Art (Contemporary and Otherwise)

[fncyths]

Choi Xoo Ang

[interest1]

beautiful, loaded with feeling.
To be honest I had only seen some abstract images of his and was not that impressed. Will do some more homework.

i couldn't agree more.
The staircase may as well be an ocean between them, yet they're both only a few 'steps' apart.
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The Flexible Paper Sculptures of Li Hongbo













"What at first look like delicate works of carved porcelain
are actually thousands of layers
of soft white paper, carved into busts, skulls, and human forms"

HERE

[Icarium]

Wow that is really amazing. Love the gif... going to read up on his process hope its well documented :)

[interest1]

John Gutmann, Nun and Musselman's Cigarette, MOMA, 1968

[limeade]

Portrait of a girl done in 1968 by Richard Feynman, who when not winning Nobel Prizes & playing the bongos, apparently liked to draw strippers.

[ulrich133]

Approximately life size horse sculpture by Odani Motohiko

[kamsky]

^Might want to resize the image a bit.

Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, Le retour de Marcus Sextus (1799).

[Diego]

Kubin

[radio-aktivität]

Olafur Eliassons »your rainbow panorama« at the rooftop of Aarhus’ ARoS museum certainly was an experience. You got lost in there. My friend took a sneak peak there while it was still under construction. Back then, the reinforcements between the plexiglass windows were not yet installed. The result was a completely seamless gradient without any visual distractions between colors.


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[Catfood]

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Jonathan Schipper - To Dust, 2009

[Caetano]

Olafur Eliassons »your rainbow panorama« at the rooftop of Aarhus’ ARoS museum certainly was an experience. You got lost in there. My friend took a sneak peak there while it was still under construction. Back then, the reinforcements between the plexiglass windows were not yet installed. The result was a completely seamless gradient without any visual distractions between colors.


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I'm very into the experiences Olafur proposes in reshaping the perception of the environment and even the perception of nature. The very simple light/water installation he created for Inhotim is espectacular: "By Means of a Sudden Intuitive Realization".
This "seamless gradient without distractions" you are referring to point to the direction of his work, which is to create imersion places. There's nowhere or nothing else you can relate yourself with while experiencing the work. Really amazing!

[interest1]

distressed wood figure, Aron Demetz

[Shogun8]

Diptych of the Annunciation, Jan Van Eyck

One of my all-time favourites, residing at the Thyssen-Bornemisza museum in Madrid: