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Cornelia Parker, Cold Dark Matter. It's a garden shed that has been exploded. I like garden sheds and the things you find in them and would like to explode one too. That is why i like it.
I haven't seen this piece in person, I don't think. I've seen the other amphora by Exekias that is equally as famous at the Vatican. However, this remains my favorite. Black figure vase painting is one of the reasons why I became so interested in Greek and Roman art and definitely the highlight of being at the Vatican.
Exekias
540 BCE
Archaic--Black figure amphora
Ajax was the person who in the Trojan war retrieved the body of Achilles, but instead of being rewarded as the new leader of the army, he was passed up for promotion, which was incredibly shameful. Odysseus became the leader. In this painting you see Ajax setting up his death, basically..Somberly patting down the sand, standing the sword upright, his armor neatly leaning on the side of the painting (how cool is it that his helmet is staring at him?). Like in many other Greek vases, the scene is painted many many times. Yet this one by Exekias captures the solitude and the pain Ajax must have been feeling after being shamed. Sophocles wrote a play called Ajax that I still think is one of my favorite piece of literature.
__________________ "We believe that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard-working, very patriotic, very pro-America areas of this great nation," she told the crowd.
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik by Dorothea Tanning. The first time I saw this in the Tate Modern I couldn't move away from it for at least 10 minutes. It's a beautiful dreamscape, and has slightly sinister undertones, which remind me of my own dreams, where I'm always sure they could lapse into creepiness at any moment. I'm getting an adapted tattoo of it on my back one day.
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We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now. There will be no loyalty, except loyalty towards the Party.
I like it because I feel floaty and safe looking at it. And also I feel in awe.
__________________ the cave mouth shines
by pure force of will
i look down on the world
from the top of this lonesome hill
and you can run, and run some more
from here all the way to singapore
but i will carry you home in my teeth
-mountain goats
I like it because I feel voyeuristic and like I am luring the squirrel in for devious or not devious reasons. I like that she lured them and photographed animals for a whole year. The same types of images over nad over and over. It feels like pornography.
__________________ the cave mouth shines
by pure force of will
i look down on the world
from the top of this lonesome hill
and you can run, and run some more
from here all the way to singapore
but i will carry you home in my teeth
-mountain goats
I like it because I htink this lady is insane and channels her pathos in an exquisite and polite manner, while still giving us the full weight of her nutso-ness.
__________________ the cave mouth shines
by pure force of will
i look down on the world
from the top of this lonesome hill
and you can run, and run some more
from here all the way to singapore
but i will carry you home in my teeth
-mountain goats
Hung about the British museum last Sunday, on a rainy afternoon, at the height of the tourist season. Insane behaviour. Anyway only quiet place was those cunts the Assyrians.
i have many favourite artists, but the artist who i totally connect with is Marlene Azoulai who is a victim of MKULTRA monarch programming (which resulted in MPD/DID).
i totally love her, & owe her an email which i should get to right now while i've been reminded. maybe be "high art", but her art is therapy to me because we share similar psychiatric problems.
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik by Dorothea Tanning. The first time I saw this in the Tate Modern I couldn't move away from it for at least 10 minutes. It's a beautiful dreamscape, and has slightly sinister undertones, which remind me of my own dreams, where I'm always sure they could lapse into creepiness at any moment. I'm getting an adapted tattoo of it on my back one day.
This is my favorite of the thread so far. I wanna see this tattoo when you get it done
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Teaching little Johnny to shoot a gun,
A terrific way, say father, to get to know your son.
Here is another piece I love, by the 15th Century artist Heironymus Bosch (coolest name ever, too!)... it's called The Garden Of Earthly Delights, and when I first saw detail from the far right panel of the triptych, I thought it was 20th century surrealism.
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We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now. There will be no loyalty, except loyalty towards the Party.
i attached a picture. hope it works. it is my favourite visual today. i like patterns. it was sent to me by someone that i think is now a former member of kr. hello? imean hello if you're not former.
theo van rysselberghe-
something about the light in the water at the bottom always gets to me. when i saw it in the national gallery in london, i literally couldn't tear my eyes away. so i bought the print
paul signac-
god, the colours. the colours. so beautiful. if i could get a tattoo sleeve, i'd try to get the figure on the pinwheel.
funny thing is, i didn't think i liked pointillism much until i realised my favourite pieces were all in the style as an artist, i never have patience for it...
as an artist, i never have patience for it...