A Collision of Cultures and Mediums in Paul Louise-Julie’s Sculptures and 3D Paintings. New York-based artist Paul Louise-Julie has spent the last 7 years researching African civilizations and art, including a year-long journey to West Africa and the Sahara Desert. These sculptures (and 3D paintings) are part of a resulting body of work Louise-Julie created in response to his discoveries and experiences there. The pieces represent a successful collision of artistic methods and themes from multiple cultures, blending ideas from Western contemporary art, traditional African methods, and even Japanese-influenced origami and paper craft.
The artworks you see here are among his first sculptures. Louise-Julie is also working on a companion graphic novel that will be released gradually starting later this year. Magazine | Arts | london. It's been a while now since dolls firmly left the territory of adorable and great and started to creep us out. Films like Chucky and The Twilight Zone: Living Doll definitely played a role, as did any footage you may have ever seen of an avid doll collector describing their darlings. It seems, then, that artist Scott Radke has tapped right into that dark side of the doll with his series of handmade marionettes. All saggy of face and with the kind of eyes to beat you at a stare-down contest every time, his little creations conjure up Tim Burton-esque stories of bittersweet horror. And yes, he might be looking to make ones that move on screen too.
We found out more. Main image: Mumums Bird #6 To start with, we'd love to know more about your artistic background: are you formally trained, or did you teach yourself sculpture? For the most part I am self trained but I have taken a lot of extremely helpful life drawing courses at community colleges. Some work in progress Flyer #2 - 2011 Flower #1. Una artista dejó que su hija termine sus dibujos, el resultado fue épico. Peter Root | Ephemicropolis. Artist Peter Root‘s latest work ‘Ephemicropolis’, is pretty astonishing. A metropolis made completely from stacks of over 100.000 metal staples. The stacks of staples were broken into varying sizes from full stacks about 12cm high down to single staples.
These stacks were then stood up and arranged over a period of 40 hours. Via Designboom. Improbabilità – 25 strange objects by Giuseppe Colarusso. Improbabilità – 25 strange objects by Giuseppe Colarusso The series of strange and surreal objects, entitled “Improbabilità“, by the Italian artist Giuseppe Colarusso who hijacks everyday objects to make them deliciously unusable. Some improbable, but not impossible creations, exposed very simply as still lifes, which divert the functional codes of objects that surround us… Images © Giuseppe Colarusso. Shintaro Ohata combines sculpture and canvas in his art « Odditiesity. 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 Diagram Queen. The Diagram Queen Works by Korean artist Minjeong An (born 1981) Update / Anatomy of a post: Researching another Korean artist, I stumbled upon a thumbnail of Minjeong An's work in a Korean gallery's archived 2008-ish exhibit. After a good hour of googling and google-translating Hangul (phew), I finally hit on the artist's site. (Using Google Translate for proper names is less than ideal as their transliteration varies widely.) I added links to some full-size images in the captions, at least until Minjeong's site is back up.
Minjeong An, "Self Portrait" (2007) click here for very large version Minjeong An, 2008 click here for very large version detail of the above Minjeong An, The Power of a Kiss, 2008 Minjeong An, Detail Plan of Somnolence, 2008 Minjeong An, Bilingualism, 2007 click here for very large version Minjeong An, six panel work (details below) click here for very large version Minjeong An, detail of 2007 six-panel work 1 Minjeong An, detail of 2007 six-panel work 2.
The hybrid sculptures of Brendan Lee Tang. Image Courtesy of Brendan Lee Tang We are proud to introduce you the fanTANGstic cocktail of Irish artist Brendan Lee Tang: in a glass pour some generous doses of Asian ceramic culture, western pop icons, blinding colors, manga aesthetics, kitsch references and, last but not least, a huge amount of craziness and creativity and you will finally enter Brendan’s magical world.
Brendan Tang was born in Dublin, Ireland, of Trinidadian parents and is a naturalized citizen of Canada. For his exuberant creations he is deeply inspired by the idea of transformation and inter-cultural exchanges and interpretations. "I'm kind of playing with looking at how history is really malleable and how it can really shift. In his Manga Ormolu series Tang enters the dialogue on contemporary culture, technology and globalization through a fabricated relationship between ceramic tradition (using the form of Chinese Ming dynasty vessels) and techno-Pop Art.
Sources: Brendan Lee Tang. Awesome Papercut. Unique Steampunk Insects. Since the late 1990′s style steampunk is becoming more and more popular, and not only in the literature. Various modern utilitarian objects have been modded by enthusiasts into a pseudo-Victorian mechanical “steampunk” style. And often this stylization gives very unexpected results. Like, for example, art works of american sculptor Mike Libby.
His studio Insect Lab make robots from dried insects. Insects for his works come from around the world, from Africa, China, New Guinea, Brazil, Texas, etc. Kim Yong Soo. I was delighted to stumble onto the work of Korean artist Kim Yong Soo whose artwork, at first glance, takes on the somewhat familiar appearance of traditional Japanese paintings of cherry tree bossoms. Closer inspection reveals a textured assemblage of semi-conductors, speaker wires, and acrylic cement, used to form the delicate tree branches, flowers, and ominous humanoid figures that bring an unexpectedly dark presence to these otherwise serene paintings. Simen Johan - StumbleUpon. Making Furniture with Magnetism - StumbleUpon. Beyond Drawing: Creative Colored Pencil Art & Sculpture & Dornob - StumbleUpon. From a very first look at these wonderfully detailed colored pencil sculptures by Jennifer Maestre, it should come as no surprise that her artwork was initially inspired by spiny sea urchins – beautiful be dangerous to the touch.
For each sculpture, Jennifer hacks apart hundreds of colored pencils, cores them perpendicular to their length and turns them into beads, essentially, which she then meticulously stitches back together and slowly shapes into solid sculptures. Though her beginnings were with creatures of the water, Jennifer quickly expanded her subject matter to cover other organic objects – from plants and flowers to house pets and more abstract animals. While some of her work has a planned form from the very beginning, other pieces morph and shift as they take shape into something completely unplanned but nonetheless compelling. Sculptures Popping Out of Paintings - My Modern Metropolis - StumbleUpon. Oh, to have been in Tokyo in June!
Shintaro Ohata just finished up a solo exhibition at the Yukari Art Contemprary in Tokyo, Japan. This Hiroshima, Japan-born artist is known for his ability to show us everyday life in a cinematic way. He captures light in his paintings, showering the world, as we know it, with carefully placed strokes of it. "Every ordinary scenery in our daily lives, such as the rising sun, the beauty of a sunset or a glittering road paved with asphalt on a rainy night, becomes something irreplaceable if we think we wouldn’t be able to see them anymore," he told Yukari gallery. "I am creating works to capture lights in our everyday life and record them in the painting.”
More than that, this artist has a unique style. He places sculptures in front of paintings! Straight from the Yukari gallery, here's a sample of his stellar work. ' Photos courtesy of Yukari Art Contemporary. Michał Dziekan - StumbleUpon. Illustrator and character designer Michal Dziekan was born and raised in small town in south-western Poland. He moved to city Wroclaw where he attended Architecture on University of Technology. After three years he left school and moved to Warsaw to work in post production studio Platige Image as a concept artist and matte painter.
He stayed in Platige Image from 2007 to 2011, where working on animated commercials and films he got opportunity to gain experience in such fields as vfx compositing, motion graphics animation, animation direction and directing. During that time he was developing as an illustrator and character designer. At the beginning of 2011 he moved to the creative studio Ars Thanea but half year later he decided to star working as a freelancer. some of the clients: Wall Street Journal Briefings Magazine Procycling Magazine UK Przekrój Magazine DDB Warsaw Ogilvy & Mater Dubai TBWA/Raad Dubai Platige Image Ars Thanea exhibitions: publications:
The best hyper realistic painters. Art & Design Here is a selection of some of the best hyper realistic painters around. Enjoy and be impressed! Roberto Bernardi Steve Mills Erich Christensen. Nemo et Nihil. RoboRen 7. Kate MacDowell - "locusts" Tōhoku Japanese Earthquake Sculpture | Luke Jerram. This sculpture was made to contemplate the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan. To create the sculpture a seismogram of the earthquake, was rotated using computer aided design and then printed in 3 dimensions using rapid prototyping technology. The artwork measures 30cm x 20cm and represents 9 minutes of the earthquake. The sculpture will be presented at the Jerwood Space in London for a show called Terra. Exploring how data is read and can be represented and interpreted, the artwork is one of a series of data visualization sculptures Jerram has recently created.
Exhibitions This work has been presented at:Jerwood Visual Arts, London.Grizedale Sculpture, UK.Heller Gallery, NYC.Biennale Internationale Design, Saint-Étienne, France.National Centre for Crafts and Design, UK. Art Museum of China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing. Also in Glass The artwork has also been made in glass for show at the Heller Gallery NYC, June 2012. With Thanks To Media Coverage. Print My Fingers in Eight Ways. Posted by C on Saturday, October 29, 2011 · I found these amazing works of art the other day. Illustrations of fingerprints depicted in different ways. And hear my words are in a real sway. Kevin Van Aelst replicated his own set of fingerprints in an exceptional way to be able to show the world that he really knows the meaning of “work of art.” [via wowcollector.net] Illustrating with Thread and Pins.
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