Small Pleasures #2 – Ice Cream

I couldn’t resist posting this image :)

Some good and some not so good contemporary art

My Flag is Better Than Yours – Geoff Diego Litherland

The Art and Design section at The Guardian UK has an image gallery of the 10 pieces of art shortlisted for the John Moores Contemporary Painting Prize.

Click here to open the gallery.

Here’s my favourite piece from the shortlist. It’s entitled “Cadet Congo Ganja” by artist Tim Bailey:

All-Time Favourite Pieces of Art

Here is my favourite all-time piece of art:

Piet Mondriaan
Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow

Painted in 1930
Oil on Canvas, 20 1/8″ x 20 1/8″

Piet Mondriaan (1872-1944) was a Dutch painter who coined the term “Neo-Plasticism” to refer to his use of vertical and horizontal black lines combined with three primary colours. This particular work is my favourite since the paiting is completely linear yet abstract at the same time. I had seen Mondriaan’s work previously at the Guggenheim, but I could never fully grasp it until I overheard a remark by someone explaining that the work is simply Mondriaan expressing what his thinking patterns look like. In short, the image represents his brain function in a visual form. Nevertheless, I need a reproduction of this piece on my wall :)

What are your favourite pieces of visual art? Hit the comment link below and tell us.

show some attitude :)

Being on the wrong side of 30 can have its downside, but we’re still allowed a bit of rebellion albeit within well-defined parameters.

Just a bit of fun can’t be all that bad.