Art
Journal of the Identical Lunch
Journal of the Identical Lunch, published in 1971, records the experiences of artist Alison Knowles and her friends all eating an identical lunch — "a tunafish sandwich on wheat toast with lettuce and butter, no mayo and a large glass of buttermilk or a cup of soup" — though not all at the same time. Knowles herself reportedly ate this identical lunch every day at a New York diner.Copies of the book are now quite rare, so if you want one (perhaps as an investment? The price will surely only go up) it'll cost you at least $200, and perhaps as much as $500.
More info: artnet.com, MoMA.org
Posted By: Alex - Mon Jul 10, 2023 -
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Category: Art, Food, Books, 1970s
Artwork Khrushchev Probably Would Not Have Liked 51
His Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jun 18, 2023 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Statues and Monuments, Russia, Twentieth Century
Jan Akkerman
An album cover that would also work as the cover for a horror novel. (Reminds me specifically of that Clive Barker story, "The Body Politic," in which disembodied hands gain consciousness.)
Posted By: Alex - Thu Jun 08, 2023 -
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Category: Art, Music
Jamy Verheylewegen, Underwater Artist
We've previously posted about Zarh H. Pritchard, who pioneered the art of painting underwater. A later practitioner of this subaquatic form of art was Jamy Verheylewegen who begain painting underwater in 1983.Some info from the site of photographer Christian Voulgaropoulos (with help from Google Translate):
Harnessed like a professional diver; diving suit, suit and bottles of compressed air, He descends to a depth of about ten meters to spend more than an hour, installed near a "drop-off", to transcribe, using his colored tubes, the wonders of the sea.
He has a secret process, that of depositing colors based on pigments on a prepared canvas and this, in a definitive way. The easel is held to the ground by heavy weights, otherwise the wood it is made of will cause it to rise to the surface.
Source: voulgaropoulos.com
Source: Odd and Eccentric People (Time-Life Books)
Posted By: Alex - Sun Jun 04, 2023 -
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Category: Art, Oceans and Maritime Pursuits
The Body/Hair Paintings of Xie Rong
The artist's home page.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Apr 26, 2023 -
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Category: Art, Performance Art, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Sticky, Messy, Sloppy, Drippy, Treacly Things, Asia
Artwork Khrushchev Probably Would Not Have Liked 50
The artist's Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Apr 24, 2023 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Statues and Monuments, 1960s, Russia
Jet Art
Jackson Pollock splashed paint onto a canvas. Prince Jurgen von Anhalt took this method to the next level by using the blast of an airplane's jet engine to spray paint onto a canvas.More info: Smithsonian Magazine
Posted By: Alex - Fri Apr 14, 2023 -
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Category: Art
Artwork Khrushchev Probably Would Not Have Liked 49
Eugène Brands: De Tang - The Pincers signed and dated '8/51
The artist's Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Apr 08, 2023 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, 1950s
The influence of odors on creative thinking
There have been a variety of studies examining how psychoactive drugs affect behavior and creative output. But could smells also have a psychoactive effect? That was the question posed in a 1958 experiment conducted by scientist Leo H. Narodny — published in an obscure trade journal, The Perfumery & Essential Oil Record. Narodny wrote: "It may be possible, by inhaling certain odours, to influence creative imagination without endangering the whole brain by an excessive dosage of drugs."He used a textile designer as his test subject. Every day, for two weeks, he had her draw a design while breathing unscented air. Then, after breathing in air saturated with an odorous essential oil (such as bergamot, vanilla, peppermint, or cedarwood), she drew a second design. Some of the results are below.
It was hard to draw conclusions based on such a small sample size, but Narodny felt that the designer tended to draw more abstract patterns when exposed to the essential oils.
Nadia Berenstein offers more details about the experiment on her "Flavor Added" blog.
Posted By: Alex - Sat Mar 25, 2023 -
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Category: Art, Experiments, Psychology, Smells and Odors
Pushing a block of ice through Mexico City
In 1997, artist Francis Alÿs spent a day pushing a large block of ice through the streets of Mexico City until it fully melted. Try that in Phoenix in the summer and you'd get about half a block before the ice would be gone.In 2013, he kicked a flaming ball through the streets of Juarez.
According to a NY Times article about Alÿs, his working principle is "maximum effort, minimal result."
via Book of Joe
Posted By: Alex - Mon Mar 20, 2023 -
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Category: Art
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