Takato Yamamoto's "Heisei Estheticism" Were the Cave Paintings Painted by Women? | Picture This. Art history (and all history, for that matter) has shortchanged women for a long time. A recent article about the authorship of the earliest cave paintings—the earliest images made by human beings—sets the discrimination clock back tens of thousands of years. Archaeologist Dean Snow studied the hand prints found in caves containing prehistoric artwork and found that 75% of the handprints were those of women. This theory, if true, shatters the idea of prehistoric men both hunting animals and exclusively documenting the hunt. With these simple handprints, such as those found in the Argentinian Cueva de las Manos (“Cave of the Hands”) (shown above), these first women artists reach into our time for recognition and question all the assumptions we’ve made (and sometimes still make) about artists based on gender. It’s amazing how the assumptions of predominantly male scholars have tipped the scales in favor of the prejudices of male-dominated societies when it comes to art.
New Multi-story Mural by RONE in Berlin Street artist RONE recently completed work on this great five-story mural on building facade at Nollendorfplatz in Berlin. The artist is known for straddling the line between beauty and decay by creating large-scale depictions of idealized portraits that appear perfectly composed at a distance, but a closer inspection reveals signs of deterioration and imperfection. You can see more photos of this piece over on photographer Henrik Haven’s Tumblr and see more work by RONE here. All photos courtesy Henrik Haven. Update: According to Complex the face used in his latest piece is that of fashion model Teresa Oman as a part of Project M with Strychnin Gallery. Kaleidoscopic Traffic Sign Art - South African Artist r1 Uses Yield Signs to Beautify the Streets. The Bizarre Street Art of Daan Botlek. Street artist and illustrator Daan Botlek is based in Rotterdam, Netherlands and is known for his strange form of character-driven street art.
His generally simplistic, site-specific figures often interact with the space around them, passing in and out of unseen dimensions, shedding skin in the process. Kind of like morbid Keith Haring, no? You can see much more of his work over on Flickr. (via Lustik) Banksy rejected by New York Times, fights back with scathing street art piece. Top 10 Most Creative and Controversial Banksy Pieces in NYC. 10) October 16th (All city - McDonalds) For the whole month of October, Banksy took over the streets of New York City with his Better Out Than In project, leaving his mark in different areas every single day. Though some of his graffiti has been painted over and his installations taken down, we're lucky enough to live in an age where almost everything is documented and we can take a look back on the temporary works and continue to appreciate them. While the elusive artist was able to spend most of his 31-day public residency in the Big Apple spreading whimsy with his sense of humor, there were also days when he touched on controversial subjects.
In either case, he never ceased to approach his subjects with creativity. Now that it's November, we can reminisce and look back with some perspective. Here's our list of the top 10 most creative and controversial Banksy pieces from his New York street project. 9) October 1st (Manhattan) 8) October 15th (Tribeca) 7) October 29th (23rd Street) Mapped Out: Banksy`s Month in New York.
Renaissance. Boris Mikhailov. Born in 1938, Kharkov, former USSR Lives and works in Berlin and Kharkov. 2012Time is Out of Joint, Berlinischer Galerie Triptychs, Sprovieri Gallery, London Salt Lake, La criee centre d’art contemporain, Rennes 2011Case History, MoMa, New York, NY Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany 20101989. Ende der Geschichte oder Beginn der Zukunft? 2009Dusk, Deweer Gallery, Belgium Yesterday’s Sandwich – 1960/70 (Space 2 – Loft 19), Suzanne Tarasieve Paris, Paris, France 2008The Wedding, Sprovieri Progetti, London, UK Historical Insinuations, Multimedia Complex of Actual Arts at Moscow Contemporary Art Center, Moscow, Russia 2007Banzai! 2006Yesterday’s Sandwich, Shugoarts, Tokyo, Japan 2003Boris Mikhailov: private Freuden, lastende Langeweile, öffentlicher Zerfall, eine Retrospektive, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Germany Cambrige Album, Duke University, USA 1998Boris Mikhailov, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland Boris Mikhailov. 1992Boris Mikhailov: Werke von 1970 - 1991, Forum Stadtpark, Graz,Austria.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT: “PAINTINGS” EIKOH HOSOE: “PHOTOGRAPHS” E.J. BELLOCQ: “STORYVILLE” ED VAN DER ELSKEN: “LOVE ON THE LEFT BANK” (1954) DASH SNOW: “POLAROIDS” GALLERIES. “In these L.A. pictures, I was drawn to certain light and colors, spaces, vernacular architecture, and automobiles that, to me, were characteristic of the place in a way that resonated with how I was feeling and the photographic agenda I had.” – Adam Bartos (All rights reserved. Images @ Adam Bartos and courtesy […] New Orleans, Louisiana and environs.
ASX CHANNEL: ANDY WARHOL (All images @ Andy Warhol Foundation) ASX CHANNEL: ANTHONY HERNANDEZ (All images @ and Anthony Hernandez) Araki’s Chiro, Yoko, Death and the Baring of a Soul In Sentimental Journey and later in Winter Journey Araki documented both the intimate and the mundane from his honeymoon and his wife’s terminal battle with cancer. (All images @ Arthur Tress) ASX CHANNEL: ASGER CARLSEN (All images @ Asger Carlsen) August Sander’s People of the 20th Century Berenice Abbott can be considered the photographer of New York City. (All images @ Bill Burke) ASX CHANNEL: BILL OWENS (Images © Bill Owens) (All images @ Billy Monk Estate) Texts. Human Being Journal This is an archive of an article in Human Being Journal #5.
Text by Tag Christof, Photography by Clement Pascal. In the early 1980s, Sherrie Levine gained notoriety for her groundbreaking exhibition After Walker Evans. She had photographed a number of the FSA master’s Great Depression-era photographs (notably all taken before she was born in 1947) and then hung and presented them, in all seriousness, as her original work.
She had shot and developed the actual photos on display, so in a strictly ontological sense, the work was hers. But unlike earlier appropriation work, Levine made no attempt to disguise or alter the source. Instead, she made a game of subverting originality by calling it out in the exhibition’s title. Fast forward a few decades and art history has sided squarely with Levine. (More...) Time Time is absolute, the experience of time varies. Some days fly by and some days drag on forever. It’s our personal perception of time that we have to live with. Modern abstract art Abstract TREE Wall decor art par SchulmanArts. Felicien Rops : History of Erotic Art. Felicien Rops (1833 - 1898) was a Belgian artist who spent most of his life in Paris. He worked in many mediums and was also a master printmaker utilizing various technique. He was originally trained in lithography by the University of Brussels, but went on to produces engravings and etchings as well.
He was one of the first modern etchers to revive the neglected medium of soft-ground etching, in which the etching ground is melted into and mixed with tallow, producing the effect of lines drawn with a soft pencil or chalk. He also founded the International Society of Etchers and was for a time the vice president of the Free Society of Fine Arts in Brussels. Rops was originally noticed for the engraving produced a weekly satirical journal called "Uylenspiegel. Many of Rops’s etchings are deeply erotic and depict an imaginary underworld or subjects of social decadence. Google Image Result for. George Tooker - Artists - DC Moore Gallery. Born in Brooklyn in August 1920, George Tooker grew up in Bellport, a town on the south shore of Long Island.
At age seven, he began taking painting lessons with Malcolm Fraser, a professional artist and family friend who had studied at the Académie Julian and École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In 1938, Tooker graduated from Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, and, four years later, from Harvard University, where he majored in English literature. He did not take any fine art courses in college, but did have the opportunity to study late medieval and early Renaissance painting for the first time at the Fogg Art Museum and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Upon graduating in 1942, Tooker enlisted in the Marine Corps. He entered Officer Candidate School, but was soon discharged for health reasons. Returning to New York, he enrolled at the Art Students League and studied with Reginald Marsh in 1943 and 1944. He also took courses with Kenneth Hayes Miller and Harry Sternberg. Download PDF. George Tooker, Painter Capturing Modern Anxieties, Dies at 90. The Getty Puts 4600 Art Images Into the Public Domain (and There’s More to Come) Not long ago, I went over to the Getty to see the J. Paul Getty Trust’s President and CEO James Cuno in live conversation with Pico Iyer, one of his favorite writers as well as one of mine. Cuno, himself the author of books like Whose Culture? : The Promise of Museums and the Debate over Antiquities and Museums Matter: In Praise of the Encyclopedic Museum, impressed me not only with his choice of interlocutors but with the open, forward-thinking nature he revealed during the talk.
On Monday, he demonstrated it again by publishing another piece of writing, very brief but undeniably important: his announcement of the Getty’s Open Content Program, which has just made available over 4600 high-resolution images of the museum’s collection freely available in the public domain. You can download them, modify them, distribute them — do what you please with them. “Why open content? Related Content: 40,000 Artworks from 250 Museums, Now Viewable for Free at the Redesigned Google Art Project.
Dc3bcrer_melancholia_i. Alone seule, toulouse lautrec, 1896 1600x1200 id « Toulouse Lautrec Henri De « Artists. The sepia path. The mist~gates. A Procession of Grotesques. Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio , New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1919. The Book of the Grotesque The writer, an old man with a white mustache, had some difficulty in getting into bed. The windows of the house in which he lived were high and he wanted to look at the trees when he awoke in the morning. A carpenter came to fix the bed so that it would be on a level with the window. Quite a fuss was made about the matter. For a time the two men talked of the raising of the bed and then they talked of other things. In his bed the writer rolled over on his side and lay quite still. The old writer, like all of the people in the world, had got, during his long life, a great many notions in his head. In the bed the writer had a dream that was not a dream. You see the interest in all this lies in the figures that went before the eyes of the writer.
The grotesques were not all horrible. At his desk the writer worked for an hour. The old man had listed hundreds of the truths in his book. . * Grotesque. n. Media and the Grotesque. GROTESQUE. The chief difficulty encountered in seeking to define the grotesque in its relation to media is—as can be attested to by every theoretician who has sought to do so since the sixteenth century conception of the term in its modern sense—that the grotesque is not an expression of norms, but rather what results from the transgression of them.1 In recognition of the grotesque as “the slipperiest of aesthetic qualities”2 the flurry of nineteenth century writers addressing the grotesque did so by exploring its aesthetic, social and philosophical significance.3 The word itself is rooted in the sixteenth century Italian excavation of ancient palaces, tombs and villas such as Nero’s Domus Aurea in Rome, and the discovery of a fantastical decorative style in the underground chambers called grotte.4 Within the century the term had spread to France and England, where its definitive scope broadened from decorative motifs to encompass literature and even people.
Notes 1. Bibliography Ref. Chapmanbrothers. Chapman brthers. Identity of The Grotesque: Transgression Through Visual Media | Euroacademia. Presentation speakersİlknur Gürses Akbaykal, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey Abstract: The body is a natural and cultural image at the same time. As Bakhtin and Kristeva emphasized the modern western body is the project of the Enlightenment era. Thus, the complete, linear and unite body of the Enlightenment is an outcome of Apollonic discourse which is the cultural discourse itself and always in a dichotomist relationship with the Nature. All the grotesque and abject situations of the body is metaphor of the nature and they transgress the borders of the Enlightenment’s organized and reproduced body. In other words, grotesque and abject body images are the transgressive ones which are the other of fictive cultural body. PAS UN AUTRE :::::: ARTS + CULTURE.
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