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Artists who use chairs...
...and furniture.
For starters, Doris Salcedo and Louise Bourgeois spring to mind. Both of whom use chairs to physically represent the body and conceptually as metaphor for the human 'condition'.
Can anybody think of others?
For starters, Doris Salcedo and Louise Bourgeois spring to mind. Both of whom use chairs to physically represent the body and conceptually as metaphor for the human 'condition'.
Can anybody think of others?
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Permalink Reply by Michael Bowdidge on -
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 mike hinc on -
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
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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
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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
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Raphael's Madonna of the Chair (1514)?
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Permalink Reply by mike hinc on
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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 -
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 joe kelly on
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chairs are a prop,as an actor may use his scenery etc
just another way of saying, "this is how i fit into the world isn't it?
don't feel bad mike, the world still hasn't revealed itself to you......yet!
