Mitchell Funk

Joy, Happiness, Pleasure, Euphoria, Bliss, Ecstasy is a Jump

2018

Inkjet Archival Print. The Shot was done on a Life Magazine assignment on "Glass Artists" 1981. The three essential elements are presented in a bold fr...

An artist who puts his life on the line for his art. Chris Burden was at the forefront of the conceptual art movement in the early 1970s. Prelude to 220, or 110 is one of his most important works where the artist puts his life on the line for his art. Burden voluntarily lays on his back. His neck and wists are have copper bands that bolt him to the floor. To his immediate left and right are two buckets of water with a 110-volt line inside. If the buckets were compromised in any way by a passerby or an unexpected event - Burden would have been electrocuted in a literal shocking performance. Art history is replete with artists who put themselves in harm's way to accomplish their art. Michelangelo risked a misstep to a certain death as he elevated himself over 60 feet to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Francisco Goya's "The Disasters of War" may have put him at odds with a governing orthodoxy. Picasso walked a very narrow line with during the Nazi occupation. Gutzon Borglum dangled himself off the face of Mount Rushmore and War Photographer Robert Capa, landed on Omaha Beach during D-Day. But it was Chris Burden whose art spotlighted...

Well-muscled male cat with full mane. He's King of the Jungle even if he's in stone and against a pink background. The contrast of gritty the stone texture against the smooth flat sky is unexpected and somehow makes the image special. Signed, dating and numbered 2/15 recto, unframed, another size available, printed later, Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper Robert Funk is a pioneer of toy photography, doll photography...

This image of an elderly man entering a dilapidated Miami Beach apartment building shows how the famous resort looked before it became a hip inte...

Mussolini's Speech is an original photograph realized in 1934 and printed by Agence Trampus. The original title, the description, the date and the original hallmark on the back is pr...

The Duce and Badoglio is an original b/w photo realized in 1934 by Agence Trampus. The original hallmark of the agency and a piece of paper with the caption on the back are present. ...

The Duce and the Italian farmers is an original photograph realized in 1937 and printed by Agence Trampus. The original hallmark and the original piece of paper with the title, the description and the date on the back is glued. The artwork is in good conditions, a small fold on the lower right is present. The photo represents the Duce that gives the key of a new house to the farmers of Aprilia after the reclamation of the swamps in the Pontina area. On the back there is the original hallmark of the Agence Trampus and the description of the photo: "Le Duce remet à una famille de paysans la clef de la maison d...

The end of the trip of Stoyadinovitch is an original b/w photo realized in December 1937 by Trampus Agency, Paris. The original hallmark "Photoreportage Trampus" on the back. On the back it is glued a piece of paper with the typewritten caption (title, description and date. The artwork is in very good conditions except for a light fold on the upper left corner. The artwork represents the meeting of Mussolini with the Prime Minister Stoyadinovitch, in the center of the photo and Count Ciano on the left at Venice Palace...