This Should Keep the Riffraff Away

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This is a great Louise Brooks photo with guns that I hadn't seen before.
(thanks to apelad at Hobotopia)
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Graham Annable's Animations

Comic art by Graham Annable

Hey, this guy lives in Portland, Oregon and he makes funny-as-shit cartoons.
There's a new one on his YouTube page called
Botched
Enjoy! You might want to stay and watch the
rest of them or bookmark the page.
(Grickle is his website.)

Thanks, Johnny at Drawn!

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Bullies with No Imagination of Their Own

The Great Charlie Chaplin

I like Lloyd's recent post about the history of the Hollywood film industry-

the myth about art and commerce:

Mardecortesbaja

This Monkey Seems Oddly Familiar

From a T.S. Sullivant header for the Comic Supplement of "The Chicago Sunday American", November 5th, 1905

I like this! See more at

STWALLSKULL

Also, watch "Pipe Dreams", 1938, an MGM cartoon featuring the Three Good Little Monkeys. What a hoot!

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1916

Hugo Ball's world - 1916 -

they say he was the one who named it "dada".

Luscious Oil Paint and J. Currin

John Currin's Honeymoon Nude 1998

I bought this book about John Currin's art the other day. No, it's not the big, fat expensive one. It's the smaller book that was published around the time of his 2003 exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. I have never seen any Currin works in person, but I would like to. I especially like his nudes of 1998-99 and his "Hobo" and "Sno-bo" paintings. They are beautiful. The skin and hands are especially nice. The humor is subtle in these.

But, there is much to look at in his other works as well which are often laugh-out-loud funny.

Mainly, I look at how he uses oil paint and how he obviously enjoys painting - the lusciousness of the oils and the effects that are achieved through slow layering, textures, happy accidents and the spontaneity of wet-on-wet painting. He is sometimes delicate, sometimes rough. He uses the paint every which way he can think of. In crazy ways. In logical ways. Many styles rolled into one painting. Inspiring stuff if you are an oil painter. Oil paint is just so delicious to use. I'm hooked on it myself.

(Please do not eat the paint, dear readers.)

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Francis Picabia 1879-1953

The photo is of Francis Picabia in the film Entr’acte (1924)wearing a dress. Also, here are some examples of his figure paintings of women. "Francis Picabia worked across a huge range of media, from painting and drawing, to poetry, publishing and performance. Born in France he worked between Paris, Zurich and New York at different points throughout his career and was variously integral to and then disassociated from both the Dadaists and then the Surrealists." link

"In the early 1940s he moved to the south of France, where his work took a surprising turn - he produced a series of paintings based on the nude and glamour photos in French "Girlie" magazines, in a garish style which appears to subvert traditional, academic nude painting. He loved fast automobiles and was reported to have 150 of them." Fast cars, cross-dressing and painting more than one woman together based on girlie mags. I sort of like the style of some of his figurative work. However, some of it is clearly lacking in feeling, depth and compositional flow from heavy reliance on stock photos as a reference. Still, he gave painting a good ol' try, when he wasn't being an asshole playboy.

Francis Picabia

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