Art The Modern Art Thread

[mariacallas]

You need to get your head outta your ass and quit posting here if you have nothing substantial to say except pick on people 8(

 

[mariacallas]

more!!!

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Modigliani

Joan Miro

Wassily Kandinsky

 

[Pander Bear]

You need to get your head outta your ass and quit posting here if you have nothing substantial to say except pick on people 8(

I've actually avoided posting because I knew it would take me forever to google image search a big list (which I'd inevitably post). Since you asked so nicely though

Tony Smith - The Keys to Given

Donald Judd - Untitled

Christo - Wrapped Trees

Christo - Stacked Oil Barrels in the streets of Paris

Claus Oldenburg - Clothespin

Alexander Calder - East Building Mobile (miniature)

Robert Smithson - Slant Piece

Robert Smithson - Spiral Jetty

Anish Kapoor - As if to Celebrate Flowers

 

[Pander Bear]

Joseph Beuys - How to Explain Picture to a Dead Hare (performance)

Joseph Beuys - Homogenous infiltration for Grand Piano

Vito Acconci - Following Piece (performance)

Barbara Kruger - 1991 Installation @ Boone gallery, NY

Richard Serra - Charlie Brown

Matthew Barney - Still from Creamaster 5

Frank Stella - The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1870-1970

Edward Kienholz - Bronze Pinball machine with legs attached

Walter de Maria - Lightning Field

 

[Pander Bear]

Duane Hanson - Queenie 2

Jean Dubuffet - Monument with standing Beast

Marcel Duchamp - Given: 1.the waterfall, 2.the illuminating gas

(closeup view through crack in door)

Yves Klein - The Venus of Alexandria

Jean Arp - Human Concretion

Robert Rauschenberg - Shades

Giovanni Anselmo - Structure that Eats Salad

Richard Estes - Telephone Booths (oil on canvas)

Damien Hirst - 6 pills

I'll put up more capital A-art later, sweetie

 

[mariacallas]

Thats better Bear in mind we also all have different tastes, no need to put the other down

Nir Adar

dammit im hungry now

 

[AmorRoark]

Valient effort atlas... however, it's kansas city that's home to the coolest Oldenburg

 

[wanderlust]

Kertesz

francesca woodman.... god i love her.

 

[EisForMe22]

Damien Hirst - 6 pills

I'll put up more capital A-art later, sweetie

these are made from playdough aren't they?

 

[Pander Bear]

no, its one of his oil paintings of one of his sculptures/installations

 

[Pander Bear]

Wolfgang Laib - The Five Mountains not to Climb (tree pollen)

Wolfgang Laib - Milk Stone

Larry Bell - 97-6x6x4 Bevel

Franz Kline - Monitor

James Rosenquist - Hey, lets go for a Ride

Bruce Nauman - Green Light corridor

James Turrel - Afram I

 

[FiatFlux]

some random modern art that i enjoy:
^ Nice one on posting Joseph Beuys, Atlas - he's one of my favourites.

Christo & Jeanne-Claude: Umbrellas (USA)

Andy Goldsworthy: Woven Bamboo (Windy)

Andy Goldsworthy: Hole in Leaves Sinking

There is a famous quote Goldsworthy made about his earthworks -- "The very thing that brings the work to life is the thing that will cause its death." -- I very much think this summarizes his work.

Jenny Holzer: this is from one of the "Truism" series

Jin Soo Kim: Changmoon and Bal

Alphonse Marie Mucha: Maude Adams as Joan of Arc

Frantisek Kupka: Hindu Motif

Kenneth Noland: Gift

that's all i can be bothered googling at the moment

 

[FiatFlux]

wasn't half the point of his art based on the fact that everything he did was stolen in the first place. he was appropriating ideas and then laughing at our own desire to consume what we'd a) created, and b) already consumed on a daily basis... but that's why he confuses me i guess

my understanding of andy warhol is that he was simultaneously able to indulge in the things that he enjoyed (read: narcissism, consumerism) and the things that he hated (read: narcissism, consumerism) and in a way negating the value of both. i guess you could say that by making art based almost solely on whim (like pissing on a piece of paper and selling it for thousands after it had reacted with sunlight) or solely on appropriation frees him from placing a value judgement on anything in his life. his personality was appropriated from schemas he created not because that was who he was but because he was nothing more than a schema.

i think his art is as someone mentioned referencing the dadaist Marcel Duchamp who put the R. Mutt 1919 urinal into an exhibition as a "fountain" and a "work of art" -- which, you probably know started what he came to call "readymades" -- found objects created in warehouses and factories all around the world but placed in galleries as "art" and therefore shrinking the separation between art and kitsch (it was a big separation to many if you for example read the arguments between Benjamin and Greenberg at the beginning of the 1900's)

the big thing that is different that i notice is Warhol uses marketing IMAGES rather than marketED objects to create his art, but in essence i think he's saying pretty much the same thing - that there is no such thing as art, that there is no separation between marketing and marketed in either the consumer or the art world, hey ____ art gallery, pay me $1 million to paint a piece of bullshit etc. i am sure that gallery politics played into it but warhol fits in with much of the rest of the Pop generation and is nothing all that special in terms of artistic integrity or insight into modernity however i think what separates him from the rest is he was able to create a cult of personality about him, an aura of celebrity which made him famous.

(plus he had that stupid wig)


and please, as if every artist isn't ripping everyone else off to varying degrees anyway. what about picasso?

 

[Pander Bear]

love it! Any other earth/site specific artists to reccomend?

 

[mariacallas]

I agree with fiatfux re:everything you said, brilliant post....couldnt have expressed it better I also have a postcard set of prints featuring Alphonse Marie Mucha , one of my favorites as well.
On a vastly different note , (and style...still considered modern art of course! ) I have been taking a particular liking for whimsical illustrations such as those meant for childrens books. It's something I hope to be doing in the near future as well.
http://www.serpeinseno.it/

"La Bambola Assassina"

."Lo Sbavoso", per il gioco Mostrini - Accattone dei Piccoli.

 

[Pander Bear]

^^
those make me really uncomfortable

 

[chrissie]

they remind me of jotto

 

[mariacallas]

^^^read your pm!!!!! *Edit for Atlas*

to soothe your eyes

Rene Magritte

Personal Values

Les Amants

The Dangerous Liason

Gustav Klimt

Danae

 

[mariacallas]

Picasso
Figures at the Seashore

Giorgo di Chirico
Metaphysical Interior with Biscuits

Max Ernst
La femme penchée

A clearer Hieronymous Bosch

 

[EisForMe22]

no, its one of his oil paintings of one of his sculptures/installations

i saw an art exhibit where the artist made replicas of many different types of pills that are used for recreational use out of playdough. they were so realistic and tiny it was cool.