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  • Inspiring Art
     OP - December 23, 2010, 09:41 AM
    From classical, modern, to guerilla and album art.  Post some favourites..

    The street art of JR
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xVNFEvC5ns
    Against the ruin of the world, there
    is only one defense: the creative act.

    -- Kenneth Rexroth
  • Re: Inspiring Art
     Reply #1 - December 23, 2010, 10:28 AM
    my fave

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRai9x8aD3A
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  • Re: Inspiring Art
     Reply #2 - December 25, 2010, 06:27 PM
    ^ I'd assume that a lot of us have been attracted to or inspired by Banksy - he's probably responsible for getting a significant number of people of our generation to appreciate art.  The bloke's a national treasure.  Did anyone else see his recent film Exit Through The Gift Shop?

    One of my other favourite areas in art is classical Japanese prints.  I'd love to properly study this stuff, and the whole culture, actually.



       
    Against the ruin of the world, there
    is only one defense: the creative act.

    -- Kenneth Rexroth
  • Re: Inspiring Art
     Reply #3 - December 26, 2010, 03:02 AM
    Cool
  • Re: Inspiring Art
     Reply #4 - December 30, 2010, 06:37 AM
    Some favourite contemporary illustrators and designers...

    http://www.v-i-a-v-i-a.nl/

    http://www.jinpow.co.uk/

    http://www.alexd.co.uk/

    http://www.jamesblagden.com/

    http://www.michaelgillette.com/

    http://www.silasandmaria.com/

    http://www.aardman.com/

    http://www.kozyndan.com/
    Against the ruin of the world, there
    is only one defense: the creative act.

    -- Kenneth Rexroth
  • Re: Inspiring Art
     Reply #5 - December 30, 2010, 08:25 AM
    http://www.mcescher.com/
    Do not look directly at the operational end of the device.
  • Re: Inspiring Art
     Reply #6 - December 30, 2010, 02:18 PM
    ^ I don't know much about Escher beyond pop culture references and his most popular works like the staircases and drawing hands, which I like quite a lot:



    What are your favourites of his?
    Against the ruin of the world, there
    is only one defense: the creative act.

    -- Kenneth Rexroth
  • Re: Inspiring Art
     Reply #7 - December 30, 2010, 09:56 PM
    Hmm, dunno how I missed this thread.

    Yeah, I’d have to big up Banksy too.

    “We can’t do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.”
    ~ Banksy, Wall and Piece, 2005

    He’s the biggest inspiration to my work and a personal hero of mine. Banksy vs. Bristol Museum was fucking fantastic by the way. Yes, I went. Yes, I creamed my panties.

    Hard to choose a favourite, but these are classic Banksy to me:

    Banksy - Flower Riot


    Bansky - Houses of Parliament Question Time


    Banksy - I Hate Mondays


    Banksy - Burka


    Banksy - Don’t Forget Your Scarf


    Bansky - Graffiti Cleanup


    There is a thread about him HERE

    His website HERE

    A great website for Banksy and other urban art HERE

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  • Re: Inspiring Art
     Reply #8 - December 30, 2010, 10:00 PM
    Fans of Banksy might also like:

    Shepard Fairey (aka OBEY)

    “The first aim of phenomenology is to reawaken a sense of wonder about one’s environment. The OBEY sticker attempts to stimulate curiosity and bring people to question both the sticker and their relationship with their surroundings. Because people are not used to seeing advertisements or propaganda for which the product or motive is not obvious, frequent and novel encounters with the sticker provoke thought and possible frustration, nevertheless revitalizing the viewer’s perception and attention to detail. The sticker has no meaning but exists only to cause people to react, to contemplate and search for meaning in the sticker. Because OBEY has no actual meaning, the various reactions and interpretations of those who view it reflect their personality and the nature of their sensibilities.”
    ~ Shepard Fairey, 1990

    His most famous and much imitated piece is his Barak Obama ‘HOPE’ poster:



    Some more of his I love, his collaborations with an amazing Vietnam and Cambodia photographer, Al Rockoff; From the Duality of Humanity series:

    Shepard Fairey - Duality of Humanity 5


    And a few more:

    Shepard Fairey - Toxic Dept. Inspector


    Shepard Fairey - Warning You Are Under Surveillance


    Shepard Fairey - Israel/Palestine


    Shepard Fairey - Guns and Roses


    Check out his posters, portraits and other work on his website HERE

    001_wub
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  • Re: Inspiring Art
     Reply #9 - December 30, 2010, 10:27 PM
    Fans of Banksy might also like:

    Keith Hopewell (aka Part2ism)

    “My work is a critique of commodity as a religion and how religion and money are the principal conspirators of war.”

    “To be a Renegade in a rebellious culture that’s already divided by it’s own rules, traditions and internal politics is probably the biggest battle I’ll ever fight. It’s a war on all fronts because you’ve got the media and the masses that generally don’t know the real history of this art, never mind it’s fractions, derivatives and their internal aesthetics. People are fighting for acceptance on a huge number of levels from so many divisions just to produce art and then be labelled under one category that barely scratches the surface. Whatever it is that I create, it has to remain ambiguous to have any form of impact in this saturated world, that is quickly becoming desensitised to one of the most powerful art form’s of its time".

    ~ Part2ism, 2009, Artillery For Pleasure - The Manual

    One of the most respected aerosol artists in UK, some might call him a pioneer (I would too). I really admire this guy. 

    Part2ism & Miscellany - Mixed media wall on Portabello Road, London


    Part2ism - Flight or Fight


    Part2ism - Madonna and Child


    Part2ism - Creature


    Part2ism - Sanguine 2


    His Myspace page HERE

    001_wub
    Too fucking busy, and vice versa.
  • Re: Inspiring Art
     Reply #10 - December 30, 2010, 11:06 PM
    While Banksy and urban artists like him are my main energy source, the most significant inspiration to my formative teenage years and the first art I truly fell in love with has to be the work of H.R. Giger.

    I still have an art book of his I got hold of years ago. I used to have to hide it at a friends house back then, like it was porn or taboo - harem. I used to feel so cool and naughty for having it. It’s a bit dog-eared now, but still one of my most prized possessions.

    He’s better known for creating the most beautiful and deadly monster ever to grace fiction - the creature in Ridley Scott’s classic 1979 movie, Alien (as well as the gorgeous set design and architecture).

    Giger - Necronom V


    Not only did he create one of the most iconic and recognisable movie monsters, but he also created a twisted Freudian symbol of sexuality and body violation. Sexy nightmares - strange, scary, exciting, all at once. Truly alien, yet all too familiar on an instinctual level - tapping into that fear of the trap, loss of control, that we all simultaneously reject and envy, and sometimes crave.

    Giger - Begoetterung XI


    “There is a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.”
    ~ H.R. Giger

    His art takes all our animalistic wants and needs, our primal desires and impulses, and shows them raw and unapologetic as the dark, dangerous, exciting things they are.

    Giger - The Shiner


    Giger - Aleph


    Giger - Acrowley


    Really, a few pictures don’t do his massive catalogue of work justice. He’s so prolific, I could never post enough to give a real feel of his art. He is like a Da Vinci, full of ideas and sketches, concepts, shapes, poetry, meditations, and visual metaphors, parables and philosophies. He is truly unique, a landmark artist, out of time, ahead and beyond his time. I can’t gush about him enough.

    Website HERE

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    Too fucking busy, and vice versa.
  • Re: Inspiring Art
     Reply #11 - December 30, 2010, 11:12 PM

    That Banksy stuff leaves me cold to be honest, its just like sixth form art college agit-prop to me.

    The Giger reminds me of Hieronymous Bosch and parts of Francis Bacon.

    Alien was a great movie though Afro
    "we can smell traitors and country haters"


    Quote from: arX on May 01, 2011, 03:33 AM
    God is Love.
    Love is Blind. Stevie Wonder is blind. Therefore, Stevie Wonder is God.

  • Re: Inspiring Art
     Reply #12 - December 30, 2010, 11:15 PM
    I love them too. Post some.
    Too fucking busy, and vice versa.
  • Re: Inspiring Art
     Reply #13 - December 30, 2010, 11:19 PM
    Ishina, I was just gonna post some HR giger stuff!  dance
  • Re: Inspiring Art
     Reply #14 - December 30, 2010, 11:31 PM
    Salavatore Dali:

    Geopoliticus


    Persistance


    Temptation of Saint Anthony


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  • Re: Inspiring Art
     Reply #15 - December 30, 2010, 11:35 PM
    Quote from: Ishina on December 30, 2010, 11:15 PM
    I love them too. Post some.


    Hieronymous Bosch - early 16th Century



    ^^^ The Garden of Earthly Delights tryptych - the depiction of damnation and hell.



    Goya - Saturn eating his own son, early 19th Century. Always reminds me of some Francis Bacon.



    Bosch's horrors and the grotesque seem very modern for an imagination of 500 years ago.




    "we can smell traitors and country haters"


    Quote from: arX on May 01, 2011, 03:33 AM
    God is Love.
    Love is Blind. Stevie Wonder is blind. Therefore, Stevie Wonder is God.

  • Re: Inspiring Art
     Reply #16 - December 30, 2010, 11:53 PM
    I love Dali...
    Quote from: FreeSoul007 on January 14, 2011, 05:00 AM
    Just look at the sun and the moon, rotating around the earth perfectly! Out of all the never ending space in the universe, the sun and moon ended up close to earth rotating around it perfectly.!!

  • Re: Inspiring Art
     Reply #17 - December 30, 2010, 11:57 PM
    LSD + artist = awesome art

    Alex Grey








  • Re: Inspiring Art
     Reply #18 - December 30, 2010, 11:58 PM
    double post = lame
  • Re: Inspiring Art
     Reply #19 - December 31, 2010, 12:26 PM
    Quote from: Ishina on December 30, 2010, 10:27 PM
    Part2ism - Sanguine 2
    (Clicky for piccy!)

    I like this.

    I'm really interested in visual artists who also make music.

    There's a young LA-based musician who goes by the name of Teebs that started out as a visual artist and now incorporates both into his work.



    http://soundcloud.com/brainfeeder/teebs-why-like-this
    Against the ruin of the world, there
    is only one defense: the creative act.

    -- Kenneth Rexroth
  • Re: Inspiring Art
     Reply #20 - January 01, 2011, 10:51 PM
    OK well this is just a bit of my own art - a painting I did when about 18 - not long before I became a Muslim (and one of only two that I kept - I used to paint a lot back then.) Oh and the poem is mine too (much more recent though) and I post it because the painting is of Dollis Brook and the boys are my two brothers and I after a game of Cops-n-Robbers.



    Dollis Brook.

    I remember Dollis Brook glistening in the sun
    And Tiger Hill where we used to run

    ‘Cops and Robbers’ through meadows and thickets
    Watching my brothers and listening to crickets

    Climbing a sympathetic tree, the bark worn smooth
    Up there I could see them turn and towards me move

    I clamber down and run wildly through thistles
    Splashing across water, soaked and covered in bristles

    “Got you,” they cried, as we tumble to the ground,
    We lie there so still as our hearts throb and pound

    The world fades away leaving the sky spinning above
    And the squabbling of sparrows and the cooing of a dove

    Gazing up, watching dizzy clouds grazing in the sky
    A blue bottle, like a drunkard, buzzes heedlessly by

    Hot and lazy, on the bridge, shirts hanging out
    Scratched and bruised, dangling our feet, lazing about

    A willow arches over the water, sprinkling shadows on its glow
    As we watch the sticklebacks twitching, in the current below

    The days flowed swiftly by like the water under where we stood
    Taking with them the happiness and innocence of our childhood

    Now the world seems full of suffering and pain
    And life weighs heavy with all the stress and strain

    But I remember Dollis Brook glistening in the sun
    And Tiger Hill where we used to run
  • Re: Inspiring Art
     Reply #21 - January 01, 2011, 11:13 PM

    The girl under the tree is rendered so exquisitely Hassan. She looks so natural and supple and alive in that pose and it is not easy to do that in such a small figure with so few strokes.

    "we can smell traitors and country haters"


    Quote from: arX on May 01, 2011, 03:33 AM
    God is Love.
    Love is Blind. Stevie Wonder is blind. Therefore, Stevie Wonder is God.

  • Re: Inspiring Art
     Reply #22 - January 01, 2011, 11:16 PM
    18! Thats brilliant!
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  • Re: Inspiring Art
     Reply #23 - January 01, 2011, 11:18 PM
    Thanks - but they're all boys lol - in fact it's me and my two brothers. I guess we did look a bit gay in those days  grin12
  • Re: Inspiring Art
     Reply #24 - January 01, 2011, 11:19 PM
    Quote from: billy on December 30, 2010, 11:35 PM
    Hieronymous Bosch - early 16th Century

    (Clicky for piccy!)

    ^^^ The Garden of Earthly Delights tryptych - the depiction of damnation and hell.

    (Clicky for piccy!)

    Goya - Saturn eating his own son, early 19th Century. Always reminds me of some Francis Bacon.

    (Clicky for piccy!)

    Bosch's horrors and the grotesque seem very modern for an imagination of 500 years ago.







    all, wonderful Smiley
    "If intelligence is feminine... I would want that mine would, in a resolute movement, come to resemble an impious woman."
  • Re: Inspiring Art
     Reply #25 - January 01, 2011, 11:41 PM
    Quote from: Hassan on January 01, 2011, 11:18 PM
    Thanks - but they're all boys lol - in fact it's me and my two brothers. I guess we did look a bit gay in those days  grin12


    Nah, I see a boy lying on the right, a boy wading in the brook in the water, and a girl / boy in the middle distance with her legs in the water.
    "we can smell traitors and country haters"


    Quote from: arX on May 01, 2011, 03:33 AM
    God is Love.
    Love is Blind. Stevie Wonder is blind. Therefore, Stevie Wonder is God.

  • Re: Inspiring Art
     Reply #26 - January 02, 2011, 12:07 AM
    They're all boys I tell you - I fucking painted it LOL  grin12

  • Re: Inspiring Art
     Reply #27 - January 02, 2011, 12:32 AM

    I took my artistic interpretaive licence  Afro
    "we can smell traitors and country haters"


    Quote from: arX on May 01, 2011, 03:33 AM
    God is Love.
    Love is Blind. Stevie Wonder is blind. Therefore, Stevie Wonder is God.

  • Re: Inspiring Art
     Reply #28 - January 02, 2011, 05:28 AM
    this one i love.. but you need to watch it until the end..

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cri7aQHRT7k
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV9vdUjuWxc
  • Re: Inspiring Art
     Reply #29 - January 02, 2011, 05:36 AM
    ^ Mesmerising.  Loved it, cheers.
    Against the ruin of the world, there
    is only one defense: the creative act.

    -- Kenneth Rexroth
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