#comtemporary art

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Anastasia Trusova

Everything Has Its Time

Acrylic, canvas

50*60 cm.

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Artistic gymnastics, Yuriy Solomko, 2013, paper on canvas, ballpoint pen, watercolour, 77x110 cm

[possiblyelven]

Went to an exhibition on Hunt Slonem during a trip to Albany Institute of History and Art! I bought this cute bunny ornament in commemoration because the exhibit was called Year of the Rabbit. He has some amazing designs, and a website called Hop Up Shop, I will definitely be wishlisting some things from there. The art above is his work called The Sign.

[creatorseye]

Tranquility Vision

acrylic paint, oil paint, wood carve, wood

12.7 x 17.78 cm

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James Jean

Sleeper II. 2025

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Creative Art by the contemporary artist Andrew Scott

Credit: Learn.net (@learn.netw) via ART MIX 🎨@art_mix39

Sound: Caleb Arredondo - Echo Sax End

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[ 展覧会のお知らせ ] EMI SHIRATORI 2020-2023 SOLO EXHIBITION at THE ROYAL CANVAS Fukuoka Nakasu

11月1日(水)より、福岡市博多区の ザ ロイヤルパーク キャンバス 福岡中洲 にて、展覧会を行います。会期は2024年1月31日までの予定。8月に札幌の ザ ロイヤルパーク キャンバス 札幌大通公園 で展示したサーフィンをモチーフの他、バレエシリーズのグラフィックを展示いたします。全作販売可能(額装込み)です。是非、ご高覧ください。 ＜日時＞ 2023年11月1日〜2024年1月31日 ＜会場＞ ザ ロイヤルパーク キャンバス 福岡中洲 ギャラリースペース “The Gallery of Art Haven” (福岡市博多区中洲5-6-20)

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[ Exhibition Notice ] EMI SHIRATORI 2020-2023 SOLO EXHIBITION / at THE ROYAL CANVAS Fukuoka Nakasu “The Gallery of Art Haven” (〒810-0801 5-6-20 Nakasu, Hakata-ku, Fukuoka) / Nov. 1st, 2023 to Jan. 31st, 2024

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this might have been asked before, so feel free to ignore it if so. but what are Machete’s and Vasco’s alignments and mbti?

I don’t mean to offend because from older art of Machete, I had always assumed he was supposed to be a villain or antagonist of a story. That is why I am curious.

Machete would probably be lawful neutral intj, Vasco seems like neutral good enfp.

Machete goes through something of a gradual corruption arc, especially towards the end. He was never an easy person to get along with, but at least he had good intentions and relatively solid morals. It's mainly the workplace stress and outside pressure that compels him to use increasingly dirtier tactics in order to maintain his position, keep his relationship with Vasco a secret and keep them both safe. He didn't set out to become a villain but many of his comtemporaries came to view him as one.

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Oswaldo Guayasamin

Eichmann

1963

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Sonic the Comic Liveblog: Issue 94

I really like this cover art! I can't put my finger on it, but there's a certain je ne sais quoi about this art that really identifies it as belonging to a British comic.

Oh okay, cover art was by Elson, explains why I liked it then. Anyway, we see once again that the price of StC is being raised. I've said before I feel StC is expensive, especially in comparison to late 2000s era Beano, but I suppose when you compare it to something more comtemporary like IDW Sonic it's a good price? Then again, who knows how it stacks up when you account for inflation. Annnnnd final note about this image - I wonder if that sonic spinner toy works like a fidget spinner?

It might be because this is a whole different planet from Mobius, but it feels really odd that we're seeing like… Disney-esque dog humans as secondary and background characters rather than more traditional anthromorphic animals.

Anyway, professor dude turned into reverse colour scheme Hulk. They're not even hiding it, his name is literally Bulk.

Ah yes, Sonic's "spin really really fast to solve any problem" tactic! Haven't seen that one in a good few issues.

Lol that's some pretty good snark.

Hey, that's pretty close to my main blog's URL!

Hmm. Starting to get Totally Spies vibes.

Nice monochrome colouring! And it's pretty interesting to see Vector characterised as being smart in this way, even if the explaination does sound like it fits right in with Classic era Doctor Who lmao

A review of Fighting Vipers, and look, there's Honey! I bet this reviewer never would've guessed that character with later be connected to the Sonic series

Ooooooh! Did not expect to be introduced to Ebony and Pyjamas today! I am quite aware these two are fan-favourites. Btw, I'm loving that outfit Ebony is wearing, never seen art of her wearing anything modern and casual like that before.

Ok! I guess she can change her outfit instantly! But man, I can already see that people must've fallen in love with this character quickly, just this one panel is great show of personality.

You have my heart, Ms Ebony <3

I haven't really brought it up much, but for a good while by this point, StC has become more or less just a Sonic comic (jeez, who would imagine considering it's name). The only other Sega comics they do anymore is the occassional run of Decap Attack comics. I guess out of all of them this one must've been a favourite among readers.

I about to make a joke sugguesting Johnny's drink is alcoholic, but I wonder how old he actually is? Legal drinking age is 18 so he could potentially be old enough? But even if he wasn't, the UK is not exactly know for having teenagers who always follow drinking laws.

Gonna file this one under "sentences that sound a lot more racist if we weren't talking about animals"

It's kinda funny that Knuckles just like… randomly has a pet dinosaur now. …oh my god this issue is from 1997 so means Underground (released 1999) wasn't the first one to give him a dinosaur for no reason.

You know what mate? I'd be pissed off too.

A third of the back page which is otherwise dedicated to reminding you when the next issue releases? oh god yeah, such a waste of space. Totally unbelivable. 🙄

The word of a kid who probably also enjoys burning ants under a magnifying glass.

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"The ballot, wisely used, will bring to her the respect and protection that she needs. It is her weapon of moral defense. Under present conditions, when she appears in court in defence of her virtue, she is looked upon with amused contempt. She needs the ballot to reckon with men who place no value upon her virtue, and to mould healthy public sentiment in favor of her own protection."

Say hello to D.C.'s own Nannie Helen Burroughs: teacher, suffragist, union advocate, and civil rights pioneer. Born in 1879/1880 Virginia to formerly enslaved parents, Burroughs later moved to D.C., graduating from M Street High School and making the acquaintance of comtemporaries like Mary Church Terrell (Lesson #29 in this series). Burroughs became deeply involved in the dual causes of womens' suffrage and civil rights, mentored by Walter Henderson Brooks (look for a future lesson in this Series about him), who was then a pastor at the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church.

Later Burroughs founded the Womens' Convention of the National Baptist Convention and served as its director for 13 years. Burroughs and her fellow D.C. resident Mary McLeod Bethune (Lesson #49 in this series), also organized and formed the National Association of Wage Earners. Burroughs rose to prominence as an outspoken voice for Black women; arguing that they should have the same opportunities for education and for job training. Such was her gift for writing and for oration that she was appointed by President Herbert Hoover to chair a special committee on housing for African Americans.

Perhaps Burroughs' greatest accomplishment (certainly the one of which she was the proudest), was the funding and eventual founding of the National Training School for Women And Girls in 1909. Encouraged and advocated by key Washington figures such as historian Carter G. Woodson (look for a future lesson in this Series about him, as well), the school was notable for never having solicited money from white donors. Burroughs wanted each student to become "the fiber of a sturdy moral, industrious and intellectual woman," and over the course of the next 20 years, the school grew into a rigorous curriculum of academic and vocational courses; offering a unique combination of educational opportunities for Black young women and girls. At the time the school offered academic training equivalent to the upper grades of high school and community college, religious instruction, and training in domestic arts and vocations; and perhaps most importantly, the very first American institution to offer all of these opportunities within a single educational space.

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That goes for every profession. AI will and does have uses - auto-marking multiple choice tests, for example - but it is NOT a viable alternative to human work.

Emails cannot be answered by machines because the question being asked can be beyond it's perview. Have you ever looked at an FAQ for a product and found it discusses nothing close to the issue you're having? That's an AI answering your emails.

You want AI to make art? It can, but it has no way to know if it's good, aesthetically pleasing or even relevant. It will inevitably wind up a broken mess the more specific you make the prompt and everything will look the same. You think a human person doesn't also have to sort through dozens or hundreds of AI generated images to find the one they like? Who's paying them?

As for audio art, like singing or dubbing, it doesn't replace a human being, say, reading aloud an audio book. It will never be able to grasp the subtleties of language to the point where it is passable as human. And who's going to teach it?

And writing? Fucking forget it. It will all sound the same, with no flair in names, dialogue, structure, verbiage or dialect. Let alone things like coloquial phrases, metaphorical sayings or slang. It's ugly, uninspired and lacklustre.

Plus, do you know what the penultimate flaw is in AI art of any variety?

IT'S FUCKING BORING.

People complain constantly about the MCU being the same thing, over and over. Quippy hero fights dark reflection of self, saves world. The more something happens, the more boring and mundane it becomes.

And you may argue human beings do this already. How many variants of Cinderella or Sherlock Holmes can one species take? Well, they ARE all different. BBC's Sherlock is unbearable, RDJ's Sherlock is a coked-up autistic, Elementary's Sherlock has a female Watson which completely alters the dynamic. They take different lived experiences and comtemporary values/desires into account during the creation process, which cannot happen with AI. AI only add to their datasets and are bound to work within them. They are not like JARVIS - they cannot learn organically and therefore are incapable of producing original work.

And if you override creatives and eliminate the human element, you lose any additional imput you could have had. Then everything flatlines. No one wants to see the same drol on a different day. And you entirely lose the nostalgia factor. Why pay for legacy and anniversary editions of something you put out the same version of every year? It becomes culturally irrelevant.

And we've already seen this homogenization take its toll, without the AI fuckery. The MCU is waning in movies because they're lifeless husks of bright colour, video games like Assassin's Creed are returning to the mechanics and narrative emphasis that actually made it popular, Game of Thrones taught tv showrunners exactly how quickly mishandling the narrative erases any and all cultural relevance.

Even other, "artless" industries need to avoid AI. We already have the Soviet Union and hideous mass-developed urban sprawl to show us how horrific gentrified and uniform architecture sucks the life out of an environment. Cars look more alike than ever, with a lack of colours and individualism. Home furnishings are increasingly washed out and bland.

These things require creativity, artistry, effort. AI is the antithesis to all of it.

Don't get me wrong - AI has its place. It CAN be useful in highly specific situations for highly specific tasks (running code and highlighting errors, for instance). But like the blockchain didn't replace money, banks or create a universal currency, AI cannot replace human effort.

fuuuuuuuuck

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okay so the people have ask aka (2 so far on my poll but thats enough for me so here is a drunk dive on why I love modern and comtemporary art

okay so I know I said modern and comtompary art but actually to me the history of art is is broken into 4 sections

pre-historic

ancient art (anything BCE)

Classic (anything CE)

AFTER THE DISCOVERY OF POMPEII

okay in my opinion art history gets interesting when they discovered Pompeii and gave birth to the rise of Neo Classimsim because that was the same time we had Romantisim and that is basically the first time in art history we had two major art movments going on at the same time.

anyway, i don't remember the exact history and rise of romanticism but basically, the theme of it is MOTHER NATURE IS BRUTAL AND BEAUTIFUL AT THE SAME TIME. she does not give a fuck rather you live or die and that is fucking beautiful and that is romanticism art in a nutshell

anyway neo classisism wich started in the 1760s is basially the Renaissance 2.0 but its a remix. The original reneasaince kind of focused more on philosophy because at the time a lot of antient greek and roman text where being translated.

BUT WITH POMPEII ITS PURE AESTHETIC.

fun fact before the discovery of Pompeii everyone thought Romans where older then the Greeks.

then they discovered Pompeii and was like whoa look at all this Roman stuff and then dug deeper was like

Whoa look at all this Greek stuff

wait a minute!!!!

anyway the late 1700's and 1800s is the infancy stage of art that we know today

that is because of the industrial revolution and the rise of the middle class!!

all these now wanna be wealthy people want art for their houses!!

also at the same time some artist are like FUCK TECHNOLOGY WE NEED TO GO BACK TO ALL HANDMADE STUFF. (aka the arts and crafts movment)

while at the same time, artist are starting to question the wealthy and art collectors why they get to decide what is art and isn't.

so they start testing the boundaries (aka impressionism, pointillism, fauvism)

THEN 1900 and Freud and Jung came onto the scene and this new thing called psychology is out and about and people aren't what they seem to be.

Now Einstien a super genius is saying there are invisible stuff

THEN WW1 happens it feels like the end of world what is even right anymore

then the great depression WW2, the Korean war, the Vietnam War, Cold War, and so much more.

The crux of modern and contemporary art is that it was when people started to question "what counts as art and how far can I push it" while at the same time, the social and political climate was in utter chaos and people started making art for themselves rather than for their patrons.

they started exploring different ways to express themselves and express the things they are passionate about.

anyway, modern art and commentary art are usualy about aesthetics or skill its about some message or making you the viewer question things

idk where I was going with this I have almost an entire bottle of wine but this kind of art is supposed to make you think. its a statement.

I am gonna end with one of my favorite comptempary art pieces which is conceptual art piece

its an instalation by Joseph Kosuth called

One and Three Chairs from 1965.

the premise of the installation is a photo of a chair, actually chair, the definition of a chair.

when a Museme wants to display this installation they are told to find a photo of a chair to display, a chair to display, and the definition of the chair to display.

because of this the photo and actual chair changes every time but the definition stays the same.

This is a reference to Plato's theory of what makes an object and object.

Because the one constant is the definition

Now on the surface level, a lot of people won't get it but for those who do it's a Nod.

Another favorite story of Modern Art is the Foutain by DuChamp story from 1917

so the story is in New York City an art show was going on and they people hosting it said any entry would be accepted. At the time DuChamp was a very well known artist and was a judge for this art show.

anyway he under a pseudonym submitted a urinal he bought and signed to this art show. it was immediately rejected despite the fact that they said they would accept anything submitted.

SO WHAT DID DUCHAMP DO.

he went to the news paper and made an article about how HIS piece was rejected. HIM A WELL KNOWN AND ESTABLISHED ARTIST.

its like if taylor swift annoslmly submited a song into a contest and got rejected.

THE SHAME THEY FELT.

anway the peice got in but it sparked the question of "who gets to decided what art is and isn't"