far out some of them may seem.” (Armpriester). Now there’s Abrahams who did a movie based on Huggins’ experiences.

Movie producer Brad Abrahams did a documentary on Huggins called Love and Saucers (2017) that tells his story of how he meet these extraterrestrials and the sex he had with one of them called Crescent. In the movie Abrahams tells how Huggins started painting his other worldly visitations. “He said it was a release. He was able to sleep for the first time in weeks. And since then, he has painted every single detail of every encounter. A hundred-something paintings. It is art therapy. I don’t know if that’s how David would describe it, but that was a big part of what I wanted to show, too.” (Weisenstein).  In the movie we have Professor Kripal describing the experiences people like Huggins have.

Professor of philosophy and religion, Jeffrey Kripal studied erotic mysticism and eventually abduction literature. Kripal said he believes Huggins’ accounts of alien abductions. “He [Kripal] says the mix of terror and euphoria Huggins describes lines up with age-old descriptions of humans encountering the sacred.” (Weisenstein). Kripal states how religious experiences of supernatural beings descending from the heavens reads like science fiction in today’s secular world.

The experiences Huggins underwent are common to tens of thousands of people on Earth. “One common theme seems to be an alien/human hybridization program. Others report being forced to breed with human-like extraterrestrials.” (Delarme). In the case of David Huggins who painted over a hundred paintings of his encounters. His paintings are published in the book Love in an Alien Purgatory – The Life and Fantastic Art of David Huggins by Farah Yurdozn (2009). Fascinating artwork as you can see here regardless if you believe his story or not.

This Guy Paints the Sex He Allegedly Has with Aliens

David Huggins – an uncommon life 

74 Year Old Describes & Paints His Encounters With Extraterrestirals Since Childhood 

Love in an Alien Purgatory: The Life and Fantastic Art of David Huggins by Farah Yurdozu 

Love and Saucers 

British painter Mary Jane Ansell

British painter Mary Jane Ansell paints in oils subdued realism depicting young women in aristocratic settings. These paintings hint at a militarist history that strongly imbues the old British Empire. “The appearance of objects such as a flag, mask, toy soldier, globe, and army uniforms expand the personal scope of the paintings into a wider narrative, providing an interesting link to themes of history, war, and patriotism.” (Zhang). The predominately soft colors used are in stark contrast to the bold red, blue and gold used to define the military history invoked. The young women in finery (feminine) clashes with the military regalia worn by the women (masculine) in a visual culture of soft idealism conflicting with hard realism.

New Enchanting Oil Painting Portraits by Mary Jane Ansell 

Xavier Sager — Great War Postcard Artist

Xavier Sager was a popular French artist whose work has been catalogued at more than 3000 illustrations. Much of his work has been printed as postcards. There are two different sets of dates as to his birth and death. One declares he has been born in 1870 and died in 1930 (60 years old). Another is he was born in 1881 and died in 1969 (88 years old). Same sources said he was born in Austria (1870) and died in the United States (1930). There is speculation there were two artists with the same name, hence the different birth and death dates. This theory remains inconclusive due to insufficient of evidence. 

To continue with Sager’s alleged origins, same say he was a native of Austria who moved to France before the Great War. The Great War ran from June 2014 until November 2018; the United States joined the Allies in April 2017.  If born in 1870, he would have been thirty by the time he arrived in Paris around 1900. Or born in 1881, he would be nineteen by 1900, while living and sketching in Paris. According to Alan Petrulis, “Paris at this time had a reputation for its fashion and its loose morals, both of which Sager did his best to exploit,” (Petrulis). During the war he sketched military postcards for the firm of A. Noyer. Noyer Studio, based in Paris, was run by the photographer Alfred Noyer.

In Scientific American (October 2014) there was a reprint of an article first published October 24, 1914. The article is written, “By an Officer in the French Army — Special War Correspondent of the Scientific American.” His biography states he is an, “artist as well as an officer.” (Schlenoff). The artwork depicted with the article is attributed to Xavier Sager meaning the author of this article is also Sager. This would indicate this officer is fluent in both French and English. Depending on when Sager was born he would have been either 33 or 44 years old when serving in the French army. 

Xavier Sager produced the postcard, “Strategy” (c. pre WW1); supposedly with H.G. Wells book, “Little Wars: a game for boys from twelve years of age to one hundred and fifty and for that more intelligent sort of girl who likes boys’ games and books,” in mind. (Man of Tin). The postcard image reveals her ammunition is tiny hearts which she appears to be using to defeat or win over the tiny men soldiers. Then there are the dead and dying men on the floor as if she is toying with them as a proverbial Femme Fatale. This theme of risqué art is carried over in Sager’s sculpture. Two pieces were produced in 1930, the year he allegedly died. If the sculpture is by the same artist as the postcards than he was born in 1881, unless he died the same year he cast the sculpture. The Sager sculpture work gives credence to there being two artists of the same name. 

Letters from the Firing Line, 1914

“That more intelligent sort of girl who likes boys’ games and books” 

Xavier Sager Postcards - The Collection 

Xavier Sager Postcards - Xavier Sager's Biography 

American and International Fine Art and Folk Art - Xavier Sager 

Belligerents and Participants in World War One: the Republic of France pt3 

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