Painting of the Day
Jun 23 2005 15:13
i don't think this comes across well from the picture, it's called
"Slavers throwing overboard the Dead and Dying - Typhon coming on "
I was reading about the 1840's when Lord Palmerston was the foreign secretary in the uk, in order to ensure "free trade" he sanctioned the use of the british navy to track down and get rid of slave shipments in the caribean/central america in the name of "freedom" - in reality they were pissed off because the price of sugar was much cheaper there due to slave costs.
If the slave boats got caught the masters would lose their workers, so if they were in pursuit by a uk ship, the slave master would ditch the slaves into the sea, and was thereafter able to claim on the insurance at lloyds for lost cargo, what a fucking horrid way of being
I also read that Lord Palmerston as much as he was in favour of "liberating" overseas slaves, seemed partial to keeping them himself to work his substantial landholdings in Ireland, what a cunt
Jun 23 2005 15:36
#2
i like those kinda backdrops
Jun 23 2005 19:53
#3
Simple abstract, but I like it.
Jun 23 2005 20:11
#4
nah, you've been conned there, clearly that's just someone checking their colours and paintbrush before actually doing some art.
Jun 23 2005 20:42
#5
heeey, give the artist a break -it's done by a chimpanzee and I believe one of those that got higher bids than Warhol's crap. Seriously, I think it's quite good.
Jun 24 2005 00:13
#6
i could do better art than warhol with a photocopier, the fact a chimpanzee can do better art just goes to show what utter idiots those who decide what great art is nowadays are compared to a few decades ago. i mean, a couple of weeks ago i went to barcelona, and went to a dali gallery, most of which was just his sketches and scrawls. dali's sketches and scrawls had quite literally a thousand times more artistic value than the nonsense i saw at the end of the miro gallery which is basically what most modern art is i.e. complete bollocks. and i like early miro, so i'm not just hating the artist. and i thought there was hope a couple of year ago when a few eastern european artists with some semblance of talent seemed to be getting some recognition...
Jun 24 2005 07:49
#7
yeah, time to get back to the turners and pre-photography era art
speaking of which, hopefully that normal painting by that gillian lassie will win the turner prize this year
Jun 24 2005 09:35
#8
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don't think this comes across well from the picture, it's called"Slavers throwing overboard the Dead and Dying - Typhon coming on "
loving your work, whose it by?
Jun 24 2005 09:39
#9
it's a turner actually
Jun 24 2005 10:21
#10
shows my total ignorance of all things asthetic
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it's a turner actually
Jun 24 2005 11:39
#11
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i mean, a couple of weeks ago i went to barcelona, and went to a dali gallery, most of which was just his sketches and scrawls. dali's sketches and scrawls had quite literally a thousand times more artistic value than the nonsense i saw at the end of the miro gallery
Well obviously most modern art is pish, but there are a feeeew exceptions (not that I can think of any other at the moment). Funnily both Dali and Picasso had pictures from the same chimpanzee artist. 8)
On Anarchy and Art, 'The anarchist painter is not one who will show anarchist paintings, but one who... without desire for reward, will struggle with all his individuality... against bourgeois and official conventions... The subject is nothing, not more important than the other elements, colour, drawing, composition.' Paul Signac
Jun 24 2005 11:44
#12
surely the fact that the peesh has generated this discussion means that it has fulfilled its purpose? or have I just been around fine art students for too long? 
Jun 24 2005 12:32
#13
Don't worry-he's a vegetarian!
Jun 24 2005 12:40
#14
feistyfish wrote:
surely the fact that the peesh has generated this discussion
whose "the peesh" love?
Jun 24 2005 22:48
#15
I quite like this one, it makes me think of some of Bakunin's more apocalyptic passages:
http://www.roerich.ru/main.php?id=10&cs=title&l=eng&s=title&d=&g=159
Goya's Dog-thats a cool picture, if someone can find a pic-so helpless