love john currin

I stumbled across this picture



in the latest issue of British Vogue and was reminded of my love of modern painter John Currin. Controversial, and often accused of being sexist, I can't help but be inspired by and drawn in by his exaggerated features and figures.




Currin wants viewers to feel uncomfortable and enjoy it.

He fuses this very modern approach to his subjects with a kind of classical style which combines the strange, jagged poses and extended bellies of the 16th-century German painter Lucas Cranach, or the hand gestures of Da Vinci, with WASP-ish empty faces. You hate the people he depicts, but you just can't help but love the way they’re depicted.



I think his illustrative paintings very much reflect the figures and expressions in vogue on the catwalks and glossy high-fashion magazines which make them all the more relevent.



Love him or hate him he certainly generates disscussion in the art world and isn't that what art should really be about?


And now what's inspiring me photographically, Mainly from facehunter


Harry Potter is due for release shorty (both the film and the seventh book) I'm not a huge fan of the films but as a huge fan of the books I always go and see the films. I know people are going to think i'm crazy but i'm actually a huge fan of the outfit of the blonde disheveled girl to the left, yes she looks a little homeless but hey, she also looks a hell of a lot more interesting than any of the other actors, (except maybe rupert red head grint), although I do admit I love the purple stockings on the scottish girl, but then again that's probably just because I have a hoisery fetish. ha ha!



This is what I would ideally love to look like, she is stunning.




Check out the legs, not sure if it's genes or she just doesn't eat, but hell, if i had legs like that i'd get them out too.



I want an old skool bicycle so badly, i'm sure its just a fad and in a months time this will be forgotten, but look at this! I'm drooling on the key-pad