Black and white Chaps – “I took this photo on Saville Row where a classic car show was in full swing. It sums up the busy, stylish nature of the street.”
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Street photography – Bird lady
Bird Lady is an instant photograph from Johnny Peckham.
”I was walking the Thames path out in East London when I happened upon this lady surrounded by birds. I have never seen anyone so happily feeding pigeons. There’s a lot to learn from her attitude.”
6cm x 6cm image
Mounted and framed in 8” x 8” black frame
New expressionist piece by Godwin Sands
A corking image from Godwin Sands, doyen of expressionist photogrodraw. Looking out over the Thames from Barge Walk near Hampton Court on a sunnyish afternoon at the end of summer, is quite a mouthful of a title, but it expresses perfectly what is in the image. Oh those last days of summer! How sad they make us humans feel!
New work from Ptolemy Bognor-Regis III
Untitled (Two hours stuck on a plane at Gatwick with no air-conditioning)
A good example of the well-known dictum suffering makes great art. Poor Ptolemy created this work as he sat, roasting, in a plane that had a problem with its engine. The mental anguish of flying in a machine that you have been told doesn’t work properly – how well he has captured that emotion in this piece. The colors zing and zang off each other, the central orange bespeaking the overwhelming question, viz, should I stand up and insist to be allowed off this plane. Mirrored by the lightest of greens, the universal symbol for Yes.
Brave Ptolemy stayed on the plane. The good news is they made it unscathed to Paris. That’s not as good as it sounds as they were supposed to be going to Casablanca, but out of the turmoil we have gained a modern masterpiece. Ptolemy we salute you, and – though you have sworn never to travel by plane again – we hope you make it back from Paris soon.
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Art World Exposed Podcast episode #67
Saldo Caluthe and Tomas Sinke present another episode of Art World Exposed.
This week:
00:00 welcome, chit chat, did Tomas succeed in buying Amelia Crescent’s 1879 oil painting of a rowing boat sinking in the Irish Sea? Was it painted from life?
26:12 Welcome this week’s guest H.L. Botters, one of the key members of The Stick Insects, the art group that grew up around L.S. Lowry. Memories of L.S. Lowry. An amusing tale of how L.S. Lowry developed his technique. Vox Pops in Salford: Does anyone know what the L.S. in L.S. Lowry stand for?
35:34 Saldo reports on the art market, especially the rumours that Daven Strickland’s work “Hang this painting in a darkened room” sold for over £130 million to a collector in Flanders.
42:56 A recap of the many amusing art world jokes that have been doing the rounds this week.
52:31 Is cricket one of the fine arts? Arguments on both sides.
57:00 Drawing the tombola winner for the prize of a Monet sketch of Denmark Hill on Bastille Day
59:22 Goodbyes.
Spiff Lantern – Pop artist for the 21st century
Spiff’s work is the latest in a line of pop art going back through Lichtenstein, Warhol and all the British Pop artists that are less famous. “I try to withdraw my presence from the picture. I want to be a machine that processes the image with no human input.”
Spiff works in portrait, still life and landscape genres.
Lo-res Jez – photographs imbued with a low resolution charm
Jez works with older forms of cameras, bringing a retro aesthetic to all his pictures.
”My main weapon of choice is a Gameboy camera, which gives an aesthetic totally unique in the world of photography. If you want a portrait completely different to the mainstream then my pics are for you. If you don’t, they aren’t.”
Harry Herford – 21st Century version of a 19th Century photographist
Harry Herford (Harance to his friends) calls himself a photographist, modelling his practice on the 1800s when photographers were known as photographists.
”My heroes are men and women like Shotgun Adams, the cowboy/photographist who rode with Jesse James and Billy the Kid, Maisie Condor, the first person to build a pinhole camera in Rochester and Sata Ko’, who made the world’s biggest camera obscura out of a disused cathedral in Wellington.”
Herford refuses to use any technology less than 100 years old, which is one reason why his stint as a paparazzo for the British tabloids didn’t last long. “As I was using a pinhole camera I needed the celebrities to stand still for three minutes for me to capture their likeness. Unfortunately most of them refused and all I had to offer the editor were different color blurs, which he threw back in my face. Actually I still believe they say more about the subject than any so called ‘accurate’ photos and intend to have an exhibition of ‘Celebrity Blurs’, in the upcoming months.
Harry works with discerning clients who appreciate the ethereal beauty of pinhole cameras, camerae obscurae and other ancient forms of photography.
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Girl with a Pearl Pixel
P1X3L have excelled themselves with this contemporary rendering of Vermeer’s classic image.