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Can Rectal Realism (and Other 1970s Art) Inspire?

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Documentation of Neke Carson’s rectal realist portrait of Andy Warhol (Photo: Anton Perich, Gallery 98)

Documentation of Neke Carson’s rectal realist portrait of Andy Warhol (Photo: Anton Perich, Gallery 98)

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Despite my longtime interest in New York art from the 1970s, I somehow never imagined delving into an artistic process called, quite literally, “rectal realism.” However, last week, I found myself…

Mick Aslin‘s insight:

This could only happen in the 70′s! The artist Neke Carson painting a portrait of Andy Warhol using “rectal realism.”

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The Nazi Ties of Joseph Beuys

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Joseph Beuys performing his piece “Felt TV” (photo by Lothar Wolleh, via Wikipedia)

Joseph Beuys performing his piece “Felt TV” (photo by Lothar Wolleh, via Wikipedia)

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Joseph Beuys is a canonical postwar artist, but was he really as progressive and enlightened as we’ve come to believe, and as he led us to think? A new biography of the artist, written by German-bo…

Mick Aslin‘s insight:

Joseph Beuys is one of my heroes, do his alleged Nazi party associations alter my admiration for his work?

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Photographer Erno-Erik Raitanen Creates ‘Self-Portraits’ Using His Own Bacteria – PetaPixel

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Colorful and unusual patterns pictures are what photographer Erno-Erik Raitanen calls self-portraits. The pictures, which Raitanen says are more like p

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Interesting lab technique, the artist calls them Bacteriograms. “I have gathered the bacteria samples from my own body. The bacteria consumed the film surface producing photographic images that are entirely created by a chance. I have been removed from the process but, at the same time, the images are a product of my body; self-portraits.”

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Bruisography – Ruslan Khasanov

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Bruisography.

Ruslan Khasanov

Mick Aslin‘s insight:

Not so much digital as the “school of hard knocks.”
(The School of Hard Knocks or University of Hard Knocks is an idiomatic phrase meaning the (sometimes painful) education one gets from life’s usually negative experiences, often contrasted with formal education. – Wikipedia’) 

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Miami Artist Uses His Own Body Fat to Make Soap

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Miami-based performance artist Orestes de la Paz has put his heart, soul and fat into 20 bars of special soap made with his liposuctioned blubber. The bars of human soap are available for purchase and priced at $1,000.

Mick Aslin‘s insight:

Just ewwww!

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What Abstract Art Would Look Like in Real Life – Gizmodo – Gizmodo

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What Abstract Art Would Look Like in Real Life – Gizmodo
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Fantastic artist Flora Borsi, who once hilariously photoshopped herself into old pictures, imagines a world where abstract art models are actually real people.

Mick Aslin‘s insight:

What a great idea from artist Flora Borsi.

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