in ampulla pendere, et cum illi pueri dicerent: Σιβυλλα
τι θελεις; respondebat illa: αποθανειν θελω."
For Ezra Pound
il miglior fabbro.
Matthew Barney (born March 25. 1967) is an American artist who works in sculpture, photography, drawing and film. His early works were sculptural installations combined with performance and video. Between 1994 and 2002 he created the Cremaster Cycle, a series of five feature-length films described by Jonathan Jones in The Guardian as "one of the most imaginative and brilliant achievements in the history of avant-garde cinema." Matthew Barney was born March 25, 1967, in San Francisco, California. He lived in Boise, Idaho from 1973 to 1985, where he attended primary and secondary school. His parents divorced and his mother moved to New York City, where he would frequently visit, and where he was introduced to the art scene. In 1989, he graduated from Yale University. His earliest works, created at Yale, were staged at the university’s athletic complex. Barney is married to singer Björk, with whom he had a daughter in 2002.
Trevor Brown is an English artist from London presently living in Japan whose work explores paraphilias, such as pedophilia, BDSM, and other fetish themes. Innocence, violence and Japanese popular culture all collide in Brown's art.
Early features on Trevor Brown's art appeared in Adam Parfrey's Apocalypse Culture II, and in Jim Goad's ANSWER Me! zine. Since then his interviews and art have been featured in numerous publications worldwide, most recently on the cover of Gothic & Lolita Bible in Japan. His work also appears on a variety of book and record covers. He has illustrated for Coup de Grace an edition of Friedrich Nietzsche's Der Antichrist. Brown has also had several books of his art published.
Brown was involved in a copyright controversy with the electronic band Crystal Castles, who had begun using Brown's work in 2006 on merchandise without the artist's permission. A financial settlement was reached in 2008.
Julie Heffernan (born 1956 in Peoria, Illinois) is an American painter. David Cohen, art critic of The New York Sun, aptly describes Heffernan's art: "These paintings are a hybrid of genres and styles, mixing allegory, portraiture, history painting, and still life, while in title they are all presented as self portraits.
Heffernan was raised in Northern California and lives in Brooklyn, New York. She received a B.F.A., at the University of California, Santa Cruz and an M.F.A. in painting at the Yale School of Art. Heffernan is an Associate Professor of fine arts at Montclair State University in Upper Montclair, New Jersey.
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nekad se uplasim
zar ce nestati lepe umetnosti
ili je nestankom lepog zivota to neminovno
ali zar zivot nije uvek bio isti!!!???
Kustosi jedne izlozbe moderne umetnosti u Londonu nedavno su morali duboko da se izvinjavaju jer su greskom umesto umetnickog dela u ilozbu uvrstili POSTOLJE!!!…Naime, umetnik koji je konkurisao, poslao je odvojeno postolje i skulpturu, bez prateceg objasnjenja. Kustosi su zakljucili da postolje( ne znajuci da je to samo postolje) predstavlja zanimljivu umetnicku kreaciju dok je samo umetnicko delo, koje je trebalo da bude izlozeno na pomenutom postolju, ali je stiglo nesto kasnije, bilo odbijeno kao previse konvencionalno!
Da bi neprijatna situacija oko stanja umetnosti bila donekle rasvetljena, i New York Times je nedavno sakupio nekolicinu profesionalaca iz oblasti zvane umetnost i zamolio ih za definiciju, sta cini umetnicko delo... evo nekoliko odgovora...
Umetnicki kriticar Art Huges: Nesto predstavlja umetnicko delo ako je nacinjeno sa jasnom namerom da bude umetnicko delo i ako je stavljeno u kontekst u kome se percepira kao umetnicko delo.
Profesor Thomas McEvilley: Nesto postaje umetnicko delo ukoliko se naziva umetnickim delom, ukoliko o tome pisu umetnicki casopisi, ako je izlozeno u muzeju ili prodato privatnom kolekcionaru.
Kriticar Arthur Danto: Vise ne mozete da tvrdite da li je nesto umetnost ili ne. To vise ne vazi.
Umetnik Louise Borgeois: Umetnicko delo je sve ono sto ima terapijsko dejstvo na samog umetnika. Bas me briga za publiku.
Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead,
Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep sea swell
And the profit and loss.
A current under sea
Picked his bones in whispers. As he rose and fell
He passed the stages of his age and youth
Entering the whirlpool.
Gentile or Jew
O you who turn the wheel and look to windward,
Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.
T. S. Eliot
"Moderna umetnost" je sama po sebi jedna nakaradna sintagma.
Umetnost je umetnost.
Šta reći za poeziju nego - to je poezija.
Problem je što mnoge stvari vrše funkciju umetnosti na principu svojevrsnog kratkog spoja na relaciji stvaralac-recipijent.
Reč "moderna" je jedna prosta hrišćanska tvorevina.
Teorija umetnosti je kukavičje jaje podmetnuto kritici od strane filozofije. Postoji samo kritika u širem smislu, a sama umetnost se može izboriti protiv sofizma samim delima, a kritika će ga vremenom obrisati pretenciozni termin - "moderna"
pa ga i ja brisem iz naslova posta!
Kroz sanjivo vrijeme hodamo
Uvijenim stapom si mahnula
Pored ledenog jezera i smrznutog mjeseca
ubijenu siluetu vrane ugledah,
I suze na mom licu
i klizaljke po jezeru, pisu Alice
Nestajem u tvome imenu,
ali moras me cekati
Negdje preko mora lezi nasukani brod
tvoja kosa kao cvijetovi na talasu
I kisne kapi na prozoru
i kocka leda u casi
Duso, sve o cemu mogu da mislim je Alice
Tik, taka odkucava
da vrati kazaljke na satu
Kako je okean nasukao brod ?
i odakle ostrica na mom vratu ?
Jedina konci sto me drze tu
zamrseni su na pristanistu
I tako tajni poljubac
donosi slatko ludilo
I mislicu o tome
i mrtav u grobu
I kud me voda nosi, da budem izgubljen
I mora da sam lud,
da klizem tvoje ime,
po ko zna koji put
pa da propadnem kroz led
od Alice
Postoji samo Alice…
Tom Waits
