Some humor on what happens when you over-analyze art.
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"All colors are the friends of their neighbours and the lovers of their opposites."
— Marc Chagall 1887-1985
Top 10 artists in 2008
Top 10 artists Turnover (m$) Sold Lots
1 Pablo PICASSO 262 1,764
2 Francis BACON 256 100
3 Andy WARHOL 236 1,164
4 Damien HIRST 230 445
5 Claude MONET 174 25
6 Alberto GIACOMETTI 132 111
7 Gerhard RICHTER 122 166
8 Edgar DEGAS 111 81
9 Lucio FONTANA 95 227
10 Yves KLEIN 91 59
I was looking for some Giuseppe Arcimboldo pics for a video and I found this funny, interesting, great homage by Till Nowak. It has made my day. Please do some research on this intelligent CGI artist.
Beautiful, inspiring,…
"Every man’s work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or anything else, is always a portrait of himself, and the more he tries to conceal himself the more clearly will his character appear in spite of him."
— Samuel Butler (1612-1680)
His technique is perfect, I can clearly see the thousands of hours Mr Glenn Brown spent developing his style (and trying to scape from Bacon’s long shadow). Each painting is admirable, organic, eye-challenging.
But I think he lost something. He lost the current time, the present. He makes rendition to Velázquez, “El Greco”, Dalí and many other great masters but all of them were dedicated to their present. They knew the people they were portraying, they portrayed their time.
A portrait has a lot to explain about the time when it was made, about the society, about the model and most of all about the artist. I feel really sad when I look at his paintings, all his innovation, his technique, his “brush power” don’t show the true soul of the artist. I would love to see a Pamela Anderson or an Obama portrait made by him, or maybe just a portrait of his neighbour. That would show me the true emotions, the true feelings, the true, brave, ‘first-hand’ art that sleeps in Glenn Brown.
Please, don’t miss this artist, whatever my opinion is, he is a must-see.
Lots of light-drawing or light-graffiti in the Internet, it is everywhere, from Flickr to Youtube. LEDs and digital photography have helped a lot in creating these new “one-shot art” pieces. Maybe you didn’t know Picasso did that before. Was he the first? I don’t think so but I can’t be sure until I find a previous light-drawing. Please if you know some artist who did light drawings before Picasso leave a comment, I am really curious.
"I don’t think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it."
— Keith Haring (1958 - 1990)
