Macaulay Culkin ~ artist.

images over at -> http://www.buzzfeed.com/angelameiquan/a-gallery-of-macaulay-culkins-art-70fn

I like him, because he's fucked up.

lol, I like those, though I'd never pay for one.

I think I prefer Macaulay Culkin ~ artist to Macaulay Culkin ~ dying heroin addict.

I have to say, I am impressed. I really like it all, and I have seen a lot of art in my day. it's hard to tell how much of it was done with a sense of humor, and how much of it is just weird and fucked up, and IMO, that is not a bad thing.

(take penis hat, for example http://www.moma.org/...object_id=96672)

this is nothing like penis hat.

think i prefer dying heroin addict. what a load of shite.

"Cast o' Seinfield"

  On 9/20/2012 at 8:31 AM, Iain C said:

I think I prefer Macaulay Culkin ~ artist to Macaulay Culkin ~ dying heroin addict.

From the look of it he was playing both when producing this work.

I went to an art museum once and there was a painting, on canvas, where the whole canvas was red with a single black square offset down and to the right from the center. At least Culkin's paintings are generally interesting due to how strange they are. I only hope that not all of them were meant to be incredibly symbolic or "~so deep~" because that'd make some of them really stupid.

  On 9/20/2012 at 12:08 PM, Xyrofen said:

I went to an art museum once and there was a painting, on canvas, where the whole canvas was red with a single black square offset down and to the right from the center. At least Culkin's paintings are generally interesting due to how strange they are. I only hope that not all of them were meant to be incredibly symbolic or "~so deep~" because that'd make some of them really stupid.

hate to break it to you but..

there is depth. he's analyzing the cultural mindfuck that produced his feeling of alienation post home alone.

  On 9/20/2012 at 9:19 AM, keltoi said:

what a load of shite.

soooo, stylistically it's Clive Barker imitating Basquiat if he were in Fort Thunder, with a Family Guy level of pop culture references.

that's generous!

i'd describe it as... 2 artfags 1 culkin.

or 2 artfags get rich of mac's name then leave him wondering where have my new best friends gone oh well i might as well just shoot up

I'd pay a few thousand dollars for some of these easily.

  On 9/20/2012 at 2:47 PM, keltoi said:

that's generous!

 

i'd describe it as... 2 artfags 1 culkin.

 

or 2 artfags get rich of mac's name then leave him wondering where have my new best friends gone oh well i might as well just shoot up

Haha fags

I'm just glad this exists.

Some of those are fucking awesome.

MY EYES CCANNOT UNSEEEEE

shite

they're pretty shitty, looks like something my stoner friends would come up with in high school art class for shits and giggles...

  On 9/20/2012 at 4:05 PM, jefferoo said:

Some of those are fucking awesome.

The Death Star, an upside-down Macaulay Culkin cubist head, and a Steven Tyler doppelganger hang above a barren landscape of broken amusement park rides. The mysteries of the jungle rest in the background

This is all so surprising, I thought Culkin was dead!

Not that I could do a better job, but these paintings are pretty awful. Looks like he's hanging with the wrong hipsters, e.g that dude with the mario t-shirt and dodgy moustache.

  On 9/20/2012 at 12:15 PM, pigster said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgnLkzke4DM

The comment at 2:59 is telling.

I like the one of Bazooka Joe in the bathtub with the ark of the covenant.

The way he uses color on the bottom pattern (I think there is a technical term for this kind of exercise in art school, but I don't know) is actually really pleasing to look at.

It is also interesting how he uses pop icons and zeitgeists in his work, as he is one of them.

I also wonder what his fascination with golden chalices is.

*edit*

Oh.

I see. It's not just him. I need to learn to read.