Jane Kelly

Jane Kelly is an artist affiliated with the Stuckist art group in Britain, which is an art movement that started ten years ago in opposition to something. I think they're rebellious. I think they didn't like the pretentiousness of the more established art movements in Britain.

Jane Kelly has been involved in some controversy. A few years ago she was fired from her job at the Daily Mail after she made a controversial painting.

Controversy is a funny thing. What seems controversial to you may not seem controversial to me. Controversy exists mostly because people like to have things to fight about. There's too much manufactured controversy in the world. People get too riled up about things other people say or make. I think as long as no one is getting hurt, everybody should just be free to do whatever they want to do.


She makes a convincing argument.
Photo: Colin Purrington via Flickr (CC)

Lydia Rubio Ferrer

Lydia Rubio Ferrer is a Cuban artist. She was born in Havana, which was the setting for a 1990 movie with Robert Redford.

The Wikipedia article for Lydia is very unorthodox, because most of it is her own personal Artist Statement, in which she says things like "I come from a family of painters" and "Curiosity is the generator of change I my work."

Lydia bends the rules of Wikipedia. Her art is shown all over the world.


This Havana artist has a parrot.
Photo: colros via Flickr (CC)