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Perilous Night, 1982 encaustic on canvas with objects by Jasper Johns

21 Jan

A few nice visual art images I found:

Perilous Night, 1982 encaustic on canvas with objects by Jasper Johns
visual art
Image by cliff1066™
Johns has long been concerned with the visual and conceptual act of decoding. His various manners of painting and drawing, for example, frequently result in a congested accumulation of marks or signs, while his materials include encaustic (a thick, quick-drying wax medium that allows for a visible layering of brushstrokes) as well as objects that have been mounted on the canvas in the manner of assemblage and collage. These elements make Johns’ work optically and physically dense; paintings acquire what the artist referred to as an "object quality," and the experience they elicit from the observer is slow and searching, as if form and meaning are at once tangible and obscure. In Perilous Night, such qualities are applied with unprecedented power and complexity to a new and unexpectedly expressive iconography.

Perilous Night is composed as a diptych. The right half of the composition contains objects and images that are variously representational: three fragmented casts of a human arm, hanging from the top of the canvas by individual hooks; a painter’s maulstick, which is attached to the right-hand edge; a handkerchief copied from Picasso’s images of the Weeping Woman, "attached" to the canvas by an illusionary nail; the silkscreened musical score of "Perilous Night," a song composed by John Cage; painted trompe l’oeil wood grain (a depiction of Johns’ own front door); a Johns crosshatch picture, painted to look like a collage element; and a traced detail from Matthias Grünewald’s Isenheim altarpiece showing the fallen soldier from the Resurrection panel, which has been transformed into a dark, illegible (or abstract) pattern. Enlarged and rotated, the Grünewald detail also occupies the entire left side of Perilous Night. The two-sided composition is, then, laden with the artifacts of artmaking–the tracing, the copy, the replica, the three-dimensional facsimile, and an actual tool of the trade.

Together these elements represent independent visual systems coexisting in a limbo state of unresolved relationships. Darkness ("perilous night") prevails throughout the work as a medium in which meaning is suspended. Nonetheless, Perilous Night possesses an iconographical complexity that was new to Johns’ work. It heralded the beginning of a phase in which symbolic images are posted across the surfaces of paintings and drawings, often looking like separate objects that have been taped, pasted, or pinned to the support. As a body of work, their shared subject is the artist’s studio as a hermetic space in which images, instruments, and props are charged with unexpected meaning. Thematically, they are also joined by references to mortality and death. In Perilous Night, the hanging arms, like a butcher’s display of body parts, are luridly clear; in contrast, the almost illegible Grünewald Resurrection detail (on both sides of the work) is shrouded in darkness rather than in an illusionistic, symbolic light. Indeed, the present work plainly traffics in the iconography of Crucifixion–helpless arms, wooden planks, nails, and the very phrase "perilous night"–as well as of redemption (the Resurrection). These elements are heightened by the diptych format, which allows Perilous Night to resemble an altarpiece.

Good to the last drop
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Image by bettlebrox
Mass Art’s Spring 2009 Iron Pour.

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The Iron Pour has a strong history at Massachusetts College of Art, beginning as a fundraiser for the Metals Department, it has grown into a celebration of art, music, and performance. Recently, the Iron Corps., the group that organizes the event, has been working in conjunction with Eventworks, who will be kicking off their annual Art Festival. This spring, we will be invoking themes of outer space and the explosive demise of stars and planets . Aside from the spectacular sculptural performances by the Iron Corps. , activities will include face painting, fire dancing, visual shows, and four musical acts throughout the course of the night.

 
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Jasper Carrott – The Mole – Animated

16 Mar

Extremely rare animated version of ‘The Mole’ by Jasper Carrott. Very amusing!
Video Rating: 4 / 5

 

The Mysterious Explorations of Jasper Morello

12 Apr

Now playing in the YouTube Screening Room: www.youtube.com Nominated for an Oscar and for a BAFTA award, Jasper Morello is a short feature made in a unique style of silhouette animation developed by director Anthony Lucas and inspired by the work of authors Edgar Alan Poe and Jules Verne. In the frontier city of Carpathia, Jasper Morello discovers that his former adversary Doctor Claude Belgon has returned from the grave. When Claude reveals that he knows the location of the ancient city of Alto Mea where the secrets of life have been discovered, Jasper cannot resist the temptation to bring his own dead wife Amelia back. But they are captured by Armand Forgette, leader of the radical Horizontalist anti-technology movement, who is determined to reanimate his terrorist father Vasco. As lightning energises the arcane machineries of life in the floating castle of Alto Mea, Jasper must choose between having his beloved restored or seeing the government of Gothia destroyed. Set in a world of iron dirigibles and steam powered computers, this gothic horror mystery tells the story of Jasper Morello, a disgraced aerial navigator who flees his Plague-ridden home on a desperate voyage to redeem himself. Also winner of the Grand Prix award at the Annecy Animation Festival, Jasper has also won the top honours at the Canadian Film Centre’s Worldwide Short Film Festival, Best Animation at Flickerfest 2005, Best Animation at the Sydney Film Festival Dendy awards and Best Animation at

Creating a walking animation is a foundational exercise, but it is also one of the most difficult to master as a beginning animator. Learn how to understand the body’s movements while walking with helpful information from a writer, director and animator in this free video on cartoon animation.