“L’angoise” Gilbert Simondon, 1989
(…) le sujet prend conscience de lui-même comme sujet en train de s’angoisser, de se mettre en question, sans pourtant parvenir à s’unifier de façon réelle. L’angoisse se reprend toujours elle-même et n’avance pas, ni ne construit, mais elle sollicite profondément l’être et le fait devenir réciproque par rapport à lui-même. Dans l’angoisse, l’être est […]
Francis Bacon: “If they were not my friends, I could not do such violence to them.” (1966)
☛ “Three Studies For Portrait of Lucian Freud” by Francis Bacon, oil on canvas in three part, each 14″ x 11 7/8″, 1964 (dated on the reverse). Information retrieved from Sotheby’s Lot Notes. Hi-res reproduction retrieved from Antique and Art Ireland. On February 10, 2011, this painting was sold for £23 million ($37 million): Eight […]
The Art of Allison Sommers
☛ Allison Sommers: “Afterbirth”, gouache on illustration board, 12″ x12″, 2010. © Allison Sommers. Allison Sommers currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She primarily uses gouache and pencil to create most of her art pieces (specifically “Winsor-Newton and Holbein gouache on Strathmore 20-ply illustration board” according to her FAQ page). What strikes me […]
The Neon Boneyard
☛ idsgn: “Typographic Oasis: The Neon Bonyard” by Josh Smith, May 18, 2011 / Photograph: “Motel (with Color TV)”, September 25, 2010. All photos taken by Josh Smith and Skylar Challand for idsgn.org. Photographed with permission at The Neon Museum, Las Vegas, Nevada. © idsgn, 2011. Far from the intellectual boomtowns, surrounded by desert, in […]
