Art
Sun Ra Cover Art Book
Looks like a great Xmas present for WU-vies.Here's the publisher's page, with the Amazon link below.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Nov 01, 2022 -
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Category: Art, Eccentrics, Holidays, Music, Vinyl Albums and Other Media Recordings, Books
Upside-Down Mondrian
Art historian Susanne Meyer-Büser argues that a 1941 work by Piet Mondrian has been hung upside-down for the past 75 years. The work, made with colored adhesive tape, has traditionally been hung with the closely-spaced bands at the bottom. Meyer-Büser says that these should be at the top, "like a dark sky." A photo of Mondrian's studio from 1944 supports her interpretation.However, there are no plans to turn the work around, due to its fragile condition.
I'll be adding this to my Gallery of Art Hung Upside-Down.
More info: BBC, Town and Country
The traditional orientation
The correct orientation (according to Meyer-Büser)
Posted By: Alex - Sun Oct 30, 2022 -
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Category: Art
Artwork Khrushchev Probably Would Not Have Liked 46
Two links to the Wikipedia pages of the Themersons, husband and wife team of avant-gardists.Small essay here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Aug 31, 2022 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Surrealism, Movies, Twentieth Century
Giganticus Headicus
I recently had the chance to visit this roadside oddity in Arizona. It's located about 20 miles east of Kingman on Route 66. Artist Gregg Arnold created it in 2004, modeling it after the giant heads on Easter Island. He created it, he said, "because the place looked like it needed something like this."More info: Roadside America
Posted By: Alex - Wed Aug 24, 2022 -
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Category: Art, Landmarks, Sightseeing
The Abstract Films of Myron Ort
Plenty of others at his Vimeo page.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Aug 24, 2022 -
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Category: Art, Surrealism, Movies, Twentieth Century
Shooting Paintings
1961: Artist Niki de Saint-Phalle attached bags of paint to her paintings and then shot at them with a .22 caliber rifle, causing the bags to burst and the paint to ooze down the canvas. She called these her "shooting paintings."She explained:
Louisville Courier-Journal - July 16, 1961
Posted By: Alex - Wed Aug 17, 2022 -
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Category: Art, 1960s, Weapons
Artwork Khrushchev Probably Would Not Have Liked 45
Karl Hubbuch 1881-1979 "Dialog (Myriam with cat)" c 1953
The artist's Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Aug 03, 2022 -
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Category: Art, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Cats, 1950s
Portable Oasis
The "portable oasis" of Belgian artist Alain Verschueren consists of a small, plexiglass greenhouse that he wears over his head. He came up with the idea around 2005, but only got attention for it in 2020, due to Covid, when he began wearing it around town instead of a mask.More info: Alain Verschueren, Reuters
I'll give Verschueren the benefit of the doubt and assume he wasn't aware of Waldemar Anguita's "greenhouse helmet," patented in 1986. The two ideas are basically identical.
Posted By: Alex - Sun Jul 24, 2022 -
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Category: Art, Inventions, Patents
The Volkswagen Beatle
Dave Fambrough made headlines back in 1978 for turning cars into giant spiders. I'm not sure what's become of him since then.According to NV Racing News, as of 2015 one of Fambrough's spider cars could be seen on the roof of Scudder's Performance Racing garage in Sparks, Nevada.
San Bernardino County Sun - Mar 29, 1978
Posted By: Alex - Fri Jul 08, 2022 -
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Category: Art, 1970s, Cars
Artwork Khrushchev Probably Would Not Have Liked 44
His Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jul 03, 2022 -
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Category: Art, 1940s, Russia
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