Tag Archives: keith martin-smith

brillo pad to kraft dinner to goldfish: integral equations

Posted on June 14, 2011 by Dave

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 →

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private meanings and public purpose

Posted on May 31, 2011 by Dave

It is almost unfathomable to comprehend the workings and the processes of what could be considered average human imagination in all its glory of striving through a thought process littered with reason and the irrational, the real and the netherworld … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Alfred Stieglitz, art chantry, barney bubbles, Damien Hirst, david stone, Diego Rivera, Elvis Costello, Guy Debord, Jan van Eyck, keith martin-smith, Leonardo Da Vinci, Marcel Duchamp, Maurizio Cattelan, Michelangelo, Pablo Picasso, Sigmund Freud | Leave a comment

getting serious: joke on who?

Posted on May 31, 2011 by Dave

Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? ( Paul Gauguin painting title) .Keith Martin-Smith has written that humour- joke/irony- can be a powerful part of art. BUT, complexity and skill of execution can and do … Continue reading →