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Betteles in art?
Ive recently been finding out about an interesting Americal artist who uses them to help him paint on the canvas. And yes, they are … ALIVE!!!!
Kutcher controls the direction and movement of his arthropods — such as hissing cockroaches darkling beetles and grasshoppers — by their response to external lighting. The result is controlled and random movements, created in a co-authorship between the artist — with predetermined ideas about colour, form, shape and creative flexibility — and his living brushes!?!
see here for some more details!
photo by opimentas
LIVING ART…
ive found an interesting website which gives details on some interesting art exhibitions about nature. Check out their exhibitions here.
“Living Art’s exhibitions aim to raise awareness of the beauty and wonder of our natural heritage, both in the UK and globally, while at the same time championing the benefits of the natural environment to our wellbeing and the need to protect and conserve that environment.
The exhibitions take an innovative, responsible and, above all, we hope entertaining approach.”
Also, check this, if you want to buy a topiary elephant for your garden?!!
And see this great blog about ART HELPING ANIMALS.
So, I was inspired by the ant art I discussed in a previous post (go check it out, on my site), what other living art is there?
Well, here is some art which is for sale, BY ANIMALS IN A ZOO!!!
The pictures here are just a bit of fun, not related to the links by the way…
this is a post I have meaning to write for a long time. Its involves art…. and an animal!
“Death in the mind of someone living” the shark art-piece by Damien Hirst.
How do we interpret this? One concept is, if you bend down and peer through its sharply jagged teeth, you’ll be looking past the pure white mouth at the large black hole of its throat. It’s a reasonable visual metaphor for the crossing-over from life to death that we think will never happen.
Also, the viewers imagination is focused on the pickled sharks jaws; the jaws of death stopped in motion, suspended in time. So the shark can’t attack you, its been suspended in time… so your death is not coming now, it will come later…
If you have other interpretations, let me know here!!
So is that what art always is, a visual metaphor? Yes, in a way. Although sometimes art is just for art’s sake and there is no need for any metaphorology.
To be honest, my idea of art involves freshness and a concept of something seeming alive, and I see art in nature and animals, so Im not hugely keen on the idea of animals in formaldehyde as some kind of art.
However, Damien Hirst is certainly very innovative so I repect that, and by shocking the public he helps create debate about art and other interesting subjects, which has to be good.
This shark pictured below is given the title:”death in the mind of someone living”.
Apart from the crazy price this fetched, one interesting point is that actually its not the same shark as in the original art. When asked is this is an issue, the artist said:
“”It’s a big dilemma. Artists and conservators have different opinions about what’s important: the original artwork or the original intention. I come from a conceptual art background, so I think it should be the intention. It’s the same piece. But the jury will be out for a long time to come.”
I guess I agree with him, but what are your views?!
the artist, above, with the artwork titled.
