Pipes in Art

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I guess the Hermitage didn't want me posting these. I'll try a few things to get the paintings back.

 

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Pablo Picasso - Tavern - 1914

Pablo Picasso - portrait of Soler - 1902

 

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Regaling the commander

Dead stag

 

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Peasants at table

Jacob Duck – soldier’s rest

 

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I guess I better not hack into any North Korean computers looking for pipe art.

 

[misterlowercase]

I guess I better not hack into any North Korean computers looking for pipe art.

LOL

:lol:
I had a similar experience during a post about the falling value of the Ruble and went around surfing Russian pipe stuff, someone responded and said they got malware in like 3 mins of clicking the link I provided, yikes!
I'm clueless about such things and just wish there weren't no such mean 'ol malicious intent out there, but the world is a vampire and so it goes.
I can totally relate to the endeavor you're carrying out here, at some point, certain easily available resources run out and one starts looking feverishly all over anywhere, using variant different languages and divergent country domains, all in search of the good stuff, for something to share, and it's all very rewarding to go through the infinite library, and when you think you just might be at the end of the internet, BAM, a whole new string of leads comes jumping out and down those rabbit holes we all go, looking for a sort of ultimate truth, and at the same time expanding our neural parameters beyond anything that went before...
...when I was growin' up we had a very nice big set of encyclopedias, and I spent many many hours pouring through them, and they brought me much delight - and, dictionaries, I'm the kind of cat that can spend aimless hours reading a dictionary, not just regular dictionaries either, but slang and etymological and different languages and etc - it all just fascinates me so - I want to know what is within and what is without - people inspire me but I'm also terrified by them, I don't know what I'm trying to say,

but,

thanks for keeping this thing goin' along!
Most.Epic.Thread.Ever.
Ever.

 

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Amazing cartoon, misterlowercase. I am learning so much doing this. I learned so much searching behind the former iron curtain. It was painters, people and places I was denied while I was growing up, so everything was new and a learning experience. I also learned that, in Finland, a self portrait is more likely to contain the artist masturbating than it is to show him/her smoking a pipe. I also could see myself in lederhosen with one of those long alpine pipes, just like before I could see myself dressed in burlap with a bunch of broken clays.

 

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Gerard Terbarch – violinist – 1615

Gillis van Tilborch – Guardroom – 1658

 

[misterlowercase]

Note to self : be very very careful when searching out Finnish self-potraits!

8O
This is an "avant-garde guitar tuner",

it looks like a pipe!

This lounger kinda looks like a pipe,

The great great Ray Johnson

...a great flick about a great artist is

"how to draw a bunny"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0303348/
More comics,

Art Spiegelman

...Popeye, Happy Hooligan, Dick Tracy, Nancy, and Philip Guston?

(and Ignatz's brick)

Love it.

An interesting "incorrectly manufactured" pipe,

seen here:

http://www.port-magazine.com/art-photography/jeremy-hutchison-capitalism-is-the-ultimate-avant-garde/
Marcel Duchamp,

DaDa SuperStar,

Man Ray

 

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I was loving that Marcel Duchamp until I hit the Man Ray. That is totally amazing. There are question marks galore in the bubble above the cartoon version of me when I look at that one.

 

[misterlowercase]

I've always liked Man Ray's "readymades" more than his photography.
I've seen several of them in the flesh at museums and the experience is quite intriguing, somewhat unsettling, and like you, question marks galore bubbling in my brain.
There are many different versions of the clay bubble-pipe.

Summary
Ce qui manque à nous tous, 1927, editioned replica 1973, consists of an inscribed clay pipe and an iridescent glass bubble. Its title, which can be translated as ‘What We All Lack’, does not prescribe the solution to life’s ills, but suggests at least that some part of the answer lies in the childhood pastime of blowing bubbles, in dreaming, and in the pleasure to be taken from evanescent beauty. According to Arturo Schwarz, Man Ray’s dealer and author of a monograph on him, the title was derived from a quotation from Engels, one of the founding philosophers of communism, ‘Ce qui manque à tous ces messieurs c’est la dialectique’ (’What these gentlemen lack is dialectic’), reproduced in capitals on the cover of the surrealist group’s magazine, La Révolution surréaliste (Paris, no.8, 1 December 1926). Man Ray told Schwarz, ‘Actually, I had in mind “imagination”, not dialectics, what we all lack is imagination’ (Schwarz, p.209).
The concept of the work dates back to 1927 when the Galerie surréaliste, Paris, announced the making of editions of this and other fantastical objects by several artists. It is questionable whether Man Ray made more than one of the advertised edition of twenty in this period, and it is believed the original prototype was quickly lost. In 1935 Man Ray made a replica that was included in the Exposition surréaliste d’objets held at the Galerie Charles Ratton, Paris, in 1936. According to the catalogue, the work was known as Ce qui nous manque à tous, a slightly different title but one which has the same meaning. The exhibition was accompanied by a theoretical text by the leader of the surrealist movement, André Breton (1896-1966), that described the many types of surrealist object and the ways they ‘perturbed and distorted’ conventional conceptions of reality. In the 1930s the surrealist object was conceived largely in terms of a psychologically charged notion of desire and in the light of the surrealists’ poetical testing of the descriptive role of language. Man Ray’s objects, however, typically expressed a lighter, more playful vision. This object was given life by nothing more substantial than air and the play of light on the iridescent glass surface that, like a photographic lens, can reflect an inverted image of surrounding reality. In contrast to Salvador Dalí (1904-1989), for example, Man Ray did not explore the psychoanalytic roots of personal obsessions and fantasies. His objects were not ‘objects of desire’ but rather, as he said, ‘objects of affection’.
In 1973 Man Ray authorized an edition of this work (nine examples, plus three trial pieces and three artist’s examples, of which this is one). (The date of 1962 given in the Paris catalogue of Man Ray’s objects in erroneous.) The edition was published by the Galleria Il Fauno, Turin. The title of these works was Ce qui manque à nous tous. The 1935 object had been retained by Charles Ratton after the 1936 show, and was later inherited by his son. It may be that Man Ray changed slightly the title of the work for the edition simply because he did not remember the original title correctly and did not have access to the original piece.
Lucien Treillard, Man Ray’s assistant in the period, found the pipes (still commonly available in the period) and had made the glass balls for the edition. May Ray inscribed the pieces with the title and date, and signed them with his monogram (letter from Treillard to Tate, dated January 2003).
Despite Man Ray’s status as one of the pioneering figures of interwar art, his objects are not particularly widely known. This is largely due to his greater fame as a photographer; but it is also in part due to the complex history of many of his objects. A number of the earliest works were lost or accidentally destroyed (the same is true of many of the early classic objects by his friend Marcel Duchamp). Others are known primarily as photographs reproduced in surrealist magazines and their status as objects has been obscured by the celebrity of the photographic images. In fact, Man Ray sometimes made objects in order to photograph them, and then discarded them, or reused them in other ways. He also remade some works, thereby creating new originals, and when, in the 1960s and 1970s, there was a greater commercial interest in the objects, he, like Duchamp, arranged for some of his objects to be produced in editions.
In addition to Ce qui manque à nous tous, Tate owns a number of other objects by Man Ray. These are New York, 1920, editioned replica 1973 (Tate T07882), L’Enigme d’Isidore Ducasse, 1920, remade 1972 (Tate T07957), Cadeau, 1921, editioned replica 1972 (Tate T07883), Indestructible Object, 1922-3, remade 1933, editioned replica 1965 (Tate T07614), Emak Bakia, 1926, remade 1970 (Tate T07959), and The Lovers 1933, editioned replica 1973 (Tate T07958).
Further Reading:

Arturo Schwarz, Man Ray: The Rigour of Imagination, London 1977, p.209

Man Ray: Objets de mon affection, Paris 1983, pp.143-4 number 39, reproduced p.42
Jennifer Mundy

March 2003

Apparently,

there also exists cinematic film of the whole exercise...

http://www.heeza.fr/en/dvd-short-movies/994-dvd-man-ray-films.html

AUTOPORTRAIT

OU CE QUI MANQUE A NOUS TOUS

(approx 1930 - Silent)

"In 1935, Man RaY created a porcelain pipe with a glass bubble called Ce qui manque à nous tous. This is a film version of the same item in wich Man RAY expresses his interest in transparency."

btw

his readymade, L’Enigme d’Isidore Ducasse is one of my faves, because it points to the seminal book, Les Chants de Maldoror , and uses the famous quote found therein, "As Beautiful As The Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine and an Umbrella".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comte_de_Lautr%C3%A9amont
And,

Hey Kids,

More Comics!

http://pipesmagazine.com/forums/topic/pipe-smoking-in-the-comics-aka-the-fuming-funnypapers-image-heavy

 

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Dingeman van der Hagen – Card game – 1651

Justus van den Nypoort – empty mug – 1660

 

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unknown French painter from around 1870 – still life

RIP Paolo Becker

 

[misterlowercase]

Nice touch there Ed,

the Paolo tribute.
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Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier – Smoker – 1851

Charles Spencelayh – That darned cat –

 

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English Ladies Smoke Little Pipes – 1934

Samuel Joseph Brown – Smoking my Pipe – 1934

 

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Austria 1961

Prince Albert Ad – 1949

 

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I have Santas the next couple of days to wish everyone Happy Holidays. Since we are on page 11 (a prime number) and on finishing the Santas tomorrow I will have 719 posts (another prime number) it seems an auspicious time for me to step back for a little while. I've posted works twice a day, everyday, for over six months and I need to recharge and find another way to find these works since I visited every art museum online. I need to go for galleries and private collectors now but that is even more of a crap shoot than museums. Anyway, here's the first Santa to say Happy Holidays
Galaxy Science Fiction – Dec. 1951

 

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Part 2 of Happy Holidays
Santa Claus Parade – 1951

We seem to have lost some previous works. Here are some from different sources
return of Pieter Claesz Soutman –Still Life we lost on page 4

Charles Gagnon – at a sick bed from pg. 7

Charles Gagnon – laying in supplies from pg. 7

 

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part 3 Happy Holidays
Harper’s Weekly – Dec. 30, 1871

Harper's invented the smoking Santa