✖ Via Kate Macdowell: First and last breath, 11”x9”x12”, hand built porcelain, mixed media, 1/2010
Artist’s statement:
In my work this romantic ideal of union with the natural world conflicts with our contemporary impact on the environment. These pieces are in part responses to environmental stressors including climate change, toxic pollution, and gm crops. They also borrow from myth, art history, figures of speech and other cultural touchstones. In some pieces aspects of the human figure stand-in for ourselves and act out sometimes harrowing, sometimes humorous transformations which illustrate our current relationship with the natural world. In others, animals take on anthropomorphic qualities when they are given safety equipment to attempt to protect them from man-made environmental threats. In each case the union between man and nature is shown to be one of friction and discomfort with the disturbing implication that we too are vulnerable to being victimized by our destructive practices. (read on)
First spotted via Who Killed Bambi.
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✖ Via Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress By The People For The People. Posters From The WPA : “See America” by Frank S. Nicholson (artist), [between 1936 and 1939]. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Reproduction Number: LC-USZC2-831 DLC. Digital ID.
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 | And a separate problem is that when “reblogging”, the original source on Tumblr is hard to track down. I try to be scrupulous about linking to the original writer/creator of things, but Tumblr sites sometimes make that hard to do, or make it hard to even notice that what you’re reading/looking at originated on someone else’s Tumblr site. |
Reblogging is fast and effortless. If the author of a Tumblr blog (or any other blog for that matter) doesn’t take the time to track down the original source of the quote or picture he’s interested in, it will get lost in the reblogging process (for example, try to find the original artist of a picture published on ffffound!). There’s a reason why Skandalon release only two posts a day : providing adequate references can be a time consuming process. But without them, this archive won’t be a proper archive. And I’m not saying that everyone should do this. It’s a personal choice. But then again, for it to be a choice, one would have to take the time to think about it : do I want to know who’s behind this nice illustration? Do I want to spend time to look into it? Do I need the reference? What could I gain from it? And so on.
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✖ Via The New Yorker: “Dropped Call” by Christoph Niemann, August 9th, 2010
Previously on Skandalon: Christoph Niemann
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✖ Via artnet: Richard Estes, “Time Square”, oil on panel, 34.25” x 23.38”, 2005
About Richard Estes:
“Richard Estes (born May 14, 1932 in Kewanee, Illinois) is an American painter who is best known for his photorealistic paintings. The paintings generally consist of reflective, clean, and inanimate city and geometric landscapes. He is regarded as one of the founders of the international photo-realist movement of the late 1960s, with painters such as Ralph Goings, Chuck Close, and Duane Hanson.” (wikipedia)
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Gisele Amantea: Barrière, [detail: pole and chain link], black flock on silver paper, 12.7 x 25 ft, 2003
“Gisele Amantea is an artist who lives in Montréal, Canada. Her work is known for its innovative use of materials and formats drawn from popular culture, such as flock, graphic narrative and commercial film, and its exploration of questions related to women, class, nostalgia, history and memory. Materially and visually rich, her work also considers notions of ornament and decoration in relation to domestic architectural space.” (more)
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✖ Via Fiona Banner: Almost Fluorescent Nude, 2007 + detail
Artist statement:
“I got involved in looking at and describing the human form through watching war films. It occurred to me, after a while, that their images were pornographic in nature – both alluring, seductive and repulsive. That got me into looking at porn films. I began to think that they were like life drawings, only with all the rules broken. They have very limited narrative: often no script, virtually no dialogue, just the hovering gaze. I described these films moment by moment, in my own words, and made very big pictures from them. They take something very private and domestic, and make it heroic. After that, I worked with a striptease artist. She came to my studio and undressed, and I began describing her act verbally. It became a kind of striptease in words.” (more)
About Fiona Banner:
“Fiona Banner was born in Merseyside and now lives in London. She studied at Kingston University and completed her MA at Goldsmiths College in 1993. The next year she held her first solo show at City Racing. Following her shows at the Neuer Aachener Kunstverein,and Dundee Contemporary Arts, she was nominated for the Turner Prize. More recent shows include at The Power Plant, Toronto, and Live/Work, at MOMA, New York.” (wikipedia)
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✖ Via Harper’s Magazine: “Nose For Trouble” by Mr. Fish, July 1st, 2010
About Mr. Fish:
Mr. Fish (mrfish@clowncrack.com) lives in Los Angeles, California. He never asked to be born. Occasionally, he laughs his head off. His mother has no idea what he’s up to. She cries easily. For more information, date him. (source)
Previously on Skandalon : Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal
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✖ Via The New Yorker: “After Escher: Gulf Sky and Water” by Bob Staake, July 5th, 2010
About Bob Staake:
Bob Staake (born September 26, 1957 in Los Angeles, California) is an American illustrator, cartoonist, children’s book author, and designer. He lives and works in Chatham, Massachusetts on the elbow of Cape Cod. (wikipedia)
I first came to know Bob Staake through this video, were he demonstrates how he uses a subtraction process in Photoshop 3.0 to create his illustration. Visit his official website (and discover a lot more about his art).
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