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March 25, 2012

The Weekend Art Thread (Art by moron Polynikes)
— CAC

Apologies for last week's absence, I was enjoying what is left of Route 66.

This edition will be a short one, unfortunately, but wanted to still get it out there.

Thankfully you morons came in handy by submitting several interesting items and some of your artwork, so I won't have to resort to linking up a video of Devo doing Jocko Homo for forty-five minutes,

First up, moron art, this week exclusively by Polynikes:

"Traffic" Oil on Canvas 16x20, 2002.

"Into the Light" Oil on Canvas 20x30, 2002

Poly also submitted a more "realistic" work since you barbarians don't like anything after 1900:

"Dusk at the Cape" Oil on Canvas 25x30, 1998

Moron RHH submitted links to several acquaintances: a photographer, Joel Belmont, and his wife, Lili Belmont. Joel's photographic series are incredible, and definitely NSFW, imagine Mapplethorpe dropped into the late 1800s and with less bullwhips. Lili's watercolors have an abstracted depth that suggests a "heavier medium made light" and her figure series serve a fine counterbalance to Joel's "Human Condition."

Lastly, some more Robert Hughes snapping at bad art:
Skip ahead to 8:22 after Koons' goofy grin clears the screen for Hughes' blunt beat-down of identity art.

As always, if you wish to submit your work, please send JPEGS with title, medium, dimensions and year to theoneandonlyfinn(at)gmail.com.

Posted by: CAC at 04:15 PM | Comments (175)
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1 I make paintings with my feces...

Posted by: Clarence at March 25, 2012 05:16 PM (6DDE+)

Obama is a stuttering cluster Flock of a miserable failure ! First !

Posted by: middle-america at March 25, 2012 05:18 PM (8qu3T)

oh dang!

Posted by: middle-america at March 25, 2012 05:18 PM (8qu3T)

4 "Into the Light" has a real "Jupiter and the Infinite Beyond" feel to it.

Me like.

Posted by: the guy that moves pianos for a living.... at March 25, 2012 05:19 PM (VW0I/)

5 Acid is a trip, man. I swear...I live near a major airplane manufacturer and it was years before I discovered that maybe they weren't all really UFOs.

I still think they're lying. I just don't tell anyone.

These here artists are fucking brilliant.

Posted by: Contemplative Lobster at March 25, 2012 05:19 PM (ay6+/)

6 I like the top painting very much. It has a definite Bauhaus feel to it.

Posted by: mama winger at March 25, 2012 05:20 PM (P6QsQ)

1I make paintings with my feces...

Posted by: Clarence at March 25, 2012 09:16 PM (6DDE+)

Really? That's such a bold statement, such a trenchant commentary on contemporary mores. How'd you like a grant of a shitload of taxpayers' money?

Posted by: NEA at March 25, 2012 05:20 PM (vKhmr)

8 Don Troiani--that's art.

Posted by: USS Diversity at March 25, 2012 05:20 PM (vpe0k)

9 "So what."

The best thing an art critic has ever said.

Ever.

Made my day.

Posted by: Dang at March 25, 2012 05:20 PM (BbX1b)

10 I'm one of those hoosiers who likes pictures that look like things (my favorite painting is Meeting on the Turret Stairs by Fredrick Burton), but Polynikes' abstract art has an exuberance that I like.

Posted by: Palandine at March 25, 2012 05:21 PM (g7D8V)

11 : the guy that moves pianos for a living.. could you move a pool table from Mia to Palm Beach next weekend for me?

Posted by: Pooter Hound at March 25, 2012 05:21 PM (0TdUk)

12 I make paintings with my feces... Posted by: Clarence

Meh. Most artists today make feces with their paintings.

Posted by: Dang at March 25, 2012 05:22 PM (BbX1b)

13 'Traffic' appears to have some Miro influence.

Posted by: fluffy at March 25, 2012 05:23 PM (z9HTb)

14 The cubey thingy was nice and the porty thingy was awesome

Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at March 25, 2012 05:23 PM (QTHTd)

15 OK, I'm just trying to be snarky. CAC featured my favorite sculptor recently.

Entire periods of my life feature "Adjacent, Against, Upon". by Michael Heizer

Posted by: Contemplative Lobster at March 25, 2012 05:24 PM (ay6+/)

16 Meh. Most artists today make feces with their paintings.

Posted by: Dang at March 25, 2012 09:22 PM (BbX1b)

I LOL'ed.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 25, 2012 05:24 PM (xKC/c)

17 Would you have anything along the lines of dogs sitting around a table playing cards?

Posted by: Truck Monkey at March 25, 2012 05:24 PM (jucos)

18 @11

Wrong part of the state. It is about a 6 hour drive to Miami.

Posted by: the guy that moves pianos for a living.... at March 25, 2012 05:24 PM (VW0I/)

19 "Into the Light" reminds of the depth perception test I had to take at MEPS. I like it though.

Posted by: no good deed at March 25, 2012 05:25 PM (mjR67)

20
Hunger Games might be considered art if it weren't filmed out of focus w/ shaky-cam.

My daughter saw it and filled me in. I guess I will watch it in small screen format.

Posted by: sTevo at March 25, 2012 05:26 PM (VMcEw)

21 Joel Belmont's photos are interesting, in a clinical and ultimately soulless way.

I like emotion in my art.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at March 25, 2012 05:27 PM (nEUpB)

I like the middle painting better under it's original name:

"Hotdogs, Hallways and Flukes."

Posted by: Resident Art Critic at March 25, 2012 05:27 PM (3Tc9H)

23 Those first two pieces are my kind of stuff. Very nice.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 25, 2012 05:28 PM (X3lox)

24 No art created after 1950 will be cared about in the yer 2200. No doubt in my mind about that, whatsoever.

Posted by: CoolCzech at March 25, 2012 05:28 PM (niZvt)

25 When I was a kid my doctors office had paintings of clowns (sad faced ones, like hobo Kelly) on his dark wood panel walls. Pegged my anxiety level at eleventy. To this day both clowns and doctors scare the ever loving shit out of me. I wonder if there is a pill for that.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at March 25, 2012 05:28 PM (jucos)

26 Wow... stupid is as stupid is.

Posted by: jacke at March 25, 2012 05:28 PM (5Cwv4)

27 1 I make paintings with my feces... Posted by: Clarence at March 25, 2012 09:16 PM (6DDE+) Have you considered making paintings out of your comments?

Posted by: CoolCzech at March 25, 2012 05:29 PM (niZvt)

28 Get Off my Lawn -Cac, yes i do like" Dusk at the Cape"
it is lonely and somewhat haunting.

Posted by: willow at March 25, 2012 05:31 PM (TomZ9)

29 I don't pretend to nderstand any of it, but I would love to have Polynikes tell us about them!

For instance, what's the inspiration? Well that's not really what I mean, exactly....and I am not even smart enough to articulate what I mean, but for instance, a regular old still life artist just plops down the jug, the peach and maybe a bowl and paints what he sees. He knows for the most part what the end result is going to be.

What goes on in your head beforehand when you paint something abstract? Do you have any idea it's going to turn out like it does? I mean, does a generalized picture form of colored 2x4s headed towards light or do you just pick up your medium and next thing you know you have a few squiggles and you just sort of feel your way through it. or....????

Posted by: Tammy al Thor at March 25, 2012 05:32 PM (SsG4J)

30 Truck, so instead of ,"do you want a balloon for being a good boy," He'd 'send in the clowns?'

Posted by: willow at March 25, 2012 05:32 PM (TomZ9)

31 There's great art done after 1900. Just none of that vomit.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 25, 2012 05:33 PM (r4wIV)

32 Can i submit the fish i made with a Light-brite?

Posted by: cicerokid at March 25, 2012 05:35 PM (n0zDv)

33 What, no black velvet?

Posted by: Zombie Elvis at March 25, 2012 05:36 PM (axc/z)

34 Isn't just about everyone afraid of clowns???

Posted by: Tammy al Thor at March 25, 2012 05:36 PM (SsG4J)

35 There's great art done after 1900.

Absolutely.

Posted by: mama winger at March 25, 2012 05:36 PM (P6QsQ)

36 The second one had a nice frame.

Posted by: Ed Anger - Certified Kos Kid at March 25, 2012 05:36 PM (7+pP9)

37 It's because they float, Tammy.

Posted by: irongrampa at March 25, 2012 05:37 PM (SAMxH)

38 A friend of mine is a western style artist. He did a sculpture of Quanah Parker, the last war chief of the Comanches, last year. I like it.

http://www.msfranco.com/Images_2010/homepage.jpg

Posted by: huerfano at March 25, 2012 05:37 PM (bAGA/)

39 Tammy, i like them at the circus , not at all as a decoration .

Posted by: willow at March 25, 2012 05:37 PM (TomZ9)

40 My BIL and his wife have a freakin' Spanish galleon velvet painting, I kid you not.

Posted by: Tammy al Thor at March 25, 2012 05:37 PM (SsG4J)

41 33 There's great art done after 1900. Just none of that vomit. Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 25, 2012 09:33 PM (r4wIV) True, but I think petered out once and for all c. 1950. Now we're in the "Art is anything you say is art" phase. And it's just pure boring mediocre garbage. Name a single artist alive today that could conceivably be compared to even a second tier Renaissance master, like a Titian, with a straight face?

Posted by: CoolCzech at March 25, 2012 05:37 PM (niZvt)

42 Ã½4"0% of people worldwide don't have a safe & healthy way to poop." World Toilet Organization

Posted by: Georg at March 25, 2012 05:37 PM (uhPd1)

43 Speaking of sad clowns: one of my Dad's best friends was the artist Philip Paval. He gave my Dad one of his oils, which was of the famous clown Emmett Kelly making up. The picture of course hung in a prominent place in our house, and it was of such a sad mood that it was a constant source of depression for me. That permanently altered my aesthetic, and now I have no patience for any work that exudes pathos.

Posted by: Otis Criblecoblis at March 25, 2012 05:38 PM (IlZPo)

44 Clarence lurks on dead threads.

Posted by: Meremortal at March 25, 2012 05:39 PM (Usk3+)

37Isn't just about everyone afraid of clowns???

Strange? Isn't it?

Posted by: Pennywise at March 25, 2012 05:39 PM (n0zDv)

46 Tammy, my bil (single /you'll know why in a minute) has a elvis on velvet, and thinks it's fabulous.

Posted by: willow at March 25, 2012 05:40 PM (TomZ9)

47 I'll have to scan some of my 4th grade artwork for the next one.

Posted by: CDR M at March 25, 2012 05:41 PM (QaYwz)

48 Here's how I prove that art is essentially dead: It used to be people wanted to surround themselves with it. People wanted their churches anf public spaces filled with it. Modern art gathers dust in museums nowadays, seen only be poseurs tht stand there pretending to "understand" it before rushing out the door. Today's "art" has NO appeal or meaning to society at large WHATSOEVER. Art is truly dead to the "99 percent."

Posted by: CoolCzech at March 25, 2012 05:41 PM (niZvt)

49 ouch CDR M.

Posted by: willow at March 25, 2012 05:42 PM (TomZ9)

50 I do like the art scene nowadays. You can find pretty much any kind of style you like in some gallery or another and no one tsk-tsking you that your taste in not in line with the Art History Narrative March of Progress.You can even collect lush old-school realism without shame!

I went to see the "In Wonderland" exhibit at LACMA yesterday, about women surrealists in US and Mexico. To my intense delight Remedios Varo was very well represented; thoughtful with a leavening of whimsey, elfin details set in amazingly textured backgrounds. The repros in books just don't do the luminosity of the canvasses justice. I really, really need to sit down and take up the paint brush again. I have all these quick sketches for proposed works and there they lie sleeping in the desk drawer, sigh. Maybe between the outing yesterday and this post's exhortation, it'll goad me to start doing something about that...

Posted by: sistrum at March 25, 2012 05:42 PM (AyryN)

51 Occupy Art

Posted by: CMU VET at March 25, 2012 05:42 PM (p7ZkL)

52 Does anyone else get a really creepy vibe off Jeff Koons? Like, crawlspace full of rotting bodies creepy?

Posted by: Trimegistus at March 25, 2012 05:43 PM (v9Kjt)

53 Serious willow. I drew pretty good back then. Just started drawing things for my kids now. It's all coming back to me.

Posted by: CDR M at March 25, 2012 05:43 PM (QaYwz)

54 although i'm not catholic, is there anything more fantastic then the sistine chapel?

Posted by: willow at March 25, 2012 05:44 PM (TomZ9)

I was in a thrift store a while back and saw a wild print of a Venice location that I recognized. In a cheap frame, priced at $6.50. Brought it home, looked the guy up on the net. Name is McCoy, been dead about 25 years. Someone that has a corner on his inventory has a website where you can buy prints. They sell this one for $425.

Score!!!

Posted by: Meremortal at March 25, 2012 05:44 PM (Usk3+)

56 @44

H R Geiger leaps to mind.....

...although I suppose he is more of a Hieronymus Bosch than a Titian.

Posted by: the guy that moves pianos for a living.... at March 25, 2012 05:44 PM (VW0I/)

57 57 although i'm not catholic, is there anything more fantastic then the sistine chapel? Posted by: willow at March 25, 2012 09:44 PM (TomZ9) A "melting toilet" at the Whitney?

Posted by: CoolCzech at March 25, 2012 05:45 PM (niZvt)

58 You know Willow, I think a velvet Elvis painting might be a kind of a statement.

Like, yo, hell yes, this here's an actual Elvis velvet painting...kind of kitschy and sassy.

I think my BIL and his wife bought the damned galleon because they really liked as genuine art.

huerfano, that was awesome. It's not my taste, but it's really well done. Thor likes sculpture.

Frankly, I just don't think I'm an art-art person. Music is my preferred art form.

I'm a hillbilly, what can I say?

Posted by: Tammy al Thor at March 25, 2012 05:45 PM (SsG4J)

59 Willow, some of that Gaudi architecture was pretty damn cool in Barcelona.

Posted by: CDR M at March 25, 2012 05:45 PM (QaYwz)

60 Like, crawlspace full of rotting bodies creepy? Posted by: Trimegistus at March 25, 2012 09:43 PM (v9Kjt) Yeah, but he doesn't get the bodies himself. He "directs" the collecting of fine human skins.

Posted by: CAC at March 25, 2012 05:45 PM (Xei2N)

61 Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure.

Posted by: Steevy at March 25, 2012 05:46 PM (vd4t0)

62 CDR M , my oldest likes to draw cities very graphically since a small child, really is interesting and i enjoy them, he is not interested in being seen . rather sad i think..
always pencil no color.
i wonder ..

Posted by: willow at March 25, 2012 05:46 PM (TomZ9)

63 59 @44 H R Geiger leaps to mind..... ...although I suppose he is more of a Hieronymus Bosch than a Titian. Posted by: the guy that moves pianos for a living.... at March 25, 2012 09:44 PM (VW0I/) The guy that came up with "Alien" art? Please.

Posted by: CoolCzech at March 25, 2012 05:47 PM (niZvt)

64 Dad used to have a watercolor of dogs walking like humans, lined up behind a tree labeled "WC" to go pee hanging in our bathroom...

Posted by: Cicero Kid at March 25, 2012 05:48 PM (n0zDv)

65 is there anything more fantastic then the sistine chapel? Posted by: willow at March 25, 2012 09:44 PM (TomZ9) Have you not seen our Big Fuckin' Rock on Wilshire Blvd?

Posted by: CAC at March 25, 2012 05:48 PM (Xei2N)

66 CDR M re Gaudi, uh hmm, fascinating isn't it. makes one wonder with the tools to be had , i enjoy a lot of spanish architecture.

Posted by: willow at March 25, 2012 05:49 PM (TomZ9)

67 68 is there anything more fantastic then the sistine chapel?
Posted by: willow at March 25, 2012 09:44 PM (TomZ9)

Have you not seen our Big Fuckin' Rock on Wilshire Blvd?
Posted by: CAC at March 25, 2012 09:48 PM (Xei2N)

What does it fuck?

Posted by: Modern art crtic at March 25, 2012 05:49 PM (GULKT)

68 "Into the Light," looks kinda familiar.

Posted by: Astronaut Dave Bowman at March 25, 2012 05:49 PM (axc/z)

69 I used to draw grilles from mid-70's Cadillac Fleetwoods. Got pretty good at it too. I also liked to draw Minnesota Viking players from the same era. Pencil etchings with crayola color. Favorite was probably Alan Page.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at March 25, 2012 05:49 PM (jucos)

70 CAC, heh, i believe you announced its becoming an attraction here on ace's
if i say,' mm, that's interesting is that enuff for you?'

Posted by: willow at March 25, 2012 05:50 PM (TomZ9)

71 People wanted their churches and public spaces filled with it.

Okay, since I have admitted I am a total peasant anyway, I'll just go on ahead and also admit that all the Sistine Chapel type stuff doesn't do much for me, either. I get that's it's incredibly well done and all, but it is all just a bit much for my taste. Over the top.

I have no doubt whatsoever it's stunning in person, but it just isn't my taste at all.

Because I completely lack any taste at all, I know, I get that, lol!

Posted by: Tammy al Thor at March 25, 2012 05:50 PM (SsG4J)

72 Ã½....."40% of people worldwide don't have a safe & healthy way to poop." World Toilet Oraganization

Posted by: Georg at March 25, 2012 05:50 PM (uhPd1)

I'm a heathan when it comes to art but I'm a sucker when it comes to boats.

Sweet painting, Poly! Very nice!

Posted by: ErikW at March 25, 2012 05:50 PM (0mXDN)

74 Tammy, my bil (single /you'll know why in a minute) has a elvis on velvet, and thinks it's fabulous.

Years ago the senior partner of the law firm where I worked retired and took his personal paintings with him so the conference room walls were bare. For a joke the new senior partner brought in a velvet Elvis and put it up on the wall that most clients viewed when in the room. She got agreement from the other partners on a budget for artwork by lunchtime.

Posted by: Retread at March 25, 2012 05:50 PM (joSBv)

Posted by: willow at March 25, 2012 09:44 PM (TomZ9)

...

Willow, at the Vatican website you can pan every detail, up very close and personal. Amazing. In many ways it's better than seeing it in person, once you've seen in person that is. The Scavi tour is awesome also. That's the level under the basement, which includes the grave of St. Peter, two levels below the main altar. It was discovered by accident excavated in the 1950's. It was only opened for 12 person at a time tours (only with Vatican guide) fairly recently.

....

Chills...whether from a Christian or a historical perspective. Or both...

Posted by: Meremortal at March 25, 2012 05:50 PM (Usk3+)

76 @66

Don't confuse taste in aesthetics with excellence of execution.

Posted by: the guy that moves pianos for a living.... at March 25, 2012 05:51 PM (VW0I/)

77 #61 Is the velvet Elvis blacklight? All really good art is blacklight!

Posted by: Hummingbird at March 25, 2012 05:52 PM (R5yLq)

78 I like the second one the best Although all we have for art here at Casa De Joe is old drawings of French dancing chicks, t collects them My sister have the old passed down painting of Jesus, been in the family for generations, i wonder what its worth? Supposed to go to the oldest grandkid so my nice scores

Posted by: navycopjoe at March 25, 2012 05:52 PM (gLXfE)

Ruby the elephant from the Phoenix zoo is pretty good.

Posted by: Cicero Kid at March 25, 2012 05:52 PM (n0zDv)

80 aw Tammy, eye of the beholder and all. ya know?

Posted by: willow at March 25, 2012 05:52 PM (TomZ9)

81
Even Bob Ross couldn't match my happy trees!

Posted by: William Alexander, The Happy Nazi at March 25, 2012 05:52 PM (7+pP9)

82 Chills...whether from a Christian

or a historical perspective. Or both...

Posted by: Meremortal at March 25, 2012 09:50 PM (Usk3+)

exactly. its enchanting for many for different reasons.

Posted by: willow at March 25, 2012 05:55 PM (TomZ9)

83 >>>Poly also submitted a more "realistic" work since you barbarians don't like anything after 1900:

Like Dusk at the cape, but yeah, the "after 1900 work" is the visual equivalent of gibberish.

Posted by: cm9000 at March 25, 2012 05:56 PM (MwTP4)

84 willow, absolutely! And thank God for that, or I'd be a single lady!

Posted by: Tammy al Thor at March 25, 2012 05:56 PM (SsG4J)

85 Cutting edge man. Cutting edge.

Posted by: Art Critic at March 25, 2012 05:56 PM (T1nDt)

86 That first picture is reminiscent of some of the stuff Joan Miro did. A surrealist art elective put me some rudimentary learn'in about such things.

Posted by: Purple Avenger at March 25, 2012 05:56 PM (DoccX)

87 Hummingbird, no, but the wild colors on the clothes...
whew can one say extremely tacky when this subject comes up here?

Posted by: willow at March 25, 2012 05:56 PM (TomZ9)

88 Willow, I was the same way. Much better drawing mechanical objects vice people. Since my daughter is forcing me to draw Disney princesses, I'm getting better at that though.

Posted by: CDR M at March 25, 2012 05:56 PM (QaYwz)

exactly. its enchanting for many for different reasons.

Posted by: willow at March 25, 2012 09:55 PM (TomZ9)

Explore saintpetersbasilica.org.

You won't be disappointed.

Posted by: ErikW at March 25, 2012 05:57 PM (0mXDN)

90 Nite all. Taking the family to the Museum of Science and Industry tomarrow. Hope we don't encounter a race riot on the way.

Posted by: Cicero Kid at March 25, 2012 05:57 PM (n0zDv)

91 Wear a hoodie. You'll be good to go.

Posted by: CDR M at March 25, 2012 05:58 PM (QaYwz)

92 The walls in my magpie manor are damn near a mosaic. No real high-price high-falutin' artwork but plenty of flea-market finds, original children's book illustrations, leaves from medieval books, prints.

Posted by: sistrum at March 25, 2012 05:58 PM (AyryN)

93 Tammy, my husband and I rarely agree what goes on the walls, which is why i have very few pieces.
mine are rather depressing I guess from anothers perspectif, but i like bare trees , barren landscapes with one item visible or chaotic stormy scapes.
everything else i own is very vibrant colorful, furniture etc.
except my bedroom is very calm.

Posted by: willow at March 25, 2012 05:59 PM (TomZ9)

94 Cripes, we had the "Dogs Playing Poker" set at our house.

Growing up in the late 60's and 70's was really fucked up.

Posted by: MrCaniac at March 25, 2012 06:00 PM (1grxW)

95 Erikw, will do thank you.

Posted by: willow at March 25, 2012 06:00 PM (TomZ9)

96 Chess, golf, and now art? This place is getting all hoity-toity. AOSHQ: Come for the boobehs and Val-U-Rite jokes, stay for the art appreciation. Or is it the other way around?

Posted by: rickl supports SMOD/Supervolcano 2012 at March 25, 2012 06:01 PM (sdi6R)

97 Wait, CAC, you have the 45 minute version of Jocko Homo and you're not posting it?!

Posted by: GOPPartyReptile at March 25, 2012 06:02 PM (BluPj)

98 Oh, and the portrait of my mother laughs behind my back while I sit here tap-tapping on the keyboard.

Posted by: sistrum at March 25, 2012 06:02 PM (AyryN)

99 sistrum, mmmm, i love visiting a home that has many ideas collaged together to make a huge fanatastic piece of art, (a whole room)

Posted by: willow at March 25, 2012 06:02 PM (TomZ9)

100 Well, I gotta find ways not to stumble on all the crap I'm compelled to accumulate. It is interesting to watch the faces of those on first visit and track their eyes' ping-ponging.

Posted by: sistrum at March 25, 2012 06:05 PM (AyryN)

101

You should have put the Devo up instead. Really.

Posted by: HoundOfDom at March 25, 2012 06:05 PM (CFrIf)

102 We have a lot of Bev Doolittle in our house

Posted by: USS Diversity at March 25, 2012 06:06 PM (vpe0k)

103 Actual art is sneaking back into the culture, but through the back door: it's become acceptable to collect and appreciate "Illustrations." Norman Rockwell, once derided, has become a major American "Illustrator." N.C. Wyeth's "illustrations" fetch big sums.

The risible "art" world hangs on, mostly because of the vast sums collectors and dealers have pumped into it. Acknowledging how much of it is crap would cost them money.

Posted by: Trimegistus at March 25, 2012 06:07 PM (v9Kjt)

104 40It's because they float, Tammy.

Posted by: irongrampa at March 25, 2012 09:37 PM (SAMxH)

Down here, they ALL float!

Posted by: Pennywise the Clown at March 25, 2012 06:07 PM (GjDnP)

105 sistrum, love it, i bet it brings happiness.

iwish i didn't have to meld for anyone else.
i had thought to take the shed, it is 12 .15 electried, and to make is explicitly mine.

Posted by: willow at March 25, 2012 06:08 PM (TomZ9)

106 Hi Tammy! Back on early days, so I won't be around for the ONT. Give the morons my regards.

Posted by: DC in Towson at March 25, 2012 06:08 PM (I/cLr)

107 http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=126032

Obama-von

Posted by: sTevo at March 25, 2012 06:09 PM (VMcEw)

108 since you barbarians don't like anything after 1900

And, we're done.

Posted by: comatus at March 25, 2012 06:09 PM (ZOlM3)

109 Holy blog suckage Batman!!

Posted by: kinlaw at March 25, 2012 06:09 PM (1OjQp)

110
Oh, I like this one... One dog goes one way, the other dog goes the other way, and this guy's sayin', "Whadda ya want from me?' Guy's got a nice head of white hair, it's beautiful.

Posted by: Tommy DeVito at March 25, 2012 06:10 PM (7+pP9)

111

Seared Venison Strips w/ Crimini Mushrooms, Shallot, and Baby Spinach Sauted in White Wine and Butter over Butternut Squash Ravioli.

Dinner was good.

Posted by: garrett at March 25, 2012 06:10 PM (8Yqrz)

112 Did anyone else get the impression that Mr. Hughes just really wanted to smack the crap out of that Koons guy? The echo would have been lovely with that "studio's" acoustics.

Posted by: Where's my pressie? at March 25, 2012 06:11 PM (X5Hwz)

113 willow, there is an artists I'm familiar with who is kind of sparse like that, and I cna't remember his name, Wyeth, or something. Very bleak!

And Thor and I have very little on the walls, again, just not the artsy types. I am inclined towards watercolours of flowers and still-lifes in general. I am probably more inclined to be like sistrum and have something cool framed; I have some botanical drawings from an old book framed and we have some old Japanese paintings of some sort of an owl and also one of a chrysanthemum that are gorgeous, but it's the texture of the paper they're engraved on that I like as much as anything!

Posted by: Tammy al Thor at March 25, 2012 06:11 PM (SsG4J)

114 garrett , you prepared that?

Posted by: willow at March 25, 2012 06:11 PM (TomZ9)

115 DC, will do!

Posted by: Tammy al Thor at March 25, 2012 06:12 PM (SsG4J)

116 o Tammy, that sounds lovely, don't sell youself short.
i love old things re-used or things taken from their 'meant' state and used in a new way.

Posted by: willow at March 25, 2012 06:13 PM (TomZ9)

117 Hell yeah. No point in killing something delicious if you can't fix it right!

Posted by: garrett at March 25, 2012 06:13 PM (8Yqrz)

118 115: did anyone watching this video NOT want to slap Jeff Koons? He looks like he should get beat up every couple of days just for being so fucking smarmy.

Posted by: Trimegistus at March 25, 2012 06:13 PM (v9Kjt)

119

I used to travel to Paris on business fairly frequently. I walked the Louvre one autumn afternoon years ago. It was impressive....but sort of cold (and huge too).

I enjoyed visiting the D'Orsay (which once was a train station) because I like Impressionism and the whole museum could be seen in an afternoon (when I had time).

Art should inform us, inspire us and have some kind of beauty to it. Not always conventional beauty, but something inspiring. The fact that "modern" art doesn't touch a lot of people doesn't necessarily mean you are a rube, but is does mean that art has become estranged from its meaning to share something mythic or metaphysical between the mind of the artist and the person who views it.

Have artists gotten lazy and self indulgent? That is part of it, as my sister thinks (she had a fine arts education, ~ 35 years ago). Part of it is that art reflects our culture (and vice versa). Art started getting strange after the turn of the 20th century, and then there was WWI (coincidence?), and more ugliness (and some good art) and then WWII, and then a lot of cultural self loathing expressed in what many see as Modern Art. Which unfortunately is why a lot of normal people are turned off by it. Sometimes a little knowledge helps you appreciate certain things that are Modern Art, but if it is lost on you, maybe it's not you, it's the sick state of Art - and no offense meant to CAC who is trying to uplift us savages here.

Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes.... at March 25, 2012 06:13 PM (sJTmU)

120 If I had known there was going to be an art thread I would have taken pictures.

Posted by: garrett at March 25, 2012 06:14 PM (8Yqrz)

121 garrett, wow, i'm jealous!

Posted by: willow at March 25, 2012 06:14 PM (TomZ9)

122 OT, from over at Jammie Wearing Fools: Â“I am an internist by training,Â” Welch writes. Â“I believe that years ago Biden suffered a ruptured cerebral aneurysm. His life was saved by modern medicine. When aneurysms rupture they frequently lead to brain damage. BidenÂ’s behavior suggests to me that he may have suffered frontal-lobe damage. Â“The frontal lobe is sort of our censor Â— it allows us to inhibit our impulses so that we do not immediately utter everything we think. Biden behaves as if his cannot successfully carry out this function. An MRI might very well show residual damage to his frontal lobe which might explain his inability to control his mouth. Alternatively, he may just be a typical liberal idiot.Â” Are those mutually exclusive possibilities?

Posted by: CoolCzech at March 25, 2012 06:14 PM (niZvt)

123 We have a lot of Bev Doolittle in our house

Posted by: USS Diversity at March 25, 2012 10:06 PM (vpe0k)

Thank you. I was trying to remember her name. My sister has some of her paintings, or copies. I find them interesting.

Posted by: Ronster at March 25, 2012 06:16 PM (T1nDt)

124 An art thread? With no mention of Dog's Playing Poker? For shame...

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at March 25, 2012 06:16 PM (R5yLq)

125 Willow - It's so not my husband's style I'm afraid, but the die was cast long ere he moved in and he had so little stuff of his own that survived the shuttling to and fro and around places during his bad patch. He likes the effect though, it reminds him of overstuffed New York apartments. And as long as he's got his Mighty Wurlitzer of a computer desk crowned with the statues of comic book figures I've bought him as presents over the years, he's happier than he's ever been having a place solely his own.

Posted by: sistrum at March 25, 2012 06:16 PM (AyryN)

126 willow, I have an old carved pony from Afghanistan that I love, so I drove two 16 penny nails in our bedroom wall and perched it there, lol ! I think it look sooo much cooler this way than sitting on a shelf. And it looks awesome with my Zhostovo trays from Russia!

Gushie would love it.

Posted by: Tammy al Thor at March 25, 2012 06:16 PM (SsG4J)

127 "Biden behaves as if his cannot successfully carry out this function. An MRI might very well show residual damage to his frontal lobe which might explain his inability to control his mouth. Alternatively, he may just be a typical liberal idiot.Â” Yah.. hmm... I'm leaning toward the "idiot" diagnosis myself.

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at March 25, 2012 06:17 PM (R5yLq)

128

Well, I was going to have a CAT scan, but I really didn't want to see the little fellow get hurt. I'm sort of fond of little furry creatures.

And that's a true story, too.

Posted by: Joe Biden, your Vice President at March 25, 2012 06:19 PM (sJTmU)

129 @ Trimegistus: I was really hoping Mr. Hughes would do it for me. I draw stuff I know is silly and self-indulgent (and just bad), but I don't try to pass it off as "sacred," for Titian's sake! ]:

Posted by: Where's my pressie? at March 25, 2012 06:20 PM (X5Hwz)

130

I wanted Jocko Homo.
Are we not morons?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at March 25, 2012 06:20 PM (YSE8c)

131 And as long as he's got his Mighty Wurlitzer of a computer desk crowned with the statues of comic book figures

In Thorland, it's busts of Beethoven and Bach and Mozart on the computer desk, and smaller figurines of Crow, Tom Servo and Gypsy in front of the TV.

Yet I mock my BIL for his velvet painting. The irony, it burns.

Posted by: Tammy al Thor at March 25, 2012 06:21 PM (SsG4J)

132

The more you are exposed to art, the more you begin to appreciate it. Most of us have probably seen photos of "David". I never got why it was so great, until I saw it in person. My artist husband said - 'It's enough to turn you homo.' Yup, now that right there, that's art, and it's a Big Effin Deal!

Posted by: Calyx dead thread head at March 25, 2012 06:22 PM (U/goY)

133 sistrum, that's a lovely way of expressing your melding of the home.
wish i was as capable.
my home would likely be considered wild, but it's fun and interesting to me. however his family is very normal they like eevrything to matching in shades of brown , I have nothing against brown but if everything is brown , it is dreary and predictable. (ok unfriendly to me)
so they hate my home and they wiggle around uncomfortably, which is rather sad.

Posted by: willow at March 25, 2012 06:24 PM (TomZ9)

134

Obama says North Korea sucks, is backwards and doesn't work.

...

I sense cognitive dissonance here...

Posted by: Meremortal at March 25, 2012 06:24 PM (Usk3+)

135 132 @ Trimegistus: I was really hoping Mr. Hughes would do it for me. I draw stuff I know is silly and self-indulgent (and just bad), but I don't try to pass it off as "sacred," for Titian's sake! ]:

Posted by: Where's my pressie? at March 25, 2012 10:20 PM (X5Hwz)

I'm a bit of a medievalist (plus which I'm a commerical artist by choice and training) so all the grand hoo-ha and worship of the "Artiste" leaves me cold. Even the artists who literally WERE painting sacred stuff back in those days knew damn well they were artisans and didn't put on such airs.

Posted by: sistrum at March 25, 2012 06:25 PM (AyryN)

136 Tammy, so you like fun i bet it really is fun and wouldn't be boring to hang out in.

Posted by: willow at March 25, 2012 06:25 PM (TomZ9)

137 "so they hate my home and they wiggle around uncomfortably, which is rather sad." Suggestion : Next time you invite them over, DVR an episode of that reality show "Hoarders" and have it playing when they are there. Amazing how after watching that show almost anyone's house will look uncluttered and sterile by comparison.

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at March 25, 2012 06:27 PM (R5yLq)

138 I don't know about art, but I know what I like.

Posted by: Minnie Rodent at March 25, 2012 06:27 PM (S3rrR)

139

135The more you are exposed to art, the more you begin to appreciate it. Most of us have probably seen photos of "David". I never got why it was so great, until I saw it in person.

...

The unfinished pieces by Michaelangelo at the Accademia are also stunning. They look like they are trying to escape their marble prison. The replica of The David in the piazza outside the Cathedral of Santa Croce is great too. Has a different look out in the sunlight. And then, you turn to your right to see Perseus and Medusa...

....

There go the chills again...

Posted by: Meremortal at March 25, 2012 06:29 PM (Usk3+)

140 sos , hah. that would be an interesting experience for u s all..

Posted by: willow at March 25, 2012 06:30 PM (TomZ9)

141 my brothers paints folk art pictures and furniture done folk art. its fun there just looking at the new stuff hes done and working on.

Posted by: Raceafn at March 25, 2012 06:31 PM (591fX)

142 Yah.. hmm... I'm leaning toward the "idiot" diagnosis myself.

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at March 25, 2012 10:17 PM (R5yLq)

....

The hair plugs got inserted a little to deep is my theory.

Posted by: Meremortal at March 25, 2012 06:31 PM (Usk3+)

143 "sos , hah. that would be an interesting experience for u s all.." Lol.. happy to help.

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at March 25, 2012 06:31 PM (R5yLq)

144 99 Chess, golf, and now art? This place is getting all hoity-toity.

---------

Naw. If we were hoity-toity we'd have a literature thread instead of a books thread.

Posted by: Anachronda at March 25, 2012 06:31 PM (6fER6)

145 I like Charles Freitag paintings. He does American farm life paintings.

Posted by: Ronster at March 25, 2012 06:31 PM (T1nDt)

146 In truth, willow, it looks like a frat house...mostly bookcases, hand me down furniture and very expensive audio equipment! (Not to mention socks and underwear on the floor)

But I do have a few cool things and some antiques in storage..... once we get moved in to our real home, I hope to have nicer furniture and a more adult looking space!

Posted by: Tammy al Thor at March 25, 2012 06:31 PM (SsG4J)

147 Was gone on a phone call. Did polynikes come on to tell us about the paintings? I would scroll but I don't wanna.

Posted by: mama winger at March 25, 2012 06:34 PM (P6QsQ)

148 " In truth, willow, it looks like a frat house...mostly bookcases, hand me down furniture and very expensive audio equipment! (Not to mention socks and underwear on the floor)" Well if you truly want the frat house look you need to add milk crates and at least one piece of "furniture" made out of cinderblocks and 2x4's.

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at March 25, 2012 06:34 PM (R5yLq)

149 In other words, Tammy, it looks like all the places my friends live in. I love that look! I think I'd like to visit -- we've already established it wouldn't take too much of increasingly costly gasoline.

Posted by: sistrum at March 25, 2012 06:35 PM (AyryN)

150 "Was gone on a phone call. Did polynikes come on to tell us about the paintings? I would scroll but I don't wanna." Not sure, just finished cooking and then eating dinner ourselves so if anything was posted I missed it.

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at March 25, 2012 06:35 PM (R5yLq)

151 Well if you truly want the frat house look you need to add milk crates and at least one piece of "furniture" made out of cinderblocks and 2x4's.

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at March 25, 2012 10:34 PM (R5yLq)

....

1X8's are much classier.

Posted by: Meremortal at March 25, 2012 06:36 PM (Usk3+)

152 how many of you have had a big wire sphool for a coffee table.... i have.

Posted by: Raceafn at March 25, 2012 06:38 PM (591fX)

153 (Not to mention socks and underwear on the floor)

But I do have a few cool things and some antiques in storage..... once we get moved in to our real home, I hope to have nicer furniture and a more adult looking space!

Posted by: Tammy al Thor at March 25, 2012 10:31 PM (SsG4J)

haha, Tammy draw the line at undies and socks!

no really if you can paint at all and buy a few colorful blankets , making covers isn't to difficult, paint shelves put in unconventional way heck on the walls instead of floors.

(second hand store perhaps for blankest you can even find velvets at some ?) bookshelves in vibrant colors paint scrolls easy ,and perks things up, i did that for years before we could actually have anything decent with all the children and friends around.

Posted by: willow at March 25, 2012 06:39 PM (TomZ9)

154 CAC, you make fun of pre-1900 art. Did you actually look at the modern art you posted? Some crayon fish on a brown paper bag and the box cover off a really cheap computer game from the 80's.

Posted by: Sad Dad at March 25, 2012 06:40 PM (wWZWw)

155 Sistrum, as soon as I am back steady on my feet, you are more than welcome to come! The place hasn't been properly cleaned in almost two years, though, so no-can-do just yet.

I am a terrible housekeeper anyway, and two years of almost no cleaning on top of what was a mess to start with ain't purty!

*****************************

We seriously need the artist to come and talk next time we have an art thread. Start typing it up now, dang it and post it with the thread, and then we will need a Q&A session.

Posted by: Tammy al' Bossy Boots at March 25, 2012 06:40 PM (SsG4J)

156 audio equipmnt and cinder block shelves.
i remember those days.
rather carefree .

Posted by: willow at March 25, 2012 06:41 PM (TomZ9)

157 Wait, after re-reading the post, is this polynike's art? Hey man, I really like your fish painting.

Posted by: Sad Dad at March 25, 2012 06:42 PM (wWZWw)

158 I'm pretty aesthetically challenged, but I did take an art history course in college, and I'm glad I did. Polynikes' first painting looked immediately familiar to me, and fluffy provided the answer in #14: Joan Miro. I don't really have any art on the walls in my house, but the local beer distributor gives out Norman Rockwell calendars every year. I'll be that I'm the only one here who has an original oil painting of the USS Lexington (CV-2) on his living room wall, though. My dad had it done in the 1950s.

Posted by: rickl supports SMOD/Supervolcano 2012 at March 25, 2012 06:42 PM (sdi6R)

159 tammy also old furniture, 'say vintage' and all the sudden it's worth much more!

Posted by: willow at March 25, 2012 06:43 PM (TomZ9)

160 willow, that is not a bad idea!!!!!!!

Posted by: Tammy al' Bossy Boots at March 25, 2012 06:44 PM (SsG4J)

161 yikes I had forgotten Tammy, you have been going through vertigo type illness for a while, yes?

Posted by: willow at March 25, 2012 06:45 PM (TomZ9)

162 "audio equipmnt and cinder block shelves. i remember those days. rather carefree . " On the upside you could have a killer party, trash all the furniture in the entire place and only be out 20 bucks.

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at March 25, 2012 06:45 PM (R5yLq)

163 124 OT, from over at Jammie Wearing Fools:

Â“I am an internist by training,Â” Welch writes. Â“I believe that years ago Biden suffered a ruptured cerebral aneurysm. His life was saved by modern medicine. When aneurysms rupture they frequently lead to brain damage. BidenÂ’s behavior suggests to me that he may have suffered frontal-lobe damage.

Â“The frontal lobe is sort of our censor Â— it allows us to inhibit our impulses so that we do not immediately utter everything we think. Biden behaves as if his cannot successfully carry out this function. An MRI might very well show residual damage to his frontal lobe which might explain his inability to control his mouth. Alternatively, he may just be a typical liberal idiot.Â”

Are those mutually exclusive possibilities?

Posted by: CoolCzech at March 25, 2012 10:14 PM (niZvt)

My MIL had a brain aneurysm 14 years ago. I love her dearly, but I would never let her drive my car much less be VP of the US.

Anything like an aneurysm or stroke will cause brain damage, and the effects seem to grow more pronounced with time.

Posted by: MrCaniac at March 25, 2012 06:47 PM (1grxW)

164 SoS, o my goodness those days were short for me as i married rather young, but yeeees.
still the smell of old spilled beer and wine was a gagfest the nest morning.

Posted by: willow at March 25, 2012 06:47 PM (TomZ9)

165 "SoS, o my goodness those days were short for me as i married rather young, but yeeees. still the smell of old spilled beer and wine was a gagfest the nest morning." Lol.. well I didn't get married until later in life, so I remember more than a few mornings like that. Once I got divorced though I was way too old for that kind of silliness.

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at March 25, 2012 06:50 PM (R5yLq)

166 127 An art thread? With no mention of Dog's Playing Poker?

For shame...

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at March 25, 2012 10:16 PM (R5yLq)

97 Cripes, we had the "Dogs Playing Poker" set at our house.

Growing up in the late 60's and 70's was really fucked up.

Posted by: MrCaniac at March 25, 2012 10:00 PM (1grxW)

Done

Posted by: MrCaniac at March 25, 2012 06:50 PM (1grxW)

167 well i'm off, my 2 year old grandaugther has run in to hide under my covers from her mother trying to put her down for the night, so i must help her hide , haha.
off to cuddle, be well.

Posted by: willow at March 25, 2012 06:51 PM (TomZ9)

168 "Growing up in the late 60's and 70's was really fucked up." Ok, so a joke about doing the Hustle would probably just cause a nervous breakdown at this stage then?

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at March 25, 2012 06:52 PM (R5yLq)

169
"Ok, so a joke about doing the Hustle would probably just cause a nervous breakdown at this stage then?

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at March 25, 2012 10:52 PM"

The only thing cool about growing up during that time was the Bicentennial and watching "Baa Baa Black Sheep". That and a more lax attitude towards youths drinking alcohol.

Posted by: MrCaniac at March 25, 2012 07:06 PM (1grxW)

170 Late to the thread but thanks for the nice comments. Morons are known to be a tough crowd. For those who were interested in my inspiration for these paintings , for Traffic, many were correct that I drew a lot from Miro. In my case I combined the structured form with the unstructured form to represent movement . Think traveling to and from work represented by the unstructured lines and buildings represented by the squares and circles. The colors also are arranged to delineate between what I wanted to represent as animate and inanimate. This is the kind of crap that goes through an abstract painter's mind. Into The Light was more of an imagination piece where I wanted to represent the feeling of eternity. Dusk At the Cape was a piece I did after broken relationship and feeling lonely. The Cape was a place she and I went to a number of times. Thanks again for letting me revisit my artistic days.

Posted by: polynikes at March 25, 2012 07:07 PM (A2cTV)

171 Nice post,gay

Posted by: China dropship at March 25, 2012 10:29 PM (mlZl9)

172 Mine eyes have seen the glory...

http://tinyurl.com/7pu4n5c

Posted by: Baraka 'name to be announced after polling' at March 26, 2012 02:15 AM (udEUT)

173

You just can't go wrong with a walk through the Museum of Bad Art.

http://museumofbadart.org/

Posted by: steve at March 26, 2012 04:33 AM (nd0uY)

174 Not sure how I missed this thread. I'm not a terribly big fan of abstract art, but these are quite nice.

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