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found craft
There’s nothing that gets up the common man’s nose more than the “found object”. Stick a random stash of household items together, call it “Untitled 17″ and you can almost feel the money flow out of the public art fund. Since Duchamp first did it, the found object has symbolised the complete inability for artists… (read more)
new contemporaries
“Artists be crazy” I read on someone’s blog, or twitter – can’t remember where exactly. Somebody has to crown themselves the maddest of hatters, and I guess it might as well be artists. They seem to have a built-in, SatNav system to insanity-town. The trick for the contemporary artist, however, is sharing the experience (read:… (read more)
beginning, meet end
Pubs are probably a fertile incubation space for art. All sorts of unhinged, but nonetheless possibly valid ideas begin life in a pub amongst friends, usually after at least four quick pints. Laced with alcohol, people say the most outrageous things which nearly always require proof of concept outside the fantasy world of your local… (read more)
giving colour a chance
In 1951, the American artist Ellsworth Kelly purchased a pre-packaged set of coloured paper squares from a Paris shop (he already had Duchamp’s idea of ready-made art in mind). Then he drew a grid of squares, numbering in the hundreds, on paper. In each of these squares, he randomly assigned numbers between 1 and 18. … (read more)
we are an unnatural animal
Are the colours of modern society, un-natural? The argument made thoughout a recent exhibition at Tate Liverpool is that off-the-shelf colour (their term: ready-made colour) can’t be found in nature. Surely man invented the hyper-active, vibrant colours of such stuff as cars, signs and iPods. Wouldn’t their alien surface properties have to be natural because,… (read more)