Fly Me To The Moon...
I was reading Alexa’s (from pixiekrane.com) blog entry on her visit to Art Gallery NSW, and how this piece of art left her in awe.
It did for me too. How beautiful it is.
Googled, and here’s an excerpt.
These cloud paintings are key works in Gerber’s oeuvre, marking the transition point in his practice from hyper-realist painting to abstraction. They also relate to a series of Rorschach paintings and paper cut outs he did prior to these paintings, psychoanalysing the viewer’s predisposition to create associations with the subject matter of painting. Whereas ‘Clouds #1’ is more abstract; the billowing, fleshy forms of ‘Clouds #2’ suggests human faces and bodily orifices in both a humourous and surreal play on our habit of reading things into the forms that clouds take.
Gerber’s ‘Clouds’ recall the history of romanticism from Wordsworth’s “I wandered lonely as a cloud” through Constable’s cloud studies. However, they also recall the kitsch 70s posters for the bedroom walls of bonged out teens. There is something about clouds, which like sunsets, are almost possible to take seriously as a subject for art. And yet here they are: lush, billowing, romantic, oscillating between being painfully kitsch and evocatively sublime.
(via Best of the App)
I like sweet secrets people share. They make me smile and feel happy for them. =)
Glenn Miller - In The Mood [High Quality] (by symir547)
Swing it!
(via Artist Creates Drawing Out Of 3.2 Million Dots)
“Miami-based artist Miguel Endara has created a fascinating drawing of his dad titled ‘Hero’—composed entirely out of 3.2 million ink dots. ”
Wow. This is impressive.
