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        <description><![CDATA[A small intoduction to my blog. Lilabstracts is all about art, things that interests me and a series of smallish abstract paintings, all sized 405mm x 405mm, hence the name &quot;lilabstracts&quot;.  ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Ian Francis]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 17:52:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Ian Francis was born in 1979 in Bristol, England, and graduated from the University of the West of England with a degree in Illustration. His work concentrates on the particulars of modern experiences — things like television, world events, celebrities,... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Adri Botha]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Byroglyphics]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:33:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I found this amazing artist Russ Mills, I absolutely love the movement and energy in his work. A wonderful collection of urban art images with a creative abstract twist. link ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Diana Cooper]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:48:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Diana Cooper - Mechanical Cloud 2004-05 [plastic, photo, paper, foam core, acetate, vinyl, felt, neopreme foam, Velcro, map pins] “Sometimes I feel as though I am making flowcharts for an imaginary world.” Her mind is like a filter constantly translating... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Adri Botha]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Yasuhiko Hayashi and Yusuke Nakano]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:39:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Blue lines covering everything from the floor to the walls and all over the ceiling. If you look close enough at these gigantic blue roots, you realize that it’s all made of plastic rails, more precisely, of blue plastic toy rails we used to play with... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Adri Botha]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[A Sadistic Salvador Dali in Alessandro Bavari]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 19:46:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Bavari is what happens when Sodom and Gomorrah mixes with a surrealist modern Europe. He is a classically-trained painter who habitually photographs images from museums and on the street in Europe, intertwining them with concepts straight from ancient... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Adri Botha]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Ink Blot Collection by Sandra Backlund]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 19:49:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I have always had a passion for fashion design and here I have found a desinger that has also found inspiration from ink blots! Swedish fashion designer Sandra Backlund has sent us photos of her Ink Blot Collection, which won the top prize at the international... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Michelangelo]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 20:59:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[“A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it." ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Adri Botha]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[About this painting – “Baptism of Fire”]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:17:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA["Baptism of Fire" My experience with this painting has been quite interesting. When I finished the painting I looked at it and thought to myself: “It just seems like such a spiritual painting.” Maybe because of the elements in the painting. The flames,... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Adri Botha]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Abstract Expressionism]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:04:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Abstract expressionism was an specifically American post-World War II art movement. It was the first American movement to achieve worldwide influence and also the one that put New York City at the center of the art world, a role formerly filled by Paris.... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Adri Botha]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[&quot;A wolf in sheep's clothing&quot;]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 17:59:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I use colour and texture to interpret emotional energy. I used blue in this painting because it is a calm and relaxing colour. Like the same as some people’s exterior personality. I softened the edges of the white over the black to put emphasis on the... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Adri Botha]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Glenn Brown]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:51:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Glenn Brown was born in Northumberland, England in 1966. He studied at Norwich School of Art, the Bath College of Higher Education, then Goldsmith's College, London. He was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2000. His work has been the subject of numerous... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Adri Botha]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[My Technique]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 12:02:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Surrealism in art utilizes numerous unique techniques to provide inspiration. Many of these are said to free imagination by producing a creative process free of conscious control. The importance of the sub conscious as a source of inspiration is central... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Adri Botha]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Salvador Dali]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 11:01:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The painter had an older brother who died 9 months before Salvador Dali's own birth, and his parents treated him very much as a reincarnation of the first, dressing him in the dead brother's clothes, etc. This may well have helped from certain aspects... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Adri Botha]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Pablo Picasso's Full Name]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 10:31:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Picasso's name - Pablo Diego Jose Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Maria de los Remodios Cipriano de la Santisima Trinidad - honours various godparents, relatives and Saints. At the end of this string of names, came Ruiz and Picasso the first, as is... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Adri Botha]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[About Abstract Art]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 10:34:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Abstract art is difficult. It is difficult in the sense that it requires artistic discipline, knowledge and a certain amount of expertise in painting techniques, usually acquired through training in more formal aspects of art. Abstract art does promise... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Adri Botha]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[My Next Series]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[An idea I’ve been playing around with for my next series is adding anatomy sketches of insects, lizards & humans to my abstract art. The technique I’m going to use will let the sketches become part of the abstract shapes and colours of the painting! They... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Adri Botha]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Wassily Kandinsky]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 11:20:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[“Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult. It demands that you know how to draw well, that you have a heightened sensitivity for composition and for colours, and that you be a true poet. This last is essential.” Wassily Kandinsky: One... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Adri Botha]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[About the artist]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:32:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[My name is Adri Botha and I’m based in Cape Town, South Africa. My art is a true extension of myself a free flowing energy within ever changing and moving forward. An emotional landscape captured on canvas using rich colours, texture and shape. I find... ]]></description>
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