General visual art thread

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!

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