Fictional representations of art and biographical films
about dead artists are common in mainstream media, despite the lack of concern with living visual artists and their projects.
Not exact matches
For all of its contradictions and
dead ends, modernism was a movement that cared
about beauty, meaning, and the prophetic calling of the
artist.
The film forms a collage of famous (Ethan Hawke, Dennis Hopper, Milos Forman) and not - so - famous faces to talk
about what the Chelsea means to them and why so many
artists (including the Greatful
Dead, Janis Joplin, Bob Dylan and Mark Twain) have stayed there over the years.
Artist Tyler Crook doesn't whitewash this at all — Trick already looks like a
dead man walking — but I particularly liked the way his best friend Kyle applies a sort of bro therapy, hauling Trick out of bed and talking smack
about his disease, while also getting serious for a few minutes when the situation warrants it.
Graphic novels Michael Dougherty, director of Trick «r Treat, talks
about Days of the
Dead, the grahic novel he's creating with a team of
artists and writers that includes Fiona Staples and Mark Andreyko.
«The Curse of the Wendigo,» a story
about a mysterious creature set during World War I, written by Mathieu Missoffe and illustrated by Charlie Adlard, the
artist of «The Walking
Dead;» «Josephine,» a romantic comedy by Penelope Bagieu, the creator of «Exquisite Corpse;» «Promethee,» a science - fiction story in the same vein as «Lost,» created by Christopher Bec, with an introduction by Mark Waid; «Iron Squad,» an alternate history sci - fi story in which new technology allows the Germans to win World War II, by Jean - Luc Sala and Ronan Toulhoat; «Spin Angels,» a tale of black ops and spies, a Catholic cardinal and the Mafia, by Jean - Luc Sala and Pierre - Mony Chan; «Come Prima,» a road story
about two warring brothers, done in a style that pays homage to Italian films, by Alfred.
Dan Berry speaks with Walking
Dead artist Charlie Adlard
about his process, how he got started in the comics industry
One striking thing
about these lists is that the
artists whose names appear on these lists are almost invariably
dead.
The
artist explains, «In a way, you understand more
about living people by dealing with
dead people.
DAVID SALLE —
Artists can also be dead wrong, but I love the way they talk about other a
Artists can also be
dead wrong, but I love the way they talk
about other
artistsartists.
We spoke to the naturalist
artist about his new trading post in Santa Fe, why New York has a 15 - year expiration date for
artists, and finding a
dead opossum in his new studio.
Conceived as a kind of «love letter,» this billet - doux between two covers was addressed not only to the eight
dead and one living
artist (Balthus) who Perl had written
about, but also to the many living
artists and others who the author felt would share his view that many of the seminal achievements — and lesser known periods — of French modernism's «Old Masters» had been ignored, pushed aside or wrongly dismissed.
«We know that some of the most memorable writings on art have taken the form of letters, including, to name a few examples, Vincent van Gogh's letters to his brother Theo, Rainer Maria Rilke's Cézanne - inspired missives to Clara Westhoff, and the letters Samuel Beckett sent to Georges Duthuit in the late 1940s
about the paintings of Bram van Velde... The theme for this edition of ARTSEEN is, thus, not a theme but a form: the letter — a letter addressed perhaps to an
artist, living or
dead, but, just as plausibly, to anyone else.
2014 Absent - minded young typist, RONGWRONG, Amsterdam I»LL MAKE THE WORK EXPLODE, Buenos Tiempos Inc., Brussels @the Shrink, Shanaynay, Paris Galerie Neu a la Douane, Galerie Chantal Crousel La Douane, Paris The Reluctant Narrator, Museo Berardo, Lisbon The Library Vaccine,
Artists Space, New York New Ways Of Doing Nothing, Kunsthalle Vienna, Vienna Black House, Museum of Contemporary Art of Estonia, Tallin Read the room / you've got to, Salts, Basel House, Hollybush Gardens, London Infinite Jest, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt UPSTAIRS DOWNSTAIRS, Galerie Neu, Berlin Everything Is
About To Happen, Corvi - Mora and Greengrassi, London The Hawker, Carlos / Ishikawa, London
Dead Reader, Idea Store Whitechapel, London Eight Poems by Karl Holmqvist, Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York The Fifth Dimension, Logan Center Exhibitions, Chicago The Crime Was Almost Perfect, Witte de With, Rotterdam Poetry will be Made by ALL, LUMAS Editionsgalerie — Zürich, Zürich Looking Back: The Eighth White Columns Annual — Selected by Pati Hertling, White Columns, New York
In the Bruce High Quality Foundation's (BHQF) 2013 exhibition at The Brooklyn Museum, the polarizing collective of millennial
artists premiered a video
about art world zombies called Isle of the
Dead.
, ArtPharmacy (Blog), June 12 Elisa della Barba, «What I loved
about Venice Biennale 2013», Swide, June 2 Juliette Soulez, «Le Future Generation Art Prize remis a Venise», Blouin Artinfo, May 31 Charlotte Higgins, «Venice Biennale Diary: dancing strippers and inflatable targets», The Guardian On Culture Blog, May 31 Vincenzo Latronico, «Il Palazzo Enciclopedico», Art Agenda, May 31 Marcus Field, «The Venice Biennale preview: Let the art games commence», The Independent, May 18 Joost Vandebrug, «Lynette Yiadom - Boakye», L'Uomo Vogue, No. 441, May / June «Lucy Mayes, «Lynette Yiadom - Boakye», a Ruskin Magazine, Vol.3, pp. 38 - 39 Rebecca Jagoe, «Lynette Yiadom - Boakye: Portraits Without a Subject», The Culture Trip, May Lynette Yiadom - Boakye, «Lynette Yiadom - Boakye on Walter Richard Sickert's Miss Gwen Ffrangcon - Davies as Isabella of France (1932)», Tate etc., Issue 28, Summer, p. 83 «Turner Prize - nominated Brit has art at Utah museum», Standard Examiner, May 1 Matilda Battersby, «Imaginary portrait painter Lynette Yiadom - Boakye becomes first black woman shortlisted for Turner Prize 2013», The Independent, April 25 Nick Clark, «David Shrigley's fine line between art and fun nominated for Turner Prize», The Independent, April 25 Charlotte Higgins, «Turner prize 2013: a shortlist strong on wit and charm», guardian.co.uk April 25 Charlotte Higgins, «Turner prize 2013 shortlist takes a mischievous turn», guardian.co.uk, April 25 Adrian Searle, «Turner prize 2013 shortlist: Tino Sehgal dances to the fore», guardian.co.uk, April 25 Allan Kozinn, «Four
Artists Named as Finalists for Britain's Turner Prize», The New York Times, April 25 Coline Milliard, «A Crop of Many Firsts: 2013 Turner Prize Shortlist Announced», Artinfo, April 25 Sam Phillips, «Former RA Schools student nominated for Turner Prize», RA Blog, April 25 «Turner Prize Shortlist 2013», artlyst, April 25 «Turner Prize Nominations Announced: David Shrigley, Tino Sehgal, Lynette Yiadom - Boakye and Laure Prouvost Up For Award», Huffpost Arts & Culture, April 25 Hannah Furness, «Turner Prize 2013: a
dead dog, headless drummers and the first «live encounter» entry», Telegraph, April 25 Hannah Furness, «Turner Prize 2013: The public will question whether this is art, judge admits», Telegraph, April 25 Julia Halperin, «Turner Prize shortlist announced», The Art Newspaper, April 25 Brian Ferguson, «Turner Prize nomination for David Shrigley», Scotsman.com, April 25 «Former Falmouth University student shortlisted for Turner Prize», The Cornishman, April 29 «Trickfilme und der Geschmack der Sonne», Spiegel Online, April 25 Dominique Poiret, «La Francaise Laure Prouvost en lice pour le Turner Prize», Liberation, April 26 Louise Jury, «Turner Prize: black humour
artist David Shrigley is finally taken seriously by judges», London Evening Standard, April 25 «Turner Prize 2013: See nominees» work including dead dog, grave shopping list and even some paintings», Mirror, April 25 Henry Muttisse, «It's the Turner demise», The Sun, April 25 «Imaginary portrait painter up for Turner Prize», BBC News, April 25 Farah Nayeri, «Tate's Crowd Artist Sehgal Shortlisted for Turner Prize», Bloomberg Businessweek, April 25 «Turner Prize finalists mix humour and whimsy», CBC News, April 25 Richard Moss, «Turner Prize 2013 shortlist revealed for Derry - Londonderry», Culture24, April 25 «David Shrigley makes 2013 Turner Prize shortlist», Design Week, April 25 «The Future Generation Art Prize@Venice 2013», e-flux.com, April 21 Skye Sherwin, «Lynette Yiadom - Boakye», The Guardian Guide, March 2 - 8, p. 36 Amie Tullius, «Seasoned by Whitney Tassie», 15 Bytes, March «ARTINFO UK's Top 3 Exhibitions Opening This Week, ARTINFO.com, February 25 Orlando Reade, «Whose Oyster Is This World?&
artist David Shrigley is finally taken seriously by judges», London Evening Standard, April 25 «Turner Prize 2013: See nominees» work including
dead dog, grave shopping list and even some paintings», Mirror, April 25 Henry Muttisse, «It's the Turner demise», The Sun, April 25 «Imaginary portrait painter up for Turner Prize», BBC News, April 25 Farah Nayeri, «Tate's Crowd
Artist Sehgal Shortlisted for Turner Prize», Bloomberg Businessweek, April 25 «Turner Prize finalists mix humour and whimsy», CBC News, April 25 Richard Moss, «Turner Prize 2013 shortlist revealed for Derry - Londonderry», Culture24, April 25 «David Shrigley makes 2013 Turner Prize shortlist», Design Week, April 25 «The Future Generation Art Prize@Venice 2013», e-flux.com, April 21 Skye Sherwin, «Lynette Yiadom - Boakye», The Guardian Guide, March 2 - 8, p. 36 Amie Tullius, «Seasoned by Whitney Tassie», 15 Bytes, March «ARTINFO UK's Top 3 Exhibitions Opening This Week, ARTINFO.com, February 25 Orlando Reade, «Whose Oyster Is This World?&
Artist Sehgal Shortlisted for Turner Prize», Bloomberg Businessweek, April 25 «Turner Prize finalists mix humour and whimsy», CBC News, April 25 Richard Moss, «Turner Prize 2013 shortlist revealed for Derry - Londonderry», Culture24, April 25 «David Shrigley makes 2013 Turner Prize shortlist», Design Week, April 25 «The Future Generation Art Prize@Venice 2013», e-flux.com, April 21 Skye Sherwin, «Lynette Yiadom - Boakye», The Guardian Guide, March 2 - 8, p. 36 Amie Tullius, «Seasoned by Whitney Tassie», 15 Bytes, March «ARTINFO UK's Top 3 Exhibitions Opening This Week, ARTINFO.com, February 25 Orlando Reade, «Whose Oyster Is This World?»
In the NY Times today Dorothy Spears writes
about artists who may not have been good at cultivating dealers and collectors when they were alive, but now that they're
dead, galleries are happy to represent them.
For more information
about the 17th Annual No
Dead Artists: National Juried Exhibition, please email
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We're fine talking
about dead people, so let's say Claude Cahun, Rosa Bonheur, Billy Tipton, and Gladys Bentley are some of our favorite trans
artists from history.
Night Studio (STUDIOFILM & RACQUET CLUB), a portrait of the
artist working in the
dead of night, is as much
about his state of mind as it is
about his studio.
«Okay, Proxyah is
dead, got ta move on...,» writes
artist Viktor Timofeev in an email
about what instigated the end to a project and exhibition series that has been running since 2013.
An old hand at such juxtapositions, Hauser and Wirth offers an intensely curated pitch for older and
dead women
artists — a 1960 Eva Hesse painting, a Louise Bourgeois fabric piece, the tormented canvas «Mourning» by Maria Lassnig (aged 92) and a fresco - like work
about the ages of women «after Giotto» by Ida Applebroog (aged 82).
I had one more crit with a visiting
artist that summer, Kara Walker, who couldn't figure out why I liked
dead white guys any more than I could explain what it was
about art that I was so in love with.
Julian Schnabel's decision to follow his elliptical 1996 biopic of Jean - Michel Basquiat with a film
about Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas might intimate a morbid allegiance to the cult of the
dead artist.
YM: What is strange is that when I speak
about the participating
artists for Yokohama, those who I think are really good are all
dead.
Edith Newhall reports in the Philadelphia Inquirer: «Campuzano's paintings convey a sense of potential menace lurking in their background, and each is different from the other and vaguely reminiscent of the works of such painters as Jasper Johns, Frank Stella, Clyfford Still, and Piet Mondrian — enough so you wonder if Campuzano's project is actually
about the viability of painting in the 21st century, and whether he has tweaked the «
dead man» of the original note into a reference to famously groundbreaking
artists,
dead and alive....
He came into his own as an
artist in the age of Watergate, after painting had been declared
dead, the object superfluous and originality a privilege of the past — at a time when just
about everything that used to define what great art could be now provoked distrust for the
artist and many of his generation.
Also a very good point
about drawing from reality — the
artist needs to catch the breath of life in their subject — proof of the experience itself — where photos are static,
dead and frozen.