Being Art

This post is not about 

deliberately trying to look weird

because there are more people on the planet than ever before in history

and we are running out of ways to differentiate ourselves

or feel like we have a unique talent to offer the world.

Carven - fall 2017

This post is about

the body as an apparatus 

and material as clay.

Preen by Thornton Bregazzi - pf 2018

Altuzarra - pf 2018

Jonathan Simkhai - pf 2018

Maison Margiela - fall 2017 Couture

Courrèges - Resort 2017

Carven - fall 2017

Maison Margiela - fall 2017 Couture

Dondup - pf 2018

Gary Graham - spring 2018

Bibhu Mohapatra - resort 2018

Courrèges - fall 2017

The Art of Andrew Archer

Andrew Archer - Wavy

Andrew Archer is an Illustrator from New Zealand.

Dusk Dream

Peaks & Pearls

Can be purchased as Giclée prints here: 

www.andrewarcher.com

The Beach - Pukehina By Day

detail

andrew@andrewarcher.com

Painter For Life Series: Marcel Barbeau

"original combustion" , 1953, ink and watercolor on paper

Turquoise, 1967, acrylic on canvas 

The Evening Cries, 1988, acrylic on paper

Gold ice on the river, 1992, acrylic on canvas

Barbeau - Our Northern Lady, 2008, acrylic on canvas

Marcel Barbeau - marvellous desire, 2011 , acrylic on canvas

Next Day, 2011, acrylic

The River stretches the Shore, 2015, acrylic on canvas

Canadian Painters Series: Les Automatistes

Paul-Émile Borduas "Bercement Silencieux" ('Rocking Silent'), 1956 

Paul-Émile Borduas (November 1, 1905 –1960) was a Québec painter known for his abstract paintings. He was the leader of the avant-garde Automatiste movement and the chief author of the Refus Global or Total Refusal manifesto, an anti-establishment and anti-religious writing released in 1948.  Borduas had a profound impact on the development of Canadian art and thought.

"Taches brune" (Brown Stains), 1955

"Ardente" (Fiery), 1957, oil

No title, 1955, oil

The Automatistes of 1940's Quebec favoured a fluid, painterly technique over the comparatively reserved, hard-edge abstraction so popular in the U.S. and Eastern Europe at the time. Much like a nonfigurative Group of Seven, they were looking to create a distinctively Canadian artistic identity. Heavily influenced by Surrealist manifestos and poetry, their work was largely stream-of-consciousness inspired, believing this to be a truer means of communicating subconscious emotions; they wanted to be liberated from intention, reason, and any kind of structure.

Borduas - Persistance des noirs, 1955, oil

In art, automatism usually refers to the accessing of material from the subconscious or unconscious mind as part of the creative process

Riopelle - Untitled, 1948, watercolor and ink on paper ,

Jean-Paul Riopelle (7 October 1923 – 2002) was a painter and sculptor from Quebec, Canada. 

He became the first Canadian painter (since James Wilson Morrice) to attain international recognition.

Jean-Paul Riopelle - The Harvest , 1949 oil on canvas,

Jean-Paul Riopelle - Promenade , 1949 oil on canvas,

Marcel Barbeau -  "le tumulte à la mâchoire crispée" (the tumult in his jaw set) 1946

Barbeau - Untitled1957

Manna sand (1947 ) - Pierre Gauvreau

Cubarde (1947) - Pierre Gauvreau

MARCELLE FERRON

Gothenburg 1954

Gouache on cardboard

Fernand Leduc, "Their Shadows", 1945

Fernand Leduc - The Last Campaign of Napoleon, 1946, oil on coardboard

Now, for some ART.

Tyler Armstrong, b. 1983, Toronto Canada

DAZE OF WINE AND ROSES, 2015

16" x 20" oil

Tyler Armstrong, BANNED, 2011

48" X 36" acrylics 

Tyler Armstrong, SURFACE SNAKE, 2012

36" X 30" oils/spray paints

Francis Pratt b. 1988, UK (based in Toronto, Canada)

“Pretzel at the Canal” 

Aerosol, Acrylic & paper on Canvas

60” x 48”

Francis Pratt “Motherland” 2015

Mixed media on wood

45” x 38”

ELIZABETH MURRAY b. 1940, Chicago.

Photos from an 1987 exhibition at the MOFA, Boston

Elizabeth Murray - Her Story, 1984. 

Oil on three canvases 

8' 9" x 11'

Elizabeth Murray

Elizabeth Murray exhibition, 1987, NYC

Julian Schnabel, b. 1951, Brooklyn, NY

1991

Plaster matte, oil & resin on canvas

11.8' x 18.4'

Julian Schnabel, Domingueros in Revolution Square, 1998

oil, gesso, spraypaint on tarp

 96" x 120"

Christian Rosa, b. 1982, Rio de Janeiro.

The shits and the seven dwarves, 2013

Christian Rosa "Google Maps, My Ass", 2014.

Christian Rosa ‘PUT YOUR EYE IN YOUR MOUTH’ 2015.

Niki de Saint Phalle b. 1930, France

Altar Black and White, 1962.

Mimmo Paladino b. 1948, Italy.

Il Respiro della Bellezza I (The Breath of Beauty), 1991 

oil on wood 

81 x 81 x 12 inches 

Mimmo Paladino

Mimmo Paladino - Shéhérazade,1990

oil on canvas

cm 150 x 110

Frank Stella b.1936, Massachusetts. 

Photo from a 2015 exhibition, including

Felsztyn II (1971), pictorial reliefs that extend off the wall.

Frank Stella, Iffish (from Imaginary Places) 1998.

Robert Rauschenberg b. 1925, Texas.

Robert Rauschenberg - 1959.

Robert Motherwell b.1915, Washington.

Robert Motherwell, The Voyage: Ten Years After, 1961

Acrylic on canvas

172.7 x 520.7 cm

Jean Tinguely, b.1925 Switzerland.
two 6.25 x 8.25 postcards joined together w/ tape.
watercolors, ink, a ribbon and tassle, and stickers.

Jean Tinguely, 1982 serigraph in metallic inks on vellum ragpaper

for the Montreaux Jazz Festival

26" x 39"