Paul McCarthy

Paul McCarthy (born August 4, 1945 in Salt lake city, Utah) is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

Paul McCarthy misleadingly is often considered to be influenced by the Viennese Actionism. Although by his own statement the happenings of the group were known to him in the 1970s, he sees a clear difference between the self-injurious actions of the Viennese and his own performances: "Vienna is not Los Angeles. My work came out of kids' television in Los Angeles. I didn' t go through Catholicism and World War II as a teenager, I didn't live in a European environment. People make references to Viennese art without really questioning the fact that there is a big difference between ketchup and blood. I never thought of my work as shamanistic. My work is more about being a clown than a shaman."

Charles Baudelaire

l'aube spirituelle

le guignon

le mort joyeaux

l'ennemi

harmonie du soir

l'invitation au voyage

l'heautontimouromenos

la musique

l'ideal

la geante 

la beaute

ciel brouille

le chat

le flambeau vivant

bohemiens en voyage



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Surrealist Short Films

Un chien andalou (1929)
In a dream-like sequence, a woman's eye is slit open--juxtaposed with a similarly shaped cloud obsucuring the moon moving in the same direction as the knife through the eye to grab the audience's attention. The French phrase "ants in the palms," (which means that someone is "itching" to kill) is shown literally. A man pulls a piano along with the tablets of the Ten Commandments and a dead donkey towards the woman he's itching to kill. A shot of differently striped objects is repeatedly used to connect scenes.

M.C Escher

Maurits Cornelis Escher (17 June 1898 – 27 March 1972) was a Dutch graphic artist. He is known for his often mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints. These feature impossible constructions, explorations of infinity, architecture, and tessellations.