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Mark-Making, contd: Urban Skin + A Guy Called Wolf

April 8, 2010 by Le Fist

Graffiti. Its universal. Public art for the public by the public. It’s also age old. The cavemen were at it. Its nothing new. Some loathe it. Some love it. Most of us carry on with our daily lives and just accept it. Or stop seeing it. Jean-Michel Basquiat made it cool. The art establishment lapped up every colourful splatter. He also brought it full circle with his neo-tribal approach. I guess we’re still cavemen at heart. Last week Topshop flew over […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: art, Banksy, graffiti, joe rush, MuTate, tesco, TopShop

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Mark Making: Hans Hartung (1904-1989)

March 15, 2010 by Le Fist

Clarissa Cestari’s work, from the previous post, reminds me of the late Hans Hartung, one of my heroes. The day I own a Hartung sketch will be one of the happiest in my life. I first came across the work of Hartung many years ago as an art student. There was a retrospective of his work at the Tate Britain – this was way before the Tate Modern existed. I actually prefer Tate Britain. I loved the way you could […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: art, black and white, hans hartung, illustration

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Mean Streaks: Clarissa Cestari

March 15, 2010 by Le Fist

The Creative Process Clarissa Cestari’s large canvasses are instantly engaging – magnified, curvilinear brush strokes of apparently thick, luscious paint. The broad, sensual streaks are at once familiar and suggestive. I like how she quietly subverts tradition and turns the rules of painting upside down. Paint and the process of painting are both subject matter and muse. Brazilian Cestari defies easy categorisation. This is abstract art in one sense yet the paintings are large scale reproductions of projections of real […]

Categories: love love love, Uncategorized • Tags: art, clarissa Cestari

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Mes Poupées: Marie-Ange Guilleminot, 1993

January 12, 2010 by Le Fist

The size debate reminded me of a French artist whose work I’ve always found intriguing – Marie-Ange Guilleminot. A friend of mine gave me a limited edition book of her most recent work then, some 16 years ago?! Its entitled Mes Poupées – My Dolls. Its an abstracted study of the female form that reminds me of dough and domesticity – Dough-mesticity! Ha! In a way the anatomical nature of her work also recalls the work of Cathy de Monchaux.There’s […]

Categories: marie-ange guilleminot, the big issue • Tags: art, marie-ange guilleminot, sculpture

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January 5, 2010 by Le Fist

Andy Warhol: Triple Rauschenberg, 1964. From the Sonnabend Collection I once had the pleasure of sitting on the same bench in the line-up room (Mid-town Manhattan NYPD) that J Lo and P Diddy sat when he got arrested! Claim to fame, hey! Lucky for me I was the victim that instance and not the criminal. I ended up there after waiting 4 hours to see a detective after being scammed on Craig’s List with a bogus apartment sub let. Since […]

Categories: Andy Warhol, i heart new york, iPhone, new york diaries, Uncategorized • Tags: art, colour studies, new york, photography, travel

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