Category: Art & Design
An appreciation of '60s and '70s bubblegum trading cards
Dangerous Minds recently did a nice image gallery of selected bubblegum trading cards of the 1960s and ’70
David Young V Interview
David Young V is on a mission. Shuttling between two studio spaces in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco— frequently in the dead of night—he engages in the business of recovering fragments from a future world. To hear him speak about the tomorrow he foresees; a world of zealots, martyrs, psychotic orphans and armed bike couriers, one is reminded of Mad-Max… if it had more military training and dabbled in cryptography and linguistics.
Wooster Collective at TEDxBloomington (The Video)
Mosh pit paintings by Dan Witz
Applying old master techniques, (Witz) achieves impressively convincing trompe l’oeil illusions of light, shadow and depth in his finely rendered portraits, landscapes and still lifes. The artist recently added digital media tools to his process (having previously used traditional projection methods). Combining old master techniques and digital technology, he photographs his subjects, composes in photoshop, prints an a-chromatic underpainting on canvas then glazes and scumbles over this foundation using traditional representational painting…
Jerry Saltz on Why the Work of Today’s Well-Educated Artists Lacks Content — New York Magazine
There’s always conformity in art—fashions come in and out—but such obsessive devotion to a previous generation’s ideals and ideas is very wrong. It suggests these artists are too much in thrall to their elders, excessively satisfied with an insider’s game of art, not really making their own work. That they are becoming a Lost Generation.
Link: Jerry Saltz on Why the Work of Today’s Well-Educated Artists Lacks Content — New York Magazine
Very bad late '90s hip-hop cover art
Bad Art of The Rapture
Link: Bad Art of The Rapture
The Graffiti of War
From war, art. This is the basic premise of The Graffiti of War , a project from two combat veterans that features the unconventional military art that soldiers, seamen, marines, and airmen (and women) create during deployments. From tanks spray painted with “I love u baby” to memorials for the dead to enemy jets covered in graffiti, every art work tells a story. It’s the alternative, unauthorized history of war from those who fought it.
US Soldier-Taggers: Afghanistan as Fight Club
Here we’re introduced to the artist ZEROSIX, whose imagery is characterized by quirky and deadpan quotation, in both image and text. Who, by the judgement of his colleagues, is truly badass.