Art world links which caught my eye...
Ivan Albright "Into the World There Came a Soul Called Ida" (1929-1930)
After the one trip I made to the Art Institute of Chicago as a young artist, I came away with one new name forever burned into my mind: Ivan Albright. His dark, grotesque but hyperdetailed paintings were fascinating in a way that for me transcended their ugliness.
This article posits Albright's horrors as a philosophical statement:
"Throughout his artistic career, Albright was dedicated to the production of ugliness, conceptualizing it as a powerful social and political tool against the ills of the modern West. Albright conjured on canvas a latent ugliness lurking beneath the glittering surface of a society obsessed with its own perfection."
Read the full article here: ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO - An Ode to the Ugly: In Praise of Ivan Albright
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