General visual art thread

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

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

I find this Terrance Lindall painting quite funny
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--N3Z48ME6kI/UDHpL-ecPmI/AAAAAAAAWTQ/AWyQEdvjDu4/s1600/terrance+lindall-08.jpg

I love Rose O'Neill's sweet monsters series, she really needs a new book (like thousands of other artists really), would like to get hold of some of her novels too
https://doe-eyedwerewolf.tumblr.com/post/714173687599955968/rose-oneill-sweet-monsters

Consuelo “Chelo” Amezcua
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/49/6b/ee/496bee9939bdb296803e1a80d3fdcfee.jpg

Really strange name: Constant-Désiré Despradelle
https://www.onverticality.com/blog/despradelle-beacon-of-progress

wow, love that last rendering in particular. build it now!

I *think* it might be a detail of "The final drawing, which is 15 feet high by 10 feet wide, attempts to capture a sense of the Beacon's scale and strength" - no luck tracking yet this down or confirming its existence!

no luck tracking yet this down - me talk pretty one day.

Colour detail of the drawing: https://www.mutualart.com/Exhibition/Grazia-Toderi-and-Desire-Despradelle--Sp/DB09B75B556A72DA

Lots of cool building plans in this category
https://www.onverticality.com/blog/tag/unbuilt

https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1577789274/unknown-artist-five-men-standing-inside
unknown artist

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/women-non-mainstream-art_n_5616e5d4e4b0e66ad4c730cc
My favorite of the bunch is Christine Sefolosha

I know people have a lot of problems with the term "outsider art" but "non-mainstream art" doesn't really cut it for me

https://www.liveinternet.ru/community/2214271/post153181920/
Viktor Krizanovskij (I've seen the name with many vartiations, not sure which is the proper one), love this kind of thing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Kryzhanivskyi
okay, he has an english entry so I guess this is the correct spelling?

Seemed to be a suicide but his family thinks he was murdered

Maksym Lazariev, I'm kind of blown away by his skill
https://www.artmajeur.com/maksym-lazariev/de/kunstwerke/15441019/sky-garden-tian-kong-ting-yuan
https://www.artmajeur.com/maksym-lazariev/en/artworks/14766860/the-tree-of-life-sheng-mingno-mu

Stanislaw Trojanski, the last painting looks like a communist joke meme but by an old school painter
http://www.fine-arts-international.com/trojanski.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQGIyjtINwk