a few seminars short of an art-theory course
Guerilla artist Banksy + Guerilla art kidnappers AK47 = farce
Guerilla artist Banksy + Guerilla art kidnappers AK47 = farce
Builders know more about modern art than any other profession. I’ve got to find a brickie to help me with my Critical Studies course work.
A Google search for the phrase “boxes in boxes” (quotes included) helped me find out about a minimalist art project- Time Boxes. The boxes, containing art works, were sealed in 1975 and reopened in 2000.
David Hockney argues that painting is more realistic than photography, because it gives an insight into the context of a scene. And some of the great photos of the last century- notably the flag raisings on Iwo Jima and the Reichstag- have been staged.
Oddly enough, we’ve just started the Modern Art phase of critical studies on my course and I was reading all about how Picasso reckoned Cubism was more realistic than plain figurative (or Illusionist) art because it gave a more complete view of the subject and the artist’s attitudes toward it.
I’ve seen condom vending machines, cigarette vending machines and “travel pack” vending machines. I’ve even come across machines that sell vibrators and inflatable sheep. But I’ve yet to meet one of these beauties, which are filled with original art.
I’m back to doing art for Deputised Experts, because I really ought to use the delay in webcomicsnation launching to build up a buffer of art. I always cheat with the art. My equivalent of pencilling is to pose and render scenes in Poser before composing the page and doing line art and shading in Photoshop (layers are a beautiful thing.) However, I haven’t had the patience to make clothes work properly in Poser yet. I find they billow out and give people odd padding, or don’t fill out properly and reveal the pointy bits underneath. So my characters are increasingly posing in the nude or semi nude- to get the proportions and poses right- giving the renders a sort of Dejeuner Sur L’Herbe vibe.
I don’t know much about art, but I think this might be it.
We were discussing the lack of recognition for women in the arts today, but the same could be said for the field of invention
Top graffiti artist Banksy sneaked into the Tate and glued one of his own creations to the wall. What a star.
A Swedish couple hunting on a remote mountain in Sweden’s far northern province of Jaemtland have found 70 pairs of shoes, all filled with butter.
It has come to that time of the year where with celebrate all that is crazy in this world with the Ig Nobel Prize Awards 2003. Not surprising really when people get funding for kicking curry through a city and call it art.
Once upon a time there were 64 Tickle-Me-Elmos on eBay. Now they are art to be resold on eBay.
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Art Spiegelman, who won a Pulitzer for Maus, has been writing and drawing a comic strip about the aftermath of September 11th. The Independent interviewed him about it, and the troubles he has had getting it published in the US. I have to go and get the paper version now, because that has some of the strips in it.
A long term study of Glasgow University alumni has found that people who studied engineering, science or medicine tended to live longer, whilst those who took art and law had shorter lives.
It’s a shame about the artists, but any cull of lawyers has to be a good thing.
All things being equal, I should soon be the owner of a camera equipped phone. I can’t think of a single thing to do with it. Except…..
Remember photo stories? They were a very eighties phenomenon- comic strips of a sort, with photographs rather than line art- where non- or semi- professional models threw dramatic poses to suit the story bubbles that appeared around them. They were primarily contemporary romances, presumably because these required the minimum costume and prop expenses, though I do remember a tongue in cheek Nemesis one in a 2000AD special. They seem to have disappeared now, apart from on the occasional tabloid problem page.
So I thought it wold be cool to do a photo story shoot on the fly, using phonecams to click and send the shots back to base to be collated and captioned. I need a few volunteers to ‘act’ and make up the story as they go along. Come on folks, don’t be shy.
An infinite number of monkeys and an infinite number of typewriters might one day reproduce Shakespeare (though knowing our luck they’d probably go via the complete works of Jeffrey Archer) but six macaqes with one PC will mostly type the letter S.
The project – which was paid for with £2,000 of Arts Council money – was intended to emphasise differences between animals and machines, he went on. “The monkeys aren’t reducible to a random process. They get bored and they shit on the keyboard rather than type.”
I was in the Whitworh gallery last week, and I have to admit I did wonder how firmly attached some of the paintings were to the walls. But it wasn’t me who nicked a few modern masters and then left them behind a nearby public toilet.
I haven’t been to too many really bad concerts, but I can honestly say I wouldn’t sue a band for being crap at a performance. A sensible person would just stop buying their records, but in litigation land everyone’s out to make some money from it all.
Emily found this site belonging to a particularly fine and prolific artist and I’ve been dipping into it from time to time. The Furry stuff is cool, but let’s face it, everyone’s a sucker for lesbian angels.
Incredibly cool graffiti art site.
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