I'm obsessed with this at the moment.

Francis Bacon, Triptych, May-June, 1973

HR Giger, one of my idols.

the last art noise that caught my attention was a collective of young artists called PAPERRAD.

they're difficult to explain, you just kind of have to experience them:

www.paperrad.org


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The Arnolfini Wedding/The Arnolfini Portrait

Detail and light is amazing in this



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Aside from about four other pieces of art, it's the only one I know the name of. It means more to me because I have been to the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam and have a print of this that a dear friend bought for me.

NoodleSoup said:

Sounds badass! I was thinking of painting this guy, who's kinda lazily pointing up to the sky and this other guy is leaning down to touch his finger, as if he's instilling life into him! I thought of it when I was watching E.T.

NDRU said:

Sounds good, do it!

horatio said:

i love his stuff.

horatio said:

one of my last major papers was on this piece! a compare/contrast to hans baldung grien's witches' sabbath-



we so have similar tastes, horatio

evenstar3 said:

you'll have to buy rather than rent cause its likely hard to rent

HAXAN WITCHCRAFT THROUGH THE AGES

you'll love it and worth the money of actually owning it.

and its perfect timing for halloween.


the soundtracks vary it seems, the original and the 60's jazz ones are the best IMO.

http://www.amazon.com/Hax...B00005O5CA

Bruce Nauman "Self-Portrait as a Fountain":




Kerry James Marshall "Souvenir"



Mark Tansey "The Innocent Eye Test" (one of my favorite paintings ever!)



Hiroshi Sugimoto "Hall of 33 Bays"



Shirin Neshat "Turbulent" (film stills)



Sarah Sze "Triple Point of Water" installation at the Whitney



Malick Sidibe "During the Great Heat, 1976" (I love this photo! My favorite part is how the second girl from the left's toes are sticking out of the water.}



Gillian Wearing from "Signs That Say What You Want Them to Say and Not Signs That Say What Other People Want You To Say"



My hero, Marcel Duchamp: "Boite-en-Valise"



Hindu Sculpture and manuscript painting





And just for you, evenstar, my new favorite Jeff Koons': his "Made in Heaven" series. NSFW!!!

i loves me some Giacometti

DevotedPuppy said:

Cracked me up scrolling down... ahh, a poodle... a man licking a lady's vagina by a waterfall... yorkshire terriers... a guy hitting it from the back... cherubs...

shausler said:

http://www.richardgraygal...ometti.asp

NoodleSoup said:

Umm, that's the artist, Jeff Koons and his ex-wife, Ilona. She was a Hungarian(?) porn star (Cicciolina) and later served in the Italian parliment. I just saw the Jeff Koons show at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and those were my favorite pieces in the show, seriously! I think they are very clever. I especially like Ilona's Asshole, it's brilliant! Is he being literal, like "yeah, that's her asshole"; or is it that his penis, which draws just as much attention and forms the vertical axis of the photo, represents Jeff Koons (obviously) and is metephorical, like, "Koon's is really a fucking asshole"? Or he's fucking an asshole, literally. (Well maybe not for that photo, but in the Red Butt (Close Up) one. You have to know Koons' work, I can't decide if it's a big joke to him, or if he really believes what he said they were about:


The yorkies and flowers aren't part of the Made in Heaven series, they are from his Banality series--I'm not sure why they are on that webpage.

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DevotedPuppy said:

...still can't quite believe I saw this for real