this portrait of Mao is guaranteed to get you thinking...
but would you really want it hanging in your living room...???
yikes...!
EPISODE NOTES
this portrait of Mao is pretty enigmatic, and it had me wondering why anyone would feel the need to paint it...let alone want to buy it...
I spend some time describing the painting and wondering aloud about what it might mean...
listen in and get my take on what I call AngryArt...
I also interview an otherwise innocent bystander to hear what he thinks...
I'm glad I did... but that doesn't come until the next episode, which will be part 2 of this 2 part look at Yan Pei-Ming's Über-Romantik portrait of Mao...
here's a picture of this big bad boy hanging in the Museum Ludwig:
Links mentioned:
Warhol’s candy colored Mao portraits:
pixellation and artists:
Gerhard Richter’s pixellated stained glass window (in the Cologne Cathedral)
Richter’s Baader-Meinhof paintings (the ones I first saw at the museum in Boston)
A great example of VanGogh’s brushwork
A definition of:
Who's the artist:
Lots more work by Yan Pei-Ming
Some Good, Larger images of work by Yan Pei-Ming
Extra Facts / Factoids:
Tiananmen Square protests (1989)
Sound links:
“roger that” courtesy of theuncertainman
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“sturm und drang thunder strike” courtesy of Mike Koenig
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“sturm und dang screams” courtesy of
thanvannispen
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“single scream” courtesy of Richard Frohlich
FreqMan
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Awesome outro music:
by Inaequalis titled "Check Me Out" (from their Bête Noire album)
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