Art?

[Andre]

Richard Lewer
Fit in or fuck off
2013
Enamel on found school map

[Andre]

Bronek Kozka
Okazaki's Noodle Bar
2010

[Andre]

Robert Boynes
Urban Simulation - Haze
1995
Acrylic on canvas

[Andre]

FREDERICK McCUBBIN
Australia 1855 - 1917

[Beanz]

Saw this on Thursday, Michael Landy (pictured) Saints Alive at The National Gallery. As one of the artists in residence this is his response to the Galleries collection of paintings depicting sainthood. The machines are very reminiscent of old fairground or seaside pier type contraptions that clang, bang and clunk in juddering movements replaying actions like Saints pulling their own teeth out, smashing rocks against their chest or prodding the sides of Jesus to test his piercings like Thomas. Unfortunately a lot of the contraptions were not working but the ones that did had a great irreverent joy about them. They did not really move me to go and experience the source material anew but a lot of that may be down to fatigue. I borrowed a wheelchair to push the Mrs around and it was so heavy and old fashioned I felt at times like an extension of the exhibition wheezing like a pneumatic man, stooping to push the old charabang, which must must have been as heavy as the other half. She is only little but I haven't pushed a chair in years. Big respect for those that have to live their lives in one.

[Andre]

Was that main one behind him called "He who casts the first stone"?

[Beanz]

Was that main one behind him called "He who casts the first stone"?

Ha!

I am not sure if it is called "Penitence Machine" or "Chest Beater" but it is clearly made in response to Images of St Jerome. I think Landy was in this case in particular referring to Savoldo's from The National Gallery. Jerome is the Saint who kicked off the whole idea of penitents and hermits and is often depicted beating his chest with a rock whilst staring at a crucifix.

Here is Landy's Collage




and here is Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo's " Saint Jerome " approx 1525




and Leonardo da Vinci's version




Vincenzo Catena's more reflective version (which unlike Leonardo's is actually in The National)





Michael Landy below




and again




below someone operating the footswitch to start it





finally Below the Carlo Crivelli Jerome from The National Gallery Collection

[Memphis]

These are a couple of my efforts, both pastels. Been stuffed in the shed so they've been a bit bent out of shape. Tommy was never finished but you kinds see where I was going with it

[Kirkland Laing]

These are a couple of my efforts, both pastels. Been stuffed in the shed so they've been a bit bent out of shape. Tommy was never finished but you kinds see where I was going with it

Which one is Tommy Hearns?


Sorry. Didn't mean it, they're actually quite good and I'm the world's worst artist. You've got no idea how bad.

[Andre]

These are a couple of my efforts, both pastels. Been stuffed in the shed so they've been a bit bent out of shape. Tommy was never finished but you kinds see where I was going with it

Which one is Tommy Hearns?


Sorry. Didn't mean it, they're actually quite good and I'm the world's worst artist. You've got no idea how bad.

You are the worlds worse 'bullshit artist' too.

[El Kabong]

....which is why I won't be putting my originals on here. I catch enough hell when I put them on Facebook.

[Kirkland Laing]

These are a couple of my efforts, both pastels. Been stuffed in the shed so they've been a bit bent out of shape. Tommy was never finished but you kinds see where I was going with it

Which one is Tommy Hearns?


Sorry. Didn't mean it, they're actually quite good and I'm the world's worst artist. You've got no idea how bad.

You are the worlds worse 'bullshit artist' too.

One of the world's best IMNSNO.

[elcolibri]

George Bellows.

Look at his treatment of the audience, how they look mildly grotesque. Amazing, IMO.

[Andre]

Lila Warrimou (Misaso)
Hartu’e, mahuva’oje ohu’o sabu deje (Design of the ceremonial shell necklace, pig’s hoofprints and wood-boring grub)
2012
Natural pigments on nioge (barkcloth)
80 x 155cm

Nana Ohnesorge
Big Ned
2011
Mixed media sculpture
18 x 49.5 x 18cm

Daniel Agdad
The Approach
2012
Boxboard mounted on wooden base with hand blown glass dome
25.5 x 59cm

[Andre]

George Bellows.

Look at his treatment of the audience, how they look mildly grotesque. Amazing, IMO.

George Bellows, 'Stag at Sharkey's', 1909.

Oil on canvas, 92 x 122.6 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection. © The Cleveland Museum of Art. Exhibition organised by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, in association with the Royal Academy of Arts, London, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.