Philosophy
Painting by Steven Skollar, 1989
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Searching I
Nicholas Charles Williams, oil on canvas, 122 x 91.5cm, 1999.
Nicolas Williams
and his Studio, a former lifeboat station on the coast of Cornwall, England.
the forcing character a metropolis can have
Jasper van Putten (1944-2009) received his education at the Amsterdam Graphic School and the GerritRietveld Academy. His work mostly shows tall buildings in a dynamic perspective.
character head
Part from “die Charakterköpfe”, a collection of busts with faces contorted in extreme facial expressions by Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, 1736-1783
My mind is open wide
And now I’m ready to start
To step out into the dark
Now I’m ready
sentimental authenticity
Jon Pylypchuk’s sculptures are evocative of soft toys that have come to grief, but are creations put together out of an array of scrap material. These pathetic animals reflect the hopelessness of the human condition and the emotions we would prefer to avoid. Emotional frailty is worn as physical weakness, as a bird and a sort of cat sit together wondering how one leg each will serve them. Some other creatures are caught in a situation only made worse by the presence of too many snakes, while a couple of sock-wearing misfits stand around without even a title. –> Interview with the artist
always simple style
Gaston Chaissac, is completely self-taught, having never followed any artistic training. He was born 1910 in Avalon France. He practiced all sorts of humble jobs (kitchen boy, assistant in a hardware store, apprentice saddle, and cobbler) and says about himself: “My rustic, modern painting is quite poor; in 20 years I hope it will become rich. (1946)”
The first time I saw it underground
Six deep feet below the street
It lit up all the fish like rain
And rained them down on me
The sky came crashing down
For a second that place was lost in space.
Artist Shuichi Nakano‘s “Searching for Paradise” paintings depict oversized animals towering over the urban sprawl.
skepticism/ whirling at the edge of chaos
Lee Bontecou’s work is an investigation of organic form with microscopic complexity and it’s very interesting when it’s close to technology and architecture.
She builds powerful space where the organic and the mechanical are folded, one into the other.
Lee Bontecou, 1931:
Did you ever stand in a Cavern's Mouth
Did you ever stand in a Cavern's Mouth—
Widths out of the Sun—
And look—and shudder, and block your breath—
And deem to be alone
In such a place, what horror,
How Goblin it would be—
And fly, as 'twere pursuing you?
Then Loneliness—looks so—
Did you ever look in a Cannon's face—
Between whose Yellow eye—
And yours—the Judgment intervened—
The Question of "To die"—
Extemporizing in your ear
As cool as Satyr's Drums—
If you remember, and were saved—
It's liker so—it seems—
Emily Dickinson
Joseph Wright of Derby, Cavern near Naples, 1774
Joseph Wright of Derby, A grotto in the gulf of Salerno, Sunset 1780
Joseph Wright of Derby, Bridge through a Cavern, Moonlight 1791
erweitert am 04.12.2010:
I have always believed that somehow the less we reveal the more the other desires to see. Annette Messager
Nowhere Near But Now Here
and as special gift today (26.05.2010) the »Insel«,
1968, foodstuffs, including yoghurt, and screw and wire on blue panel,
covered in plaster and left to rot.
by Dieter Roth
Markus Wetzel, I would like to see the Island as a Wolf, 2007
thx again for this great picture hanging at our home.
A method for those who sign up.
A system for those who sign in.
Jens Reinert, Tunnel, 2007
Banksy, free art
Kristin Posehn, Replicant, 2005
Gaijn Fujita, Ride or Die, 2005
Itself, by itself, solely, ONE everlasting, and single. Plato
from: Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe
illustrated by fabulous Harry Clarke (Ireland, 1889 – 1931)
Harry Clarke
Gerrit van Bakel, artist & designer (1943 – 1984), unknown guest at documenta 7.
He wears the sun. And he wear it well.
check out the great website – here
–> Interview