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Monday, May 18, 2009

Visual Art Thank You, Maria

Posted by Jen Graves on Mon, May 18, 2009 at 10:20 AM

^{Maria Lassnig's You or Me (2005), oil on canvas, 79 7/8 by 61 inches}

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Yuck.

Posted by Opinions may vary, but yuck. on May 18, 2009 at 10:34 AM

That is thouroughly unpleasant. Art! I declare.

Posted by The Amazing Jim

on May 18, 2009 at 10:46 AM

I love it! Is this up somewhere Jen?

Posted by joey veltkamp

on May 18, 2009 at 10:48 AM

What. The. Fuck?

Posted by w7ngman

on May 18, 2009 at 10:59 AM

Joey: I wish it were up somewhere, but not that I know of. Her work was in "WACK!" and was featured in January's issue of Art in America, where I saw this piece reproduced: http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/feat….

Sometimes blogging here makes me feel like this woman...

Posted by Jen Graves on May 18, 2009 at 11:03 AM

haha -- I know, sorry!

thanks for the introduction, I'm googling her now. WOW! That tiger one?? Gorgeous.

Posted by joey veltkamp

on May 18, 2009 at 11:31 AM

I live in Vienna, where there is a big art exhibit going on featuring her.

Why do I mention this? Well, this picture is on posters all over the ****ing city!

I hate it.

Posted by Marc on May 18, 2009 at 11:37 AM

ugh.

Posted by isortofhateslog

on May 18, 2009 at 11:43 AM

Wow! It's like, so confrontational and edgy.

Posted by Greg on May 18, 2009 at 1:15 PM

Anyone ever watch "The Gate," that terrible "kids" horror movie from the '80s?

Reminds me of the demons.

http://www.cygenus.com/models/minion/min…

Posted by Bored@School on May 18, 2009 at 2:11 PM

Oh yeah! I do recognize her style from the work she had in WACK! - that huge portrait with the green background... Thank you for the WACK! flashback (WACKback??) Thank you also for selecting this piece to share and for titling your post as you did. I feel that way too sometimes in my little struggles at consiousness raising, and it's so good to be reminded that we are part of a wider web of women who know the same feeling. It's moving to see another woman portray that feeling as stark and BIG. I love that this piece is large. Now I really want a print. Thanks again.

Posted by greendyke on May 20, 2009 at 2:21 AM