Well – he has never taught art to others officially, and has never been taught art by others in such a manner …
And while not being entirely sure, if just because or despite of that – Francis Bacon excels as an art (painting) tutor. I found him so lucidly articulated, so continuously and deeply [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Art’
October 30, 2009
A seminar with Francis Bacon …
October 24, 2009
Contemporary Art (9) Nathalie Djurberg
Nathalie Djurberg (b. 1978 BirthLysekil, Sweden) – young multimedia artist, lives and works in Berlin. She has won the Silver Lion for a Promising Young Artist at this year’s 53rd Venice Biennale. She was awarded for her multimedia installation “Experiment” (above – first photo shows the work [...]
October 24, 2009
Hans Bellmer – subverted fragility
Bellmer considered his works to be a conscious act of defiance against German fascism with its cult of “the perfect body”. He created and photographed two life-size pubescent dolls, which he distorted, dismembered, or menaced in sinister scenarios that sometimes included himself. These scenarios seemed to [...]
October 23, 2009
Contempotary Art (8) Chris Marker
Chris Marker (b. Neuilly-sur-Seine, France 1921) – actual name: Christian François Bouche-Villeneuve – multimedia artist, photographer, film director, writer. Lives in Paris and does not grant interviews. When asked for a picture of himself, he usually offers a photograph of a cat instead (so far as the gossip says). His cat [...]
October 19, 2009
Raffi Lavie: ‘In the Name of the Father’
Raffi Lavie (1937-2007) Late Israeli artist representing Israel at the 53rd International Biennale in Venice.
A painter, educator, art critic, music connoisseur, and curator. The most central, charismatic figure in the art scene in Israel for the past four decades until his death in 2007.
Influenced by Paul Klee, Jean Dubuffet, and Robert Rauschenberg, as well [...]
October 18, 2009
‘Making Worlds’ by losing your way…
That is a surprisingly romantic title for an enormous international art show – ‘Making Worlds – Fare Mondi’… Right from the day it was announced I knew I got to see it.
In a strange way that name referred to my own idea of art as a device for creating universes, for inventing new realities and [...]
October 6, 2009
Contemporary Art (7) – Marlene Dumas
“My best works are erotic displays of mental confusions (with intrusions of irrelevant information).”
Marlene Dumas (b. 1953, Cape Town) – one of the most important, influential figurative painters working today.
With Dumas one may easy get into a trap of ‘an infatuated viewer’. Trap she has crafted herself [...]
October 5, 2009
Human World – Sensation (1)
SENSATION
A term commonly used to refer to the subjective experience resulting from stimulation of a sense organ, for instance, a sensation of warm, sour, or green. As a general scientific category, the study of sensation is the study of the operation of the senses. Sense receptors are the means by which information presented as one [...]
October 5, 2009
Human vs. Animal (3)
Captivating. Stirring. Uncanny. Bewitching. Bone-chilling.
Nature is genius even or – especially – when it goes wrong…
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October 5, 2009
Human vs. Animal (2)
Anthropomorphobia is the fear of acknowledging in nonhumans qualities we wish to consider only human. Anthropomorphobia is traditionally associated with anxiety responses to fictional animal characters displaying human behavior in works of fiction like “The Secret of NIMH”. However, with the development of androids and robots that mimic human behavior, the concept of anthropomorphobia has [...]
