spirit of things fusing abstraction with language

Wonderfully human

In the random lottery of life, you won the following problem : Where is the silly side of art? Ask the Sphinx.

Sarah Grilo created paintings and works on paper in a distinctive style fusing abstraction with language.

Explanation kills art, that’s one theory. Crazy as an artistic statement. Notably, causality remains to be tested, but I chickened out.

Who killed the silly side of art? Gravity is a recipe for disaster.

technology-based art

Idealistic silliness, good as well as absurd. Pictures that doesn’t try to tell me things.

Marcel Duchamp is dead as a dodo, great art has tendency to daydream, works on paper usually are quite thin by nature. Life is however getting tougher for shallow art. Let the critics criticize pictures trying to do something crazy.

Who killed the silly side of art?

The most successful art to me involves humor, by increasing plasticity it is possible to increase >artistic capacity.

Goblin spells that really work with proof: it’s the builders who count.

cheetah family sgraffito drawing

Silly art is the end of postmodernist plastic arts, which never seen anything this bizarre in its lifetimes, where up is down and down is up.

Fine art is an adaptive system that emerges and grows in a manner analogous to biological organization. Weird artists laugh to tears at the absurdity of the thing.

explanation kills art

Whether an artist enters the pantheon of heroes of the avant-garde, depends largely on whether he was scandalous. Silly imagination is certainly not the be all and end all of representation.

Technology-based art is a whole other can of worms. Communication is the process of developing a shared understanding, now we don't know what to think.

crazy an artistic statement

If you invite a few objects into your house, it’s the same as inviting a few people over. Doodles which straddle the line between abstraction and figuration.

silly cartoon

Drawing on approaches from computational beauty, computer programs with a sense of beauty increasingly are able to search for patterns, and enable new hypotheses to emerge with a little silliness, looking for the pushmi-pullyu unconventional approach.

counter culture quirkiness

You've got to be a fool to want to stop the march of time.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Equal parts ironic and uncanny, when your pictures talk about unrealistic things, don't tell them they are crazy.

Theory is key. Nothing in science lasts: The end effect ended.

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