3rd Wave of Inspiration
Since 2003
"Polish painter Jarek Puczel‘s works are arrestingly simple, yet compelling takes on the everyday. Sketching out fragments, and in-between moments pulled from everyday experiences, these pieces possess an air of the cinematic—key lighting, dramatic angles, arrested motion—all elements that tie into his overall concept of the world being one giant set for quiet, dramatic moments of ennui." (via Beautiful Decay)
"Rob Sato’s watercolor paintings are whimsical clashes of documented history and personal dreaming: a magpie pictorial narrative of his own internal processing system or as he says, an “extension of writing” and “sifting through garbage. Getting a lot of trash out of my head.” His ability to condense worlds, communities, and landscapes into one surreal solid depiction, interestingly enough, conceptually harkens back to Vincent VanGogh’s statement on the watercolor medium itself as “a splendid thing” to “express atmosphere and distance, so that the figure is surrounded by air and can breathe in it.” " via Beautiful Decay
Renowned artist Tokujin Yoshioka created an installation that filled the entire space with 2 million transparent straws juxtaposing simple objects with massive natural meaning.
In this project called Zero Gravity, Moscow-based photographer Nikolay Tikhomirov creates dramatic portraits that feature elegant female figures casually drifting into the air while everything around them stands still.
P.s. Time to look back on our post for Anka Zhuravleva's works that are still the hotest post on our site with few thousands of likes.
As my granny said - if you can't draw an eye looking at you than you're not an artist. That does not mean Franco Clun is only an artist just because he does it but for sure he is a greatest photorealistic draughtsman I've ever met
Travelling and painting between Morocco and France - Thomas Saliot Most of his work is based on photos found on the web. And although he illustrates conventional landscape scenes and portraits, much of his focus is on women, with an erotic emphasis.
This blood-orange land on oil canvases by Sea Hyun Lee is actually a mountains from the border between North ans South Korea. Union Gallery, what represents the author, describe the paintings as
Deeply personal works that reference Lee’s own sense of the past and its losses. Here, Lee tarries with two familiar ideas: nostalgia and utopia. But he avoids approaching either with mere simplicity or mere skepticism. Instead, his paintings are infused with a sophisticated sense of nostalgia, and a wry idea of utopia.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=W5aSYPFM1P8
Tell No One are Luke White and Remi Weekes. Their work collectively have been exhibited and screened in institutions big and small, around the world. From the Guggenheim Museum, New York to the British Film Institute, London. Nowness portal unveils their lates work "Umbrella"
http://vimeo.com/64542720
Anna Taut was born in 1984 in Warsaw, Poland. She graduated Faculty of Painting from Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk in 2009. http://www.behance.net/AnnaTaut
Mixing a classic technic of panoramas with modern japanese art Shintaro Ohata combines canvas with sculptures to create his artworks. Viewing in a decent angle the sculpture appears to be a part of the painting without an optic trick. http://yukari-art.jp/jp/shintaro_ohata
On April 15th, Director, Julian Marshall is launching an amazing new film entitled OBEY THE GIANT. It is about the early life of Shepard Fairey and the origin of his OBEY GIANT street art campaign. The film takes place in Providence, RI in 1990 when Shepard was a student at Rhode Island School of Design.
http://vimeo.com/42453172#at=0
Singapore-based artist Keng Lye meticulously produces three-dimensional works of art with acrylics and epoxy resin that lie somewhere between painting and sculpture. Using a technique originated by Riusuke Fukahori, Lye manages to produce the illusion of different animals swimming in water. The time-consuming process involves pouring resin into a bowl and then painting on top of it with acrylics, layer by layer. (via MMN)
Simply charcoal on paper drawings by Kelly Blevins with the mind-blowing result
Vincent Giarrano's figurative paintings in which the artist has taken moments from everyday life, and has made of them something beautiful and introspective.
“What inspires me most is the energy and beauty of my experiences,” says Giarrano. “I see painting as a way to appreciate what is all around us, stuff we take for granted or don't notice. My favorite things to paint are scenes of life in New York City. I love the architecture and people of the city. It's endlessly inspiring. I enjoy painting scenes on the streets but also interiors, which are often about people, alone and in their own thoughts. For me, that presents someone as more truly himself or herself.”
Natalia Rak is one of the most exciting painters and street artists to emerge in Poland’s contemporary art scene. Born in 1986, Natalia received a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Lodz, Poland, specializing in graphic arts. Her work has been exhibited throughout Europe, and she has made waves at some of the continent’s most prestigious street art events, most recently at the 2012 Walk and Talk Festival on Madeira Island in the Portuguese Azores. via (Sweet Station) http://vimeo.com/44730699
Sarah DiNardo unveils one of her greatest passions - creating art by rolling endless lengths of brown masking tape into different sized rolls which she then places into found boxes. Watch the video interview directed at the Gnarly Bay below via
http://vimeo.com/60188744
P.s. I think it is just a coincidence but Sarah's objects looks like Evegeny Kiselev's cover art for DCMAG#1 and it is cool!
Thierry Cohen is seen as one of the pioneers of digital photography. Since 2010 he has devoted himself to a single project – “Villes Eteintes” (Darkened Cities) – which depicts the major cities of the world as they would appear at night without light pollution, or in more poetic terms: how they would look if we could see the stars. (via BD)
To make the work he combines two photographs, one with the retouched night city and second with the sky in a same angle of the cityscape and latitude just where it is possible to see the stars like the Mojave, the Sahara, and the Atacama Desert.
Tumblr team invites to meet Mike Breach, barista extraordinaire, who "paints" everything -- and everyone -- into his lattes. (via Colossal)
http://vimeo.com/63098055
Using a combination of figurative art and free-flowing abstraction, Serbian painter Milan Hrnjazovic endeavors to visually represent the emotional anxiety of the young adult female's evolving sense of self-image and burgeoning sexual desires. (via Juxtapoz)
"Denver-based artist Chris Carlson who is known for his work with 3D chalk illusions created a great stop motion Tetris game. The shading, perspective and motion is incredibly spot-on. You can see more of his video game and pop-culture influenced chalk drawings over on Tumblr." (via Colossal)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=y0_lw5QXSvk