Post whatever piece has struck your fancy lately.



Max Ernst, Europe After the Rain II, 1940-1942

wow, I like that.

when did it stop raining ?

One of my favourite Dali pics

my favorite:

Hehehe. I was actually browsing yesterday and fell in love with this one;

This manuscript of 468 folios (580 x 396 mm) contains the Bible in two volumes. It is illustrated by 64 initials, 46 pages are fully illuminated.

This image shows an initial R from the Book of Jeremiah.



Winchester Bible
1160-75
Illumination on parchment
Cathedral Library, Winchester

Damen
This is the latest and most ambitious digital painting of a Chicago scene unveiled at Photoshop World in Miami on March 22, 2006.
It is a panorama of the Damen Station on the Blue Line of the Chicago Transit Authority.
Adobe Illustrator was used for generating the majority of the basic shapes as well as all the buildings in the Chicago skyline.
The rest was created in Photoshop.
• The image size is 40 inches by 120 inches.
• The flattened file weighs in at 1.7 Gigabytes.
• It took eleven months (close to 2,000 hours) to create.
• The painting is comprised of close to fifty individual Photoshop files.
• Taking a cumulative total of all the files, the overall image contains over 15,000 layers.
• Over 500 alpha channels were used for various effects.
• Over 250,000 paths make up the multitude of shapes throughout the scene.

Bert Monroy is the artist.


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ArielB said:

technically that's amazing and it requires a shitload of skill and dedication.
but ... is it art ?
I'd rather take a plane, whip out my digital cam and take that picture. it would leave me 1990 hours to hang with Lukasz and some other fabulistic orgers in Chicago

One4All4Ever said:

I've always thought the same thing about stuff like this as well as most hyper-realist paintings.

It's all amazing. But isn't just good craftwork and not true art?


It's hard to determine really. So much of modern 'art' challenges us to ask that.

Personally, and this is mere opinion, which I'm getting beat up for expressing lately , I don't think so. I still appreciate the skill behind it though.

runner- up in the archibald portrait prize

http://www.news.com.au/co...23,00.html

Imago said:

you've got me on the day i'll be at the studio all day!

i'll be back tonight

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HamsterHuey said:

i knew i could count on you

Imago said:

Better to have an opinion than to just conform for the sake of conforming ...

Imago said:

i think it's something not as rigidly defined today, like you said- not like the old world, with the french academy pushing the hierarchy of genres that were considered art (history painting at the top and still-lifes at the bottom). the thing is after duchamp, etc, i don't think you really can declare something not art anymore.

i need coffee BADLY

Arranged in Marriage by Mark Kostabi (love his stuff, I own one of his pieces)



Sinatra Mug Shot by Steve Kaufman (got this one last year)



Ray by Waldemar Swierzy (this is in my bedroom)



Springtime in Paris by Liudmila Kondokova


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Lorenzo Maitani, Façade of the Orvieto Cathedral, 1310-30

evenstar said:

I love the sparkly colours on that facade. The Notre Dame used to have that as well, back in the days.
When I was living there they used an enormous battry of coloured lights to light the facade of the Notre Dame in what could have been the original colours. It was freaking beautiful.

HamsterHuey said:

that sounds amazing

evenstar said:

This is true.
I guess I still make some kind of hazy , barely explainable distinction between art and 'craftsmanship'
I could only imagine the elite of Paris being so terribly offended by the Impressionists when that movement took the artworld by storm.

You should hop across the river once done with the Louvre and spend an hour or two in the Musee Dorse' -- the contrast between what's on display at each as well as the sheer beauty of the Musee' Dorsee' (sp?) will impress ya greatly.

Imago said:

oh yeah, they had a total tantrum.

i want to the d'orsay () building alone is stunning.

Imago said:

This photoshop work is very different from photo-realist painting, imho. With photo-realism you have to consider what the artists were trying to say (not visually), but in terms of having a painting that looked so real you couldn't tell it was a painting and not a photograph, and as a reaction to abstraction prevelant in modern art in the 50s and 60s.

If this photoshop dude is trying to do the same thing but in reverse (ie. make a photograph that looks like a painting) or making a comment on the digital revolution and its impact on art (think the 21st century verison of Delaroche and the "death of painting" due to 'traditional' photography) then we may have something post-modern to work with. But if he's just doing it to show his skill with photoshop, then I would argue it's not Art with a capital A, but something more akin to Thomas Kincaide--interesting to look at, aesthetically pleasing to some, but completely void of any deeper meaning. (So yes, just good craftwork and not true art. )






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Lately I've been focusing on the Cai Guo-Qiang retrospective at the Guggenheim.

I talk about these on my tours:

Head On



Inopportune


Check out the cool video about how they installed/suspended 9 full sized cars in the Guggenheim's 7 story rotunda!


Century with Mushroom Clouds: Project for the 20th Century



Rent Collection Courtyard (this image is from the Venice installation):



Gunpowder drawings (not this specific one):



Not saying I love his work, but I do appreciate that it can be discussed on many levels.

evenstar said:

and this thread 2 !

well perhaps i'm being biased, but my professor, Scott Sawtell is pretty wicked-awesome...



www.scottsawtell.ca

he's so awesome!

i fancy anything from surrealism to japanese aesthetics.


i have this poster in my room.






Dada is fun

Ukiyo(Paintings on wood cut) aesthetic pleasing






jean cocteau! i love his work











watch maya deren her movies are lovely.

Bosch