somethinglikethat Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 Gustave Courbet: Fun fact - the model for the vaginal painting above was Joanna Heffernan, James Mcneil Whistler's girlfriend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
viperface Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_gooch Posted February 24, 2010 Share Posted February 24, 2010 beardsley Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ValueHorse Posted February 24, 2010 Share Posted February 24, 2010 Goya Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fun Police Posted February 24, 2010 Share Posted February 24, 2010 Mo' Beardsley... Alexander Mair Alexander Barton... Providence local painted with swine blood. s'all for now... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yinz n'at Posted February 24, 2010 Author Share Posted February 24, 2010 swine blood deear head ftw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somethinglikethat Posted February 24, 2010 Share Posted February 24, 2010 what is up with this bovine/deer motif? It seems like a lot of contemporary artists are doing very similar looking nihilistic, morbid paintings and drawings of deer and slaughtered livestock. I am seeing this imagery repeated all over the place. I guess this is either ( A ) a fresh, timely expression of some sort of morbid subconscious feeling pervading our culture, or it's ( B ) a tired convention that's been exploited to the point of cliche and continues to get beaten to death (pun intended) by art students everywhere. I'm going with B. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
viperface Posted February 24, 2010 Share Posted February 24, 2010 Everyone probably knows this, but back in the early 2000s, (among the street art fad) everybody and their mom was doing deer head stencils. It went on to influence online graphics and "Computer Arts" type magazines that taught step by step how to generate those stupid fucking deer heads and drippy clouds in vector graphics I'm not sure how it's related to the pig blood deer head though. My initial critique towards that piece was the preservation thing. I'm not sure how long that blood will stay visible, will it decay or fade away. But then I thought all that can be regarded as part of the concept or something 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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