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That ties in so well with our discussion the other day regarding art and taste... |
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the last art exhibit i went to was for ron mueck. after seeing hyperrealistic dead dads and gigantic newborn babies, baby juggling seems tame. |
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It's scarier at that angle. GODZILLA STOMP. (I don't agree with the commentary on the page I linked to. I think the statue kicks ass -- literally but also figuratively. It makes me laugh every time I look at it.) However, what does it mean? I think it represents either a man's intense fear of fatherhood (like Eraserhead, but in bronze), or the embodiment of capitalist polluters' attitudes towards future generations. What say you? |
i like the idea of it being outside in a park. the pictures i've seen of it from an image search, it was on a platform in a pond. i like it when they put art in parks and you can stroll around. there's a place in dallas called the nasher center that's like that. i've always meant to visit it. my first impression of the sculpture was that it was a representation of what a parent probably feels, at some point, after having a baby. maybe it was an image from a dream. i'd like to hear what the sorabji parental units have to say. |
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I mean, look at this. "Various interpretations of the Monolith have been suggested: Man's resurrection, the struggle for existence, Man's yearning for for spiritual spheres, the transcendence of everyday life and cyclic repetition." O RLY? I see corpses. "Man's ascent to greatness is reached only through the slaughter of millions." Or this. This says, "Children are ungrateful swine and see you as a free meal." |
with certain art, such as this, i dont think its important we dig too deeply to find meaning. its entirely possible the artist was just being comical. we could deduct overarching meaning...but im not sure its warrented with some of his pieces as to me, the meaning is right there in front of you. i like the fact its blatently in public. the public needs to be challenged more with these kinds of things. |
That the rest of his work* seems to be celebrating the family makes this one so much funnier. *Except for the Tower of Corpses. That is some macabre shit right there. |
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i have a hard time ever considering my photos 'art' but if whatever ive shot, when i connect to someone who had no role in my exposure and presentation and they get something i intended, or DIDNT intend, but the pt being is that there was a connection....right? have you ever seen a piece of art that was made decades, if not centuries before you existed, that said something to you? isnt that the point? have you had an experience with a piece of art in a museum that just floored you, stopped you in your tracks and spent some time with it and then finally, after some time it connected with you...you finally got 'it'? that happened to me in NYC at MOMA walking into a gallery and seeing the cover of my first jazz album..Dave Brubeck Time Further Out cover The Miro piece, christ, Miro in general drives me crazy... not only was that album the first jazz album i ever bought......im rambling here.. |
"have you had an experience with a piece of art in a museum that just floored you, stopped you in your tracks and spent some time with it and then finally, after some time it connected with you...you finally got 'it'? " I saw this at the MFA this spring and was just....thunderstruck. It fixed me to the spot and held me there until I cried. The emotion is overwhelming. There's another painting in their permanent collection, an abstract painting by a Spanish artist whose name I can't remember now, that reminds me of a car crash on a rainy evening. Lots of greys, reds, and yellows. It's really engaging -- your eye is constantly moving over all the tiny details on the canvas, and...I don't know. It sets my brain on fire. Gaaah, I wish I could remember the artist's name. |
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my first experience with art that i can remember was in a book that my grandfather had given to me when i was very young. it was a book of world history, but it had a few pictures of works of art in it. a picture of magritte's "golconda" and a detail from bosch's "garden of earthly delights" really fascinated me. i have books of both men's works in my bookshelf. the ron mueck exhibit i mentioned earlier really affected me. i kept the brochure just for the pictures. |
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this afternoon a woman of 67 came into the shop. she said she was trying to start a business: she takes pictures children have drawn and make dolls out of them. we were a little dubious, but then she came in with two examples. the first was "my brother as a pirate for halloween" and the second was "my teacher who after school puts on a red suit and drives race cars". they were very well done. she showed us the original pictures by the children; the dolls looked exactly like them. she had serious skills. |
I have Krahe in my ofice, tucked into a corner of a gigantic frame which contains a not so well wrought seascape by the mother of one of my mentally ill clients. I have two more of her works, last name Moreno, hailing from Minnesota I believe, and one is really good and one is really bad. But the Krahe is tucked into the corner of the big seascape. I keep wanting to blow up my pics of flowers for the office and never seem to get around to it. |
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