Showing posts with label This illusion we call beauty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label This illusion we call beauty. Show all posts

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Grey Poupon You


Grey Poupon You

Artist: Unknown, 2007

16" X 20" Acrylic on Canvas

Linearism, Abstraction

Passionate linear brush strokes, combined with bold freeform use of color and metallics, attack the subject with a raw vengeance for a truth unsought and yet unfound. Has Madame been attacked at a hot dog stand by an angry patron? Or playing with the latest fad in in her quest for this illusion that we humans call beauty? What of her golden Hapsburg Jaw? The pyramidic neck? Her expansive, plaintive eyes, black as frying pans, do not communicate her thoughts. Instead, they act as place holders until something else can fill the empty void.

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Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Blonde, Red Head and Brunette; A Study In Orange


Blonde, Red Head and Brunette; A Study In Orange
(Also known as Adam, Eve and Lilith in Hell)

Mulligan, 16" X 20" inches.  Acrylic on Artists Board

Joined BAMOO in 2001

A brutal interpretation of the laws of beauty, and set upon a field of scorching vividness. Mulligan uses Blonde, Red Head and Brunette; A Study in Orange as an allegory of society's perception of our nice'n easy culture using an amorphous three-headed beast to tell its tale. Simple minded blonde's will always come first. Cunning redheads standout, no matter where they are at the moment.  And even calling those dullards with brown hair "Brunettes" does nothing to make them more attractive. 

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Monday, March 1, 2010

Somewhere Over the Phallic Rainbow


Somewhere Over the Phallic Rainbow

Artist: Unknown

16"X20" Acrylic on stretched canvas

Dorian Iconoclasm School of Painting

The artist’s muted color palette creates a light, ethereal background to this classic Judy Garland pose. The girlish pink offsets the jarring presence of the rainbow, which is presented here with green as its outer layer and red as its inner. As this is backwards from the natural color order of a rainbow, it subtly reminds the viewer that beauty can be artifice, created to manipulate an emotional response. The rainbow also appears to take on a life of its own, attempting to peek around Ms. Garland’s head to position itself more centrally in the picture, but Judy is having none of it. Clearly, as the artist points out, it is Judy who is the true wonder while the rainbow is merely a metaphor for her accidential influence on the gay community.    ~MKS

If one drinks one too many Whiskey Sours, clicks their heels three times and says "It must be her" that true enough, one can almost feel Judy's presence.

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Thursday, February 18, 2010

My Love For You is Like An Etch-A-Sketch


My Love for You is Like an Etch-A-Sketch

Unknown, Artist (Acrylic on Plywood 20X30")

1990's - Franticism

Unknown explores the raw proto-realism of the 1990's in this ode to the root of bad art, the Etch-A-Sketch. While the nude form only occupies the far right of the picture, one wonders on what astral plane she floats while her nervous aura communicates a frantic energy wave into the vapor that is space.

"My Love for You is Like an Etch-A-Sketch" is an historic artifact in the world of Bad Art. Unknown's work was declared an instant masterpiece by the Esteemed Director of the mothership of Bad Art, the Musuem of Bad Art (MOBA) in Dedham, Massachusetts. The work led to the formation of AFBAM (The American Federation of Bad Art Museums) and an immediate agreement was reached, the painting shipped to Dedham where it became part of MOBA's art show of nudes in a greater Boston healthclub.
 
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Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Leg Stretch Girl


Leg Stretch Girl


Artist: Tonya
Watercolor on Paper (9"X12")

Exorcism

Spindly spider-like legs - one raised in triumph and restrained by a Fettuccine strap, with the other leg is left lying like an unused snapped appendage sacrificed in the name of Yoga purity, and hair volumized to imply activity, - mark the dominant features this Goya-esque homage to what was hoped would be the Cosmo-girl for the 1980s.

Joined BAMOO Collection 8-2000


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Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Forever Umber

Forever Umber


Artist: Unknown, Oil on Canvas, 18X24

We see here, the prolific artist Unknown's attempt to address a pensive nude form...almost masculine in its shape, feminine in its hair style, and placed the figurine knee deep in a Freudian metaphore of umber paint laid thick, smattered and puckered, which lifts from the canvas to us as if to say "we are all mired in our own excretment, no?.  No, indeed.

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