Aesthetics of ugliness

[saann]

That stocking sculpture is fantastic! Incredibly well made..

 

[runner]

"what is sobriety if not the fear of everything that is not lasting, at least of that which seems as if it will not last."
- bataille, the tears of eros


"obscenity is our name for the uneasiness which upsets the physical state associated with self-possession, with the possession of a recognised and stable individuality. "
- bataille, erotism


"my life only has a meaning insofar as I lack one: oh, but let me be mad! make something of all this he who is able to, understand it he who is dying, and there the living self is, knowing not why, its teeth chattering in the lashing wind: the immensity, the night engulfs it and, all on purpose, that living self is there just in order … ‘not to know’. "
- bataille, madame edwarda


"everything is dead while it lives. "
- schiele



egon schiele
breadandwineand
new-york-art
officej1
geocities

 

[Perickles]

More Stocking Sculptures by Rosa Verloop

hifructose.com

More textile sculptures by Reva Castillenti

beautifuldecay.com

 

[Perickles]

Liza Lacroix's Tormented Portrait

beautifuldecay.com

 

[Perickles]

Thanks Meym those paintings are very uglies ;-)

 

[mistress_f]

Hans Bellmer, one of my favourite artists, probably belongs here

braungardt.trialectics.com/art/hans-bellmer/

 

[mistress_f]

braungardt.trialectics.com/art/hans-bellmer/ - griseldaonline.com

 

[Perickles]

Those art works are so uglies! Thank you!. I'm fascinated with the first sculpture. Wow this is orgasmic...

 

[mistress_f]

^ bellmer is among my absolute favourite artists cause his works (especially up close, in real life) are probably the only ones who actually frighten/move me in a deep way. his sculptures are truly intense.

 

[Perickles]

Yes, absolutely multidisciplinary. He wasn't only a good sculptor, creating those great sculptures which actually are his surrealist models. I think that the real motivation, It was taking amazing surrealist photographs. Those pictures can tell us the ugliest poems of the Universe.

 

[Perickles]

Artwork by the Chilean artist Gabriela Rivera

Presentación Personal I (2005)

Bestiario - Cerda

Bestiario - Cadáver

source: gabrielarivera blogspot

 

[Perickles]

Daniel Joseph Martínez

stretcher.org

otisval - tumblr

jeanlucgodzilla - tumblr

 

[Perickles]

Undead Teds by Phillip Blackman

sosoyeah.com

estoapesta.com

estoapesta.com

fusion-freak.com

 

[*Bianca*]

Perhaps not as fitting for the original idea of the thread, but I love the juxtaposition of ugliness and beauty in the work of Sandrine Pelletier.

Flashdance
Repetto - pointes d'artistes - 2009

Lacex

Madame Figaro
Gabrielle, with Erwan Frotin - 2008


triennaletournai.be, maskara.ch

 

[Perickles]

Paintings by Allison Schulnik

allisonschulnik.com

 

[Perickles]

Maria Rubinke's sculptures

source: zupi.com.br

 

[Not Plain Jane]

What a cool idea for a thread!

Photographs by Dutch photographer Koen Hauser
Source: "Lost at E-Minor" (you can find lots of "ugly aesthetics" at this website! )

 

[Perickles]

Joel-Peter Witkin

I think that his aesthetic is very ugly! So wild

alexeko.com

livingshadow95 wordpress

alexeko.com

There are several pictures that are so neat, but too much ugliness for those crybabies is a pain in the... Enjoy 'em!

 

[faywray]

I recommend people check out this chilling video that brings classical art to life. It is titled B E A U T Y but features horrifying paintings such as Saturn Devouring His Child. Highly recommend it!
Here's the link

 

[Alstroe]

Take a look at the works of Jenny Saville, and some Lucian Freud.