Discuss your favorite art and artists here. Post your own art if you like (if I am in violation of forum rules by saying that I hope one of the moderators can let me know and I'll amend this statement).
@Zuljaras I'd love to see some art that people make that visit this website.
Unfortunately I'm not that talented or creative myself. I like modern art a lot. Just gonna name some artists I really dig: Marie Louise Ekman, Jenny Holzer, Marc Chagall, Anselm Kiefer, Daniel Johnston, Odilon Redon.
I never had the confidence to do my own art stuff. I got my Advanced Higher in Art & Design (slightly above A Levels) but I was always more of a design guy. I loved writing my dissertations though, there’s something deeply fascinating about exploring art and its political and social surroundings. I studied Oskar Schlemmer’s Bauhaus work, including his outfits for Das Triadisches Ballett, worth a watch if you’re on acid. I have a real love for futurism, artists like Boccioni and Balla despite the movement being somewhat linked to Mussolini. I also love Seurat as I tried pointillism
once and it was bloody difficult. I’d say my favourite artist was probably Hockney though, I adore his style especially the bright blocky stuff from the late 60s and early 70s. I was lucky enough to see A Bigger Splash at the Tate which was pretty surreal. I wish I could see Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) but it was sold to an unknown buyer for a shed-load of money so who knows.
@Zuljaras You can post whatever you want as long as it's art-related, I don't think we'll get into trouble - if we are told to take it down then we'll obviously have to.
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@nessisonett Hockney was born in a street in Bradford where some people I knew used to live near. Interesting guy, definitely rebelling against the status quo eh? A sort of Warhol, in a sense.
"I cherish my thoughts and hold 'em exclusive, Confucius." - Ransom
Picasso and Dali are my favorite artists, loving the surrealism. I've written at length about Nadja by Breton in the Books You're Currently Reading thread as well.
"I cherish my thoughts and hold 'em exclusive, Confucius." - Ransom
@RogerRoger My approach to stuff like squiggles on a wall is usually “yes, I could have done that in 5 minutes but would I have thought to do it? Nope, probably not.” I really love some squiggly stuff and loved the Tate Modern, especially a room playing about 400 radios at once, creating a strange buzz of audio that was hard to pin down. It probably helped that I had a really laid back teacher though, he would sit about and tell us about when he lived in Berlin in the late 70s to early 80s as a young gay artist, which was.. informative. His area of expertise was pop art collages so he probably would have loved the sorta stuff you were doing. It’s just a bit ironic that the teacher you had who loved modern art so much was dismissive of pop culture like has she ever seen a Warhol? A Lichtenstein? It’s a strange one alright, that sorta art started out as a critique of the cult of personality around traditional artists and then came to be defined by big personalities whose work sells for millions due to their name.
@RogerRoger I'm totally with you with regard to modern art. Unmade beds and piles of bricks and interpreting their deeper meaning is all nonsense to me. For me art is something that is visually appealing and requires a talent.
I own a few art books from games/films but also from Drew Struzan, Jim Lee and Stanley Artgerm Lau. Also a fan of people like Chris Foss. I dropped Art in favour of CDT Technology for GCSE and it's something I probably regret in hindsight. I've always liked drawing but haven't done so in quite a while. Maybe I will dig some of my art materials out of their hiding place and see what little of my already miniscule talent remains.
@RogerRoger Wonderful story! I enjoyed reading it and would have given you a high-five after class, had I been there. Only, I probably wouldn’t have been there since I avoided art classes like the plague and never considered myself much of a talent, nor much of a critic. Like anyone else, I like seeing art pieces that resonate with me, but I have no training to know why I like what I like.
I do think art is part innate talent, part practice. Given the time and effort, most people can create things of beauty, but it’s definitely easier for some. My recent foray into Dreams has me convinced I just don’t have the knack for it, but I feel like if I really devoted myself to investing time, then I could produce something decent. But it just would be really hard, and I don’t think I want to do hard things right now 😅. But I have a friend who can just sit down and draw a picture or create a piece that looks wonderful in a matter of minutes. It’s weird how talent works that way.
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@RogerRoger your story about the teacher appreciating your literal garbage art made me crease up 😂. It's lame that the whole year had such a negative impact on you though. I wish it was better for you.
We had a similarly mental teacher that kind of had her favourites in the class. I remember her telling the best artist in the class that he wouldn't amount to anything because all he drew was manga at the time. Now he is probably the most successful artist in our year, brief glances through his facebook page show some awards and some commissioned work.
She once put the class into pairs and asked us to draw combined self portraits 🤦🏻♂️, the fella I was with wasn't that interested so I just drew Goku because I didn't know how to draw anything except DBZ characters at the time. The teacher didn't say anything about it, I guess she hadn't seen or heard of dragon ball Z at the time...
This teacher did kind of go off the deep end though. She was obsessed with attention seeking and and after we had left school there were random daily mail articles and TV appearances from her that just stank of attention seeking. One was a daily mail about her liking to open the door naked (with plenty of erm, pictures...), one was an appearance on This Morning where she explained to a flabbergasted and increasingly exasperated Phil Schofield that she used all her dole money and benefits (a considerable amount due to having 3-4 kids) and spent £700 on different haircuts for herself at Xmas because she believed that if she didn't feel good in her appearance then it set a bad example for her kids but she was quite indignant about her use of the money versus the actual purpose of benefits. Her later appearance on This Morning had her with Eamon Holmes (I doubt Phil would have had her back without punching something 😂) had her talking about a mangy teddy she sleeps with that aparrently stunk but she'd refuse to not have it in bed, even when she brought men home. I don't know how much any of her stories were true, she just wanted to be famous and I guess thank God that she only elevated herself to the Daily Mail readership. I don't think I could take that sort of banality in every day news, it's just a curious thing to happen to someone from my past!
This is my hand drawing about COVID19.
That nerdy guy on the right was my alter ego with my Mighty Medicine team (Captain Aseptico, Capsulo and Tableto)
The villain on the left was Queen Covidia, Empress of Pneumonia
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