Google AdSense Programme Policies vs A Tiny Painted Vulva

Update: this post lost us our Google Ads. Because of a painted vulva. And a complaining commenter probably. "As stated in our programme policies, AdSense publishers are not permitted to place Google ads on pages with adult or mature content." So Art Boobs is looking for a new sponsor.

"Darling! I Have so Many Times Told You Not to Take Photos of Me All the Time!" by Jaroslaw Kukowski, oil on board, 60x80 cm.

I''ll let fellow blogger Jahsonic defend this painting: "There are a 1001 reasons not to like Jarosław Kukowski , the first one probably that his art is kitsch. But so is Odd Nerdrum’s, John Currin’s, Hajime Sorayama’s and most other new figurative artists of the post-war era. There is only one reason not not to like Kukowski, and that is this Venus."

More desktop wallpaper sized paintings here.

Painting by Frank Frazetta

Painting by Frank Frazetta. Source.

Wayne [Coyne of Flaming Lips] still spent hours painting, sometimes creating surreal fantasy scenes in the style of Frank Frazetta -- "You'll see some of the girls in those paintings with long black hair that look just like me, except he always drew gigantic boobs on them," Hali [his former girlfriend circa 1980] said [..].

From a book I'm reading now: Staring at Sound: The True Story of Oklahoma's Fabulous Flaming Lips by Jim Derogatis (p. 13). There's a reproduction of one of those Frank Frazetta-inspired paintings on the same page as well. Please leave a comment if you want me to scan it.

Highly recommended - the Flaming Lips story is very inspirational:

Frank Frazetta (born February 9, 1928) is an American fantasy and science fiction artist. He is one of the most emulated artists of these genres in the world.

"Camilla Queen of the Jungle Empire" (1963) by Mel Ramos

"Camilla Queen of the Jungle Empire" (1963) by Mel Ramos, Oil on canvas, 30 x 26 inches, Hall Collection

Image source and previous post on Mel Ramos.

"Seven up Sally" (2006) by Mel Ramos

"Seven up Sally" (2006) by Mel Ramos, Oil on canvas, 102 x 76 cm

Mel Ramos exhibition at Galerie Ernst Hilger in Vienna, Austria opens 5 October 2006.

"Beach 150" (2005) by Hilo Chen

"Beach 150" (2005) by Hilo Chen, oil on canvas, 30 x 40

Hilo Chen (1942, Taiwan) is a Photo-Realist painter. Between 1961 and 1966 he studied Architectural Engineering at Chung Yien College in Taiwan. In 1968 he moved first to Paris, and then to New York City. His work is in the collection of the Guggenheim New York.

Is this fine-art? Here's a quote from Modern Art in the Common Culture by Thomas Crow:

"But the vernacular-based nature of its means of representation (which distinguished it from most Pop painting), meant that it could not remain securely within a fine-art context. Its brief prominence provided a license for certain forms of out-and-out kitsch (the California pin-ups of Hilo Chen, for example), which had the effect of dragging the meaning of the whole practice back into the realm of the uncultivated and naive."

Observations that Chen's work might be a commentary on commercial culture are probably a stretch. His paintings are primarily exercises in technique applied to popular imagery. A painter would question why one would want to paint a photograph. Didn't photography release painting from the drudgery of documentative realism?

Galleries representing his work, and more images, are here and here, and a discussion of his work featuring commenters screaming 'offensive!' and 'porn!' is here.

Read more about contemporary photorealism in this book:

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