Art form of old... pet rocks. How about pet logs? Taking out my cynicism, sometimes very elementary things can be considered art. As for me, I prefer the embellishment of things like Astroturf to bring pizzazz to art. Chuck
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I thought it was a Wren and Stimpy challenge course with a 'tooth beaver' hidden within.
Was participating in a market over the weekend and a lady came up to our booth (she knew us previously) and shared with us a Rude Osolnik piece that had belonged to her Grandmother handed down to her mother and now is hers. She mentioned no one else in her family had any interest in it, but she always loved it and had researched Rude a number of years ago.
I told her he was also a woodturner I had always admired and I had plagiarized his candlesticks (design) on numerous occasions….only because I had seen an old interview he had done and when he was asked how he felt about folks copying his design, he said he felt honored and was glad folks were still enjoying the design after so many years. Here’s a couple pics of the piece she brought in to show us.
I told her he was also a woodturner I had always admired and I had plagiarized his candlesticks (design) on numerous occasions….only because I had seen an old interview he had done and when he was asked how he felt about folks copying his design, he said he felt honored and was glad folks were still enjoying the design after so many years. Here’s a couple pics of the piece she brought in to show us.
How serendipitous for you to be able to see/hold/touch this heirloom piece! Inspirational, to say the least! Chuck
That's wonderful to be able to hold in your hands something from the past, especially of innovators!
With that being said, it does look like it had been used as a soccer ball at least one time!
With that being said, it does look like it had been used as a soccer ball at least one time!
The chunks of erc are very similar to what I have that are waste from a local sawmill. I have one just inside my front door.
I do not however have the entire sawmill offcut pile sanded and scattered through the living room area as an art installation.
I do not however have the entire sawmill offcut pile sanded and scattered through the living room area as an art installation.
The wire ,I agree with what has been said previously. He gets bonus points for working frayed cable. (And likely a tetanus shot as well) The scatter technique is not pushing any limits. If the artist had created a scene with the people and trees and other items designed of Frayed cable, I would have been much more impressed.
There is definitely a division of thoughts between traditional and abstract school of thinking as far as architecture, art & design (that includes music and any sorts of trade related to creating something as a finished or unfinished product). It is evident and seeing enough of it, that you render some kind of logical conclusion. An example- the works of art at the Metropolitan Museum (The Met) and MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) are different like night and day. The Met has more ancient to traditional work spanning from the ancient times to maybe mid 20th century. The work exhibited really highlights someone’s talent, multi-skill set, technique, training, apprenticeship, innovation and the degree of execution with the use of non modern tools or whatever tools was available. There is authenticity and an optical trail that an individual or group really put the time in, harness all sorts of craft to accomplish something that is either great or something profound- with the absence of modern technology.
Not to take away from the modernist and/or abstract works at MoMA as there are innovators of art during the early to mid 1900’s. It is just a different school of thought where artist rebelled against the traditionalist way of looking and doing art. But, the term “abstraction” has been over used and been stretched in definition, that some of the work gets very challenging to relate to- IMHO. I view art partially as a language (just like music). There is relatable language and there is language that could be semi-relatable, but still within grasp that the work presented could be somewhat understood. Then there are abstract work that are “far out there” that is challenging to see what is being conveyed or at times a “turn off” because it seems like “they took a short cut” or “tried too hard” or “they didn’t do enough”, etc.. At that stage, when it “ends up falling short” (subjective), some of it has to do with how it is presented by the artist or by the design and exhibit branch of the museum.
I don't do very well with abstract. I am mathematically inclined. That isn't terribly abstract. And no I am not an algebraic fellow. I can use the numbers I have to find the number that is missing but the number that is missing never turned out to be "x" that isn't a number...
I tend to be the same with art. I enjoy a pleasant, recognizable, whatever. If it turns out to have a function to go with the form, so much the better. Reading meaning into others sculptures, paintings, or even writings is not my forte.
I would likely skip the moma on any subsequent trip to NYC because there is so much reality to see. I would not decline a walk through the belly of a skyscraper looking at the pilings and the size of the structural steel elements however...
Just the difference in view points, not hating on the fellow who spent countless hours sanding and sealing about 50 blocks of erc that clogs up paper at an outlandish rate , just wouldn't trip my art trigger
I tend to be the same with art. I enjoy a pleasant, recognizable, whatever. If it turns out to have a function to go with the form, so much the better. Reading meaning into others sculptures, paintings, or even writings is not my forte.
I would likely skip the moma on any subsequent trip to NYC because there is so much reality to see. I would not decline a walk through the belly of a skyscraper looking at the pilings and the size of the structural steel elements however...
Just the difference in view points, not hating on the fellow who spent countless hours sanding and sealing about 50 blocks of erc that clogs up paper at an outlandish rate , just wouldn't trip my art trigger
I can relate to what you are saying and if you are into construction, you have to use numbers as well as formulas to make sure that things will fit and will work out and you know how much material that you need for a given project.
I wouldn’t skip the MoMA as you will be missing out on some innovative works and artist of our time. There will be gallery exhibits where the museum introduces new artist that are alive or current or in a trend of sorts. That is the difference with their mainstay collection- meaning there is an era and particular decade or years where a certain style, innovation, etc. are highlighted from artist that made a mark in modern art; usually a floor with exhibits from different artist- sometimes an artist work will not be together (because there was an alliance of a group of artist working with the same style and innovation on a certain period) and spread out (most of the time they are lump together so there is context with a specific movement). The whole top upper floor will usually highlight an artist of our time that shows a spectrum of their work from the beginning to the end of their art life (or if they are living from the beginning to what is current). They also will rotate the work and either put them away and put out other things from their collection into the exhibit halls.
The museum will do their best to be able to show a variety. But, just like a restaurant menu- there are great things, mediocre things and not so great things. I’ll post something’s and the furniture or architecture you will probably enjoy (most folks as well).
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And I have a difficult time decorating a 6 foot tree
Go with a 5 foot tree, or 4 foot for that matter. Having the tree is just the first step. No tree, no problems.
Been a long time since I've seen a pic of the Rivera original. I had forgotten what a prominent place Lenin had in it. Mixing art and politics is sometimes like oil and water. I'm not a Lenin fan but I still wish Rivera's original had been left intact.
Just a random aside, the most political of all the art I've ever seen is Picasso's Guernica. Shocked the hell out of me the first time I saw it. I didn't even know what it was about at that time, but it was clearly an incredibly powerful statement.
“Oil and water” is a great metaphor! He was a persistent artist and had strong convictions that he replicated a small version of it in a museum in Mexico City.
“Guernica” was a very relevant painting during that period and it was first shown in MoMA in 1939 until 1981 and went back to Spain (it was on loan). Indeed very powerful painting and there is a “variation of it” in the MoMA- the difference is that “Guernica” was done during the infancy of WWII, whereas “The Charnell House” was painted at the end tail of WWII. You can see the sketch marks and it is unbelievable how much control and clean his lines were. I took these beginning of the year……..
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I'm not really one who likes "abstract" cubism, but my emotional response to "The Charnel House" was immediate, even viewed on my phone, and that was before I read the date, or description. I couldn't have described the scene, but great human tragedy, sadness, or maybe horror was immediately felt.
I wouldn't want it hanging in my house, but the emotional response alone makes this a great piece of work.
Now I need to find a picture of "Guernica".
I wouldn't want it hanging in my house, but the emotional response alone makes this a great piece of work.
Now I need to find a picture of "Guernica".
“Guernica” was his response to the “Spanish Civil War”. A little more context about the “Charnel House” in the words of Pablo Picasso via MoMA 522 Responding to War: “I have not painted the war,” said Pablo Picasso in 1944, “because I am not the kind of painter who goes out like a photographer for something to depict.” In the months that followed, however, he began work on The Charnel House, a monumental evocation of the horror of World War II. It is one of numerous searing, history-engaging works that artists of various nationalities in diverse circumstances created during the cataclysmic period that stretched from the rise of Nazism and other totalitarian regimes, in the 1930s, to the end of the war, in 1945. Some, like José Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros, had always mixed art and politics. Others, like Picasso, felt newly compelled to use their art to confront the events unfolding across the world stage. In many cases, these artists found a modernist language of fractured forms well suited to conveying a reality contorted by violence and destruction.
Tim @trc65 - Picasso is just not known for his cubism phase, but he has also has different style that dials into “Classicism”. He was a well rounded artist and he also did sculptural work mostly out of bronze. I’ll dig up some photo’s of his paintings that I took in MoMA and The MET.
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Here is an example of “classicism” from MoMA:
This piece is in the vein of “Impressionism” (The MET):
Here is another at The Guggenheim Museum:
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Dunno, I kinda like the Pushkin and the museum in the Kremlin in Moscow, The State Hermitage (my favorite on many levels), the Museum of Urban Sculpture, The Russian Academy of Fine Arts, and this one small Icon museum (I don't recall the name), the mosaics and stonework in St Isaac's Cathedral all in St. Petersburg, the Louvre, the Museum of Cycladic Ar tin Athens - , and the National Archeological Museum, and in Cairo - the "Old" Egyptian Museum (and I really want to go to the new GEM)
Others of note - especially of western art - the Briscoe in San Antonio, Museum of Western Art in Kerrville, TX, National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson Hole if only to see the building (worth a search and look see) and experience the surroundings, C.M. Russell Mueseum in Great Falls, MT,
and for obvious reasons (but they do have a number of fly fishing painting) - The American Museum of Fly Fishing!
Others of note - especially of western art - the Briscoe in San Antonio, Museum of Western Art in Kerrville, TX, National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson Hole if only to see the building (worth a search and look see) and experience the surroundings, C.M. Russell Mueseum in Great Falls, MT,
and for obvious reasons (but they do have a number of fly fishing painting) - The American Museum of Fly Fishing!
Okay Mr. Museum Name dropper- now let’s see some work that you like from those well rounded museums.
I'm more of a realism art appreciator. Abstract weird stuff does nothing for me. If I had to pick an artist I might like hanging on my wall it would be Eldridge Hardie's work (a good Colorado lad). He did a series on the South Platte where it flows through Decker's Canyon that I particularly like. And his dog portraits are particularly nice. But I can't afford any so I just look.
Eldridge Hardie art
Eldridge Hardie art
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Not a name dropper, but just a point of reference - not a big fan of much of modern art - or the deco/cubist/pontillism and ilk.
It's been about 30 years since we've been to all those and all pics I've taken are transparencies that I think my daughter has at her house - she is supposed to digitize them. None of these are my photos. Here is the entrance - you know it's gonna be good!
The sculpture galleries are what I liked best. Yes, they are really beautiful, but in the Hermitage, you are not 20' away, but walking among them, viewing them in 360. What endeared me to many were that on the back, underneath and other out of the way places, you could still see and feel the tool marks left by the sculptor.
At the Kremlin Museum, I was most remember the Faberge items - gifts of and to the Tzars - incredible!!! Officially, photos are forbidden and officially I did not take any - but if you ask real nice - I might be able to find one or two taken with my autofocus, autoeverything camera take from under my coat.
St Isaac's Cathedral - Mosaic Masterpieces. Much of the stone shown in the photo of the iconostasis could be considered gemstone or rare (the green columns are solid malachite, the blue ones solid lapiz lazuli) - all the paintings on walls and ceilings except the icons are mosaics. The icons are a special story all to themselves.
National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson Hole - can you spot the building? And how would you like your animal busts displayed with a background like that of the Jackson Peak and others along with a creek full of trout?
It's been about 30 years since we've been to all those and all pics I've taken are transparencies that I think my daughter has at her house - she is supposed to digitize them. None of these are my photos. Here is the entrance - you know it's gonna be good!
The sculpture galleries are what I liked best. Yes, they are really beautiful, but in the Hermitage, you are not 20' away, but walking among them, viewing them in 360. What endeared me to many were that on the back, underneath and other out of the way places, you could still see and feel the tool marks left by the sculptor.
At the Kremlin Museum, I was most remember the Faberge items - gifts of and to the Tzars - incredible!!! Officially, photos are forbidden and officially I did not take any - but if you ask real nice - I might be able to find one or two taken with my autofocus, autoeverything camera take from under my coat.
St Isaac's Cathedral - Mosaic Masterpieces. Much of the stone shown in the photo of the iconostasis could be considered gemstone or rare (the green columns are solid malachite, the blue ones solid lapiz lazuli) - all the paintings on walls and ceilings except the icons are mosaics. The icons are a special story all to themselves.
National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson Hole - can you spot the building? And how would you like your animal busts displayed with a background like that of the Jackson Peak and others along with a creek full of trout?
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