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Two of my favourite contemporary artist are Jake and Dinos Chapman. The Chapmans’ seem to to be nicely demolishing the contemporary postmodern art world, with its great expressions of emptiness and nothingness without purpose. They seem to be reconceiving what art needs to be in 21st century, opening an all new space…

This artwork featuring Stephen Hawking called “Ubermensch”, speaks for itself about contemporary values.

Here are two views.

I met Jake Chapman at his Melbourne talk a few years back. While Kristen got her copy of Meatphysics signed conversation turned to Chapmans’ artwork “Hell” and how, in an anti-Adorno vein, holocausts themselves have a potential to be considered as acts of the darkest poetry. Much like Chapman’s own piece, “Hell”. His is a very daring and confrontational mind. I felt in the presence of a kindred spirit.

Konichiwa deviants! Is spanking is your thing? Like it is me and famous celebs like Madonna, Jack Nicholson, Fiona Apple and Barbara Streisand? If so then you’ll dig this site Cutie Spankee, see here. Anybody who appreciates a good bit of pervery will enjoy it also. It’s from Japan and features all girl/girl spanking action in uniforms, Nuns habits and various traditional domestic Japanese clothing. It’s a pay site so just look at the Free Galleries, unless you want to join. Elsewhere online you can get their galleries free, just search around.

Guys have a wank at work? Gals stroke that beaver in your cubicle? Its all good. Sex is good, porn is healthy, spanking is cool.

Thought it was about time I put some kink stuff on Idea Fix.

Two pictures below from CS. Enjoy!

In a fascinating portrait local artist Sam Leach borrows stylistics from an iconic portrait of Adolf Hitler. An omen of a return of Fascism? A comment on our Culture? Just a portrait of the artist in fancy dress? Or just controversy for its own sake? The Jewish community are having their usual whinge, but some from the community support it and good on the later, I say. It’s being tipped as a favorite to win at this years Archibald and it gets Idea Fix’s vote.

Leach online at The Age claims his painting is supposed to show how our Western culture produced both Nazism (which Leach calls the Pinnacle of Evil - ohh, spooky) and our own culture and that we should be aware of this same Genesis and be aware of our shared roots. This is of course true but it is not the first hermeneutic that springs to mind when you see the painting, but it is a valid one. Oddly, his paintings online (dead animals like swans and dove’s against a pitch black setting) also resemble the fin de Siecle and decadent work of one of Hitler’s favorite artists Franz Von Stuck.

Regardless of the artists intentionality the painting still makes a boldly ambivalent statement.

It also gets the artist a whole shit load of free publicity. Remember struggling artists, filmmakers, whoever out there, you want free publicity…

See here story one and story two, for news of the controversy.

Here is the Hitler and Leach portraits for your artistic enjoyment.