Art (Contemporary and Otherwise)

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yeah that Khan is really something, I think I like that better than any of the Becher's individual shots.

some impressions from HK Art 2011:

- Hiroshi Sugimoto's prints seen up close are something to behold in their sheer technical perfection, but otherwise the work leaves me cold.

- Thomas Ruff is overrated, I enjoyed looking at his works more through a computer screen.

- Zeng Fanzhi is the greatest contemporary Chinese painter, maybe ever.

- Jenny Holzer's "The Waterboard Technique" left me with a very strong response, I suddenly felt an overwhelming anger at the American government and military for a while after seeing it, probably the first time a work of art has triggered such a response in me.

[Acéphale]

Rolf Julius
(1939 - 2011)





corner piece (bat)
(2001)

speaker, dirt, audio

Rolf Julius created corner piece (bat) as a reaction to the discovery of a hibernating brown bat in the upper corner of the gallery. A small speaker camouflaged in a little pile of dirt plays a composition of altered natural sounds for the sleeping animal above.

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[almroth]

andy denzler



I know what you are, 2009

Oil on Canvas
80 x 100 cm


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Body & Faces Study 1, 2009

Oil on cardboard
32 x 32 / 32 x 32 / 42 x 32 cm

[kbi]

Reconstructions(2007)

has to be seen irl though.

[genevieveryoko]

painting by Alvar Aalto

[trentk]

Portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto, Picasso

[Acéphale]

Thomas Wilmer Dewing
(1851 - 1938)



A Reading
(1897)

[Diego]

Rops

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The Death of the Painter
by James Arthur
March 26, 2007

At the end of his life
he had money and attention,
and certain towns were known
in connection to his name.

He was fastidious, and wore a tie,
was photographed with brushes, with a bird.
Under the subtropical sky
he forgave the things long done.
He hardly saw his children,
by habit was self-absorbed. His atelier
was sacrosanct, with the ocean for a view.
When he painted, it was descent
and descent and descent from the cross,
and when he died

the sepulchre was simple.
His late-life love
wept from another room.

(From The New Yorker)

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Acéphale: Wow, I love Dewing's paintings, mysterious and beautiful.

This one has a fantastic mood to it:

See JoniF's post belos this (thanks!)

[HreP]

Err, is it possible to resize?

[Stijn]

Alexey Titarenko
city of shadows

from his website:
''Major photo series include "City of Shadows" (1992-1994), "Black and White Magic of St. Petersburg" (1995-1997), and "Time Standing Still" (1998-1999). In those series Titarenko paints a bitter picture of a Russia (seen through the lens of St. Petersburg), where people live in a world of unrealized hopes and where time seems to have stopped.''''

[endersgame]

lucian freud - dead at 88..



my favourite..

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