Art: refers to the theory,
human application and physical expression of creativity found in
human cultures and societies through skills and imagination in order
to produce objects, environments and experiences.
Perception: (from the Latin
perceptio, meaning gathering or receiving) is the organization,
identification, and interpretation of sensory information in order
to represent and understand the presented information or
environment.
Modern art: includes artistic
work produced during the period extending roughly from 1860 to
1970. The term is usually associated with art in which
the traditions of the past have been thrown aside in a spirit of
experimentation.
Aesthetics: is a branch of
philosophy that deals with the nature of beauty and taste, as well
as the philosophy of art. It examines aesthetic values often
expressed through judgments of taste.
( All works with title bar by ©noud van dun)
U.F.O. (2016)
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Painting is an investigation of being.
Squeak Carnwath
Squeak Carnwath
D.I.S.C.O (2015)
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Banksy
Love is in the Bin 2018
Love is in the Bin is a 2018 art intervention by Banksy at Sotheby's London. According to Sotheby's, it is "the first artwork in history to have been created live during an auction." His 2006 painting of Girl with Balloon unexpectedly self-destructed immediately after it was sold at auction. The damaged painting was later renamed Love is in the Bin. It has been on permanent loan to the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart since March 2019. In October 2021, it sold at auction for £18,582,000 (then equivalent to US$25,327,452 or €21,896,100), a record for the artist.
Original work
The painting is an adaptation of Banksy's 2002 mural Girl with Balloon, rare as a unique work rather than a
print. It
was given by Banksy to a friend shortly after the "Barely Legal" exhibition in 2006. Banksy has said he
prepared the
self-destruct mechanism at this time in case the work was ever put up for auction.
If at first, an idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it !
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
Taxonomy/Entropy (2017)
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Allegory of the Five Obstinate Monsters
(Etching made in The Netherlands (1575-1618))
1.Opinio:
"a belief, judgment, or way of thinking about something"
2.Aeoths:
"godlessness or atheïsm"
3.Seditio:
"a conduct or speech inciting people to rebel"
4.Avaritia:
"greed"
5.Invidia:
"a sense of envy or jalousy"
6.Bellum:
"a state of armed conflict, aka war"
E.N.I.G.M.A (2016)
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Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
H.O.T.E.L (2018)
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Johannes Vermeer
( The Allegory of Painting 1667 )
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It's not your paintings I like, it is your painting.
Albert Camus
Albert Camus
A brief introduction to Albert Camus and the problem of absurdity:
Mind the Gap (2010)
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About "Mind the Gap"
Mind the Gap (2010)
Mind the Gap is a composite image. A composite landscape made up of landscape elements that are isolated from their original context and reassembled as a painted 'cut and paste work' to form a new landscape. The individual parts are no longer experienced as a homogeneous part of the overall picture. The landscape has little in common with the representation of a landscape from the real world. It doesn't make sense. Too many missing parts, parts that don't belong.
The underlying idea or motivation that led to this image mainly concerns the concept of reconstruction. Reconstruction is a control mechanism that we (consciously / unconsciously) are constantly working on in keeping the world around us understandable. To be able to interpret things, to solve problems or to understand yourself or someone else.
However, a reconstruction always takes place afterwards. Depends on the available information from the past and the reliability of the source, not least how we subsequently process that information.
The information is often brief or too fragmented to form a conclusive picture. The gaps in the provision of information (Mind the Gap) are filled in on the basis of assumptions, what is perceived as logical, the prejudice or the lie. This leads to a distorted image of reality.
Noud van Dun
Mind the Gap is een samengesteld beeld. Een composiet landschap opgebouwd uit landschapselementen die zijn geïsoleerd uit hun oorspronkelijke context en als een geschilderd ‘knip en plak werk’ weer zijn samengevoegd tot een nieuw landschap. De afzonderlijke delen worden niet meer als homogeen deel van het totale beeld ervaren. Het landschap kent nog maar weinig raakvlakken met de voorstelling van een landschap uit de reële wereld. Het klopt niet. Te veel ontbrekende delen.
Het achterliggende idee of motivatie wat heeft geleid tot dit beeld gaat voornamelijk om het begrip reconstructie en het reconstrueren. Het reconstrueren is een controlemechanisme waar wij (bewust/onbewust) voortdurend mee bezig zijn in het begrijpelijk houden van de wereld om ons heen. Om zaken te kunnen duiden, problemen op te lossen of om jezelf of iemand anders te begrijpen.
Een reconstructie vindt echter altijd achteraf plaats. Is afhankelijk van de beschikbare informatie uit het verleden de betrouwbaarheid van de bron en niet in de laatste plaats hoe wij vervolgens die informatie verwerken, en met welke intenties.
Vaak is de informatie summier of te gefragmenteerd om een sluitend beeld te vormen. De hiaten of de leegtes in de informatievoorziening (Mind the Gap) worden ingevuld op basis van veronderstelling, wat men als logisch ervaart , het vooroordeel of de leugen.
Noud van Dun
Observations not only disturb what is to be measured, they produce it !
Pascual Jordan
Pascual Jordan
Patchwork (2012)
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Marcel Duchamp
'Fountain' 1917
In 2004 'Fountain' was declared the most influential artwork of the 20th century.
Sixteen replicas were commissioned from Duchamp in the 1950s and 1960s and made to his approval.
There are rumours that the urinal was in fact not created by Marcel Duchamp?
Read this: the iconic fountain 1917 is not created by marcel duchamp
Art is anything you can get away with
Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
P.A.N.O.R.a.M.A (2014)
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René Magritte
'La Trahison des images' 1929
(aka 'Ceci n'est pas une pipe.')
Mind the Gap (2009)
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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience,
and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern
Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
The Present (2016)
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Art is not what you see but what you make others see
Edgar Degas
Edgar Degas
Art cannot be modern.
Art is primordially eternal.
Egon Schiele
Cattelan's banana sold at Art Basel for:
$120.000,-
(and subsequently eaten by another artist)
Maurizio Cattelan
'Comedian' 2019
So, what happened?
Cattelan has turned the act, the truly absurd event, of rich people buying bananas and the ensuing media spectacle into a kind of performance art.
‘Comedian,’ with its simple composition, offered a complex reflection of ourselves on how we assign worth and what kind of objects we value. It’s the grotesqueness of the sale and ensuing spectacle, and more specifically, it’s the idea that the system is absurd.
So don’t ask if the duct-taped banana is art. Ask if it’s any good. It’s not the banana that constitutes the art.
One could say it is like the emperor's new clothes. Some 114 years ago Marcel Duchamp already submitted his, now world famous 'Fountain', for an exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists. Fountain was not rejected but the work was never placed in the show area.
Just like duchamp's urinal Cattelan's banana was eventually removed from gallery Perrotin's booth at the art fair, although for a completely different reason. The work of art had caused ‘several uncontrollable crowd movements'.
Cattelan has turned the act, the truly absurd event, of rich people buying bananas and the ensuing media spectacle into a kind of performance art.
‘Comedian,’ with its simple composition, offered a complex reflection of ourselves on how we assign worth and what kind of objects we value. It’s the grotesqueness of the sale and ensuing spectacle, and more specifically, it’s the idea that the system is absurd.
So don’t ask if the duct-taped banana is art. Ask if it’s any good. It’s not the banana that constitutes the art.
One could say it is like the emperor's new clothes. Some 114 years ago Marcel Duchamp already submitted his, now world famous 'Fountain', for an exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists. Fountain was not rejected but the work was never placed in the show area.
Just like duchamp's urinal Cattelan's banana was eventually removed from gallery Perrotin's booth at the art fair, although for a completely different reason. The work of art had caused ‘several uncontrollable crowd movements'.
Mind the Gap (2008)
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Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many
to say so little.
Banksy
Banksy
The Expansion of the Universe (2014)
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Far from ready yet, there is a lot more coming!
