Art Post some ART that you're feeling today - and why?

[deaf eye]

i doubt you will rest in peace
i doubt you will rest in power
recreate the next dimension like you did this one

 

[ugly]

Pharmacy

Found art/assemblage art are my favorites. Joseph Cornell is the best in the field, imo. I have been fortunate enough to see many of his works at museums, and this is one of my favorites.

 

[JoeTheStoner]

http://kumiyamashita.com/

Colored resin plates. Wall mounted, lit from the left, cast facial silhouette profiles of 40 New Mexicans.

 

[rant*N*rave]

Beautiful *color* photos of Russia 1909-1912

I don't know where this belongs, but this is an absolutely amazing collection of pictures! All in true color! The process he used to get them is pretty damn slick. (Description in the first link)

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/08/russia_in_color_a_century_ago.html

And the full collection is here: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?st=grid&co=prok

 

[ocean]

^Whoa. Cool.

 

[n3ophy7e]

That is amazing!! Love it

 

[Seventeen]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/claudi.../3317824160/in/set-72157624425856127/lightbox

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An amazing photo, in my opinion. I was tempted to post some impressionist stuff that I fell in love with in Paris - but that's for another day.

 

[cellrebral]

That's awesome. Thanks for sharing that.

 

[Belisarius]

Those pictures never fail to amaze me; the first time I saw them in print (some years ago, I might add) I would've sworn up and down that they were just very well colorized if it wouldn't make me look like a fool.

My personal favorite is the Emir of Bukhara...

 

[dipitch]

Oh, stupid me...I saw them some weeks ago (I love the "bigpicture" pictures) but I thought it was nothing special, not knowing these were from 1909/1912

 

[Jamshyd]

HOLY SHIT!!!! *pees in pants*

I knew of a few of these pics (I actually posted one taken in Dagestan in the exotic places thread), but never knew they were part of an entire collection, and didn't realize that the colour was actually original from the time they were taken!

This is absolutely fascinating for a Central-Asia fanboi like yours truly .

 

[cosmic charlie]

These are by Android Jones, he makes some really beautiful work.

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[Noodle]

^

*wow*

 

[artaxerxes]

HOLY SHIT!!!! *pees in pants*

I knew of a few of these pics (I actually posted one taken in Dagestan in the exotic places thread), but never knew they were part of an entire collection, and didn't realize that the colour was actually original from the time they were taken!

This is absolutely fascinating for a Central-Asia fanboi like yours truly .

Word UP. I love Prokudkin-Gorskii. The Emir above has a particularly sad story btw. Worth reading.

There's another magnificent shot of an Uzbkh jail, somewhere around 1905. He also shot a portrait of Tolstoy when Tolstoy was in his major hippie/off to the commune phase.

All of his work is breath-taking. I've spent hours staring at the details and the faces. His color process has the ability to erase 100 years, a revolution and thousands of miles.

 

[mariacallas]

Moleskin art gets me all excited and thinking of future possibilities.
I love writing on paper, discovering new hacks and tricks for making your paper journal really useful , functional , AND nice to look at, buying perfect pens in all colors, ahhh...I can go on and on. Anyway I came across this guy when I was browsing http://www.skineart.com [luvvviiiit]...

So crisp! So whimsical! Adorable! Looking at his drawings just puts me in such a good mood

http://mattiasa.blogspot.com/

 

[cletus]

^thanks for sharing that mc

I do have a moleskin pad lying around somewhere & I hate myself for not picking it up & doodling like I used to. Hand drawn sketches are the type of simple art that I love the most & could trawl through hundreds to admire techniques & people's abilities. There's a fine line between making it look fun & interesting, or making it look like the insane scratchings of a mentally ill patient in a secure hospital

 

[cletus]

I found this tonight. By LA artist James Jean for some sort of Prada design & I find it weird, yet incredible.

His website has a good few Moleskin Sketches as well you may like MC -> http://www.jamesjean.com/

NSFW for size reasons

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[justsomeguy]

^^


really not crazy about that guy's work, but very interested in how he photographed / composited that scroll piece.

 

[Dtergent]

Takeshi Kitano

 

[SKL]

Florine Stettheimer (1871-1944), The Cathedrals of Wall Street, ca. 1931

Was looking at this one high as all hell on LSD not too long ago, and tripping out thinking about derivatives.