I’m a big fan of Aaron Horkey, I have a “Sigur Ros St Paul” print that I bought last year. I can waste hours looking at the detail. Hisfilm posters like “Two Towers” and “There Will Be Blood” are worth a look too…
Hiroshige? That’s quite a tense composition compared to most of his work. Which I also love 🙂
I have an original of this hung on my wall:
A lot of Ukiyo-E prints are fairly inexpensive, because they were produced at such volume. Travellers used to use them to wrap gifts for the journey back to Europe or America.
RS – did you sea the Valette and Lowry’s exhibited together at the City a couple of years back? A real interesting look at the development of them both.
Just got me thinking about later Impressionist works of Manchester at the other end of the Spectrum. Liam Spencer…..
Colournoise-
And a choice where I always surprise myself, but Hockney probably understands more about looking than any painter since Picasso.
Amen.
The recent stuff is amazing.
He’s still the most dynamic and relevant British artist, and his recent work eclipses all the pretentious, emperors-new-clothes, Saatchi-esque Britart bollocks, and shows it up for what it is.
I really wanted to go down to London and see the new work at the Royal Academy, but tickets were limited and eye-wateringly expensive, which was disappointing. Bloody Yorkshiremen! 😉
This much talked about exhibition focuses on the music explosion that happened in the North West of England during the late 1970?s, and uses long archived posters to evoke this vibrant period and revisit the places, telling the stories of those involved, some familiar, others less so.
Aaron Horkey- wow. Thank you. Really like that. Is that Art nouveau? Very nice. Will see if I can buy a print.
There’s a big scene in the US for reimagined film posters. Horkey is the movement’s poster boy (excuse the pun). He has a very distinctive, meticulously graphic style with a lot of recurring elements – I think he’s a little troubled!
Expresso Beans is the best place to find out about his work and stuff by artists working in that field such as Laurent Durieux and Ken Taylor.
Horkey’s prints are often released at fairly sensible prices (if you can get them) but go for silly money on the second hand market. Well worth tracking down though, especially if, like me, you’re a fan of graphic arts and silk screen printing.
RS – is it the same one that was on at the Lowry recently? If thats the one, it made me feel very old. Nothing like seeing your youth on the walls of a gallery, with the word ‘retrospective’ attached, to make you feel like a proper old giffer. If you look at that Sankeys poster, its 20 years old!!!! 😯 Pass the Werthers Originals will you old chap
I also once spent an afternoon in the art museum in Amsterdam totally fascinated by the miniatures on display – I couldn’t link to any because you simply have so see them to appreciate them.
MC Escher’s stuff – trying to follow the visual logic sends you round in circles and you end up just staring at it
also, this. There was a video version of it in the Tate Modern – spurious but utterly compelling links which ‘show’ that Morrissey predicted the death of Diana.
On the one hand it’s utterly mad and shows how strange conspiracy theorists are, on the other, the sheer amount of detailed research they delivered to put it together deserves respect…
August 31, 1978:
19 year-old Steven Morrissey first meets guitarist Johnny Marr,
the one who will launch Morrissey’s career several years later
by aggressively enlisting him to co-found a band: The Smiths.
August 31, 1997:
19 years to-the-day since Morrissey met guitarist Johnny Marr,
Princess Diana is killed under circumstances foreshadowed
in Morrissey’s work, beginning with an album by The Smiths.
Saw this in Venice last month, many times as we stayed nearby, and loved it. Looked incredibly different depending on the time of day, at night it was lit up which unfortunately isn’t pictured on the link.
RM.
Nice to see other Rothko fans on here, I particularly like the two that have been posted up, rather more than the Red And Black ones in Tate Modern.
I was able to get to the big Hockney exhibition at the RA, absolutely amazing, and his continual investigation and use of technology to create new works is inspiring; paintings done on an iPad printed off around 9′ tall!
I also saw an exhibition of this gentleman’s work a while back, and I loved this one, there’s such a wistful air about it:
I’ve been trying to find a pic of his best known work, Nighthawks At The Diner but all the ones I can find have been messed with.
This bloke knows his way around a block of wood, you have to see an original to grasp just how fine the detail is:
I dunno why but Igor Mitoraj’s work really appeals to me.
This piece was at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park for years but it seems to have been moved recently.
I saw an exhibition in a Plaza Maria Pita in A Coruña a few years ago on holiday and it was stunning. To be able to walk in and around the pieces day and night was fab.
The image below reminds me of a lot of the big hitters on here
Love most Pre-Raphaelite art… So much great art still to see – and to discover, it would seem!
There’s a CR Nevinson or two in the Southampton art gallery which are worth a look if you like Vorticists and are down that way – also a great John Martyn: Sadak In Search Of The Waters Of Oblivion.
Sandham Memorial Chapel near Newbury is also very thought-provoking.