Art
Scherenschinitte
I actually kinda like listening to the German I can't understand. Allows me to focus on the art and imagine how it's done.Here's the Wikipedia page, which tells hardly anything more.
Here's the full version of that animated feature seen briefly above.
The artist's Wikipedia entry.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Sep 23, 2018 -
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Category: Art, Stop-motion Animation
Macaroni woman of the year
Since I posted a few days ago about eggplants that looked like Richard Nixon, I thought it only fitting to also note that his wife, Patricia, had her own food thing going on. In 1970, she was named Macaroni Woman of the Year by the National Macaroni Institute. She also had her portrait painted out of macaroni by the artist Don Wheeler.
Redlands Daily Facts - Oct 1, 1970
Wilkes Barre Times Leader - Apr 14, 1971
Posted By: Alex - Sat Sep 01, 2018 -
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Category: Art, Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Food, Politics
Artwork Khrushchev Probably Would Not Have Liked 15
Posted By: Paul - Fri Aug 17, 2018 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, 1940s, Russia
Eye worm art
Artist Ben Taylor drew a painting that featured “psychedelic colors and wormlike patterns inside a perfectly round circle.” Only later did he realize that he had parasitic worms in his eye, and he thinks they might have subconsciously inspired him. From The Durango Herald:He later adapted his painting to make it more obviously an eye infected by parasitic worms, and as a result it’s been chosen as the cover art for this month’s issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases.
Posted By: Alex - Mon Aug 13, 2018 -
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Category: Art, Health, Disease, Eyes and Vision
Eisenhower on Modern Art
Apparently, Nikita K. wasn't the only critic of modern art outraged by the 1959 exhibition, as you can see from the article below. Eisenhower and Harry Truman weighed in at times.But Eisenhower, like George W. Bush today, also painted as well, presumably showing us what he regarded as good art.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Aug 12, 2018 -
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Category: Art, Government, 1950s, Russia
Charlotte Moorman, the Topless Cellist
A great essay here, with many pix and videos.
Her Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Aug 06, 2018 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Misbehavior, Rebellion, Acting-out and General Naughtiness, Music, 1960s, 1970s
Toothpaste Artist
Adding another item to the ongoing list of weird things that artists paint with: toothpaste.It's the medium of choice for Mexican artist Cristiam Ramos, and I've got to admit, the results are pretty impressive. Business Insider has a video of him at work, which includes the following quote:
His website.
Posted By: Alex - Sun Aug 05, 2018 -
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Category: Art
The Art of Collage
As a guy who has done his share of collages, I had to chuckle at this British Pathe treatment of the "weird" art form.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jul 09, 2018 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, 1950s
Artwork Khrushchev Probably Would Not Have Liked 14
Wood Gaylor, "Rites of Spring"
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jun 29, 2018 -
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Category: Art, 1910s, Russia
Black Knight, Freeman of London
Dominating the staircase is a big painting of Lady Violet Munnings riding a grey hunter, superbly assured against a finely painted sky and moorland setting. Lady Violet’s Pekingese, Black Knight, who was made a Freeman of the City of London (such are the benefits of dining with the influential), wrote a memoir that he called Diary of a Freeman. Actually I think he dictated it to Lady Violet, who was his devoted slave in all things. After he died she had him stuffed, and continued to carry him to the village on errands. He now reposes on a favourite cushion in a glass case beneath Munnings’s portrait of him, in a cubby hole off the main staircase. He remains extremely popular with regular visitors.
The artist.
Here is Black Knight's account of his life.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jun 24, 2018 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Art, Books, Dogs, Twentieth Century
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