Art?

[Andre]

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.

[Kirkland Laing]

I pity the fool.

[Beanz]

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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[Kirkland Laing]

Pumpkin carvings for Halloween - in pictures | Life and style | theguardian.com

[Beanz]

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 )

Living Language Cat.jpg

Ternial Hurt Terminal Longing.jpg

William Kentridge Sleeper Black.jpg

[Beanz]

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

Clive Barker Head of Francis Bacon.jpg

John Davies Dogman.jpg

David Whittaker The year list.jpg

Frank Auerbach Head of Laurie Owen.jpg

[IamInuit]

They are having and MC Escher symposium here next week. He's one of my faves so I'll definitely be going.

[Andre]

Andrew Peachey
Dissolve III
2012
Oil on canvas
45 x 120cm
$2,900




Brett Whiteley
Towards Sculpture 1
1977
Lithograph
63 x 90cm
$25,000

[Andre]

Amaya Iturri
Kid Soldier
2012
Acrylic on linen
168 x 137cm
$5,000

Gloria Stern
Retro Bar
2012
Oil on linen
77 x 102cm
$4,000

[Andre]

Alexander McKenzie
Trident
2013
Oil on board
19 x 15cm
$2,200

Martin Browne Contemporary
02 9331 7997

[Beanz]

Russian artist Alexander Vygalov has painted this picture of Tyson




and this one of Provodnikov,Golovkin and Kovalev



his site is here

Живопись — Alexander Vygalov

some of his other work

[brocktonblockbust]

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.

[Beanz]

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.

[Dark Lord Al]

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

[Beanz]

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.