Recent content by brianvds

I was watching the news on BBC, trying to find out which new disaster was happening where, when this video came up: David Hockney with Katie Razzall, BBC, Paris Show I found it a pleasant change of pace from the multiple horses of apocalypse that have been assaulting the senses of late... :-)

As I recall, Picasso wasn't very orderly when it came to his output: sketches, half-finished pictures, abandoned projects, random scribbles - all of this would accumulate in his studio and house in disorderly manner. It was said that when his house got too full of stuff he'd just buy a new house...

Maybe we should go throw a bucket of paint over an oil rig in protest against it. 😇

Time to briefly resurrect this thread... :-) Art: Francois Krige (1913 - 94) - Basotho women dancing. Oil on panel, 56 x 70 cm (detail).

Vincent van Gogh - Young man with cornflower. Oil on canvas, 39 x 31 cm.

Perhaps a somewhat rambling rant, but only ten minutes and it may stimulate some discussion... Something that comes up that I wasn't ware of: it appears the ARC was taken in by a piece of AI-generated art, which I find pretty hilarious. :-)

And this is another interesting case to connect to my previous post: if someone makes a photorealistic painting of this sculpture, is that an abstract or a realistic painting? It's a fun rabbit hole to go down. After answering a question about it on Quora some years ago, I ended up writing a...

I'm sort of in two minds about it. Most abstract art that I see fails to do anything at all for me, but I like the abstraction-like patterns we find in the world all around us, including the microscopic world: All photographs, and thus, all 100% realistic, and all of them also kind of...

And here I always thought it was well known that Gauguin routinely took the side of the natives against the colonial authorities, and ended up in legal trouble over it. All the blather about the underage girls and cultural appropriation etc. has always just been an example of what Nassim Taleb...

Maybe someone made him an offer he couldn't refuse. :-)

People often refer to such as "Victorian." But the weird thing is, when it comes to nudity society has, in some ways, become much, MUCH more prudish than the Victorians ever were.

I confess, I have never heard of either Hudson or The Band. I find it peculiar how some famous people become universally famous, e.g. everyone knows about Einstein, even though very few could explain even in laymen's terms what exactly it was that he did to deserve all the fame, while others...