bewildered making-present

Every `possible' possibility offers itself, and this means that the impossible ones do so too

inneroptics:

Jan Versnel

194 ♥ / 13 February, 2013

cavetocanvas:

Tom Wesselmann, Still Life #20, 1962

199 ♥ / 13 February, 2013

cavetocanvas:

Tom Wesselmann, Still Life #12, 1962
From the Smithsonian American Art Museum:

In Still Life #12, Wesselmann attached commercial images of frosty beverages and freshly cooked food to a painted facsimile of a red-checked tablecloth. A window in the background turns out to be a photograph of an orchard, with two cutout areas colored to resemble photographs of a lemon and an apple. For these painted elements, the artist heated up the already intense colors of advertisements to create what he called an “aggressive” picture. Two bottles of Coca Cola, painted on stamped metal, push outward from the surface, complicating our sense of what is real and what is invented. Wesselmann’s luscious images of food and drink point to another kind of desire. The apple and the breast-shaped lemon perch on the threshold of the Garden of Eden, while, below, a glistening, trussed ham and two strategically placed cans of “Bustelo” coffee stand in for one of the Great American Nudes that made Wesselmann the bad boy of American art. Wesselmann enjoyed the publicity that the pop artist label brought him, but he insisted that his collages expressed something more important than consumer culture. Still Life #12 recasts old traditions of the nude, the still life, and landscape painting in the hip language of modern American life.

153 ♥ / 13 February, 2013

showslow:

Pyramid Of Animals (1993) by Katarzyna Kozyra

1099 ♥ / 13 February, 2013

rob-art:

山田正亮

30 ♥ / 13 February, 2013

Jiro Takamatsu (1936-1998)

theeyestheysee:

Perspective Box (1967)

Perspective Bench (1967)

Perspective Marathon (1967)

Distorted Pillar (1969)

Wave (1968)

Space on a Plane (1979)

Composition n°151 (1966)

Subscribers (1980)

152 ♥ / 13 February, 2013

theeverydayartist:

Helen Frankenthaler, ”Nature Abhors a Vacuum,” 1973.

24 ♥ / 13 February, 2013

wasbella102:

Cary Henrie: Solitary Tree

74 ♥ / 13 February, 2013

life:

On this day in LIFE magazine — February 11, 1966: The War Goes On

806 ♥ / 13 February, 2013

26 ♥ / 13 February, 2013

weandthecolor:

Falsum - Photography
Photography of a series called ‘Falsum’ by Munich, Germany-based photographer Jürgen Heckel.
More photographs by Jürgen Heckel on WE AND THE COLORWATC//Facebook//Twitter//Google+//Pinterest

80 ♥ / 13 February, 2013

graphicporn:

Matt Calderwood, Untitled 2011

1053 ♥ / 13 February, 2013

rob-art:

山崎博

7 ♥ / 13 February, 2013

cavetocanvas:

Josef Albers, Homage to the Square: Affectionate, 1954

126 ♥ / 13 February, 2013

systematisms:

.KARL MARTENS.

81 ♥ / 11 February, 2013

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