We’d never heard of it until now! Really cool and eerie. In other words, right up our alley!
– Mod Rat
Well, that’s it. Now I just want fine art exhibitions that just take the form of a funhouse that takes itself really seriously. Tracks and dark ride lighting and animatronics and everything but…as art.
Hiroshi Yoshidawas a 20th-century Japanese painter and woodblock printmaker. He is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the shin-hanga style, and is noted especially for his excellent landscape prints. Yoshida travelled widely, and was particularly known for his images of non-Japanese subjects done in traditional Japanese woodblock style.
My original sketch, what this crazy sketch-colourizer app made of the badly-photographed version, what it did to the clean scanned version in Satsuki setting, and the same in the Tanpopo setting. It’s a neat little site!
….I do kinda wonder how it managed to guess that Tana’s hair is reddish gold and Shinsuke’s is darker, though. lol.
“I have created a finished piece of the view of the world as it is in the buddhist Rokudourinne (endless circle of transmigration in the posthumous six worlds), that is confined in the insides of whales, made out of see-through resin. When I was creating this piece, I was consulting a priest of the Zoujou-ji temple and decided on all the details of the concept. Whales can roam freely in the ocean, but if they get too close to land, they end up stranded and die. I have created these six whales, that enclose these six worlds – the Nakara (hell) realm (submarine volcano), the preta (hungry ghost) realm (bones of a polar bear), the animal realm (prison), the Asura realm (cherry blossoms and skulls), the human realm (a shipwreck) and the deva realm (sea of clouds), as a comparison to the vessel of a soul, that cannot escape from the samsara/endless cycle of life and death by its own power.”
Browsing Youtube, I watched a couple of edits of The Nightwatch, the 2004 video piece in which artist Francis Alys released a fox into the National Portrait Gallery after hours (with the gallery’s permission) and filmed its explorations with the location’s CCTV cameras.
The work was intended to be a statement about surveillance (the National Portrait Gallery wasn’t terribly worried about the fox doing any damage, but they were the only ones willing to let their security cameras be used, because they don’t hide their presence from the public like many other institutions do), but for most viewers the real fascination is watching a wild animal in a very human-centric environment. More recently I’ve been seeing a video, floating around the internet, of a stag in a cathedral. I wasn’t sure of the reason for its presence – a church once harboured a lioness during Hurricane Ike, just as flamingos were placed in one of the Miami zoo’s public washroomsfor safety in Hurrican Andrew – there were two videos of the stag on Youtube – the one posted in 2015 and logically the original, or closer to the original, had no music dubbed over it, just a repetitive squeaking noise – machinery? Subsequent searching revealed it to be a test shot for another video piece, Furtherance by Leonora Hamill; the making-of video is here:
I suppose none of these animals were truly wild – the stag was apparently named Chambord, the fox Bandit, and the lioness Shackle. I don’t know if the flamingos had names.
There needs to be an art-heist movie called Run For Your Still-Life.
Brooklyn’s own Cliffanie Forrester is an 18-year-old high school graduate and has a painting hanging in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. And this is fucking beautiful and amazing.
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This is a MASTER work of art and at only 18 yrs old.
This Young Black Girl
has a wonderful future ahead of her. I hope it gonna be both amazing and interesting.
Remember this young artist’s name. And I want y’all to put time and effort into your amazing gifts to the world.
Congratulations
Cliffanie! You are inspiring to us all. YOU’RE AMAZING!
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