contemporary arts

Here goes truly amazing patterns, illustrations and artworks from Italian artist Flavio Melchiorre.

Award-winning artist Benjamin Anderson has been recognized by Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, also was selected by Converse for their all-star ad campaigns and has been exhibited in different galleries since 2001.

An American Photorealist born in 1950, his body of work is absolutely stunning! Very well painted, colorful and full of metaphor.

Powerful media and motion design studio from Sheffield, UK - Universal Everything founded by talented Matt Pyke has been updated with recent showreel "This was 2009. This is 2010." Awesome studio experience fly through your eyes in few minutes.

Monks’s work explores narrative figuration. Currently she is playing with the tension between abstraction and realism in the same work, using different filters to visually distort and disintegrate the body.

Алиса Монкс талантливо кладет маслом на картон или шелк повествование в своей гипер-реалистичной манере. Здесь можно увлечься и написать много строк и параграфов, но все же приятней рассмотреть поближе и удивиться искренности этой хужожницы, изложенной в ее картинах.

Miss Bugs takes iconic imagery from pop culture and art history and reforms it using collage and technique.

Тактика Miss Bugs простая - берется "канонический" визуал из поп-культуры 20 века и перерабатывается. Скорей всего ей забыли напомнить о том что пост-модернизм мертв, но результаты местами превосходят "оригиналы".

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Andrea Heimer - a self-taught female artist from Pacific Northwest, USA recently exhibited at www.yungandchubby.com. I can define her artworks as post-pop-art with decadence sense of colour and motifs.
Check her website and flickr to complete a general image of her art.

Sasha Sementsev - Russian contemporary artist working between StPete, Barcelona and Krasnodar. His art can be viewed on personal site, and same time all commercial graphic design - on personal studio gotoAndPlay.

Саша Семенцев - дизайнер, художник, живет и работает в Петербурге, Барселоне и Краснодаре. Его творческая составляющая обитает на персональном сайте, а коммерческая - на сайте персональной студии gotoAndPlay.

Spain based illustrator, Jenia Maslova, graduated from the internationally renowned University of Textile in Moscow majoring in Costume Style and Design. Her fashion and classical painting education let Jenia to create her own style in illustrations. She combines traditional and new media techniques harnessing her passion for painting to create illustrations that speak in any language. Brilliant harmonies of color and ability to capture mood and bring it to the viewer resulted in immediate interest and recognition from magazines like Vogue, GQ, Rolling Stone and others. Apart of illustration she is making the career as a painter, during last 8 years she had exchibitions all over the Spain, in Moscow, and her works are in private collections and museums of Russia, Luxembourg, United States, Canada, Spain, United Kindom etc.

Женя Маслова, русский иллюстратор проживающий в Испании, удачно совмещает карьеру иллюстратора и живописца, ее навыки в создании дизайна и любовь к работе с цветом взаимо дополняют друг друга, что позволяет ей создавать неповторимые по стилю и настроению работы. Среди ее клиентов такие журналы как Vogue, Gq, Tatler, Cosmopolitan, Rolling Stone и многие другие, а живопись находится в частных коллекциях в России, Люксембурге, Америке, Канаде, Испании, Англии и тп.

Mexican contemporary artist and happy dreamer Ivan Puig translates the world he sees into the pieces of eye-catchy art. Enjoy his portfolio and exhibitions previews.

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