Topic: Well, let’s be generous, and say I’m using a specific recent example to talk about controversial art.
So, where is everybody on Aliza Shvarts, then?
In case you’ve missed it, Ms Shvarts is an Art Student at Yale, and her latest piece includes blood from 9 months of self-induced miscarriages.
Well, maybe. There was a tediously […]
I was reading an article by BoingBoing pundit, SF author and copywonk Cory Doctorow in Make magazine the other day (I’m afraid that there’s only tiny snippet of the article available for free on-line.)
He’d visited the Greenwich Maritime Museum, full of hundred-year-old sextants, and even older devices that people used to find their way […]
So. Banksy.
For them what have been living under a rock for the last while, Bansky is a graffiti artist who produces stencil works like these.
Is he big or clever?
Well, as my old mate Paul points out, his work is hardly a sophisticated multilevel examination of complex ideas. But on the other hand while he’s […]
The Tate Modern has one of my favourite pieces of Art on display, Marcel DuChamp’s Fountain, which is an ordinary urinal, that Duchamp then turned 90 degrees from it’s natural position and signed it “R. Mutt 1917″. It was part of his series of “readymades” ordinary, everyday objects that had at most, been slightly […]
I’d like to take a moment to talk about the practical applications of Art, just to establish that Art is relevant to everyone, and not some load of effete rubbish for an intellectual few.
Architecture isn’t something that immediately springs to mind when someone says “Art”, yet it’s probably the form or art that most of […]
So if I intend to talk about Art (in all forms) here
I suppose I ought to set out my stall, first. Let’s start with a quote:
“Art, in the human truth of it, touches the universal. Seeing Art, we recognise a thought we had but could not utter, are made less alone.” — Alan Moore […]
So, the Turner prize this year goes to Tomma Abts. Personally, I preferred Mark Titchner’s work - his themes and his general approach are things I have a lot of personal sympathy with, but hers were a close second favourite. I thought Phil Collins (not that one) documentary was interesting, but I think I’d […]
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