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Submitted By Dr. Gisela Muller-Anderson , Vice President of The International Center For The Study Of Progressive Neo Cubism

IONE CITRIN Is An Art Treasure!

Meet the artist who transforms paintings into Shrines and Codes of Beauty

"Being an artist is a life force, not a career choice. Each piece represents a fragment of my life's work. I present the world artistically as I see it, as I wish to see it, and occasionally as I once saw it. My work is my identity. Without this expression of self, I am nothing. Through my art, I give love." Citrin

Before any word is to be written about Ione Citrin, and just before reading any part of this article about Ione Citrin…. Just for a moment, stop thinking about art, your next purchase, your mortgage, your pets, you daily troubles because you are about to enter the magnificent universe of one of the greatest conceptual artists in the United States. Her paintings is your passport to an enchanted, mystical, magical, philosophical, comforting, challenging intelligent world and dreams land of an unsurpassed beauty!

So, let’s prepare our soul, our mind, our heart, our intelligence and our responsibility toward intelligent beauty and…stand there, right before her tableaux, because we are invited to explore a world you only see not in your dreams because dreams might confuse you and the art of Ione is not confusing, because it is Intelligent…Her art world is not an astral travel where Gurus, Swamis and Lamas guide you toward the Light, because her art is even deeper, more sophisticated and multi-dimensional than a Nirvanic jump on the canvas of the universe. Her art is majestic yet, so tender and warm and real and humanistic and…so close to our dreams, fantasies and aspirations. Ione’s art makes you think, fantasize, wonder a little bit around yourself and reexamine beauty…it comforts you yet, it challenges you to be happier, stronger, more intelligent and………..may be a bigger part of God! Ione is an international art treasure.

Shahrzad. This painting won the gold medal in the Amsterdam art “Neilson Bainbridge Competition

Ione Citrin is more than a great painter. She is a writer, a poet, a philosopher a television celebrity, a performer and a true communicator. She wrote: “Ever since I can remember I've always had a desire to communicate with every person in the world. At first I thought I could accomplish this through travel. And so I did. I toured through India, Africa, Asia, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Europe, South and Central America, plus the more usual places in the U.S., Mexico, Caribbean and the like. I even scoured more remote areas of the world like Easter Island, the Galapagos Islands, Myanmar, Nepal, Srinigar. There is almost nothing or no one which has escaped my eye. Throughout these countries I managed to speak with everyone I could. I've taped, recorded and photographed my conversations from inside the huts of African villages to the alleys of remote towns in China. I've shared beetle-nuts with women squatting in circles in temple areas in Algeria. Been in places where no one had ever heard of the Jewish religion. I could go on with my endless adventures...endlessly. But they did not satisfy my thirst for communication.”

With a great pride and privileged honor we welcome Ione Citrin to the Internet World Hall of Fame

By Maximillien de La Croix de Lafayette