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Artwork Khrushchev Probably Would Not Have Liked 8
Continuing our series of esthetic creations that would probably have displeased stern traditionalist Nikita Khrushchev.
About the artist.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Dec 08, 2017 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, 1920s
Dali’s CHAOS AND CREATION
I would like to find the whole 17-minute video of Dali's CHAOS AND CREATION, especially after reading the description in the newspaper article. But I can only find bits and pieces. The second clip shows a brief image of the motorcycle in the pigpen.
Original article here.
Foto source.
Foto source, more at site.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Nov 14, 2017 -
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Category: Animals, Art, Avant Garde, Pop Art, Surrealism, 1960s, Motorcycles
Artwork Khrushchev Probably Would Not Have Liked 7
Artist's Wikipedia entry here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Nov 13, 2017 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Russia
Monster Movie
Wikipedia page for the creator.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Aug 20, 2017 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Fictional Monsters, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
The Films of Suzan Pitt
Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jul 30, 2017 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Cartoons, 1970s
Warhol Schrafft’s Commercial
In November 1968, the Manhattan restaurant chain Schrafft’s hired Andy Warhol to create a television commercial, hoping to make itself look more hip and relevant. Warhol created a one minute long commercial, promoting Schrafft’s new “Underground Sundae,” which Schrafft’s described as, "Yummy Schrafft's vanilla ice cream in two groovy heaps, with three ounces of mind-blowing chocolate sauce undulating within a mountain of pure whipped cream topped with a pulsating maraschino cherry served in a bowl as big as a boat."
Time magazine described the commercial as follows: "Onto the screen flashes a shiny red dot, which turns out to be a maraschino cherry, which turns out to sit atop a chocolate sundae, which turns out to be the focal point for a swirling phantasmagoria of color. All of which, it also turns out, is a 60-second videotape commercial for a venerable Manhattan-based restaurant chain. "The chocolate sundae," proclaims a credit line that rolls diagonally across the TV tube, was "photographed for Schrafft's by Andy Warhol.”
According to Harold H. Brayman: "The screen fills with a magenta blob, which a viewer suddenly realizes is the cherry atop a chocolate sundae. Shimmering first in puce, then fluttering in chartreuse, the colors of the background and the sundae evolve through many colors of the rainbow. Studio noises can be heard. The sundae vibrates to coughs on the soundtrack. 'Andy Warhol for a SCHRAFFT’S?' asks the off-screen voice of a lady. Answers an announcer: 'A little change is good for everybody.'"
And according to Playboy: "His recent widely discussed commercial for Schrafft’s restaurant chain was a long, voluptuous panning shot of a chocolate sundae, with 'all the mistakes TV can make left in,' the artist explained. 'It’s blurry, shady, out of focus.'" Warhol was quite pleased with the results. “‘It's fun,’ he says, ‘and really pretty, really great.’” Apparently, so was Schrafft’s, which claimed, “[W]e haven't got just a commercial. We've acquired a work of art."
Unfortunately, Schrafft’s failed to preserve the commercial, and no known copies exist. Accordingly, on Thanksgiving day 2014, Katrina Dixon & Brian L. Frye recreated Warhol's commercial, to the best of their ability. For the record, the hot fudge is homemade & based on Schrafft's own recipe.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jun 29, 2017 -
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Category: Food, Advertising, Avant Garde, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, 1960s
Artwork Khrushchev Probably Would Not Have Liked 4
Of course, before the Soviets took a stance against "degenerate" avant-garde art, they had a flourishing avant-garde scene in their own country.
Mikhail Larionov was one such native Russian artist.
Here is his "Venus" from 1912.
This new book on the topic seems very interesting and relevant.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jun 14, 2017 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, 1910s, Russia
Pineapple Becomes Art
Random object mistaken as art. Over at Robert Gordon University in Scotland, fourth-year student Ruairi Gray claims that he bought a pineapple from the local supermarket and then placed it beside the "Look Again" art and design exhibition at the university.He returned a few days later and discovered that his pineapple had been moved into a glass case. [RGU:Union]
It reminds me of that incident last year in which some teenagers put a pair of glasses on the floor at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and soon a crowd had gathered to look at the "exhibit."
Posted By: Alex - Wed May 03, 2017 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde
Artwork Khrushchev Probably Would Not Have Liked 3
Continuing our survey of "Early Twentieth-Century Art That Might Have Irked A Soviet Premier, Based On His Explicit Disdain For Such Experimental Creations."
"In the Beginning" by Lawrence Atkinson.
Atkinson's Wikipedia entry.
An essay on Atkinson.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Apr 22, 2017 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, 1930s
Ann Hamilton
Her home page.
Her Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Mar 17, 2017 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde
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