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Category: artists
more on Chris Ofili
union black read more online “Ofili started his series of red, black and green paintings in 2000 and brought them together in an imaginative tour de force in the British Pavillion, at the 2003 Venice Biennale. The artist collaborated once again with David Adjaye to create an immersive sensory experience. The paintings tell a story
Supper/Upper
Chris Ofili’s installation of paintings “Upper Room” Each painting is an icon of a monkey repeated in a rainbow of colors, with a central multicolored monkey as a kind of alter piece. The room is a modern wooden temple which was designed with a collaborating architect. Andy Warhol’s Last Supper which informed Ofili’s work. One
I’ve got the blues and it’s a cryin’ shame
Iscariot Blues (Chris Ofili, 2006) …”it belongs to a suite of paintings called Blue Rider, an echo of Kandinsky’s Blaue Reiter, now a century old.” der blaue reiter “Now, like Picasso’s, Ofili’s Black Period has given way to a Blue one – to a suite of pictures whose almost monochrome palette turns against the reds
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The Ghettoizing/Ostracizing of Religious Art(ists)
Here is another resource which I am considering toward further discussion on “blasphemous” art. See previous post HERE with texts on Andres Serrano. I find the idea that Christina Valentine puts forth in the presentation below to be extremely relevant to my generation within my practice and sub-sub-culture: The idea that we should be wary
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Artist Spotlight: Chris Anderson
Neuschwanstein, The Schlossgeist Series Taken from Chris Anderson’s URL For over a decade American artist Chris Anderson has devoted her art to the theme of the domestic landscape. At first glance the work conjures up paired images: architecture and nature, interior and exterior. In Anderson’s fragmented visual world, however, they unfold into dualistic topographies: random
Have an Anderson moment with me…
Wes, looking dapper and tweedy. Wes and Noah, maybe in the Village where they wrote Life Aquatic together? Life Aquatic set. Staged? or just how he rolls? “Anybody feel like going for a ride?” Fist-pumping goodness. Solidarity.
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