Dave Miller's Art Blog

socialartwork.org

Dave — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 15:56:31 +0000

Open Source for Artists! The Social Artwork
Art as a series of Fluxus-like instructions.

Dear Artist,

what if all ideas you ever had would have been realized?
and what if using other people’s ideas wouldn’t be stealing?
Here you can
post your ideas,
browse ideas.
discuss, develop and create together.

‘The Social Artwork’ is an online experiment:
Users can propose projects and collaboratively work on them (or leave it open for others to work on it). In this way a performance piece for instance could be shown all over the world in various versions within a very short amount of time.

It’s not about your image, it’s about art.

Join us on www.socialartwork.org

dave miller uk’s photostream

Dave — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 11:41:12 +0000

dave miller uk’s photostream on Flickr.

Political illustrators – recently came across

Dave — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 17:58:24 +0000

William Banzai – political drawings, often cut and paste Photoshop – often humorous parodies of films. http://williambanzai7.blogspot.com/

Anthony Freda
http://www.anthonyfreda.com/index.html

Shoot_them_in_front_of_their_families

Dave — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 19:30:58 +0000

After the whirl and blur of noise of nonsense high speed news and
counterfeit friends
And well away from the shouting.
In a rare moment of self selection and vulnerability
He regretted his words.
Those uttered (while playing his role of sports car fool)
About suicides and executions and trains and strikers.
“Ooh he’s such a lad!”
“It’s only satire” they tried to explain in a superior way
to a public too thick to understand, ‘cos they didn’t go to Eton.
“Even if there is more than a grain of, well …”
“Lighten up. Where’s your sense of humour everyone?”
“A touch of irony in a PC world gone mad” they protested.
So it’s three cheers for Clarkson, apparently without him and his type
the country would collapse.
The aristocracy is back, baby.

He touches his car,
searching for comfort
should they come in the night.

Occupy the Art World

Dave — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 14:49:30 +0000

For those inured to the art world having been commandeered by high finance, now is the time of reckoning. In view of the Occupy movement’s fight against plutocracy, the arts community should scrutinize the role financial institutions have played, and continue to play, in the collapse of the economy. Those same corporations maintain a benevolent public image through funding the arts; I will mention a handful of these oligarchic “arts supporters” in this article.

http://art-for-a-change.com/blog/

Edward Burra

Dave — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 09:03:58 +0000

Edward Burra, transgressive painter of English countryside and dockside bars
His cabbages are sinister and his barmaids are transvestites. Edward Burra’s watercolours of rural England and Marseilles and Harlem street life are wonderfully distorting

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/nov/18/edward-burra-transgressive-painter

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2011/oct/23/edward-burra-in-pictures?intcmp=239#/?picture=380788839&index=10

Susie Cagle

Dave — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 17:21:41 +0000

Susie Cagle writes and draws true stories & the founder of the Graphic Journos collective.
http://www.thisiswhatconcernsme.com/about-susie/

http://www.graphicjournos.com/blog/

OCCUPY LONDON WITH CARTOONS

Dave — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 12:47:20 +0000

OCCUPY LONDON WITH CARTOONS

At the OccupyLSX site at St Pauls Cathedral there is a lot of Art on the walls, making the area into a sort of people’s gallery. Many drawings are full of slogans and messages.

I’ve built this cartoon generator to make it easier to make cartoons, to get involved in Occupy LSX, to speak out. I hope people at St Pauls – and people everywhere – use it to make cartoons and share them. Once enough are created I will print them and stick on walls around St Pauls.

I’m asking well-known cartoonists to contribute. The generator needs a wide variety of backgrounds and characters, elements the public can re-mix into their own creations. It’s ideal if these come from professional cartoonists – and so far Martin Rowson (of the Guardian) has kindly contributed.

The project on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/groups/208234555916306/

City of London – and Occupy LSX

Dave — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 10:21:32 +0000

From Stewart Home’s blog

“it should be obvious that Richard Chartres is a greedy and ambitious toe-rag who is acting in the interests of the City of London and the British establishment. His offer to mediate between protesters and the financial sector is a sick joke. Anti-capitalists shouldn’t trust Chartres any further than they can throw him. He’s a City of London puppet. It’s high time some real pressure was put on wankers like Chartres who act as secret ambassadors for The City. If we really want to Occupy London then we need to bash this bishop!”

Stupid stuff and lots of animals

Dave — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 17:17:08 +0000

Cartoonist Stephen Collins joins the Guardian
‘Cartoons are where stupidness, jokes and drawing meet’