Art I like

Here is some art and artist which I like:

Thomas Cole’s The Course of Empire

The Savage State, or The Commencement of Empire

The Arcadian or Pastoral State

The Consummation of Empire

Destruction

Desolation

John Everett Millais’s A Huguenot, on St. Bartholomew’s Day

John Everett Millais’s The Black Brunswicker

Jacques-Louis David’s The Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons

Jacques-Louis David’s The Death of Socrates

Anthony van Dyck’s Charles I in Three Positions

Kaws:Family

People say that some art captivates you and just brings you in. This is the first time I remember that happening to me in an organic way.

I’ve tried to … force that, intentionally sitting in front of painting that I like for 10 or 15 minutes. But this is the first time when the painting forced me to keep looking.

I was struck by how each of the family members were similar to each other and different. And how the differences don’t make them not family. The family is something that transcends the differences.

I just had to stop there and stare and keep looking at it and thinking about how the piece reflected life.

Oliver Husain and Kerstin Schroedinger, DNCB

DNCB, or dinitrochlorobenzene, is a chemical compound that was used an experimental treatment for HIV. The above image is a still from the 3-channel video installation at MOCA.

I was deeply moved by the idea of a dying man applying poison to his skin to try to live.