getting wood

um oo kk i need pieces that will be 6 foot and then a few 3 foot pieces so in total soo if i get 8 foot tall pieces i will have 2 foot pieces spare then so  i will need to get 3 8 foot pieces then this will give me the cross support and then i will need to get some help from friend to bring up the wood to my studio soo it should be all fun and game and will proble cost me a bit of money but it be fine and then i need to sort out the helper for my work and then i need to get a few paint lol :)

i little inside my head

well i have to do lot of work for uni and then i need to reflect on it all. i have a really cool idea for a painting it does invole people and leafs and a knife and avery big canvas :) well i wont go in to to much detail because i have to make it a suprise for every1. ok well that is that bit done hiya to every1 and i hope you all are enjoying life and shit like that well umm uni is very fun and i have made a dragon yay :D
well i like pie and i have to do lot of work with in intent of making more exstentive piece of work yay i cant wait woop lol
i have found that i i am very easy amused by a simple piece of paper
i want to fly to the moon i think it would be fun to fly there and jump around with out the side affects of you know death hey hoo

just got back now

hiya guys i am soo sorri that i have not been on for a long time i have just been sorting out uni stuff and getting to grips with my course. soo yh lincoln is very fun and the drinkin is going good aswell :)

evaluation FMP

i have found thatmy project has been fun and intresting AND IT HAS SET ME UP FOR UNIVERSTIY  and this is a good thing becuase that was my idea and there was a few thing that are bad about it like that i cudnt fine different marterails apart from the stuff found in the college skip and this left it with the history or education and i would of like it with out that and with it soo i had more to do with over things and i like the colours used like on my rega rega toilet lol but yh all 2gether it has been a good project and i hope that it will stay with me and help me develop my own work in the future that was the plan soo it sud happen :)

Mark Scott Wood

http://markscottwood.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/collectible.html?zx=3bfb9cb3f6eee6a5

http://www.markscottwood.com/

http://www.saatchionline.com/markscottwood

oo yh this is Mark Scott Wood piece of work and i look really intresting i like the line the marerails and the colours that have bben used in this composition and i i take it apat there is structore in the uses of barbed wire  and the line that is made up when they cross each other but that also causes chaos with in the piece because u dont kno where to look and the colour end up taking ur eye away from one place to the next and the  next. the colour that have been used is very intresting there is alot of light colours and very cheap paint me thinks. soo in all it is a very chaotic piece with the structure from the maretial and the use of layering thought  the whole piece and this also bring in another bit in to it, it has been structord on each over to make it more on and inpentable piece it is like you cant get in to it soo see what is goin on with it but there is still a few holes with in it to let u in soo yh it is intresting in that way :)


this is Marks studio space and as you can see it is very mess and chaotic but it is structord in the same way because he will kno whaere everything is ment to be and what is goin where. and i can see here that it is very raw and he is getting ready to make some more box legs and this is an intresting picture in to the studio of Mark Scott Wood and i like the contrast between the white wall and the brown from the boxes and tape and in the top left the is a black paper flower and this is another part of the composition of this picture. i like how it look and in it self it is a sculpture and a piece of art work it just look amazing.


well this one is called the whitches head well that is a very obveruse name for it but still i like how it look and the way it has been made  and the iterms that have been used like the donuts well it look like that it is probley some kind of wood or box thing bcuz he like boxes :) but anyways u have a very low tech things being used within this work like the baloon that makes up the head for the whitch and the eye are made out of something else but i dont kno what. i will say that there is a lot of structure with in it and not alot of chaos in it unless u count the marterials then there is some chaos in it with the frabric from the hat and the balloon from the head and that piece of paper that look like it makes up the mouth and the nose is some that i cant tell what it is and then the eyes. but yh i like this piece bcuz it is quiter jokie and i can have a giggle lol


i like this sign it is funny in a weird way that it is about death and the fact that he take it out and about all around and every1 will see it i like that about it. i also like the different sign aroound it they on the over hand look very profestional and his sign is more colourful and bigger and very childish in the way it is done. it look like it has been made out of about  8 different fabrics one for the banner and the other 7 for the letters that he has cud out of the frabic and that give this piece something else

agrrr

oo kkhere is a little rant y in the hell do they make a work for  people who cant spell good soo why make a word that is hard to spell relly dyselxic or something like that why do that it just not nice oo yh come on and spelly what you are thanks guy that is soo nice of you arr it annoys me soo very much  :( grummpy face a grrr

billy childish

i like how it is a very simple and child like and has alot of colour with in the compostion and i is useing his own past wiith in the composition with the naval mark on the caritures
wow i only just relised that this picture is about that figer suck off the other guy and that is intresting and quite hidden untill u look closer to it and i find that really intresting and for some kind of reason i cant stop looking at it lol.

and i like all the novels that he has writen because it is basicle say why in the hell do i need to come up with spell check when it is right in my head and this is how thing are spelt to me.
 i cant find a picture of his novel.

billy childish

http://www.billychildish.com/bio.html

A cult figure in America, Europe and Japan, Billy Childish is by far the most prolific painter,

poet, and song-writer of his generation. In a twenty year period he has published over 40

collections of his poetry, recorded over 100 full-length independent LP’s and produced over

2000 paintings.

Born in 1959 in Chatham, Kent. Billy Childish left Secondary education at 16 an

undiagnosed dyslexic. Refused an interview at the local art school he entered the Naval

Dockyard at Chatham as an apprentice stonemason. During the following six months (the

artist’s only prolonged period of employment), he produced some six hundred drawings in

‘the tea huts of hell. On the basis of this work he was accepted into St Martin’s School of Art

to study painting. However, his acceptance was short-lived and before completing the

course he was expelled for his outspokenness and unorthodox working methods. With no

qualifications and no job prospects Childish then spent some 12 years ‘painting on the dole’,

developing his own highly personal writing style and producing his art independently.

My name is Billy Childish. I was diagnosed dyslexic when I was 28.

I have published 30 collections of poetry and 2 novels. I have made about 100 independent

LP records and painted over 2000 paintings. When I was 17 I had a bank account under the

name of Kurt Schwitters. I lived on the dole for 15 years.

 

I am self taught.

I do not like fashion culture.

I do not hate anyone.

both of Mark Scott-Wood and David Kefford use the outside /raw art look with in there work

oo kk Mark Scott-Wood work:

oo kk well this is a very natureal way of doing signs and it work very well for mark and his own work plus it look like a child hs done it and that is like his mentality and the way he is within his own work. i like how easy it is to read this peice and the background keeps me looking at it for a longer time then when i have finshed reading the message.


i like this piece because it uses very simple thing like box tape and boxes and mushrooms lol it is just funny how he chooses his marterails and some how it look very intresting in it self and i do know that the legs on top of the box is his own and that is is quite similer to my work but with less colour :) but just on the box it will keep my eye on it because it has lots of line and a lot of structure with the box and tghe tape it make it more stuctured but the tape also make it chaotic because it is randomly place on to the box like there has been no care put in to constructing it, then you come to the the mushrooms and these have been placed very organside in a circle and he has alson use  different colours to make the circle soo i have the feeling that the box brown is leaking on to the mushroom to give it that colour  soo just in that bit there is the structure of the circle and the chaotic of the different colour but then again some my say that, that action is in it self is a structor. all i have to think about the legs now and they are made out od box tape and is is in the stucture of legs and the chaos part of that is that it has been made out of a weak maretail. but then i look at the colour of the tape and it carries on thought the whole sculpture a brown and very inductiral type look to it and it is like it he has been in a box factory and gotten turned in to a box him self. and if u flip the sculpture around it look like a stick man with a really big head :)


oo kk now with David Kefford:


David Kefford is a very surgestive  artist and well this one has the look of a very tall person lol no i doesn't i look like a dick and i like how he uses maretail that he fineds and being them to life again. i like the fire gards at the the bottom of this structure it is quite surgestive saying that now i have looked at it for abit it look like a space rocket :) that is some of my childish thought comeing there and it also look like he as used a pipe or some thing long and coverd it in clingfilm and tape and it is a very thrown 2gether piece of work but it will alway make me giggle every time i see it.


well let me see it is funny in my head it look like to me 2 people one on the chair and one kneeling on the floor and it is brightly colourd and i is tied 2geatherto keep it in one place i really don t know wot to say about this piece of work just that i klike it and i like his work and that it is very firguretive and it make me giggle all the time i see it.

raw astetics

ok well the raw look is basicle where it looks rough and basic but it still has the intulect abouot it well that is what i think. it is getting things and puttting them togeather and leaving it very raw soo it is not a pristine and clean cut  it is where you can see the materials it is made out off.

outsider art

Outsider art

The term outsider art was coined by art critic Roger Cardinal in 1972 as an English synonym for art brut (French: [aʁ bʁyt], "raw art" or "rough art"), a label created by French artist Jean Dubuffet to describe art created outside the boundaries of official culture; Dubuffet focused particularly on art by insane-asylum inmates.^[1]
While Dubuffet's term is quite specific, the English term "outsider art" is often applied more broadly, to include certain self-taught or Naïve art makers who were never institutionalized. Typically, those labeled as outsider artists have little or no contact with the mainstream art world or art institutions. In many cases, their work is discovered only after their deaths. Often, outsider art illustrates extreme mental states, unconventional ideas, or elaborate fantasy worlds.
Outsider art has emerged as a successful art marketing category (an annual Outsider Art Fair has taken place in New York since 1993). The term is sometimes misapplied as a catch-all marketing label for art created by people outside the mainstream "art world," regardless of their circumstances or the content of their work.

Art of the insane

Main article: Creativity and mental illness

Interest in the art of insane asylum inmates had begun to grow in the 1920s. In 1921 Dr. Walter Morgenthaler published his book Ein Geisteskranker als Künstler (A Psychiatric Patient as Artist) on Adolf Wölfli, a psychotic mental patient in his care. Wölfli had spontaneously taken up drawing, and this activity seemed to calm him. His most outstanding work is an illustrated epic of 45 volumes in which he narrates his own imaginary life story. With 25,000 pages, 1,600 illustrations, and 1,500 collages, it is a monumental work. He also produced a large number of smaller works, some of which were sold or given as gifts. His work is on display at the Adolf Wölfli Foundation in the Museum of Fine Art, Bern. A defining moment was the publication of Bildnerei der Geisteskranken (Artistry of the mentally ill) in 1922, by Dr Hans Prinzhorn.
People with some artistic training and well-established artists are not immune from mental illness and may also be institutionalised. For example, William Kurelek, later awarded the Order of Canada for his artistic life work, as a young man was admitted to the Maudsley Psychiatric Hospital where he was treated for schizophrenia.^[2] In hospital he painted, producing "The Maze", a dark depiction of his tortured youth.^[3] This 1953 work was used as the cover of the 1981 Van Halen rock album Fair Warning. His experience in the hospital was documented in the LIFE Science Library book The Mind, published in 1965.

 Jean Dubuffet and art brut

French artist Jean Dubuffet was particularly struck by Bildnerei der Geisteskranken and began his own collection of such art, which he called art brut or raw art. In 1948 he formed the Compagnie de l'Art Brut along with other artists, including André Breton. The collection he established became known as the Collection de l'art brut. It contains thousands of works and is now permanently housed in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Dubuffet characterized art brut as:

"Those works created from solitude and from pure and authentic creative impulses – where the worries of competition, acclaim and social promotion do not interfere – are, because of these very facts, more precious than the productions of professionals. After a certain familiarity with these flourishings of an exalted feverishness, lived so fully and so intensely by their authors, we cannot avoid the feeling that in relation to these works, cultural art in its entirety appears to be the game of a futile society, a fallacious parade." - Jean Dubuffet. Place à l'incivisme (Make way for Incivism). Art and Text no.27 (December 1987 - February 1988). p.36 Dubuffet's writing on art brut was the subject of a noted program at the Art Club of Chicago in the early 1950s.

Dubuffet argued that 'culture', that is mainstream culture, managed to assimilate every new development in art, and by doing so took away whatever power it might have had. The result was to asphyxiate genuine expression. Art brut was his solution to this problem – only art brut was immune to the influences of culture, immune to being absorbed and assimilated, because the artists themselves were not willing or able to be assimilated.

 The cultural context of the outsider art category

The interest in "outsider" practices among twentieth century artists and critics can be seen as part of a larger emphasis on the rejection of established values within the modernist art milieu. The early part of the 20th Century gave rise to cubism and the Dada, Constructivist and Futurist movements in art, all of which involved a dramatic movement away from cultural forms of the past. Dadaist Marcel Duchamp, for example, abandoned "painterly" technique to allow chance operations a role in determining the form of his works, or simply to re-contextualize existing "readymade" objects as art. Mid-century artists, including Pablo Picasso, looked "outside" the traditions of high culture for inspiration, drawing from the artifacts of "primitive" societies, the unschooled artwork of children, and vulgar advertising graphics. Dubuffet's championing of the art brut – of the insane and others at the margins of society – is yet another example of avant-garde art challenging established cultural values.

Vocabulary

Two images of Joe Minter's African Village in America, a half-acre visionary art environment in Birmingham, Alabama. Scenes include African warriors watching their descendants’ struggles in Alabama, tributes to black scientists and military leaders, recreations of the epic civil rights confrontations in Alabama, and biblical scenes.

A number of terms are used to describe art that is loosely understood as "outside" of official culture. Definitions of these terms vary, and there are areas of overlap between them. The editors of Raw Vision, a leading journal in the field, suggest that "Whatever views we have about the value of controversy itself, it is important to sustain creative discussion by way of an agreed vocabulary". Consequently they lament the use of "outsider artist" to refer to almost any untrained artist. "It is not enough to be untrained, clumsy or naïve. Outsider Art is virtually synonymous with Art Brut in both spirit and meaning, to that rarity of art produced by those who do not know its name."

• Art Brut: literally translated from French means "raw art"; 'Raw' in that it has not been through the 'cooking' process: the art world of art schools, galleries, museums. Originally art by psychotic individuals who existed almost completely outside culture and society. Strictly speaking it refers only to the Collection de l'art brut.
• Folk art: Folk art originally suggested crafts and decorative skills associated with peasant communities in Europe – though presumably it could equally apply to any indigenous culture. It has broadened to include any product of practical craftsmanship and decorative skill – everything from chain-saw animals to hub-cap buildings. A key distinction between folk and outsider art is that folk art typically embodies traditional forms and social values, where outsider art stands in some marginal relationship to society's mainstream.
• Intuitive art / Visionary art: Raw Vision Magazine's preferred general terms for outsider art. It describes them as deliberate umbrella terms. However, Visionary Art unlike other definitions here can often refer to the subject matter of the works, which includes images of a spiritual or religious nature. Intuitive art is probably the most general term available. Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art based in Chicago operates a museum dedicated to the study and exhibition of intuitive and outsider art. The American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland is dedicated to the collection and display of visionary art.
• Marginal art/Art singulier: Essentially the same as Neue Invention; refers to artists on the margins of the art world.
• Naïve art: Another term commonly applied to untrained artists who aspire to "normal" artistic status, i.e. they have a much more conscious interaction with the mainstream art world than do outsider artists.
• Neuve Invention: Used to describe artists who, although marginal, have some interaction with mainstream culture. They may be doing art part-time for instance. The expression was coined by Dubuffet too; strictly speaking it refers only to a special part of the Collection de l'art brut.
• Visionary environments: Buildings and sculpture parks built by visionary artists - range from decorated houses, to large areas incorporating a large number of individual sculptures with a tightly associated theme. Examples include Watts Towers by Simon Rodia, Buddha Park and Sala Keoku by Bunleua Sulilat, and The Palais Ideal by Ferdinand Cheval.

compitional grid

http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/~ecdfourq/composition/CAE2008Abstract.html

need to check this out

this is the grid that i will be using for my own composition and hopefull i can created the stucture with in my own work and then have the chaos in it bcuz it is how i work :) i just hope that this works 

and the 'Assumption of the Virgin' by Titain

 oo kk this that the angles that the 3 split up ward and i is related to my work quite alot

time to whittle

 ok well i started to whittle and that is the piece of wood i had  plus the saftie glove

 the knife i use to start to whittle

the end product and it was a dick but i did find out that it took the stress away and it was very relaxsing and then started to look into where whittleing came from and way people did it and i found out that it started up in the war the soilders would do it to carm their nerves

 hand of didck or something like that lol no but really it is another piece of wood i whittled and i did that with it it lookd quite cool

 i just thought that lok really cool and it is just dried paint in a bucket

 woman doin chores and kid in back ground very sterio tipical picture i dont like it

 but she has got a engeners overall on soo it has this kind of voice that is say i dont wont to do this shit i wont to do something better

 elivated dick on the floor abit like politics or footbal i just wonted to change the context of the same kind of piece

 ity does look like it is looking at me or crawling toward me creepy

it is like the bush of it haha yh

 man :) umm yh it was on of the few i started using colour i like it and it does have a present within the room

close up  butr it does look a lot like David Keffords work with the figer look about it
 

 it does look very male bcuz of how i hav put it 2geather with all joinery found objects

kid calling out that is quite a good name for it. and i need to work out what to call my pieces just to help out people

well ask you can see its a boy well done yh lol i liker the humore that i have in my work

 i ended up painting him and abit less litrial  soo you have blue for boy but when it was a girls colour and a joinery piece implying that there is sexi time that or something along those lines

just a close up of the blue to make sure in was all level and intechaly put there

this one creep the hell out oif me bcuz it looks like she is following my no matter where i go :) yh this is the girl of my work soo if u put them all togeather you get boy, girl, sex and kid hmmm kowinsedence  i think not :)

Reflection note on research:

Reflection note on research:

·         Ok well let me see i started to look  in to dada and Duchamp and mark Scott wood with David kefford of starting points because they work with collarge

·         Then i email Mark and David Kefford and i i go some very usefull feedback from them and this then help me to look in to more artist and movement such as Dada and fluxes  and in to some of the artist like Sarah Lucas and like folk art and outside art

·         I then started to look in to the idea of whittling and how i can show that with in my work and i look in to some art that involed it and i also found out that in the war soldiers would whittle because it kept them of thinking about the fight ahead soo it was used to carm the nerves

·         I was thinkin about sexi time at this point and made a dick out of the wood and that got me thinking about Sarah Lucas’s work and what she does then i lookin in to David Kefford and i saw more similarity and i was really fun to chat with him though email. 

·         i don’t know what to say just that i get an idea and then i research in to artist that relate to my work and that led me in to doing more research on other thing and different thing plus the way i work is i i do the research to strengthen my idea but it just end up me goin in a different direction and then ending up in a similar direction that i was in to begin with after going thought 3 or 4 ideas and it still end u bing good i hope

·         But yh without my research i would not of got to where i am right now and this is very helpful so has the reflective practise and also lookin in to different art movements such as Dada and Folk Art and Outsider art where i found them where from Mark Scott Wood emails to me

·         So it has all been very useful and just doing this is helping me out with the way i will structure my work and organise it so people can come in to my space a kinda understand it but i hope that when people do look at it that they walk though it and walk out whiles thinkin about the different meaning that is could be/ mean

·         And my work defiantly depend on how i am feelin at that time so if i am feelin happy there will be happiness within it but if i am sad then there want  be happiness in it or if it is there then it be fake soo a difference kind of meaning but i want it all to have that kinda of joke of sexi time and rudeness just because it will be very funny  to me

sarah lucas

Sarah Lucas (born Holloway, London, 1962) is an English artist. She is part of the generation of Young British Artists who emerged during the 1990s. Her works frequently employ visual puns and bawdy humour, and include photography, collage and found objects.

Education
Lucas left school at 16; she studied art at The Working Men's College (1982–3), London College of Printing (1983–4), and Goldsmith's College (1984–7), graduating with a degree in Fine Art in 1987.^[1]

Work

Lucas was included in the 1988 group exhibition Freeze along with contemporaries including Angus Fairhurst, Damien Hirst, and Gary Hume.^[2] In 1990, Lucas co-organized the East Country Yard Show with Henry Bond, in which she also exhibited. Her first two solo exhibitions in 1992 were titled The Whole Joke and Penis Nailed to a Board. It was in in the early 1990s when Lucas began using furniture as a substitute for the human body, usually with crude genital punning.^[3] Created for a show organised by fellow artist Georg Herold at Portikus, Au Naturel (1994) is an assemblage of objects—a mattress, a bucket, a pair of melons, oranges and a cucumber—that suggest male and female body parts.^[4] For six months in 1993, Lucas and fellow artist Tracey Emin rented a retail space in east London, The Shop, where they made artworks, ranging from printed mugs to T-shirts with slogans, and put them on sale. In works such as Bitch (table, t-shirt, melons, and vacuum-packed smoked fish, 1995), she merges tabloid culture with the economy of the ready-made. In earlier work, she had displayed enlarged pages from the Sunday Sport newspaper. Through her career, Lucas has continued to appropriate everyday materials (including, for example, freshly made fried eggs) to make works that use humour, visual puns and sexual metaphors of sex, death, Englishness and gender.

Sarah Lucas. Self-Portraits 1990 – 1998 (1999)

Sarah Lucas is also known for her self-portraits, such as Human Toilet Revisited, 1998, a colour photograph in which she sits on a toilet smoking a cigarette. In her solo exhibition The Fag Show at Sadie Coles in 2000, she used cigarettes as a material, as in Self-portrait with Cigarettes (2000).
Writing in the The Guardian, in 2011, Aida Edemariam said that "Lucas was the wildest of the Young British Artists, partying hard and making art that was provocative and at times genuinely shocking."^[5] In 1996, she was the subject of a BBC documentary, Two Melons and a Stinking Fish.

 Exhibitions

Lucas had her first solo exhibition in 1992 at City Racing, an artists' run gallery in south London, and her first solo show in New York at the Barbara Gladstone Gallery in 1995.^[6] One-person museum exhibitions at Museum Boymans-van Beuningen in Rotterdam, at Portikus in Frankfurt, at Museum Ludwig in Cologne and at Kunsthalle Zurich, Kunstverein am Hamburg and Tate Liverpool have accompanied exhibitions in less conventional spaces—an empty office building for The Law in 1997, a disused postal depot in Berlin for the exhibition Beautiness in 1999, and an installation at the Freud Museum called Beyond the Pleasure Principle in 2000.
Lucas’s work has been included in major surveys of new British art in the last decade including Brilliant!—New Art From London at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, in 1995, Sensation (Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection at the Royal Academy in 1997), and Intelligence—New British Art, 2000, at Tate Britain. In 2003, Sarah Lucas participated in the 50th International Biennale of Art in Venice, Outlook: Contemporary Art in Athens, and In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, a three person exhibition for Tate Britain with Angus Fairhurst and Damien Hirst in 2004. From October 2005 to January 2006, Tate Liverpool presented the first survey exhibition of Lucas's work.

 Personal life

In the mid-2000s, Lucas was in a relationship with fellow YBA Angus Fairhurst.^[7] Lucas now lives with her partner Julian Simmons, in the former residence of Benjamin Britten near Aldeburgh; a home which is "tucked away down a long country lane, behind a Baptist church in Suffolk."^[8]

off-color

The term off-color humor (also known as vulgar humor or crude humor) is an Americanism used to describe jokes, prose, poems, black comedy, blue comedy, insult comedy, cringe comedy and skits that deal with topics that are considered to be in poor taste or overly vulgar by the prevailing morality of a culture. Most commonly labeled as "off-color" are acts concerned with sex, a particular ethnic group, or gender. Other off-color topics include violence, particularly domestic abuse; excessive swearing or profanity; "toilet humor"; national superiority or inferiority, dead baby jokes, pedophilic content, and any other topics generally considered impolite or indecent. Generally, the point of off-color humor is to induce laughter by evoking a feeling of shock and surprise in the comedian's audience. In this way, off-color humor is related to other forms of postmodern humor, such as the anti-joke.

History
Off-color humor was used in Ancient Greek comedy, primarily by its most famous contributor and representative, Aristophanes. His work parodied some of the great tragedians of his time, especially Euripides, using sexual and excremental jokes that received great popularity among his contemporaries.
Another one for the endless sexual jokes was William Shakespeare, the 16th-century playwright and poet. Almost every one of his plays contains suggestive jokes and innuendo.
Jonathan Swift, an Irish satirist in the 17th century, used scatological humor in some of his pieces, including his famous essay A Modest Proposal and his rather crude poem "The Lady's Dressing Room," in which the speaker comments on the goings-on in a 17th-century woman's room, including her business in her chamber pot.
Dirty jokes were once considered subversive and underground, and rarely heard in public. Comedian Lenny Bruce was tried, convicted, and jailed for obscenity after a stand up performance that included off-color humor in New York City in 1964. Comedian and actor Redd Foxx was well known in nightclubs in the 1960s and 1970s for his raunchy stand-up act, but toned it down for the television shows Sanford and Son and The Redd Foxx Comedy Hour, stating in the first monologue of the latter show that the only similarity between the show and his nightclub act was that "I'm smoking".[1] American society has become increasingly tolerant of off-color humor since that time. Such forms of humor have become widely distributed and more socially acceptable, in part due to the mainstream success in the 1970s and 1980s of comedians like Dolemite, Andrew Dice Clay's "The Dice Man", and Richard Pryor.
In the 1990s and modern era, comedians such as George Carlin, Bill Hicks and Dave Chappelle use shocking content to draw attention to their criticism of social issues, especially censorship and the socioeconomic divide. The highly-praised television show South Park also popularized the use of offensive humor, for which the show has become infamous. The Aristocrats is perhaps the most famous dirty joke in the US and is certainly one of the best-known and most oft-repeated among comedians themselves.
In British humor, the genre of "sick jokes" is often used to shock by poking fun at taboo or as a reaction against political correctness. Examples include the website B3ta, the humour wiki Sickipedia and its accompanying book The Bumper B3ta Book of Sick Jokes,^[1] and the adult comic Viz.

duchamp fountain

Fountain (1917)

Duchamp’s most notorious readymade was a manufactured urinal entitled Fountain. Conceived for a show promoting avant-garde art, Fountain took advantage of the show’s lack of juried panels, which invariably excluded forward-looking artists.

Under a pseudonym, “R. Mutt,” Duchamp submitted Fountain. It was a prank, meant to taunt his avant-garde peers. For some of the show’s organizers this was too much — was the artist equating modern art with a toilet fixture? — and Fountain was “misplaced” for the duration of the exhibition. It disappeared soon thereafter.

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As surely as it was a prank, Fountain was also, like the other readymades, a calculated attack on the most basic conventions of art. Duchamp defended the piece in an unsigned article in The Blind Man, a one-shot magazine published by his friend Beatrice Wood. To the charge that Fountain was mere plagiarism, “a plain piece of plumbing,” he replied “Whether Mr. Mutt with his own hands made the fountain or not has no importance. He CHOSE it. He took an ordinary article of life, placed it so that its useful significance disappeared under the new title and point of view — created a new thought for that object.”

At the time, almost nobody understood what Duchamp was talking about. But fifty years later everyday objects would be commonplace in art.

R. Mutt Meaning

Like much of what Duchamp did and said, the meaning of R. Mutt and other pseudonyms such as Rrose Selavy is up for debate; Duchamp was famous for his use of intentional misdirection in interviews, so everything he said needs to be taken with a grain of salt.

In William Camfield's Marcel Duchamp's Fountain: Its History and Aesthetics in the Context of 1917, the author quotes from an interview with Duchamp on the origins of "R. Mutt"

"Duchamp stated many years later that the pseudonym "Mutt" came from the Mott Works [J.L. Mott Iron Works, manufacturer of the urinal] but was modified because "Mott was too close so I altered it to Mutt, after the daily strip cartoon "Mutt and Jeff" which appeared at the time, and with which everyone was familiar. Thus, from the start there was an interplay of Mutt: a fat little funny man, and Jeff: a tall thin man...And I added Richard [French slang for money-bags]. That's not a bad name for a "piasotiere." Get it? The opposite of poverty. But not even that much, just R. MUTT."

L.H.O.O.Q., Marcel Duchamp (1919)

Artist: Marcel Duchamp (1887- 1968), whose sense of humour first came to attention in 1917, when he submitted, under the name R Mutt, a urinal to a New York art exhibition. Duchamp anonymously defended R Mutt in a magazine, and gave a definition of his new art of the readymade: whether or not Mr Mutt made it with his own hand has no importance. He chose it. He took an everyday article, placed it so that its usual significance disappeared under the new title and point of view - and created a new thought for that object.

Subject: The Mona Lisa, painted in the 16th century by Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), and the most celebrated portrait in the world.
 
Distinguishing features: The Mona Lisa's deep-set eyes and round face do not conflict with Duchamp's act of violence. The beard and moustache seem a completion. Duchamp said the Mona Lisa becomes a man - not a woman disguised as a man, but a real man. This hints at a different meaning from vandalism, for all the crudeness of those letters, L.H.O.O.Q., which sound out the French sentence: "She has a hot arse." This is not simply an attack on the mass-produced tourist icon the Mona Lisa had become, but rather an inter-pretation of it. Sigmund Freud had psychoanalysed Leonardo's art and related the artist's inability to finish his works to the sublimation of his sexual life to art. He also argued that Leonardo was homosexual.

Duchamp's Mona Lisa is a Freudian joke. Duchamp reveals, in a simple gesture, that which the painting conceals. But this is not merely an allusion to Freud. Duchamp uncovers an ambiguity of gender at the heart of Leonardo's aesthetic - that Leonardo sees the male form in the female.
This kind of hidden self- portrait is what Duchamp discovers in his rectified readymade. His Dadaist intervention redeems Leonardo's masterpiece from the banality of reproduction and returns it to the private world of creation.

Duchamp the meaning

this is a website for the Dada artist duchamp  and his work i will also be creating a file where i can read thought it aswell

http://myweb.wit.edu/sheas/EP/Work/MarcelDuchampsFountain.pdf

Reflection notes no spell check

Reflection notes.

·         Ok well i have been working on my work are a long time now and i stop looking at it as how i could change it or just working on it i stop working on it full stop so i figure i need a group crit whatever that is Jon keeps on saying it to me and the other fine artist.

·         Well i had the group crit land it went well no one really said anything bad about my work but it did take them a bit of time to work out what i was trying to say with it and to be honest i didn’t know what it could be until a few moments ago. I like the idea of lots of sexi time creating a mess and producing a nest for this kid to sit on. Which in turn make more mess. Soo it was a really good thing to have the crit and i had a laught aswell with it.

·         I moved my work on to the outside and i find it a better location for me because im out of the way and it is behind the sence just like sexi time aswell.

·         But i have found this place to have my exabition and it is quite mess but i will try and work with it because that goes with my odd piece of work with the sexi time and mess and kid

·         I desided to change me idea to a family unit and the dad leaving so the mom is left to pick up the pieces and care for the kid and that kinda hit a personal level for me so it was like the dad just left after the sexi time and didn’t care.

·         I had a crit for people in my class and form the fine artist aswell and it seems like they like it but i was quite confusing and i had abit of input from them say that it was confusing and a bit literal when they relised what it was and they just didn’t get my work and that crit was from the group who is mainly designers soo yh but it was useful all peoples look on it is useful like because im not only going to be showing my work to fine artist.

·         Soo when the fine artist look at my work it was different it had sexi time on the floor and it was still in the messy state of when i found it and i just added my stuff in to it. They seem to get it and they dint really see the sexi time what i think is the point but yh and they gave me a lot more input like that do u need to have all that shit around and is it there properly or what and i think that i will need to clean it up soo i can add thing in soo it is ment to be there and they weren’t to sure about my sign home sweet home soo i think i will need to get rid of that.

·         Well i have got rid of the shit and now it looks better and i will be putting up the metal dome things to see how that looks and i ask jon if he could help me put them up because i try to put them up by myself and they were to heavy

·         Ok we have got the dome thing up and now we are going to add the metal bars to give it some structure and hopefully it will turn out good

·         Ok we got them up it was hot and hard work wow but now it is looking really cool and it give you something to look at and a focal point soo all i need now is something to go in to their hmm i wonder what i think i will have the metal table with the wooden top in there to give that alter type of feel to it

·         Ok i just be laugh at because i have taken a toilet out of the skip because i thought it look good and it made me laugh soo i will be painting it and defiantly putting that in the back space and give people something to look at and it does look very interesting. I has a feel of like u should sit on it even though it has wet paint on it J

·         Ok i just left the toilet in the 2D studio and i found a frame and just lent it up next to the toilet and just glants at it and it looks really soo i think i will put in the space and have the frame in front of it to give it that feel of importance. It also reminds me of toilet talk and talking about sexi time aswell soo it still have that theme around it but in a more jokey way and i think that this is a good thing soo i give people a chance to laugh at something and keep them happy but for it also to have an underling meaning of the mess that can be caused buy having sexi time like a kid and the wrong time and causing a mess or having sexi time with people whiles having some1 already in your life. Soo something along that lines

·         Any way i have sorted out my space and i have the toilet in there with the frame aswell and the toilet is on the table and i must say it looks good yay. But i have had an idea to not focus on the composition of my work but just to do a few collarge around it to make you walk thought it and i hope i can still keep the fun and colourful side to my work aswell and have the sexi time theme in it aswell and have a stronger underlining aspect with in my work aswell to make people think about it when they leave and i need to think of a name for my work like umm i don’t know what to say but i will fine it out.

·         Well today i have been trying to get all my paper work done and sort out everything else just soo i can keep up to date with it all and get me ready for the week ahead and get me rock and rolling with it. Soo i thing after reading thought my reflective note i will keep to the fun and colourful because that make me happy and have the underlining theme of sexi time and mess that kinda jazz lol it will be groove. Oo yh me and my made rare trying to get groove and talk like that back in.