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those special shades
by Art Chantry last night i again watched one of of my favorite director’s (john carpenter) best movies – THEY LIVE! when it was first released in 1988, it was reviewed as the first “anti-yuppie” movie of the reagan era. … Continue reading
anti-heroes: porcine branding
by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) graphic design anti-hero of the day award!!! banksy can suck this guy’s…. —– INMATE ADDS PIG IMAGE TO POLICE CRUISER DECALS Montpelier, VT. – A Vermont prison inmate who makes stationery and license plates has … Continue reading
china: year of the fat cats
The Associated Press recently reported that Lady Gaga, Beyoncé and Katy Perry have all been deemed threats to “cultural national security” in China, and that the government is surveilling, reprimanding and controlling content on music websites in a protracted effort … Continue reading
graffiti : where’s kilroy?
by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) GRAFFITI has been with for a veeerrry looooong time. political graffiti was found scrawled on the walls unearthed in pompeii. workmen scribbled obscene derisive graffiti inside the great pyramid of cheops as they built it. … Continue reading
brillo pad to kraft dinner to goldfish: integral equations
Maybe it was supposed to be a fake. This whole PR campaign that faked an incident where Banksy transformed the Jesus the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro into Bin Laden was a photo-shop effort. But, though inauthentic and phony, … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged alain sechas, Andres Serrano, Andy Warhol, arthur danto, Banksy, Carter B. Horseley, Clement Greenberg, don dedillo, Donald Kuspit, Ezra Pound, gil vicente, Guy Debord, Hilton Kramer, integral art, keith martin-smith, Marcel Duchamp, marco evaristti, Maurizio Cattelan, piotr uklanski, thomas pynchon, Walter Benjamin
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have pen no travel: drawing from point a to b
Draw your blessings. And these are days of yore, at the gates of Jerusalem. Competent graphic designers who can’t draw… Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): This is a great example of a very good competent graphic designer who can’t draw worth a … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged art chantry, Banksy, biblical illustration, d.l. moody, graphic design, graphic illustration, jack chick, jean louise smith, Limbourg Brothers, Limbourg Brothers The Book of Hours, Rick Griffin, William Blake
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Peace be with you as the crow flies
One of the most popular explanations and perhaps misconceptions of the peace symbol is that Gerald Holtom, a conscientious objector and nuclear disarmament activist , created it in 1958: “During World War II he worked on a farm in England … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous
Tagged Aldermaston peace walk, Alex Constantine, Andrew Rigby, Banksy, Bertrand Russell, eric austin, Francisco Goya, Gerald Holtom, Rudolf Koch, Winston Churchill
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