Sep 19, 2013 | apropos//ts, art about, news, painting
My eternal love for Breaking Bad has seeped into every part of my life. This is the final stage – blogging about Breaking Bad art.
I spend enough time on Reddit to know that there are some incredibly talented fans of the show. Each character depicted has so much emotion seeping out of them as we remember every tragic/insane event along the Walter White timeline to Heisenberg. And then whatever that guy from New Hampshire’s name is. Every work drawing from the power of the most intense show that’s ever existed, so that bright colors and sharp edges can get in your face, ASAC Schrader-style.
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2. Brian DeYoung‘s “The Heisenbergs,” 2012
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5. Joshua Ariza’s “Mike“
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12. Season 4, Episode 6: “Cornered,” by Redditor jlo2006
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21. “Tio Salamanca” by Tom Whalen
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23. “Jesse Pinkman” by Rhys Cooper
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Many of these works come from LA-based Gallery 1988’s August 2012 show, “The Breaking Bad Art Project.”
For more Breaking Bad, these GIFs should trip you out a little and there’s some incredible BB-inspired street art out there.
If you know any of the “unknowns” above, or if you know someone who’s made AMAZING Breaking Bad art, email me and I’ll add ’em to this post. 🙂
Jul 30, 2013 | apropos//ts, art history, art where
In Greek and Roman mythology, Daphne was a nymph whose beauty attracted the attention of the god of music, poetry and a bunch of other things: Apollo. In Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Apollo falls in love with her because the god of love, Eros, wants to get back at him for making fun of his archery skills (a little much right?). He shoots Apollo in the heart with an arrow made of gold to make him fall in love, and he shoots Daphne with a lead arrow to incite hate, pitting the two against each other and driving Apollo crazy. Eventually Apollo is chasing Daphne so she calls out to her mother Gai who rescues her by transforming her into a laurel tree.
But that’s not the only ancient tale about people turning into trees. Ovid tells another story in Metamorphoses VIII about an old couple, Baucis and Philemon, who were the only ones in the town to invite the disguised gods, Zeus (Greek)/Jupiter (Roman) and Hermes/Mercury, into their home even though they were much poorer than their neighbors. They were taken up to a mountain by the gods, who flooded the town once they were safe, and their house was transformed into a temple. They were made the guardians of the temple, and were also granted their request to die at the same time as the other. When they did die, they was transformed into a pair of intertwining trees, one oak and one linden.
But from the looks of it, there are probably a lot more reasons why people turn into trees. Maybe trees can even turn into people, Pocahontas-style.
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5. “Apollo Pursuing Daphne” by Birney Quick (1912-1981)
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7. “Philemon and Baucis” by Matheus Jean, 1619
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10. Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s “Apollo and Daphne,” 1622-1625
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12. “Baucis and Philemon,” artist unknown
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Know any of the artists featured above? Is your work up there? Email me and let me know!
And if you have your own transforming tree art to add, please comment!
Jul 23, 2013 | apropos//ts, art about
Duality is defined as “the condition of consisting of two parts, elements or aspects.” We’ve all felt the pressure of two sides at war within us, even if it’s something as small as our lazy side overpowering our desire to go out. Everyone has a masculine aspect that works against our feminine side, and a peaceful part that contrasts the out-of-control Hulks within us.
The best thing about duality is its simplicity – it’s always one side against another and all the messy, complicated other versions of ourselves sort of fall by the wayside as the two true nemeses duke it out.
5. ‘Split the Difference’ by Bryn De Kocks
6. ‘Two bodies (Fall FW11 skin on skin)’ by Neil Barrett, 2011
7. artist unknown, illustration found here
May 9, 2013 | apropos//ts, art about
Almost everything we do is done with our hands. We type, eat, lift and hold with a palm surrounded by four dextrous fingers and a very useful thumb. Hands mean action – when they’re at work, so are we. Here, artists show us hands detached from the bodies they belong to so that we see them as our hands, our mother’s and our brother’s hands. Things as basic as body parts bring us together, show us what we have in common. These artworks give our hands imagined abilities we’d never have considered, letting us for a moment feel attentive, skilled, connected, trapped and powerful all at once.
The 16th century German philosopher Immanuel Kant said, “The hand is the visible part of the brain.” These paintings and drawings and photographs let us see the outcome of what’s within.
1. Katarzyna
Wolodkiewicz, Caress (2011)
[zl_mate_code name=”Orange Dynamic” label=”3″ count=”1″ who=”div” text=”In a world of swirling brushstrokes, a single hand reaches down with fingers curled.
The hand carefully scratches a blue line against the orange, spreading its soft color deeper into a fire of orange and red.”]
[/zl_mate_code] Source: mydarkenedeyes.tumblr.com
2. Mary E. Bresciani, Radioactive
(2013)
[zl_mate_code name=”Green Dynamic” label=”4″ count=”1″ who=”div” text=”Five fingers are laid out matter-of-factly before us in black and white.
We can see bones glowing underneath the skin because here we have x-Ray vision. “]
[/zl_mate_code] Source: unplu66ed.tumblr.com
3. Hong Sungchul, String
Mirror (2009)
[zl_mate_code name=”Pink Dynamic” label=”1″ count=”1″ who=”div” text=”In a photograph printed on elastic strings, two pairs of hands reach a cross the distance, grabbing wrists and doubling the bond by pulling gently, elegantly forward with the other hand. “]
[/zl_mate_code] Source: insolacion.tumblr.com
4. Shohei Otomo
[zl_mate_code name=”Blue Dynamic” label=”2″ count=”1″ who=”div” text=”A hand that’s drawn in black and white makes the red elastic glow.
The rubber band is stretched around the thumb from pinky to index finger, locked and loaded with the potential energy to snap.”]
[/zl_mate_code] Source: insolacion.tumblr.com
5. Truls Espedal, The
Return (2010)
[zl_mate_code name=”Orange Dynamic” label=”3″ count=”1″ who=”div” text=”A tiny bird is coming in for a landing on an outstretched finger.
The hand emerges from the center of the canvas’ dark bottom, its palm in the exact middle of a green-brown background.”]
[/zl_mate_code] Source: fer1972.tumblr.com
6. Corinne Reid
[zl_mate_code name=”Blue Dynamic” label=”2″ count=”1″ who=”div” text=”This hand extends from the bottom in the same way, but it’s joined by a scratchy vine of black and grey that surrounds it and the pencil it holds.
Does the creepy vine carry the words for the pencil to write or prohibit them?”]
[/zl_mate_code] Source: insolacion.tumblr.com
7. Daniel Grzeszkiewicz,
I’m Back
[zl_mate_code name=”Green Dynamic” label=”4″ count=”1″ who=”div” text=”A hand breaks through a wall, dramatically pulling itself through the hole it made.
The wall drips black and the hand is hunched forward like it’s on the prowl for more wall to break.”]
[/zl_mate_code] Source: perpetu8.tumblr.com
8. artist unknown
[zl_mate_code name=”Pink Dynamic” label=”1″ count=”1″ who=”div” text=”Two pink hands melt in a sea of turquoise.
One is just fingers but the other is cut off at the wrist, stretching up to avoid the fate of becoming liquified pink.”]
[/zl_mate_code] Source: cmd-zeta.tumblr.com
9. Bethany LeAnne, Creating
Disasters
[zl_mate_code name=”Orange Dynamic” label=”3″ count=”1″ who=”div” text=”Two hands cup a lightening bolt that springs from a tiny glowing cloud.
There’s real power here, or at least a deep desire for it – a need to feel able to do more.”]
[/zl_mate_code] Source: unplu66ed.tumblr.com
10. Oriol Angrill Jordà, Hand by
Hands (2007)
[zl_mate_code name=”Blue Dynamic” label=”2″ count=”1″ who=”div” text=”A hand has hands for fingers.
Five different hands move and stretch from the same palm, like we’re looking into multiple dimensions of expression.”]
[/zl_mate_code] Source: insolacion.tumblr.com
May 2, 2013 | apropos//ts, art about
The other night I started perusing new apps on my iPhone, and then I looked up and an hour had gone by. I don’t know how technology does it, but it’s so useful and sleek I can’t help myself. “Yes I would like organize my passwords!” “Live tv on my phone all the time? Have to have it.”
Technology is really spoiling us, and we tricked ourselves into thinking we deserve it because somewhere out there someone’s father invented it for us. Which is why it’s such a paradox that nostalgia is so in now – we probably couldn’t survive one hour without our little tethers to the universe in our smart phones, but somehow we pine for the 90s and love tv shows like Mad Men and movies like Django.
I think it’s because we’re worried about preserving the time before technology for those who won’t remember it. I’m 21 and I barely remember it, so my kids probably won’t even know what it’s like to have a car that won’t talk or maybe drive itself even. Do you think we’ll still teach our kids to drive, and will they teach theirs? Probably not, and that blows my mind.
Below you’ll find six artworks that visualize this bond that’s forming between people and our technology. They warn of dependency, surrounding us with screens and transforming us into them in amazing ways.
1. Ernst Caramelle, Video
Landscapes (1974)
[zl_mate_code name=”Orange Dynamic” label=”3″ count=”1″ who=”div” text=”Even in 1974, television was inside our heads and here a man sits with his head behind one, his face shining through the screen.”]
[/zl_mate_code] Source: polychronidis.tumblr.com
2. Kelley McMorris, Deeper
Understanding
[zl_mate_code name=”Pink Dynamic” label=”1″ count=”1″ who=”div” text=”A white ghost hand emerges from each screen, enveloping the girl whose fingers interlace with the hand in her laptop.”]
[/zl_mate_code] Source: noimnotluckyimblessedyes.tumblr.com
See more from this artist on her website.
3. David Schermann, Computer
Head
[zl_mate_code name=”Blue Dynamic” label=”2″ count=”1″ who=”div” text=”In a warm outdoor scene a man looks up toward the light, with an old computer monitor instead of a head.”]
[/zl_mate_code] Source: Deviant Art
4. Jacques-Armand Cardon,
Untitled
[zl_mate_code name=”Orange Dynamic” label=”3″ count=”1″ who=”div” text=”The sphere-headed man can’t follow suit as he stands before a square hole in the wall.”]
[/zl_mate_code] Source: workman.tumblr.com
5. Brian DeYoung, Insomnia
[zl_mate_code name=”Pink Dynamic” label=”1″ count=”1″ who=”div” text=”A woman with a plug on the back of her head sits crisscross on her bed, but the outlet on her pillow isn’t three-pronged.”]
[/zl_mate_code] Source: anytimealways.tumblr.com
6. artist unknown
[zl_mate_code name=”Green Dynamic” label=”4″ count=”1″ who=”div” text=”Two giant fingers violently push a monitor through an empty-eyed open head and the mouth is vomiting brains.”]
[/zl_mate_code] Source: bjorklund1.tumblr.com
If you know who created #5 & #6, please email me! Googling descriptions got me nowhere…
Apr 30, 2013 | apropos//ts, art with
Are faces our identities? Are they what make us different, set us apart? If there are seven billion people alive right now, are there any with identical faces? Or do we embody the people who came before us, wearing the face of a great-grandmother or uncle instead of a new one we think is our very own? These artworks take away the faces, showing people but hiding what makes them identifiable. It makes each figure more universal but also leaves you with an eerie feeling, like they have something to hide for a reason.
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1. Bernhard Handick, Fine
Feathers Make Fine
Birds (2012)
[zl_mate_code name=”Green Dynamic” label=”4″ count=”1″ who=”div” text=”Just a black shirt against white, there’s a neck and a hint of chin but his skin blends into the background and his face evaporates in an instant.
All that’s left is the long trunk of a man who’s quickly fading.”]
[/zl_mate_code] Source: razorshapes.tumblr.com
2. Thomas Devaux, Les Visages
et La Main
[zl_mate_code name=”Pink Dynamic” label=”1″ count=”1″ who=”div” text=”They looks like sisters, but the one turned away holds her hand to the other’s breast unapologetically. Their faces can be seen, but they’re smudged and the eyes are empty. The woman being touched leans her head back at an angle that’s only slightly crooked, and it’s creepy and mysterious, like she’s somehow disturbed.”]
[/zl_mate_code] Source: anitaleocadia.tumblr.com
3. Clare Elsaesser, So
Much (2013)
[zl_mate_code name=”Orange Dynamic” label=”3″ count=”1″ who=”div” text=”This girl’s nose peeks through so she has a face, but most of the rest of it is masked by flowers.
She stands against a pale blue background with her arms folded and doesn’t seem to notice the clusters of pink petals smothering her figure.”]
[/zl_mate_code] Source: this isn’t happiness
4. Delaney Allen, Hidden
Self (2012)
[zl_mate_code name=”Green Dynamic” label=”4″ count=”1″ who=”div” text=”A man standing in the sand faces us head on. We can see everything from his stylish leather shoes to his checkered button-down with the sleeves casually rolled up.
His face is the only part we can’t see – sand streaks across the frame and his head is lost in a cloud of white.”]
[/zl_mate_code] Source: likeafieldmouse.com
5. Faceless from The Nightmare
Factory
[zl_mate_code name=”Blue Dynamic” label=”2″ count=”1″ who=”div” text=”An archaic looking image in black and white, a man turns his face toward the light and it looks like someone took an eraser to the whole thing.
His face is washed out by the light completely, becoming nothing but empty space.”]
[/zl_mate_code] Source: thelinktoheaven.tumblr.com
6. Photography from Kyle
Thompson
[zl_mate_code name=”Pink Dynamic” label=”1″ count=”1″ who=”div” text=”In this conceptual photograph his face is covered by a long white sheet that spirals out towards the frame, lifting his body as the rest of him hangs straight down.”]
[/zl_mate_code] Source: beautiful decay
