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Post by bram on Aug 8, 2008 23:12:42 GMT
I am glad you cleared that up!
By coincidence my wife asked me tonight the old "name 5 people, you have never met, around for tea (it's tea not dinner) dead or alive. So I would be interested to know Mr Dennings invites. I came up with 12 and had to eliminate. I had Marilyn Monroe and George Best so George had to go. The bastard would have nicked the bird, right? (and the booze ;D god rest his pickled soul)
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Post by rhodesy2112 on Aug 9, 2008 16:29:46 GMT
Some people on that Banksy Forum talk absolute rubbish. I like it here better. The rubbish talked on here is of a much higher quality.
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Post by dan on Aug 9, 2008 22:57:43 GMT
I think most of us here have read the thread guy mentioned and probably posted on it also, and although there was a select few simply idiotic comments and views, the majority was either positive or at least sensible! yes the prices have been hiked and in a very short space of time, which seems to have riled and upset some folk, and whether that was wise from a 'business' point of view frankly has nothing to do with any of us. But after all its the art that we all love. and at the end of the day art forum threads and comments dont speak the same volumes as people going out and either buying or not buying the work. whether the prices are reasonable is upto the person paying the money. And for me personally, compared with the other artists demanding similar premiums i think the quality of guys work completely jusifies the price!
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Post by bram on Aug 9, 2008 23:20:47 GMT
Good post dan.
My take on it is that I would prefer the artist I collect (or would like to) to be £500 for originals. If I am the only one digging joe artist then there is a chance I will get an original for that price. Once a few thousand join the gang, no chance. Once the guys with big dough get involved, i'm f**ked. Unless you catch these artist very early, then they are going to go out of reach. My wish list include Micallef, Parla and Neate but unless those 6 numbers come up, I doubt they will be decorating my wood chip.
Either way you cannot blame the artist or gallery. Supply and demand makes the world go around.
The bit I struggle with is, I can look at a piece of art and appreciate it, even love it and not get all pissed off about the fact I can't afford it. Some peolple can't see pass the price tag.
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Post by scavos on Aug 14, 2008 11:10:30 GMT
What are the best and worst things about making the move and living in France?
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Post by bram on Aug 14, 2008 12:13:57 GMT
What are the best and worst things about making the move and living in France? cough, cough
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Post by top on Aug 14, 2008 12:44:37 GMT
The Pharmaceutical Bestiary show is drawing near, is the work nearing completion or fully completed? and,are you 100% pleased with the resultant work? What is your favourite piece that will be shown? Have you acquired a bigger van yet..or is 120cm squared the max size of canvas that will be on display? c'mon spill the beans.. ta ..only just saw the 40w link! haha
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Post by GuyDenning on Aug 19, 2008 18:47:44 GMT
riddle me this batman... I mean Guy.... (sorry, I got a kick out of your Adam West Batman carrying the bomb!) Q. - Will you be traveling out to the states for your show at the Carmichael Gallery in Nov? Q. -Would you consider doing a commission of my daughter ? (preferably not bloodied to a pulp! - drop me an email if you might consider it) thanks.... Craig sent you a private Craig!
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Post by GuyDenning on Aug 19, 2008 19:01:34 GMT
I am glad you cleared that up! By coincidence my wife asked me tonight the old "name 5 people, you have never met, around for tea (it's tea not dinner) dead or alive. So I would be interested to know Mr Dennings invites. ) I true sad bastard painter fashion I'd have to choose other painters. Franz Kline, Francisco Goya, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Pablo Picasso, R.B Kitaj. Oh - and a Star Trek 'universal translator' might come in handy.
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Post by GuyDenning on Aug 19, 2008 19:06:38 GMT
What are the best and worst things about making the move and living in France? Yeah - the wine's better! Despite the new public space ban smoking is still a national sport, artists aren't looked at like something on the bottom of your shoe, decent easily available local veg and seafood, real bread, coffee you could kill for... on the work front the biggest life-changing thing is the ability to paint all day, every day and to be able to see a real change (for the better I hope) in my own work.
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Post by GuyDenning on Aug 19, 2008 19:20:26 GMT
The Pharmaceutical Bestiary show is drawing near, is the work nearing completion or fully completed? and,are you 100% pleased with the resultant work? What is your favourite piece that will be shown? Have you acquired a bigger van yet..or is 120cm squared the max size of canvas that will be on display? c'mon spill the beans.. The work is all completed now Top. I'm now working on the shows for next spring. I'm as pleased as I can be with the work bearing in mind that so much has come after it that has benefitted from being painted after it. I think it's a really consistent body of work that hangs together better than last year's show at RP so it'll be interesting to see it all together again (some of it's here and some of it went over to RP early in the year). It's a very, very personal show of paintings in some respects (I'm not going to elucidate any further on that) and I hope that it's received okay by the viewers! I don't expect the subject matter to be everybody's cup of tea but I must say a big 'thanks' to Dave and Sarah for letting me go with this one. I'm pretty pleased with 'There's a hole in Daddy's arm where all the money goes' - that's one of the last that was started and it's still here so it's annoying tendencies were tweaked and corrected for a fair old time recently. There are four paintings that I haven't been able to sort out. One in particular has been pissing me off for about half a year and I reckon I'll just have to give it up as a bad job. The last time I had a go at sorting it was last week but the problems didn't go away - now I just want to bury the bloody thing in the garden. Those four will NOT be crossing the channel!
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Post by bobthecat on Aug 21, 2008 10:49:09 GMT
The world is full of people who want to make a quick buck quid whatever, buy it if you like it really like it thats what i say, i got 6 ltd ed prints of yours and im pondering on an original, i like your work guy because i have had similar issues (not all are the same)in life and that darkness has never left me i see its not left you but you like me have learned a way of channel the bad to good but the little bastard is still there but now he is my friend, will it ever leave you??? Bobthecat
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Post by bram on Aug 21, 2008 12:44:30 GMT
Good question btc!!
Guy - you did a painting "Nakba 2" our friend Photoxtc has it now. I asked him to let us know the text that was within of which the answer has confused me even more (it seems coded). Can you let us know what the text is about. Photo had a thought it could be something to do with the victims of the conflict.
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Post by scavos on Aug 21, 2008 21:08:59 GMT
Thanks again GD for gettig back on these. Fascinating insight this. I'm glad to read that 'There's a Hole...' is one that you're relatively pleased with! It's up there with my favourites.
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Post by photoxtc on Aug 22, 2008 0:05:44 GMT
Yes, thanks so much Guy...
All of us fans love the insight and interaction, I'm sure I can speak for all of us in saying we really appreciate you taking the time to visit this Q&A thread...
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Post by GuyDenning on Aug 27, 2008 21:42:00 GMT
you but you like me have learned a way of channel the bad to good but the little bastard is still there but now he is my friend, will it ever leave you??? Bobthecat I doubt it - it's been there too long. It's not a friend but, strangely some might think, it's insistent attendance can sometimes be a comfort. I used to worry a great deal that if it was medicated away (when I naively believed the medical services were actually capable of that) my work might suffer - or even stop. It's not an illness and it's not a problem to be fixed by me or medication - it's the appropriate individual response to a nuts world.
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Post by GuyDenning on Aug 27, 2008 21:51:14 GMT
Good question btc!! Can you let us know what the text is about. The stencilled text in any of the paintings can mean many things. Not particularly helpful but I'll see if I can shed a bit more light! Sometimes it will be an obvious reference to the subject. Bearing in mind that some paintings are carried out over months sometimes the text can refer to issues occurring at a later time well after the original idea was started. Sometimes it will be the lyric of a song I'm listening to that through various tangential connections links to the painting's subject in some manner. Sometimes it's just a personal comment on the subject or an aspect of it. Originally the stencilled text (when I first started using it years ago) was representative of the general news media. An incomprehensible and illusory babble to twist the truth. Now I've started adding sigificant numbers and codes to paintings - but also (and importantly) I sometimes just like the aesthetic of stencilled text. And I do have a couple of favourite stencils!
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Post by GuyDenning on Aug 27, 2008 21:58:09 GMT
Yes, thanks so much Guy... All of us fans love the insight and interaction, I'm sure I can speak for all of us in saying we really appreciate you taking the time to visit this Q&A thread... I'm not too sure about the word 'fan' - I'm just a painter. It is appreciated this end too though - it's nice to have collectors that really want to know more about the work. It's not just 'butterfly collecting' then is it?! I'm not putting myself in the same bracket, but once I wrote (through his gallery) a letter to the American painter R.B.Kitaj - just to say thankyou for the inspiration he provided to me. He wrote back - and it meant a lot to me that after a 40 year successful career he could still take the time to say thanks for the attention he had attracted. Artists do the work to gain public attention - it seems a bit churlish to then turn your back on it. Mind you, if I start getting my head up my arse feel free to let me know.
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Post by scavos on Aug 28, 2008 23:39:11 GMT
it's the appropriate individual response to a nuts world. How very true. I'm sure Foucault would agree. Guy - You mentioned being inspired by another artist; I wondered what was the inspiration behind, what for me is and always will be a deeply moving image - Minotaur Woman. I have the print and it really is something special to me. Could you say anything about the technique used on the original?
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Post by dan on Aug 29, 2008 12:21:00 GMT
Yes, thanks so much Guy... All of us fans love the insight and interaction, I'm sure I can speak for all of us in saying we really appreciate you taking the time to visit this Q&A thread... I'm not too sure about the word 'fan' - I'm just a painter. It is appreciated this end too though - it's nice to have collectors that really want to know more about the work. It's not just 'butterfly collecting' then is it?! I'm not putting myself in the same bracket, but once I wrote (through his gallery) a letter to the American painter R.B.Kitaj - just to say thankyou for the inspiration he provided to me. He wrote back - and it meant a lot to me that after a 40 year successful career he could still take the time to say thanks for the attention he had attracted. Artists do the work to gain public attention - it seems a bit churlish to then turn your back on it. Mind you, if I start getting my head up my arse feel free to let me know. That is true Guy it is extremely fulfilling to get a kind response from an artist you admire, So I would like to take this oppertunity to thank you again for the help you gave me a few years back. And also for you interaction on this forum, it means alot to us all here. And im going to throw in a question for good measure... Although I am a huge admirer of your focal portraits, for me the pieces that really speak the most volumes are the ones in which an entire scene is depicted, it just gives much more of an eyeful to decipher, i guess examples of this are pieces such as, young spartans, icarus - scapegoat, GOED to some extent, and even my very own sunday morning freak show which seems to open new doors every time i look at it! Will you be producing anymore similar to these, and is there any to be seen in the upcoming shows??
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Post by GuyDenning on Sept 5, 2008 17:53:56 GMT
Guy - You mentioned being inspired by another artist; I wondered what was the inspiration behind, what for me is and always will be a deeply moving image - Minotaur Woman. I have the print and it really is something special to me. Could you say anything about the technique used on the original? The idea behind minotaur woman was basically just to take a traditional artistic cipher for male strength and turning the gender. I've always been interested with the ideas of the traditional genre of 'history' painting where a classical subject would be used and something that always pissed me off was the sanitised depiction of classical myths involving rape. Then I found this www.uvm.edu/~classics/slides/a33.jpeg'The rape of Europa' by Titian. That led me to the minotaur and it reminded me of Picasso - and in particular this piece: tinyurl.com/5q3fpkSo I just had to turn the power relationship around. I tried the traditional avenue of the bull's head on the female body but couldn't get it to work - so just gave the female head the horns instead. The technique is much the same as I use now. An under painting using mainly umber, then charcoal drawing, strength given with compressed conte pastel, then the layers of painting.
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Post by GuyDenning on Sept 5, 2008 18:03:12 GMT
Although I am a huge admirer of your focal portraits, for me the pieces that really speak the most volumes are the ones in which an entire scene is depicted, it just gives much more of an eyeful to decipher, i guess examples of this are pieces such as, young spartans, icarus - scapegoat, GOED to some extent, and even my very own sunday morning freak show which seems to open new doors every time i look at it! Will you be producing anymore similar to these, and is there any to be seen in the upcoming shows?? I definitely want to go more down that avenue but sometimes it's a single face that can say everything I want to say. The more complex pieces are, obviously, a hell of a lot more difficult - but they are invariably far more rewarding when they work. There will be more turning up! "Watch this space" as they say! Whoever they are...
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Post by cottle on Sept 9, 2008 16:05:55 GMT
Hi lost your e-mail adress give us a shout I'am still a idiot Cottle
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Post by bobthecat on Sept 13, 2008 14:35:57 GMT
hi All I got my print Despite nature done in a black frame with black mount makes me want to bloody cry, its just so dark and makes the hairs on the back back of my neck go tits up Just too top for words. BTC
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Post by northernmonkey on Oct 13, 2008 10:42:09 GMT
Guy. Is the woman painted in 'Haloperidol Holiday' based on the same model for 'Cosmetic Surgery'? Seems to be a huge likeness, especially the 'ebony lug-holes' as you call em.
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Post by GuyDenning on Oct 13, 2008 22:34:17 GMT
Guy. Is the woman painted in 'Haloperidol Holiday' based on the same model for 'Cosmetic Surgery'? Seems to be a huge likeness, especially the 'ebony lug-holes' as you call em. No - the subject of Haloperidol Holiday is fictitious. Perhaps idealised from references to people I have known in the past - but fictitious none the less!
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Post by petegoggs on Oct 18, 2008 22:49:19 GMT
how do you post images on this site ?
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Post by northernmonkey on Oct 19, 2008 18:59:02 GMT
Guy. I pressume you are going to be at your show on the evening of the 6th nov. I'll try and make it down there from Leeds, but would be great if you would sign my catalogue.... just wish I had some cash to purchase whilst down there.
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Post by GuyDenning on Oct 19, 2008 19:35:55 GMT
I pressume you are going to be at your show on the evening of the 6th nov. I'll be there - but annoy me early as I'm staying the night - so not subject to the limits of a pint and a half then a cold ride home. ;D And I'm likely to get increasingly incoherent as the evening carries on - tops and aitch will vouch for my lightweight tendencies... <- the next morning.
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Post by Standard Daz on Oct 19, 2008 20:02:08 GMT
In that case Guy, I'm bringing some crayons and some paper, hopefully your incoherency will convince you to draft up a quick prep sketch for me ;D ;D
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