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Toaster Mantis
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Topic: Cool or unusual art Posted: October 14 2013 at 03:16 |
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I've become quite the fan of collage artist Ruth Crone Foster. I especially like her symmetrical, Rorschach inkblot-like collages centered around an unifying theme often with occult or psychedelic undertones. She really shows a knack for composition and finding some interesting imagery, Color Me Bad standing out as a personal favourite of mine. I actually think the bands AIDS Wolf and Causa Sui might have used her work as cover art, the new Red Fang LP definitely reminds me of her style.
At an exhibition this weekend, which went down really poorly thanks to bad planning resulting in half the artists backing out at the last minute, I also discovered the photographer Chris Calmer. I've actually been familiar with his not-safe-for-work-at-all body of work through Vice Magazine, I just didn't know his name until now. There's some more artists I'd like to post, including several I know personally... but I can't find their websites right now. (not sure if they have more than Facebook pages) Stay tuned! Edited by Toaster Mantis - October 19 2013 at 02:26 |
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FusionKing
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Posted: October 18 2013 at 15:15 | |
I like Roger Dean and Wassily Kandinsky.
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"Man is nothing else but that which he makes of himself" - Sartre
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dr wu23
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Posted: October 18 2013 at 15:28 | |
I'm a fan of surrealism in all it's forms .....Dali, Magritte, Varos, Delvaux, etc....
here's a link to Varos
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Tuzvihar
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Posted: October 18 2013 at 18:45 | |
"Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent."
Charles Bukowski |
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Toaster Mantis
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Posted: October 19 2013 at 02:26 | |
Never heard of Remedios Varos, but I like the material that Dr. Wu posted. Her style reminds me of a cross between her countrywoman Frida Kahlo and an evil Marc Chagall. (I know that's kind of a contradiction in terms, but you get my drift)
That reminds me to bring up Wenzel Hablik, a criminally underrated Austrian expressionist from between the two World Wars. I do think I've seen one of his paintings used as cover art for a book by either C. G. Jung or Friedrich Nietzsche, though. Edited by Toaster Mantis - October 19 2013 at 02:47 |
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"The past is not some static being, it is not a previous present, nor a present that has passed away; the past has its own dynamic being which is constantly renewed and renewing." - Claire Colebrook
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Dean
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Posted: October 19 2013 at 13:13 | |
Patrick Hughes - first saw his work in the Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow - he uses reverse perspective to create surreal 3D images. They simply "don't work" in 2D so you'll need to watch the video
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Blacksword
Prog Reviewer Joined: June 22 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 16130 |
Posted: October 19 2013 at 13:18 | |
Wow! I like some of this guys work. |
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Blacksword
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Posted: October 19 2013 at 13:21 | |
I like this womans work. Lynette Shelley from Philadelphia..
Lynette Shelley Edited by Blacksword - October 19 2013 at 13:22 |
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timothy leary
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Posted: October 19 2013 at 13:33 | |
http://www.danaddington.com/addingtongallery/addington/addington.html
wax, tar, wood and fabric. I don't know how to post pics but his art is worth looking at. Maybe somebody could post one of his pics for me
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Toaster Mantis
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Posted: October 19 2013 at 14:59 | |
Like with Chris Calmer, I recognize Lynette Shelley's work from elsewhere but didn't know the artist's name until now. Thanks!
Got yet another contribution myself: The mystically inclined Russian symbolist Nicholas Roerich's paintings of the Eastern European/Central Asian mountain landscapes which always remind me of Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov's descriptions of the same in his novels. And now that we are at the subject of Russia, cosmonaut Alexei Leonov's paintings of space are worth a mention too. |
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"The past is not some static being, it is not a previous present, nor a present that has passed away; the past has its own dynamic being which is constantly renewed and renewing." - Claire Colebrook
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dr wu23
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Posted: October 19 2013 at 17:49 | |
Since you and I mentioned ufos on the book thread I believe that Roerich saw and painted ufos he experienced while mountain climbing many decades ago.
Synchronicity rears it's bizarre head.
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One does nothing yet nothing is left undone.
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dr wu23
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Posted: October 19 2013 at 17:56 | |
I've always been a fan of Bosch
and my friend Bill turned me onto this book
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One does nothing yet nothing is left undone.
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Dean
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Posted: October 19 2013 at 18:02 | |
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Tuzvihar
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Posted: October 20 2013 at 15:56 | |
More and better pics: http://the-dimka.livejournal.com/6645.html?nojs=1. |
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"Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent."
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timothy leary
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Posted: October 24 2013 at 10:25 | |
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Dean
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Posted: October 24 2013 at 11:02 | |
^ I don't usually like kinetic art but those are cool
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Toaster Mantis
Forum Senior Member Joined: April 12 2008 Location: Denmark Status: Offline Points: 5898 |
Posted: October 24 2013 at 11:19 | |
Be sure to also check out Lilith Keogh. (NSFW) She's among the most extreme and raw of the many "morbid vaguely Art Nouveau mythological/fairytale motif" artists to pop up recently. Here in Scandinavia it's probably the masterful Julie Nord who kicked it off, she's probably my single favourite currently active Danish artist.
(Admin Note ... a link fixed.) Edited by DamoXt7942 - October 14 2014 at 17:59 |
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"The past is not some static being, it is not a previous present, nor a present that has passed away; the past has its own dynamic being which is constantly renewed and renewing." - Claire Colebrook
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Blacksword
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Posted: October 24 2013 at 11:52 | |
Lynette Shelley is apparently a big King Crimson fan too. I think she sings in a prog band.. and she's quite cute.. |
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Padraic
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Posted: October 24 2013 at 12:04 | |
She's the lead singer of The Red Masque.
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Dean
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Posted: October 24 2013 at 12:35 | |
Sometimes I don't know why I bother...
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