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antrea · 12 days

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[24.05.15] vs. oshawa generals (ohl playoffs championship series game 4)

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#michael simpson #london knights #ohl #the net lmaoooo #gif #london knights hockey

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ruslangazizov · 2 months

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chef simpson showing his appreciation for bonus goalie sam dickinson

#london knights #sam dickinson #michael simpson #rick's gifs #love a good goalie butt pat #this gif would be longer if the chl stream didn't hate me

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afieldinengland · 4 months

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deeply in love with this artwork

#michael simpson

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peteburnsgifs · 11 months

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THE AUDACITY 😂

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tonyvwright · 3 months

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Squint 63 - Michael Simpson

Oil on canvas

245 x 366.5 cms

2019

#michael simpson #art #painting

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savage-kult-of-gorthaur · 4 months

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STRAIGHT FROM THE "SPAWN" ARCHIVES -- WHEN YOU ABSOLUTELY REQUIRE PEAK PRODUCTION TALENT.

PIC INFO: Spotlight on KORN's Jonathan Davis with the DUST BROTHERS, in a press/publicity photo for Immortal Records," c. 1997. 📸: Stephanie Cabral.

EXTRA INFO: KORN and the DUST BROTHERS collaborated on the song “Kick The P.A.," an outtake from the band's "Life is Peachy" album, later included on the "SPAWN" movie soundtrack.

Source: https://twitter.com/SpawnArchive/status/1561745100643962881.

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dare-g · 5 months

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Epidemic (1987)

#epidemic #lars von trier #udo kier #michael simpson #ole ernst #talks

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onmytape · 1 year

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mem cup goalie masks!

milic has minions, simpson has bart simpson, ernst has ernie, and rousseau has...springsteen?

#thomas milic #dylan ernst #michael simpson #william rousseau

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narciesuss · 8 months

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#the season of the witch #the simpsons #michael myers #Halloween #trippy #spooky season #spooky #fall #Halloween art

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wroteonedad · 1 year

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Michael Simpson Paintings Review

I wish I lived in a town that had more art galleries or just more spaces where they display art that isn't live laugh love or graffiti. I don't get to see as much art as I would like to and it makes me feel uninspired after a while, and perhaps if I learnt to drive then I could go away on my days off and explore all the fun galleries out there waiting for me to find my new favourite artist, a new persons work to hyperfixate on. I need more of that. This gallery space I am writing about this week, I actually went to visit this as the World Cup started. It was wonderful. It was the first England game in the tournament. The entire town was dead, despite the Christmas tree festival having already started. Men were in the local pub or better yet, working and away so I could blissfully go out and enjoy myself. There was not a single other soul in the gallery space as I arrived, and it was wonderful. I really felt like I could immerse myself properly into the set of works that I was looking at in this wonderful large space.

I'll be honest, it has only taken me so long to finally talk about this set of works because I was working off of a backlog of exhibitions I had seen in mass over the month and I've only just gotten around to it. They always say to leave the best until last. This set of work is on display at GIANT in Bournemouth until the 29th January. Michael Simpson has displayed a large scale body of works to the audience, this including both classic well known works as well as some unseen pieces. The work has been curated to allow you as the audience to form a conversation on light, space, surface and colour. Many of his works feature one particular subject matter, the ladder. This is seen through different colours and sizes and is displayed through the gallery space in between works already created. I do think that having nobody else in the gallery made me appreciate and look at this work more than I would if there was a large group of people in front of me also looking at the same thing.

Confessional 16 (2022)

To begin to talk about the works of Simpson, I would need to speak about the specific colour palette he uses in his work. Shades of both light and dull greys, baby pinks, seafoam green and police station blue. The colours vary in pastel and his works feel quite vintage. The way they are created to be imperfect with its layering of colours around the corners of the canvases. They look like they are old images displayed in a magazine made during the Soviet years. Perhaps this makes sense considering that part of this collection of works is in homage to Simpson's mother, a Lithuanian woman named Ada Kulikovdkiy who worked in Bobby's department store in the 1930s. The department store came back after Debenhams went into liquidation in 2021 and now has a gallery above the shop floor. To my original point, adverts that were created during the age of the USSR were all choppy, followed a certain colour dynamic and were both to the point, but confusing all at the same time. Simpson's paintings also display the same sense of choppy with its colour dynamic. Its main difference being the scale of these works were both very literal in the way you look at it, but also inviting to question the idea of space used in the works.

Dead Cross 2 (2021) and Squint 63 (2019)

Blocky vintage looking pieces. That's what I see when I look at these works, and I also could be wrong with the way I am viewing these works. At the same time, I also deeply agree with the way Simpson regards space in the paintings. In these two above, I don't feel as if I am immediately drawn to the centre of the canvas, rather my eyes follow the lines, all of the shapes and allows me to take in all of the space on the canvas. I don't think in the deep sense of art and painting and the way it is portrayed,,, I don't think I get it, but I still really like it. Some of these paintings don't feel real, other paintings I look at, I want to walk up to it and try to jump into the alternate world that lies between the lines of the painting. Why are the spaces so empty and yet so full all at the same time?

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The typical theme that Simpson follows in his work is the history and mechanics of painting. But along with that, he has also discussed minor aspects of religion or rather the 'infamy of religious history', and in many of his more recent works, he has decided to paint leper squints. These are small apertures that were physically built into the walls in many Medieval churches so that the 'undesirables' or the dammed would be able to climb these stairs and look into the small window, to watch the service. Simpson uses both religion and space especially in his more recent Squint series in which he paints what looks like a bench or some form of seating that also features a small rectangle towards the top of the canvas. This is to create mockery to the undesirable and how they use the rectangle as the window to the void. It is perhaps quite dystopian to paint such concepts in modern works that still stay persistent to the artists older pieces. I feel like every time I write about an artist and their paintings, I always manage to sneak in Black Mirror into this, but this is a prime example of a dystopian empty and eerie piece, which I mean in the best way possible.

Simpson uses the gallery space to display a large selection from his Squint series, all four of these paintings above being part of said collection. Another larger scale example below.

The difference is with this one in particular, I feel like this has been created to be the main piece. The main star of the show I suppose. At first glance I thought to myself, this is a wrestling arena, and then suddenly it was just a cage, and now the only cage is of those who are watching from their dainty little windows above, alone. Maybe they are far out into the real world, looking through this pane of glass trying to get themselves into the empty grey void where nobody is, except for the large scale space of nothingness. I think what really adds to this nothingness is the absolute nothingness that surrounds this one painting in the gallery space. There is a good 14 foot of space to walk up to this painting as you are walking through the gallery, and suddenly you're that person in the little rectangle from a different perspective. Perhaps we are left to become a part of the narrative of the painting. In the words of Michael Simpson,' 'We exist, all of us, in an infinite space and that for me is the bewilderment of being alive. The hole isn't just a squint, it's a great metaphor for my own bewilderment of the world around me. I see this aperture as a hole into infinity and it is very, very disturbing.'

Walking through this gallery space feels post industrial and so I think this collection of works is the perfect exhibition. It feels surreal and it is also the perfect example of work where I feel like I can interact with it in so many different ways, we are invited to interact. The alternate dimension, of its parodic nature is incredibly effective. I pick up new details from the sets of works every time I go into the gallery and I can see how every smaller painting or smaller sketch has then been used to create the large scale paintings, some of which have already been painted over once before and reused to create a new canvas of work.

#writing #art review #michael simpson

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classichorrorblog · 1 year

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