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Are you hiding this in the art section from the thought police or from Brockton who will run with this on every board here,thus exposing you eventually to the tracking excellence of the thought police?Quote:
Originally Posted by Kirkland Laing
He's ignoring me. I'm an unperson as far as Brock is concerned.Quote:
Originally Posted by AndreAre you hiding this in the art section from the thought police or from Brockton who will run with this on every board here,thus exposing you eventually to the tracking excellence of the thought police?Quote:
Originally Posted by Kirkland Laing
I dont think he is like that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kirkland LaingHe's ignoring me. I'm an unperson as far as Brock is concerned.Quote:
Originally Posted by AndreAre you hiding this in the art section from the thought police or from Brockton who will run with this on every board here,thus exposing you eventually to the tracking excellence of the thought police?Quote:
Originally Posted by Kirkland Laing
He just reads some threads not others. I think he is just too busy playing with other posters who wack the ball back into his court continually in jest. Its all fun, he holds no grudges from what i see.
He surrendered unconditionally. He put me on ignore.Quote:
Originally Posted by AndreI dont think he is like that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kirkland LaingHe's ignoring me. I'm an unperson as far as Brock is concerned.Quote:
Originally Posted by AndreAre you hiding this in the art section from the thought police or from Brockton who will run with this on every board here,thus exposing you eventually to the tracking excellence of the thought police?Quote:
Originally Posted by Kirkland Laing
He just reads some threads not others. I think he is just too busy playing with other posters who wack the ball back into his court continually in jest. Its all fun, he holds no grudges from what i see.
Ive never done that I dont even know what it looks like must be weird knowing you choose to miss half the conversation. I cant think of anything worse i already read from the bottom up by some strange habit and then comment before finishing the start of thread and get into some trouble from that. :) Imagine the other as well.
I pity the fool.
I went and saw a great installation today on it's last day in a little free gallery here in Plymouth. It was by a Berlin based Korean artist called Jeongmoon Choi. The installation is called "explorer".
You can read my reflections on it, in my blog, linked here
Sprawling on a pin: JEONGMOON CHOI explorer KARST STONEHOUSE PLYMOUTH Oct 20 2013
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Here are some of my latest reflections on a touring show by the South African Artist/Animator/Printmaker/set designer William Kentridge that was on at the gallery in one of the Universities in which I work
Sprawling on a pin: A Universal Archive: William Kentridge as Printmaker - Peninsula Arts Gallery November 7 2013
(Some bonus Images not in the Blog )
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Here are my latest thoughts on the ARTISTS MAKE FACES exhibition currently showing in my home city.
Sprawling on a pin: ARTISTS MAKE FACES Curated by Monika Kinley OBE - Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery November 21 2013
Here are a couple tasters of what's on show
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They are having and MC Escher symposium here next week. He's one of my faves so I'll definitely be going.
https://gallery.mailchimp.com/73cfba...ssolve_III.jpg
Andrew Peachey
Dissolve III
2012
Oil on canvas
45 x 120cm
$2,900
https://gallery.mailchimp.com/73cfba.../brettwhie.jpg
Brett Whiteley
Towards Sculpture 1
1977
Lithograph
63 x 90cm
$25,000
https://gallery.mailchimp.com/73cfba...id_soldier.jpg
Amaya Iturri
Kid Soldier
2012
Acrylic on linen
168 x 137cm
$5,000
https://gallery.mailchimp.com/73cfba.../retro_bar.jpg
Gloria Stern
Retro Bar
2012
Oil on linen
77 x 102cm
$4,000
https://gallery.mailchimp.com/73cfba...ermckenzie.jpgAlexander McKenzie
Trident
2013
Oil on board
19 x 15cm
$2,200
Martin Browne Contemporary
02 9331 7997
Russian artist Alexander Vygalov has painted this picture of Tyson
http://www.boxingscene.com/uploads/7...ke%20tyson.jpg
and this one of Provodnikov,Golovkin and Kovalev
http://www.boxingscene.com/uploads/7...n%20boxing.jpg
his site is here
Живопись — Alexander Vygalov
some of his other work
http://www.piat.ru/en/files/core/346_image.jpg
http://www.piat.ru/en/files/core/374_image.jpg
http://www.piat.ru/en/files/core/351_image.jpg
i used to like art..........but found little by little it is just a lot of mental masturbation, happy horse shit, etc...just like the stupid shit I do. Its nothing special at all, its like blowing soap bubbles, wow! look at that one! then it pops, and then you blow the next one, blah blah blah. I dont like art. Art is overrated.
As I grow older art is as likely to move me as music. Great artists get can cut through the meaningless ephemera of life and go straight to the quick. As in music people can have nothing to say and just end up repeating themselves or they can hone their skills and language to such a fine point that their incision can make me stop to catch my breath. You have to be in its presence though and facsimiles and reproductions on a screen are not the same thing. If you are going to dismiss art as mental masturbation then you may as well discard literature, music and every other endeavour that allows people to emote and express anything.
Here is my wife and I's favourite artist , we have met him a few times and all our paintings are signed by him.
see what you think guys.
www.fabianperez.com
http://www.mountainsoftravelphotos.c...0Temeraire.jpg
Turner's "The Fighting Temeraire".
For me this is a very moving painting. It is on the surface a recorded document of a famous ship, with a history of it's own, that of being a pivotal part in the battle of Trafalgar, being towed into decommission by a modern steam vessel, the last of it's kind and a full stop at the end of an era. The ships fate is sealed, it is to be broken up it's usefulness now having passed, but really it seems to be as much about a sixty year old Joseph William Turner at the peak of his craft coming to terms with the transience of his own life. The ghost like vessel is almost an apparition and painting itself is undergoing a re-evaluation and revolution now that the mechanical age is dawning. His apptitude in capturing something as ethereal and ever changing as light with a paint brush is as remarkable as his amazing apptitude in making us care so much about an inanimate object.
There was a great documentary on the BBC recently about the American Painter Andrew Wyeth by Michael Palin (he of Monty Python fame). Often disregarded by critics who are all too happy to big up Edward Hopper it explored Wyeth's work and whether it's rural setting and his unwillingness to play the fame game had lead to his under rated appeal. You may be familiar with the painting below "Christina's World"
http://www.moma.org/collection_image...CRI_165457.jpg
I may have posted this before apologies if I have I am a bit out of it. Great watch though
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ1NDuvskpY
Another offering from my scribbles. Lennox Lewis from the cover of Mamas Boy, wax oils on canvass. Its not exactly the finished article, I didn't do a great job of covering the painting that's underneath and I've started to scratch the paint off so I've had to stop. Doesn't show in a picture but the painting underneath does give a nice texture to it.
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Great Piece by somebody in Poland
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i esp enjoy Still Life with Pomegranates & TeapotQuote:
Originally Posted by Andre
@Master here's my very first paintingQuote:
Originally Posted by El Kabong
That is good work, that has van gogh and his style.
That was the very first time I put brush to canvas.Quote:
Originally Posted by Master
That is even more remarkable, you must have a talent.Quote:
Originally Posted by El KabongThat was the very first time I put brush to canvas.Quote:
Originally Posted by Master
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These are some more recent ones
Sick, i actually went out with a friend of mine and drank 3 bottles of wine and painted 3 paintings, Yours really good! Imma see if i can upload some of mine imma show u!Quote:
Originally Posted by El Kabong
I should probably say, this is basically our first time paintings, we really suck at it but it was good fun!
http://i.imgur.com/ZOI2Cqa.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/Tigk4eb.png
http://i.imgur.com/kWmWiUz.png
Gunning for Kandinsky/Pollock right out of the gate eh? I like the red/yellow/green/blue painting.
It is fun to mess around a bit on the canvas, very freeing. If you want to work at it and hone some skills I suggest just doing some easy stuff, work on shading, work on a horizon line, use a color wheel to help images pop off the canvas. Do continue to have fun with it, art is expression and doesn't have to be so serious all of the time.
Nice thread, kabonghead you got some talent. Xwetie I actually liked a couple of those paintings you posted. I have not done any painting in years but i think a single painting can be just as powerful as a song, a good book or poem or a movie. We have a few nice art museums in my state including the museums at Yale (the school) when I visit I can find myself gazing on a Van Gogh or another great for an hour thinking only five minutes had passed.
Problem with being an artist is your work is only appreciated when you are dead.
Isn't everything? Things become a more value when your dead, just look at my grandpas gold medal from a boxing 1968, is priceless for me!Quote:
Originally Posted by Master
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...-at-christie-s
One of my favorite artists....dude was supremely gifted
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Been studying up a lot on Basquiat, he was an interesting fellow. He'd be 56 right now if he hadn't died of a heroin overdose.
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