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Permalink Reply by Michael Bowdidge on 28 March 2008 at 12:22am

Rauschenberg has, on occasion, and there are also the Ball brothers (although their work exists in a twilight zone between fine art and what you might term 'exploratory design').

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Permalink Reply by joe kelly on 28 March 2008 at 12:29am

artists who use chairs ,.....sit down too much! x

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Permalink Reply by mike hinc on 28 March 2008 at 12:31am

I use chairs - usually to suggest an absence of people. I got the trick from Van Gogh. It's no new thing.
Do we need to go back further?

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Permalink Reply by Michael Bowdidge on 28 March 2008 at 12:40am

As do I sometimes... but it's still fun to play with, nothing new under the sun, is there? :)

Further back? Indeed I think we should, any suggestions?

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Permalink Reply by mike hinc on 28 March 2008 at 12:52am

All agreed ..........of course.
Further back? Chairs of significance? Thrones.
Rennaissance God? Egyptian Pharoahs?
Wither thence & thereafter?

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Permalink Reply by Michael Bowdidge on 28 March 2008 at 12:55am

Raphael's Madonna of the Chair (1514)?

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Permalink Reply by mike hinc on 28 March 2008 at 1:53am

Ah!!!

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Permalink Reply by mike hinc on 28 March 2008 at 1:59am

This is all leading me to the thought that architechture is the new chair and that the chair is the pre modern pre post modern architecture. We actually need to look at the chair in art and as as a commercial object in a bourgeois society and establish the move from bench to stool and thence to chair. It is a still life motif
and as such an object of desire.
Time I went to bed.

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Permalink Reply by joe kelly on 28 March 2008 at 2:03am

lazy git!
no, i think thats what you are saying...that we all need to kick back in a big chair and chill, eh? at least for a bit

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Permalink Reply by mike hinc on 28 March 2008 at 2:05am

No, I'm not saying that at all.

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