Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION The Anywhere Machine Art For Art's Sake Thread

Because in my capacity as LMB Deputy, I've decided that we've gotta' have one. Whether or not other administrations decide to continue my legacy of funding the visual arts is, of course, up to them.

We'll start with a little something for one of the LMB stalwarts. I'm sure you can guess which one. Here's the fabulous Paper Toy Penguin by the amazing Makiko Azakami .

I only own one of her books, but someday I'll own more.



Add your own at will.

Out Chorus (1979/80), an aquatint etching by Romare Bearden (1911-1988).

More info here .

[removed because the artist went all TERF-y, and what a huge letdown]

Above the Gravel Pit (1937), oil on canvas by Emily Carr (1871-1945).

More info here .

Love Emily Carr.

Makiko's 'turnips in the pot'(my title for them), look like Pokemon and the 'kimono mouse' looks like a sweet version on the ninja rat sensai(sp) in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Not meaning to bring the artist down into the manga media but . . .


I wanted to download the Japanese that went with the paper toys book, but I was too afraid to.
Someone at the old DC Comics site once mailed all of his buddies from that site an email address to click on.
Which I blithely did.
And my whole computer crashed from a virus that turned all of the programing to Chinese.


And I know an older gal (early 50s) who buzz cuts her hair quite often, but she never looks like a guy!
She's a Buddhist.


I love this thread and hope to contribute sometime.
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I'd never heard of Carr, The Group of Seven, or any of that stuff before moving to the West Coast, Arachne. Even though I started out with art school back East. I think her imagery just resonates better with people from this part of the world than it did with those wacky New Yorkers.

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I have this recurring dream where we commission her to make us flight rings and clubhouses out of paper. Oh, and Proteans, too. (Wouldn't paper Proty be awesome?) I'm thinking of asking permission to set up a tip jar in the Monitor thread for this purpose.

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I love this thread and hope to contribute sometime.
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Good. That's what it's here for.

actually, she is reasonably well known in the east, too. perhaps more so in recent years... but even in the 70s she had some quite successful shows in NYC.

but yes, her stuff is very Pacific NW, and magnificently so.

Well, you know NYC in the early Eighties, Kent. Navel-gazing was the big thing, along with Frankie Goes To Hollywood, and Marc Singer shooting guns at big incognito lizards on the television.

I got to see her work at the Canadian National Art Gallery. It really impressed me.

Interesting stuff Cleome. I've never really been moved by art but I have to say that one painting my wife and I found in Georgetown, SC really worked for me. It was kinda like Ms. O'keefe's work, but not...if that makes sense. It was a blood red flower, like a calla lilly. It was passionate and lush and a little obscene almost, and completely and totally beautiful.

But I am enjoying the complete randomness and eclectic taste you are showing.

No such luck for me, yet. But I am going to PAM tomorrow for their Free Day. They're unveiling a new acquisition: a statue of the Indian god Ganesh. I can't wait!

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Well, if you're in the plant business, that would kinda' make sense.

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But I am enjoying the complete randomness and eclectic taste you are showing.

These are all folks that I've been crazy about for years. It only feels random to those who don't live inside my head.

When did they start charging admission? I'm shocked, I used to go a few times a year when I lived up there. The permanent collection was free. And that was when the country was bankrupt. Damn the art-hating Harper Tories.

I need to go to the Art Gallery of Ontario this summer. I haven't seen the place since they renovated and transferred Ken Thomson's donated collection. Just thinking of how much he paid for Reuben's Massacre of the Innocents blows my mind. I want to see all the Group of Seven stuff but being fan of Naval History, I really I want to see his collection of model ships.

Ah The Group of Seven. Something else else about the bleakness, drearyness and emptiness of their landscapes just says Canada.

I didn't say I paid anything, but I probably did. It wasn't the permanent collection, it was a special retrospective on her life.

I wish I could enlarge the image so I could study the small parts a little better, but the landscape looks a lot like a number of US states that I've seen.
Admittedly, they usually border Canada, as well.
Michigan, where I was born and raised, for one, looks similar in some parts.
Oregon and Washington look like that on the coast, too.
As do a few others.


I love her sky treatment.
I have a fascination with skies as/and backgrounds.
Hers looks a little like the inside of a paint can.
I tried for a sort of comparable effect in one of my silkscreens, once, with debateable success.

I hadn't heard of Emily before.

Bruno Coté , not Group of Seven but you can see their influence. Some of his colours get very bright , which I like.

Who would be the quintessential American landscape artists? First one I think of is Ansel Adams.

I love the National Gallery in Ottawa! a lot of great works. I think Daphne Odjig, a great Native artist, has a retrospective coming up there, too (and one in New Mexico soon, too).

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Who would be the quintessential American landscape artists? First one I think of is Ansel Adams.

I'd have to give it to George Inness .

[sulks] I can't paint my way out of a paper bag.

That Bruno Cote' is great stuff, FC. (Canadian Fauvism? Who knew? )

Who is in the 'Group of Seven'?

I've studied art all of my life, but there is so much I don't know or remember.
sigh

On the bright side, I looked up 'fauvism' and got an incredible site at www.artyfactory.com

The Inness site was wonderful, too.
I could see in his work 'Niagra', areas that might have influenced Cote's landscape.
Of course, similarities might just arise from topography.

Also ~ fauvism on the yahoo toolbar, click images and go from there.

The Group of Seven at the McMichael Museum. Essentially a bunch of guys back in the 20s who decided to paint Canadian scenes, heavy emphasis on wild (as opposed to urban) landscapes. Seven of them got together for a group exhibit, hence the name.

I didn't know this until I looked it up, but Tom Thomson, one of the Group, was dead by the time the group formed, yet he's always associated with it.

If you're ever in Toronto, the McMichael Museum is definitely worth a visit. The building itself is beautiful.

That artyfactory site is very interesting - they even have lessons!

The McMichael Gallery is nice. A bit hard to get to without a rental car if fly into the city though. Probably an an hour's drive from downtown.

Many of the Group of Seven are actually buried on the grounds of the Museum.

I enjoyed Harris' 'Pit Island'!
My eyes like simple, bold lines and colors now.
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I read all of the short biographies and I'll try to find more of their work.
I liked the 2 portraits, too, the 'Girl in Red' and the one of the celloist.

Thanks FC.