Recent art that you liked

[Artyczar]

Txomsy,

Maybe you didn't get that I personally don't agree with the cave paintings NOT being art. We don't know for sure what the intention behind them was. But I think there's no way the cave painters intended it as art (as we have come to know "art" in today's context). There's no way to know. I believe it is art, and art can't be defined in simple terms. It could have been religious, graffiti, warnings to hunters, worship of the animals, maps...who knows? But, it doesn't really matter because they are beautiful anyway you slice them. Perhaps it was the first true outsider art under the original terms of outsider art. Art for no one and/or anyone-- the maker not being concerned with making their mark as an "artist." Again, meaning an artist as we have come to know it.

I also don't think I am superior or that utility is incompatible with art, and I definitely don't think art is limited to painting.

Just sayin'.

 

[brianvds]

A recent eerie bit by one of my favorite contemporary artists:

Aron Wiesenfeld - The People Outside, 2025. Oil on museum board, 11 x 14 in.

As for the other discussions here, I no longer have any opinions whatever about whether this or that is "really" art. I find I have more rest for my soul that way.

 

[Artyczar]

I love Wiesenfeld.

 

[john]

Art is that other guy in Simon and Garfunkel.

 

[brianvds]

Art is that other guy in Simon and Garfunkel.

"Art who?"

Warning: some foul language. And very bad advice.

 

[brianvds]

Rather like this one, though I think it would look better on a wall than on canvas...

Lady Pink (b Sandra Fabara, 1964) - Malcolm X, 1992. Spray enamel and acrylic on canvas, 127 x 116 cm.

From the information at Gandalf's Gallery:

Lady Pink, (born Sandra Fabara, in Ambato, 1964), is an Ecuadorian-born American graffiti and mural artist, active in New York City. In 1979 she started writing graffiti and soon became well known as the only female capable of competing with the boys in the graffiti subculture. Today, Lady Pink continues to create new paintings on canvas that express her unique personal vision. She also shares her 40 years of experience with teens by holding mural workshops and actively lecturing to college students throughout the world.​