WE LOVE DELHI
“WE LOVE DELHI” BY LEK & SOWAT AND HANIF KURESHI with this beautiful french-indian collaboration between Lek & Sowat and Indian artist Hanif Kureshi. After speaking with children of the community who play cricket at their site everyday, the artists decided to write the text ‘We love Delhi’ in hindi which Hanif then painted on top of their sanskrit cyphers […]
SILENCE/SHAPES
The Italian artist Filippo Minelli is a master of contrasts. With his photography project he started in 2009, the artist, who inspired by political demonstrations, managed to create colourful and vibrant smoke-bombs by igniting them within Romantic landscapes. Capturing the events on camera, he transforms this traditionally violent act into a vision of tranquillity. The purpose of […]
LITTLE MONSTERS AT POW! WOW!
KEVIN LYONS’ LITTLE MONSTERS AT POW! WOW! HAWAII In Honolulu for the yearly POW! WOW! Hawaii 2016, American artist, creative director, illustrator and typograph Kevin Lyons was given the perfect wall to bring to life some of his signature mischievous monsters. The New Yorker came up with the idea of these funky monster characters after he had his first child. His […]
Aesthetica Art Prize Call Mansoureh Pakzad 2016
Attracting thousands of entries from all over the world across a range of media, the Aesthetica Art Prize is a celebration of art from across the globe, and is now open for entries. It offers both emerging and established artists the opportunity to showcase their work to a wider audience, and further their engagement with […]
EXQUISITE MACHINES OF WOOD AND PAPER
In an interview with This is Colossal, Agdag said, “Aesthetically, the driving force behind the creation of works I make stem from a need to see and imagine objects, machines and environments in a way I’d like to see them, to imagine how I think they work and expose their inner workings. All too often, […]
THE PULP FICTION
THE PULP FICTION OF MICHAEL CARSON With a style that reminds us a little of the Radiohead’s “Jigsaws Falling Into Place,” Michael Carson makes a night out seem like a smokey, dreamy experience. We saw these works onEK last week, and just loved the mood; a bit of darkness, still-life, club life, and late night life.
ANIMUS CHRYSALIS MORTIS
For this body of work I was inspired by the surrealist and deeply symbolic films of Alejandro Jodorowsky, Jungian archetypes, and Greek mythology. I created a personal language of symbols, then made a card set and selected at random a different set for each new painting. This method taps into the elements of subconscious influence […]
ROLLING THROUGH THE SHADOWS
“I’m super honored to be a part of the Leica Gallery LA show, and excited to see my friends’ images together – multi-generations of skateboard photographers condensed into one amazing exhibit,” said Brook, who has traveled the world on skateboarding teams, Leica forever in hand. “Thomas [Campbell] and Tobin [Yelland] were big influences on me […]
Elizaveta Porodina
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Among Posters
No Longer Human
THE BOOK COVER ARCHIVE, for the appreciation and categorization of excellence in book cover design. Author: Osamu Dazai ISBN: 0811204812 Genre: Fiction Design Info: Designer: Rodrigo Corral
Whistlejacket – about 1762, George Stubbs
Whistlejacket was foaled in 1749. His most famous victory was in a race over four miles for 2000 guineas at York in August 1759. Stubbs’s huge picture was painted in about 1762 for the 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, Whistlejacket’s owner and a great patron of Stubbs. According to some writers of the period the original […]
THE MOST-VIEWED WORK OF PERFORMANCE ART IN HISTORY
THE MOST-VIEWED WORK OF PERFORMANCE ART IN HISTORY: VANESSA BEECROFT ON DITCHING THE ART WORLD FOR KANYE WEST On Valentine’s Day, the artist Vanessa Beecroft sent an e-mail telling me to go to an address on Wooster Street in Manhattan’s SoHo neighborhood, where she would be, as the e-mail stated, “w Kanye.” “Haven’t had a […]
Top Drawings From the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
“Greuze [1725–1805] is normally known for genre pictures, but here he’s trying to embrace a mythological subject, showing Aegina visited by Jupiter,” Woodall explains. “It’s a study for a painting in The Met, and the drawing focuses on the figure. It looks back to classical statuary, reminding you of images like the Vatican Ariadne. This […]
Abstract Art and Beyond
by Jo Toye Limiting the changes that you make from one painting to the next can greatly enhance your growth as an artist. Today I want to share why I believe working in a small format while learning, can yield big results, for abstract art and beyond. In my art classes and painting workshops, I […]
