Art (Contemporary and Otherwise)

[galia]

I love Witkin, I thought I had posted some a while back, but maybe not, I'm not sure. I didn't know the first photographers you posted, they seem very cool. Thanks for the discovery

[almroth]

thanks dropt, love parkeharrisons work. here are two sick ron mueck sculptures:

[crouka]

[laika]

^that's amazing runner, what is it please?

[endersgame]

[geekneurotique]

Hans Haacke
Grass Grows
1969
Grass


long time love affair with this one

[crouka]

laika, it's keisen tomita.
cherry blossoms on a moonlit night.
there is a traditional custom to enjoy the bewitchment of the blossoms at night.
so it was illuminated with bonfire since electric lights would not be easily available those days (1932).
it's so scarily beautiful with the pale pink that it is sometimes said to be absorbing human blood from around the root. also there are not a few legends about cherry blossoms.
the tree in the pic below is about 1000 years old. some might see some kind of deity in it. many would personify it in some way or other at least.
in fact, when I see the blossoms in this great mass, I cannot help thinking the tree has its expression as if it had its will to blossom, which was different from just a simple physical-chemical drive.
I guess that's part of why cherry blossoms become a theme from time to time.

[crouka]

gyoshu

[Servo2000]

This seems so familiar but that might just be the sort of off-kilter Rockwell-esque nature of it (i don't mean this as an insult i love rockwell). I certainly wouldn't be surprised if Rockwell had been born a fews year later if his work hadn't skewed very much along these lines. I always felt like he had an odd streak in him.

Anyway, who is this?

[maldoror]

john currin

hell of a draftsman:

[todestrieb]

Two pieces from Victor Hugo.

[galia]

great Hugo drawings, I'd forgotten he was so great at this

[endersgame]

This seems so familiar but that might just be the sort of off-kilter Rockwell-esque nature of it

yeah, sort of...

currin, the bra shop

[Dropt]

^Haha, this one is awesome.

I don't like Rockwell's work, There is something really weird about the way he paints kids, very sick imo.

Brother stenberg



Graphic i love you.

[endersgame]

what ever happened to thomas demand?