Double relocation! / ‘Art is what you can get away with’
typed for your pleasure on 23 October 2024, at 1.00 amSdtrk: ‘Friends of the heroes’ by The Aislers Set
Hello! Or as my Missus says, Hallo! Yes, despite posting on average once a year, ‘Shouting etc etc’ is still a thing, especially in light of modern social media collapsing into a fascist singularity. Ahem.
As always, a Proper Update™ is due, particularly in regards to our lives, but very very quickly: not only have Ursula, Dyanne, Miss Winter, Elena, Sidore, and I moved to a larger, more aesthetically-pleasing home (still in Michigan) as of December 2023, but we fled Twitter last August and are now on the much-saner social media platform known as Bluesky; I direct you to the lefthand sidebar of this very blog for links to our accounts. Also, Dyanne was understandably ecstatic to receive a brand-new silicone body on (or around) her birthday this past April, manufactured by Normondoll! She’s still very much an airhead, but she’s cheerful, knows her onions when it comes to films, and as sex columnist Dan Savage would say, she’s GGG. Photos of our glorious new digs, known as Deafening silence Towers, are forthcoming, but here’s a few that fulfil the obligation of teasing a fraction of the place, as well as allowing you to see Dyanne Mk.II.
But this post isn’t about all that new stuff, so put that from your minds! The list you see below is more for myself than anyone else — which can arguably be said about half the posts on this blaug — but due to my love of lists, as they help to bring Order to a chaotic and random universe, I’ve made one of my favourite artists, photographers, and graphic designers, with links where applicable. There’s no particular order here, so I’ll add new artists when I discover ones that strike my fancy. It’s my hope that you’ll either be like ‘ohhh so that’s who that is!’ or ‘wow, their work is pretty cool, I’m going to have to look up more of their stuff!’ In any case, rest assured it’ll be interesting. Fact.
Also, you know how it is with the Internet: sometimes links don’t work when sites fall into disrepair, so if you run across that sort of thing happening in the future, give us a shout in the comments section, eh?
+ Peter Saville
+ Gustav Klimt
+ Gerhardt Richter
+ Vaughan Oliver / 23 Envelope
+ Hajime Sorayama
+ HR Giger
+ Zdzisław Beksiński
+ MC Escher
+ Robert McGinnis
+ Helmut Newton
+ Peter Phillips
+ Deborah Turbeville
+ Vilhelm Hammershøi
+ Ed Ruscha
+ Robert Longo
+ Richard Savoie
+ John Atkinson Grimshaw
+ Edward Gorey
+ Alex Colville
+ Julian House / Intro
+ Romek Marber
+ The Designers Republic™
+ Nicola Kuperus
+ Erin Cone
+ Syd Mead
+ Fitz & Van
+ Barbara Kruger
+ Gilbert & George
+ Margaret Keane
+ Stanisław Szukalski
+ Victor Vasarely
+ Bridget Riley
+ Barbara Brown
+ Clemens Gritl
+ Otl Aicher
+ Julian Montague
+ Muriel Cooper
+ Melanie Pullen
+ Do Ho Suh
+ ‘Kynaston Mass’ aka Ian Hodgson of Moon wiring club
+ Dave Gibbons
+ Jack Kirby
+ Jim Steranko
+ Alex Ross
+ Phil Noto
+ Jamie Hewlett
+ Kazuma Kaneko
+ Devin Leonardi
+ Saul & Elaine Bass
+ Paul Rand
+ Mark Robinson / Teen-beat Graphica
+ Max Ernst
+ Dan DeCarlo
+ Pol Bury
+ Kenichi Sonoda
+ Yasushi Nirasawa
+ Betty Brader
+ Akiko Stehrenberger
+ Masahiko Ohno / Works Fatagaga
+ ???
Astute readers looking this list over may note that Andy Warhol is not in fact included here! That’s cos while I dig Warhol to an unnatural degree, I like him more as a pop culture personality and trendsetter than as an artist. The second part of the post’s title comes from something he’d once said, incidentally.
Would you have any favourite artists or graphic designers that you think would be in my wheelhouse? Why not mention them in the comments below, there’s a good person.
N.B: I’d also given some thought to adding a thumbnail image for each entry, but that would be absolutely mental
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