Art (Contemporary and Otherwise)

[hanajibu]

Fuuma, I will go ahead and reject it, if you allow me :-) Although I wonder if in person these make a different impression. I gotta get my ass up to Beacon. SZ field trip anyone?

i would totally do that. i sojourn to Beacon like 3-4x a year and my first trek will be mid-April-ish, if all goes to plan. the Judds are nice there but nothing like the wall-stack pictured. instead, Beacon has four torqued Serras, this freaky Heizer rock set into the wall, a Bourgeois spider (and lots of smaller minimalist pieces).

[coup de grace]

But I hear Beacon is a dream...

an impossible dream. a cracker factory of warhols.

[Servo2000]

That I like those two pieces? Rodin can sorta be said to be the father of modern sculpture and Judd is one of my fav minimalist artists and I like a lot of minimalist pieces.

I was trying to think of it the other day but does anyone know who made the red re-creation of one of Rodin's Balzac statues and presented it hanging upside-down? It was a striking image and I've been trying to find it again for a bit now.

We've got a few Rodin sculptures in the RISD museum - Hand of God and a Balzac study if I remember correctly.

[mass]

orange gravity by michael joaquin grey

[Servo2000]

Much appreciated - that was exactly the image I was thinking of. Love the cracked ground 'piece' as well.

[Faust]

i would totally do that. i sojourn to Beacon like 3-4x a year and my first trek will be mid-April-ish, if all goes to plan. the Judds are nice there but nothing like the wall-stack pictured. instead, Beacon has four torqued Serras, this freaky Heizer rock set into the wall, a Bourgeois spider (and lots of smaller minimalist pieces).

That's a deal.

[LustMord]

Hideo Takeda relay impressed me. (But there are more artist than him....who does...)

[cjbreed]

this really must be seen in person to be fully appreciated

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[kbi]

I very much appreciate Fischli & Weiss seen at the Kunstmuseum in Zurich last year.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xZCgFl6SRs


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeRlFbWzzFU

[ambition]

Neo Rauch

[Mail-Moth]

Araki. Of course he's mostly known for some other kind of pictures (which I appreciate too), but he's got an eye for flowers that makes them look as if they were all about flesh and death - which is not a new story, for sure. But he's telling it so well.

[Diego]

if I were to mention my favourite of all time, it has to be this one from Odilon Redon, "The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts toward Infinity", 1882.

Similar taste. Both strange balloon and medicine pictures are gone so let me repost:

[Vanna]

I've always been slightly obsessed with the Baldacchino. Gian Lorenzo Bernini.


Andrew Wyeth: Christina's World:



Jan Vermeer: Girl With a Red Hat:


Laocoon:


Martin Puryear:


Salvador Dali: Madonna:


And loads more, just can't think at the moment.

[Vanna]

Louise Nevelson: Sky Cathedral:

[DamageX]

I love HR Giger's work, there was great photo of him sitting with Dali, but I can't seem to find it.