Avant Garde
The Return of Pipilotti Rist
Longtime WU-vies will recognize the name of this artist, since we've been covering her almost since the blog commenced. Now, late to the party, THE NEW YORKER has discovered her "genius."Let us savor one of Rist's newer works, posted to YouTube in November 2019. Don't let the fact that its views number in the low double digits dissuade you from its worth!
Posted By: Paul - Mon Sep 14, 2020 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Magazines, Europe
Artwork Khrushchev Probably Would Not Have Liked 28
Tatiana Glebova, 1927.
In "Prision," of which there is a preparatory drawing, the painter depicts a world of multiple orientations through diverse interconnected viewpoints, and shows various heads with their musculature visible as if to reveal to us their interminable growth process. Glebova devoutly believed Filonov’s theories on the “universal flowering” and, like him, held that painting should reflect a growth process of the world similar to that of plants, according to which it was permanently active as an independent being.
Source of text.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Aug 27, 2020 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Body Modifications, 1920s, Russia
Sun Ra Arkestra - Seductive Fantasy (A Chad Van Gaalen animation)
Weird music plus weird animation: two great weirds that go great together!
Posted By: Paul - Thu Aug 20, 2020 -
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Category: Music, Avant Garde, Surrealism, Cartoons, Psychedelic, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
Sybil Brintrup, RIP
Alas, the world will get no more performances like this one.Obit in Spanish.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Aug 14, 2020 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Performance Art, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art
The Gone Away
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jul 27, 2020 -
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Category: Cryptozoology, Dreams and Nightmares, Food, Avant Garde, Pop Art, Surrealism, Absurdism and Dadaism
The Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome
The Wikipedia page.
Anger is still with us, as of this writing, and looking pretty scary.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jul 13, 2020 -
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Category: Elderly and Seniors, Movies, Avant Garde, 1950s
The Astra-Gnome Time and Space Car
Full story here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jun 29, 2020 -
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Category: Motor Vehicles, Avant Garde, 1950s, Yesterday’s Tomorrows
Hamfat Asar
The creator's Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Tue May 26, 2020 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Surrealism, Stop-motion Animation, 1960s
The Painter Joachim Raphaël Boronali
NOTW and Weird Universe have covered innumerable art world hoaxes and farces. Paintings hung upside down, installations destroyed by janitors, large prize money for unmade beds, and so forth. Here is one of the first such japes. A painting done by a donkey with a brush tied to its tail, and exhibited at a famous Paris salon as the work of a new painter named Joachim Raphaël Boronali.
Read the whole story here.
Posted By: Paul - Thu May 14, 2020 -
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Category: Animals, Art, Avant Garde, Hoaxes and Imposters and Imitators, Twentieth Century
Artwork Khrushchev Probably Would Not Have Liked 27
Bronislava Nijinska made up for Kikimora by Léonide Massine.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Mar 21, 2020 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, 1910s, Dance, Body Painting
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