Idris Khan’s every…Bernd and Hilla Becher Gable sided Houses (2004) Then there’s Meggan Gould who layered hundreds of photos of famous tourist attractions. When I saw the work below, I felt that it was just a slightly more colourful and muddier version of Idris Khan’s works. Here’s Meggan Gould’s leaning+tower+pisa (2005) The hubby likes Gould’s works. I wonder [...]
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It’s been a very long week
Posted in Art on November 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Abstract Expressionism
Posted in Art on November 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
American post–World War II art movement Associated also with German Expressionism and Russian artists like Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee Focus on the expression of the inner self (as opposed to the outer world) through abstract works The most famous artist associated with the movement should be Jackson Pollock? Jackson Pollock, No. 5, 1948,
The Fairy Fellers’ Master-Stroke
Posted in Art, Me, tagged Art on October 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“It’s called The Fairy Fellers’ Master-Stroke, by Richard Dadd, and is in the Tate Gallery in London. It is only about 21 inches by 15 inches. It took the artist nine years to complete, in the middle of the nineteenth century. I cannot think of a more famous ‘fairy’ painting. It is, indeed, very strange. Summer [...]
