The Great Art Debate

[TANGODANCER]

Had to laugh. Sorry...

http://theapesheet.com/archivefive/newart2.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[thebish]

bloody norah - what have I started?? I only wanted to check you were still alive!!!

[TANGODANCER]

bloody norah - what have I started?? I only wanted to check you were still alive!!!

Relax, I'll die off again shortly. Have to post things on the spot cos I've forgotten about them ten minutes later.

[Verbal]

This is a bit weird. Guy does self-portraits on different drugs. Bit like when you those scientists gave spiders drugs and watched them make webs, but not.

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1tjLTb/ww ... n-on-drugs" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Annoyed Grunt]

This is a bit weird. Guy does self-portraits on different drugs. Bit like when you those scientists gave spiders drugs and watched them make webs, but not.

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1tjLTb/ww ... n-on-drugs" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Odd. No heroin picture though.

[William the White]

This is a bit weird. Guy does self-portraits on different drugs. Bit like when you those scientists gave spiders drugs and watched them make webs, but not.

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1tjLTb/ww ... n-on-drugs" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Really barking. Little too self conscious to be totally taken in by them. But some i liked!

you're always dragging up really interesting stuff for this thread, Verbal...

[boltonboris]

More current affairs than Art, but look at some of these pictures from a recent Volcanic eruption in Chile. Some of them are outstanding

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... apart.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[malcd1]

This is a bit weird. Guy does self-portraits on different drugs. Bit like when you those scientists gave spiders drugs and watched them make webs, but not.

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1tjLTb/ww ... n-on-drugs" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I think he should stay on the mushrooms (Painting 14/21). I quite like that one.

[Prufrock]

More current affairs than Art, but look at some of these pictures from a recent Volcanic eruption in Chile. Some of them are outstanding

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... apart.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Given the website I hesitated, but I'm glad I clicked on the link in the end. Not in fact for the pics, which are pretty awesome, but two of the first three comments are utter Daily Mail brilliance. For the record, in case it changes they are 6/6/11 17.37 and 17.33, though I'm sure if you took the first comments at any point they would be ridiculous!

[thebish]

Lucien Freud has died... prepare yourselves for a weekend of retrospectives featuring pink fleshy nudes with pubes on display.... yeuch!



(Benefits Supervisor Sleeping - cost: $33.6million)

and here's one he did of me..

[Wandering Willy]

Now - that's a stool!

[William the White]

A fantastic artist. RIP.

[Bruce Rioja]

A fantastic artist. RIP.

Absolutely agree.

[William the White]

Just back from nine days in London. urgent family business mostly - illness and other grim stuff. but eventually sorted enough to allow a few cultural explorations in the capital, where the art scene seems to be exploding... with mixed results...

So, last Friday, went to the Hayward Gallery to see the Tracey Emin retrospective - 'all you want is love' covering about 25 years of her work, including one pretty spectacular installation, in memory of her father, that is a broken down, ramshackle pier, at the end of which is a little shed, neat, with curtains at the windows... He always wanted a hut looking over the seas, it seems, but perhaps a ramshackle life prevented him getting it.

The exhibition is pretty hit and miss but has great moments, i think. In one section, identified as 'Trauma', amidst disturbing artwork inspired by her two abortions in the 1990s, is a rather moving 'tribute' called 'In memory of my mother' - on a stolen hotel bedsheet is the figure of a naked woman, created, i think in charcoal, then stitch, and out of her vagina, or maybe her womb, in applique, brightly coloured cotton butterflies and flowers are erupting. It's lovely, made me smile.

The major work of Emin-esque 'outrage' is 220 black and white drawings of a woman masturbating, from the perspective of between her feet, so fingers and vagina in central focus, face scarcely visible, photographed, put on a 22second video reel and projected continuously onto a huge screen dominating a final room mostly devoted to female sexuality...

The walk through took about two hours. £12. Plenty of stuff that misses the mark, imho, but plenty that shows why she's earned a solo exhibition on the south bank.

Runs until 24 August. We booked in advance, but i don't think this is essential. There were a good number there but not jammed.

I presume Tango will be down there in the next 24 hours...

[Jakerbeef]

"a white cat drinking milk in the snow" By Van Tango

Or possibly a completely black canvas entitled: Life through the eyes of a bat.

They've both been done, unfortunately...

Not with the same level of idiosyncratic brushwork...

That, of course, is the trick - in all seriousness, though - look at the Yves Klein 'blue' - an entirely monochromatic career as an artist...

It is a very beautiful shade of blue... Of course...

I'm wholly unqualified for this thread when I look at the above 'work of art' and think I can hear the sound of 'the piss being taken'. (Which in itself is a pretty good title for a painting.)

Still, it's better than Vettriano...

[William the White]

That, of course, is the trick - in all seriousness, though - look at the Yves Klein 'blue' - an entirely monochromatic career as an artist...

It is a very beautiful shade of blue... Of course...[/quote]



I'm wholly unqualified for this thread when I look at the above 'work of art' and think I can hear the sound of 'the piss being taken'. (Which in itself is a pretty good title for a painting.)

Still, it's better than Vettriano...[/quote]

Yep...

[TANGODANCER]

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So, last Friday, went to the Hayward Gallery to see the Tracey Emin retrospective - 'all you want is love' covering about 25 years of her work,

I take it all back. If she's been conning a living out of the public for 25 years, then she really is talented.

[Lofthouse Lower]

[Jakerbeef]

Yep...

Thank God for that.

Postcards and coasters; all he's good for.

[TANGODANCER]

Yep...

Thank God for that.

Postcards and coasters; all he's good for.

I'm betting yours and WTW's living rooms are real happy places to be.