Swoon in Studio : A Warm Welcome on a Cold Night Posted on January 10, 2011 A visit to Swoon’s studio is a full immersion into her passions; meditations on humanity, the process of collaboration, and sculptures you can inhabit. Swoon adding color to the busy streets of “Cairo” (Sunday Afternoon) (photo © Jaime Rojo) In the rustic warm light of a triple height cavernous space that might have served as a town hall a score of printed artworks on paper lay scattered across the wooden floor. Photo © Jaime Rojo Around the rooms’ periphery a handful of assistants listen to music, straddle ladders, and attentively stroke warm earth tones on pieces taped to the wall. Swoon: So can I just be over here painting? Swoon is at ease and at home here in the studio (photo © Jaime Rojo) An assistant works on “The Girl from Ranoon Province” (photo © Jaime Rojo) Brooklyn Street Art: I was thinking about how you talk about this internal world in your work being a world that you have dreamt about or you do dream about. Detail of “Sambhavna” (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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BANKSY TAKE NOTICE!!! Another British graffiti artist (Nick Walker) hits the streets Banksy style. It looks like Mr.Walker likes our blog. Just kidding, but you know we had to post his work. Street Art by Banksy Street Art by Banksy Street Art by Banksy Cernuda Arte :: Artist :: René Portocarrero René Portocarrero Period: The Vanguard 1912 - 1985 Mujer de Perfil Woman in Profile, 1979 gouache on heavy paper 30 x 22 inches Born in the neighborhood of El Cerro, Havana, in 1912. He began painting from an early age and at 14, he entered the San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts. Having a strong temperament and unable to adapt to this apprenticeship, he left the institution and started working on his own. His work was first exhibited at the Salon of Fine Arts in Havana. Portocarrero was a professor at the Free Institute of Painting and Sculpture directed by Eduardo Abela in 1939. He painted tirelessly since his childhood and never planned any of his work.
Cuban Art and the Search for a National Identity « art mundus Antonio Gattorno Once Cuba had finally gained independence from Spain in 1902, the country underwent a period of adjustment, introspection, and the establishment of a more defined national identity. Artists actively participated in this soul searching. Their new approach to art was innovative, experimental, joyful and varied. Antonio Gattorno (1904-1980) is said to be the father of modernism in Cuba. Eduardo Abela Eduardo Abela (1889-1965) was an experimental artist as these three pictures show. Amelia Pelaez These paintings by Pelaez (1896-1968) are fabulous! Fidelio Ponce de Leon Like this: Like Loading...
Cuban art Cuban art is a very diverse cultural blend of African, European and North American design reflecting the diverse demographic of the island. Cuban artists embraced European modernism and the early part of the 20th century saw a growth in Cuban vanguardism movements, these movements were characterized by a mixture of modern artistic genres. Some of the more celebrated 20th-century Cuban artists include Amelia Peláez (1896–1968), best known for a series of mural projects and painter Wifredo Lam (1902–1982) who created a highly personal version of modern primitivism. In Havana Centre, a small neighborhood of artists have transformed the walls around them. In the late 19th century, landscapes dominated Cuban art and classicism was still the preferred genre.[1] The radical artistic movements that transformed European art in the first decades of the century arrived in Latin America in the 1920s to form part of a vigorous current of artistic, cultural, and social innovation.[2] Naïve art[edit]
Galeria Cubana Getting at the truth of 'Exit Through the Gift Shop' Heading into Sunday's Academy Awards, "Exit Through the Gift Shop" is undoubtedly the most buzzed-about film in the documentary feature category. But the uncomfortable question persists: Is it real? The movie is anchored by two of the least reliable narrators in memory: Banksy, the anonymous British street artist; and Thierry Guetta, an eccentric French émigré to Los Angeles whose obsessive filming happens to capture the world of high-concept graffiti. In alternating interviews, the two recount the rise of anti-establishment vandals into the upper echelons of the art world, where their work quickly became commodified. The twist comes with Guetta's transformation from the movement's accidental video scribe into Mr. Brainwash, a street artist phenomenon whose 2008 coming-out party in Los Angeles made him an instant — if completely derivative — success, and whose art now sells in the six figures. Banksy has insisted the film is completely true. 'Smart partners'
We declare the world as our canvas14 Great Banksy Street Art Photos and Quotes! “There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.” – Banksy “Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for. ” – Banksy “Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a fucking sharp knife to it.” – Banksy “You’re mind is working at its best when you’re being paranoid. “Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. “People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.” – Banksy (Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall) “I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me. ” – Banksy “My main problem with cops is that they do what they’re told. “Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.” – Banksy (Wall and Piece) “If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. “Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
Banksy Snapped? This Is Allegedly a Photograph of the Graffiti Artist at Work in New York City A camp on the Libyan coastline meant to train terror-hunters has instead become a haven for terrorists and al Qaeda. A key jihadist leader and longtime member of al Qaeda has taken control of a secretive training facility set up by U.S. special operations forces on the Libyan coastline to help hunt down Islamic militants, according to local media reports, Jihadist web forums, and U.S. officials. In the summer of 2012, American Green Berets began refurbishing a Libyan military base 27 kilometers west of Tripoli in order to hone the skills of Libya’s first Western-trained special operations counter-terrorism fighters. Less than two years later, that training camp is now being used by groups with direct links to al Qaeda to foment chaos in post-Qaddafi Libya. In other words, Tantoush is now the chief of a training camp the U.S. and Libyan governments had hoped would train Libyan special operations forces to catch militants like Tantoush. This is particularly true for Libya. In March, Gen.
Graffiti artist Banksy unmasked ... as a former public schoolboy from middle-class suburbia By Claudia Joseph for MailOnline Created: 13:38 GMT, 12 July 2008 He is perhaps the most famous, or infamous, artist alive. To some a genius, to others a vandal. Always controversial, he inspires admiration and provokes outrage in equal measure. Since Banksy made his name with his trademark stencil-style 'guerrilla' art in public spaces - on walls in London, Brighton, Bristol and even on the West Bank barrier separating Israelis and Palestinians - his works have sold for hundreds of thousands of pounds. He has dozens of celebrity collectors including Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and Christina Aguilera. Enlarge In the frame: The man in this photograph, taken in Jamaica four years ago, is believed to be Banksy He is also known for his headline-making stunts, such as leaving an inflatable doll dressed as a Guantanamo prisoner in Disneyland, California, and hanging a version of the Mona Lisa - but with a smiley face - in the Louvre, Paris. A network of myths has grown up around him.
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