I like this social consciousness. Everyday life. Heroic and interesting figures.
Mark G. Pearce
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Jean-Michel Basquiat
26 06 2015This is the last sort of art that I think I would have entertained as interesting. But Basquiat’s work is interesting. He doesn’t paint pictures so much as tell stories. There is information in his work, data, impressions of anger and sadness. These are like cave paintings. Or the early bible creations of monks. They assault you with a collage of data. Impressionistic in a non-visual way. A lot of what I see reminds me of Picasso. The sad thing is that this artist is dead. And his life has been romanticized. Which means his work could take second place to people’s curiosity about the artist. With his relationship with Warhohl and Madonna, he has achieved a cult following.
I wrote about this artist a year ago. Upon reflection I like Basquiat’s work even more. There is of course a lot of courage in his work. If he’d been middle-class. But as a street kid I think he must have felt that this was the language he knew.
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Sergei Vasiliev
28 02 2015Photographed by Sergei Vasiliev. The photos of the tattoos of Russian Criminals. The images were messages. And some of them displeased different gangs. And the authorities. Who sometimes removed the tattoos. One can only imagine the techniques used. And they wouldn’t have been expensive. An example I think where art has a significance greater than life itself.
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George Grosz
21 02 2015Over the years I kept running into the work of Grosz. He seems to have captured that Nazi gene on canvas that exists in too many people. Its that look of arrogance of power. And its brutality. I saw some of this influence in the early work of John Lennon. And some at work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Olp2eYPJM8
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Gertrude Käsebier
1 01 2015Comments : Leave a Comment »
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Stephen Wiltshire
4 12 2014Communication is taken for granted. Even by those of us who struggle with it. (Men in general). Remembering that our ancestors crawled out of a soup of DNA, there had to be a first touch. Warmth or cold I would think. And then the other senses. Millions of years pass by. And blobs become politicians.
Individuals who have autism have many frustrations. Communication amongst them.
And then there is someone like Stephen Wiltshire. “The Human Camera”. He has autism. But he also has a superior ability to remember and to draw. Watch the documentaries below. You will, I think, be both moved and then blown away.
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Georges Dambier
2 11 2014Comments : Leave a Comment »
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Ryan Schude
11 10 2014It’s right at that moment. The one where you are about to lose your balance. And fall. When you reach for the glass that is about to fall off the table. Listening to her tell you that it’s all…. That is the work of Ryan Schude. The pieces are like stills in a motion picture. Except they are life. Except they are staged. Like art.
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Arnau Alemany
29 09 2014Odd when you read about artist who was born in the same year as yourself. Such is Arnau Alemany. His work has this odd appeal. It is very organic. As if urban rural life were one and the same. And dated. Something in the late 19th century. And naive. Not in its conception but its themes. Pastoral in quality the cities have none of the ugliness of most cities. Everything is tidy. Controlled. In sync. But where are the people?
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lalocabrujita
12 08 2014I find this artist’s near obsession with black birds both unsettling and interesting. A friend of mine became obsessed with feathers and the coincidence of their appearances. Lalocabrujita.
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