Author Archives: Michael St.Mark

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About Michael St.Mark

Conceptual / experimental multi-discipline artist, writer and photographer. Art influencer and founder of London Dada, recalling Dada's original aims and principles as envisaged by it's founder Hugo Ball. Eschews the often politically-motivated taboo on expressions of critical thought within art. Admiring Duchamp in going beyond the seemingly endless infatuation with the ' pretty picture' retinal and instead refusing to accept the standards and practices of an established corrupt art world and creatively stifling conventions that are still considered essential to attain fame and financial success: refusing to repeat himself or to develop one recognizable style to placate the commercial needs of the market.

Work No. 792; Destiny Unfolding

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Destiny Unfolds
c. Michael St.Mark 2015

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Mother helps child select T2 Diabetes obesity-inducing high carb / high sugar / negligible nutrients products from a perpetually well-stocked long supermarket  sweets & snacks aisle.

” Actions taken in the present shape our future condition ”

” Dada is essentially the search for a new morality” – R. Huelsenbeck

About London Dada

Work No. 791; Elsewhere Train

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Elsewhere Train
  c. Michael St.Mark 2015

Links to Work No 733 from February this year

” Art, for us, is not an end in itself but an opportunity for true perception and criticism of the times we live in“ – Hugo Ball, father of Dada.

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Work No. 790; How to Scrunch a Cartoonist ( just desserts )

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Scrunching the Cartoonist ( just desserts)
Progressive quadriptych
Art Axis 2015

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Source image; Peter Brookes, leader page cartoonist with The Times, at an award ceremony..and his latest satirical effort ( 15/9/2015 )

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“Scrunch portraiture” a new genre in satirical portrait photo re-interpretation, invented by artist Michael St.Mark in 2007.
 Details and backlink here

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Update

Gif by the artist Atacart; 2016

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” The invention of  Scrunch Art TM by Dadaist Michael St.Mark in 2007 opens up a semi-random multi-faceted variety of latent expressions and moods possible to be imputed on the subject that incorporates a strong hint of Cubism that, with applied artistic sensibility, can be derived from just one source image without need of use of  limited and defined computer image manipulation software.”

LONDON DADA – KickstARTing the 21st C.