Thursday, October 22, 2009

more show title possibilities....

grotesque comes from the Latin root as "grotto"....meaning a small cave or hollow...this is interesting....made me think of: below ground, Underground (Emir Kusturica's film...you all should check it out)...the "LOW", the hidden, beneath....the lower part of the body (far away from the brain)


Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Saturday, October 17, 2009

Friday, October 16, 2009

more ...

grotesque |grōˈtesk|adjectivecomically or repulsively ugly or distorted : grotesque facial distortions.incongruous or inappropriate to a shocking degree: a lifestyle of grotesque luxury.noun1 a very ugly or comically distorted figure, creature, or image : the rods are carved in the form of a series of gargoyle faces and grotesques.( the grotesque) that which is grotesque : images of the macabre and the grotesque.a style of decorative painting or sculpture consisting of the interweaving of human and animal forms with flowers and foliage.2 Printing a family of 19th-century sans serif typefaces.DERIVATIVESgrotesquely |groʊˈtɛskli| |grəˈtɛskli| adverbgrotesqueness |groʊˈtɛsknəs| |grəˈtɛsknəs|nounORIGIN mid 16th cent. (as noun): from Frenchcrotesque (the earliest form in English), from Italiangrottesca, from opera or pittura grottesca ‘work or painting resembling that found in a grotto’ ; “grotto” here probably denoted the rooms of ancient buildings in Rome that had been revealed by excavations and contained murals in the grotesque style.
humor |ˈ(h)yoōmər| ( Brit. humour)noun1 the quality of being amusing or comic, esp. as expressed in literature or speech : his tales are full ofhumor. See note at wit .the ability to perceive or express humor or toappreciate a joke : their inimitable brand of humor | shehas a great sense of humor.2 a mood or state of mind : her good humor vanished |the clash hadn't improved his humor.archaic an inclination or whim.3 (also cardinal humor) historical each of the four chief fluids of the body (blood, phlegm, yellow bile [choler], and black bile [melancholy]) that were thought to determine a person's physical and mental qualities by the relative proportions in which they were present.verb [ trans. ]comply with the wishes of (someone) in order to keep them content, however unreasonable such wishes might be : she was always humoring him to prevent trouble.archaic adapt or accommodate oneself to (something).PHRASESout of humor in a bad mood.DERIVATIVEShumorless |ˈ(h)jumərləs| adjectivehumorlessly |ˈ(h)jumərləsli| adverbhumorlessness |ˈ(h)jumərləsnəs| nounORIGIN Middle English (as humour): via Old Frenchfrom Latin humor ‘moisture,’ from humere (seehumid ). The original sense was [bodily fluid] (surviving in aqueous humor and vitreous humor, fluids in the eyeball); it was used specifically for any of the cardinal humors(sense 3) , whence [mental disposition] (thought to be caused by the relative proportions of the humors). This led, in the 16th cent., to the senses [state of mind, mood] ( sense 2) and [whim, fancy,] hence to humor someone [to indulge a person's whim.] Sense 1 dates from the late 16th cent.

Some definitions to spur ideas



William Pope L., Correct, 2007

5 minute brain storm starting now:

1. A title with the prefix in parenthesis and a list of words...
(Un) Ideal
Homely
Ruley
sightly
etc....
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2. Vomit
vomit be sick, spew, heave, retch, gag, get sick; informal throw up, puke, purge, hurl, barf,upchuck, ralph.
2 I vomited my breakfast regurgitate, bring up, spew up, cough up, lose; informal throw up, puke, spit up.nouna coat stained with vomit vomitus; informal puke, spew,barf.

3.Grotesque 1 a grotesque creature malformed, deformed, misshapen,misproportioned, distorted, twisted, gnarled,mangled, mutilated; ugly, unsightly, monstrous,hideous, freakish, unnatural, abnormal, strange, odd,peculiar; informal weird, freaky. antonym normal.2 grotesque mismanagement of funds outrageous,monstrous, shocking, appalling, preposterous;ridiculous, ludicrous, farcical, unbelievable,incredible

4. hybrid
nouna hybrid between a brown and an albino mouse cross, cross-breed, mixed breed, half-breed, half-blood; mixture,blend, amalgamation, combination, composite,compound, fusion.adjectivea hybrid organization composite, cross-bred, interbred,mongrel; heterogeneous, mixed, blended,compound, amalgamated, hyphenated
5. Scatalogic Rites of All Nations (this is a title of a 19th C book written by John Bourke)
6. sca·tol·o·gy (sk-tl-j)
n.
1. The study and analysis of feces for physiological and diagnostic purposes. Also called coprology.
2. An obsession with excrement or excretory functions.
3. The psychiatric study of such an obsession.



and i'd like to thrown in William Pope L's title from his Kenny Schachter show in London in 2007 :

SNOW, SPRAYPAINT, HAIR, SPERM AND BALONEY

a riff on that or something that could be as direct and semi shocking and funny as that

Images

This first image is 40 x 60 inches. the other images small 8 x10 and the sculpture piece is roughly 10 x 10 x 10 inches....






Tuesday, October 13, 2009

New Drawings & Paintings


Petster

Gustonitis

Little Gulliver

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Tough Shit