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This Untitled work was created by American prison artist C-Note. It is the preliminary sketch work of the painting "La Reina de las Mujeres Chicas (The Queen of the Petite Women)." In the world of prison art, many prison artists, especially Hispanic artists use patterns for their drawings, as opposed to an original drawing. C-Note saw this pattern, and believed he could put his own unique perspective on the piece.
"Santa Monica Boulevard (King of Jazz)" by C-Note fuses jazz, disco, and pop to capture the vibrant energy of LA’s iconic boulevard.
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C-Note on Haring is a work of Wax on canvas. It was created to pay homage to his fellow artivist working in the underground art scene. Haring who died of AIDS complication at 31 in 1990, established the Keith Haring Foundation. The foundation's mandate is to provide funding and imagery to AIDS organizations and children’s programs. It also is to expand the audience for Haring’s work through exhibitions, publications, and the licensing of his images. After his death, the Contemporary Art World had become interested in Graffiti, and his Work have been given several international retrospectives.
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October 20th - 23rd 2021, was the 13th Annual International Prisoner's Family Conference. This year's conference was virtual. Topics included civil rights don't end at the prison gates, prison reentry, children of incarcerated parents, prison wives, and other topics. It also included a Facebook art auction of Prison art. C-Note donated a work to the conference that was specifically created for the event.Man in the Mirror, 2021, 9 in. x 12 in., Acrylic on canvas, Donald "C-Note" Hooker, features a prisoner looking at himself with a handheld mirror. What the mirror reflects back, it's not his image, but an image of him, his wife and child.
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La Reina de las Mujeres Chicas (The Queen of the Petite Women) is a graphite on paper of a young cigar smoking Mexican woman who's wearing a belt with bullets. The green ocean, red clouds, and white sky rendered with wax is an homage to the flag of Mexico and its people.
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This Untitled Seascape of Wax on handkerchief was created per the request of a Chicano prisoner who wanted to give the dramatic seascape to his girlfriend. The prisoner provided C-Note with a postcard of the dramatic seascape, given to him by his girlfriend.
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Of the 1M+ visitors to the Darealprisonart online art gallery, "The Light Of Amber" is amongst the most popular works of art. Created in 2015, the drawing is Wax, on a cardboard box prison lunch, and is featured in the online Artist Close-up, interview article of Donald "C-Note" Hooker."Western art is based on light," says prison artist C-Note. "Whether it's Fra Angelico and his gold leaf halos around his religious subjects, Rembrandt and his use of chiaroscuro, Claude Monet's impressionism in his haystack series, or "The Painter of Light," Thomas Kinkade, and his contemporary works of log cabins," they all highlight the value of light in Western art.