Tried and true Marshmallow Fluff has to have it’s mention here. The delicious substance is so shmoove, it has not required a package update 50 years or something. You don’t need to market something that sells itself. Imagine a perfect world where there are oceans of Fluff. Where you could dive in, swim deep, and eat your way back to the surface.
For those that have never play with oobleck… you should put down whatever silliness you are doing and go make some. The recipe couldn’t be easier: cornstarch, water. That’s it. The amazing part about oobleck is the compound rides the line between solid and liquid. Sometimes it’s liquid, sometimes solid. And it dances like mad on a speaker.
You can even run across a pool of it…
This entry is more of a gateway to an artist who I find to be brilliant. Rona Pondick has continuously created works of art from her own head cast for nearly 15 years. While the featured image here is quite shmoove, i wouldn’t say her opus involves heavily shmoove works. Utilizing mostly metals such as steel, she creates haunting reproductions of her head attached in a surreal fashion to unlikely objects (such as trees). All up, she has a diverse smattering of things to observe and I highly suggest checking them out.
Go here:
http://www.ronapondick.com/home.html
http://www.sonnabendgallery.com/index.php?v=artist&id=1&col=1
http://www.worcesterart.org/Exhibitions/rona_pondick.html
The sculptures and forms conjured by dadaist Jean Arp seem to code the DNA for most shmoove artwork. By throwing standard definitions of form out the window, he carried the dadaist ethos of toying with rationality making it a reality for any onlooker.
Read more about Mr. Arp:
http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ArtistWorks?cgroupid=999999961&artistid=667&page=1
Sadly, upon doing a little rummaging around the web, the first thing you will probably run into is the infamous advertisement put out by Lynda Benglis in art forum. (Look it up. It’s NSFW funniness.)
Aside from her antics, there lies a polarized perspective on her actual aesthetic. Using a wide variety of materials from poured latex to poured glass, a majority of her work fits a shmoove look, and makes one want to shmoosh it.
At the New Museum’s retrospective which wrapped last June.
Check out more of Lynda’s work here:
Yayoi Kusama at an unbelievable 82 years old continues to create outstanding works that thrust you into a psychedelicly shmoove alternate reality filled obsessively with dots.
Yevgeniya Kaganovich’s series of curious plays with function. Check out the full series. (Lotta shmoove, some anti-shmoove)
Sadly… while this phone is pretty shmoove… it’s also pretty stainy.
