Archivos de la categoría ‘Art’
Art, illustration, 3d, painting, Mixed Media, Acrylic, American, fabric
In 3d, Art on 13 marzo 2012 at 9:09
David Cooley is a native Californian and self-taught artist. He creates stunning mixed media paintings using acrylic, pen, spray paint, resin and fabric. He’s inspired by textiles and patterns and his work often uses fabric for the background of the piece, which he often sources from the internet and various other obscure sources where one can find fabric featuring dinosaurs, kittens, martini umbrellas, and things of a similarly peculiar nature. What makes Cooley’s art stand out, literally, is his way of using acrylic paint to create three dimensional diamond-shaped spikes that protrude from the surface of the work creating a startling visual effect upon first viewing. We love it!
Art, Creatures, fish, Japanese, science, transparent
In Art, beauty on 8 marzo 2012 at 9:19
Japanese scientist/fisherman/artist Iori Tomita is the man behind this curious collection of see-through animals, which form part of his project called ‘New World Transparent Specimens’. The specimens are created using a preservation and dyeing technique usually only used for scientific purposes, such as examining the skeletal system and the underlying biological makeup. Tomita uses an enzyme to dissolve the natural proteins in the flesh. He then injects red dyes into the harder bones and blue dyes into the softer cartilage, thus highlighting usually unseen internal structures. The dead creature is then preserved in a jar of glycerin. Tomita started to create these transparent specimens as pieces of work to help people feel closer to the wonders of life and say that there are no limits to how people may interpret his work – as academic material, a piece of art, or even an entrance to philosophy. Magic!
Art, Death, Japanese, love, painting, Ukiyo-e Pop
In Art, Paintings on 6 marzo 2012 at 8:44
The fine art of Japanese painter Takato Yamamoto explores themes of darkness, bondage, vampires, metamorphosis, love and death. The perspective is always calm and serene – never depicting violence – rather, it is impending or just completed. Yamamoto was born in Akita prefecture in 1960 and after graduating from the painting department of the Tokyo Zokei University, he experimented with the Ukiyo-e Pop style. Later on he further refined and developed that style to create his ‘Heisei Esthiticism’ style. His first exhibition was held in Tokyo, in 1998.
Art, glass pills, Installation, modern, scientific, Sculpture
In Art, Concept Art on 2 marzo 2012 at 9:08
For more than two decades, multi-artist Beverly Fishman has explored our relationship to science and medicine in a variety of different media. Mixing optical patterns with vibrant colours and representational elements taken from pharmaceuticals and scientific imaging system her paintings, sculptures, and work on paper raise the question about the relationship between technology, our bodies and our minds. Her exhibition ‘Pill Spill’ consisted of filling the Toledo Muesum of Art with more than 120 unique glass capsulas in different sizes. An idea with is both beautiful, addictive and totally free od unpleasant side effects.
American, Art, Artist, colours, graffiti, shapes, Space Monkey
In Art, Paintings on 1 marzo 2012 at 9:06
Artist James Marshall – commonly know as Dalek – made his mark in the art world with his iconic Space Monkey character, which looks like a catatonic twisted mouse. Rendered in a minimalistic, flat style, Dalek used the Space Monkey as an alter ego, a visual manifestation of his feelings, as well as his love for the absurdity of human interactions. But in 2007 he decided to leave his beloved monkey behind and ever since his style has developed into profusion and hyper-abundance of colours and planes of space. His work has been featured in various books as well as on skateboard decks, sneakers, magazines and sculptures. Enjoy!
graffiti, hyperkinetic, Iceland, painter, painting, pop art
In Art, Kinetik, Paintings on 28 febrero 2012 at 7:29
Katrin Fridriks was born in Iceland in 1974 but grew up in Luxembourg and Germany. After a couple of years spent in Paris where she exhibited her first paintings at the age of 20, Fridriks moved to the United States. She currently lives and works between Paris and Luxembourg but it is her native Iceland that continues to inspire her work. Through her hyperkinetic abstract paintings, Fridriks fuses the island’s natural energies – fire, water, earth and air – with contemporary pop art, graffiti and Japanese calligraphic references to create a unique visual universe.
Art, Contemporary, mandala, Miami, paper, patterns, wormholes
In Art on 23 febrero 2012 at 8:24
Jen Stark (born 1983 in Miami, Florida) is a contemporary artist who both draws and animates, but what really makes her stand out are her intriguing paper sculptures inspired by wormholes, microscopic patterns and sliced anatomy.
Through her mandala-like art she raises questions about spirituality, replication and infinity, echoing patterns and intelligent designs found in nature. She has exhibited her works in various galleries around the U.S. like the Girls’ Club Collection, the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Miami. She was also the proud recipient of the prestigious South Florida Cultural Consortium’s Visual and Media Artists Fellowship in 2008.
girls, Nude, Mixed Media, Amsterdam, pin up, digital design
In Art, Digital Design on 15 febrero 2012 at 7:30
Handiedan is the monicker of Hanneke Treffers, a media artist, doodler and designer who lives in Amsterdam. Her mixed media artworks are a delicate cut and paste mixture wrapped in contemporary antiquity. She meticulously combines classic pin-ups and movie images with paint, ink, yellowed sheet music, old fashioned playing cards, money, stamps, Chinese papers, old wood, rusty metal and doodles as a playful mixture of filigree and a newfangled amalgamation of imagery. Yummy!
African, Afro-American, black, Contemporary Art, New york, portraits
In Art, Contemporary on 14 febrero 2012 at 7:58
Born in LA, living and working in New York, Kehinde Wiley is famous for his realistic portraits of men of mostly African and African-American origin. The theatrical poses and objects in his portraits are based on well-known images of powerful figures drawn from seventeenth- through nineteenth-century Western art whose authority Wiley gives to his twenty-first-century subjects. Initially, Wiley’s portraits were based on photographs taken of young men found on the streets of Harlem. As his practice grew, his eye led him toward an international view, including models found in urban landscapes throughout the world – such as Mumbai, Senegal, Dakar and Rio de Janeiro, among others – accumulating to a vast body of work called, “The World Stage.” In October 2011, Wiley received the Artist of the Year Award from the New York City Art Teachers Association/United Federation of Teachers. He also received Canteen Magazine’s Artist of the Year Award.
Artist, collage, Contemporary, Iran, Nude, The Netherlands
In Art on 13 febrero 2012 at 9:13
Artistic statement:
The saying goes that beauty comes in all shapes and sizes. It occurs in places you least expect. Revealing its art in the human body, but also cruelly absent in the presence of deformations and scars. Ashkan Honarvar (1980) depicts an undeniable, unavoidable beauty by accepting the darker sides of human ‘nature’. The body, torn by acts of war, exploited by the sex industry or used as a tool for seeking identity, is the focal point of his work.This constitutes a search for a universal representation of the evil latent in every human, providing an opportunity for reflection. His aesthetic dissection has an intriguing macabre nature, which opens the images to interpretation. Honarvar’s almost empiric exploration of the human condition knows no bounds. Its goal; the indefinable core.
Iranian artist Ashkan Honarvar currently lives and works in The Netherlands
3d, apple, hand, Japanese, recycling, Shoes, skateboard
In Art on 9 febrero 2012 at 8:05
Japanese artist Haroshi began skating in his early teens, and is still a passionate skater at present. Since he never liked throwing away his old crashed skateboards he decided to do something with them instead and this is the result. Amazing wooden art entirely made from old recycled skateboards. To Haroshi, his three-dimensional pieces are equal to his beloved skateboards, and that means they are his life itself. They serve as his communication tool with both himself, and the outside world. Pure dedication, that is!
Black and White., Brazilian, girls, Nude, painting, Psychology, realistic
In Art on 7 febrero 2012 at 8:42
Brazilian painter Marta Penter lives and work in Porto Alegre where she creates her giant hyperrealistic paintings in watercolour and oil. With a background in psychology she explores the domains of our collective unconsciousness and through her art she wants to shed “new light to man and his world, rescuing the feeling of intimacy which has been lost in a globalized and immediate world.” We like it!
