Charlie and Blair Ceramics

September 16, 2015 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Australia, Instagram, Portfolios, 2015

Adrian 'Charlie' Smith and Heather 'Blair' Lockhart believe in the handmade aesthetic of design. Together they run "Charlie and Blair" (Instagram) straight from Brisbane, Australia. They specialise in ceramic pieces that simply bring beauty to a space.

Beth Cavener Sculptures

September 11, 2015 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Sculpture, TOP 2015, USA, 2015

The sculptures of Beth Cavener focus on human psychology, stripped of context and rationalisation, and articulated through animal and human forms. Cavener wants to pry at those uncomfortable, awkward edges between animal and human. Entangled in their own internal and external struggles, the figures express frustration for the human tendency towards cruelty and lack of understanding

Video directed by Bas Berkhout

Paintings by Yang Cao

September 09, 2015 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Canada, Portfolios, 2015

Citing iGNANT: Toronto-based artist Yang Cao paints faceless figures to portray a spectrum of emotions and sensations. A graduate in fine art from the Ontario College of Art and Design, Cao typically creates fantastical paintings of nude bodies with cloud-like heads in dull colours.In an interview about his work, Cao says: "I like the unpredictability of the cloud. It’s shapeless and changes all the time, it follows the wind and never stays in one form and place. Somehow I find this as a resemblance to our human nature and mind."

Art of Nigel Van Wieck

August 31, 2015 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Portfolios, USA, 2015

Nigel Van Wieck is an American figurative painter who lives and works in New York.

Alexander Gardner Art

August 27, 2015 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Portfolios, TOP 2015, USA, 2015

LA-based surrealistic artist Alexander Gardner (previously) did a lot of artworks since our last visit worth to admire on his personal website or Instagram

Firing Stairway to Heaven

August 25, 2015 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, China, Motioncollector, 2015

"Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang, known for his use of gun powder to create art, recently used a whole lot of it pay tribute to his grandmother’s 100th birthday with a stunning art piece, “Sky Ladder”. The pyrotechnic art piece lit up the sky above Quanzhou, south-eastern China on Monday, utilizing fireworks and a giant balloon to create the effect of a fiery ladder building itself 1,650 ft up into the sky." via Booooooom

"Dismaland" park by Banksy

August 20, 2015 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Sculpture, Street Art, United Kingdom, 2015

Heavily rumoured large-scale street art installation initiated by Banksy opened this week in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, UK and named "Dismaland". Billed as a "family theme park unsuitable for children" and "a festival of art, amusements and entry-level anarchism," the street artist's latest project offers "an alternative to the sugar-coated tedium of the average family day out," according to the park's website. Dismaland features 10 new works by the famous provocateur, as well as the contributions of 57 other artists from around the world, including Damien Hirst, Brock Davis, Ben Long, and more.

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Retrospective of Istvan Sandorfi Artworks

August 18, 2015 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Hungary, Portfolios, 2015

Art has no time limit, and even after creator death it continues amaze and mesmerise. That what we can expect from the works of Istvan (known as Etienne) Sandorfi (1948-2007) who was a Hungarian hyperrealist painter.

James Rawson Art

August 17, 2015 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Portfolios, TOP 2015, United Kingdom, 2015

Artist James Rawson resides in Norfolk, England and is a postmodern pop artist. Predominantly working in the medium of collage and painting, Rawson found no inspiration in the beautiful Norfolk landscape he grew up in; instead, the landscape of pop culture fed his artistic drive.

James’ work blurs the boundaries between collage and painting, using preparatory paper collages as reference for his larger paintings. He aims to reflect the multi-layered visual experience we all live in. Appropriating the very images that have become implicit in our society, James’ work disturbs our sense of reality and confuses our perception of popular culture.

Remake by Jeff Hamada

August 10, 2015 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Digital Art, 2015

"Four years ago, Booooooom creator Jeff Hamada asked the internet to join in on an art challenge to recreate their favourite old master paintings as contemporary photographs. The Remake Project sparked many professional and amateur artists to create elaborate sets, paint their bodies, paint their friends’ bodies, and take their own shot at works by artists from Dali to Magritte. This collection of original paintings and their contemporary counterparts has now taken the form of a book released through Chronicle Books titled Remake: Master Works of Art Reimagined."

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, “The Day Dream,” 1880, oil on canvas, remake by Tania Brassesco and Lazlo Passi Norberto

Rene Magritte, “The Lovers,” 1928, oil on canvas, remake by Linda Cieniawska

Ramon Casas i Carbo, “After the Ball,” 1895, oil on canvas, remake by Tania Brassesco and Lazlo Passi Norberto

Jacques Louis David, “The Death of Marat,” 1793, oil on canvas, remake by Adrianne Adelle

Edward Hopper, “Nighthawks,” 1942, oil on canvas, remake by Bastian Vice and Jiji Seabird

Salvador Dali, “The Ship,” 1942-43, watercolor on paper, remake by Justin Nunnink

Mountainscapes by Torben Giehler

August 10, 2015 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Germany, Portfolios, 2015

Colourful and slightly abstract geometrical landscapes by German artist Torben Giehler. See more images from Giehler’s “Mountainscapes” series below.

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Embroidered Brands by James Merry

August 06, 2015 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Iceland, Portfolios, USA, 2015

Longtime collaborator, costume designer of Björk - artist James Merry (Interview on i-D) creates embroidery for fun when is not busy with a large-scale projects. Below you can his personal works with sportswear brands getting floral enhancement.

Fire Art by Steven Spazuk

August 06, 2015 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Canada, Portfolios, 2015

For the past 14 years, Steven Spazuk has perfected a technique called fumage, that allows him to use the flame of a candle or the flame of a torch as a pencil to create his paintings with trails of soot. Using various tools, he intuitively sculpt the plumes of soot left behind in response to the shapes that appear on the canvas.

"On his own" Photography Series by Pawel Franik

August 05, 2015 by Arseny Vesnin in Photography, Poland, Portfolios, 2015, Art

"For the series 'On his own', Polish photographer Pawel Franik captures moments of solitude in vast public spaces. Instead of loneliness, the minimal photographs celebrate the beauty of being alone. By placing his subjects in the center of each photo, he not only portrays an individual in the need of alone time, but zooms in on a place where each person can be in their own private emotional space." via

Glitch Art by Nick Thomm

August 04, 2015 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Australia, Portfolios, Glitch, 2015

Australian polymath artist Nick Thomm shows of his latest artworks online for everyone and during solo shows for special ones.

From a Scratch to a Masterpiece by Nathan Walsh

August 04, 2015 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Portfolios, United Kingdom, 2015

"Starting with his own photographic references, Walsh first draws an elaborate blueprint of sorts by establishing a horizon line and a host of perspective strategies that varies from piece to piece. This is followed by several months of painting with oils to achieve the final landscape that appears to be a strange hybrid of both illustrative and photorealistic styles. " via Colossal

Sweet Ladies Adventures in SF by Camila Valdez

July 30, 2015 by Arseny Vesnin in Argentina, Portfolios, Sculpture, 2015, Art

Camila Valdez (Facebook) is a 30-year-old industrial designer and artist from Buenos Aires, Argentina who blends both of her professions to create hyper realistic leggy dessert sculptures in table-top and human scale size.

Her sculptures are inspired by the secret aesthetics of everyday products. Objects, in this case desserts, express their feelings to Camila through their colours, shapes and styles. She says “If a Cupcake is good looking eye-candy, it says come and get me!”

"Sweet Ladies" is her new series of human-sized figurative sculptures invading the streets and venues of San Francisco

Architectural Drawing by Minty Sainsbury

July 28, 2015 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Instagram, Portfolios, United Kingdom, 2015

Having a 2-years experience in architectural studies I can't pass by the portfolio of a talented pencil artist Minty Sainsbury (Instagram). Her latest series of "Seen Through Masterpieces" makes us think of how far did the urban development ruin the historical city sightseens wherever it is in London or Saint-Petersburg.

Art of Jeremy Miranda

July 24, 2015 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Portfolios, USA, 2015

"Jeremy Miranda’s work is calming, like the divergent directions of both halves of an overclocked brain spontaneously aligning, spectrum of possibility crystallizing poignantly, the chaos of the wider world and the general entropy of everyday life suddenly glowing, comforting, an austere blanket, warm."

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Art of Marco Battaglini

July 22, 2015 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Italy, Portfolios, Street Art, 2015, Costa Rica

Marco Battaglini pastiches together bits of Renaissance art with graffiti and other elements of modern pop — not unlike the divine versus the vulgar — in his digital paintings. By mashing together opposing visual traditions, the Italian artist (living in Costa Rica) challenges the viewer to contemplate a variety of topics: cultural democratization, the evolution of knowledge and information, and what he calls our 'patchwork culture.'

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