Help us find visual, aural, metaphors that will let others understand the importance of engagement in this process. Look at Helnwein's painting under Visual Sociology. I left it up. What was Helnwein saying? Why was he willing to offend. Why do Beau and Michael want to shake us up? How are those things related? Why did one of my students make a giant box that when opened had a lovely smiling face inside that said "F^&* the Patriot Act"?? Isn't that a lot like what Helnwein and Kiefer and Beuys were doing? Maybe saying "wake up and look at what you're doing?" ...

Last night was the opening of Austrian painter Gottfried Helnwein's new show at Modernism, Inc.
It was the first opportunity that I have had to meet this brilliant artist in person.
For those not familiar with Helnwein's work, prepare for a jolt. His work is not exactly offensive, nor is it not completely shocking.
It is unnerving. It is bold. It is fresh, polished, clean, and provoking. ...

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Manson also said he's launching an art movement called the Celebritarian Corporation. While he wouldn't discuss it in detail, he did allow that Celebritarian has been incubating for seven years and that "it represents the only place where art can possibly go after surrealism and Dada. There's an array of people involved — from Gottfried Helnwein, Steven Klein, and Anthony Silva, I think it's probably the only valid attempt at an art movement since the surrealists. It's something that should be feared, but it's something I can't imagine not living up to its expectations. ...

　ああごめん俺数年ぶりにゴットフリート・ヘルンヴァインって名前を思い出した。　自分でもビツクリ。　綾波レイちゃんだ、ちょいゴツめの。
　公式サイト？　ここ？
　http://www.helnwein.com/home/home/home.html
　綾波っぽく。
　http://www.helnwein.com/werke/theater/bild_1199.html
　http://www.helnwein.com/werke/theater/bild_1046.html
　http://www.helnwein.com/werke/theater/bild_838.html ...

Be sure and check out his studio....Jesus Christus.... ...

Manson also said he's launching an art movement called the Celebritarian Corporation. While he wouldn't discuss it in detail, he did allow that Celebritarian has been incubating for seven years and that "it represents the only place where art can possibly go after surrealism and Dada. There's an array of people involved — from Gottfried Helnwein, who is a fine artist, to Steven Klein, who is a fashion photographer, and Anthony Silva, a director and an editor. I think it's probably the only valid attempt at an art movement since the surrealists. It's something that should be feared, but it's something I can't imagine not living up to its expectations. ...

Ausstellungskatalog

Aucune disposition d'âme n'a occupé si longtemps l'Occident. Les Grecs l'appelaient la bile noire (melangkholia, qui donnera le mot mélancolie). Aristote s'étonnait que cette humeur réputée néfaste touche la plupart des hommes d'exception. Elle est par tradition cause de souffrance et de folie, et sa désignation comme "maladie sacrée" implique une dualité. Les artistes de l'Antiquité la représentèrent sous la forme d'êtres pensifs, tête inclinée posée sur la main, regard perdu où se devine une sourde douleur. Au fil des siècles, l'image du mélancolique changera peu - 'le Portrait du Dr Gachet', de Van Gogh, ou la sculpture hyperréaliste de l'Australien Ron Mueck ('Big Man', 2000) respectent cette iconographie. Devenue saturnienne, puis reclassée dans la grande famille des dépressions, la mélancolie a toujours inspiré les artistes qui, pour en être victimes dans les périodes de doute et d'impuissance, connaissent son charme mortifère. Avec plus de 200 oeuvres, l'exposition se propose de vous introduire à cette richesse encore mal connue et met en évidence le rôle essentiel joué par la mélancolie dans les différentes formes de la création artistique en Europe, de Dürer à Goya en passant par Bruegel, Bosh, Arcimboldo, Watteau, La Tour, Füssli, Delacroix, Rodin, Munch, Baudelaire, Artaud, De Chirico, Picasso, Hopper... ...

так-так, кажется, я догадываюсь откуда взялся Rubber Johnny
арт очень патологичный, но мне очень нра
Mother's day
короче, круче тока гигер ...

I took those two pics (with white and black mickey manson) cut them in halves and put a white and a black one together, to my sursprise i didnt even had to do much cuz they fitted perfectly.. congrats to Helnwein for those great pictures :-P ...