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I think too of the Italian & American Futurists, Umberto Boccioni and Jospeh Stella; making brave uncompromising works that were to herald in the new technological age. The sharp lines of ‘above’ are ordered and uniform, suggestive of an idea of progress.
6// This is vibrant, fun, cheeky, delightful piece to look at.
But it goes deeper than that. Yuyu’s practice replaces the white heteronormative subjects of European historical paintings with self-portraits; a Taiwanese gay man living in Germany.
3// This is a repurposing of The Swing by Jean-Honoré Fragonard, a masterpiece of Rococco styling.
You’ll see the woman on the swing, engulfed in silk & also two male figures – one to the right, pulling the swing & one to the left, hiding in the bushes with an ‘advantageous’ view
1// I complain every week that the quality of works submitted to tea-time is too high; evidently a glut of brilliant art is a good problem to have, but it does make choosing very difficult.
This week I’ve made a long list of works, but eventually decided on @cyberyuyu
4// Goldcat has a wonderful way of painting hands, using blunt brushes and big uncompromising blocks of colour.
I’m impressed by the economy of her style here – laying down a few layers and then dancing around the edge with this white chalk-like line.
Although I follow @bugindreamland I had somehow missed the multilayered storypoem that is Parody of a Tangled Thread.
Regulars know that I enjoy the series-as-narrative way of creating. And now @lifeofc has created a tool to aide exploration of this epic.
Just beautiful stuff
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Companion pushes this further, and crosses over into taboo.
It is the culmination of my Ghosts in the Carnery series and asks whether Cellular Material alone carries the character of its donor – if you were to donate your own cells, would they carry anything of you?
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They would have been wealthy people of influence, looking to cement their image with a commission – it was an act of self-representation, choosing an image with which to project their identities in their community and beyond.
Sound familiar?
1/9 TEA-TIME THREAD
Every week, the decision on what to write about is impossibly hard. My list of amazing works is growing ever longer, so thank you for sharing your work – I love seeing it!
Every week, however, I can only choose one, and today its @VictorFota's DESIGNOID2c