Art
Ponyhenge
Article here.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jul 27, 2019 -
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Category: Animals, Art, Cryptozoology, Eccentrics
Warhol Flies Braniff
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jul 21, 2019 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Business, Advertising, Air Travel and Airlines, 1960s
Artwork Khrushchev Probably Would Not Have Liked 22
The avant garde that irked Khrushchev flourished in Japan also, as we learn in this article.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jun 26, 2019 -
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Category: Annoying Things, Art, Avant Garde, 1920s, Asia, Russia
Birch-Bark Suit
Created by Finnish artist Erkki Pekkarinen. There's not a lot of info to be found about him in English on the Internet. But Finland's Contemporary Folk Art Museum offers some:
His giant birch-bark shoes
Posted By: Alex - Tue Jun 04, 2019 -
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Category: Art, Fashion
Body Paint Animals of Johannes Stötter
His home page, with more videos.
Posted By: Paul - Thu May 23, 2019 -
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Category: Animals, Art, Surrealism, Body Painting
Imogene Winchester in LIFE Magazine
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Sun May 19, 2019 -
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Category: Art, Body, Human Marvels, Children, 1930s
Artwork Khrushchev Probably Would Not Have Liked 21
Khrushchev definitely would not have approved of this filthy exhibitionism!
Posted By: Paul - Mon May 13, 2019 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Statues and Monuments, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, 1920s, Russia
Art Disposal Service, #2
A few months ago I posted about an art disposal service created in the 1960s by artist John Manno. Turns out that art disposal services are a recurring theme in the art world, because another one was created in the 1990s by Thomas O’Day who (evidently unaware of the earlier one) billed it as the world’s first.Some details from the LA Times (Feb 3, 1995):
“I didn’t want to show the work,” he said. “The idea of burying it allowed the work to still be around and go through a process. The first law of conservation is: ‘The more things change, the more they stay the same.’”
That burial would eventually lead O’Day to establish the “Waste to Energy to Waste Project: The World’s First Art Disposal Service.” Any artist wishing to dispose of art can employ his service, which uses a variety of means, including burial and explosives, to eradicate the work or transform it into another form.”
More details (including a video) at O'Day's site.
Some of his other artistic endeavors similarly involved the destruction of art, such as Flambé, “a 1990 performance in which, while a waiter flambéd a stew for a formal dinner party, O’Day flambéd one of his drawings.” And ik-splod, “1992, staged at a private airstrip in Ione, Wash. O’Day commissioned an explosives expert to blow up 50 of his pieces, dating from 1979 to 1992.”
Seems to me that O'Day can be categorized as part of the Destructivist Art Movement.
Posted By: Alex - Wed Apr 24, 2019 -
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Category: Art, 1990s
The Anatomical Flora of Alessandra Pirovano
Her website.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Apr 15, 2019 -
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Category: Art, Surrealism, Body
The Ohwadas and their Tattoos
An instance of the Formerly Weird becoming No Longer Weird.
Original article here.
More pics here.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Apr 09, 2019 -
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Category: Art, Eccentrics, Museums, Foreign Customs, 1980s, Asia
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