Words and Pictures that inspire me.
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Origin, Chinese Spirit Money by Beili Liu
In Chinese tradition, spirit money is burnt for ancestors and spirits in the afterworld as an offering. Origin is made from hundreds of rolls of spirit money; half of these rolls are with the rich and warm texture of the spirit money, shimmers of silver and gold, the other half charred black. The circle brings together the solid and the void, the present and the absent into one complete whole, and alludes to the balance and linkage between the current world and the afterworld.
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Let It Pour!
Holton Rower’s paintings look like landscapes, networks, neurons, and rainbows distorted through kaleidoscopes. Last night, the artist, a grandson of Alexander Calder, celebrated his opening at the Bowery gallery The Hole with a Dior-sponsored dinner, where ever-growing piles of flower petals seemed themselves to spill out of his massive, multicolored works. Then the artist demonstrated before a rapt audience how he makes his pictures, pouring successive cups of pigment onto a wood ground. The concentric circles rippled around vials of Dior nail lacquer strategically placed to create a flower effect as the paint, inexorably moving toward and off the edges of the wood, found its way around them. As the the artist completed the painting, he announced, the last five colors replicated tones from Dior’s new line. Very polished!
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Art Critic’s Warning: an experience of Way Too Much may result in the mental and visual impairment known as “art-malaise,” or “A.M.” Symptoms include eyestrain, inability to concentrate, short-term memory loss, stiffening of major muscle groups, emotional exhaustion, and general indifference. Children, pregnant women, and the elderly are at the highest risk.
Charlie Schultz (via hydeordie)
and me.
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today is all about Cy Twombly images dripping with ease…
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And a quick nod to yesterday’s great artist, Willem De Kooning: April 24, 1904 – 1997…
Above: Two Figures in a Landscape, 1967
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Painting and drawing by Nadia Duvall (via Incompossible, adj. – Unable to exist if something else exists. Two… - but does it float)
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