Modern Art is Rubbish

In this episode we talk about the Tatoo contraversy featuring a lawsuit involving a Tattoo!

My Art your Tattoo?

You can read more about the case on this Artnet Article

We also mention as involving a Tattoo on LeBron James

Source Court Documents (Left: Miles Davis By Jeffery B Sedlik and Right: Tattoo by Kat Von D)

You can read more about the case on this Artnet Article

Extra We also mention as involving a Tattoo on LeBron James

We mentioned our copyright episode on the pod you can listen to it on the link below

Fair Use or foul – artists in copyright court -MAIR18 – (modernartisrubbish.com)

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Stuart Semple is an interesting multidisciplinary artist who perhaps most famously invented his own set of rich Colours. His Work is very human and speaks of our common experiences.

Stuart Semple was Born 12th of Sept 1980 in Bournemouth. He studied in Bournemouth and found a passion for art when he saw Van Gogh’s Sunflowers in at the Age of 7

In 2012 Semple released an artwork called Exit on Itunes. He felt it was a good way to distribute affordable art to a large audience

In 2015 Semple created 5 websites as art and sold them on Ebay

Below is an example of one of those website

You can see more of his work on his website StuartSemple.com

In part in reponse to a recession in the uk. In an attempt to spread some joy around the world. He released happy clouds in London. He went on to release happy clouds around several Locations in the world.

In 2013 Semple installed a fluffy white inflatable trampoline in public square in melbourne. This was so people could connect with their inner child, similar to the artist Cartsten Holler who created Merry Go Rounds and a giant vertical slide as art (We have an episode on Carsten Höller you can listen to)

Here is the link to the work on the artist’s page

The piece aims to illustrate the human capacity to persevere under stress and pressure: Keep smiling and keep going depsite all that is going on around you

In 2016 Anish Kapoor purchased exclusive rights to use the colour Vanta black. A black so dark it absorded 99.6 % of all light. This caused contreversy in the art world, as no other artists could use this black in their work

Semple in response 2017 went on to produce a paint called “better black” in 2017 Now its current iteration is called Black 3.0. It is availble for purchase as long your not Anish Kapoor. When you purchase a colour you have to confirm that you are not anish Kapoor. Infact when first accessing the page you have confirm that you are not Anish Kapoor and accept the cookies. Semple now has made other paint products such as the pinkest pink and white 2.0

Here is a link to his culture hustle shop page ( Note We are not an affiliate!)

STUART SEMPLE’s Instagram

Listen to our Blue Episode

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In this episode we talk about attacks on the Mona Lisa. Burning tents and the real cost of keeping artworks.

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In this show Marcus’s friend Paul came along to talk about the 2009 documentary “We Live in Public” made by  Ondi Timoner. It is about the pioneering artist and internet pioneer Josh Harris, who created “Art as Surveillance”.

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In this latest episode we talk about who is Banksy?

A councillor in Wales has been forced to resign from his post, because he was constantly being accused of being Banksy.

William Gannon was the councillor for the Pembroke Dock in Wales.

He is a community artist who has been creating work in the same areas as Banksy. He felt the constant rumours were interfering with his ability to perform his duties as councillor. At first he hoped that the rumours would just go away, as they did not rather than have it affect the reputation of the Town he stepped down. He has now taken to wearing a badge that states “I am NOT Banksy”

Richard Pfeiffer a Brooklyn based artist sued the NYPD in 2015 for falsely arresting him. He was admiring a Banksy work, when police officers accused him of creating it. He only had a marker pen on him that did not match up to the lines used in the work, and showed that the pen smudged also. He still was arrested

In 2014 the National Report self title America’s Shittest Independent News Source reported that Banksy had been arrested. They reported that Paul Horner from Liverpool was arrested. They alledged that the BBC had confirmed his identity with the agent Jo Brooks and Pest Control. The Police apparently arrested him allong with other men, he was the only one without id. He was held on charges of vandalish conspiract and racketeering. However banksy’s publisher eventually issued a statement confirming it was not him.

The star of the documentary film Exit Through the Gift shop. Many have speculated that the artist Mr Brainwash Thierry Guetta may be Banksy

Many believe that the founder member Robert Del Naja,  of the Bristol Based group Massive Attack is Banksy. Aledgadigly the Actor and DJ Goldie accidentaly let it slip on a podcast interview

There is a theory that Banksy is a team of Seven People led by a mystery Blonde women in a claim made in the Movie Banksy does New York

According to the Daily Mail Banksy real name is Bristol Based Street Artist Robing Cunnignham

Here is the article

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1034538/Graffiti-artist-Banksy-unmasked—public-schoolboy-middle-class-suburbia.html

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In this episode we talk about the Serbian entry for Eurovision. Performed by the artist Konstrakta who straddles the line between Art and Performance

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We visited and interviewed the artist Faye Bridgewater and talked to her about her recent exhibition.

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You don’t have to go far to see good Art “Artist’s Open Houses” provide people in UK with this opportunity. Join us as we visit a couple of very local ones.

Link To Loraine’s Instagram

Link to Yolande’s Ceramic Instagram

Link to Sarah’s Instagram

Link to Kirsteen’s Instagram

Link to the Keep Art at Home (Open House) Instagram

Modern Art is Rubbish Is Now releasing arty themed Music! You can check out the latest Goya Single Below!

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Goya was a famous and celebrated Spanish painter from the 1700s and was the first truly modern painter. He was a celebrated court painter who painted Royalty, painted his nightmare visions and the horrors of war.

Francisco Goya was born March 30th 1746 in a village called Fuendetodos. His Family moved to Zaragoza in the year of 1749. He attended the Piuos Free school, that was set up to help poor families.  In 1760 at aged 14 he became an artist apprentice to José Lúzan y Martinez

In 1763 and 1766 he submitted works to the Spanish Royal Academy in Madrid but was not accepted to the school. In 1770 went to Italy and was able to study  the old master painters. In 1771 he won second prize in a painting competition organized by the City of Parma. In 1773 aged 27 was married Josefa Bayeu who was the brother of a rising star at the royal court he had 8 children but only one lived into childhood. In 1775 Goya moved to Madrid. In 1780 he was elected to the Spanish Royal Academy. In In 1789 he was appointed a royal painter to Charles? the IV of Spain. In 1792 Goya contracted an unidentified illness, this made him temporarily partially paralysed and partially blind. It also left him permanently deaf. 1808 Napoleon’s forces invade Spain and remained there until 1813. He died in 1828.

This is a portrait of Charles III‘s brother,  Luis of Spain, the portrait features him along with his wife María Teresa de Vallebriga and their children.  Also featured are some maids and Goya has included himself in the painting also. 

In this picture a woman lies stretched out and confident in her body. She is looking out directly at the viewer. It is believed to be a portrait of the friend and model to Goya The Duchess of Alba

In this same pose the woman is reclining and wearing figure hugging Turkish style clothes.

In 1808 Napoleon used the excuse of boosting his troops in Portugal to steal the Spanish monarchy, leaving his brother Joseph in charge. Attempts to evict members of the Spanish royal family from Madrid sparked a nationwide uprising. The popular rebellion was defeated by armies led by Maréchal Joachim Murat during the second and third of May 1808.

In 1814 Goya produced 2 paintings depicting the cruelty and violence of the French occupation of Spain. The first shows a riot and is called the 2nd of may. The second painting is called the 3rd of may; it shows the consequences the rioters faced.

The Disasters of war are a series of 82 prints made between 1810 and 1820. They are Etchings showing many horrific scenes of the peninsula war, when Napoleon’s French Army occupied Spain. They were actually printed 35 years later plates, Goya never lived to see them printed.

The French were attacking the city of Zaragoza. As many Spanish lay dead or wounded. A woman known as Augustina of Aragon, took a torch from a fallen Spaniard and lit a cannon that was loaded, ready to be fired. So shocked by the unexpected site of a woman firing a cannon. They called off the assault. The soldiers were not prepared and expected only to be facing soldiers.

Based on an incident that took place in 1808. In a town called Chinchon. Two French soldiers were killed by rebels. The French retaliated by massacring some local men. The image shows the naked mutilated body of a rebel with his arms chopped off as he is impaled on the tree. A French soldier las dead at the base of the tree.

In Feb. 1819 Goya bought a country house called Quinta del Sordo (House of the Deaf Man). He painted a series of what is known as his black paintings

The witches’ Sabbath is another painting from the series. Satan in goat form is in the foreground intimidating a coven of terrified witches.

It is a Graphic image of the god Saturn feasting on the headless corpse of his young son. The child’s head and part of the left arm look have already been consumed. He grabs tightly around the waste of his son as he takes another bite from the left arm. Saturn was a Roman God based on the Greek God Cronus.  Saturn hears of a prophecy that said that one of his sons would overthrow him, just as he had overthrown his father. So to stop this happening, Saturn ate his children shortly after they were born. His wife Ops, however, managed to hide Jupiter on the Island of Crete and Jupiter, in the end, overthrew his father.

Marcus from the show talked about VR and experiencing being eaten by Saturn you can catch up on the episode here

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In this episode we talked to the Artist Sam Weldon and Marcus talks about his visit to the Fabrica Gallery in Brighton

On his website Or on Instagram

Journeys From An Absent Present to a Lost Past | by Mohamad Hafez | Fabrica, Brighton, UK

Tom has a new song out featured on the show you can listen to it below

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