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Plagiarism
Artists: Mark Grieve and Ilana Spector
Photos: Ilana Spector
This is outrageous!
The compression is the landmark signature of Cesar Baldaccini (1921-1998).
Whether those so called artists know his life time work and it is plagiary or they don’t and they should (at least) learn contemporary art history.
As we all know, Art is a dirty job.
But it becomes radically stinking whenever somebody, unashamedly steals an artist's work, claiming it as his own, speculating on the public's ignorance and unculture.
LINKS:
California Artists Build Obelisk Out of Bicycles wired.com
inhabitat.comFighting the Highly Ridiculous Art Market
A Sculpture That Perpetually Sells Itself On eBay
Artist Caleb Larsen has created an art sculpture which, when connected to the Internet, perpetually attempts to sell itself on eBay.
"Combining Robert Morris’ Box With the Sound of Its Own Making with Baudrillard’s writing on the art auction this sculpture exists in eternal transactional flux. It is a physical sculpture that is perpetually attempting to auction itself on eBay.
Every ten minutes the black box pings a server on the internet via the ethernet connection to check if it is for sale on the eBay. If its auction has ended or it has sold, it automatically creates a new auction of itself.
If a person buys it on eBay, the current owner is required to send it to the new owner. The new owner must then plug it into ethernet, and the cycle repeats itself." laughingsquid.com
Art is in the hands of merchants.
Totally.
Artists live in a fourth-world economy pattern with absolutely no solidarity, no union, no protection, no rules.
Marketing and/ or business education do not belong to art schools' teaching. Never!
Nobody cares of course.
This project makes a dent in that state of fact, proving this unacceptable situation can be fought.
Please support it!
Pests' concerto
Zimoun Sound Sculptures & Installations
Photography by Zimoun ©All rights reserved.
Zimoun : 25 woodworms, wood, microphone, sound system, 2009
300dpi download (2835x1594px) http://zimoun.ch/downloads/photos.html
"Zimoun, born in Switzerland in 1977, is autodidact and residing in Bern. To develope his work he has often collaborated with other artists and experts working in related fields (developement, architecture, science, research, engineeing,...)."
via zimoun.ch
Somewhere in London - signed - Marjan Zahed-Kindersley
©2010 Marjan Zahed-Kindersley. All Rights Reserved.
Photography: from photos (ϕοτοσ) light, and graphos (γραοσ) to draw.
30 by 40 cm (paper)
fibre-based silver gelatin original handprints
signed limited edition 3/15, loose-mounted marjanzahedkindersleyphotos
Architectural thanatopraxy: how to turn a wreck into an ephemeral piece of art
Architectural thanatopraxy: how to turn a wreck into an ephemeral piece of art
Could be Art Brut!
"250 men and women asked to draw how several emotions felt in their bodies. These are the combined results. Very cool."
via i.imgur.com
Dancing Paint by Adam Connah
Adam Connah: Flickr Gallery
Drawings under the influence of LSD
Since the 60' and regarding different aspects of art, influenced by the then recent psychology, a specific interest for "altered states" emerged. To be or not to be under the influence when creating (definitely not when driving) is an open debate...
Blast from the past: Remote ancestors and faces in 3D
Not so long ago, probably thanks to the biggots' reaction to Darwin's theory, we were experting to find some evidence of the "missing link".
Such a belief was so strong that it issued a forgery: the Pildow man...
Since then and after Konrad Lorenz's comment: " we are looking for the missing link and I found it, it is Us" Paleoanthropology has progressed strongly and accurately.
What we see here today is just flabbergasting!
This travel back through time to meet our ancestors, not even knowing if we are direcly related, but after all we share fifty % of our DNA with bananas, is made possible through 3D rendered figures.
In other terms, sculpture.
Since forensic specialists have started reconstructing faces from skulls, the techniques have progressed a lot both in terms of precision and realism but clearly enough, this is not art per se but science.
Nevertheless what speaks to us all is not the scientific process but the expression we read on those faces as we are deeply accustomed to what remains purely cultural: aesthetics.
That brings us to the most amazing nineteenth century artist : Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (austrian sculptor 1770-1783) who dropped out of the baroque academism to enter a world of his own using his strong talent to represent humans a very different way.
No aesthetical intention in his work but the strong, anatomically perfect, representation of human faces as no one had never seen them.
His work is in fact quite close to paleoanthropological reconstructions of today and, to my concern stands as a perfect introduction to what could be realism today.
As realism in art has not much of an interest, more clearly no pertinency, forensic/ scientific reconstruction is a developing field.
If it all started with plasticine and elementary tools, today's 3D softwares are certainly a much accurate processing, starting with a 3D scan of the skull then constructing the volumes, adding colors, movements...
Then the true difficulty stands with the soft parts, age, wrinkles, hair, expression, and various "secondary" aspect which must be rendered according to scientific precision.
We actually don't know if such a dedicated software exists as they are not given public access but we would be strongly interested in whether gathering information about it (them?) or having one developped which would allow the creation of a worlwide online data bank.
Such a tool would not only benefit to all forensic research but would open widely the doors of the whole human past... Armand Dauré
via 3d-today.org
Philosophy meets Mathematics
Dr Grigory PerelmanPhilosophy meets Mathematics:
Dr Grigory Perelman has solved one of the most intractable problems in mathematics!
What he found is beyond my understanding and I hope to find some enlighment soon (on line?)
Yet his attitude in itself is worth more than any fame or money.
Instantly dubbed the most intelligent man on earth he is buzzed not for what he found, which goes over six billion people's heads, but because he refused the prize and does not care about most people's motivation: celebrity...
He did not get oversized boobs implanted, did not eat live spiders in the jungle, does not play football or whatever sports, does not design clothes, does not sing, nor do porn.
He then might be the seed of something more important than pleasing Simon Cowell and consors, he is a true genuine human being and stands for it.
As a conclusion, if he is the most intelligent man on earth he might show some alternative there to be understood and followed.
Turning his back on fakeness, he is not only a mathematician but a true Socratian philosopher...Armand Dauré.
Read this article by Will Stewart! World's cleverest man turns down $1million prize after solving one of mathematics' greatest puzzles Mail Online
Ralph David Lichtensteiger / Things
Ralph David Lichtensteiger
Blog: collapse of all isms
Technique: Acrylic paint, graphite, aluminum and object (wood, fabric, cardboard, metal, plastic) on canvas.
Nick van Woert
Eclipse 8
Plaster bust and plastic (70x53x17 cm)
Ghost
Plaster bust and plastic (45 x 38 x 18 cm)
Julius Caesar
Plaster bust and polyurethane adhesive (76,2x50,8x50,8 cm)
Nick Van Woert, despites his Pantone #663212 eyes, has a clear sight and a bright mind. He, at the same time, reties with art where it stopped after nouveau réalisme, and renews the genre with a rare sense of matter, volume, and, color balance up to a rare harmony.
BIO: Specs
Height: 5184 pixels
Hair: #462D06
Height: 5184 pixels
Hair: #462D06
Eyes: #663212
Nick van Woert
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