MICHAEL JACKSON – Billie Jean Live

Classic Michael Jackson!! Live in his prime!! Moon Walk and all!!

Cubism & Australian Art Exhibiton – Heide Museum of Modern Art

Melinda Harper
Untitled    2000

Daniel Crooks
Portrait #2 (Chris)    2007

Cubism & Australian Art, one of the most ambitious and extensive exhibitions Heide has undertaken, shows the impact of the revolutionary and transformative movement of Cubism on Australian art from the early twentieth century to the present day. It uncovers a little-known yet compelling history through works by over eighty artists, including key examples of international Cubism drawn from Australian collections — by André Lhote, Albert Gleizes, Fernand Léger, Alexander Archipenko, Ben Nicholson and others — and nine decades of Australian modern and contemporary art that demonstrate a local evolution of cubist ideas.

The exhibition documents the earliest incorporation of cubist principles in Australian art practice in the 1920s, when artists such as Grace Crowley and Anne Dangar, who studied overseas under leading cubist artists, began to transform their art in accordance with late cubist thinking. It examines the influence of Cubism on artists associated with the George Bell School in Melbourne and the Crowley–Fizelle School in Sydney; and on those who participated in the cubist movement abroad including James Cant and John Power.

While its distortions and unconventional perspectives served individual styles such as the expressionism of Albert Tucker or the experimental landscapes of Sidney Nolan and Fred Williams, Cubism’s most enduring influence on postwar Australian art has been in abstraction. This exhibition traces its reverberations in 1950s abstract art by Roger Kemp, Robert Klippel and Ron Robertson-Swann and others, through to works by younger artists such as Stephen Bram, Gemma Smith and Justin Andrews.

Cubism’s formal and conceptual innovations and its investigations into the representation of time, space and motion have continuing relevance for artists today, who variously adapt, develop, quote and critique aspects of cubist practice. In this exhibition, Cubism’s shifting, multi-perspectival view of reality takes on new form in moving-image works by John Dunkley-Smith and Daniel Crooks, in paintings by Melinda Harper and sculptures by James Angus. The use of found objects and recycled materials by Madonna Staunton, Rosalie Gascoigne and Masato Takasaka extends ideas originating in cubist sculpture and collage. Other artists are critical of Cubism, bringing Indigenous and non-european perspectives to bear on its modernist history, particularly  its appropriation of so-called ‘primitive art’.

Robert Rooney
After Colonial Cubism    1993

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Swet The Wild Side – 100 pieces in 100 days !

The 100 Pieces in 100 Days Project featuring Swet has started december 1st 2009! From that day on danish graffiti writer Swet tries to set up a new record. Swet about the project: “for me it’s a challenge to see if I can find the time to paint even more without neglecting work or my family. And of course see what I can do with my style when all the pieces have to be different and with only one fill in colour to work with…” Good luck! 100 Pieces in 100 Days. Here you can follow him until march 10th 2010. In use: the Molotow Premium 400ml Swet100 Traffic Red. Keep checking that section for daily updates with photos and notes by Swet.

http://www.molotow.com/magazine/swetgoesred/

Black Book Masters

New York City Black Book Masters presents a visual feast of  170 drawings, outlines and burners from the personal collections and black book archives of New York’s finest old school and new school graffiti writers, collected and complied by Alain “KET” Maridueña and From Here To Fame Publishing. We are allowed a privileged glimpse into a usually closed off and private world—the world of a writer’s personal black book—with this wonderful collection of candid and playful pieces that date from 1976 through to 2009. Through the working ideas and drawings that are represented we can see not only the generational differences in styles and execution but also another side to our graffiti heroes, a more intimate and personal one. From Here To Fame Publishing believe it is essential that all aspects of writing culture be preserved to ensure that the real history of graffiti culture is not lost and can be shared with the newer generations of writers and art enthusiasts alike. With that in mind they offer New York City Black Book Masters—a delightful treasure.

Dragon wall 2008 Swan Auctions

2008 Swan Auctions (Rear lane wall) Reach, Naser

2008 Swan Auctions

Early 90’s

1993 Preston tech. An assortment of classic  old school paint was used on this piece. Kill Rust fill in ( color bond gold and mist green)  and the old Dulux Galaxy Blue (Blue nozzle fan jet) final outline. Aqaurius (dupli color) & Bright Green ( British paints) outside band.

1992.  Trying something a little different!

Dondi prints

Limited Edition Dondi Prints! Found these online! Pretty dope!

DONDI WHITE – “D5 “
Comes in corrugated Portfolio

Printed in 2007 from a 1994 drawing.
15”x19” on RIVES BK 250 GR White cotton rag paper.
Official Dondi White Estate Chop/Numbered out of 100 by Crime79
Silkscreen from Original Blueprint Collage artwork
Printed by NEBO [in collaboration with Mike White/CRIME79]

DONDI WHITE – “Rain Proof Dance”

Printed in 2007 from a 1994 drawing.
15”x19” on RIVES BK 250 GR White cotton rag paper.
Official Dondi White Estate Chop/Numbered out of 100 by Crime79
Silkscreen from Original Blueprint Collage artwork
Printed by NEBO [in collaboration with Mike White/CRIME79]

Run DMC – Christmas In Hollis

Merry Christmas to all!