A bit of abstract art for a change, I hate abstract art with a passion so I thought I’d have a go at doing some. This image in true abstract fashion is called “Warwick Summer and the death of 3 aardvarks”

Recently one of my fellow art bloggers mr wolf had an interesting topic of art theft, this was about Roy Lichenstien and his blatant reproductions of old comics. Then this week the “artist” Damien Hurst was accused of copyright theft of the painting “penguin daisy” by computer artists Robert Dixon, they are having a bit of a battle now over who did the original. Hurst has exactly the same amount of spots but is slightly larger and coloured, which to me seems quite a coincidence.

You can see the 2 versions about, one is called Daisy or Pengiun and the other by Hurst is called Vallium.
However what someone has failed to point out is “who cares they are both a load of crap”.

You can read the full story over at the Daily Mail.

No pictures from me today, I got this rather fine robot picture through the post yesterday from Bigtime at Robot-A-Day. I swapped 4 robot trading cards for this picture and he even kindly through in some rather cool robot badges.

What I really like about it (apart from the robot) is what he’s painted it on, it looks like its rusty metal and has a really nice sheen to it. Cheers BT.

This door appeared in the middle of my housing estate in Warwick about 3 weeks ago. It was something like the monolith from 2001, nobody exactly knew why it was there or what it was doing. Then I was walking round Warwick town centre and spotted 2 more, although these had the doors open. After a bit of digging it turns out that this is a church project to create the worlds largest advent calendar.

I think this was a brilliant idea, firstly as it gets your attention just by the fact that it is so odd when you first see one. Also it actually makes you think about what Christmas is really about. I personally think the idea and the execution of this is better than any so called modern art installation. I’m also really curious about was is behind door 19 and will be getting pictures today.