Wednesday, March 31, 2010

the oldschool

just came across this site. http://www.understandingduchamp.com/ really nicely done in a lot of detail and dedication exploring duchamps personal history. very good stuff there. a lot of pieces i didnt know. also mentions DALI's Rainy Taxi (a rain filled cab occupied by mannequins and thousands of living snails). turns out that piece was a huge influence on damien hirst.

so i went to look for some more info on this piece, it reminded me of the boxes we talked about, and found this:
http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/features/finch/finch7-12-07.aspA very interesting piece of writing putting dali, duchamp and hirst in context. check out the pic at the bottom of the page. laughed hard when i saw it.

2 comments:

  1. hahah mushrooms, this is wicked great find, the dali work is wonderous .

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  2. yea but did u notice where the pic of hirst was taken? ;)

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