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celebrating all things Art with world cup football! :)

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Boys walk past a World Cup mural on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)

Brouhaha!!! It Is Here! The 2018 FIFA World Cup Football Championships!!! We've got balls and think its the butterfly's boots :) We are so chuffed for our initiative to bring world class Art together with world cup football in the most unexpected and dynamic ways!

So here is a Quadrennial World Cup Art page celebrating cultures through

art and sport! Here we are sharing art, songs, balls, stories, languages, videos, photos, match details--my husband Panayiotis might dish some dirt or predict a win; he's definitely making some collages that are MUST-SEE originals! :) Also there will be posts for laughing (and yes, crying too). New Updates on our projects development are coming soon, and thanks to all who are following our success and supporting our vision (secretly in your hearts or otherwise ;)

Irena Paskali Unterwassrwelt Underwaterworld

"Adored in mythology , used as rituals , donates every life form,seduces In another dimension , to act , to find the lost dreams and desires .The images are taken in the Ohrid lake in my country Republic of Macedonia."

Diaspora--Cologne Germany

Khalid Elsir’s Islamic Inspired Art

"I’ve combined street art, comic book art, and surrealism all in one."~Khalid Elsir-Diaspora-Originally from Sudan--Now in United Kingdom

Let's start off with some selected international artists who have sent us images, submitted applications for our premier, or expressed an interest in and passion to represent their country's football team in the Quadrennial World Cup Art Championships!!!! :)

Dr. Panayiotis Evripidou

Phenomenal "Team Platypus" Captain for Quadrennial World Cup Art. Former hockey and futbol GOALIE; passionate for FIFA World Cup Football, Creative Soul "Pumped Up! from Russia to Qatar and beyond!"

Diaspora-originally from Cyprus-Now in Canada, USA

Ziemowit Fincek clockwise left: Nawie, Relacje płynnych postaci (Relationship of Liquid Characters), Emigracja,Emigration, Odwieczneprawo natur, The Eternal Laws of Nature.

"Some of my works

are calm in their subject

matter, delicate and precise,

while others are aggressive,

predatory and wild, (it) is

created somewhere in places

that I do not knowingly have access to.

Is it subconscious or some cosmic,

artistic source?"

Wroclaw, Poland

Nahla Ali--Blurry Vision "Art is a lifestyle. All kinds of art even a small piece can make beutiful difference in your life."

EGYPTIAN ARTIST

Quadrennial World Cup Art

www.merritt.evripidou@quadrennialworldcupart.com">www.merritt.evripidou@quadrennialworldcupart.com

www.merrittfletcher.wordpress.com

Zabivaka! Official Russian Wolf for the games-a student designer Ekaterina Bocharova's mascot was selected by Internet voting in the design contest.

Let The Games

Begin!!!

CLICK FOR PELE!!!!!

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BMike

Mo Salah

Street Art

The Beautiful

Game

exhibit

The 2018 World Cup is the twenty-first of its kind and it features thirty-two teams from two hundred and ten teams that were eligible for entry.

The first tournament was held in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1930. (see photo bottom left)Four groups of three teams and one of four making up a total of thirteen teams were participating. Teams were represented from North America, Europe, and South America. There were so few teams back then due to the difficulties of travel across the globe. There was no qualification just any country affiliated with FIFA was invited.

In front of their faithful, Uruguay was able to capture and write history and win the inaugural WORLD CUP

Everything has its humble beginnings !!! Quadrennial World Cup Art is excited for our development into the future!!! :)

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Pan Fact #1

History of Inaugural World Cup Football Championships

It's

Portugal Vs. Spain Highlights!!!!

Russia Vs. Saudi Arabia Highlights!!!!

Uruguay vs. Egypt Highlights

Morocco vs. Iran Highlights

3 - 3

1 - 0

5 - 0

0 - 1

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FIFA

Museum!

Russia

Sport alone can provoke human emotion but the World Cup is something more. It is special.

And Art is trans formative like nothing else. For there is a certain sense of identification through art that can unite people across every border. And that sense of true art and passion also lies within the hearts of every individual that gives life to this global attraction of world cup football. That gives us the real beauty that should stay with us as a bookmark of where we were on a common ground when we saw and looked on in such awe --for both football and art, something was and is always created and representative of ones feelings and how they have been meant to touch others who felt a similar way from around the globe--creating an ultimate bond and connection. To me that is the true art of the world cup and the Quadrennial World Cup Art championships taps the wells of this almost primordial creativity via the ritualistic nature of the global sport tradition and its open and binding arena. I feel there is no better place to bring these ideas forth, of world cup football and world cup art, than here now amidst the World Cup-- in Russia--A place that through hard work and achievement, is so proud and rich with heritage, belief, art, and marvel. . A moment to embrace and or to change the world perspective in a blink of an eye--coming together to celebrate the beauty of our world and relish in what may come. --Panayitois Evripidou

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Pan Fact #2

Russia 2018 World Cup Football and Quadrennial World Cup Art

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Watch Zidane - A 21th Century Portrait - a video installation from 2006 by Scottish artist Douglas Gordon and his French colleague Philippe Parreno.

"The film is a documentary focused purely on Zidane during the Spanish La Liga match played between Real Madrid and Villarreal on April 23, 2005 at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium and was filmed in real time using 17 synchronized cameras. During the last minutes of the match, Zidane was sent off as a result of a brawl.[1]

The film bears a similarity to Football As Never Before (aka "Fußball wie noch nie"), a documentary made in 1970 by acclaimed German filmmaker Hellmuth Costard about Manchester United footballer George Best." wikkipeda

June August--Whaam! Silkscreen 2017 Boston/Cambridge USA (haha thanks June!) ;)

Whats inside

the World Cup

Footballs?

WorldCup Songs Through The Years (1982 - 2018)

CLICK FOR Messi Described as a Creator of Art on the Pitch

Click for National Football Museum Manchester, UK for amazing art and football!!!!!

Click For FIFA Museum Facebook Page!

Germán Aczel is the artist in residence at the FIFA Museum in Zürich (Left). He is making cartoon creations for all of the matches in "The Living Room"as a part of the museum's World Cup cultural program. He is Argentinian by birth, and it looks like he is having a BALL! See more of his work at his website http://www.germanaczel.com/

Coool! :)

Heroes, villains,

creativity, human frailty:

five World Cup moments

when art and

sport merged

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from

The Economist

World Cup 2018 Sweet 16 Anthem:

;The following is a remix of the national anthems of the sweet 16 World Cup Football teams....WOW what strength, talent, passion, and grace all of the players, supporters, and nations have exuded--I feel inspired and privileged

;Ja, jag vill leva jag vill dö i Norden (Sweden)

yes I want to live I want to die in the North

Trittst im Morgenrot daher,
Seh' ich dich im Strahlenmeer (Swiss)

-when the morning skies grow red O’er their radiance shed

Kimi gayo wa (Japan)

thousands of years of happy reign be shine

Brasil, um sonho intenso, um raio vívido, Brasil)

an intense dream a vivid ray

Que en el cielo tu eterno destino
Por el dedo de Dios se escribio. (Mexico)

for in heaven your eternal destiny has been written by the hand of GOD

Slavsia, Otechestvo nashe svobodnoe (Russia)

long live the fatherland land of the free

Sabremos cumplir!
Sabremos cumplir!
Sabremos cumplir (Uruguay)

we will fulfill

Levantai hoje de novo (Portugal)

now the hour to rise up to the high once more

con distinta voz
y un solo corazón (Spain)

with different voices and only one heard

oronados de gloria vivamos
Oh, oh, juremos con gloria morir (Argentina)

let us live crowned with glory or swear to die gloriously

Aanvaard ons kracht en bloed van ons adren (Belgium)our strength and the blood of our veins we offer

resuena, y los que sufren bendicen su pasiуn (Columbia) resounds, and those who suffer praise the passion in it

Ap ta kokkala vyalmenee

Sinje more svijetu reci (Croatia)

deep blue sea go tell the whole world

Lord make the nations see,
That men should brothers be
Lord make the nations see,
That men should brothers be (Britain)

Og det er Frejas sal (Denmark)

and she is freya’s home

Le jour de gloire est arriv (France)

hark hark the people bid you rise

Pan Fact

#6

World Cup Football and Quadrennial World Cup Art:

One of our missions is to honor and represent the diaspora

in art and

football:

"to sow throughout” from the Greek DIA disperse SPORA seed

a race and gendered condition of melancholia and loss from the traumas of dislocation and the perpetual intrusion of the past into the present

The negative

We hate the abruptness!

Everything is a freakin’ fight.

It was always about being pushed rather than being asked.

The positive

personal directness and honesty

the passion and deep humanity of the people

people care for their culture

people were proud to be their country

Through art and diaspora what we achieve is CHANGE.

Change in the sociocultural context thereby involves changes on a personal experiential plane

One’s work is a direct transport of what they have brought from their country through memories.

The art that is usually created is polarizing.

We get a very hypercritical of and wrathfulness toward all systems of power, institutions, ideologies labeled as political art as it relates to existence in the diaspora.

At the other end we get sentimental art created about your country thats compassionate, loving, deeply spiritual, and full of life.

And so, the political and the spiritual are always at play inside of us, sometimes working on their own, sometimes collaborating, sometimes competing with each other.

Why do we create it?

Do we thank the diaspora for it?

when someone says “I see myself or someone I know in this”

you’re that much closer to caring about other people in the world and then we can go from there

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Pan Fact # 5:

Congrats to Belgium's

Thibaut Courtois for winning the Golden Glove!

The Goalie:

It takes a special type of player to truly want to play goalie

It needs a short memory and very thick skin

It needs you to understand mathematics and geometry to know your angles

It needs you to be vocal and speak out and help teammates guide the play

The psychology is very demanding

The discipline you learned from home growing up shapes the goalie you become

Compare the availability of positions

1-2 goalies on each squad

To be the best you must have good instincts, flexibility, hand-eye coordination, trust in your team, and speed.

The position is hyper-demanding as all eyes are on you.

Teammates and fans will get let down and you must except the responsibility of being a difference maker for it is the demand the drives you

Personally to see everything coming towards you and knowing your the last line of defense and are in charge of making the difference and can lift up your teammates, fans, family, and country by making the right decision gives you the most gratifying experiences in the world.

There is an extraordinary amount of work and effort that goes into it but once mastered the rewards are truly indescribable

Art & Humour Publishing Co. - Art & Humour 'Footer' Series 766 ~ drawn by Fred Spurgin

World Cup 2018 Sweet 16 Anthem:

;Ja, jag vill leva jag vill dö i Norden (Sweden)

yes I want to live I want to die in the North

Trittst im Morgenrot daher,
Seh' ich dich im Strahlenmeer (Swiss)

-when the morning skies grow red O’er their radiance shed

Kimi gayo wa (Japan)

thousands of years of happy reign be shine

Brasil, um sonho intenso, um raio vívido, Brasil)

an intense dream a vivid ray

Que en el cielo tu eterno destino
Por el dedo de Dios se escribio. (Mexico)

for in heaven your eternal destiny has been written by the hand of GOD

Slavsia, Otechestvo nashe svobodnoe (Russia)

long live the fatherland land of the free

Sabremos cumplir!
Sabremos cumplir!
Sabremos cumplir (Uruguay)

we will fulfill

Levantai hoje de novo (Portugal)

now the hour to rise up to the high once more

con distinta voz
y un solo corazón (Spain)

with different voices and only one heard

oronados de gloria vivamos
Oh, oh, juremos con gloria morir (Argentina)

let us live crowned with glory or swear to die gloriously

Aanvaard ons kracht en bloed van ons adren (Belgium)our strength and the blood of our veins we offer

resuena, y los que sufren bendicen su pasiуn (Columbia) resounds, and those who suffer praise the passion in it

Ap ta kokkala vyalmenee

Sinje more svijetu reci (Croatia)

deep blue sea go tell the whole world

Lord make the nations see,
That men should brothers be
Lord make the nations see,
That men should brothers be (Britain)

Og det er Frejas sal (Denmark)

and she is freya’s home

Le jour de gloire est arriv (France)

hark hark the people bid you rise

Phenomal Pan CreatioN Fact:

World Cup art Tomkat has

taken one

lyric from

each of

the Sweet 16 country's National Anthems to make new song lyrics that touch my world cup heart! Thanks wurldcupman!

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Pan Fact #3

Russia 2018 World Cup Football and Quadrennial World Cup Art

It's

Big Match

Septimus Edwin Scott (1879–1962)

National Football Museum FIFA Collection

Pan Fact

#4

Challenges always test us. It is what life is. Yet it is what our courage, our strengths, even our weaknesses and especially our faith that keeps us going.

We as humans serve as hubs for knowledge, resources and tools related to healing

Between the paths that we are destined to fulfill there are obstacles that interfere.

How we react is the key to any of uses survival.

What we create and establish is a formation of a number of things.

People will come and go into our lives but then we meet those special persons that will stay in our hearts forever no matter what!

We are who we are and we can remember the wonderful moments that we have shared with those special someones because memories are priceless treasures that we can cherish forever in our hearts.

From all of it we must always do what we feel is right because of the things we have learned, shared, and experienced in this beautiful world we call life

Viva “la fiebre” del Mundial