Art....

[VladimirIlyich]

4 hours ago, torahboy said:

Yves Klein. Saw an exhibition at Tate Liverpool a few years ago. The intensity of his colour is quite brilliant but it did tend to be a bit ..... blue.

Booooo! 

[torahboy]

6 hours ago, VladimirIlyich said:

Booooo! 

I think the stuff I viewed was from his Hafnia period, although I think there was one of his works that cold be dated around the time he was influenced by Chang. But, yes - Boooo!

[neko]

I hate to say this, but I think he did actually improve the painting...

Russian gallery security guard accused of drawing eyes on painting

 

IMAGE SOURCE,THE ART NEWSPAPER RUSSIA

Image caption,

The security guard allegedly drew eyes in ballpoint pen on two of the three figures in the painting

A Russian art gallery guard has been accused of doodling on a Soviet-era painting he was responsible for guarding on his first day in the job.

During a visit to the Yeltsin Center in Yekaterinburg in December, two visitors spotted eyes drawn in ballpoint pen on Anna Leporskaya's work Three Figures.

The avant-garde painting features three abstract, and usually eyeless, figures.

The security guard has since been fired and the police have opened a criminal investigation.

In a statement the Yeltsin Center's executive director Alexander Drozdov said the security guard was employed by a private security organisation.

It was also the security guard's first day in the job, exhibition curator Anna Reshetkina told Russian website ura.ru.

 

"His motives are still unknown but the administration believes it was some kind of a lapse in sanity," she said.

She added that he drew the eyes onto the painting with one of the Yeltsin Center's own branded pens, penetrating a layer of the paint.

Luckily, the culprit did not apply strong pressure to the canvas with the pen and as a result the damage did not go very deep, according to The Art Newspaper Russia which first broke the story.

But it added that the paint layer on the left-hand face in the painting had crumbled slightly.

The damage was first reported to police on 20 December, but the ministry of internal affairs initially declined to initiate a criminal investigation as the damage was deemed "insignificant".

But the ministry of culture later complained to the prosecutor general's office about the decision, and last week police opened an investigation.

 

If found guilty, the security guard suspected of the crime could face a fine and up to three months in prison.

The painting was returned to the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, which had loaned the painting to the Yeltsin gallery, for restoration a day after the vandalism's discovery.

The restoration is estimated to cost 250,000 roubles (£2,468; $3,345).

Protective screens have since been installed over the other works in the Yeltsin Center's exhibition.

Leporskaya was a student of the famous artist Kazimir Malevich, who developed an avant-garde movement that took the art world by storm in the 1920s.

Leporskaya became famous for designing buildings and exhibitions as well as painting, and her works can be found in various museums across Russia.

 

The Yeltsin Center was named after Russia's first president Boris Yeltsin, who was in power from 1991 to 1999.

He oversaw the country's transition following the fall of the Soviet Union, and had to deal with various economic and political crises during his presidency.

By the time he left office Mr Yeltsin was widely unpopular in Russia and the museum built in his name has divided public opinion.

 

[polymerpunkah]

I love that it was on his first day.

 

What a boring job. Basically doing nothing, for hours on end. So I can understand the temptation, after looking at such a painting for the thousandth time, to add a little detail. 

 

But right off the bat, first day, that's brilliant.

 

 

And in answer to Klein's Blue painting upthread, here's the appropriate response, as painted by the Malevich mentioned in the article:

 

 

Red Square

 

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

[Bjornebye]

1 hour ago, Nelly-Matip said:

Philly's got into erotica then! 

[Bob]

My mom has always been good at drawing but since retiring she’s got into art through local clubs and classes and she’s done some great stuff and sold a reasonable amount at local shows and what not. She sold two for £500 each, of which one was a commission she was specifically asked to complete.

 

anyway, she’s just sent me a pic of her latest, which isn’t my cup of tea in style, but as it’s Liverpool based I thought I’d share it on here and see what you bastards think of it.

 

 

[KMD7]

1 minute ago, Bob Spunkmouse said:

My mom has always been good at drawing but since retiring she’s got into art through local clubs and classes and she’s done some great stuff and sold a reasonable amount at local shows and what not. She sold two for £500 each, of which one was a commission she was specifically asked to complete.

 

anyway, she’s just sent me a pic of her latest, which isn’t my cup of tea in style, but as it’s Liverpool based I thought I’d share it on here and see what you bastards think of it.

 

 

Your mum's talented Bob. Out of rep.

[Strontium]

3 hours ago, KMD7 said:

Your mum's talented Bob. Out of rep.

 

Gotcha there. Although I wavered due to the use of "mom".

[Tony Moanero]

4 hours ago, Bob Spunkmouse said:

My mom has always been good at drawing but since retiring she’s got into art through local clubs and classes and she’s done some great stuff and sold a reasonable amount at local shows and what not. She sold two for £500 each, of which one was a commission she was specifically asked to complete.

 

anyway, she’s just sent me a pic of her latest, which isn’t my cup of tea in style, but as it’s Liverpool based I thought I’d share it on here and see what you bastards think of it.

 

 

Very good. I was tempted to neg you for “mom”, though.

[Tony Moanero]

2 minutes ago, Strontium said:

 

Gotcha there. Although I wavered due to the use of "mom".

Beat me to it.

[Elite]

My latest efforts.

[Bjornebye]

9 minutes ago, Elite said:

My latest efforts.

Boss them. I like that the knight is still saying it's only a flesh wound despite having no legs 

[Bjornebye]

4 hours ago, Bob Spunkmouse said:

My mom has always been good at drawing but since retiring she’s got into art through local clubs and classes and she’s done some great stuff and sold a reasonable amount at local shows and what not. She sold two for £500 each, of which one was a commission she was specifically asked to complete.

 

anyway, she’s just sent me a pic of her latest, which isn’t my cup of tea in style, but as it’s Liverpool based I thought I’d share it on here and see what you bastards think of it.

 

 

She needs to speak with The Liverpool Gift gallery in West Derby Village. They sell lovely independent art pieces like that about the city. That's bloody superb. 

[Pidge]

 

Good thread

[Elite]

This took a while, still learning and making errors but happy with this effort.

[YorkshireRed]

9 minutes ago, Elite said:

This took a while, still learning and making errors but happy with this effort.

You’ve got talent. The main thing is that you’re enjoying creating them. 

[Elite]

9 minutes ago, YorkshireRed said:

You’ve got talent. The main thing is that you’re enjoying creating them. 

Thanks. As I said previously it's great for emptying your mind, would recommend to anyone.

[Bjornebye]

This looks decent. 

 

Art of the Terraces | National Museums Liverpool (liverpoolmuseums.org.uk)

 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Turner Prize nominees at Tate Liverpool.

https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-liverpool/turner-prize-2022

 

The Ingrid Pollard stuff is good; Heather Phillipson's stuff is OK, but a bit heavy-handed; the other two are a sack of wank.

[YorkshireRed]

10 minutes ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

sack of wank.

This will probably win. 

[Clem H Fandango]

On 08/10/2022 at 09:37, Elite said:

This took a while, still learning and making errors but happy with this effort.

This reminds me of the targets I used to have to purchase for our county firearms division. Except ours looked like Burt Reynolds with an Uzi.

[KMD7]

Taken from Facebook. 

[Elite]

6 minutes ago, KMD7 said:

Taken from Facebook. 

Yeah but could be sculpt Morph?

[Bjornebye]

I'm sure someone else posted on the forum that they'd been but I can't find it.  I went to that Art of the Terraces exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery in town the other day. It's really good. @Mook you would have really appreciated it. It's on until March.