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Giacometti is really sick, I love his sculptures but I think his most interesting work are his portraits. If you see one of his paintings, look at it from the side. Theyāre so caked in paint, theyāre basically sculptures themselves. He also has such a loose way of drawing, theyāre quite abstracted yet have an incredible likeness of the person. Not really sure what happens with the heads, they look like they got shrunk in the wash.
Feb 13, 2024
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Iāve just discovered this artist from Sicily, at an Art Brut exhibition in Milan. Pure outsider. A difficult and unlucky life, died too soon in the moment people started to recognize his art. He used to paint on everything he could find, his hometown Castellammare del Golfo is filled with murales. These are painted on pizza boxes.
Feb 16, 2025
i love paintings with monsters. I especially love walking around a museum and suddenly my sight is blessed by a gorgeous gorgon. An artist makes a lot of choices when depicting a monster. I find it interesting to gaze and ponder upon them.
This post is dedicated to Cetus in "Perseus frees Andromeda" by Piero di Cosimo.
Jun 21, 2024
my dad had a postcard when i was younger that I used to look at of a Leon golub paintingā not this one, just a contorted faceā but his paintings are a different type of representation or documentary approach of American life, maybe about the absent images that structure it.
do you remember last year or whenever when people thought that Philip guston paintings were going to Get their institutes canceled and almost censored that exhibition? It did end up showing at the national gallery, and my dad went to see it (he doesnāt really engage with art anymore but guston is his favorite painter) and talking about it he said something like āAmerica will really be ready to change when thereās a national retrospective of Leon golubs paintingsā
ao I think about that sometimes when I look at his paintings, which are in the end all about violence and rendered in these huge, textural scales
(This one is White Squad V)
Jan 7, 2024
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Dario Argento is an infinitely interesting Italian filmmaker. His films bring me a lot of comfort. He made a lot of whacked-out horror films in the late 70s onward. In terms of the acting in them, theyāre not exactly masterclasses but his use of prosthetics in his films are awesome. Heads exploding, almost neon red blood, witches, dolls, a cool monkey. If youāre into that kinda thingā¦ His use of music is great too. The Italian prog-rock band Goblin did the score to a few of his films. When they filmed Suspiria (1977), they actually played the score on speakers as they were filming to freak out the actors and drag them into his world. Whether you like it or not, itāll drag you in too
Feb 13, 2024
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My friend recently showed me this album by Blod Besvimelse called Geleit Ins Totenreich (Escort to the Realm of Death). Iāve never heard anything like it and I canāt stop listening to it. It sounds like something youād play at Dracula's funeral.
Feb 13, 2024
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I have this Casio synth, I got on Portobello Market a few years ago. I like to bring it around with me when Im travelling. It has a really shitty drum machine in it and a couple good sounds. Sometimes synths can have way too much going on. This thing is strictly no bullshit.
Feb 13, 2024