2022-02-21_06-06-17
New art on our wall today! We very infrequently get the chance to buy a piece of art directly from an artist we love. This is a piece titled "My Back Yard" by author, mathematician, and painter, Rudy Rucker. If you're a reader of fiction, you may know him as one of the founders of Cyberpunk and author of the Ware tetralogy. If you're a software geek, you may know him from his work on CelLab and other cellular automata software. His art has gained a following too. Rather than describe this piece myself, I'll borrow Rudy's description:
My Back Yard
Acrylic, 28" x 22", November, 2021
"I’ve mentioned before that I like old paintings that illustrate proverbs that have been forgotten. Unknown parables. Bosch’s The Cure of Folly and Bruegel’s Peasant and Bird Nester, his sinister Beekeepers, and his Misanthrope have this quality. Making a new painting of an unknown parable is a type of Surrealism. In this painting I started with a scene from my backyard, and added a squirrel, two chickens, and three somehow symbolic-looking bumblebees. Plus a cool towel with a mandala design. And a woman who’s perhaps hanging the towel, or perhaps painting something on the back of it. And deliberately with no explanation. The unknown parable of the towel!"
2022-02-21_06-06-17
New art on our wall today! We very infrequently get the chance to buy a piece of art directly from an artist we love. This is a piece titled "My Back Yard" by author, mathematician, and painter, Rudy Rucker. If you're a reader of fiction, you may know him as one of the founders of Cyberpunk and author of the Ware tetralogy. If you're a software geek, you may know him from his work on CelLab and other cellular automata software. His art has gained a following too. Rather than describe this piece myself, I'll borrow Rudy's description:
My Back Yard
Acrylic, 28" x 22", November, 2021
"I’ve mentioned before that I like old paintings that illustrate proverbs that have been forgotten. Unknown parables. Bosch’s The Cure of Folly and Bruegel’s Peasant and Bird Nester, his sinister Beekeepers, and his Misanthrope have this quality. Making a new painting of an unknown parable is a type of Surrealism. In this painting I started with a scene from my backyard, and added a squirrel, two chickens, and three somehow symbolic-looking bumblebees. Plus a cool towel with a mandala design. And a woman who’s perhaps hanging the towel, or perhaps painting something on the back of it. And deliberately with no explanation. The unknown parable of the towel!"