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All artwork on this blog is Copyright 2023 Turtel Onli , and other dates. All Rights Protected & not to be remixed, rebooted or used commercially without a signed agreement with Prof. Onli. The smaller images on the right are links to reels or related websites.

Sunday, December 26, 2021

 


 Prof. Onli actually drew this in 1978 when he was using the Library of the Centre Pompiedue of Paris France as his studio. The posted date is per when its copyright was later registered. 


 He was bringing the heat and truth of Rhythmism and the impact of the Black Cultural Revolution to the international worlds of Illustration & Fine Art. 

 That same year he won a National Drawing Contest in France. 

The award letter.

Onli drew this while riding the Metro subway train in Paris circa 1977.

Sunday, December 19, 2021


 

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This above link is to the 2021 PRIZM Art Fair Expo in Miami.  Great art. Awesome workshops. All designed to bring you the investor and intelligent collector closer to great amazing highly valued Fine Art!


This is a recent Rhythmistic painting from Onli. Oils on archival wood panel.


Friday, November 26, 2021

  RHYTHMISM:  Future-Primitif pathways to creative expressions and processing was branded and launched by Prof. Turtel Onli, M.A.A.T., circa 1970s, as a manifestation of the Kwanzaa Principle of Kujichagulia. Self Determination. 

Unlike a current trending term that was christened by a non-Black or non-African to give a label to the creative expressions of those great people.  Habari Gani??


This unique solo Rhythmistic exhibition, that shows in a retrospective type presentation what Onli calls "Black Male Mojo" in real time and full visual genius, closes Dec. 10th, 2021. It is no accident that Onli's works would be presented in the building named after one of the greatest Balck Male visual thinkers of the 20th Century, the late prolific Gordon Parks!


Tuesday, November 23, 2021

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The impressive Future-Primitif Rhythmistic Fine Art &

 NFTS created by Prof. Turtel Onli will be included in 

the Annual PRIZM ART EXPO!


Nov. 30th 2021 Until Dec. 10th 2021 

 MIAMI FL 


Tuesday, November 9, 2021

  LINK to review per RHYTHMISM; Art As Social Change Making solo exhibition at the stately Gordon Parks Arts Hall of the University of Chicago's Laboratory School's Corvus Gallery.  

Insightful Curators, Forward thinking Collectors, Major Art Collecting  Museums and Scholars of Contemporary Art will appreciate this note:

 This is a rare powerful mini retrospective styled visual art exhibition that exudes Rhythmismtic visual artist's Prof. Turtel Onlii creative life of 'winning the peace'.  Which is what he calls taking the narratives in visual art derived from or of the Black American Experience beyond the narrow confines of celebrating suffering, poverty or oppression.  Here Onli shows that Rhythmism in a well though- out, standards' changing genre in the visual arts. 

 Intelligence and talent meets industrious vision and effort sustained over five decades.  

Onli offers the manifestation of self-determination as the foundation to winning the peace. His practice serves notice to many that there is much more going on in the Black American experience than legacies of  oppression or the self-destructive impact of thug-life.

Though Onli has had a dynamic five decades plus practice in Fine and Commercial Visual Art plus Art Education and Therapy mainstream galleries, elite Black Curators and Black Art  gallerists tend to avoid his revolutionary innovatively successful efforts in expanding the canon of the visual arts to accept and invest in a genre named, developed and expressed by an intelligent, gifted, dedicated Black Male.  They are so about protecting the Arts Establishment and serving the needs and dictates of the status quo they will only endorse terms, styles, or artists anointed by their financial handlers or professional superiors. These are the types of folks that would have never given the likes of Van Gogh recognition in his life time! So much for artistic diversity.......as Onli is still winning that peace achieved by so many in the United States of America.

 A simple internet or Wiki search supports this curiosity.


Sunday, October 3, 2021

 NOG's Rhythmistic Reign over the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, ends with the Oct. 3rd, 2021 closing of the blockbuster group exhibition, "Chicago Comics: 1960 Until Now!" curated by the insightful Dan Nadel.











Monday, September 27, 2021


 The blockbuster group exhibition "CHICAGO COMICS" closes Oct. 3rd at the prestigious Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. The face of this impressive unique showcase was Turtel Onli's 



"NOG: The Nubian of Greatness", as it was featured in Museum Store merchandise along with being mural-sized on the outer wall of the Museum. NOG was even featured around Chicago on CTA transit stations signage.



 NOG is the first Rhythmistic character published by ONLI STUDIOS LLC in 1981 opening the door to the Black Age of Comics genre and all of its lovers & haters, moans and clones, cash and flash!




Sunday, August 29, 2021

 Here is a Link to a recent podcast with Intercultural per "How To Start Your Own Movement!"


https://youtu.be/sAF-X-ek3jI

Tuesday, August 17, 2021


This exciting retrospective styled solo art exhibition and lecture series will be at the Corvus Gallery of the stately Gordon Parks Arts Hall  at the University of Chicago's Laboratory School. 

Onli makes the Rhythmistic practice point of "Black Male Mojo" in this unique showcase of his Visual Art created from 1994 until the Summer of 2021. 

This production is Onli's homage to the namesake of the stately Parks Arts Hall which is named after the legendary Film Maker and Photographer, Gordon Parks.  

Onli, like Parks spent critical early career growth and practice at the National Treasure designated South Side Community Art Center and both later freelanced for Playboy Magazine and Johnson Publishing when both publications were the top of the magazine supply-chain in status, pay scale,  design, editorial respect and social impact.

Parks was a celebrated pioneering Photo-journalist while Onli was an innovative major-market illustrator. A nexus of Black Male mentoring or scaffolding. Talk about Black Male Mojo!!

Selected works from various thematic collections illustrate how Onli has expressed his artistic life as winning the peace.  

Dr. Onli thinks of it as, "being free from the need to be free", has facilitated his 5 decades long Visual Arts practice.


Below is a studio pix of "NOG Emerges", Oils on wood, circa June 2021. This new Rhythmistic art werx is included in this micro-retrospective solo semi-private exhibition.  Collectors will note that each unique art work in this showcase is for sale to the right situation!



 

Tuesday, August 10, 2021


 July 9th was MCA / NOG/ Onli Day at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.  

Where Rhythmistic Visual Artist, Prof. Turtel Onli painted non-stop from 11am until 4pm resulting in a current version of the 1980 version of NOG: The Protector of the Pyramides which is currently mural sized on the outer wall of the MCA near its Museum Store Entrance.  Onli coined the term RHythmism in the early 1970s to address visual art that was future-primitif in nature and has since experimented with it in fine and commercial art applications to tremendous influential impact and well documented  critical acclaim.



 Here is a link to a time-lapsed video of the event. Video LINK



Monday, August 2, 2021


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Sunday, July 18, 2021

CHICAGO- Per a book that is a serious tool for a prestigious group of art lovers that specializes in collecting "Black Art" there is a telling entry related to Rhythmism. 

On page 63 it reads:

"The discussion of Black Aesthetics is ongoing. It ranges from the development of new technology to arts profound effect upon the viewer. We hear the voice of Chicago artist Turtel Onli, who focuses on elements of rhythm and flow in art. The term he uses to express this concept is Rhythmism."



Onli says, "This a Future-Primitif approach to visual Africanisms as universal design narratives that distinguishes the work of many contemporary artists. Now for its founder's works to find its way onto those collector's radar."

The "Rhythmistic Eyes" set sold to three separate art lovers who were socially connected and decided to share the ownership with visitations and the like. No they are not members of a collecting group. They just had a luv for that artwork series.

Sunday, July 11, 2021

" I am so appreciative for the Museum of Contemporary Art's NOG / Onli / Rhythmism Day that hosted me, July 9th , as the first artist actually painting in real time, in which I produced a Rhythmistic update of the iconic image of NOG from 1980 that is currently mural sized on the Chicago Museum's outer wall welcoming folks to witness its awesome "Chicago Comics: 1960 until Now!" blockbuster group exhibition. 


The MCA will be featuring more artists-cartoonist from the exhibition in the near future. 

It was so kool to share & demo the fury, fiya, & funk of live Rhythmistic painting with all of the art lovers, students, curators and fans who were in attendance.




NOG and presented images are Copyright to Turtel Onli under various dates. Not to be ripped for commercial applications. Photos courtesy of Annie, Abraham and Z. Thanks y'all!"