Paintings/Pictures that would make great metal cover art.

[Demilich]

since when did peeing in public and recording it become art?

who did that?

 

[spaffe]

who did that?

I saw the article about it in some crappy leftist magazine, and I think it was a german "artist" who had done it, but it was so jaw droppingly stupid I just threw the paper away. Doing something like that is not art and calling it art is to spit in the face of millennia of art history.
I think most of the modern stuff, the things that are there to shock you and MAKE YOU THINK, should be seen as a display of political standpoints, not art, because that's usually the agenda behind them; to challenge norms and be provocative! -- yay, let's change the world through our crappy installations! We shall turn everyone into cuddly socialistic pacifists with these subliminal hunks of metal that represent the evil in man! Zzz...

When people see that their tax money is spent to pay "artists" to create "art" that none but the artists and perhaps some politician wants, they don't get their "preconceived norms" challenged: they get pissed off. And hopefully also tear said junk down.

It does not make one an artist to cover a town hall in cloth, or put a huge condom over an obelisk, or put a shit load of arcs in Central park, it makes you an landscape architect.. at most. Arhg, I could go on for ever about this...

 

[MFJ]

I saw the article about it in some crappy leftist magazine, and I think it was a german "artist" who had done it, but it was so jaw droppingly stupid I just threw the paper away. Doing something like that is not art and calling it art is to spit in the face of millennia of art history.
I think most of the modern stuff, the things that are there to shock you and MAKE YOU THINK, should be seen as a display of political standpoints, not art, because that's usually the agenda behind them; to challenge norms and be provocative! -- yay, let's change the world through our crappy installations! We shall turn everyone into cuddly socialistic pacifists with these subliminal hunks of metal that represent the evil in man! Zzz...

When people see that their tax money is spent to pay "artists" to create "art" that none but the artists and perhaps some politician wants, they don't get their "preconceived norms" challenged: they get pissed off. And hopefully also tear said junk down.

It does not make one an artist to cover a town hall in cloth, or put a huge condom over an obelisk, or put a shit load of arcs in Central park, it makes you an landscape architect.. at most. Arhg, I could go on for ever about this...

this is why i love you

 

[Reign in Acai]

The three photos above tell the tale. The image on the left is the original work, a century-old oil painting of Christ called "Ecce Homo (Behold the Man)" that was painted on a column inside a church near Zaragoza, Spain, by artist Elias Garcia Martinez.


Over the years, the work began to deteriorate, as shown in the second image. According to the Centre de Estudios Borjanos, the unnamed amateur artist (without permission from the church, needless to say) thought she could improve the work and set to work with paints and brushes. The third picture is the result.

The BBC reports that the woman realized her mistake and contacted Juan Maria Ojeda, a city council member in charge of cultural affairs for the area. "I think she had good intentions," Ojeda told the BBC.

A team of art restoration experts is reportedly examining the painting, will quiz the woman on what materials she used in her attempt, and will figure out how best to proceed.

"If we can't fix it, we will probably cover the wall with a photo of the painting," Ojeda told the BBC.

The BBC Europe correspondent described the painting's current state as resembling "a crayon sketch of a very hairy monkey in an ill-fitting tunic."

While Martinez's work was not considered especially valuable, the BBC reports that the painter's granddaughter had just donated a sum of money to restore the peeling image. Apparently the helpful would-be artist took it upon herself to get involved without knowing that, but if she had just waited, the work would have been fixed properly.

FAIL

 

[einride]

tbh it is an improvement

 

[lurch70]

was this ever used?

 

[Dick Sirloin]

Basically any of Dore's Divine Comedy illustrations would work.

Francis Bacon has always scared the shit outta me.

 

[Dick Sirloin]

Beksinski:

 

[Dick Sirloin]

Stephen Gammell:

 

[Ellestin]

Pretty sure Beksinski has been used at least several times. Digging this Gammel stuff.

 

[Dick Sirloin]

Yah, he's pretty well known in the states, since his illustrations have been making kids shit their pants for decades because of these books:

 

[Dick Sirloin]

Beksinski was all over the first page. Whoops.

 

[Tide In Mind Out]

Kris Kuksi. Photos or some kind of manipulation of some of his sculptures could make for kickarse album covers. Edit: Apparently Sepultura's already done it. And Death Angel. Oops.

And countless others of his. Crazy crazy details. He paints and draws too, but his sculpting is so much more awesome.

 

[Dick Sirloin]

I want that last one in my house