Tag: COVID-19 paintings

• «Flying», (“Pouting Pope”) in homage to Ban’ya Natsuishi’s haiku book “Flying Pope”.

  «Flying», oil on canvas, 50 x 50 cm., 2021. Thirteen years after I wrote my preface to Haiku master Ban’ya Natsuishi‘s iconic work «Flying Pope», I have decided to revisit and pay homage to the work in the form of an oil painting.   Commentary: This raw, figurative painting is a significant update (if not…

  Adam Donaldson Powell

  March 27, 2021

  Adam Donaldson Powell as literary critic, Flying Pope, Pope Francis, The Plague Reaper

  Adam Donaldson Powell, Ban’ya Natsuishi, COVID-19 paintings, Flying Pope, Pope Francis, The Plague Reaper

• The COVID-19 Chronicles.

  

  COVID-19 has been quite the challenge for most of us. The idea of sacrificing the illusion of freedom in order to secure survival has been difficult for many in the Western hemisphere to accept for more than a few months at a time. Our forefathers have accepted such in times of war, but we have…

  Adam Donaldson Powell

  February 12, 2021

  COVID-19 paintings, Poemas de Adam Donaldson Powell, Poems by Adam Donaldson Powell

  Adam Donaldson Powell, COVID-19 paintings, Poemas de Adam Donaldson Powell, Poems by Adam Donaldson Powell

• Choosing a COVID-19 Vaccine: the Three Prisoners Problem

  

  “Choosing a COVID-19 Vaccine — the Three Prisoners Problem”, oil on canvas, 50 x 50 cm., 2021. From 1957 to 1980, Martin Gardner had a monthly column in Scientific American magazine where presented mathematical games. One of these games was the Three Prisoners Problem. Here is the problem explained in Wikipedia: “Three prisoners, A, B,…

  Adam Donaldson Powell

  February 3, 2021

  CoronaVirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 paintings, Portraits, Self-portraits, Self-portraits by Adam Donaldson Powell

  COVID-19 paintings, Self-portrait; abstract figurative paintings