General visual art thread

Thread for links, post images, or just talk about what you've been liking. Any styles at all.

I'll mostly be posting links, sorry but I can't be fucked with photobucket type of stuff anymore.

Love this sculptor, astoundingly intricate
https://www.instagram.com/i.heishiro_artist/

Wonderful moody pixel art

https://www.instagram.com/p/BodyOAnBM44

Nice, I seen a lot of this type of stuff on twitter lately so I'm glad I've got a starting place for it on instagram. I've lost interest in playing videogames for quite a long time now but I still like a lot of the visuals and I like that people are exploring the visuals without the gameplay.

Same here
I started a thread on it a few years back: pixel art

More amazing sculptures
https://www.artstation.com/asyrankulov
https://www.instagram.com/arsen_asyrankulov/

Love this guy, amazing fantasies, character designs
https://www.instagram.com/solomonenos/
http://www.solomonenos.com/work

Iran Lomiel is very NSFW, her girls look too similar a lot of the time but I think it might be deliberate. There is more really good ones on e-hentai but not sure how moderators would feel about linking there.
https://www.catherinelarosepoesiaearte.com/2012/06/iran-lomell.html

https://www.instagram.com/p/CMQJvuJLVfw

Big fan of this cinema 4d / octane cyberpunk vibe

This dog mirror thing by Hajime Machida is one of the weirdest things I've seen recently, the hair puppet is pretty good too.

#皆さんラフと完成絵を見せてください pic.twitter.com/cA3TCPX8Ov

— 町田肇 Hajime Machida (@Hajime_Machida) January 30, 2021

I written Lomeli as Lomiel, sorry.

Hate how expensive art books become and that so many of them are about a writers thoughts rather than the pictures of the artist. I don't think there is a decent affordable book of Reginald Marsh.

Taschen often surprises with $40 or less reissues of previously pricey books (the trade-off is a smaller page size than the original books).

Get on their mailing list for advance notice on twice-yearly slightly damaged or display copy sales. I've scored things like the $150 complete H. Bosch for $50.

C4d fucking sucks

Platform arm sucks

Art

Why is it that so many anti-capitalists love the most commercial cartoons in a style bred from generations of artists simplifying their work for deadlines to make a living? And these artists often end up choking on their style that has been narrowed by necessity.

sorry, i was drunk last night, and unlike many of those nights, it was definitely on purpose.

"platform art sucks" - what i mean by that is the act of making or modifying art to meet the requirements of a platform. i did this a lot, which is my art sucked. it can mean taking a video and changing the dimensions of it to make it meet the platform, or making an image square for instagram, or 1080p for facebook or twitter, or cutting the length so it doesn't go over. all of that sucks.

platform art that REALLY sucks is what you end up with at the end - people using Instagram "Create" mode and then describing themselves as "insta creators" in their bio and having 280K followers. it's like they walked into the crayola store and got handed that box with 16 colors and decided they were set for life

if you get really good at C4D, you can make art like beeple, that's why it sucks

art is always constrained by the technical possibilities of the time - both what is available in the world, and also what is available (financially and practically) to the artist. constraints are a very good thing. but what we have now is a bunch of people who learned what an arpeggiator was and never moved past that because arpeggios are very popular

and now we have Michael Arpeggio and he made 42058 billion dollars and everyone wants to suck his arpeggio

https://www.instagram.com/p/B6PslNKFIkY/

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lqTtaeLgD2Q/TxD-b3Z8aNI/AAAAAAAAVsQ/yRBebyo-sQ8/s1600/Augustus+John-the-artists-daughter-poppet-c1927-8.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/zfDnZ4F.jpg

Andres Rios, nice
https://www.instagram.com/p/CLuMxhHDVCT/

Amazing portraits by Michael Taylor
https://www.mrtaylor.co.uk/gallery/

https://www.instagram.com/p/COGOuB7p3J8/?igshid=1bezdijdyp9uy

doggin’ it

Also liked his other recent thing about the office printer

https://www.instagram.com/p/B9Yl6whKqIx/
Angela Dalinger

the tone and the brush strokes on this are killing me: https://www.artrenewal.org/artworks/tower-bridge-london/sir-frank-brangwyn-ra/59095

"Spirit of the Southern", 1969. By the under-appreciated Harry Stevens, for British Rail. This glorious painting of an electric train zipping through the Weald to the coast, as my desktop background, is my daily reminder that daytrips & tiny adventures aren’t far away again. pic.twitter.com/UQjwzyUlE1

— Tim Dunn (@MrTimDunn) April 24, 2021

(a zinged up version of the original

https://www.instagram.com/sandramartagex/
https://www.instagram.com/irazabela/

Victor Brauner anticipates videogames
https://www.instagram.com/p/COIKprbFzHq/

Cake art
https://www.catersnews.com/stories/quirky/unbelievably-gross-lifelike-corpse-cakes-that-will-make-you-think-twice-where-you-slice/

Book covers and illustrations
https://www.tomhorstmann.com/

Mathieu Desjardins. Love this, some of it gives me Voivod vibes
https://www.instagram.com/meconium1212/

pic.twitter.com/hKxNe77LOy

— Akeylion (@UniverseChew) June 14, 2021

Nice

Luc Schuiten
https://www.messynessychic.com/2021/06/10/inside-the-imaginarium-of-a-solarpunk-architect/
https://www.vegetalcity.net/en/

Very nice

See also https://globalpattern.bandcamp.com/album/solarpunk-a-possible-future

This is horrible

This is not how to understand or find the value in art. Engagement obsession is a sickness. You’d think “we” would have figured that out by now. https://t.co/GeSVT6VJlE

— Mike Rugnetta (@mikerugnetta) July 17, 2021

Christian Santiago. Grotesque, dark, gay, NSFW and really brilliant
https://www.instagram.com/lil_saantii/

The cameras are ugly as shit and that could be redone but I don't see the idea as necessarily horrible? This seems more like something to help study and plan exhibit flow and crowd maintenance.

i guess it depends on what the museum is for: the best art, or the most popular art

or, replace "popular" with eye-grabbing, controversial, or even "has figures in it"

but if the museum is for the hits, play the hits. but i'd be annoyed if it was a museum i liked to visit

Love some of the toothy smiles this biker guy does. Some nudity
https://www.taiyolapaix.com/paintingsx-1

https://instagram.com/mallchitecture

xps - Museums have a pretty good idea of the most popular art already, I expect (and this kind of work has been done forever just with actual people doing the observing)?

From the researchers -

Some of the researchers’ findings have been unexpected. Examining observer data from the two sides of a 14th-century diptych by Vitale degli Equi, data showed that “attention was immediately attracted to the ‘busier’ representation of Saint Peter’s blessing, to the right,” said Bologna Musei President Roberto Grandi. He was surprised to find that many visitors simply skipped the diptych’s left half.

“Does it have to do with the fact that while someone observes an artwork, a glimpse of another one works its way into the corner of the eye?” Grandi asked. “Or is it a question of layout logistics? We have no magic formulas, but the more objective information we get, the more we can improve our offerings.”

The data could lead to changes in lighting, staging and placement of artworks in relation to one another, Grandi said, with findings suggesting that museums and galleries might want to rethink how to make some paintings and sculptures more visible and accessible.

That doesn't seem objectionable at all - if this research does help with spacing to get people to spend more time looking at art they'd glance at and then get distracted by something else, that's good right?

https://i.imgur.com/fvHTGcC.jpg

Milo - fair points

Colorful spooky forest erotica with lots of erections, scroll down and there's amazingly detailed sculptures and photography too
https://www.instagram.com/charleseroberts3/

Second poster used to reallt scare me when viewed at full size
http://pinktentacle.com/2008/01/hr-gigers-creatures-in-80s-pioneer-ads/

Louis Valtat
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Fm8EM4roPRs/TasFrS9yIJI/AAAAAAAAAsQ/e21r09qpN2w/s1600/Louis+Valtat+-+Femme+a+la+Guitare%252C+1906.jpg
https://images.fineartamerica.com/images/artworkimages/mediumlarge/2/paysage-du-midi-1902-louis-valtat.jpg
https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2009/CKS/2009_CKS_07737_0233_000().jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Fm8EM4roPRs/TasFrS9yIJI/AAAAAAAAAsQ/e21r09qpN2w/s1600/Louis+Valtat+-+Femme+a+la+Guitare%252C+1906.jpg
https://images.fineartamerica.com/images/artworkimages/mediumlarge/2/paysage-du-midi-1902-louis-valtat.jpg
https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2009/CKS/2009_CKS_07737_0233_000().jpg

i like those!

saw Nam June Paik's 1993 'Sistine Chapel' collaboration with Hans Haacke at SFMOMA, amazing

xp
sometimes I think some of youse lot would have your minds blown by a Royal Academy summer show. That is so fucking shit!

better than what i can make :-o

it's not really fauvist, nor impressionist, nor expressionist, just garish hack picture-making.

It's basically post-impressionist?

yep!

Agree with calzino.

Wasn't gonna say it but lol

not sure what's funny about that

"sometimes I think some of youse lot would have your minds blown by a Royal Academy summer show" was pretty funny

dangerous game is taking the piss out of crap art!

*breaks art over knee*

it's time to take out the trash!

xxp no that was otm

as usual have no idea what you all are talking about

don't blame me

but one simple strand going on here is that the post-impressionists were basically vaporwave

maybe

I'm assuming those are ca. late 19th c, not recent/student works (that would be really sad)

the Olafur Eliasson One-Way Colour Tunnel in the Oculus Bridge at SFMOMA is also beautiful

someone did an installation throughout the entire length of Woolwich tunnel in the 90's. I can't vividly remember what they did. Possibly it was luminous squares in repetition or something. At the time it grew on me and was like ..wow you really get some cutting edge public art in the big smoke. Now I'd have this bitter old cynic voice in my head cursing all the posh, talentless Goldsmiths cunts who did it to hell!

I haven't seen any of Eliasson's stuff in person to the best of my recollection, even though i'm pretty sure he's had a million solo gallery shows in NYC.

Was the "One-Way" part strictly enforced? Do you have to wait in line if you want to walk through it again? Were people taking selfies in it? I'm just wondering what trying to see a piece like that involves these days.

xp

There was a show of Helio Oiticica's penetrables here a few years ago, they made you sign a wavier but once you did that, it was pretty much anything goes. I think I did running jumps onto one of the penetrables. There was another one that could be described as a "color tunnel" but obv a very different kind of thing, and you got a cup of orange juice at the end.

That is so fucking shit!

geez, so it's not ok to just "like" some paintings that do not attempt to push the boundaries of art, but simply exhibit an appreciation of past techniques by applying them to a subject the artist wanted to paint? it's not like they were raving about those paintings as pure genius.

If those paintings are "fucking shit" then what distinguishes your dismissal from the French Academy painters who dismissed the original post-impressionists?

I can't imagine how that would work now.

Also there was the James Turrell show at the Guggenheim around the same time, which was amazing obviously and it was like this deeply meditative experience of lying on the floor for ages until it broke you, like Lazer Floyd for grownups.

xp i believe those are "original" works of post-imprrssionism and that the judgement that they're shit has nothing to do with any failure to push boundaries

So you've formulated objective criteria for judging a painting as "shit" and presumably can communicate these so that anyone may see precisely where they attain shitiness as opposed to merely failing to attain the higher reaches of art? I'd be very happy to have you share this superior knowledge so that I amy no longer be taken in by liking something I ought see a pure shit. It would be a public service!

May you never be allowed to express an opinion about the quality of art created by elementary school child. It would traumatize them for life.

I used to think contemporary works referencing past forms were shit, but now don’t feel that way

I really like the landscape works of Richard Mayhew for example

many xp, there is a long line for the Olafur Eliasson tunnel. you can walk back and forth. "Viewers walking through one direction see the magical color before them and behind them feel themselves leaving only a wake of black. When they walk back the other way, the colors are darkly muted."

The James Turrel show at the Gugenheim was one of the most incredible things I have ever seen

Xp Heh, I've actually worked at a pottery studio even tho the pay sucked and the work was backbreaking for no reason other than i love the work the elementary school kids make so much. I kept hundreds of photographs of my favorite pieces and even tried to duplicate them myself on a couple of occasions! (Which of course was a miserable failure)

So you've formulated objective criteria for judging a painting as "shit" and presumably can communicate these so that anyone may see precisely where they attain shitiness as opposed to merely failing to attain the higher reaches of art? I'd be very happy to have you share this superior knowledge so that I amy no longer be taken in by liking something I ought see a pure shit. It would be a public service!

This post makes no sense to me.
I mean, I think I get the jist that you're calling me pretentious and inviting me to critique the paintings (or something). What this has to do with "failure", "knowledge", "higher reaches", "objectivity" etc, I have no idea.

I used to think contemporary works referencing past forms were shit, but now don’t feel that way

Neither do i.

i love the work the elementary school kids make

Perhaps the secret you are hinting at here is that the more practiced and proficient one becomes in controlling an artistic medium to conform to the outcome you aimed at producing, the more likely it becomes that you will produce not just mediocre, but purely shitty, art. For some reason.

Going back to your post:

i believe those are "original" works of post-imprrssionism and that the judgement that they're shit has nothing to do with any failure to push boundaries

OK. Why do you believe that?

Louis Valtat was a great painter. This website is plagued by philistines.

i keep looking at that first one, thinking about how proud i would be to make that.

but also, it's ok for people to hate that! my thinking on artistic criticism is the same as with religions - just don't hurt anyone else. do no harm. and nothing i've heard makes me feel any less about that first Valtat one that was posted, i'm glad i saw it. but it's a good reminder that it's good to have these disagreements. it would be weird and bad if everyone agreed about what was good, and also there's always that one guy who hates the beatles. what i'm saying is that louis valtat was the beatles

i was kidding about the "do no harm" stuff too. i'm kidding about all of it

"what is good?" no one has a coherent idea

:)

A good painting makes the viewer feel ashamed, either because they could never make it, or because they don’t understand it.

don't think I believe that

i'll go back to this. just to show you what a fool i am, but also how someone else looks at something

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Fm8EM4roPRs/TasFrS9yIJI/AAAAAAAAAsQ/e21r09qpN2w/s1600/Louis+Valtat+-+Femme+a+la+Guitare%252C+1906.jpg

the face isn't good. it's the first thing i go to because i'm a human and i look at faces. i see the human. cool, it's a human. guitar. ok.

look at that tree above, her though. the one to left is good too, but especially the on in the upper-right quadrant. i like the piny thorny plants behind and to the right of her head as well. the human is there, with a couple eyeballs. faces are hard. this artist didn't take much time with it, but they spent way more time on the plants. the plantlife is very good. "how" is it "good", i don't know, what is rock and roll

i just know that one thing i never want to hear, ever, is why those plants in the upper-right actually are NOT good. because before i know why i should not like those plants, i just like them. i'm an ignorant baby, typing at 90+ wpm. don't ruin this baby's night

i think someone else would look at it and concentrate entirely on why the subject is there, why they have a guitar, where this is, who painted it, what time of day, the gallery it was first shown in, and all of that. all of that is good! i devour that shit, sometimes! i am a big de kooning fan - i want to know what was going on while he was painting it, and who everyone was sleeping with. but i don't need to, with everyone, first, i just recognize that corner appeals to me.

at first I didn't even see the guitar. the composition of it and the details are beautiful

i didn't like metallica until 2 weeks ago

and also, metallica is...

__GOOD__
__BAD__
__FOOD_
__FOOD FOR SOME SOME PEOPLE__
__BAD FOR SOME PEOPLE__
__THE DEFINITION OF TOXIC MASCULINITY__
__EXCELLENT__

Perhaps the secret you are hinting at here is that the more practiced and proficient one becomes in controlling an artistic medium to conform to the outcome you aimed at producing

I don't think they're too focused on achieving a particular outcome, a lot of the time. Sometimes an intended outcome is what they're willing to abort when it starts to interfere with their enjoyment of the process. That varies from kid to kid and project to project, of course. Frustrations and struggles with the medium are apparent in some of the pieces, and that can either enhance or diminish the work for me, or neither. I'm generally more taken with the way their eye distorts things than their hands. A lot like how this Valtat guy looks at a park and sees a jungle. My favorite piece in all the time i worked there was a ridiculous hand-built urn that looked like a trophy.

OK. Why do you believe that?

I just thought it was too uncanny? Not inconceivable that they might be a contemporary works, just a lot less likely.

A good painting makes the viewer feel ashamed, either because they could never make it, or because they don’t understand it.

No.

who everyone was sleeping with.

Lol.

I can think of a few art critics who avoid making value judgements, i don't see the point of that.

...some of the kids are pretty good with clay, too.

the face isn't good. it's the first thing i go to because i'm a human and i look at faces. i see the human. cool, it's a human. guitar. ok.

look at that tree above, her though. the one to left is good too, but especially the on in the upper-right quadrant. i like the piny thorny plants behind and to the right of her head as well. the human is there, with a couple eyeballs. faces are hard. this artist didn't take much time with it, but they spent way more time on the plants. the plantlife is very good. "how" is it "good", i don't know, what is rock and roll

I enjoyed your 'review' of the painting, KM.

It surprises me that you went right to the face, with everything going on here i don't find my eye drawn to anything as a focal point.

It's a very intense setting, for a leisure scene. The plants look like they're going to eat her.

It's a very intense setting, for a leisure scene. The plants look like they're going to eat her.

keep going! this is like an erotic PR email pitch

and by that i mean - i'm drawn to those things

do i want her to not be eaten, if i have a choice? no, eat her! she's some rich aristocratic lovechild from the 1890s, fucking eat her alive!

an intense leisure scene? fuck yeah

it doesn't mean it's good for you, it just means it's good for me

Your comments reminded me of this from Barry Schwabsky's review of Clement Greenberg's collected essays

It couldn’t have been fun for artists to find themselves athwart Greenberg’s exclusivity, though not many had to face judgments he’d been storing up for years, as Georgia O’Keeffe did when he reviewed her retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in 1946: “The lapidarian patience she has expended in trimming, breathing upon, and polishing these bits of opaque cellophane betrays a concern that has less to do with art than with private worship and the embellishment of private fetishes with secret and arbitrary meanings.” And that was one of his more sympathetic comments on O’Keeffe. She sounds like Laura Wingfield polishing her glass menagerie. How things have changed in sixty years: The very qualities Greenberg invoked to bury O’Keeffe would now more likely be used to praise an artist’s work.

It's quite comic, to me. Attack Of The Killer Foliage. The poor lady, sitting in the park on a Sunday afternoon, completely oblivious to these gnarly killer trees and the plants pulsating with this menacing energy, about to devour her alive. They're going to crowd her out of her own picture at the very least.

The hilarity of it undermines its power for me

Her lifelessness animates the plants more and more. I perceive it as a symbiotic relationship. She'll be plant food soon, and so will all of us, really. It's the cycle of life, it's nature's way.

My review of this big beast Fritz Aigner book
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4184306073

Just got 2 Ernst Fuchs books in the mail

i don't really think paintings should make you feel ashamed, i was trying to create an aphorism

whether a painting is "good" or "bad" is subjective, but i think "beauty" is too narrow of a criteria. some paintings are great because they are transcendently ugly, like the work of chaim soutine and philip guston.

as with all arts, what we're looking for is something like "truth," but a very peculiar definition of it.

I love how jumblytumbly those Valtat pieces are. Chaim Soutine is another fine jumblytumbler.

you guys are weird

Ben Sledsens
https://www.instagram.com/p/CTATjb3tvM4/

Nice video about Aleksandra Waliszewska, one of my favorites. Annoying skillshare advert near the start.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgE15jkhtpo

Mark Laver is like a gooey Charles Burchfield
https://www.instagram.com/marklaver1970/

Carl Blechen
https://www.artatberlin.com/wp-content/uploads/ARTatBerlin-Waldweg-bei-Spandau-Carl-Blechen.jpg

A video about Suehiro Maruo in the same format as the Waliszewska one above
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w67WMr4krLI

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/14/magazine/the-odd-otherwordly-glow-of-fred-herzogs-photography.html

Had somehow never heard of Fred Herzog, love it all.

http://book-graphics.blogspot.com/search/label/Alb%C3%ADn%20Brunovsk%C3%BD

Bottom two galleries are the best ones.

https://www.outsiderartnow.com/viljo-gustafsson/

https://www.instagram.com/natsuko_tanihara/

I know he might be "too mainstream" but I am really happy that Stanley Whitney is getting the recognition he deserves.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/29/arts/design/stanley-whitney-lisson-gallery.html

No such thing as too mainstream and he's new to me

He had a piece on the cover of Artforum last year. He's tremendous, imho.

Creating a hashtag just to give me-self a pretense to thread art of the past ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) pic.twitter.com/IqP5k3n0AG

— LaumeB (@GlitchedAnanke) November 9, 2021

https://www.pinterest.com/bethgilmour/agnes-miller-parker/
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/405112928950303641/

dang, that's amazing

yeah lovely stuff. also liked this i saw today:

Contemporary artist Lena Limkina created an “artist's diary,” with pen and and ink journal sketches #WomensArt pic.twitter.com/Q1qb2BtDEq

— #WOMENSART (@womensart1) February 9, 2022

http://halcyonrealms.com/books/the-beauties-in-myths-ohrai-noriyoshi-art-book-review/
http://halcyonrealms.com/books/the-last-odyssey-ohrai-noriyoshi-art-book-review/
http://halcyonrealms.com/film/ohrai-noriyoshi-ii-1966-1984-art-book-review/
http://halcyonrealms.com/film/green-universe-ohrai-noriyoshi-art-book-review/

https://www.pinterest.jp/ohraimapa/

From 1991-1992 Suzanne Treister made fictional video game stills using Deluxe Paint II, and took photos of them. The original floppies are corrupt(!) so only the photographs remain! Amazing example of computer art from this era, predating the glitch art of today by decades. pic.twitter.com/7XHeCm0BtP

— brandon sheffield (@necrosofty) April 21, 2020

https://i.imgur.com/OVTYhVM.jpg
corey k lamb

Thank you Premlak 🙏 pic.twitter.com/NzDCNvxQzg

— LC von Hessen ☠ (@LCvonHessen) March 29, 2022

nazanin pouyandeh
https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a5f67b290bcce6b6e944cc8/1626517496933-7F4QADTN8JKW6VZF602O/IMG_4243.jpg

josie perry
https://i.imgur.com/ufbRIo8.png

dan lissvik
https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c7fa070a9ab955a77c0a3ac/1619899011743-514V8MPPOGJLQU8QK1J1/Blomma-Ca.jpg

ran across Nicolae Grigorescu today

https://i.imgur.com/m5Je00Y.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/K8FcDYQ.jpg

Always liked this book but never knew anything about it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejg8eA4yIG4

Didn't know this series was back on but it's been going a few years and quite enjoyable at times
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7HVGMNPskE

hadn't heard of that, looks interesting!

The Claire Wendling and Jung Gi Kim videos might be a good starter

Anyone know who this cover painting is by?
https://broadviewpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/9781554815326.jpg

Looks like Kirchner

Deflatormouse is right, “Potsdamer Platz” by Kirchner.

Thankyou.

I should know this artist who did this cover but I'm totally blanking
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/35121/lady-macbeth-of-mtsensk-and-other-stories-by-leskov-nikolai/9780141396743

This is the most beautifully awful book cover I've seen and it makes it even better that it's on a fairly big classics line
https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/A-Hero-of-Our-Time-by-Mikhail-IUrevich-Lermontov-Marian-Schwartz/9780812970760

The artist of the Leskov cover is Ildar Zaripov and the painting translates as Zulfiya, Kazan beauty (1975). I don't think he's well known, at least outside Russia, and I haven't been able to find reference to the painting outside the Penguin cover. I only found it out because the relevant page is on Google Books.

You can find a bit more about him online if you search by his name in Cyrillic: Ильдара Зарипова

Thankyou very much. The style looked very familiar so I just assumed I knew the artist but I didn't. And on searching Zaripov, nothing else really looks like that painting.

Michael Heizer's earthwork City is finally done.

https://www.artnews.com/gallery/art-news/photos/michael-heizer-city-desert-installation-1234636996/

I have never been to Nevada but that seems like a fine destination!

in other artnews, frank stella sucks https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/frank-stella-nfts-ars-arsnl-1234636636/

I am in total awe of Heizer's City. The aerial shots in this NYT feature are stunning:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/08/19/arts/design/michael-heizer-city.html

Of course I'd love to see it IRL, but based on how they're running the visitation process I'm expecting to wait several years.

Noriyoshi Ohrai - Green Universe

His books aren't easy to find so I was happy to find this even though it was expensive. He might be most famous for his Goonies and Godzilla posters (I think the former was used around the world) but he did so much more. He can do just about anything Drew Struzan and Frank Frazetta can do and more. There's Star Wars, samurai and disaster movie posters; extremely realistic cigarette adverts and portraits of actors and politicians; immense battleships of sea and space; covers for Koei games, military history books, men's adventure, manly genres in general, Kazumasa Hirai (Wolf Guy and Genma Taisen), EE Doc Smith, Isaac Asimov, Dan Simmons, some book covers reminiscent of Jack Davis film posters, and some books that look remarkably like Metal Gear Solid (Hideo Kojima said his art was a big influence and got him to make a few images for MGS). I'm sure the contents of most of these books were a comedown.

My favorite thing in the book was the section on his SF Adventure magazine covers. I don't know why he did this or if it was his own idea but he taken famous women from ancient history (although I'm pretty sure one of them is Marie Curie) and made them look like glamour models doing fashion shoots, often dressing like Dejah Thoris. The color combinations are really strong and there's usually a mix of different time periods in each image, pieces of the past and a science fictional future. When you pick them apart they're really daft but I think they're probably his best work.

This book is a dazzler but he's done so much more and there's never been an english language art book and Taschen should get on that as soon as possible.

David G. Goodman - Angura: Posters Of The Japanese Avant-Garde

This is specifically posters for theatre from 60s-70s. It's a very slim book but an interesting overview of the time, along with the posters and there's photos of performances. There's a lot of focus on the rejection of modernism and designs that would be internationally accessible, because they wanted to reclaim things like the disreputable side of Kabuki and other parts of japanese culture that were getting buried. We also see what parts of western culture they were embracing.

Some of it leans towards psychedelic, some photo collage and there's several famous manga artists. My favorite is Oikawa Masamichi because of his detailed rendering style. Goodman gives commentary for each poster and he sees lots of sexual symbolism I don't. There's a bibliography at the back including plays that have been translated into english (this book is from 1999 though).

I know next to nothing about avant-garde theatre but I was intrigued by the ideas: distinctions between very different seeming things fading into chaos; a play's second act having a real bus journey that takes the audience to an apartment to interview the people who live there; a Shuji Terayama play that none of the audience gets to see the whole of, so the different segments of the audience has to share what happened in the parts they did see to construct the whole story.

Pete Beard's channel is quite impressive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4ENmETU2tw

Re: Heizer's City, has anyone seen any reports from anyone who has visited it? As far as I know it opened in early September, but I can't find anything except a YouTube video of some dudes who attempted to go there and skateboard on it (obv that didn't work out for them).

Questionable thread to put this in but I couldn't think of a better thread: The Last Family (2016), a biopic about Zdzislaw Beksinski and his family (his radio DJ/music critic/translator son Tomasz gets the second most attention) is great, doesn't follow the usual biopic patterns either (or I didn't notice them). Great to hear Pieter Nooten & Michael Brook in a film too, great choice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfFt9RfO9Bc

I was surprised by just how much raw material there was to work from (loads of recordings, interviews), seems unusual for that kind of artist but maybe not

a good vid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4EPmuA--VU

Activists with @JustStop_Oil have thrown tomato soup on Van Gogh’s Sunflowers at the national Gallery and glued themselves to the wall. pic.twitter.com/M8YP1LPTOU

— Damien Gayle (@damiengayle) October 14, 2022

Kim Jung Gi died of a heart attack at 47

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2E8iRbVqF3g
Lovely documentary about Leonor Fini from 1987. I haven't seen many things like this for artists I'm so fond of. I have no idea what kind of percentage of her work is available online and in books in one handy place because it seems like there was probably hundreds and hundreds of stuff. She shows her phone doodles and they're mostly cat people, the cat men in wrestling pants made me laugh.

During lockdown, I got a bit addicted to Sotheby's and Christie's Youtube channels, the auctions can make you a bit queasy but before each auction livestream they often float out these short films, dedicated to the painter and painting for sale, and they can be very illuminating.

I had seen some of the paintings but never knew about the sottobosco movement, this was pretty exciting for me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHBB483Dcdw

Love this bollock naked man jumping up with flying dogs
http://www.susannahmartin.de/images/werk/malerei/werk-full/salon-dogs-meet-death-worm.jpg

The images aren't loading right for me but this is the only place I've seen these pictures all in one place. I wonder what her writing is like?
https://honesterotica.com/illustrator/louise-hervieu

Woah.
That jumping dogs piece is intense...

Really loving James Pryde, a lot of his paintings look like formerly wealthy people living in the ruins of their homes or just a generally darkening world.
https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2011/CKS/2011_CKS_08014_0252_000(james_ferrier_pryde_the_deserted_garden013613).jpg
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/04/2e/c1/042ec13c62d57462f9537e57ef221233.jpg
Nice painting of Henry Irving
https://www.nationalgalleries.org/sites/default/files/styles/postcard/public/externals/176438.jpg?itok=xsLGzQJk

https://www.rachaelpease.com/

Thought it was her husband she killed but no
https://unquietthings.com/of-dreams-and-dark-pasts-surrealist-painter-sofia-bassi/

https://imgsed.com/p/CwxcBpWtZVJ/

https://imgsed.com/lera.dubitskaya/

I got lost in this amazing shop site connected to the 50Watts online gallery and I don't believe I've ever seen Gerard Wagner before, there's not much of him online but there's a few recent books devoted to him and his work with Rudolf Steiner
https://50wattsbooks.com/products/goetheanum-cupola-motifs-of-rudolf-steiner-discounted

https://huariqueje.tumblr.com/post/185835881201/ancient-pool-ierapolis-maria-filopoulou