Simón Prades is a young illustrator studying graphic design at the University of Applied Sciences in Trier, Germany. His main interest lies in illustration and book design. “The old technique of etching is a rising passion, as it combines the sensibility of drawing with an exhausting handcraft.” Whenever possible, Prades works in analog techniques, mainly […]
DALeast: Powder of Light @ Jonathan Levine Gallery
DALeast (featured) was born in 1984 in China and is currently based in Cape Town, South Africa. He studied sculpture at the Institute of Fine Arts and began making art in public spaces in 2004. His murals can be found in cities around the world. His latest exhibition “Powder of Light currently on at Jonathan Levine […]
Bill Carman: “Unbalanced” @ Animazing Gallery
American artist Bill Carman has a new exhibition entitled “Unbalanced” opening today at Animazing Gallery in New York City. “Carman’s paintings feature elements inspired by the fantastical and dark images of Hieronymus Bosch, and are executed with the precision of Albrecht Durer. His sense of humor is evident in this collection of nearly 50 mixd-media […]
Alain Delorme: Photography
Born in 1979, Alain Delorme lives and works in Paris, France. Delorme graduated from Gobelins, l’école de l’image, Paris and has a Master of photography from Paris VIII University. Delorme’s Totems series “plunges us into the core of contemporary China and its complexity. Under the blue sky of a highly colored Shanghai, men carry throughout […]
Paul Cézanne: 1839-1906
Born on January 19, 1839 in Aix-en-Provence, France, Paul Cézanne is considered by many to be one of the most important painters of the second half of the 19th century. From 1849 – 1852, he studied at the Ecole Saint-Joseph and from 1852 to 1858 at the Collège Bourbon. In 1857 he attended the Ecole […]
Art Quotes — #9
Your weekly Art Quote! Share by clicking the social buttons on the left. See more Art Quotes here. There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people. —Vincent van Gogh Image: Vincent van Gogh, Self-Portrait (detail), 1889 Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington
Art-e-Facts: 5 Random Art Facts III
1. Robert De Niro’s father – Robert De Niro senior, was a leading postwar artist. Throughout the fifties he exhibited at the Charles Egan Gallery alongside artists such as Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, and Philip Guston. Today, his work is on display in numerous major American museums. 2. A tessellation is a collection or […]
Albrecht Dürer: 1471-1528
Born on May 21, 1471, in Nuremberg, Germany, Albrecht Dürer was a painter, printmaker, theorist, and one of the most important figures of the Northern Renaissance. Dürer first trained in his father’s shop as a goldsmith. In 1486, he apprenticed with the painter Michael Wolgemut where he produced his first dated painting of his father […]
Lillian Bassman: 1917 – 2012
Born on June 15, 1917 in Brooklyn, New York, Lillian Bassman is considered one of the most important fashion photographers of the 20th century. Bassman studied at the Textile High School in Manhattan, NY in 1933 and became an assistant painter at the WPA (Works Progress Administration) in 1934. In the 1940s, Bassman was working […]
PBS Offbook: Art in the Era of the Internet
Another great video from PBS Offbook: Art in the Era of the Internet. “The Internet has intensfied connections between people across the planet. In this episode of OFF BOOK, we take a look at the impact of the this new interconnectivity on the art world. Traditional funding models are dissolving, new forms of expressing ownership […]
Nom Kinnear King: Painting
Originally From The Norfolk Countryside, now living south in Hove, east Sussex Nom Kinnear King creates creates in oils imaginary female portraits. Her subjects are girls who roam from town to town in a patchwork old fashioned never world, where accordions and clarinets trail their steps, their joyful and curious behaviour shadowed by sweet melancholy. […]
Naoto Hattori – The Magic Caravan @ Dorothy Circus Gallery
Japanese born pop surrealist painter Naoto Hattori has a new solo show – “The Magic Caravan” – at Dorothy Circus Gallery in Rome, Italy. “Hattori, the artist of the bizarre, reminds in a pop Surrealist way of Bosh and Arcimboldo. Fantastic creatures, animals and a world observed by thousands of eyes unveils the secret of […]
