art fucks and slaps!! I’m a big art stan... art is very horny. Art is good, actually
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#pipeCocky Stride, Musky odoursPope of Chili TownRegistered Userregular
edited January 2019
I'm a graphic designer, so I have a huge amount of respect for commercial artists like Norman Rockwell, Gil Elvgren, Alphonse Mucha, Touslouse Lautrec
The most moved I've ever been by art was either an installation by Cai Guo Qiang called "Head On" https://youtu.be/ClSEV54TQlY
Or when I went to the MoMA in New York in 2009 and saw Monet's Water Lilies.
I was by myself on that trip and New York was the last stop on a 3 week trip alone before I headed back to Australia so I was tired and homesick and lonely, and I wandered through the water lilies exhibition really taking them in and enjoying them, getting lost in them, and finally I turned a corner and there's this
It was overwhelming. I had to sit down for like half an hour and just stare at it. It was so beautiful.
I'm a graphic designer, so I have a huge amount of respect for commercial artists like Norman Rockwell, Gil Elvgren, Alphonse Mucha, Touslouse Lautrec
The most moved I've ever been by art was either an installation by Cai Guo Qiang called "Head On" https://youtu.be/ClSEV54TQlY
Or when I went to the MoMA in New York in 2009 and saw Monet's Water Lilies.
I was by myself on that trip and New York was the last stop on a 3 week trip alone before I headed back to Australia so I was tired and homesick and lonely, and I wandered through the water lilies exhibition really taking them in and enjoying them, getting lost in them, and finally I turned a corner and there's this
It was overwhelming. I had to sit down for like half an hour and just stare at it. It was so beautiful.
I've been to monet's house in giverny, he's one of my favorite artists
the water lillies are still there and exactly like his paintings 100 years later
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StraightziHere we may reign secure, and in my choice,To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered Userregular
Impressionism is an art style that I just cannot stand, because I'm an uncultured rube or something.
Pretty much everything else I can find occasional beauty in at worst, but impressionism leaves me flaccid.
Coincidentally, tonight a friend described to me the feud between Anish Kapoor and Stuart Semple over the former's purchase of the exclusive artistic rights to Vantablack
The subsequent events are fairly petty but I can't deny that one man attempting to monopolize the ability to work with the darkest pigment in the universe, like some kind of evil art sorcerer, is a weirdly compelling dick move
In the gallery I mentioned earlier they were doing a special presentation on minimalism in art. I kinda dig a bit of minimalism, so I popped in to have a look.
There was a bunch of cool pieces and smart ideas and whatnot that I enjoyed, but then I came across one canvas that was just painted entirely black.
I was kinda puzzled about it, so I spent a bit of time trying to figure out if I was missing something in the detail of it, standing at different angles, getting up close, far away, trying to get the light to hit right. But nah, it was just a black canvas.
Then the curator saw me checking it out and came over and spent a good 5 minutes trying to explain the black canvas to me. And like, I get it. The canvas that is just painted black is meant to represent humanity's need to find meaning in the void of nothingness and the real art is how we react to it or whatever.
But my gosh, it's just a big old canvas painted black. It was the most wanky thing on earth.
In the gallery I mentioned earlier they were doing a special presentation on minimalism in art. I kinda dig a bit of minimalism, so I popped in to have a look.
There was a bunch of cool pieces and smart ideas and whatnot that I enjoyed, but then I came across one canvas that was just painted entirely black.
I was kinda puzzled about it, so I spent a bit of time trying to figure out if I was missing something in the detail of it, standing at different angles, getting up close, far away, trying to get the light to hit right. But nah, it was just a black canvas.
Then the curator saw me checking it out and came over and spent a good 5 minutes trying to explain the black canvas to me. And like, I get it. The canvas that is just painted black is meant to represent humanity's need to find meaning in the void of nothingness and the real art is how we react to it or whatever.
But my gosh, it's just a big old canvas painted black. It was the most wanky thing on earth.
Let me introduce you to a composer named John Cage
I had the luxury of going to italy when I was 15 and the sistine is beautiful
My friend I was with also went to a bunch of musuems and I went with her, I cant remember anything that particularly stuck with mr but florence has a lot of beautiful things in it
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MrMonroepassed outon the floor nowRegistered Userregular
I think about half the art world lost it's mind sometime around, oh I don't know, 1917.
there is a ton of modern art that I love and respect and find fascinating and evocative
and I think people are responding to the other half when they say "I don't like modern art"
Lost Salientblink twiceif you'd like me to mercy kill youRegistered Userregular
Geez oh boy I love art, I missed this thread somehow cause work has been dumb and busy. When I was in Paris last time my parents forced my brother to go to the Louvre - okay, rephrase, they all went to the Louvre because he had never been, and I'm sure he didn't feel forced and I am sure he enjoyed it. But I uhh, am not a supercolossal fan of religious iconography and I've already been to the Louvre a couple of times, so I ditched everyone and walked to the Musée de l'Orangerie and literally just sat in front of the water-lilies by myself and cried over how incredible they are.
i must have had a good art teacher in high school because i remember being so enamoured by howard arkley's style that i tried to replicate it in my own artworks. i still like it. yeah, it's pop art, but it was subversive in its time for its validation of suburban lifestyles
he did this portrait of nick cave in the same year he died of a drug overdose. too bad.
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Lost Salientblink twiceif you'd like me to mercy kill youRegistered Userregular
What medium are those done in?
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
Lost Salientblink twiceif you'd like me to mercy kill youRegistered Userregular
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I am a massive fan of some of the artists involved in the Vienna Concession - obviously Klimt (particularly the Beethoven frieze) but I'm obsessed with Schiele's portraiture, and I quite like Moser as well. I umm, don't think I can post any of my favourite Schiele pieces here, though.
I very much love Jeff Wall, whose works, I think, much like those Yves Klein, need to be seen in person. He does enormous back-lit cibachrome photographs:
Milk
After "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison, the Prologue
The Destroyed Room
I've gone totally mental down this rabbit hole now trying to find a photo of his that I adore and I can't, so that's me done for the rest of the day, pretty much... But there's a really nice collection of Jeff Wall stuff online on The Tate Modern's website (except not the picture I'm looking for).
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Does anybody know of a good book on architecture that doesn't cost over $400? I really like early Art Deco and a lot of Gothic architecture, and I'd like to learn more about the subject in general. I don't want a coffee table book that's just all pictures of post-WW1 NYC butcher shop facades, or a textbook that is 600 pages of nothing but text, but something in between.
I'm also quite fond of some light art, especially James Turrell. The way space gets deconstructed in some of his works and how you can step more or less into the artwork is quite something to experience.
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Uh. It's kinda hard to explain on mobile as I can't really post pictures but I like the art of the early and mid Soviet Union. All those revolutionary dreamers excited by the possibility of the future who were then stamped down and suppressed under communism for their degenerate and unSoviet art.
Constructivism in particular started out as this kind of Cubist/futurist movement that became a neoclassical/realist movement under Stalin as the state enforced its view of art upon the artists. And yet some still resisted in their own ways.
Kazimir Malevich is a favourite in particular. He started out doing quite abstract work. One of his most famous would be his "white on white" which was a white square on a white background. This was a part of a series he did that was mostly white and black geometrical shapes but his white on white was quite revolutionary in its day. It's the kind of thing I dislike in modern art but I guess doing it first (or first-ish) counts for a lot to me.
He had a body of work that the government disapproved of, abstract type stuff, but they were ok with it existing so long as he didn't paint any more of it. It was considered a mistake of youth done in ignorance and now that he was properly educated in the ways of the new Russia he wouldn't be painting that sort of rubbish anymore. But he was quite clever and he went on holiday in Europe, taking his old paintings with him. He then left them there, out of reach of the Soviet government, and returned home. Where he continued painting in his older style and back dated and passed off his new paintings as his old ones. He was never caught however his other new paintings in the approved style still got him in trouble. He wasn't realist enough. He was too much of a futurist. He looked to the past too much. He was interested in religious iconography (though not religious himself). He painted the peasants in the wrong way. He very nearly was sent to the gulag (iirc and I may be misremembering) but in the end his relative obscurity saved him.
He remained a revolutionary to the end and his goal is perhaps best exemplified by a self portrait he painted later in life:
There's a lot going on but the two main things are his weird retro-renaissance clothes (his vision of the future often used this style) and his hand gesture. He is holding a (invisible) square. A symbol that whatever strictures were put on him his ideas were impossible to eradicate. Even without a square, the square is still there.
The other Russian art I love is Socialist Realism. Which was the state enforced art style. Mostly it was propaganda but the realism was often a obstacle for the artists who had to reconcile a true to life image with the Soviet ideal. And i find that push and tug of the two aims to be real interesting.
Fun fact(oid?): Socialist realism was partly the cause of the CIA funding abstract art. With abstract art being disapproved of in the USSR the Americans wanted to be all "FREEDOM".
I often can't appreciate great art as it feels perfect? Like thinking about it or talking about it would be distasteful or rude. Kinda like a weird Madonna complex? I often prefer messy art, unfinished or flawed art as I feel like I can engage with it better. I think its why i like a lot of the russian art i mentioned as they are often imperfect due to the restrictions placed on the artists. Anither kind of art i find interesting are cartoons (the draft painting kind).
Same with movies. There's great films that I love, that I own on DVD, and that I have only watched once. It feels like once was enough. The movie said all it needed to say because it was real good at saying it.
Same with some paintings. They're so good at being themselves that I feel a bit redundant looking at them.
My wife and I are big lovers of art and museums. We are both concept artists/illustrators so we tend towards more traditional art than contemporary.
One of my favorite art memories (practically a religious experience for me) was visiting Prague, finding out Alphonse Mucha's Slav Epic had recently been moved there. We went and the museum was practically empty... and we just got to stand in front of these massive incredible paintings by one of our favorite artists.
This is my wife standing in front of one of them. They are HUGE, and absolutely gorgeous. Theres 20 of these. All this big.
I am a massive fan of some of the artists involved in the Vienna Concession - obviously Klimt (particularly the Beethoven frieze) but I'm obsessed with Schiele's portraiture, and I quite like Moser as well. I umm, don't think I can post any of my favourite Schiele pieces here, though.
I very much love Jeff Wall, whose works, I think, much like those Yves Klein, need to be seen in person. He does enormous back-lit cibachrome photographs:
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Milk
After "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison, the Prologue
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The Destroyed Room
I've gone totally mental down this rabbit hole now trying to find a photo of his that I adore and I can't, so that's me done for the rest of the day, pretty much... But there's a really nice collection of Jeff Wall stuff online on The Tate Modern's website (except not the picture I'm looking for).
Heck yeah, I love Wall's stuff. I've had this one as part of my wallpaper rotation for a while now.
An artist I really love is Waqas Khan, who is part of this generation of artists that came out of the first couple classes of the Miniatures program at the National College of Arts in Lahore. "Miniatures", in the Middle East, relates to a style of painting that could vaguely be related to illuminated manuscripts in Europe, largely in that miniatures may have been the inspiration for that style. Anyways for a long time it was looked down upon in favor of heavy reliance on european art styles. However, more recently the style has started being taught in different art schools in the Middle East and Southern Asia as a part of embracing cultural heritage. The first few classes out of the program in Lahore turned out some amazing artists, even in those who don't necessarily want to pursue the miniatures style.
Waqas Khan talks about making art as a spiritually enlightening process, where he makes art as a sort of meditative process in which he creates large artworks through small, repetitive patterns.
though I may not always dig his style, if you want someone that can force you to experience whatever feeling he wants you to feel through color, I highly recommend Lorenzo Mattotti
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art fucks and slaps!! I’m a big art stan... art is very horny. Art is good, actually
The most moved I've ever been by art was either an installation by Cai Guo Qiang called "Head On"
Or when I went to the MoMA in New York in 2009 and saw Monet's Water Lilies.
I was by myself on that trip and New York was the last stop on a 3 week trip alone before I headed back to Australia so I was tired and homesick and lonely, and I wandered through the water lilies exhibition really taking them in and enjoying them, getting lost in them, and finally I turned a corner and there's this
It was overwhelming. I had to sit down for like half an hour and just stare at it. It was so beautiful.
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
His stuff is pretty metal
But nah, that shit is good.
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I've been to monet's house in giverny, he's one of my favorite artists
the water lillies are still there and exactly like his paintings 100 years later
Pretty much everything else I can find occasional beauty in at worst, but impressionism leaves me flaccid.
The subsequent events are fairly petty but I can't deny that one man attempting to monopolize the ability to work with the darkest pigment in the universe, like some kind of evil art sorcerer, is a weirdly compelling dick move
"Neat"
"Interesting"
"Wow"
Anything after is iterations or extrapolations of those three knee jerks.
In the gallery I mentioned earlier they were doing a special presentation on minimalism in art. I kinda dig a bit of minimalism, so I popped in to have a look.
There was a bunch of cool pieces and smart ideas and whatnot that I enjoyed, but then I came across one canvas that was just painted entirely black.
I was kinda puzzled about it, so I spent a bit of time trying to figure out if I was missing something in the detail of it, standing at different angles, getting up close, far away, trying to get the light to hit right. But nah, it was just a black canvas.
Then the curator saw me checking it out and came over and spent a good 5 minutes trying to explain the black canvas to me. And like, I get it. The canvas that is just painted black is meant to represent humanity's need to find meaning in the void of nothingness and the real art is how we react to it or whatever.
But my gosh, it's just a big old canvas painted black. It was the most wanky thing on earth.
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Let me introduce you to a composer named John Cage
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
My friend I was with also went to a bunch of musuems and I went with her, I cant remember anything that particularly stuck with mr but florence has a lot of beautiful things in it
there is a ton of modern art that I love and respect and find fascinating and evocative
and I think people are responding to the other half when they say "I don't like modern art"
Somebody went to the National Gallery!
Also, I was somehow, criminally, unaware of Cai Guo Qiang until today. So thank you. That piece over the water in Shanghai is really incredible.
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
he did this portrait of nick cave in the same year he died of a drug overdose. too bad.
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
I very much love Jeff Wall, whose works, I think, much like those Yves Klein, need to be seen in person. He does enormous back-lit cibachrome photographs:
Milk
After "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison, the Prologue
The Destroyed Room
I've gone totally mental down this rabbit hole now trying to find a photo of his that I adore and I can't, so that's me done for the rest of the day, pretty much... But there's a really nice collection of Jeff Wall stuff online on The Tate Modern's website (except not the picture I'm looking for).
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
So you DON'T want the completely badass $130.00 USD Atlas of Brutalist Architecture, then?
Because I got it for my dad for Christmas and it's dope and it's killing me because I WANT IT FOR MYSELF SO BAD
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
I can ask my mom, I don't read a lot about architecture. But she does!
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
I hate art.
Uh. It's kinda hard to explain on mobile as I can't really post pictures but I like the art of the early and mid Soviet Union. All those revolutionary dreamers excited by the possibility of the future who were then stamped down and suppressed under communism for their degenerate and unSoviet art.
Constructivism in particular started out as this kind of Cubist/futurist movement that became a neoclassical/realist movement under Stalin as the state enforced its view of art upon the artists. And yet some still resisted in their own ways.
Kazimir Malevich is a favourite in particular. He started out doing quite abstract work. One of his most famous would be his "white on white" which was a white square on a white background. This was a part of a series he did that was mostly white and black geometrical shapes but his white on white was quite revolutionary in its day. It's the kind of thing I dislike in modern art but I guess doing it first (or first-ish) counts for a lot to me.
He had a body of work that the government disapproved of, abstract type stuff, but they were ok with it existing so long as he didn't paint any more of it. It was considered a mistake of youth done in ignorance and now that he was properly educated in the ways of the new Russia he wouldn't be painting that sort of rubbish anymore. But he was quite clever and he went on holiday in Europe, taking his old paintings with him. He then left them there, out of reach of the Soviet government, and returned home. Where he continued painting in his older style and back dated and passed off his new paintings as his old ones. He was never caught however his other new paintings in the approved style still got him in trouble. He wasn't realist enough. He was too much of a futurist. He looked to the past too much. He was interested in religious iconography (though not religious himself). He painted the peasants in the wrong way. He very nearly was sent to the gulag (iirc and I may be misremembering) but in the end his relative obscurity saved him.
He remained a revolutionary to the end and his goal is perhaps best exemplified by a self portrait he painted later in life:
There's a lot going on but the two main things are his weird retro-renaissance clothes (his vision of the future often used this style) and his hand gesture. He is holding a (invisible) square. A symbol that whatever strictures were put on him his ideas were impossible to eradicate. Even without a square, the square is still there.
The other Russian art I love is Socialist Realism. Which was the state enforced art style. Mostly it was propaganda but the realism was often a obstacle for the artists who had to reconcile a true to life image with the Soviet ideal. And i find that push and tug of the two aims to be real interesting.
Fun fact(oid?): Socialist realism was partly the cause of the CIA funding abstract art. With abstract art being disapproved of in the USSR the Americans wanted to be all "FREEDOM".
I often can't appreciate great art as it feels perfect? Like thinking about it or talking about it would be distasteful or rude. Kinda like a weird Madonna complex? I often prefer messy art, unfinished or flawed art as I feel like I can engage with it better. I think its why i like a lot of the russian art i mentioned as they are often imperfect due to the restrictions placed on the artists. Anither kind of art i find interesting are cartoons (the draft painting kind).
Same with movies. There's great films that I love, that I own on DVD, and that I have only watched once. It feels like once was enough. The movie said all it needed to say because it was real good at saying it.
Same with some paintings. They're so good at being themselves that I feel a bit redundant looking at them.
One of my favorite art memories (practically a religious experience for me) was visiting Prague, finding out Alphonse Mucha's Slav Epic had recently been moved there. We went and the museum was practically empty... and we just got to stand in front of these massive incredible paintings by one of our favorite artists.
This is my wife standing in front of one of them. They are HUGE, and absolutely gorgeous. Theres 20 of these. All this big.
Heck yeah, I love Wall's stuff. I've had this one as part of my wallpaper rotation for a while now.
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I married an artist. She art good.
These are some of my favorites...
Henry Thomas Dawson, The River Tamar
Montague Dawson (his grandson), The Crescent Moon
Edmund Blair Leighton, The Accolade
John William Waterhouse, The Lady of Shalott
And, of course, The Starry Night by Van Gogh.
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EDIT: Oh heck, NSFW.
Waqas Khan talks about making art as a spiritually enlightening process, where he makes art as a sort of meditative process in which he creates large artworks through small, repetitive patterns.
Here's a sample of his work
oops, let me zoom in closer
oops, let me zoom in closer
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... Nick cave is absolutely still alive
Edit: unless you mean the artist died in which case pronouns!!