Jean-Michel Basquiat. The more I look at his work, the more I like it. More than that. I love it.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
21 12 2015Comments : Leave a Comment »
Categories : art, Collage, Culture, paintings, street art, the 70s, Uncategorized, violence
The Fabulous Diana Ross
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Categories : American Culture, art, Collage, Culture, fantasy, music, photography, surreal, the 70s, Uncategorized
Aubrey Beardsley
18 06 2015Beardsley was very big in the 60s and 70s. There were posters all over walls in every student residence. There was something feminine and druggy about his work. It seemed decadent and vulgar. It seemed to me that he had become the artist of the ‘pseudo-intellectuals’. Since then he has almost disappeared from the popular scene. (Or maybe I’m just that far out of it myself.)
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Categories : art, Culture, drawing, fantasy, illustration, the 70s, Uncategorized
BONA TIBERTELLI DE PISIS
6 04 2015BONA TIBERTELLI DE PISIS. 1926 – 2000. (Bona de Mandiargues) I hope I’m not talking about 2 artists. (Chalk it up to stupidity.) I was in Paris in the early 1970s which would have been this artist’s prime. Perhaps she walked by me in a book store. Or slapped my face in a cafe. Who knows how close we come to meeting each other in this world.
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Categories : 40s, art, Culture, paintings, surreal, the 50s, the 60s, the 70s, Uncategorized
Richard Avedon
2 03 2015Not only has Richard Avedon photographed many famous people. But he has also taken some very odd pictures. All wonderful. A lot of fun and joy in his pics.
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Categories : art, commercial art, Culture, photo montage, photography, photos, portraits, the 60s, the 70s, Uncategorized
The Death of Lou Grant
26 02 2015This book grew out of a much larger book about television and murder. I was writing about fantasies, the fantasies we have both about the lives of media stars and the lives of criminals. The Mary Tyler Moore Show became the background story for a man who is having a heart attack and is having his life flash before him. Except it isn’t his life, it is the life of Lou Grant, one of the fictional characters on the MTM Show.
I was trying to remember what I saw so absorbing about this kind of story. And I think it goes back to my reading of Plato’s ‘cave’ and Marshal McLuhan. We think we live in a world that exists in reality. But that reality is a creation of our species. Shadows on the wall. So what is real? That is the eye in the potato.
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lisa yuskavage
31 01 2015I find her work fascinating but am not sure I get it. Is she exploring female forms, male fantasies, or the cinema.
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Categories : art, Collage, Culture, paintings, television, the 70s, the nude, Uncategorized
Claes Oldenburg
31 03 2014You can’t help but smile, maybe laugh, when you see Oldenburg’s work. There is the ‘how dare he’ reaction. Or ‘is it art’ question. I myself have no idea how to react. Except that as you drive almost anywhere in North America (and perhaps elsewhere) you see these giant versions of smaller objects. Outside Detroit, on the way west, there is a giant tire. Outside Leamington Ontario, there is I believe a giant tomato. If you travel north of Toronto towards Huntsville, there is a giant Adirondack chair.
Is it all art? Or is it just Oldenburg’s work? Hardly seems fair.
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Carel Weight
7 01 2014The wind is blowing. People are rushing off. Something has happened. What fabulous stories. Carel Weight.
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Categories : animation, art, comics, documentary, paintings, story telling, the 60s, the 70s, Uncategorized
Michael Cline
19 11 2013His work reminds one of Grosz and Bosch. His character, almost comic in presentation, seemed wasted and floundering in a world of corruption.
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