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Tag: Art

  • Visualising the Creative Process

    I was talking to someone about the creative process once and came up with some imagery for it. I described the initial phase as a kind of nebulous cloud; a haze that lurks around your head. It’s made up from the stuff of your life; here and there are vague forms, a ghost of a […]

  • Scampermonkey: Gender

  • Review: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

    This is a most beautiful autobiography produced in a novel comic-book format. Alison Bechdel’s tale of growing up, her dysfunctional household, closeted homosexual father, and her own growing awareness of her lesbian identity is a touching and wonderfully rendered memoir of her early life. Insightful and fascinating from beginning to end, this is really worth […]

  • Victorian Punk

    Picture a bunch of well-to-do art-school kids. They’re not truly excellent painters, but they basically say fuck-you to their teachers; we can paint better than any of you crusty old bastards. With supreme arrogance, they decided that the art world needed a revolution. Remarkably, they put their heads together and succeeded. This wasn’t the 1990s […]

  • Ideas as ‘Art’

    Ideas do not make good films, or good art period. As in, ‘wouldn’t be be clever if we did this?’ Things are never clever when they’re trying to be clever. (Which is a good measure of modern art, which baffles so many. When it’s relying on the higher brain to applaud it, it is likely […]

  • Pat Hobaugh

    ‘This series explores the subject of sexuality via contemporary still lifes. These paintings at once demystify the sexual nature of the objects by candidly displaying them for the viewer’s eye, but then remystify their intent by divorcing them from their sexual context via arrangement in the manner of conventional still lifes. Rendered in this liminal […]