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"Shorties Near the Wall" is a recent oil in the Passion Fruit collection.

"Muscle 'Melon" is a tropical themed oil painting influenced by the visions of travels and vacations.

"ART IN THE ROUND" was a celebration of art and the summer solstice which featured the works of three artists being presented in three different apartments in a lakeside high rise in the Hyde Park area of Chicago that is located within walking distance of the home of Barack Obama and the Hyde Park Art Center.

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"Resting" is a 24"X18" Rhythmistic oil painting that links humanity to the luster of nature. Onli often asserts that at our basic cultural roots all humanity was the same. In the Americas, Europe Asia, and Africa we all worshiped the Sun, viewed the Earth as alive, and worked the land with a great sense of appreciation. In our modern incarnation we have differentiated ourselves often to the level of forgetting our basic roots. His subject matter often links humanity to its icons, nature, itself, and a cosmic or spiritual context.

Onli had his students at Harold Washington College to draw self portraits. He shared with them a rare charcoal self portrait he had completed last summer in a class taught by Barlow at the Marwen Foundation where Onli is on its Educational Advisory Board.

"The Buffalo Does No Evil" Oils on canvas. A take on the future primitif icons of the Americas.

"The Tori Gate Speaks No Evil" Oils 24"X36" on canvas. Copyrighted 2008 Turtel Onli.


"The Stonehenge Sees No Evil" Oils , 24"X36" on canvas, Copyright 2008 Turtel Onli.

"The Baobab Tree Hears No Evil". Copyright 2008 Turtel Onli, oils on a 24" X 36"

canvas. This recent group of paintings links Onli's watermelon collection to his important "No Evils" collection in that the 'melons blocks out the presence of evil. Each one features a root of humanity at its primitif level.

Power, freedom, and oneness with nature undesrscores each one.

For more on Art Appreciation visit Onli's curriculum website at www.cuip.net/~tonli/wit2002

I can be reached at onli@sbcglobal.net

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