Art of Bo Barlett
Bo Bartlett is an American realist with a modernist vision. His paintings celebrate the underlying epic nature of the commonplace and the personal significance of the extraordinary.
Bo Bartlett is an American realist with a modernist vision. His paintings celebrate the underlying epic nature of the commonplace and the personal significance of the extraordinary.
Philadelphia-based artist Maria Teicher’s latest body of work focuses on portraits and narrative paintings that feature disturbing yet delicate compositions. Each tells stories based on personal experiences in a very concise yet mysterious way. The open-ended yet evocative works give viewers a space to relate and “bring one’s own experiences into each piece.” via
"World-renowned choreographer and artist William Forsythe has just unveiled his latest “choreographic object,” an old municipal market space filled with hundreds of suspended pendulums that swing in timed sequences. As visitors move through the space they are forced to duck, dodge, and dart through the rows of swinging weights resulting in an impromptu dance. Forsythe is known for his unique blend of choreography and artwork where the viewer often becomes a participant in his interactive installations." text via Colossal
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Russian artist Edgor Kraft shares his new updated "Kraftfolio" packed with awesome projects from art installations to murals. The website itself is a conceptual playground worth to visit and share.
Cuban-American artist Cesar Santos modernises academic art styles and techniques through witty compositions that juxtapose elements directly borrowed from canonical art pieces with his own, contemporary imagery. If you follow us carefully you might remember his previous set from Top 2013 Artistsvia
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"Spanning nearly three feet wide, these giant fluffy flowers were crafted from paper by San Francisco-based artist and architect Tiffanie Turner. Because of the massive scale of each piece a single flower can take upward of 35-80 hours to assemble from crepe paper."
My work in paper stems from my background as an architect, particularly my interest in how things are made and the use of repetitive elements, along with my lifelong obsession with flowers and botanical drawings. The exploration of scale plays heavily into everything I do, and the organized chaos and rhythms in nature make the heads of flowers an excellent case study for me.
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Artist Harding Meyer paints large-scale, expressive portraits that are fractured and fragmented with beautiful glitches.
Alasdair Thomson is a sculptor living and working in Edinburgh, Scotland. He is Italian-trained and has significant experience in carving large scale sculpture and other elements of decorative stonework, both in Scotland and abroad. Through his current series of sculptures, Alasdair is exploring the way fabric hangs and folds, and is attempting to capture that lightness and gracefulness in stone. Named 'The Identity Collection', his recent sculptures are carved copies of garments donated by his friends and family. Seeking to capture the characters of those he invited to donate, he surrendered the control of the content of the series by allowing others to submit garments of their choosing for him to carve. The results are simple and understated, as well as timeless and nostalgic.
Combining the deconstructed and minimal aesthetic of old-school 8-bit video graphics with the rough and uneven textures more often seen in watercolour paintings, American painter Adam Lister creates engaging visual compositions that depict famous artworks and pop-culture characters.
Artist Peddy Mergui explores the world of luxury brands, design and ethics in the exhibition ‘Wheat is Wheat is Wheat’, currently presented at the Museum of Crafts and Design in San Francisco. The collection of crafted boxes, containers and cases, each bearing a familiar trademark of a well-known brand, is a humorous yet provocative commentary on global consumer culture and the importance of packaging. Text via
It’s hard not to get lost in these dramatically blurred architectural renderings and cityscapes of New York and Italy by Italian painter Valerio D’Ospina
Madrid-based artist Juan Casas shows off new artworks made with ball-point pen.Juan's images are perfectly provocative and welcome the viewer to join him in his naughty world.
Russian artist Andrey Remnev is influenced by the old Russian painters of the 15th, 17th and 18th centuries as well as Russian medieval icon painting. He has however, developed his very own unique, fairy-tale like, surreal style and he uses the old Renaissance recipes to make his own hand-made colors and natural pigments mixed with egg yolk.
Heavily influenced by both film and photography, artist Ethan Murrow creates grandiose theatrical narratives manifested as large-scale graphite drawings. via Colossal
Chloe Early is an Irish born, London based artist who uses her canvases to explore the contradictions between the romantic and the gritty. Simultaneously dreamlike and unflinching, her oil paintings are a place where opposites meet, they are full of colour and space and play with abstract and collage effects in interesting ways.
Four years after initially covering the incredible journey of photographer Kirsty Mitchell’s Wonderland series, we’re here to present to you with another page of what Mitchell is calling Wonderland’s final chapter, in the form of the behind the scenes of "The Stars Of Spring Will Carry You Home."
Behind the Scenes footage of "The Stars Of Spring Will Carry You Home" by kirstymitchellphotography.com, filmed and edited by fxmedia.co.uk
Have not seen anything sexier than these gloss paint on paper semi-nudes looking very sultry. That's the work and magic of UK artist Natasha Law (sister of Jude Law). Natasha is represented in by Eleven Fine Art in London
French artist based in USA - Bastien Lecouffe Deharme has all his character's noir charm depicted on digital canvases. You can admire his works on Behance or personal website
Figurative artist from San Francisco - Jeremy Mann. Here we show the selection of his cityscapes artworks
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Marc Dennis’ hyperrealistic paintings are centered around the gaze and ideal for viewers who enjoy spending a lot of time with a single work of art. Layered with symbol upon symbol, it’s apparent that there are two subjects featured in any one of his complex compositions – the person who does the looking and the object that’s being looked at.
I saturate my paintings with truths and suggestions about human behavior, ways of looking, and the psychological, spiritual and physical relationships we have with art. Walter Benjamin, the famous social critic once said, “To experience the aura of a phenomenon means to invest it with the capability of returning the gaze.” I believe that we, as viewers and art lovers, are eager and more pleased when it happens, to find ourselves, or some semblance of ourselves in a work of art. In other words, I do my part in “returning the gaze” that Benjamin speaks of. And in this hyper self-conscious, glamour-driven, sexually-inflated and media-obsessed art culture of today, my works are satirical yet sincere, artificial yet real, and most definitely loaded with personal symbolism yet public pomp — a timely combination and expression.
From interview at Hi Fructose