Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts

Thursday 3 December 2020

ruben's cupid escapes at brussels airport

This looks absolutely amazing.  Ruben's Cupid escaping from the painting at Brussels Airport and flying around.  I can't believe there are so many people in the airport not interested in watching it, as l would go out of my way by quite a bit to witness this.  Hats off to all the people responsible.


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Saturday 3 October 2020

cold war steve on the trump illness

This just made me laugh out loud. A brilliant bit of satire by Cold War Steve on Donald Trump's Covid treatment.

Please don't waste your time asking me about what l hope Trump's outcome will be.


On a related note...


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Sunday 20 September 2020

new cold war steve

 An update of a famous old photograph by Cold War Steve. Sad that it is still so pertinent




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Saturday 19 October 2019

the vertigo label and bridget riley - with a bit of marcel duchamp thrown in

Following on about the Rod Stewart Vertigo albums in the post below, l would not like to cast aspersions about where the vertigo design came from, but l have a sneaking suspicion that whoever designed it may have seen the 'Uneasy Centre' Op Art by Bridget Riley (1963), which is below.

Uneasy Centre, Bridget Riley, 1963, screenprint, Peter Horree / Alamy Stock Photo

Compare and contrast to the Vertigo version.




The art team of Linda Glover and Mike Stanford, (based on an idea by Olav Wyper) were meant to be inspired by Marcel Duchamp's Rotoreliefs (below), but who knows?

Image result for marcel duchamp rotoreliefs

Despite how great l think the label design is, I can think of only one punishment that should have been administered for the possible 'inspiration'.

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Saturday 27 July 2019

boris johnson does david bowie

When we have an Empire - we have emperors
When we had a Kingdom - we had a king
Now we have a Country - we have Boris Johnson

Image from Sal Warpe

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Monday 25 March 2019

hikaru cho artwork

Want to see some brilliant 3D artwork painted onto bodies by the Japanese artist Hikaru Cho? Of course you do.
Enjoy!





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Sunday 3 March 2019

expanding heart illusion

I'm a sucker for good illusions, and this one would be great if it could be printed onto a t-shirt correctly. A (supposedly)  expanding heart.

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august friedrich schenke and mackenzie thorpe's sheep

Mackenzie Thorpe has created many paintings of sheep in his distinctive style, is pretty local (Middlesbrough) and has a gallery in Richmond, North Yorkshire, not far from my home. Even my local pub has some paintings of his, and l do like them.
However, although it's obviously completely different, August Friedrich Schenck's 'Anguish' is my favourite sheep painting, a rather harrowing and distressed sheep / ewe bleating and pining for what one assumes is it's dead calf, surrounded by crows.
I wouldn't want it displayed at home, and l understand humans anthropomorphize, especially with animals, but l think it's captured the extreme emotion perfectly.


To lighten the mood after that, here's some by Mr Thorpe






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the 1927 jasper tornado on lp covers

It was only recently that it was pointed out to me on another blog or tweet (I can't remember where), that the photograph of the 1927 Jasper Tornado, taken by Lucille Handberg and on one of my favourite albums, Deep Purple's Stormbringer, was the same one on used on Miles Davis' Bitches Brew, plus Siouxsie and The Banshees Tinderbox. It's blown my mind, as l'd never noticed before, and l have been looking at the Deep Purple and Miles Davis albums for years.
Sometimes l amaze myself at how stupid l can be.
Below is the famous photograph, captured 8th July 1927 in Jasper, Minnesota, plus drawings of the other two photographs she took before and after. There's also an article from The Milwaukee Sentinel about it, plus the album covers mentioned.
More information about the tornado and the photographs can be found here (and also here).
A large blow up of the news story in The Milwaukee Sentinel can be found here








Here's something from the albums







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Sunday 17 February 2019

albert finney, charlie bubbles and old trafford

So the great Albert Finney has passed away (last week). In all of the tributes to his great body of work, one that seems to have been forgotten is Charlie Bubbles, written by Shelagh Delaney and featuring some long forgotten Manchester sights, including what Manchester United's Old Trafford used to be like, before it evolved into the 'Theatre of Dreams', and kids could still afford to attend en mass.
Reminds me of when l was a lad, back in our day when it was all bomb sites etc blah blah blah blah blah blah......

                                                     
                                                     Shelagh Delaney on the Smiths covers

                                                         Excerpts from Charlie Bubbles



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Thursday 28 June 2018

hyungkoo lee - the objectuals

To celebrate South Korea knocking out Germany in the World cup, and to take my mind off the life sapping England v Belgium 'game', here's Korean artist Hyungkoo Lee's 'The Objectuals'. 
They're strangely disturbing







 
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Thursday 15 February 2018

singles as artwork

More interesting stuff that l've had for a while. 
Fancy getting one of your favourite songs re-imagined as a cool piece of art?
In that case, head to Tolhurst Vinyl Art, where plenty more examples like these can be found.






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Saturday 16 September 2017

upside down mural in lithuania

This is impressive - an upside down mural in lithuania which when reflected in the water, looks fantastic (and very weird).

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Sunday 19 February 2017

alan aldridge has died

It has just come to my attention via the Afterword site that Alan Aldridge has died.
Bugger.
For those of you that don't know, he was a much in demand illustrator, and has had his work featured on many books and records, probably the best known of which are for Elton John and The Beatles.
Here's a selection of his work that l currently own, in fact the Bob Dylan poster is framed, at the top of my stairs.
Aldridge also did a load of science fiction covers for Penguin books back in the day, that l used to have, but have since gone walkabouts.
I may have to start collecting them in the future, to go with the rest of my crap, as they just look so good.













And here's Alan Aldridge himself, supporting the Labour party in 1970, with a tiny Edward Heath in the palm of his hand (from Getty Images).


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