Art For Death's Sake

[themaninblack 2,112]

Richard Hamilton...Popped off, permanently.

 

Here's his obituary in the Guardian, written by Norbert Lynton...who died in 2007!

[sympathyforthedevil 11]

Richard Hamilton...Popped off, permanently.

 

Here's his obituary in the Guardian, written by Norbert Lynton...who died in 2007!

 

Impressive that Norbert knew about this:

 

"In 2010 the Serpentine show Modern Moral Matters brought together his political works including Shock and Awe (2007-08)."

 

[TAFKAG 70]

Richard Hamilton...Popped off, permanently.

Another pop artist, Gerald Laing, has died.

Here he is in happier times with Amy and Blake

[Spade_Cooley 9,538]

Helen Frankenthaler, who combined vacuous chocolate box art with children's squiggles, is now expressionless after dying at 83.

[Magere Hein 1,400]

Helen Frankenthaler, who combined vacuous chocolate box art with children's squiggles, is now expressionless after dying at 83.

 

 

Mountains and Sea

 

Very, ehrm, colourful.

 

regards,

Hein

[maryportfuncity 10,655]

 

Now here's an interesting twist. I was passing the above picture - currently in its last few days of display at the Turner Contemporary in Margate - when I overheard a conversation being held by two arty types taking a great interest in it. Gerald Brockhurst, the artist, is long dead but the model was his young lover, their affair started when she was 15 and he 38 and the ensuing scandal cost him his marriage and obliged him to move to the US. One of those perusing the painting commented that as far as he knew she was still alive "in a nursing home somewhere." If that's the case then Kathleen Woodward aka Dorette is around 98. National obit chances negligable, possibility of her death being mentioned in the culture section of a broadsheet and qualifying for DDP points, quite high. I tried Googling and found one message board exchange in which someone claimed she died in the 90s and her death brought more of his works onto the market. But no confirmation of date and place of death anywhere. If she's in a nursing home that could also have prompted the works appearing at auction.

[Spade_Cooley 9,538]

Dorothea 'the oldest living surrealist' Tanning can't still be going. If so she is 97.

 

She managed four more years, but Tanning's been put to bed.

[time 8,618]

Catalan artist Antoni Tapies has died aged 88 in Barcelona.

[Spade_Cooley 9,538]

Leonard Rosoman who was, up until his death, the oldest living member of the Royal Academy, has died aged 98. More importantly, this sends me to the top of the DDP. I'm off to pop Cristal with a bunch of models who will find this fact arousing.

[VSBfromH 74]

Thomas Kinkade

 

"Painter of light" who laid claim to being the US's most collected living artist, something which he won't be doing any longer as he has died aged 54.

[Toast 16,150]

Thomas Kinkade

 

"Painter of light" who laid claim to being the US's most collected living artist, something which he won't be doing any longer as he has died aged 54.

 

God is merciful and said "Enough!"

 

I hadn't realised that the perpetrator of those nauseating abominations was still alive, much less that he was only in his 50s. His work is unspeakably hideous. A painter not so much of light but of a sinister radioactive glow.

 

Be afraid - be very afraid ...

[Guest Guest]

Irish artist Louis le Brocquay dead at 95 http://www.rte.ie/ne...le-brocquy.html

[themaninblack 2,112]

Irish artist Louis le Brocquay dead at 95 http://www.rte.ie/ne...le-brocquy.html

 

A unique hit for Moribold Krakatoa’s Playhour...

[Paul Bearer 6,102]

More a sculptor than an artist, George Wyllie dies aged 90

[adrian0719 224]

Leo Dillon, illustrator, who worked in tandem with his wife has died age 79.

 

 

Guess they did some cover art for "The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe"

[charon 4,943]

Orville the cat has passed away, well was run over.

 

Just happened to be the cat of an artist.................................who turned the kittycorpse into a helicopter!

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2154283/Cats-away-Artist-turns-dead-pet-flying-helicopter-killed-car.html

 

Edited June 4, 2012 by Magere Hein
Link fixed

[adrian0719 224]

Renowned medical illustartor and "fool the eye" paintings maker Gerald Hodge has died at 91.

[charon 4,943]

Wayne Roberts aka StayHigh149 @ 62

 

Soz, can't post link.

 

Was prob the most famous Graffiti geezer.

[Guest Guest]

Karl benjamin has died at 86 http://www.latimes.c...0,7806947.story

[charon 4,943]

Aussie painter Adam Cullen @ 47

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/archibald-winner-adam-cullen-dies-aged-47-20120729-2365g.html

[time 8,618]

Artist Lisa de Kooning, daughter of the more famous Willem, has died in the US Virgin Islands, aged 56.

 

A police investigation is ongoing.

[Spade_Cooley 9,538]

Gigi Giannuzzi, publisher of Trolley Books and general all-purpose hanger-on to the YBAs, died of pancreatic cancer on Christmas Eve. Someone cheer me up and tell me this wouldn't have been a unique pick for me in 2013.

[Grande Pablo 109]

Famed teddy bear artist Deborah Jones.

 

http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/Teddy-bear-artist-Deborah-Jones-loved-stars-dies/story-17756247-detail/story.html

[DevonDeathTrip 2,358]

Canadian Inuit artist Kenojuak Ashevak, 85. There can't be many people mentioned as dead on this forum to have been born in an igloo.

 

She often painted owls.

[Death Impends 7,986]

I like this one:

 

 

A bit like an owl medusa.