• LAVA Moderator: Shinji Ikari

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

hahaha all good man, I appreciate many other forms of art as well but it seems everything you hate about Basquiat are the things I like.

To me, he proved 'ahhrt' doesn't always have to be so high brow or wanky. (not that I don't like high brow though by any means)

Oh, and I'm not a Warhol fan at all either.
 
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i don't understand the attention and fame this guy got(aside from being andywarhols friend). his work always seems cheap and quickly thrown together.(oh hey, just like warhols! actually andy's feels even cheaper.)
there are a few of his pieces i really like....still, they don't have that technically-correct aspect i appreciate so much.


and his penmanship was fucking shit. literally crap. i couldn't even finish that movie he was in, mostly because i couldn't stand to see him dessacrate another publicly viewed wall with writing that looks like my 3 year old nephew did. yea he's done 'graffiti', but he is not a writer.


no ill vibes man. just sayin...:D

Ah, but a lot of what you mention was intentional and has cultural and personal relevance to the work. It's easy to forget that generally these decisions are made for a reason, not out of ignorance.

I'm a sucker for technical excellence every day of my life, however there is something to be said for content and meaning as well.
 
mother fucker!

i had this mf'n reply typed up, images, explanations, etc. then accidentally hit 'back' and erased the whole thing. fucking weak.

i don't know if i feel like typing it up again right now, so i'll do it up later. :(
 
so anyways! i'll try this again...

after browsing this thread earlier, it got me thinking about some of my old favorites. i figured i'd show them off. :)

back in my heavy acid tripping days, i discovered a canadian artist named darcy watt. i loved his stuff so much that i decided to email him. to my surprise, he actually wrote me back and was incredibly kind and thankful for my compliments. this piece was the one that hooked me. it reminded me of pink floyd's "the wall."

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the next piece is by an artist named derek hess who hails from cleveland, ohio. he's gotten pretty big over the last 8ish years so many people probably either know him or know his work. he does a TON of posters, flyers, cd covers, and has a clothing line. most of his cd/flyer/poster stuff he does is for hardcore bands. he has his own hardcore festival called hessfest which i believe is held in NJ every year. i just missed out on going one year when i was passing through to go to NYC on the same weekend as hessfest. he's incredible.

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the next one is dalek. i don't know what exactly it is, but his work is so unbelievably aesthetically pleasing to me. he's got such a signature style and his work is so fun to look at.

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lastly... paramodel. i'll put a bunch of their pieces up because i love them SO much. it's a japanese duo (yasuhiko hayashi and yusuke nakano) who construct their art out of toy train tracks in rooms, on ponds, bath tubs, empty warehouses, etc. they're work is so fucking unreal. i can't get enough of their stuff. when i eventually own a house, i'd love to have a paramodel room. f'n amazing!

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