Street Photography Blog and Tips – Eric Kim Street Photography. This Isn’t a Painting. Few months ago, way back in March, I showed you some incredible works by #Alexa Meade (whenever you see # in front of a word, it means it’s a tag linked to related stuff).
Many of you couldn’t believe that her paintings were actually real life people, body-painted in such a way to look as an acrylic masterpiece. The illusion works best when you see the installation up-close. Just in case you don’t believe a word I’m saying, I’ve included few more photos shot from greater distance. Now wasn’t that nice of me…. ;) Hyper-Realistic Acrylic Body Painting. When Suzanne Green pointed me to this gallery, at first I thought “Nothing special, must be Photoshopped“.
But Alexa Meade is an artist who thinks completely backwards! Most artists use acrylic paints to create portraits of people on canvas, while Alexa applied acrylic paints on her subjects, and made them appear to be part of a painting! Meade is an installation artist based in the Washington, DC area. Her innovative use of paint on the three dimensional surfaces of found objects, live models, and architectural spaces has been incorporated into a series of installations that create a perceptual shift in how we experience and interpret spatial relationships.
In weeks to come, I will prepare more of her galleries for you to enjoy! Alexa Meade. Alexa Meade is a DC-based artist developing an aesthetic that playfully and skillfully combines paint, portraiture, photography and performance, whilst blending real people into art as if they really were a part of the painting.
Lost At E Minor: For creative people. Comrades of Time. Zeitgenössinen. "To be contemporary means to be "with time" rather then "in time.
" "Contemporary" in German is "zeitgenössisch. " As Genosse means comrade, to be contemporary, zeitgenössisch thus can be understood as being a comrade of time — as collaborating with time, helping time when it has problems, when it has difficulties. " —Boris Groys The title of the new work "Comrades of Time" is a reference to a text by the art critic and media theorist Boris Groys. In Geyer's work, a group of young women is forming on seven monitors installed as part of a slightly shifted space in the exhibition. For "Comrades of Time", the artist has worked with seven New York women on historical text passages written by architects, writers, philosophers and political organizers from the vibrant years of the Weimar Republic.
The Weimar Republic, which reverberates like an echo throughout the work, was an era of a collectively awakening imagination in all parts of society. Marina Abramović by Laurie Anderson. Marina Abramović, Victory, 1997, framed color photograph mounted on aluminium, 50½ x 50½ inches.
Courtesy of the artist and Sean Kelly Gallery. In the middle of March Marina Abramović and I sat around in my studio and talked—or riffed, since it was more like making music than talking. We went jumping from subject to subject: the future of objects, falling apart, teachers, picking up threads, audiences, nonattachment. Marina’s voice is breathless. She purrs, rolls a lot of syllables, leaves out articles. Street art. Cosey Fanni Tutti & Genesis P-Orridge : Prostitution-style (1976 / 1999) Marginalized Art. In a time of war and oppression, freedom of expression is often the first casualty.
Anyone can use a paintbrush and some oils. Just try making great art with chocolate syrup or rotting garbage. When may a disabled artist be considered, simply, an artist? Scrawl something on a piece of public property. Will you get arrested or given a show in Paris? How much does what you know about an artist change how you define and value their work? Art on the Periphery Outsider. The Films Explore Independent Lens films about unconventional art and artists from around the world who have challenged our presumptions about beauty.