Art (Contemporary and Otherwise)

[Diss]

loving Juha Arvid Helminen's new work. Click picture to see more.

[philip nod]

the morandi is lovely

today



I do not know what art means but I know what it is.
Edward Hopper is in Paris between 1906 and 1910 and he is lonely
because he is always lonely and he will always be lonely.
He is the figurative painter, an idea then slipping from fashion,
but his paintings capture desolation so complete it will take decades,
until the summer of 1945, to replicate what he sees in his mind.
The young woman has dark hair and sits on the floor
with the white sheet under her, one half pulled from the bed.
Her chemise is awry, black hair blooms between her legs, and one
foot basks in a shaft of yellow light penetrating her lonely chamber.
Her lover has left, or more likely has never come.
She is warm and the world is cold and so slowly, every so slowly,
she will become chilled and become one with the world.

--Charles Bowden

thanks for this post laika, i've never thought of edward hopper in this light.

[casem]

Lovely quote Laika

I wonder what the copyright laws are concerning reviews, I've been looking for nontraditional sources for text for a song cycle I'm writing and I would love to use a few phrases from this. I suppose if I take it enough out of context I won't have to worry about infringment on the source material... Must go over to quotes thread for more inspiration.

[almroth]

kevin francis gray

[laughed]

i've been going back and forth in my head for years whether or not matthew barney is a genius or just some rich kid who became an art world darling just because...

[crouka]

900 carnation flowers in a glass vase 1973 y.nakagawa

[maldoror]

i've been going back and forth in my head for years whether or not matthew barney is a genius or just some rich kid who became an art world darling just because...

false dichotomy

[mrbeuys]

Paul Pfeiffer









More here

http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/pfeiffer/clip1.html

http://www.pbs.org/cgi-registry/mediaplayer/videoplayer.cgi?playertype=quicktime&speed=hi&;playeraddress=videoplayer.cgi;media=%2Fart21%2FPP1_video_lo.rm%2C%2Fart21%2FPP1_video_hi.rm%2C%2Fart21%2FPP1_video_lo.mov%2C%2Fart21%2FPP1_video_hi.mov%2C%2Fart21%2FPP1_video_lo.wmv%2C%2Fart21%2FPP1_video_hi.wmv;title=Erased%20photos%20and%20videos%20by%20Paul%20Pfeiffer;widescreen=true;playertemplate=%2Fart21%2FTemplates%2Fart21_mp.html

[jcotteri]

good call on balthus

his brother: http://denniscooper-theweaklings.blo...-drawings.html

His Daughter also designed Jewellery..

I really like Balthus as well.

[fenrost]

Book Autopsies by Brian Dettmer





more :

http://centripetalnotion.com/2007/09/13/13:26:26/

[fenrost]

like the concepts... and crazy details in the shadows

Real Life is Rubbish by Tim Noble & Sue Webster

[laika]

today, looking at papercuts
Hans Christian Andersen

[laughed]

false dichotomy

in art? nah.
I'm from the Donald Judd school of thought. You suck or you don't.

[Dropt]

Weird that noone here quoted these 2, they're by far my favourite photographers around:

Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison





Joel peter witkin:



browse yourself if you like it. Warning though, some pics from him can be quite disturbing, knowing that he uses real bodies to set his intallations.

[endersgame]

^^ the last Witkin i recall selling at Christies was around $50k. really high for this economy.

there's an Italian that does the Witkin style but a lot more surreal. i cannot recall his name, but there was an awesome Einstrüzende Neubauten video he made..