Art (Contemporary and Otherwise)

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Elad Lassry; i really like this guy's stuff

http://www.davidkordanskygallery.com/?n=artists&aid=12&c=works

[genevieveryoko]

^thanks for that. I particularly like the photos of food and makeup and how he celebrates the color of these everyday objects. I also love the depth that the frames add.

[thee_vultures _actress]

a zoetrope by one of my favourite contemporary artists Mat Collishaw

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Klimt's Embrace

Amano's Love

[trentk]

Ad Reinhardt's black paintings are atop my list of favorite pieces for this reason:
Reinhardt pushes painting into the realm of music and film. That is, unlike conventional paintings, his cannot be seen in an instant, they must be experienced over time. With a conventional painting, there's no element of time, the experience can be collapsed into an instantaneous image.
In his black paintings, Reinhardt incorporates the element of time into his work - just as your eyes must acclimate to a dark room, your eyes must acclimate to see the varying dark tones in a Reinhardt painting. You can't just look at it and instantaneously see all there is to see, there's an adjustment period.

Musings on instantaneous vs experiential art aside, Reinhardt's dark minimalist aesthetic certainly fits with that of SZ.

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i really like that idea of taking work strictly located in a certain medium and pushing its boundaries to instill in it the qualities of other media...am definitely fascinated with the idea of reaching a logical endpoint of something, 'the end of painting' 'the end of photography' and seeing what, if anything can lie beyond that space

[een]

^FtB - you should take a look at Rudolf Stingel's work, very interesting in this regard.
Douglas Fogel's exhibition catalog for the Walker's Painting at the Edge of the World Exbition also intelligently extends discussions on this topic.

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thanks een, gonna chiggidy check it out. happy new year

[Lane]

blows my hair back

[Ochre]

..was recently reminded of this work — one of my favorite things out of the Baroque period: Stefano Maderno — Martyrdom of Saint Cecilia, marble (created at age 23)

[thehouseofdis]

Donald Judd


Richard Serra


Yves Klein


Andres Serrano


Gerhardt Richter

[Nemesis_4]

Love the Gerhardt Richter one dis..... another one of my favorites by him-

[Acéphale]

Stephen Vitiello
(1964 - )






Four Color Sound
(2008)

[eton97]

talking of panda's, if you like animals, you should look at the work of Remy Bourquin...He does some outstanding oil on canvas paintings of animals, focusing on polar bears, lions, tigers and hippos...

[Shins]

A number of Rothko and Barnett Newman