STUFF I LIKE
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Stretched and Contoured Sculptures, Emil Alzamora
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“Ground Zero Day Trip III” by Stefanie Jasper
created while listening to:
“Flashlight” by George Clinton
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Cornelis van Spaendonck (1789)
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Hannes Kilian - Marcia Haydée, Stuttgarter Ballett, 1967
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black station - The Sketch Of Wuhan
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Amy Stein - Domesticated (2008)
Artist’s statement:
“Within these scenes I explore our paradoxical relationship with the wild and how our...
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Tom Phillips - A Humument (1966-73)
“In 1966 Phillips set himself a task: to find a second-hand book for threepence and alter every page by...
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Distortion.
CONCEPT ART TOYS BY ARTIST HIROSHI YOSHII
Mr. Yoshii is one of the most acclaimed digital artists in Japan. Yoshii specializes in crystallizing characters for his clients’ needs with little direction. “My three-dimensional characters are created by a harmonious combination of beauty, ludicrousness, and humor.”
Hiroshi Yoshii - “My parents forbade me from watching TV cartoons or reading comic books until I was 12 years old, and when they lifted that restriction I rebelliously immersed myself in them. Star Wars also helped lead to my interest in visual art. I wanted to become a comic artist, but realized that I was not a good storyteller. Therefore, I shifted my goals to become an illustrator. I worked for a design company in Nagoya as a graphic designer for seven years, after which I moved to Tokyo in 1990 to begin work as an illustrator.”
BOOK ART BY SAMANTHA Y.HUANG
Samantha Y. Huang was born in 1985, in Changhua, Taiwan. She began studying business upon graduation from high school, but decided working in an office was not for her and quit after one semester. She subsequently moved to Vancouver, Canada where she studied English and began to take an interest in the Arts.
“In my art practice, I use mediums that have a strong relationship with people’s creative art productions: books, crayons, coloured pencils, paper, and acrylic paint. This is intended to portray the awareness of mediums as themselves through a sense of touch and lead the audience to reconsider the relationship among mediums, creators, and audience. The art pieces are as accessible for touching as the mediums being experienced initially by the artist.
I believe that the messages of mediums /ideas/concept cannot be received fully by sense of sight alone. Many hidden characteristics can only be unfolded by other human senses. I would like to invite my audience to explore the experience and interact with my artwork by using sense of touch. The experience of art provides more feelings and understandings when it has a multi-sensory approach.” - Samantha Y.Huang
CAR SWALLOWES BY GRASS
Nature at CMP Block in Taiwan that seeks to merge “art, aesthetics, and nature”.
(via thisiscolossal toni wang, and tao)
ARTIST THOMAS ALLEN
Book artist Thomas Allen - new works in advance of his forthcoming show at Foley Gallery in New York opening September 9th, 2012.
(Twelve of these will adorn the walls and mark the opening of FOLEY’s new location at 97 Allen Street, New York, NY 10002.)
[Via thisiscolossal]
PIRACY
The works, created by Moreno De Turco & Mirco Pagano
Supervisors: Francesco Guerrera, Nicola Lampugnani
Producer: Federico Fornasari
Fotografo: FM Photographers
Mockup Artist: Marco Simula, Moreno De Turco
more about the project here
ARTIST KEVIN CHAMPENY
New York artist Kevin Champeny merges aspects of painting, sculpture and mosaics with his large-scale images of skulls, flowers, and other objects.
- What Remains (5’ wide x 4’ tall x 1” deep / 35,000+ hand cast urethane flowers)
- A Rose By Any Other Name (51” long x 41” tall x 1.5” deep / 15,000+ individually hand cast urethane pieces of candy / 75 pounds)
- HotWheels (9’ wide x 4’tall x 3” deep / 4400 hot wheels / 550 pounds)
[via thisiscolossal] Artist on tumblr: kchampeny
SET FIRE TO RAIN
ADELE portrait | RED aka Hong Yi - I’m doing a 4 part project involving the 4 basic elements: fire, water, wind and earth.
So for FIRE, I chose to do ADELE’s portrait (also, I wanted to do a portrait of an Brit after the London Olympics!). Her song ‘Set Fire to the Rain’ inspired me to use candles and fire as my painting materials…but why?
To me, ADELE was probably singing about the pain of a lost relationship. Rain may be a metaphor for her tears she cried, and she is setting fire to it to burn and destroy her pain. I’ve used blue candles to represent tears, and by setting fire to them, they melt and flow into each other, forming a portrait of ADELE.
[via mymodernmet]
MONEY FOLDER
Won Park is the master of Origami. He is also called the “money folder”, a practitioner of origami whose canvas is the United States One Dollar Bill. Bending, twisting, and folding, Won Park creates life-like shapes inspired by objects living and not– both in stunning detail.
Origami is the traditional Japanese art of paper folding. The goal of this art is to create a representation of an object using geometric folds and crease patterns preferably without the use of gluing or cutting the paper, and using only one piece of paper.
STUNNING BEADED SKULLS BY OUR EXQUISITE CORPSE
The psychedelic patterns and colors on skull.
website Our exQuisite Corpse & facebook
[image via cluttermagazine - slamxhype]
LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL
Artist Brit Hammer
Glass and 24k gold mosaic sculpture atop wood & manmade nest 35 x 42 1/2 in. (90 x 108 cm)
CANNIBALS | Meat Alphabet
Art Director Maria Plotnikova
This is Cannes predictions 2011 concept, including all the materials.
MICROMACHINA
Fine Arts, Art Direction | Scott Bain - 20 Years of graphic design has given me different eyes through which to see the world. Experimenting in various art forms enables me to explore the deepest corners of my mind. The journey is just beginning! With a dark fascination with dead stuff and dusty Victorian taxidermy, cabinets of curiosities are my main influence, antique collections of bizarre artefacts, rarely seen. I have taken this concept and brought it into modern scenarios. Art gives me 100% freedom to create.
(Micromachina Aqua Exhibition 3-26 August 2012 / South Australian Maritime Museum / Port Adelaide)
ROOMS
Iglika Krasimirova Georgieva - …the things we leave behind…a love story. Miniature wire sculpture representing a life story and the memories that the objects keep after we are long gone…
