Only the New (art)

[Philoctetes]

Thanks for your posts, Henk. Very lovely.

For the day: Pae White
http://www.suecrockford.com/artists/images.asp?aid=46

[Lethevich]

Josquin:

a) is there any chance you like the neo realism/classical realism movement? Most is kitsch or "commission a portrait of your dog" stuff, a lot of the rest is pastiche, but sometimes it demonstrates some potential.

Samizu Matsuki:


Michael Grimaldi:


Dana Levin:


Daniel Graves:


It took a lot of searching to find those few though. So many pictures of grandpas in front of Stars and Stripes

b) re. eroticism/evil, do you know Wyeth's Helga pictures? To me they are pretty strong on that quality, but without any gratuity.

[Philoctetes]

Awesome post, Lethe. 

For the day: Tauba Auerbach
http://www.taubaauerbach.com/

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For the day:  Anne Wilson
http://www.annewilsonartist.com/

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For the night: Abdala Faye
http://akebuland.com/index.php

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For the day: Yuri Makoveychuk
http://www.artslant.com/ny/artists/show/54836-yuri-makoveychuk

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For the night: Wafaa Bilal
http://wafaabilal.com/

[greg]

I just discovered an artist who happens to be only 45 years old, so I thought it would be appropriate for this thread.

Vladamir Kush

Google images:
http://www.google.com/images?q=vladamir%20kush&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=1240&bih=640

Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Kush


Here's a few I like:










And this one is just funny more than anything:

Banana! 

Also, don't miss the tuba-headed elephants... 

[Henk]

Jan van Eden
http://www.artxs.nl/eden.htm


Aux deux magots No. 2, 2010, Oil and acrylic on cotton, 120x180x5 cm, Ref. 102204

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Philip Taylor
http://philiptaylorartist.com/


High Fidelity, Acrylic paint Gallery wrapped canvas, 40"H x 30"W

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Alan Mazzetti
http://www.amazzetti.net/


Gray Event on orange, Acrylics on wood panel, dimensional surface, variable installation, 15"H x 15"W

[Henk]

http://www.artspan.com/

Great site and resource about contemporary art with much interesting artists (focus on USA) and links to their pages.

[Philoctetes]

Thanks Henk and Greg:

For the morning: Tara Stiles
www.tarastiles.com

http://www.youtube.com/v/PqWpt1xyn8A

[knight66]

This is a difficult one to convey; but if you stand in front of these large canvases, they have phenomenal impact.



They have a spiritual dimension. One sits in a side chapel in the ancient Old St Paul's church in Edinburgh. It takes up almost all of the wallspace. Beautifully lit, it provides a place and point of contemplation.

The painter is Alison Watt.

http://www.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&xhr=t&q=alison+watt+shift&cp=13&wrapid=tljp129519808729606&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&biw=996&bih=566

They have little impact in a reproduction the size of a postcard, but to stand surrounded by these huge canvasses is quite an experience.

Mike

[PaulSC]

They have a spiritual dimension.

An erotic dimension, too, wouldn't you agree? At any rate I will certainly watch for an opportunity to see this work in person, and I'll send my Edi friends off to St. Paul's...

[Henk]

An erotic dimension, too, wouldn't you agree?

[knight66]

An erotic dimension, too, wouldn't you agree? At any rate I will certainly watch for an opportunity to see this work in person, and I'll send my Edi friends off to St. Paul's...

I think you can project just about anything onto them, but holy extasy and orgasm can, at least in art, look very like one another.

On the exhibition 'Shift'....the artist comments below: 'This exhibition is devoted to a new series of paintings depicting textiles. Unusually for Watt there are no human figures in the works, although the manner in which the depicted material folds and hangs suggests the human form. As Watt explains, ''It's only in the last few years I've realised the power of suggestion: that's where the erotic lies''. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue.'

Mike

[MDL]

Hamburg artist, Anja Huwe.

[Henk]

That they show spirals with holes, make it suggestive yes, one can easily say it´s erotic or see something spiritual in it (as nature works with spirals and ellipse) of course because of it. And sheets let one think about bed. But does that make it art? Quite easy to achieve such an effect. But to use sheets like this is nice, but I wonder if it's original, because it's done more.

[Henk]

This is a difficult one to convey

Well I just did, with Paul's help.

[knight66]

Quite easy to achieve such an effect. But to use sheets like this is nice, but I wonder if it's original, because it's done more.

Eh! Easy! No not at all easy. This is a virtuoso utilising paint in a starting way and as I suggested; difficult to convey the impact if you are not in the same space as the canvases. You proved my point.

Mike

[Henk]

http://www.youtube.com/v/OR_-Y-eIlQo

Yes, great. Being dutch, I of course knew of these ones.