A recognizable face above; artwork by Amy Crehore below.
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Pictures showing ukuleles
Posted by acilius on October 13, 2008
https://losthunderlads.com/2008/10/13/pictures-showing-ukuleles/
Some blogs about art
Portrait of a Princess of the House of Este, Pisanello
“Art Blog by Bob” has some good pictures and intelligent commentary. The picture above illustrates his discussion of Pisanello.
Drew Anderson
“Descending Ashtray” sometimes strays off into its owners’ personal lives, but is worth a look most of the time. Above is a drawing they featured there early last year.
“Sexuality in the Arts” is a good one; while it usually stays pretty close to the subject in its title, sometimes it goes into some fairly non-sexy art. For example, they provide a very nice treatment of Samuel Morse’s The Old House of Representatives. For some reason, all their pictures are bitmap files, so I can’t give you any examples.
Posted by acilius on October 10, 2008
https://losthunderlads.com/2008/10/10/some-blogs-about-art/
Samuel F. B. Morse
He invented Morse code, but he also painted. For example:
Above is one of his two most famous pictures, commissioned (but never paid for) by Congress; below is the other:
After the jump, some of his portraits.
Posted by acilius on October 7, 2008
https://losthunderlads.com/2008/10/07/samuel-f-b-morse/
Grandfather Sculpture
My Pap-pa Irvin Passed away in Jan. 2001. Around the same time I took an art class at Indiana State University. When the instructor said that he had some sculptures for sale I was happy because I really liked the Idea of owning an original piece of art. I chose this one because the story that went with it reminded me of my Pap-pa Irvin. Unfortunately I do not remember the story or the artist’s name. If I found out any of this important information I will post it.
LESSON LEARNED: write stuff down
Posted by believer1 on October 6, 2008
https://losthunderlads.com/2008/10/06/grandfather-sculpture/
Henry Darger
The middle image from a triptych:
Religious education
You may have seen the 2004 movie In the Realms of the Unreal, a documentary about the life of artist Henry Darger. A friendless eccentric, Darger lived alone for decades. Only when he left his apartment for the last time to go to the hospital did his landlord discover a 15,000 page graphic novel, The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion. Darger had been writing and illustrating this work from 1909 to 1973. The haunting beauty of the book’s illustrations, the bizarre innocence of its story, and the extreme solitude of Darger’s life combined to make him an icon of the Romantic cult of the outsider artist. The movie enjoyed considerable success, several books about him have been published, and any number of museums have exhibited his works. The Story of the Vivian Girls has never been published in its entirety, though as Darger continues to attract attention it begins to seem possible that it might someday be. There are three more pictures after the jump.
Posted by acilius on October 3, 2008
https://losthunderlads.com/2008/10/03/henry-darger/
More Banana Art
In 2004, London refused to allow artist Doug Fishbone to install an artwork consisting of 10,000 bananas at a site in the City’s then-fashionable Spitalfield district. Fishbone had in August 1999 had a triumph with a similar display in Ecuador. Here‘s a pic of his March 2005 installation in his native Brooklyn, consisting of 20,000 bananas piled up in the middle of the street.
Fishbone
Posted by acilius on October 2, 2008
https://losthunderlads.com/2008/10/02/more-banana-art/
Clay Addresses the Senate
Robert Whitechurch’s engraving shows a scene from the debate in the US Senate over the Compromise of 1850.
Clay Addresses the Senate
Posted by acilius on October 2, 2008
https://losthunderlads.com/2008/10/02/clay-addresses-the-senate/
Michael Fernandes, Banana Artist
I should have mentioned this in my notes on the latest issue of Funny Times, since I learned about it there. Anyway, here’s the report from Chuck Shepherd’s News of the Weird:
Great Art!
Artist Michael Fernandes’ exhibit in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in June caused a commotion because it was merely a banana on a gallery’s window sill, and Fernandes had it priced at $2,500 (Cdn) (down from his original thought, $15,000). Actually, Fernandes changed bananas every day (eating the old one), placing progressively greener ones out to demonstrate the banana’s transitoriness. “We (humans) are also temporal, but we live as if we are not,” he wrote. Despite the steep price, two collectors placed holds on the “work,” requiring the gallery’s co-owner, Victoria Page, to get assurance from callers. “It’s a banana; you understand that it’s a banana?” [Globe and Mail (Toronto), 7-2-08]
The installation was the target of a crime when a “prankster” broke into the gallery and replaced the banana with an apple and a handwritten note. Here‘s the gallery’s site devoted to the exhibition. In 1992, Fernandes gave this interview and published it in a book of his.
Posted by acilius on October 1, 2008
https://losthunderlads.com/2008/10/01/michael-fernandes-banana-artist/
The Belgian National Colors
Via BBC–
Posted by acilius on October 1, 2008
https://losthunderlads.com/2008/10/01/the-belgian-national-colors/
J. P. Morgan, photographed by Edward Steichen
Posted by acilius on September 26, 2008
https://losthunderlads.com/2008/09/26/j-p-morgan-photographed-by-edward-steichen/
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