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Was that that little man who welcomed you to Fantasy Island talking?
I agree with Tootoo or whatever his name is.
There kinda DADA performance artists, but they perform at music festivals all over Europe. They always make me laugh. Gotta love the Dutch :D
I am bumping this because Art is a part of so many peoples lives and Boxing itself is a great Art. We all enjoy posting videos and I don't expect everyone to share the same tastes or have to post difficult non representational abstract works or obscure installations and sound art.(unless its mine;D) but surely everyone has a picture or artist that they love.
I searched the word Art here on Saddo and could not find anything so here it goes
How about artists who have made great album art such as the guy who has done a lot of work used by radiohead
Stanley Donwood
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Same Guy
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Gerald Scarfe -Pink Floyd -The Wall
http://pinkfloydarchives.com/Discog/...l/Wall6/FC.jpg
This is the work of a local artist, Seth Garland his parents were responsible for most of the Lord of the Rings artwork in the 60s and 70s editions of the books. The picture below was one of his earlier works painted at 19 and we have a print in our living room, he has this to say about it
Diminished Seconds was exhibited at The Mall Galleries, London. Where in 1998 it won second prize in 'The Society of Art of the Imagination' open competition.
'I painted it when I was 19 years old and it reflects the panic of reaching the end of my teenage years. My younger sister Amy features twice in the painting. One dressed in contemporary clothing and the other timeless. Time motifs run throughout the painting, from the dandelion clock seed head in the top corner to the architectural mixture of red brick and Ancient Greece.'
http://www.lakeside-gallery.com/asse...nishingsec.jpg
I quite enjoy the Impressionists Monet, Manet, Van Gough, Cezanne, Renoir, etc. I really love Gustave Caillebotte's 'Paris Street Rainy Day' as well.
Frank Frazetta , I like his fantasy Art dark strong interesting.:)
May I just say I liked the Beano and Dandy, as well ;D
I dont think you can beat John Constable for capturing the precious moment of life working with nature at a very balanced time and place on Earth.
http://www.john-constable.org/69834/...ream-large.jpg
And this is amazing as are all of his interpretations:
http://www.john-constable.org/140597...1835-large.jpg
I find Constable very difficult in that while his influence and undoubted ability deserves its place in British Art history personally I find it a bit twee and it just reminds me of my Grandma's place mats. It has been so mass produced on tea towels etc that it has become a bit ubiquitous. He certainly knew a lot about light and how to render it.Quote:
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Another favourite is the super realist sculptor Ron Mueck
http://th03.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/...RTmonkey90.jpg
So far quite interesting but not especially original until you factor in his contextual use of scale
Little Old Ladies....ROCK;D
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IUfVCX9U5N...0/DSC03536.JPG
http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/in...6_RTR2A0ZP.jpg
I'm a big fan of Doug Hyde. Love loads of his stuff.
Here are some bad examples!
http://www.imagesgalleries.co.uk/aca...mer-smiles.jpg
http://www.buy-fineart.com/includes/...sp?c=13371&i=2
http://www.collect-art.com/product_i...study-5331.jpg
Surrealism
Let's start with the obvious
Dali
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GFkN4deuZU
We used to have this as a tile in our Bathroom
http://dali.urvas.lt/forviewing/pic24.jpg
In English it translates as "The Great Masturbator"
I can heartliy recommend his museum and resting place in Figueras "The Dalí Teatro-Museo" it is like no other
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...l%C3%AD_MQ.jpg
Just inside the Entrance
http://tripneter.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/dali31.jpg
http://commondatastorage.googleapis....l/17611486.jpg
Some interesting images there. Dali was a very odd painter. Incredible with a brush, but you get the sense that he was constantly on LSD or something of that ilk. Such a lot of very peculiar images.
I can respect art of all types and think art serves a lot of different but useful purposes. I can look at Warhol's soup can and view it as a detached view on consumerism, but not in such a negative way as it was probably something he enjoyed eating. Then I can look at the work of someone like Van Gogh who I admire a lot, but in quite a different way. After all it is a different genre, a different style. The non mechanical and far more intense visual style. The deep brushstrokes, the stars that consume a sky with a swirling milky way. It's wonderful to look at. You sense something uneasy behind the brushstrokes. Then we tail of to another style and 1950's Pollock and Autumn Rhythym and its mesmerising drips of paint which appears to be random splashes of paint, and yet there is order there, it is a controlled chaos and it looks rather pretty. You can almost make out images of dancing people if you allow your eye to relax. Or was it a horse fighting a dragon? It doesn't really matter just as long as it appeals to the senses.
Art is alright. It takes a lot of skill to become a master craftsman of any sort and I respect a well tuned painter.
https://www.google.com.au/search?q=b...w=1280&bih=836
Sydney artist. Brett Whiteleys stuff is amazing too mostly heroin induced.
Since his passing his stuff is in the hundreds of thousands sometimes millions in worth many of his works are full wall size and commercial giants love them in their homes and work places.
Here is some interesting art made out of books. literally.
http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2011...d2abf6a-s4.jpg
http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2011...6329955-s4.jpg
http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2011...7450d07-s4.jpg
ENGLISH PAINTERS
Wyndham Lewis great painting of the poet and eccentric Edith Sitwell
http://www.tate.org.uk/art/images/wo.../N05437_10.jpg
Another by Wyndham Lewis
Battery Shelled
http://silverandexact.files.wordpres...lewis-1918.jpg
Another war painting this time from the first world war by Ambulance driver Christopher Nevinson "La Mitrailleuse"
http://www.tate.org.uk/art/images/wo.../N03177_10.jpg
John Minton
Street and Railway bridge 1946
http://c300221.r21.cf1.rackcdn.com/j...41432612_b.jpg
Peter Blake "Self Portrait with badges"
http://www.tate.org.uk/art/images/wo.../T02406_10.jpg
I've been watching a documentary called 'The Architecture of Doom' about how art & artists(mainly failed ones) shaped the Nazi party & Nazi Germany. Hitler being a art school reject, Goebbles having been an author, and some other high ranking Nazi's were also fond of poetry, art, architecture, opera, etc. It is very interesting yet horrifying what those people accomplished using flowery rhetoric & propaganda. They used abstract & avant-garde art to degrade and dehumanize Jews, Gypsies, the mentally ill, Bolsheviks/Socialists, and anyone who did not believe in a "pure Germany". They used film, they used music, they used anything and everything to mold the minds of their public. With the attention to detail those guys paid to what they were going to build in Berlin and Linz no wonder they lost the war. I had no idea guys like Wagner played so big a role in inspiring such an awful person as Hitler.
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It is interesting how much art even when used as propaganda can be reinterpreted over time too. Russian artists often suffered working in silence unless they worked for the state but much of what was highly politicised communist rhetoric has now been adopted by western advertising agencies in creating capitalist advertisements.
http://www.homepagedaily.com/uploads...55_redarmy.jpg
http://westernstandard.blogs.com/pho...unist_bark.jpg
http://westernstandard.blogs.com/pho...obamabark1.jpg
http://www.blackdogadvertising.com/m...redolution.jpg
http://media.salon.com/2012/09/Romne...s2-450x307.jpg
http://larussophobe.files.wordpress....verts-0041.jpg
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mZN72_wFbo...propaganda.jpg
Fuck it when is there going to be another chance to introduce Wagner into the proceedings.
Many people are not familiar with this piece from Wagner's Lohengrin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C5FOW2ekHo
but have heard it a myriad times in this format
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx5FzMNeKLo
Wagner was anti-semetic & the Nazis used his music in the concentration camps, so in Israel his music is not welcomed. And considering his Bridal March & what thoughts that conjures to most who are not aware of what his music inspired that is very odd. To some his music means love, hope, togetherness and to others it means hate, death, torture.Quote:
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