Running in the The Times Educational Supplement (
1), between 1971 and 1972 the comic strip
Wokker featured a strange wooden bird who commentates sarcastically on the world, and who can talk to animals, inanimate objects and readers alike.
Here are
some galleries and a
short history by the co-creator Tony Earnshaw, also a
painter and
maker of boxes.
His funeral in 2001 was slightly
unconventional.
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on May 18, 2013 -
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Marie-Laure Noailles was a direct descendant of the Maquis de Sade, himself a
Surrealist muse.
Together with her husband Charles she was their patron, possibly one of the greatest Art Patrons of the Twentieth Century. The couple spent much of the year at
their villa in the South of France.
Charles
preferred his gardens and his gym instuctor, and she embarked on a of a series of affairs, notably
Jean Cocteau whose film
Blood of a Poet was financed by them. They also financed Man Ray's
Les Mystères du Château de Dé and Bunuel and Dali's
L'Age d'Or (
a scene in the garden) and
Biceps et Bijoux for
Jacques Manuel. Dali also painted
her portrait as did
Balthus another of her protégés.
Apart from film and art they also commisiones Francis Poulenc's
Aubade.
Marie-Laure was photographed by
Man Ray and her good friend
Dora Maar. (
Previous some links dead ).
Charles and her Marie-Laure although living seperate lives stayed the best of friends for the rest of their lives often phoning each other several times a day.
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on May 8, 2013 -
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We like to entertain… ourselves mainly… and it’s a comedy show much of the time, with little more than white walls and floorboards for a stage.
''Old Master'' shoots with just a cell phone or ipad. His compositions are definitely outside the norm, all with a cast of volunteers, no models.
This is amateur dramatics with a difference. (NSFW. BDSM, bondage, fetish).
Some of this work is included in this
online book.
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on Jan 31, 2013 -
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John Coulthart's first illustration work was for the album Church of Hawkwind in 1982.
Since then he has become
prolific
together with his art and design blog
‘’Feuilliton’’.
(linked before on the blue, but only for specifics).
His weekend edition is
a timesink; and then are
his illustrations for
The Haunter of the Dark
To understand more about him read
some interviews.
From 2004 Could you explain some of the words used on your website: {retinacula} {pleonasm} {pantechnicon} {oniomania} {decalcomania} {catenation} {bibliopoesy}?
Are they in Latin or did you just make some of them up?
Or most recently earlier
this year.
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on Oct 9, 2012 -
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Factum Arte in Madrid has made an
animation film based on Giovanni Battista Piranesi's Carceri d'Invenzione prints; and have also built many of
his pieces which shows the workings of his imagination, merging his architectural ambitions with his obsessive interest in antiquity.
Giovanni Battista Piranesi was a source of inspiration for, among others, Goya, Poe, Escher, Max Ernst, De Chirico.
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on Jun 13, 2012 -
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Karel Teige was a major figure in the Czech avant-garde; a writer, designer, typographer and collagist.
He was a member of
Devětsil and later joined the Prague Surrealist group with
Toyen and
Jindrich Styrsky.
Here are some of his
Book Covers of the 1920- and 1930's and 1926 he made
ABECEDA with each letter posed by the dancer Milca Mayerová.
Here is a
video reconstruction of the dance moves.
Teige died in 1951 of a heart attack, said to be a result of a ferocious Soviet press campaign against him as a 'Trotskyite degenerate,' his papers were destroyed by the secret police, and his published work was suppressed for decades.
The
Central European Review has some articles on his work.
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on May 9, 2012 -
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(NSFW) The contemporary meaning of
Shibari describes an ancient Japanese artistic form of rope bondage.
Hikari Kesho
aka Alberto Lisi is an Italian
photographer, some of
whose Shibari
photography could be called
sublime.
Fotofest 2012 Biennial – The Art of Contemporary Shibari Exhibit is
currently running
with
these artists, all of whom have links to their websites, some of which are more extreme than others.
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on Apr 18, 2012 -
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Lucien Clergue is a French Photographer from Arles, and renowned for his
Nu zébré.
He was a friend of
Picasso and
Jean Cocteau.
He still gives the occasional
talk:
Ansel said to me "I have been here for 40 years and I have never seen what you see."
Clergue: " I am Mediterranean by birth. What you see, I don't see. I look at the details."
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on Feb 2, 2012 -
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In all of my years of work with the lens (since 1906) I've dreamed of and loved to work with the human figure - to embody it in rocks and trees, to make it part of the elements.
The Glory of the Open - Camera Craft - April 1926.
At a time when decent Christian women in the U.S. were expected to be modest and to achieve fulfillment in motherhood, Anne Brigman was trekking up into the mountains in trousers…a scandal in itself…carrying a heavy pack of camera equipment. There she
shucked off her pants and societal expectations, and she entered into a pagan world inhabited by dryads and nixies...and there she made art.
Anne photographed herself, her sister,
and friends using California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains to backdrop a
liberated woman decades ahead of her time.
YouTube
slideshow.
She was championed into the
Photo Secession movement by Alfred Stiglietz, and she was the only woman member from west of the Missouri.
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on Oct 3, 2011 -
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"It is my wish to come very close, strikingly close, to the times in which we live, without submitting to artistic dogma...
I need the connection to the world of senses, the courage to portray ugliness, life as it comes."
Otto Dix best known for his Weimar era work such as the now lost
Street Fight.
Probably his most well know portraits are of the
uninhibited dancer
Anita Berber and of the
writer and poet
Sylvia von Harden.
Here are a
couple of Galleries of
his work and a six part video on Dix:
Postcards from the front 1;
2;
3;
4;
5;
6;
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on Apr 1, 2011 -
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At the 1938 Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme in Paris.
each of fifteen artists were given a dressmaker's mannequin as their canvas and encouraged to transform the figure in any way they desired.
The artists included (in order of appearance in this video) Salvador Dalí, Óscar Dominguez, Marcel Duchamp, Léo Malet, André Masson, Joan Miró, Wolfgang Paalen, Kurt Seligmann, Yves Tanguy, Marcel Jean, Max Ernst, Espinoza, Maurice Henry, Sonia Mossé, and Man Ray. Here are
some stills.
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on Aug 12, 2010 -
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Minotaure published only 12 issues between 1933 and 1939.
The covers were by some of the leading artists of the
day century. (
via)
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on Aug 9, 2010 -
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