That said this picture is oddly erotic and grotesque at the same time.

Now, female fashion – that I envy. Guys clothing is boring as hell unless you go well outside the mainstream.

Which makes this a really great painting, because it promotes all manner of contemplation of this stuff. Thanks, Pesco.

Still, great concept and superbly executed, but I don’t think I could stomach having it on my wall.

..as a side note/just random thought..

Saying I envy women because they are life givers is wing shot. It’s more accurate to describe it (the ‘envy’) as a rampant curiosity about a power & set of rules that are relatively alien to me.

and I agree with the above statement that women’s fashion is more interesting in variety/style. Unless of course you live in a world drawn by Peter Chung..

from the point of view of a person who refuses to define myself or my life according to the organs i was born with — we ar emore than teh sum of our parts — i regardless cannot help but notice that her BRAIN has been left out of the painting.

This is also just a downright radiant piece of art. Brings to mind both Kahlo and Mati Klarwein, not bad company to be in.

http://www.heiditaillefer.com/index.php/texts/48

The second category of Improper Art, in Joyce’s aesthetic, is the Didactic. Didactic Art is any artistic expression which instills fear or loathing in the observer and thereby pushes them away from the object being observed.

All comedy is didactic, at the least the best comedy is. All tragedy is didactic and all social expressions of anger are didactic. Whether it’s Dave Chappelle, Saturday Night Live, Nine Inch Nails, or KRS-ONE–it’s improper by Joyce’s definition.

98% of all art produced since World War II (Post-Modern or whatever ridiculous term the literati call it now) is improper in Joyce’s sense because it has been inherently kinetic�suffused with internal movement that either pulls the observer toward it in a desire to possess or pushes the observer away with fear or loathing.

But then we get to Proper Art which Joyce defines as static and this is where things get interesting. Joyce defines proper art as that which does not pull the observer toward it or push the observer away from it, but rather holds them still in aesthetic arrest of the moment.

In this definition, if a work of art is true, it uses the forms of time and space in terms of contemporary life (people, objects, and their relationships to each other) to blow apart the illusory divisions that allow us to exist as individuals who are born from the great blank, grow old through similar stages of life, and die back into the great blank. And here we finally get to the Holy of Holies.

The Great Blank is the space between thoughts and it is what proper art is concerned with–leading the individual observer back to The Mysterious Ground of Being. We are talking about a sublime and complete dissolution of the individual and collective ego into the great void of creative energy from which all life springs. All great art that has moved individuals, and hence the world, along from social epoch to epoch has been rooted in The Great Blank.

But here’s the catch–Proper Art is a near impossible thing to plan out and achieve. It’s a divine gift of inspiration so rare that only the most foolish of artists would claim that they “actually set out to create it as such.”
Below is the link I quoted this from

http://www.thepauper.com/artrepreneur/content/library/james_joyce_proper_art.asp