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Jun 01

cavetocanvas: Asger Jorn, Untitled, 1956-57 From the Guggenheim: From about 1948 Asger Jorn filled his canvases with swarming faces and figures, vaporous equivalents of the eccentric visages in crowd scenes by the Belgian artist James Ensor. Their scrawled, half-innocent, half-demonic features also have antecedents in the creatures of Jean Dubuffet and Paul Klee. These presences hovering on the surface of the canvas are integrated with their surroundings, scarcely distinguishable as representational forms. In the present canvas blobs of paint and linear contours coalesce into a standing, grinning human figure at the right and a bird in the center; a multitude of faces, less acutely defined, emerge, vanish, and reappear in the seething environment. Wherever two dots can be interpreted as eyes, a face can be imagined. The sense of fantasy here is complemented by the candied color applied in thicknesses ranging from thin veneer to heavy ridges. Line incises its way through the fluffy space of this layered pigment to determine boundaries and suggest form. The dots of color sprinkled throughout anticipate the pointillism of the artist’s Luxury Paintings of the early 1960s, in which paint is dripped onto the canvas from a perforated tin can. The accidental revelation of form and the importance of chance in Jorn’s work suggest Surrealist concerns.

cavetocanvas:

Asger Jorn, Untitled, 1956-57

From the Guggenheim:

From about 1948 Asger Jorn filled his canvases with swarming faces and figures, vaporous equivalents of the eccentric visages in crowd scenes by the Belgian artist James Ensor. Their scrawled, half-innocent, half-demonic features also have antecedents in the creatures of Jean Dubuffet and Paul Klee. These presences hovering on the surface of the canvas are integrated with their surroundings, scarcely distinguishable as representational forms. In the present canvas blobs of paint and linear contours coalesce into a standing, grinning human figure at the right and a bird in the center; a multitude of faces, less acutely defined, emerge, vanish, and reappear in the seething environment. Wherever two dots can be interpreted as eyes, a face can be imagined.

The sense of fantasy here is complemented by the candied color applied in thicknesses ranging from thin veneer to heavy ridges. Line incises its way through the fluffy space of this layered pigment to determine boundaries and suggest form. The dots of color sprinkled throughout anticipate the pointillism of the artist’s Luxury Paintings of the early 1960s, in which paint is dripped onto the canvas from a perforated tin can. The accidental revelation of form and the importance of chance in Jorn’s work suggest Surrealist concerns.

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thedailywhat: Fraggle Rock Movie of the Day: It’s official: A Fraggle Rock movie is happening. Rango co-writer Jim Byrkit and former Cartoon Network exec Alex Manugian will pen the script, and The Jim Henson Co. and the Montecito Picture Co. are producing. No word yet on when production will begin. [hollywoodreporter]

thedailywhat:

Fraggle Rock Movie of the Day: It’s official: A Fraggle Rock movie is happening.

Rango co-writer Jim Byrkit and former Cartoon Network exec Alex Manugian will pen the script, and The Jim Henson Co. and the Montecito Picture Co. are producing.

No word yet on when production will begin.

[hollywoodreporter]

May 31

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darksilenceinsuburbia:  christos tsimaris. Bust.

darksilenceinsuburbia:

 christos tsimaris. Bust.

netanoesporno: Bodgan Rata Mexican Sculptor More

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Bodgan Rata

Mexican Sculptor

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humanflower: “Eden Rocks” by Stricher Gerard

humanflower:

“Eden Rocks” by Stricher Gerard

darksilenceinsuburbia: Shawki Youssef. Fluid being, evaporated bones, 2011.  Mixed media on canvas, 140 x 224 cm.

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Shawki Youssef. Fluid being, evaporated bones, 2011.  Mixed media on canvas, 140 x 224 cm.

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darksilenceinsuburbia: Shawki Youssef. That sick hope of this becoming a past, 2011. Mixed media on canvas, 120 x 93 cm.

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Shawki Youssef. That sick hope of this becoming a past, 2011. Mixed media on canvas, 120 x 93 cm.

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darksilenceinsuburbia:  Kimberly Bicknese . Nine Into one.

darksilenceinsuburbia:

 Kimberly Bicknese . Nine Into one.

darksilenceinsuburbia: Martin Wittfooth. Drain. Virtu Art Gallery has just released a new limited edition print by Martin Wittfooth entitled Drain. This new print is 10″ x 10″ on a sheet of 12″ x 12″ Hahnemuhle Bamboo Paper. Each print is signed and numbered in an edition of 100, and come with a certificate of authenticity. Get em here: Martin Wittfooth @ Virtu Art Gallery

darksilenceinsuburbia:

Martin Wittfooth. Drain.

Virtu Art Gallery has just released a new limited edition print by Martin Wittfooth entitled Drain. This new print is 10″ x 10″ on a sheet of 12″ x 12″ Hahnemuhle Bamboo Paper. Each print is signed and numbered in an edition of 100, and come with a certificate of authenticity.

Get em here:

Martin Wittfooth @ Virtu Art Gallery

pelham-bay: tyler, baby.

pelham-bay:

tyler,

baby.

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jackbarnosky: Houston             Cloud              Jack Barnosky

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Houston             Cloud              Jack Barnosky

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