/* * declare catagory (filter) types */ var BRONZE = 1; var FIRED_CLAY = 2; var CLOTH = 3; var BUSTS = 4; var RELIEFS = 5; var FULL_FIGURE = 6; var MEN = 7; var WOMEN = 8; var SPONSOR = 9; /* * create Selectables - these are the items in a list */ var almostAlexander = new Selectable("Almost Alexander",1,4,7,7); almostAlexander.edition = "1 of 9"; almostAlexander.price = 995; almostAlexander.shipping = 25; almostAlexander.setSize(10,5,5); almostAlexander.setImages("almostAlexander",3,true); almostAlexander.quote="In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the"+ " heart can inspire.:George Bernard Shaw"; almostAlexander.description="A bust of a masculine head with neck and partial sho"+ "ulder plate. The chemical patina is liver of sulfur."; almostAlexander.materials="Bronze sculpture on onyx base."; almostAlexander.statement="This sculpt was done completely from my imagination. I"+ " wanted to discover the shapes and proportions that make a face look masculine. "+ "Most of the time period I worked on this sculpt I stared at the face of every ma"+ "n I saw evaluating and measuring with my eyes. I quite like the results."; almostAlexander.addCredit(6,"Art Of Caring, 2005","San Diego Hospice","San Diego, CA"); var bellyDancing = new Selectable("Belly Dancing",1,4,8,8); bellyDancing.edition = "1 of 9"; bellyDancing.price = 3000; bellyDancing.shipping = 54; bellyDancing.setSize(11,9.5,8); bellyDancing.setImages("bellyDancing",3,true); bellyDancing.quote="All passes; Art alone enduring, stays with us. The bust outla"+ "sts the throne.:Austin Dobson, Ars Victrix"; bellyDancing.description="A bust of a girl with pony tails, hair ornaments, neck,"+ " shoulders, forearms, hands and finger cymbals."; bellyDancing.materials="Bronze sculpture on onyx base.The chemical patinas includ"+ "e liver of sulfur, ferric nitrate and dye oxides of purple, yellow, black and wh"+ "ite."; bellyDancing.statement="When Wendy dances, I see in her face another world which "+ "is so expressive and riveting. Her hair and fingers seem charged with energy. Th"+ "is was what I hoped to communicate in this sculpture, the enthusiastic fluidity "+ "and exuberance of her African tribal belly dancing."; bellyDancing.addCredit(6,"Art Of Caring, 2005","San Diego Hospice","San Diego, CA"); bellyDancing.addCredit(6,"2004, Fine Art Exhibition","San Diego County Fair","Del Mar, CA"); bellyDancing.addCredit(8,"Online Exclusive, Jane Darin","The Crafts Report Magazine","November, 2004"); var callToPrayer = new Selectable("Call To Prayer", BRONZE, BUSTS, MEN, SPONSOR); callToPrayer.quote = "Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.:Albert Szent-Gyorgyi"; callToPrayer.setSize(11.5, 6.5, 6.5); callToPrayer.description = "The bust of a man with a mustache, beard and wearing a felt hat. It includes his neck and shoulders and a scarf which encircles the neck and drapes over the base."; callToPrayer.materials = "Bronze sculpture with black polished marble base. The chemical patinas include liver of sulfur, cupric nitrate and dye oxides in navy and white."; callToPrayer.statement = "I was very attracted to the strength of this model's face located throughout his jaw, forehead and his unique felt hat. I also wanted to reproduce soft drape of his shawl over the hard surface of the marble base, a challenge to do in bronze as the fit must be perfect."; callToPrayer.edition = "3 of 9"; callToPrayer.price = 1394; callToPrayer.setImages("callToPrayer", 2, true); callToPrayer.shipping = 31.00; callToPrayer.sponsor = "Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Reynolds of Lake Worth, FL"; callToPrayer.addCredit(Credit.SHOW, "2006 Exhibition of Fine Art", "San Diego County Fair", "Del Mar, CA"); var colonelMustard = new Selectable("Colonel Mustard", FIRED_CLAY, CLOTH, RELIEFS, FULL_FIGURE, MEN); colonelMustard.quote = "Art begins where words and pictures end.:Leonard Bernstein"; colonelMustard.setSize(29.5, 10.5, 10.5); colonelMustard.materials = "Face, hands and feet are fired porcelain clay. The figure and wall hanging are cloth. The character faces on wall hanging are carved plaster. The base is a metal box from the 50th anniversary version of the game Clue as are the weapons and the playing cards of the rooms. His leather sandals are hand made by me. I also hand dyed the mohair and made his hat. The die is cotton covered buckram sewn into a cube. The cabinets, street sign and chimney are cotton stretched over foamcore"; colonelMustard.statement = "I grew up on Ruckle Street in Indianapolis. After dinner my family would gather around the table to play board games. Colonel Mustard with a die on Ruckle Street is the winning statement from a game, Clue. On the wall hanging, one of the weapon cabinets is empty???? (CLUE copyright 2002 Hasbro, Inc. Used with permission.)"; colonelMustard.description = "The figure of a man stands on a metal Clue box in front of a wall hanging. Quilting lines on the wall hanging outline my home and its front door, roof line and front window. The carved faces, die, street sign, chimney, table and cabinets project from the surface of the wall hanging. Your investment includes both the figure and the wall hanging sized in inches at 45½h x 38w x 3½d."; colonelMustard.price = 8000; colonelMustard.setImages("colonelMustard", 3, true); colonelMustard.size = Selectable.setDims(29, 10, 10); colonelMustard.shipping = 58.00; colonelMustard.addCredit(Credit.SHOW, "SDMA Artists Guild Exhibition", "Hyde Art Gallery at Grossmont College", "San Diego, CA 2003"); colonelMustard.addCredit(Credit.SHOW, "2004, Fine Art Exhibition", "San Diego County Fair", "Del Mar, CA"); colonelMustard.addCredit(Credit.PUBLISHED, "Online Exclusive, Jane Darin", "The Crafts Report Magazine", "November, 2004"); colonelMustard.addCredit(Credit.PUBLISHED, "Contemporary Doll Collector Magazine", "October, November, 2003", ""); colonelMustard.addCredit(Credit.PUBLISHED, "The Santa Fe Art Doll Experience", "Art Doll Quarterly", "Autumn, 2003"); var communion = new Selectable("Communion - Bookend", BRONZE, RELIEFS, FULL_FIGURE, MEN, SPONSOR); communion.quote = "Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ration to the power of conception the artist has acquired.: Gustave Courbet, French painter"; communion.setSize(8.75, 7.75, 4.75); communion.materials = "Bronze sculpture relief on polished marble base. The patinas are liver of sulfur, ferric nitrate, and dye oxides in white, green, and red."; communion.statement = "I love books, reading and libraries. I wanted to combine a three dimensional sculpture with a bas relief. I am moved to see the shape of how people sit when absorbed in reading."; communion.description = "A full male figure sits reading in a wicker chair with cushion. Perpendicular to the figure is a low table on which rest books and a pair of eye glasses."; communion.edition = "1 of 9"; communion.price = 750; communion.setImages("communion", 1, true); communion.shipping = 21.00; var connections = new Selectable("Connections", BRONZE, FULL_FIGURE, MEN); connections.quote = "Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.:Andre Gide"; connections.setSize(15.5, 10.5, 10.5); connections.materials = "Bronze on Verdi marble base.The patinas are liver of sulfur, ferric nitrate and dye oxides in green, black and brown."; connections.statement = "I asked Lynn what would you be doing at home in the nude and he replied working on my laptop. I smiled to see his back slump as he forgot posing and got to work. His lap top seems perched on his knees because he is so tall making his hands seem small next to the bulk of his body. His skull shows where his hair used to grow. Later I noticed this very image on a Greek pottery vessel of a scribe writing with a portable desk on his knees."; connections.description = "A nude male figure sits on a cushion on a stool working on a laptop balanced on his knees."; connections.edition = "2 of 9"; connections.price = 3520; connections.setImages("connections", 3, true); connections.shipping = 76.00; connections.addCredit(Credit.SECOND_PLACE, "2004, Fine Art Exhibition", "San Diego COunty Fair", "Del Mar, CA"); connections.addCredit(Credit.VIEWERS_CHOICE, "2004, Fine Art Exhibition", "San Diego County Fair", "Del Mar, CA"); connections.addCredit(Credit.SHOW, "National Orange Show", "San Bernadino, CA", "2006"); connections.addCredit(Credit.SHOW, "Biennial, 2006", "The National League of American Pen Women, Inc", "Denver, CO"); connections.addCredit(Credit.SHOW, "Santa Fe International Figurative Art Experience", "Santa Fe, NM, 2003", ""); connections.addCredit(Credit.PUBLISHED, "Art Talk Newspaper", "Santa Fe International Figurative Art", "April, 2004"); var contemplation = new Selectable("Contemplation - Bookend", BRONZE, RELIEFS, FULL_FIGURE, MEN, SPONSOR); contemplation.quote = "If you could say it in words, there'd be no reason to paint.:Edward Hopper, painter"; contemplation.setSize(8.75, 7.25, 3.75); contemplation.materials = "Bronze sculpture relief on polished marble base. The patinas are liver of sulfur, ferric nitrate and dye oxides of red, white, gold and black"; contemplation.description = "A male figure sits in a straight backed chair reading a magazine on his lap. Next to him is a lamp table with a coffee mug."; contemplation.statement = "On another side of reading are periodicals like magazines whose information is of the culture existing in a finite time, a longer moment than newspapers, yet still containing the changeable truths of the marketplace. I am curious how these are like fads such as pole lamps, church shaped windows and coffee mugs." contemplation.edition = "1 of 9"; contemplation.price = 750; contemplation.setImages("contemplation", 2, true); contemplation.shipping = 21.00; var dignity = new Selectable("Dignity", BRONZE, BUSTS, WOMEN); dignity.quote = "Art is the demonstration that the ordinary is extraordinary.:Amedee Ozenfant, Author of Foundations of Modern Art"; dignity.setSize(7.5, 3, 3); dignity.materials = "Bronze sculpture with a tall polished black marble base. The chief patina is silver nitrate over liver of sulfur with black dye oxide."; dignity.statement = "I read once in a history of art that in order to be worth remembering in such a permanent way as a bronze sculpture of yourself required being a pretty substantial or famous person. It pleased me to sculpt a portrait of this model who expressed her status as \"just a wife and mother\"."; dignity.description = "A female bust including the neck and some shoulders with her hair tied back in a hair ornament."; dignity.edition = "1 of 9"; dignity.price = 600; dignity.setImages("dignity", 3, true); dignity.shipping = 21.00; dignity.addCredit(Credit.SHOW, "Art Of Caring, 2005", "San Diego Hospice", "San Diego, CA"); var duringDarshan = new Selectable("During Darshan", BRONZE, RELIEFS, MEN); duringDarshan.quote = "Help ever. Hurt never.:Sathya Sai Baba"; duringDarshan.setSize(6.75, 4.5, .75); duringDarshan.materials = "Bronze relief which can be hung on the wall, hung in a frame or displayed on an easel. The patina is liver of sulver with an orange dye oxide."; duringDarshan.statement = "I went to India to the ashram of Sathya Sai Baba to sing in a choir in front of over 40,000 people on December 26, 2006. I was allowed by security to carry into darshan each day during my visit a small box of clay, sculpting tools made from sanded coffee stirs and a photograph of Swami's hands clasped behind his back. Darshan means the sight of a holy man."; duringDarshan.description = "In India oil paintings of the gods are often done on the dried leaves from a particular ficus tree. I used this shape for the relief to show the back of Swami's orange robe as he often walks with his hands clasped behind his back during darshan. His right hand supports the left."; duringDarshan.edition = "Open Edition"; duringDarshan.price = 75; duringDarshan.setImages("duringDarshan", 1, true); duringDarshan.shipping = 17.00; var flamencoNights = new Selectable("Flamenco Nights", BUSTS, WOMEN, SPONSOR); flamencoNights.quote = "I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare; my business is to create.: William Blake, poet, artist"; flamencoNights.setSize(7, 4.5, 3.5); flamencoNights.materials = "As pictured it is made in plastilina clay and presented on a sculpting stand. This figurative bust is ready for the foundry process. Perhaps you would like to be the sponsor."; flamencoNights.statement = "In contrast to SUMMERS DAY, this figurative sculpture is about evenings in Spain with wine, music, the sound of castenets, tableware and violins. Elizabeth, the model, had just returned from a year of study in Spain where she added flamenco dancing to her enjoyment and study of her native heritage."; flamencoNights.description = "A female bust of a young flamenco dancer with a rose behind her ear and including her neck and shoulders. In bronze the sculpture will be a pair with SUMMERS DAY and secured on a black polished marble base of the same rectangular pyramid shape."; flamencoNights.edition = "1 of 9"; flamencoNights.price = 630; flamencoNights.sponsor = "Available to Sponsor and receive edition #1 of 9 for $630 + shipping and handling."; flamencoNights.setImages("flamencoNights", 2, true); flamencoNights.shipping = 21.00; var ginger = new Selectable("Ginger", BRONZE, BUSTS, WOMEN); ginger.quote = "I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist.:John Fitzgerald Kennedy (U.S. President)"; ginger.setSize(10.75, 4.5, 4.5); ginger.materials = "Bronze sculpture with polished black marble base. Patinas include liver of sulfur, cupric nitrate and dye oxides in blue, green, yellow and pink."; ginger.statement = "People have asked if this is a self portait. It is a model who has high cheek bones and long narrow face. I enjoyed the character of her face contrasted to the playfulness of her ponytail. People actually touch her face not believing it is metal and expecting the coolness and smoothness of stone."; ginger.description = "Bronze female bust including neck and partial shoulders and hair pulled back in a pony tail on a round polished black marble base."; ginger.edition = "2 of 9"; ginger.price = 1089; ginger.setImages("ginger", 3, true); ginger.shipping = 24.00; ginger.addCredit(Credit.PUBLISHED, "Online Exclusive, Jane Darin", "The Crafts Report Magazine", "November, 2004"); var iDreamOfTheSky = new Selectable("I Dream of the Sky", CLOTH, FULL_FIGURE, WOMEN); iDreamOfTheSky.quote = "It has been said that something as small as the flutter of a butterflys wing can ultimately cause a typhoon halfway around the world.:Chaos Theory"; iDreamOfTheSky.setSize(13, 13, 13); iDreamOfTheSky.materials = "Cloth figure, felted scraps and threads with net for chrysalis or pupa. She can be lifted from the cloth hand and positioned as she is fully jointed. Base is wood."; iDreamOfTheSky.statement = "In November of 1998, I was invited by Uta Brauser to do an art installation on the weekend of my 60th birthday. I once held a live butterfly on my finger at the San Diego Wild Animal Park butterfly aviary. So I hand painted a cheesecloth aviary and filled it with soft piano music, six different species of jointed butterfly figures, some fairies and a water fountain. Sky was the central figure."; iDreamOfTheSky.description = "A humanoid butterfly figure supported by a human sized hand holds aloft her chryalis. Currently, this piece has been placed with me for resale."; iDreamOfTheSky.price = 3000; iDreamOfTheSky.poem = poems[0]; iDreamOfTheSky.setImages("iDreamOfTheSky", 1, true); iDreamOfTheSky.shipping = 29.00; iDreamOfTheSky.addCredit(Credit.SHOW, "Butterfly Experience, an Art Installations with Dolls", "Bill Graham Civic Auditorium", "San Francisco, CA, 1999"); var jade = new Selectable("Jade", BRONZE, BUSTS, WOMEN); jade.quote = "Art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind.:Louise Nevelson (1899-1988 - U.S. Sculptor)"; jade.setSize(6.5, 5.5, 3.5); jade.materials = "Bronze with polished black marble base. Patinas are liver of sulfur and cupric nitrate."; jade.statement = "In sculpting my first Asian face I was eager to capture the shape of her eyes and the contemporary sweep of her hair as it encircled her head. This model's thoughts drift as she sits and I hoped to include this trait."; jade.description = "A female bust with neck and sholders and long loose hair."; jade.edition = "2 of 9"; jade.price = 660; jade.setImages("jade", 3, true); jade.shipping = 21.00; var jasmine = new Selectable("Jasmine", BRONZE, BUSTS, WOMEN, SPONSOR); jasmine.quote = "In his work, the artist should be like God in creation, invisible and all-powerful. He should be felt everywhere and seen nowhere.:Gustave Flaubert, Author"; jasmine.setSize(8.5, 5, 5); jasmine.materials = "Bronze with polished black marble base, 24 carat gold earrings with bobble. The patinas are liver of sulfur and ferric nitrate."; jasmine.statement = "I was in NYC for a show at the Javits Center. Each day I wanted to join the black women in the beauty parlors having their hair braided. Jasmine showed me how after having her hair braided for a time she gently felted the growing braids. I made a bun of them for the foundry molds; She usually wore her hair loose."; jasmine.description = "A female bust with her hair felted in tiny locks and including her neck and partial shoulders. I fashioned her gold earrings to match the ones she wore. There are five (count them) rings in her hair, one in her nose and two in her ears. "; jasmine.edition = "2 0f 9"; jasmine.price = 1267; jasmine.sponsor = "Drs. Robert and Joann Sandlin of San Diego, Ca."; jasmine.setImages("jasmine", 3, true); jasmine.shipping = 52.00; var jesse = new Selectable("Jesse", FIRED_CLAY, BUSTS, MEN); jesse.quote = "An artist can not fail. It is a success to be one.:Charles Horton Cooley"; jesse.setSize(16, 10, 7); jesse.materials = "Fired white waxed clay with black polished marble base."; jesse.description = "A full human scale male head with neck and partial shoulders."; jesse.statement = "Using wet clay is tricky. I love the feel of the finished surface and of the clay while its wet. This particular brand of clay cured so white I had only to wax it to bring out the beauty of surface. I liked being able to sculpt the twist of his pose while including just a hint of his shoulders."; jesse.price = 775; jesse.setImages("jesse", 3, true); jesse.shipping = 24.00; jesse.addCredit(Credit.SHOW, "Fine Art Exhibition, 2005", "San Diego County Fair", "Del Mar, CA"); jesse.addCredit(Credit.PUBLISHED, "Online Exclusive, Jane Darin", "The Crafts Report Magazine", "November, 2004"); var kimonoMaiden = new Selectable("Kimono Maiden", BRONZE, BUSTS, WOMEN); kimonoMaiden.quote = "Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.:Thomas Merton, philosopher"; kimonoMaiden.setSize(11, 5.25, 5.25); kimonoMaiden.materials = "Bronze sculpture with black polished marble base. Patinas are liver of sulfur, dye oxides in black, brown and white, and transparent red."; kimonoMaiden.description = "A female bust with her hair in a page boy cut showing her neck and shoulders wearing a kimono. "; kimonoMaiden.statement = "The difficult part of this sculpture was fashioning the kimono collar to stand up just where the neck and shoulders meet. So the collar was poured in a separate mold and joined during the metal chasing. I wanted to show the protectiveness of an earlier Japanese culture and its manners that I saw in her neck as it disappears into the surround of the collar."; kimonoMaiden.edition = "1 of 9"; kimonoMaiden.price = 1267; kimonoMaiden.setImages("kimonoMaiden", 3, true); kimonoMaiden.shipping = 29.00; kimonoMaiden.addCredit(Credit.SECOND_PLACE, "2003, Fine Art Exhibition", "San Diego County Fair, Del Mar, CA", ""); kimonoMaiden.addCredit(Credit.PUBLISHED, "Art Doll Quarterly", "The Figurative Art Experience", "Autumn, 2004"); kimonoMaiden.addCredit(Credit.SHOW, "Art Of Caring, 2005", "San Diego Hospice", "San Diego, CA"); kimonoMaiden.addCredit(Credit.SHOW, "Santa Fe International Figurative Art", "Southwest Art Magazine", "April, 2004"); var michael = new Selectable("Michael", BRONZE, BUSTS, MEN); michael.quote = "My brain is not as reliable as my heart.:Terri English, artist"; michael.setSize(6, 4, 4); michael.materials = "Bronze sculpture with a polished Verde marble base. Patinas include liver of sulfur, ferric nitrate, and red and blue dye oxides."; michael.statement = "San Diego is a port city; at the tip of Point Loma which juts into the sea is an old lighthouse. Our studio space overlooks the harbor where the \"Star of India\" is anchored and farther south lies Seaport Village. I dreamed that I have seen this old salt strolling along the brick paths in \"Old Town\" or the \"Gaslamp District\" of San Diego."; michael.description = "A male bust with neck and partial shoulders and wearing a seaman's cap"; michael.edition = "1 of 9"; michael.price = 600; michael.setImages("michael", 3, true); michael.shipping = 21.00; michael.addCredit(Credit.SHOW, "SDMA Artists Guild Fine Art Exhibition, 2007", "San Diego Maritime Museum", "San Diego, CA"); michael.addCredit(Credit.SHOW, "Art Of Caring, 2005", "San Diego Hospice", "San Diego, CA"); var morningNews = new Selectable("Morning News", BRONZE, BUSTS, MEN, SPONSOR); morningNews.quote = "Practically all great artists accept the influence of others. But ... the artist with vision sees his material, chooses, changes and by integrating what he has learned with his own experiences, finally molds something distinctly personnel.:Romare Howard Bearden, artist"; morningNews.setSize(11.5, 9.5, 11); morningNews.materials = "Bronze sculpture with gray polished marble base and black marble subbase. Patinas are liver of sulfur with red, blue and white dye oxides."; morningNews.description = "A male bust with neck, shoulders, arms, hands and two pages of a newspaper. I wrote the newspaper. Near his right index finger a headline declares, \"World Peace Announced.\" Another headline concludes \"Stock Market Responds.\" A picture shows fireworks over the Bay. On the back page two articles. The IFL playoffs will be in China this year and Art Sells Better in Peacetime."; morningNews.statement = "I loved capturing the model's fingers as they interacted with the newspaper. This look took separate molds, one for each page of the paper which had to be properly curved to accept the fingers, for each arm with robe, cuff and hand and for the base plate. It all had to be welded simultaneously to fit right and be at the right angle. The edition number of the sculpture is the edition number of the newspaper."; morningNews.edition = "3 of 9"; morningNews.price = 3630; morningNews.setImages("morningNews", 3, true); morningNews.shipping = 89.00; morningNews.addCredit(Credit.HONORABLE_MENTION, "Fine Art Exhibition", "SD County Fair, Del Mar, CA", ""); morningNews.addCredit(Credit.SHOW, "Biennial, 2006", "The National League of American Pen Women, Inc", "Denver, CO"); morningNews.addCredit(Credit.SHOW, "San Diego Museum of Art Artists Guild", "Boehm Art Gallery at Palomar College", "San Marcos, CA, 2004"); morningNews.addCredit(Credit.PUBLISHED, "Online Exclusive, Jane Darin", "The Crafts Report Magazine", "November, 2004"); morningNews.sponsor = "Harry and Diane Davidson of Hartford, CT";