Random Art

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Aykut Aydoğdu

[grindy]

Aykut Aydoğdu

His last name says he dogged you and that's what he did. Reliable guy.

[Hope]

His last name says he dogged you and that's what he did. Reliable guy.

He did. He did dog me.

[grindy]

He did. He did dog me.

His model as well.

[Hope]

His model as well.

But she enjoyed it.

[Hope]

Deb Weiers.

[Lisnaholic]

Henry Moore was a really famous, popular sculptor in Britain, and here are a couple of his big, outdoor monuments:-



   

To me, they look good in themselves and have also been placed where they can be seen to good effect.

Not so with this newly unveiled artwork by Yayoi Kusama in London. It looks as if, somewhere between the artist and the commission, nobody thought about the context it would be in, so we've ended up with a spindly, hard-to-take-in sculpture that doesn't stand out, colour-wise, from its background, and just blocks the view of what is quite a decent building behind. We all have art we like and art we are indifferent to, but this is art that I just shoudn't be there at all imo :-



Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y33k7dwneo

[Lisnaholic]

^ This is a small image of an old-fashioned painting: Gordale Scar , painted by James Ward in 1814.

You could see the original for free in London's Tate Gallery, and it introduced me to the idea that a landscape could be thrilling. The actual painting is a huge 11 feet by 14 feet, which might explain some of its impact on me, because at the time I was a spindly 11-year old, so prob about 4.5 feet tall. I still remember gazing up in wonder at this pic, and it wasn't till some years later that I saw a photo of the place in Yorkshire that inspired James Ward:-