February 2010
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Banksy Interview + Video →
notemily:
vruz: brain-food:
Banksy has done an interview with the Sunday Times, which is an interesting read:
“I have a large collection of famous art at home, but they’re all fakes. I make them myself. If I like a picture I grab a photo, project it up and paint it. Sometimes I change the colours to fit with the curtains. I do it partly because I’m tight and partly because if the Basquiats...
“This is something essential to art: reception is never its goal. What counts for...”
– Thomas Hirschhorn (via maybeitsallok)
The Instant Art Critique Phrase Generator →
jillsies:
jenniferanne:
pleasedontsqueezetheshaman:
dbreunig:
artfortune:
As an advocate of the Big Mac Aesthetic, I feel that the disjunctive perturbation of this website endangers the devious simplicity of the substructure of critical thinking.
I’m surprised that no one’s mentioned yet that the subaqueous qualities of the Egyptian motifs spatially undermines the exploration of...
Mills wrote a wonderful essay, from which I will only quote the conclusion, which will prompt you to read it in its entirety:
What is to be hoped for is persuasion, not control: a much more difficult prospect, because it requires compassion. Polgar: “To reform an evildoer, you must before anything else help him to an awareness that what he did was evil. With the Nazis this won’t be...
Watchwhileyouwereout:
Slowly but surely I’m getting somewhere.
RAD love it! Question; can you drip a Damien Hirst Spot painting like this? Please? Looking forward to the rest/ end… (would look good 10x as fast as well, or with a nice ease in).
This is pretty legit...
hydeordie:
I am now an official contributor to HAHA Magazine, which launched today, with my first entry for my column “Art Rant” which can be found under the title, The Snob. Here’s a taste:
It was recently announced at a lovely shindig in his studio in New York that the newest BMW art car will be created (or painted or metallicized or flowered or ballooned) by chronically overfunded...
“Is it about art? Or self-promotion? The thrill of the hunt? Or a sly comment on...”
– Patrick Skoff leaves his paintings around Chicago to be carried away. And people are seeking them out. Glen Ellyn artist plays finders-keepers with his paintings - chicagotribune.com
Surrealist techniques - From Wikipedia
artlistpro:
prostheticknowledge:
Surrealism in art, poetry, and literature uses numerous techniques and games to provide inspiration. Many of these are said to free imagination by producing a creative process free of conscious control. The importance of the unconscious as a source of inspiration is central to the nature of surrealism.
The Surrealist movement has been a fractious one since its...
