Neomodernism

[alderevans2007]

Congratulations to Scavos and Photoxtc! ;D

I just thought I would post this link to the NEOMODERN site that seems to be headed by Guy Denning and includes artists such as Anthony Micallef and Ian Francis. Make sure you read all of the text on the site!

guydenning.org/neomodern/

"neomodernism - a return to a celebration of content, aesthetic value and artistic self-criticism. a move away from over-intellectualisation and cod-philosophy. Art should be about wonder, spirituality, humanity and life, not introverted examination of art itself"

I love this little movement. Cut's straight through all of the bullcrap. There is only so much art that can analyse the current state of art, at some point, art has to return to it's basics. That's what I love about Denning's work.

Hopefully, this will spark a bit of disscusion....

[photoxtc]

Thanks for the Link alderevans2007...

I have been to this site before, Lots of great artist and I REALLY love Maya Kulenovic's work, insanely haunting and beautiful...
I have tried emailing her for some work but no luck with a response...

If you guys like Denning's work then you will absolutely love all the other artist as well, I highly recommend going and checking this out...

[scavos]

photoxtc said:

Thanks for the Link alderevans2007...

I have been to this site before, Lots of great artist and I REALLY love Maya Kulenovic's work, insanely haunting and beautiful...
I have tried emailing her for some work but no luck with a response...

If you guys like Denning's work then you will absolutely love all the other artist as well, I highly recommend going and checking this out...

I've just checked out Maya's site. It's like Silent Hill in there! f**k me it's dark! There's me doing all that groundwork with lady scavos to get Minotaur Woman up on the wall when I should have just plumbed for those little beauties... ;D ;D ;D If she saw them she'd have me committed!

Although I was aware of the Denning/Micallef connection, something I didn't realise was that Micallef and Ian Francis were part of the same neomodern collective. Interesting stuff.

No surprise to see that GD is a huge Radiohead fan too! Bet he didn't see them in 1992 supporting The Frank and Walters though! ;D

[alderevans2007]

I really love Maya Kulenovic's aswell. I particulary love this sculpture:



If you like this, then you may like Gottfried Helnwein's work. He's a very established artist and his prices are probably way to high for me.

www.helnwein.com/werke/werke/home.html

[Silky]

I think that sculpture would give me nightmares Keep thinking ma heads gonna fall off ;D

[scavos]

IMO it's good art because it moves me and I admire the skill in producing such a sculpture. I find it terrifying. As for having it at home, well that's a different matter altogether.

[downside]

Someone else to check out from the neomodern site is Harry Simmons....he has a exhibition on in Bath at the moment, his work is just incredible and like nothing else outhere.Guy mentions he has bought some pieces, a rising star for the future!!.