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Post by Tiberius on Jul 29, 2004 19:37:51 GMT 10
I've always loved this painting - The Scream. It perfectly captures the feeling of anxiety:  |
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Post by fathershark on Jul 29, 2004 19:54:10 GMT 10
 I just love looking at the goolies. |
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Post by kim-b on Aug 1, 2004 7:48:13 GMT 10
I always enjoyed "Relativity" more than that one Collette.  woah, I remember this from when I was a small kint (maybe 7ish). I'm not sure where I had it, but I used to own it somewhere, maybe in a small book. I was totally obsessed with it for months. Looking at it over and over trying to see things from all perspectives. Wooh. |
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Post by Tiberius on Aug 1, 2004 15:40:14 GMT 10
 I loathe that forms of art like comics have often been looked down on and considered “low art” when they’ve often had just as much strength to comment on society, people, and life. Charles M. Schulz was particularly brilliant in doing this with his creation Peanuts as seen in this example here commenting on the state of the popular music industry in contemporary society. It’s as relevant now as it was when he wrote it. |
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Post by fathershark on Aug 1, 2004 21:33:56 GMT 10
 the Mona-Lisa (working draft) |
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Post by fathershark on Aug 1, 2004 21:42:22 GMT 10
 the pinaccle of modern sculpture |
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Post by fathershark on Aug 2, 2004 13:40:14 GMT 10
I like Jae Lee as well KD. He did a 3 issue run of Spiderman in the early 90's that featured him fighting alongside Iron Fist (which I'm sure is a porn alter ego in the adult film industry), and I really digged that.
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Post by HeadingEast on Aug 3, 2004 17:59:07 GMT 10
two of my favourites artists are Vasily Kafanov:   www.kafanov.comand Alessandro Bavari:   www.alessandrobavari.comvasily kafanov did the smashing pumpkins artwork for machina: the machines of god, great artwork on that album one also to check out is alex grey, who did some artwork for tool  |
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Post by tilted on Aug 3, 2004 18:57:45 GMT 10
i read alex grey's book for my 4unit english majorwork, i was doing shortstories with an arty theme. the guy's interesting, not sure if he's a nutbag or not... his artwork is amazing.... very... 'spiritual'.
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Post by caelestis on Aug 4, 2004 22:27:25 GMT 10
 oisin (or ossian?) by francois gerard. we had to do one of those write a piece based on a painting things for english in year 10. and i chose this one. from the celtic myth. |
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Post by singingcirclesaway on Aug 5, 2004 13:59:59 GMT 10
 Bocca Della Verita The marble mask dates back to the 4th century B.C. According to popular legend, it is said that anyone who puts their hand in the mouth and swears falsely, can not withdraw it. My grandfather made a copy of this out of plastiscene(sp) and used to tell me that if I put my hand in its mouth and lied, it would bite my hand off. While in Surfers with my family we saw a machine that was basically a model of la bocca della verita that you inserted a coin, put your hand in the mouth and it read your palm. I still can't put my hand in it...mainly because I did and my dad yelled loudly and I screamed, beside the point! Anyway, I really like this mask. Never knew that. I saw one at 'Ripley's Believe It or Not' museum, and threw my hand in there. Ha. Also saw a figure that if you touch you're meant to get pregnant -- wasn't so quick to go near that one though. |
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Post by reykjavik on Aug 15, 2004 10:53:49 GMT 10
 I'm so honoured to share my birthday with this genius. |
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Post by streetlights on Aug 15, 2004 14:22:07 GMT 10
 Helena Almeida 'Sem título' 1994-95 (detail) I saw her collections at the Biennale. I really liked it. I was prepared to nick them right off the wall, but alas I would have got in trouble. |
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Post by Tiberius on Aug 19, 2004 22:54:40 GMT 10
Yeah, and don’t get me wrong here, because I like this thread and Collette has posted some pretty interesting artwork here, most of them really good. However, there’s been some where my brain has screamed “what fucking pretentious crap is that!?”<br>
I remember seeing a documentary of an artiste on SBS years ago. She’d opened an exhibition to show her photography and invited a bunch of arty people to view them. One pretentious old guy holding onto a glass of champagne and wearing a beret looked at her photographs of stationary truck wheels and said slowly “hmm, I really like this piece of hers. It really moves me”.
Erm, it’s a fucking truck wheel!
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Post by fathershark on Aug 20, 2004 16:26:25 GMT 10
Mark, which artworks are the ones that made your brain scream “what fucking pretentious crap is that!?” Could I hazard a guess and say that it was all of them? |
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