Brendan fernandes. Marta Penter. Ethereal Digital Paintings Capture The Look Of Loneliness. Loneliness never looked so depressingly good.
Variations of glittered deformations form the basis for a grotesquely beautiful motif in the works of Japanese artist 非(xhxix). Digitally sketching, drawing, and painting everything using Photoshop alone, 非 visualizes loneliness in his subjects and decorates them with scars, layers of geometric abstractions and floral imagery. As most of his subjects are young men, the artist explains that “boys are more suitable to express loneliness as women are emotional and powerful.” Concocting images of isolated pain and an ethereal sadness into haunting depictions of young western men, 非 reveals a mystified insight into the depths of the Japanese psyche. Rashad Alakbarov Paints with Shadows and Light. This is kind of flying all over the internet right now, but I couldn’t resist sharing.
Artist Rashad Alakbarov from Azerbaijan uses suspended translucent objects and other found materials to create light and shadow paintings on walls. The jaw-dropping light painting above, made with an array of colored airplanes is currently on view at the Fly to Baku exhibition at De Pury Gallery in London through January 29th. (via art wednesday, fasels suppe) The DIY Filmmaker's Toolkit. Andrew Salgado Talks To Yatzer. Andrew Salgado // The Bewildered Pursuit, 2012 Oil on canvas // 140x190cm The In Order to Rebuild exhibition at the Dosi Gallery in Korea (20 July /18 August 2012, 202-2 Kwangan 2 dong, Suyoung-gu, Busan, Korea) features the work of Andrew Salgado, the London based painter from Canada known for his eerie paintings that are preoccupied with universal themes such as identity, sexuality and convalescence.
He considers himself a storyteller and admits to his attraction to faces. 'I am attracted to interesting faces and I am certainly no stranger to melodrama. I like dramatic lighting and faces that immediately grab my attention and the attention of the viewer,''he says. Salgado avoids subjects whose emotions are easily definable. Andrew Salgado // The Bewildered Pursuit, 2012 (detail) Oil on canvas // 140x190cm Andrew Salgado // Deeper, 2012 Oil on canvas // 110x70cm The somehow disfigured troublesome faces encapsulate both the anxiety and pain of his subjects. 11 Pencil Vs. Camera Images. 986 653Share10.7K Born in Abidjan, Ivory Coast and now living in Belgium, Ben Heine is an amazing artist who overlaps hand-drawn works of art with photos to create stunning images.
I selected eleven of his Pencil Vs. Camera images from his site, but you should check out all his awesome work if you have time. Vojto1_pub_eclipse.jpg (JPEG-bild, 1604x1130 pixlar) - Skalad (53%) I Have a (Puzzling) Dream. Before I Die. What matters most to you Interactive public art project that invites people to share their personal aspirations in public.
After losing someone she loved and falling into depression, Chang created this experiment on an abandoned house in her neighborhood to create an anonymous place to help restore perspective and share intimately with her neighbors. The project gained global attention and thanks to passionate people around the world, over 1000 Before I Die walls have now been created in over 70 countries, including Kazakhstan, Iraq, Haiti, China, Ukraine, Portugal, Japan, Denmark, Argentina, and South Africa. The walls are an honest mess of the longing, pain, joy, insecurity, gratitude, fear, and wonder you find in every community, and they reimagine public spaces that nurture honesty, vulnerability, trust and understanding.
The Before I Die book is a celebration of these walls and the stories behind them.