Month: August 2015

Kurt Schwitters

Kurt Schwitters, “Santa Klaus”, Cut and Pasted Colored and Printed Papers on Paper with Cardstock Border, 1922, 28 x 28 cm, Museum of Modern Art, New York

Kurt Hermann Schwitters, born in January of 1948, was a German artist. He worked in several genres and media, including dadaism, constructivism, surrealism, poetry, sound, painting, sculpture, graphic design, typography, and what came to be known as installation art. He is most famous for his collages, called “Merz Pictures”.

 

In the Boreal Forest

Photographer Unknown, (In the Boreal Forest)

“The association of the wild and the wood also run deep in etymology. The two words are thought to have grown out of the root word wald and the old Teutonic word walthus, meaning ‘forest.’ Walthus entered Old English in its variant forms of ‘weald,’ ‘wald,’ and ‘wold,’ which were used to designate both ‘a wild place’ and ‘a wooded place,’ in which wild creatures — wolves, foxes, bears — survived. The wild and wood also graft together in the Latin word silva, which means ‘forest,’ and from which emerged the idea of ‘savage,’ with its connotations of fertility….”
― Robert Macfarlane, The Wild Places

Middle Class Rut, “Pick Up Your Head”

Middle Class Rut, “Pick Up Your Head”;  Directed and Animated by Steven Mertens and Chris Tucci

Pick Up Your Head is the second album by Middle Class Rut, released June 25, 2013 by Bright Antenna Records. The album is available as a digital download, CD and 12″ double record. Produced by the band, the album was mixed by Dave Sardy.

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Alexa Meade

Painting Installations by Alexa Meade

Alexa Meade is an American artist best known for her portraits painted on the human body. She takes a classical concept—trompe l’oeil, the art of making a two-dimensional representation look three-dimensional—and works in an opposite direction. Her aim is to collapse depth and make her living models into flat pictures. The result is walking, talking optical illusions, 3D paintings that confuse how the eye processes objects in space.

Meade applies acrylic paint to the surfaces of people, objects, and walls in a style that mimics the appearance of brushwork in a traditional painting. The three dimensional scene may be approached from multiple angles and still appear to be a flat painting through the lens of the camera, without the guise of Photoshop or digital effects.

“The effect of the optical illusion is striking. Many of the images make it nearly impossible to find visual evidence of the secret their construction” – Christian Furr, exhibition curator of the Saatchi Gallery