Sunday’s pic is by American painter Lori Earley. Born and raised in New York, Earley trained at the School of Visual Arts in New York. “My oil paintings are a combination of classical realistic rendering with a personal element of distortion This distortion comes from my innate desire to transform my emotions into tangible planes […]
Art Quotes — #4
Your weekly Art Quote! See more Art Quotes here. (photograph by Wendy Campbell) Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still. —Dorothea Lange
Grandma Moses – Anna Mary Robertson Moses: 1860-1961
“If I hadn’t taken up painting, I would have raised chickens…it’s all art.” —Grandma Moses Born on September 7, 1860, Anna Mary Robertson Moses (aka Grandma Moses) was one of the most successful and renowned artists in America and possibly the best-known American artist in Europe. Born in a farming community in Greenwich, New York, Moses […]
TED Prize 2011: JR – Use Art to Turn the World Inside Out
2011 TED Prize Winner JR owns the biggest art gallery in the world. He exhibits freely in the streets of the world, catching the attention of people who are not the museum visitors. His work mixes Art and Act, talks about commitment, freedom, identity and limit. After he found a camera in the Paris subway, […]
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 […]
DAF Group Feature: Vol 43
Another Monday Mixx – Enjoy!
Ben Tour: Mixed Media
Born in 1977 in Toronto, Canada, Ben Tour has a degree in Illustration from Sheridan College in Ontario. Tour’s paintings primarily focus on the human figure – many of them female. Tour “channels a dark, often haunting sense of humanism in his work. His observations deftly inform his paintings, enabling him to capture the essence […]
DAF Group Feature: Vol. 166
Your Weekly Mixx! DAF’s Weekly Mixx is a selection of nine contemporary artworks 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 DALeast, Janko de Beer, Norman Stiff, Steve Driscoll, Andy Goldsworthy, Alessandra Maria, Katharine Morlin, Kim […]
Robert Steven Connett: Painting
Born in 1951 in San Francisco, California, Robert Steven Connett began drawing and painting at the age of 27. He continued to create artwork as a hobby for 20 years during which time he owned and operated an insurance brokerage firm in San Francisco. He sold the firm in 1998 at age 47 after his […]
James Jean: Painting
Born in 1979 in Taipei, Taiwan, and raised in New Jersey, James Jean has a B.F.A from the School of Visual Arts in New York. In 2003, he moved to Los Angeles where he currently lives and works. “In a ceaseless torrent of images, his finely wrought and narrative-driven work has captured the attention of […]
DAF Group Feature: Vol. 20
Another Monday Mixx! Enjoy!
Jorge Rodríguez-Gerada: Urban Art
Jorge Rodríguez-Gerada is a Cuban American urban artist and a founder of the New York Culture Jamming movement. Since the late 1990s, he has been replacing the faces of cultural icons chosen by advertisers with the faces of anonymous people to question the controls imposed on public space, the role models designated and the type […]
Alberto Giacometti: 1901 – 1966
Born on October 10, 1901 in Borgonovo, Switzerland, Alberto Giacometti was a sculptor, painter, draughtsman and printmaker. His father, Giovanni Giacometti, was a Post-Impressionist painter. From 1919 to 1920, Giacometti studied painting at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, and sculpture and drawing at the Ecole des Arts et Métiers in Geneva. Between 1922 and 1927, he […]
E-Learning: smARThistory.org
For anyone that is continually searching for new and interesting ways to learn about art, the smARThistory website is for you. smARThistory.org is a free, award-winning, multi-media web-book designed as a dynamic enhancement for the traditional art history textbook. Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker began smARThistory in 2005 by creating a blog featuring […]
The Last Supper
Well it’s Easter so what better day to post representations of the Last Supper in art. I am too full of Easter chocolate to provide any coherent, meaningful comparison or analysis, so here simply, are three images depicting the last meal of Jesus and his Apostles. The first, probably the most famous by Leonardo da […]
Casajordi: Collage
Georges Bousquet aka Casajordi is an illustrator and collage artist based in Perpignan, France near the Spanish border. He creates his collages by first sketching out his ideas on paper and then taking them into Photoshop. Each image has about 300 layers and takes approximately 15 hours to build. To see Casajordi’s collages in more […]
David Whitlam: Painting
Born in 1977, UK artist David Whitlam showed an interest and talent for drawing at a young age. While studying graphic art at Leeds Metropolitan University, he developed a curiosity for surrealism and the workings of the unconscious. Whitlam works in three mediums – pencil, oil paint, and Adobe Photoshop. His goal is to “tap […]
DAF: First Annual Holiday Giveaway – Winners!
Thanks to everyone who entered DAF’s First Annual Holiday Giveaway. We had a tremendous response and as a result, have decided to give away 3 of the Art: A World History instead of two. So, without further ado, here are the lucky winners! 1. DVD Gift Pack: Includes – Jean-Michel Basquiat: Radiant Child (2010), Exit […]
Jean Labourdette: Painting
French artist Jean Labourdette aka “Turf One” began his love affair with art with graffiti as a youth in the streets of Paris. After some time, he found the graffiti world somewhat limiting so he moved on to working as a multi-disciplinary artist including illustration, comic strips, painting, and film making. Initially painting on canvas, […]
Ekundayo: Joy Today, Jeopardy Tomorrow
Ekundayo has a new exhibition at Thinkspace Gallery in California! “Joy Today Jeopardy Tomorrow’ is an exhibition about the beautiful struggle we all face of reaching for our dreams, in hopes of guiding our own destiny, weather we succeed or fail, as long as it’s on our own terms. Ekundayo’s work illustrates the sacrifices we […]