The Art Thread

[V.V.V.V.V.]

Yes, it is the cover for Live's Throwing Copper. Pretty good album.

 

[Einherjar86]

^Yeah, it is the cover to Throwing Copper. Live is one of my favorite 90s bands. A great album, and great cover art.

 

[panzerfaust666]

Yeah I know. Big bump. Oh well

Baspuiat has been very influential to me lately.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

Never heard of him, can't say the work strikes any major chords with me.

 

[panzerfaust666]

damn man, too bad. oh, and if it might refresh a lost memory, I believe his painting was the one lars Ulrich sold in the some kind of monster movie thingee.( what was it, 1 million or so? FUCK)anyways...yeah

 

[Orion Crystal Ice]

Cool looking stuff there...like the second one especially.... and yet another thread I've missed somehow.

Some might think it's pretentious/tacky, and maybe it is in some ways, but I've recently been digging a lot of Dan Flavin work. He was a minimalist who pioneered a bunch of light sculpture stuff.

Insofar as more 'traditional' fare I'm a big Salvador Dalí fan. I've been to the St. Petersburg Dalí museum twice and need to go back.

And the Skyliner demo art, if it happens, will be awesome and probably have a monolith on it.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

YES, Flavin kicks ass. I love light sculpture.

 

[Rumpole]

Yeah I know. Big bump. Oh well

Baspuiat has been very influential to me lately.

Never heard of him, can't say the work strikes any major chords with me.

You might know who Basquiat is, though.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

The light sculpture stuff is pretty cool. I'd like to see what someone less minimalistic could manage with that.

 

[Einherjar86]

Vädersolstavlan (The Sun Dog Painting)

The painting is accompanied by this inscription:

"The twentieth day in the month of April was seen in the sky over Stockholm such signs from almost seven to nine in the forenoon."

 

[panzerfaust666]

those light sculptures were cool actually. I liked them.

also, Einherjer, cool painting as well! Never seen it


heres some Francis Bacon

one of his last paintings went for 49 million or so. my understanding is that it was quite similiar to this.

 

[panzerfaust666]

another one

 

[zabu of nΩd]

I know this is more a historic photo than art, but I'm not about to make a "Historic Photos Thread". I'm just posting it for the hell of it, cause it's fascinating to think about what life for the average American family might have been like in the 1800s.

 

[Orion Crystal Ice]

Hugely depressing time in American history, IMO...........fascinating for sure but pretty unpleasant.

On the subject of old Americana, I like a lot of Dust Bowl photos....................

 

[zabu of nΩd]

Yeah, mindblowing how long a way we've come in just 75-150 years, considering how long humans have been on the earth in total.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

I can't believe America was like that less than a hundred years ago, it's totally mindblowing to me.

 

[cookiecutter]

I've always liked World War I photos. They seem to capture the depressing and futile aspects of the war.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

I love gasmask photos. Find me more.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

 

[Orion Crystal Ice]