Avant Garde
Artwork Khrushchev Probably Would Not Have Liked 20
It seems many of the public sided with Khrushchev's tastes for old-fashioned stuff in this case.
Source for article.
More pix at this link.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Feb 20, 2019 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Pop Art, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Fairs, Amusement Parks, and Resorts, 1960s
Artwork Khrushchev Probably Would Not Have Liked 18
Brassaï (Gyula Halász)
Prostitute Undressing
1934-35
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jan 08, 2019 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Sexuality, 1930s, Russia
Céleste Boursier-Mougenot
I believe we've seen the birds-and-guitars piece before, but not the others.His Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Dec 26, 2018 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Museums, Music, Europe, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
Karina Smigla-Bobinski
The artist's homepage.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Dec 22, 2018 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Europe
Stanisław Szukalski
Stanisław Szukalski was a painter and sculptor who also developed the pseudoscientific historical theory of Zermatism, positing that all human culture was derived from a post-deluge Easter Island and that mankind was locked in an eternal struggle with the Sons of the Yeti. He illustrated this theory in his works.
Article source.
Artist's homepage.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Dec 13, 2018 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Outsider Art, War, Documentaries, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, Europe, Twentieth Century
Sasha Frolova
Article on her tribute to Marie Antoinette.
Her homepage.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Nov 12, 2018 -
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Category: Music, Avant Garde
Artwork Khrushchev Probably Would Not Have Liked 16
Xul Solar, "San P," 1923
I think we should just nominate Xul Solar as someone whose entire output would have displeased our Soviet realist.
More images here.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Oct 09, 2018 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, 1920s, Russia
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
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
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
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