Posts tagged art
“”Since it took off in the 1960s, Pop Art has been associated with slightly vulgar elements. The subjects are often common, low-class objects: ice-cream cornets, hamburgers, beefburgers, frankfurters, Coca Cola and comics. That was an essential in the early days of American Pop Art. I became interested in trying to establish the idea that any common object could be a subject for Pop Art, even if it was high style.
I felt it necessary to make a distinction between pop and popular art.
RIP Richard Hamilton.
Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing? is still a artwork I remember having a huge influence from Megg’s Graphic Design History
The Daily Beast creates The Art Beast
“ Removing something from its original context or setting, we kill the sense of awe that we might attach to it’s uniqueness. The danger when people mistake the reproduction for the work of art itself. It becomes presented sans “aura”
Walter Benjamin – The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Pretty salient in the age of the blog where context is lost and content is morselised into appropriate digestible chunks, the design blog et al have extended the problem of reproduction with low cognitive cost to publication.
‘Sensing Nature‘, an exhibition which rethinks the Japanese perception of nature, has just opened at the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Want to go back to Japan
Seven on Seven paired seven leading artists with seven game-changing technologists in teams of two, and challenged them to develop something new —be it an application, social media, artwork, product, or whatever they imagined— over the course of a single day.
“ An art gallery is like a single-cell organism: it is the crudest but also the most essential life form in the art-world food chain. It is among the easiest of public forums to start up, and therefore the most efficient means of introducing new blood into the system. All it takes is one person with the single-minded determination to get the work of an artist or two seen and a reasonably clean, well-lighted space of almost any size”
Marcel Duchamp, ‘Étant donnés’ 1966 (via Dangerous Minds)
Wiki: “Duchamp worked secretly on the piece from 1946 to 1966 in his Greenwich Village studio while even his closest friends thought he had abandoned art. His wife, Alexina (Teeny), was his sole confidante during most of its construction.
It is made of an old wooden door, bricks, velvet, twigs, a female form made of leather, glass, linoleum, and an electric motor. Duchamp prepared a “Manual of Instructions” in a 4-ring binder explaining and illustrating how to assemble and disassemble the piece.”
I love when art has a manual
“ I hate the term “outsider art,” as some touch of mental illness is a necessity for creative genius, and stigmatizing those who fall to far on the spectrum is done so, at the perpetuation of the literary careers of well-groomed perfect i-dotters and t-crossers, whose banal fiction is the real reason (not the Internet, not the Kindle, not the recession) publishing is in such desperation.”
