Showing posts with label reference. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reference. Show all posts
Art I Like: Karla Black
Something I Saw
I saw these PanAm posters and thought they were quite nice. They are part of a redesign, that was apparently never launched. They are considered o be ahead of their time, with the use of graphic designers favourite font Helvetica.
Icebergs Again
I still love looking at photographs of icebergs. Mostly only older photographs though, as many nature photographers today are far too fond of the saturation and contrast effects in photoshop.
Art I Like: Dali's Royal Heart
I have never been interested in Dali's paintings. I find it too difficult to objectively look at or think about his melting clocks and weird worlds. Because that type of imagery has been regurgitated by popular culture and championed by simple minds, I think Dali's concept has been lost, as if in a game of chinese whispers.
His bejeweled objects have not had to suffer the same fate and so, I can look at them without the haze of other people's opinions... and I think they are spectacular. They are a prequel to recent art history (Damien Hirst's skull) and sure as as ever, I love a good art history clairvoyance reference.
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Cracks and Seams
Mountains & Glaciers
Reference Material: Old photographs of glaciers. The first image shows a glacier in Canada. The second two images are Alaskan glaciers. Those photographs are from a 1946 LIFE magazine article which, advices me that the Alps and Himalayas have the most glaciers but Alaska has the best glaciers. That is informative, unbiased advice.
Image 1.
Old Fashioned Seánce
Reference materials: Old seánce photographs remind me of those old paintings and drawings that illustrate autopsies and anatomy classes for trainee doctors. It is the way they are all gathered around a table with expressions of concentration. Except for the last image, that just amuses me.
The little triangle segmented pattern on the first table is pretty fantastic too.
Art I Like: Barbara Knezevic
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| Heavy weather structure, umbrellas (Dunnes Stores style no. 6489), thread, dimensions variable, 2010. Photo:Miranda Driscoll |
I came across this recently, I really like it! Perhaps because it is black and glossy and reminds me of coal mining and is minimal and is angular. There is a lot to like.
Copyright the artist, please visit website here.
Art I Like: Crystal Brass Knuckles
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| Debra Baxter, Crystal Brass Knuckles ( I am going to realign your chakra motherf*****) 2009 |
This piece is many thing; fabricated sculpture, conceptual art and jewelery craft. (And they say art has no use!) But the best aspect of this piece by Debra Baxter is the name. At the moment crystals are big in art, really big, getting bigger. I like that this is a great big crystal that pokes fun at itself with its title; I am going to realign your chakra motherf******. I like jokes in art and I like art that references art, though I can't say if this was the artist's intention.
Hi-ho, Hi-ho, it's off to work we go (Miners Strike)
Since I have an interest in mining with it's political and social connections and since mining is in the news again (New Zealanders trapped this time) here are some images from the UK mining strike. The strike took place 1984-1985, around about the time I was born, in a not so dissimilar economic climate to today.
Oh and an example of some great advertising from Saatchi when he was known for this and not for art...
All images were obtained from a google search, please click on the image to find source, No copyright infringement intended.
Coal Mining and Me
I have a growing interest in mining and all it's sociopolitical drenched history. I know Chilean miners are what people are into lately but these are Ukrainian. The portraits were shot by photographer Gleb Kosorukov and I think they are striking (silly pun) images. They are also serving as part of visual reference for a series of performance based images I am working on.
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