Urgh he sounds vile and frightening.
The art you like thread.
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Interesting article.
But it does beg the question about separating the man from the art. It's a difficult one to answer. Can you love the art while despising the man? I think you can. I Dali's he was a self proclaimed narcissist and craved attention. I think a lot of what he did was for this end. But then he went so very much too far in a lot of what he did.
Even today he's causing controversy. I think he'd have liked that.
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I remember going to his folly/burial monument thing in Figueres in my early 20s and thinking pretty much everything in it was shit. At that tender age, I thought it was me and I wasn't "appreciating" it. Now I know that it really was just a bit shit.
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Any publicity is good publicity if it helps raise the profile of the artist...Jeff Koons, Bruce Nauman, Robert Mabblethorpe, Tracey Emmin, Damien Hurst Etc.
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On the other hand, Rembrandt was generally respectful to the people who commissioned him but went to town on those who took him for a ride. Freud was brutally honest about his subjects then lautrec who painted women, including prostitutes with sympathy, compassion and respect.
Freud was a creep who banged his students, I was not very surprised to read at a small exhibition of his I went to in the spring. Although the card I read this on was eye-rollingly euphemistic about it.
Youngest recognised son, too. <boak>
Celia Paul's own work is real good too, mind. But if you look her up she's always adjacent to Freud.
Youngest recognised son, too. <boak>
Celia Paul's own work is real good too, mind. But if you look her up she's always adjacent to Freud.
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Great painter. Many artists had their "muses" neither of which is any excuse. As Someone has already said, can you separate the artist from their work.
there are of course glaring examples of great artists being implicated in immoral behaviour let's say. An obvious answer on who, for many, the jury is out is Bowie.
There are one or two I mentioned earlier who I can't stand nor can I stand their work and many would argue otherwise.
we digress from an otherwise beautiful thread.
there are of course glaring examples of great artists being implicated in immoral behaviour let's say. An obvious answer on who, for many, the jury is out is Bowie.
There are one or two I mentioned earlier who I can't stand nor can I stand their work and many would argue otherwise.
we digress from an otherwise beautiful thread.
I think it's ok to talk about the artists that created the work we're posting about, or it's just a wall of images - context is important. Freud was a great painter though, I agree. Despite being a creep and a cad.
I like his early style most - we have this one in my local municipal gallery
I like his early style most - we have this one in my local municipal gallery
I love this guy, Alfie Carpenter. He does amazing landscapes made of bits of stuff stuck on to the canvas and painted over:
I met him when I cared for him in hospital, and he made art out of bits of patient information leaflets. Later, once he was discharged and better, someone commissioned him to make a painting of the Cow & Calf rocks on Ilkley Moor for my birthday. It’s got maps and other stuff stuck under. I love that painting so much, it’s one of my top 5 possessions.
I met him when I cared for him in hospital, and he made art out of bits of patient information leaflets. Later, once he was discharged and better, someone commissioned him to make a painting of the Cow & Calf rocks on Ilkley Moor for my birthday. It’s got maps and other stuff stuck under. I love that painting so much, it’s one of my top 5 possessions.
I love Freud too, I find his paintings almost all really beautiful.
In Manchester Art Gallery they have some great cityscape paintings by a French painter called Valette, who lived and taught in Manchester - he was Lowry's teacher and you can see the influence (they are displayed side by side with a load of Lowrys - personally I prefer the Valettes, although they are more conventional paintings for their time).
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ashcan school. prominent names include john sloane, george bellows, and by a little extension, jacob riis and edward hopper.
en.wikipedia.org
one name not included there is printmaker martin lewis. basically i drool when i look at his stuff.
this looks quite like what i see out my own back window
also, industrial porn.
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also, industrial porn.
Yes - I think that's a shame: he was a very fine - and quite important - painter and wasn't Jack the Ripper, but most people now just know him because of the ripper theories.
Ok, I can love that
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Cathedral - Norman Lewis
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He did some lovely work.
Cathedral 1950 by Norman Lewis – In Focus | Tate
In 1956 Norman Lewis’s Cathedral 1950 became one of the first works by an African American artist to be shown at the Venice Biennale.
He did some lovely work.
I found at least one exemption! Congratulations to Christopher Campbell, dream artist and mentor without permission. Special badge headed your way x
Oh! And Dr Geof the tea and cats in tanks fetish comic overlord dude, obvs
I really need some guidance on whether this is even a thing iyswim 
I feel like I've been rickrolled by a new upcoming artist, but with a Sam and I'm not sure what to make of any of it.
Finding it made my head explode like that Cindy Sherman? thing at the tate, two sheds , and did disconcerting things to my heart and nervous system and blood sugar levels
www.sam-hutchinson.com
I feel like I've been rickrolled by a new upcoming artist, but with a Sam
and I'm not sure what to make of any of it.Finding it made my head explode like that Cindy Sherman? thing at the tate, two sheds , and did disconcerting things to my heart and nervous system and blood sugar levels
Sam Hutchinson
Sam Hutchinson, artist & photographer. Recent exhibitions Vape Cloud Premonition, 2023 The Private Exorcism of Mary Magdalene (with Dudley Dream Walsh), 2022 502 Bad Gateway, 2022 I’d Rather Be Your Enemy, 2022 Silicon Valley Tribal Tattoo, 2022 Watching a Supermodel Sleep on a Plane, 2022...
