Art
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
Decomposition Cupcake
The “Five Stages” cupcake by artist Claire Ratcliffe. It was part of the Edible Body Farm exhibit held in England back in 2016, which used culinary creations to explore the topic of bodily decomposition.
Stages of decay cupcakes by Claire Ratcliffe
Posted By: Alex - Mon Mar 25, 2019 -
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Category: Art, Death, Food
Go! Go! Go!
Speeded up stuff is inherently weird.Her Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Mar 23, 2019 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Crowds, Groups, Mobs and Other Mass Movements, Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Movies, Special Effects, 1960s
RIP Carolee Schneeman
Her obit.Her Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Mar 08, 2019 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Performance Art, Pop Art, Body, Obituaries
Universal Everything
These CGI guys make some pretty weird videos.Superconsumers 1 from Universal Everything on Vimeo.
Emergence VR - Sundance trailer from Universal Everything on Vimeo.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Mar 06, 2019 -
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Category: Art, Surrealism, Computers, Special Effects
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