"Poet's Heart"

"On The Banks of Oestrus"

"On The Banks of Oestrus"

"Kaleidoscape 1", in a black, "Profile" frame.

David

A portrait of a friend, with a bust of Beethoven, circa 1977.

Mamba T-Shirts Collection

"1 People, 1 Planet" T Shirt, from Mamba Wear

NBA's Finests - Select Portraits of exceptional ball players, featuring:

Derrick Rose

As You Remember It: The Lift-Off of APOLLO 11

The launch of Apollo 11 to the moon on July 16, 1969, marked the beginning of the Space Age.

Christmas Cards Sale!

For Christmas 2011, I am pleased to announce new Christmas greeting cards, one of which, is illustrated here. I'm also offering these cards at a 15% discount. Please go to:http://walter-neal.artistwebsites.com/art/all/christmas/all , to check them out. You'll find them in my 'Christmas' gallery. This sale also includes all of my other print designs as well, and will run through the end of this year, 2011. I'm looking forward to your patronage. Thank you.

"Love Your Sons, Raise Your Daughters"

This expresses Elijah Anderson's (author of 'Streetwise: Race, Class and Change in an Urban Community (1990)), where he explores the dynamics of social interaction between police as agents and symbols of mainstream communal efforts to regulate the behavior and social place of black men, and black men in a local community. This give rise to a familiar saying in many black comunities, where black women "love their sons and raise their daughters." According to Michael Eric Dyson, this is a "flawed, attempt to get beyond a theoretical framework that implicitly blames black women for the condition of black men"; whereas James Baldwin, in his last published work, declared it "a disease peculiar to the black community called 'sorriness', where 'Mama," he writes, 'lays this burden on Sister from whom she expects (or indicates she expects) far more than she expects from Brother (who) may never grow up..."

The Black Pieta

This is inspired by "The Pieta" (1499), a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture by the renowned artist Michelangelo Buonarroti, housed in St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City. Where Michelango portrayed a youthful Madonna to symbolize her incorruptible purity, I sought to portray a black mother's painful and fearful dilemma ('Sorriness') on how to enable her black son to flourish as a man, and at the same time, ensure his safety and survival in America.