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Post by JustJohn or JJ on Feb 15, 2015 6:09:48 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Feb 15, 2015 8:31:41 GMT -7
Incredibly good arist and cartoonist. Nearly Magical realistic or surrealist. His style reminds me a little bit of the Belgian artist, René Magritte!
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Post by Jaga on Feb 15, 2015 8:33:35 GMT -7
Very interesting combination of pictures/sad caricatures. Thanks for posting. It is hard to describe it all, but it depicts many different situations in life, sad, repeating....
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Post by kaima on Feb 15, 2015 8:51:30 GMT -7
They are very well done, but they so strongly remind me of the best of American editorial cartooning; the difference is in the coloring and shading. I am p against a timeline right now so will have to search out examples of what I mean later, but Bill Mauldin is the only (and the most famous) cartoonist I can think of. Unfortunately a Google of his images reveals only his great WW II works, and little of his decades of syndicated editorial cartoons after that. There were two other cartoonist/commentators that I cannot identify in this moment, but they also produced works comparable to this art work, where a 'simple' drawiing carries great implications. Mauldin was iconic enough to reach beyond the grave and influence Wiki Leak commentary decades later: from the original in WW II, showing the attachment of a cavalry officer to his trusty steed, a Jeep:
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Post by Jaga on Feb 15, 2015 23:48:02 GMT -7
war is always an awful thing. It made people to do strange things and I am sometimes "dense" with jokes....
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Post by kaima on Feb 16, 2015 0:53:54 GMT -7
war is always an awful thing. It made people to do strange things and I am sometimes "dense" with jokes.... Jaga, It turns out I waas in a hurry and chose two editorial cartoons that are great in their own narrow neighborhood, but are not so easily seen as directly comparable to the artwork that was presented. But then among the artwork, none of those presented appear to be related to another. Each stands as a statement of its own. So it was with Mauldin, who won his fame as a soldier cartoonist in WW II telling the story of the American foot soldier. He went on to work as an editorial cartoonist for decades after, often skewing politicians and situations that needed commentary. Here is one example that I believe he produced upon the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. Nope, had that wrong. He drew this after the assassination of John Kennedy in 1963. As you can see, cartoons, like Kucynski's art (colored cartoons), are not always meant to carry humor. At times these share powerful statements. Here is the genuine Lincoln Memorial from a similar perspective/ PS. The original cartoon I posted was by Mauldin and did stir up controversy at the time it was published. As warfare was modernizing and horse cavalry mechanized, the emotional attachment did not die immediately. Here Mauldin drew the equivalent of a cavalry officer having to shoot his injured horse/ The second cartoon I never saw before I searched out the first for this posting, but it shows the power of the first one, the influence the first cartoon carried even after 70+ years. I believe it depicts Assange shooting the lies and broken war effort of the Iraqi War. I also believe the artist made a bad call in giving Assange that smart-aleck grin. That detracts from the power and casts doubts upon the motivations - were the revelations due to a need to expose lies of war, or because Assange was a smart ass?
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Post by pieter on Feb 16, 2015 3:54:51 GMT -7
war is always an awful thing. It made people to do strange things and I am sometimes "dense" with jokes.... Yes, war is always an awful thing. I just have to look at my grandparents and parents generation. They were affected by the Second World War. They are different than the post-war generation.
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Post by karl on Feb 16, 2015 7:48:03 GMT -7
I am sorry, but my self do not see what others see with the art of Mr. Pawel Kucynski. What I see is the manafestations through art of depression/fear and reaching out for help.
The man clearly displays signs of mental health issues.
Karl
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Post by pieter on Feb 16, 2015 10:10:13 GMT -7
Karl, Fine art, comedy, cartoons, culture often ballances on the thin line between the real world and psychiatric hallucinatory visions of artists and their surroundings. Art BrutThe term outsider art was coined by art critic Roger Cardinal in 1972 as an English synonym for art brut (French: [aʁ bʁyt], " raw art" or " rough art"), a label created by French artist Jean Dubuffet to describe art created outside the boundaries of official culture; Dubuffet focused particularly on art by those on the outside of the established art scene, such as psychiatric hospital patients and children. The interest in " outsider" practices among twentieth-century artists and critics can be seen as part of a larger emphasis on the rejection of established values within the modernist art milieu. The early part of the 20th century gave rise to Cubism and the Dada, Constructivist and Futurist movements in art, all of which involved a dramatic movement away from cultural forms of the past. Dadaist Marcel Duchamp, for example, abandoned " painterly" technique to allow chance operations a role in determining the form of his works, or simply to re-contextualize existing " readymade" objects as art. Mid-century artists, including Pablo Picasso, looked outside the traditions of high culture for inspiration, drawing from the artifacts of " primitive" societies, the unschooled artwork of children, and vulgar advertising graphics. Dubuffet's championing of the art brut – of the insane and others at the margins of society – is yet another example of avant-garde art challenging established cultural values. Pawel Kuczynski's work may have an unpleasent or mental instabile nightmare like affect on you. But that is art too. Art has always confronted people. Think about the works of Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450 – 9 August 1516), George Grosz (July 26, 1893 – July 6, 1959), Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix (2 December 1891 – 25 July 1969), John Heartfield (19 June 1891 – 26 April 1968), Bruno Schulz (July 12, 1892 – November 19, 1942), Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (Februari 24, 1885 - September 18, 1939), Tadeusz Kantor (April 6, 1915 – December 8, 1990) and the German cartoonist Otto Nückel (September 6, 1888 – November 12, 1955), the American cartoonist Robert Dennis Crumb (born August 30, 1943) and the Dutch outsider artist Willem van Genk (1927 – 2005). Tube station - Willem van GenkWillem van Genk, Metrostation Opéra, 1964. Collection Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (Museum of Modern Art).A lot of cartoons and art is in the twilight zone of a dream world, nightmares, hallucinations (caused by drugs or mental instability) and the reality of our world. That reality is sometimes depressive and full of fear in the sense of the reality of vicious crimes comited by psychopathic criminals in our society, the wars and civil wars, and the corruption, secret societies, scandals and nepotism in our political, financial and economical world. Cheers, Pieter P.S.- Karl, I don't want to criticize you but want to voice my opinion as a journalist and former artist, who knows a lot of artists (drawers, painters, cartoonists) with some sort of mental illness, because a lot of them are sensitive and vulnerable human beings, who go very far in reaching a mental and physical state to create their art. I have known and know artists who have manic depression, who are clinical depressive, have a bi-polar disorder, have a schyzophrenic illnesses, have borderline, are psychotic, autisitic (PPD-NOS or Asperger) or have anxiety disorders and genetic addictions like suicidal tendensies, alcoholism or drugs abuse. Thank god I am clean, but sometimes believe that I must have some autistic elements in me. Like being extremely focussed on one subject and being focussed to long on that subject. And being somber for a long time (it feels and looks like depression), getting a lot of Incentives from other peoples presence. Hearing more things than others. Like being alone and having some quiet surroundings, few sounds and being bussy with things for a very long time (Forum addiction, reading very long, seeing several movies after eachother and etc, etc.) Rapid eye movement, being very restless (hyper active), or exhausted. And working very long sometimes. (Can't stop sometimes. Some sort of workaholism, getting into details and being a perfectionist). I am fascinated by Outsider Art. In contrast with being alone I also like the company of people after clear arrangments. So planned meetings or dates.
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Post by pieter on Feb 16, 2015 10:27:58 GMT -7
This Dutch artist clearly displayed signs of mental health issues, but he was a great outsider artist in his manic drawings and paintings. Willem van GenkWillem van Genk (Born April 2, 1927 in Voorburg; died May 12, 2005 in The Hague) was a Dutch painter and graphic artist, celebrated as one of the leading masters of Outsider Art. Throughout his life he suffered from severe mental distress, experiencing symptoms related to autism and schizophrenia. On account of his passion for trains, buses, and train stations, he called himself the " King of Stations". Van Genk’s panoramic cityscapes and fragmented collages express his feelings about modern authority, feelings which were shaped by an abusive father who, in addition to administering his own beatings, left him exposed to a traumatic experience at the hands of the Gestapo during the German occupation of the Netherlands in the Second World War. Van Genk’s art has been widely exhibited in Europe, where it is also in many museum collections, including those of the Stedelijk Museum, the Dr. Guislain Museum in Ghent, the Collection de l’Art Brut in Lausanne, the Lille Metropole Musee d’Art Modern, d’Art Contemporain et d’Art Brut (LaM), the Croatian Museum of Naïve Art in Zagreb,and the Museum of Everything in London. Raw Vision, the leading magazine covering Art Brut, ranks van Genk among the “ masters of outsider art.” At the beginning of 2005, which would later prove the year of the artist’s death, van Genk’s Keleti Station, now in the collection of the Museum of Everything in London, sold for a hundred thousand dollars at New York’s Outsider Art Fair, thus setting the record for most expensive work ever sold by a living outsider artist. On that occasion, Roberta Smith, the chief art critic of The New York Times, praised the piece “as the leading candidate for best in show.” At least one other critic has identified van Genk as the most important Dutch outsider artist. Van Genk’s first major American exhibition was scheduled for Autumn 2014 at the American Folk Art Museum in New York City. Willem van Genk: Mind Traffic, the first solo exhibition of the artist in the United States, was presented during the fall of 2014 at the American Folk Art Museum in New York City. It “ focuses on his creative process, his recurring themes, and the diverseness of his aesthetic,” providing, as curators Patrick Allegaert, Yoon Hee Lamot, and Dr. Valérie Rousseau noted, a chronological overview of his oeuvre and a comprehensive understanding of van Genk’s mindset. To complement the presentation of his major artworks, Mind Traffic “ includes a selection of documents and objects from van Genk’s living environment: an accumulation of favorite books from his library, handmade maps, personal notes, and his collection of raincoats.” In their published statement, the curators proposed an original perspective: “ The artworks can be seen as memory palaces,” as they “ depict intricately layered and densely networked urban panoramas and reference interconnectivity.” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem_van_Genkde.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem_van_Genk
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Post by kaima on Feb 16, 2015 11:38:38 GMT -7
Taking this topic as "unusual art" to the musical side, people in snow bound North Eastern USA evidently found time to put together a musical parody of the situation. Unfortunately, they failed to find a word to rhyme with "silence" other than "violence".
Thus, unless you look beyond this major inconsistency - violence clearly is not the appropriate word here, but is chosen only because it rhymes, and fits the original song -
Published on Mar 27, 2014
Bartley Kives captures the sullen attitude of Winnipeggers towards the neverending winter with this take on Simon and Garfunkel's hit The Sound of Silence.
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Post by pieter on Feb 16, 2015 12:35:01 GMT -7
Savant syndromeMegalopolis 22, by George Widener
Rather than prime numbers, this picture of an imaginary future city shines light on another common savant fascination: calendars.
The artist George Widener is both a calendrical and artistic savant.
He says that the numbers in this painting reflect numerical patterns that emerge when he plays with dates. “I find many strange things happening,” he says.
Although his pictures are almost impenetrable to the viewer, Widener is convinced that thinking machines of the future will at least appreciate them:
“I really do believe that superintelligent machines will explore my pics, with thousands of dates with thousands of connections and patterns in them, someday, for relaxation.”
(Image: Courtesy of George Widener and Henry Boxer Gallery) Savant syndrome is a condition in which a person demonstrates profound and prodigious capacities or abilities far in excess of what would be considered normal. People with savant syndrome may have neurodevelopmental disorders, notably autism spectrum disorders, or brain injuries. The most dramatic examples of savant syndrome occur in individuals who score very low on IQ tests, while demonstrating exceptional skills or brilliance in specific areas, such as rapid calculation, art, memory, or musical ability. Although termed a syndrome, it is not recognized as a mental disorder nor as part of mental disorder in medical manuals such as the ICD-10 or the DSM-5. Autistic savant artist Ping Lian Yeak at his show in DUMBO (Brooklyn, New York)CharacteristicsSavant skills are usually found in one or more of five major areas: art, musical abilities, calendar calculation, mathematics, and spatial skills. The most common kind of autistic savants are calendrical savants, " human calendars" who can calculate the day of the week with speed and accuracy. Memory feats are the second most common savant skill in a survey. Stephen Wiltshire was autistic and mute when he started drawing. At first he used his drawings to communicate, very accurate drawings of buildings, place and animals. He started learning to talk at age nine. His extraordinary abilities included drawing extremely accurate panoramic pictures of landscapes after seeing them for a very short time. Approximately half of savants are autistic; the other half often have some form of central nervous system injury or disease. Among those with autism, it is estimated that 10% have some form of savant abilities. MechanismPsychologicalNo widely accepted cognitive theory explains savants' combination of talent and deficit. It has been suggested that individuals with autism are biased towards detail-focused processing and that this cognitive style predisposes individuals either with or without autism to savant talents. Another hypothesis is that savants hyper-systemize, thereby giving an impression of talent. Hyper-systemizing is an extreme state in the empathizing–systemizing theory that classifies people based on their skills in empathizing with others versus systemizing facts about the external world. Also, the attention to detail of savants is a consequence of enhanced perception or sensory hypersensitivity in these unique individuals. It has also been confirmed that some savants operate by directly accessing low-level, less-processed information that exists in all human brains that is not normally available to conscious awareness. NeurologicalSavant syndrome results from damage to the left anterior temporal lobe, an area of the brain key in processing sensory input, recognizing objects and forming visual memories. Savant syndrome has been artificially replicated using transcranial magnetic stimulation to temporarily disable this area of the brain. www.sciencebrainwaves.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Stephen-Wiltshire-pic.pngThis picture was drawn by Stephen Wiltshire, an autistic savant artist. EpidemiologyThere are no objectively definitive statistics about how many people have savant skills. The estimates range from "exceedingly rare" to one in ten people with autism having savant skills in varying degrees. A 2009 British study of 137 parents of autistic children found that 28% believe their children met the criteria for a savant skill, defined as a skill or power "at a level that would be unusual even for 'normal' people". As many as 50 cases of sudden or acquired savant syndrome have been reported. Males with savant syndrome outnumber females by roughly 6:1, slightly higher than the sex ratio disparity for autism spectrum disorders of 4.3:1. Ping Lian is an autistic savant who has been producing amazing art since his childhood. He is now fifteen. More of his amazing art may be viewed at his website. www.pinglian.com/Sydney Opera House, painted by Ping Lian when he was 12 years oldP ing Lian and his artwoks- 2011HistoryThe term idiot savant (French for " learned idiot" or " knowledgeable idiot") was first used to describe the condition in 1887 by John Langdon Down, who is known for his description of Down syndrome. The term idiot savant was later described as a misnomer because not all reported cases fit the definition of idiot, originally used for a person with a very severe intellectual disability. The term autistic savant was also used as a description for the disorder. Like idiot savant, the term came to be considered a misnomer because only half of those who were diagnosed with savant syndrome were autistic. Upon realization of the need for accuracy of diagnosis and dignity towards the individual, the term savant syndrome became widely accepted terminology.
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Post by Jaga on Feb 16, 2015 12:53:03 GMT -7
Kai,
this has much more sense, thanks! Crying Lincoln....
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Post by Jaga on Feb 16, 2015 12:55:49 GMT -7
Pieter,
very interesting pictures of Willem van Genk. Now at least we know that there are different types of intelligence.
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Post by karl on Feb 16, 2015 13:21:20 GMT -7
Pieter
Please do not consider your self as critizing me for my post, for I do not consider this as critizing, but to the contrary: Correcting. How are we to learn if we reject critical thinking.. I am happy it was your self for reasons of accuracy. For being an artist your self, you have a trained eye for detail and form, with this, as a journalist, you have the skills of observing/describing and accuracy. All these traits I do understand and recognize with appreciation.
My life is working withen the world of people, their attributes, their skills, their work and, their weaknesses. Dependant upon situation and assignment, one or more of this attributes will be found and worked with {But, not on the Forum}}}.
But, with art,,,I am a baboon to say it lightly..
Be not to think you are critizing, for this is far from truth, for in reality you are teaching and this is most appreciated by this fellow...
Thank you once again
Karl
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