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[izzy]

We have in the past made a pass or two at addressing art on this side of the board. I was hoping we could start this up in earnest. Upload something that strikes you and then tell us why. It could be yours it could be someone elses (as in this case). I'll Start




I love Chagall for the focus he brings to the remarkable elements in his work. I find looking at his works and this one in particular (Il Compleanno) really draws me down to a fine point of observation while leaving me with a strong feeling of entanglement in all things beautiful.

[Agrimorfee]

Heironymous Bosch--Garden of Earthly Delights


Detail from the Hell panel:


A wondrous combination of the sacred and profane.

A book by Terry Tempestt Williams called Leap is an interesting companion to the painting, where the author examines the painting in detail and how it affects/reflects her life. Sometimes preachy with ecological crap near the end, but worth a look.

[gwa]

Some stuff from my last gallery road trip...

This is Shelly Klein. Her work seems to make people intensely sad, but gosh, it feels like my childhood. Not that I spent years frowning, but I was so shy that I was really, really alone.










Here's Saul Gray-Hildenbrand. This stuff's from an ongoing series that uses old dictionary pages -- and specifically, an odd word from each page. What can I say, I like words. I like faces. I could've bought 50 of these.







And here's more stuff from a newer collection.

[6ome 9irl]

I don't know where to start. I'll just offer up my latest interest, Egon Schiele (Expressionist). Lots of detached sickly/pornographic nudes and self-portraits. I like them because, like fashion sketches, he captures the movement of the thin. I love the lack of color mixed with a few well-placed punches. The characters are sexual but also deathly. The women can look childish but still have full body hair. Here he is:



Other favorites:




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[gwa]

I don't know where to start. I'll just offer up my latest interest, Egon Schiele (Expressionist).

One of my all-time favorite artists. Nice call.

[6ome 9irl]

Hey, great. And Cloud Cult is good stuff. One more: Dan Flavin, neon extraordinaire. Gotta be fans of his installations here. There something exciting about neon... there's a reason kids love the colors.







Haha! Legos checkin' out Flavin. Everyone knows Legos are the best art.

[dice]

I don't know where to start. I'll just offer up my latest interest, Egon Schiele (Expressionist). Lots of detached sickly/pornographic nudes and self-portraits. I like them because, like fashion sketches, he captures the movement of the thin. I love the lack of color mixed with a few well-placed punches. The characters are sexual but also deathly. The women can look childish but still have full body hair. Here he is:



Other favorites:




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how come none of those people are obese?

[6ome 9irl]

Dice, contribute or fuck off.

[pong]

Zoa Ace

"Zoa Ace enjoys the traditional beauty of oil paint on canvas. Her figurative canvases deal primarily with human relationships and emotions. She sometimes use theatrical, night club, or other festive environments as backdrops for a cast of characters. It is her intention for the viewer to interpret what is happening in the painting just as they might interpret a poem. The paintings aren't limited in what they are expressing because they evoke a varied range of responses.
Color is a predominant factor in her work. The floral canvases allow her to create a variety of patterns and textures with the paint. Because the stillife subject matter deals with nature, these paintings tend to give the viewer a sense of calm or pleasure."

[dice]

Dice, contribute or fuck off.

touchy, touchy

that's dice with a small 'd.' get it right, potty mouth

[Freddie Freelance]

Seonna Hong:



I Like Big Booty and I Cannot Lie



Kittie Avenger

Tim Biskup



Blue Drops



The Executioner

Scott Scheidly



Black Carbon



Franky

Heather Watts



Insert Coin



The Sleeping Volcano

[held]

Hollis Sigler. She was actually one of my professors in college. Her paintings were usually in this uniformed frame that she painted around her images. These were various furniture settings in exteriors (usually forests) The titles were commonly some train of thought. She died of breast cancer six years ago. Undoubtedly not a typical work but certainly an identifiable one for a Chicago artist.

[gwa]

Illustration, not painting, but I'm charmed by Susie G's stuff.

(I can't hotlink it here...)

Susie G illustration

[izzy]

Hey, great. And Cloud Cult is good stuff. One more: Dan Flavin, neon extraordinaire. Gotta be fans of his installations here. There something exciting about neon... there's a reason kids love the colors.

Haha! Legos checkin' out Flavin. Everyone knows Legos are the best art.

Nice SG. Along similar lines have you spotted this? I love the sense of the city this carries with it, it's immensity, it's larger than life aspects. I so want an excuse to go see this.


Doug Aitken: sleepwalkers

http://www.moma.org/...ns/2007/aitken/

January 16–February 12, 2007

The Museum of Modern Art and Creative Time, the New York–based public art organization, have jointly commissioned Doug Aitken to create the artist's first large-scale public artwork in the United States. The project is also the first to bring art to MoMA's exterior walls. Eight continuous sequences of film scenes will be projected onto six facades, including those on West Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth streets and those overlooking The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden. Inspired by the densely built environment of New York's midtown, the artist will create a cinematic art experience that directly integrates with the architectural fabric of the city while simultaneously enhancing and challenging viewers' perceptions of public space. The project, filmed in New York City, will be shown daily from 5:00 p.m. until 10:00 p.m., and is intended to be visible from many public vantage points adjacent to the Museum.

[dirty hippie]

John John Jesse, love him, he's just so wierd.






and martin sharp, a psychedlic genius





and i do photos myself

[without_opinion]

i just came across this today via Artkrush

Jean Paul-Goude's photography, this one: Running, Paris

[izzy]

One More Chagall My Favorite. This is my idea of a valentines day card. This is the kind of art that makes even the angels envious of us for being human. Of all the things in this world that bring it to life, a man in love with a woman somehow managees to render something sublime, something that extends us beyond the heavens.

[6ome 9irl]

John John Jesse, love him, he's just so wierd.

Yes, nice one.

[feisty]

I'm going through a thing with this painting [ignore the words in the middle, it's just the ARTStor stamp]:



Edwin Romanzo Elmer, Mourning Picture, 1890

[6ome 9irl]

Along similar lines have you spotted this? I love the sense of the city this carries with it, it's immensity, it's larger than life aspects. I so want an excuse to go see this.

So do I. Way to be on top of things. Undo and I were talking about public art (graffiti in another thread) and the reason it's refreshing is 'cuz it offsets the advertising. If this is a movement to take back public space from brands, I support it. It would be great if in the future we had a lot more of this around. It just lights everything up, kinda futuristic. Here's another view:


http://artkrush.com/...sue50/designby/

From Artkrush:

Art in Public Spaces
January 24 - February 6, 2007

With public art moving away from stand-alone sculptures towards interactive, multimedia experiences, the folks at New York's Creative Time and London's Artangel are recruiting new media artists for a range of experimental projects. Doug Aitken's narrative projections on the facade of MoMA and Scanner's Night Jam website are among recent commissions, and New York-based Graffiti Research Lab is designing ever more inventive additions to the urban landscape. We interview Rochelle Steiner of New York's Public Art Fund about changes in the field, and sample the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's audio tours of public spaces in the Big Apple. Circling the globe, we review Meredyth Sparks' punk-loving montages in Paris and Rob Fischer's bending floorboards in Los Angeles.