I HATE THIS SHIT! THIS ISN'T ART. ITS A BRIGHT GREEN SLAB OF BULLSHIT WORTH MILLIONS.
If that's what you thought, I bring good news, just lend me your patience. If you like it, great, stay with me.
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Okay. Modern art. I'll define it for this post as something you're meant to look at, whose creators you could have at least recently talked to, without concerning psychiatrists. Because you're talking to a dead guy. What I'm saying is the artist is alive, or recently alive. I tried to be funny. I'm sorry. Moving on.
For those who cringe at the mention of modern art, this post will have a few more words than I would normally intend for this tag, to provide explanation.
So! Here's rambling on my favorite modern artists, and a bit on how I love the way art has evolved, and that some of it is still okay:
I love the way art has evolved, and some of it is still okay. Now here's some art.
Leif Podhajsky: My favorite breathing artist. Vivid, Intense, Deep and Trippy are some adjectives I like. He uses computers and mixed media to create color that could not be as chaotic meanwhile intentional in the past. See my last post for just how close the expressionists got, and how far away it really is.
The rectangle is strong, but not dominant. The color is greater than any shapes or boundaries restricting it. The color exists on its own. The intended affect is a cool little exploration as you are now free to look around, without a recognizable subject or meaning to define the art for you. He also suggests LSD but you didn't hear it from me.
Another similar work, please take your time to take it all in if you like it.
I was never so entranced by art with human subjects till i saw this:
I wish I could say things got brighter.
here is his gallery, NSFW. Here's a summary: "His work explores themes of connectedness, the relevance of nature and the psychedelic experience. By utilizing these subjects he attempts to inspire the viewer into a realignment with themselves and their surroundings." Yeah, I know what you're thinking, but drama is how they get by. We'll let it slide.
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Texture. Most clearly noticed in-person: makes the painting more than just an image, because now there is tangible, physical depth, not this.
This is the painting from the side. See that brown spot on the border of red and the green? That is not canvas underneath, it's more damn paint... and its thick.
Go back to the full painting. You know that the rocky center line is raised out. The green circle is not just "asking" your eye to contrast from the red. It is literally on a different elevation.
My ex-girlfriend used to get mad when her paint overlapped and created physical texture. That was stupid of her, this is great.
Yves Klein: Klein was good with the color blue. Klein.... Blue.... kleinbl00... Anyway, Yves Klein patented the blue he used and called it "International Klein Blue," if you think that's interesting. I think it's stupid, but some people think it's interesting.
This painting is genuinely hot to me. Subtly. I'll make a post on nudes/eroticism in art soon, don't worry fellow horndogs. Klein defined sex appeal in his own art by letting you fill in the details with your mind. There is no divine nip slip, but that powerful blue pounces at you and gives you the rush; then your eyes notice the impression of a woman's curves, and your mind connects the dots. I guess.
HEY. REMEMBER THAT OBNOXIOUS GREEN PAINTING FROM BEFORE? THE BRIGHT SLAB OF INSULT TO THE CULMINATING CENTURIES OF ART, WHOSE CULTURAL REFLECTIONS DEFINE HISTORY FOR US TODAY, WHICH ARE NOW STAINED BY THIS DISGRACE?! yeah that's Yves Klein too, make of that what you will.
Yves Klein died 50 years ago, and this is the oldest I'll go for now; he's just super interesting, and new for those who think of art as the Mona Lisa and gray-haired white people. Klein's hair was great. Buy this for more; his personality and life story were more interesting to me than his paintings so do yourself some googling.
I didn't include hand-picked albums because I don't have time, I'll add those later. Also, thenewgreen or mk or whoever can help, is there ANY WAY to have some sort of auto-save or "create draft" feature for text posts? I lost a much better version of this post three weeks ago when I accidentally closed the tab while writing, and it took me ages to muster the nerve to start again as doing this does take time for me.
Shouts-out to Meriadoc who mentioned getting contemporary in my last post, figured I'd play around with some works
I'm still experimenting with the style of my tag, i really didn't want to write so much but I did anyway; anyone wanna get a workshop going on being succinct? Anyway, enjoy!