The art you like thread.

[killer b]

this is one of the things I've liked most in recent gallery trips - it's by a photographer called Juno Calypso, from a series of self portraits in a nuclear bunker built in the 1970s - the rest of the series can be seen at her website (it's the 'what to do with a million years' set). All her photos are great - the use of colour, the sense of alienation, the compositions... great stuff.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

I always wonder who decides what's odd anyway

 

[dessiato]

I found this article

11 seriously strange things you didn’t know about Salvador Dali

Salvador Dalí, Surrealist master, would be celebrating his 112th birthday today. Did you know that the list of Dali’s seriously strange exploits is as endless as his creativity?

www.google.com

 

[Mrs Miggins]

this is one of the things I've liked most in recent gallery trips - it's by a photographer called Juno Calypso, from a series of self portraits in a nuclear bunker built in the 1970s - the rest of the series can be seen at her website (it's the 'what to do with a million years' set). All her photos are great - the use of colour, the sense of alienation, the compositions... great stuff.

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Now I do like that......will check out her website over lunch.

 

[dessiato]

this is one of the things I've liked most in recent gallery trips - it's by a photographer called Juno Calypso, from a series of self portraits in a nuclear bunker built in the 1970s - the rest of the series can be seen at her website (it's the 'what to do with a million years' set). All her photos are great - the use of colour, the sense of alienation, the compositions... great stuff.

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That is beautiful. Very reminiscent of Hopper.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

I found this article

11 seriously strange things you didn’t know about Salvador Dali

Salvador Dalí, Surrealist master, would be celebrating his 112th birthday today. Did you know that the list of Dali’s seriously strange exploits is as endless as his creativity?

www.google.com

Am I weird for not finding most of that very weird at all?

 

[hash tag]

Dali symbolised women in many of his works, tying them down, abusing them or simply depicting them as objects. I'm at work at the mo and can't lay my hands on any of his books. How's this

 

[killer b]

Very reminiscent of Hopper.

I'm not really feeling that tbh - especially if you view it in context with her other work.

 

[Sprocket.]

I fell in love with this portrait after first seeing it in 1979.
Portrait of Giovanni Tournabuoni (1488)
By Domenico Ghirlandaio (1448-1494)
One of his apprentices was Michaelangelo.
It’s on my bucket list to see the original in the Musseo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid soon.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Dali symbolised women in many of his works, tying them down, abusing them or simply depicting them as objects. I'm at work at the mo and can't lay my hands on any of his books. How's this
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That's a bit rubbish isn't it?

 

[dessiato]

I'm not really feeling that tbh - especially if you view it in context with her other work.

I was thinking of Hopper's painting of an apartment done from a train. I can't think what it's called. He also did others depicting loneliness.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

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I fell in love with this portrait after first seeing it in 1979.
Portrait of Giovanni Tournabuoni (1488)
By Domenico Ghirlandaio (1448-1494)
One of his apprentices was Michaelangelo.
It’s on my bucket list to see the original in the Musseo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid soon.

She is so very beautiful I adore her x

 

[Sprocket.]

She is so very beautiful I adore her x

A sad story though, she was eighteen and just married. Her husband paid for the commission, She died in childbirth along with her first child.

 

[killer b]

I was thinking of Hopper's painting of an apartment done from a train. I can't think what it's called. He also did others depicting loneliness.

Room in New York?



I think what hopper did is very different - his work is naturalistic, Calypo's photos are hyper-stylised, carefully posed and heavily edited - they're both images of people through windows not looking at the observer, but otherwise there's not many points of similarity.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

this is one of the things I've liked most in recent gallery trips - it's by a photographer called Juno Calypso, from a series of self portraits in a nuclear bunker built in the 1970s - the rest of the series can be seen at her website (it's the 'what to do with a million years' set). All her photos are great - the use of colour, the sense of alienation, the compositions... great stuff.

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Wow - I really like her. Thanks for that!

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Yeah - absolutely nothing like Edward Hopper - sorry dessiato

 

[killer b]

Wow - I really like her. Thanks for that!

I found this interview with her in the graun which is interesting - she goes into detail about her process, and sounds like a great laugh too.

'I sounded like I was having the best sex': Juno Calypso's one-woman world tour of honeymoon hotels

With their heart-shaped hot tubs and mirrors everywhere, Calypso has found that love hotels are the perfect place to explore what marriage means, why we feel ugly – and plan world domination

www.theguardian.com

 

[Mrs Miggins]

I'm kind of obsessed with an American artist callled Andrea Kowch
Artists / Collections Prints : RJD Gallery

 

[Mrs Miggins]

 

[dessiato]

Room in New York?

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I think what hopper did is very different - his work is naturalistic, Calypo's photos are hyper-stylised, carefully posed and heavily edited - they're both images of people through windows not looking at the observer, but otherwise there's not many points of similarity.

Yeah - absolutely nothing like Edward Hopper - sorry dessiato

I was thinking of this

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Hmmm....I still don't really see it but we all see things differently so...

 

[Edie]

I can hardly have an opinion, but I don’t like Dali because his surrealist paintings are like a nightmare and are uncomfortable and oddly shaped and weirdly cruel.

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That’s just terrifying! It’s like she’s mechanically kneading bread whilst her hairs on fire and the end of days is ripping through the cornfield behind her

 

[killer b]

I can hardly have an opinion

This is rubbish.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

That’s just terrifying! It’s like she’s mechanically kneading bread whilst her hairs on fire and the end of days is ripping through the cornfield behind her

That's interesting! I find it very peculiar and dreamlike but not terrifying. So interesting how people see different things. Her hair is not on fire though.

I want one of her prints but at $6,500 minimum, it's not very likely I'll be getting one!

 

[clicker]

I can hardly have an opinion, but I don’t like Dali because his surrealist paintings are like a nightmare and are uncomfortable and oddly shaped and weirdly cruel.



That’s just terrifying! It’s like she’s mechanically kneading bread whilst her hairs on fire and the end of days is ripping through the cornfield behind her

And the flies...so much to look at in there.

 

[clicker]

That's interesting! I find it very peculiar and dreamlike but not terrifying. So interesting how people see different things. Her hair is not on fire though.

I want one of her prints but at $6,500 minimum, it's not very likely I'll be getting one!

I thought they were getting ready to hunker down before something apocalyptic? Definitely going to Google her now.

 

[dessiato]

It's interesting how different people can interpret the narrative so very differently.

 

[Edie]

Her hair certainly looks as if it’s smoking to me! Eyuch the flies too. I think she’s got that look about her of something unbearable going on around you, so you mechanically continue to do the same menial task or action repetitively to try and blank out the terror and control your distress.

 

[Reno]

I think of Dali as a common way into art appreciation for many but once you’ve been exposed to more formally and intellectually stimulating art, he should quickly be left behind. His main talent was for self promotion, his art is superficially provocative but empty and after showing early promise it degenerated into ugly and deeply narcissistic kitsch. He also was a Franco supporting fascist.

 

[hash tag]

There are many articles about Dali being a misogynist as could have been the case with a few artists. Painting women without heads, tied up, pinned down etc. It's Really Surreal How Salvador Dalí Was a Fascist Who Hit Women