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     Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.131.110.133 |
I saw this exhibition in Gateshead on Saturday and it's one of the best I've ever seen. The representations of them here don't do them any justice. http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2011/feb/13/art-george-shaw-in-pi ctures#/?picture=371660617&index=0 The guy likes his horror films, too, circa the 60s and 70s. The pictures are made using humbrol enamel paint and look very odd, but it adds some sad quality to them I can't describe. I wish I'd stuck to painting - if I had I might have done stuff like this, and be living in north Devon. But hey ho - there's time. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.131.110.133 |
An article by him. http://www.tate.org.uk/tateetc/issue11/rip.htm We forget how good art can be, or at least I can. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.166.117.210 |
They're paintings???? Bloody brilliant - and the subject matter is right up my Strasse. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.131.110.133 |
It was at the baltic - I often don't like it there, but went in because a friend was doing a zip wire from the top. As it was I nearly missed the zip wire bit this was so good. Saying painting is dead is really daft. It's like saying ideas are dead, or looking at things. The pics here aren't the best, either. I'm glad you looked, Zed! | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.131.110.133 |
Oh, Zed - read this. http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/blogon/art_news/george_shaw_at_wilkinson_galler y_london/5415 The pic at the top was my favourite. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.131.110.133 |
He could be a writer, couldn't he, with turns of phrase like that.  | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.131.110.133 |
More, Zed - http://wilkinson.vault.foxallassociates.com/artists/8/image/1 And he has a book of prose or whatever out to go with his exhibition. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.253.77 |
Tony, Nick Royle showed me this link earlier today. You might like these, too. http://www.simontaylorphoto.com/davidgledhill/index.html | ||
| John Forth (John) Username: John Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 82.24.1.217 |
Those are excellent. On first glance they appear almost photorealistic, but there's something just a little... off about them. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.131.110.133 |
Zed - they're really alike, aren't they? I think Shaw's have more 'presence', though, a little more finesse. And they do look better in real life. Funny you should get that link, though, so soon after. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.166.117.210 |
Tony - it was because I linked the original one of Facebook. |