6/22/2023 0 Comments Blotter art size![]() ![]() "Outsider-art fans will love the book's unexpected juxtapositions and raw, energetic imagery.Blotter art represents a unique form of art that can be appreciated both for its visual appeal and its historical significance. "Ranging from street art on rundown walls, through awe-inspiring architecture, and on to fluoro images of snow wolves and rabbits, the world of art has never looked so wild."- Shortlist "There is art by and for everyone in this book The 350 extraordinary artworks featured here are often moving, funny or shocking, celebrating the beauty and art in everything."- LDN Graffiti ".A lot of things that can be called art that are far, far, far outside what you’d see in a gallery… Be warned: these images are addictive viewing."- Dazed Digital "Authors David Carrier and Joachim Pissarro have bravely stepped out into the unknown, shone a light in the corners, looked under rocks and come back with a collection of the offbeat, outré, and overlooked treasures that exist outside the snobbish world of The Arterati."- We Heart Joachim Pissarro and David Carrier have created a wonderful book."- Jeff Koons Some of the images are so refreshing and startling that they help you look at the everyday world again renewed and invigorated. Wild Art is an incredibly vivid, colourful and current collection of over 300 extraordinary artworks that are too offbeat, outrageous, kitsch, quirky or funky to 'make it' in the formal art world of galleries and museums. From pimped cars and graffiti to extreme body art, ice sculpture, flash mobs, burlesque acts, portraits made from bottle tops, paintings made by animals, light shows, carnivals and giant artworks that can only truly be appreciated from the air, this book has it all. The works featured here are variously moving, funny or shocking, celebrating the beauty and art in anything and everything.Īuthors David Carrier and Joachim Pissarro have studied alternative and underground art forms and cultures for years and have compiled the ultimate collection of creative works to challenge and engage every reader's perception of what is and isn't art. The retrospective features a wide selection of prints and paintings from Lazrides’s own Banksy collection, and some of the works are for sale. The show, which previews tonight and runs until 25 July, has been organised by Banksy’s former manager, Steve Lazarides, who parted company with the artist in 2008 and now runs his own gallery, Lazarides Rathbone. Yet not all of S|2’s exhibitors are equally happy it seems.īanksy, the British graffiti artist, appears to be displeased with his forthcoming ‘unauthorised’ retrospective at S|2. The West London exhibition space, which opened in 2012 and serves as a private-sales gallery for the auction house, has hosted shows dedicated to Joseph Beuys and the Düsseldorf School of Photography. ![]() ![]() Most contemporary artists would be rather pleased if Sotheby’s S|2 gallery showed their work. The graffiti artist offers a little insight into his unauthorised London show, as well as some trippy appropriation ![]() Banksy's Flower Bomber on perforated blotting paper, courtesy of Banksy likes blotter art, not keen on Sotheby’s show ![]()
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