Your Weekly Mixx! DAF’s Weekly Mixx is a selection of contemporary art and/or art related videos chosen from artist and gallery submissions and from our own search for new and interesting works. This week, we feature the work of Lisa Occhipinti, Aaron Kinnane, Claudio Fuente, Diane Cooper, Henrik Uldalen, Michal Lukasiewi, Crystal Wagner, and Felipe […]
Stella Im Hultberg: Painting
Stella Im Hultberg is a painter living and working in Brooklyn, NYC. Born in South Korea, raised in Seoul, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and later in California, she studied Industrial Design and worked as a product designer before serendipitously falling into the art world in late 2005. Stella is currently exhibiting in the Corey Helford Gallery […]
Sunday Afternoon… Georges Seurat
It’s my day off again, so I am humbly stealing the comments of a Princeton student for today’s image – enjoy! “On a trip to the Art Institute of Chicago while playing hooky for a day, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’s Cameron Frye stands perplexed in front of the massive painting, tilting his head from side […]
DAF: First Annual Holiday Giveaway!!
It’s the holiday season and time to celebrate! To show our appreciation to our readers, Daily Art Fixx is holding its first ever Holiday Giveaway! Six lucky winners will receive one of the following prizes: 1. DVD Gift Pack: Includes – Jean-Michel Basquiat: Radiant Child (2010), Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy 2010), Painters Painting […]
Wassily Kandinsky: 1866-1944
Born on December 16, 1866 in Moscow Russia, Wassily Kandinsky was a painter, printmaker, stage designer, art theorist, and a central artist in the development of 20th century abstract art. Kandinsky studied economics, ethnography and law in Moscow from 1886 to 1893, and wrote a dissertation on the legality of labourers’ wages. In 1896, Kandinsky […]
August Bradley: Photography
“American photographer August Bradley creates distinctive conceptual images with an artistic feel and a sense of drama and mystery. He works for clients ranging from designer labels to consumer brands to lifestyle magazines, as well as producing images for gallery exhibition. Prior to his current photography career, August developed marketing strategies for consumer brands including […]
Mark Ryden: The Gay ’90s: Olde Tyme Art Show
Mark Ryden‘s new exhibition “The Gay ’90s: Olde Tyme Art Show” opened on April 29, 2010 at the Paul Kasmin Gallery in New York. “The central theme of The Gay 90s: Old Tyme Art Show references the idealism of the 1890s while addressing the role of kitsch and nostalgia in our current culture. “In the […]
Grant Wood: 1891-1942
Born on February 13, 1891, in Anamosa, Iowa, Grant Wood was an American artist best known for his paintings of the rural American Midwest. Wood studied at the State University of Iowa, the Minneapolis School of Design, and the Academie Julian in Paris. Aside from painting, he worked in a variety of media, including lithography, […]
Keith Thompson: Concept Art/Illustration
Today’s image is by English/Canadian artist Keith Thompson. Thompson studied illustration at Sheridan College near Toronto and currently works internationally as a freelance artist. His work is used in books, magazines, tv, film, and video games. Most recently, he illustrated Scott Westerfeld’s young adult novel Leviathan which debuted as a New York Times bestseller. Thompson […]
Edward Hopper: 1882-1967
Born on July 22, 1882 in Nyack, New York, Edward Hopper is considered to be one of America’s greatest realist painters of the twentieth century. Hopper studied illustration with the Correspondence School of Illustrating in New York City in 1899 and then at the New York School of Art between 1900 and 1906. He studied […]
Month In Review: August 2009 Art News
ART CRIME: Picasso Seized in Iraq Appears to Be Fake: “Authorities in the art world cast doubt Thursday on the authenticity of an alleged Picasso painting that was seized by Iraqi police south of Baghdad. A painting called “The Naked Woman” that police claimed was painted by Picasso was seized near the southern city of […]
Book Giveaway – The New Curator
How many times have you heard the term ‘curate’ in the past few years? But what exactly does it mean? Curating has been a key concept both in and outside the art world in the past few years, with the remit of what a curator does having changed and expanded with each new exhibition or […]
