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DAF Group Feature: Vol. 162

June 29, 2016 By Wendy Campbell

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 Clara Drummond, Hopare, Stephanie Buer, Terence Koh, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Mohammad Zaza, massju, Leisa Rich and the video Human Sound Objects, an interactive installation in which every participant becomes an object in an ever-evolving soundscape – by Giori Politi, Doron Assayas Terre and Eran Hilleli for the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, 2016.

Visit the Submissions page for information on how to have your art featured in the Weekly Mixx.

Human Sound Objects from Eran Hilleli on Vimeo.

Leisa-Rich---monaleisa.com
massju - flickr.com/photos/weirdandwired
Hopare-hopare.com Hopare-hopare.com
Mohammad-Zaza---mohammadzaza.com
Njideka-Akunyili-Crosby---njidekaakunyili.com
Clara-Drummond-claradrummond.co.uk
Stephanie-Buer-stephaniebuer.com
Terence-Koh---Bee-Chapel---Andrew-Edlin-Gallery-New-York

Filed Under: ART, Body Art, Collage, Drawing, Fibre Art, Group Feature, Installation, Mixed Media, Painting, Photography, Sculpture, Street Art, Video Tagged With: Clara Drummond, Herzliya Museum, Hopare, Leisa Rich, massju, Mohammad Zaza, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Stephanie Buer, Terence Koh

DAF Group Feature: Vol. 156

May 17, 2016 By Wendy Campbell

Your Weekly Mixx – Enjoy! 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. Visit the Submissions page for information on how to have your art featured in the Weekly Mixx.

Tina Newlove tinanewlove.com
Pantónio facebook.com/pantonioo
Kent Williams kentwilliams.com
Alexey Bednij - 500px.com/alexey_bednij
Katie Paterson with Zeller & Moye Commissioned by the University of Bristol hollow.org.uk
Ana-Teresa-Barboza - anateresabarboza.blogspot
John Wilhelm - Toilet paper harvest www.johnwilhelm.c

Filed Under: ART, Body Art, Design, Fibre Art, Group Feature, Mixed Media, Painting, Photography, Street Art, Video Tagged With: Alexey Bednij, Ana Teresa Barboza, John Wilhelm, Katie Paterson, Kent Williams, Kip Fulbeck, Pantónio, Tina Newlove, Zeller & Moye

DAF Group Feature: Vol. 154

May 3, 2016 By Wendy Campbell

Your Weekly Mixx – Enjoy! 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. Visit the Submissions page for information on how to have your art featured in the Weekly Mixx.

Synthetic Nature Part 1 from Andy Thomas on Vimeo.

The latest visual sound art piece from Andy Thomas has been inspired by Australian flora and fauna.
It is nature digitized. Sounds recorded in nature have been run through computers and electronically manipulated.
Computer generated 3D imagery swirls and contorts to the sounds creating semi-abstract interpretations of native plants.

Jen Starwalt jenstarwalt.com
Ekaterina Belinska - ekaterinabelinskaya.com
Isabel Miramontes modus-gallery.com/artists/isabel-miramontes-2
Steve-McCurry stevemccurry.com
Thom Sokoloski Colour-of-the-River-Running Through Us - thomsokoloski.com
Jem Mitchell jemmitchell.co.uk
Smug One instagram.com/smugone
Robert-Steven-Connett - grotesque.com

Filed Under: Body Art, Group Feature, Installation, Mixed Media, Nature, Painting, Photography, Sculpture, Street Art, Video Tagged With: Ekaterina Belinskaya, Isabel Miramontes, Jem Mitchell, Jen Starwalt, Robert Steven Connett, Smug One, Steve McCurry, Thom Sokoloski

DAF Group Feature: Vol. 151

April 11, 2016 By Wendy Campbell

Your Weekly Mixx – Enjoy! DAF’s Weekly Mixx is a selection of nine contemporary artworks chosen from artist and gallery submissions and from our own search for new and interesting works. Visit the Submissions page for information on how to have your art featured in the Weekly Mixx.

Terry-Turrell---On-Your-Feet-rovzargallery
artist unknown Body Paint
Nielly-Francoise-francoise-nielly.com
Julian Gutierrez behance.net-juliangutierrez
Richard-Burlet
Leigh-Dyer incurva.co.uk
Judith-and-Joyce-Scott judithandjoycescott.com Jud
Doris-Salcedo - Istanbul-2010
Bordalo II - Bordalo Segundo facebook.com/BORDALOII

Filed Under: ART, Body Art, Group Feature, Installation, Mixed Media, Painting, Photography, Sculpture, Street Art, Video Tagged With: Bordalo II - Bordalo Segundo, Doris Salcedo, Judith and Joyce Scott, Julian Gutierrez, Leigh Dyer, Nielly Francoise, Pencil Art, Richard Burlet, Terry-Turrell

DAF Group Feature: Vol. 129

October 22, 2012 By Wendy Campbell

Your Monday Mixx – Enjoy!




Filed Under: ART, Body Art, Digital, Drawing, Group Feature, Illustration, Mixed Media, Painting, Photography, Sculpture, Street Art Tagged With: Adam S. Doyle, Alberto Seveso, Cecilia Paredes, Chloe Early, Christian Tagliavini, Comme des Garcons, Henri Lamy, INTI, Rorik Smith

Body Painting 101: A Short Primer

April 11, 2012 By Wendy Campbell

Most people have experienced body painting at one time or another.  Maybe it was at Halloween or at the town fair as a child when you had your face painted, or a football match where you drew coloured letters across your chest.  Maybe (like for many western adult females), you do it every day when you apply your lipstick, eye shadow, or nail polish.  But when and where did body painting begin, and at what point does the act of covering the body with colour, become art?

Body painting is considered by some to be the most ancient form of art. The discovery of coloured pigments about 75 thousand years ago (many believe even further back) indicates that long before people covered their bodies with clothing, they decorated themselves with body paint.

Unlike tattooing, body painting is temporary, lasting a few hours to a few weeks. Body painting with ochre (derived from clay), natural pigments found in minerals such as pyrolusite, chalk, and lime, and plants such as kohl, blue woad, and uruku, existed in most tribal cultures with no known single place of origin.  Body paint was often worn during ceremonies such as weddings, burials, and initiations. As well, body painting may have been used as identification with a certain people, distinction from others, or for purely aesthetic reasons. Cosmetics, were first used in Egypt to decorate the faces of males and females, the living and the dead.

The tradition of body painting declined with the advent of clothing but many indigenous people in Africa, Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, and others, still maintain the practice. Also, the semi-permanent form of body painting called Mehndi, which uses dyes made of henna is still practiced in India and the Middle East, particularly on brides.  Mehndi has also been popular in Western cultures since the 1990’s.

In the 1950’s and 60’s body painting became a minor art movement with the help of artists like Yves Klein, who covered his models in paint and rolled them on a canvas, using them as human paint brushes.

In the 1960’s, body painting started making a comeback with the hippie movement and more liberal ideas surrounding the human body. Since that time, body painting began appearing in popular culture and was  used for commercial purposes in magazine and television ads, as well as in the film industry.

Well known artists in the body painting genre include German model and actress Veruschka von Lehndorff (1960’s), New Zealand born Joanne Gair, who painted the infamous Demi Moore Vanity Fair cover (1992), South Korean artist Kim Joon, and hand painter Guido Daniele.

Today, body painting as an art form is popular around the globe. Body painting festivals happen every year in many cities bringing professional and amateur painters together. The World Body Painting Festival in Seeboden, Austria is the biggest body painting art event with thousands of people coming out to admire the participants artwork.

For more information about body painting, visit the source links below.  To view more of the stunning images by Hans Silvester from the Omo Tribes of Ethiopia, visit XarJ.net.




Sources: Skin by Nina G. Jablonski, xraj.net, Wikipedia

Filed Under: ART, Body Art, Painting Tagged With: Body Painting, Guido Daniele, Hans Silvester, Joanne Gair, Kim Joon, Omo Tribes of Ethiopia, Veruschka von Lehndorff, Yves Klein

Art-e-Facts: 5 Random Art Facts – XXII

January 17, 2012 By Wendy Campbell

1. Art Competitions were part of the modern Olympic Games from 1912 to 1952. Medals were awarded for works of art inspired by sport, divided into five categories: architecture, literature, music, painting, and sculpture.

The juried art competitions were abandoned in 1954 because artists were considered to be professionals, while Olympic athletes were required to be amateurs. Since 1956, the Olympic Cultural Programme has taken their place. (wikipedia)

2. The famous marble sculpture Pietà created between 1498 and 1500 by Michelangelo Buonarroti, was the only work he ever signed. The story goes that Michelangelo overheard a pilgrim say that the work was created by rival sculptor Christoforo Solari. In a fit of rage, Michelangelo took hammer and chisel and scrawled: “Michelangelo Buonarroti, Florentine, made this” across Mary’s breast.  According to Italian Biographer Giorgio Vasari, he later regretted his passionate outburst of pride and determined to never again sign a piece of his work.(BBC)

3. Tattooing has been a Eurasian practice at least since around Neolithic times (about 10,700 to 9400 BC). Ötzi the Iceman, dating from the fourth to fifth millennium BC, was found in the Ötz valley in the Alps and had approximately 57 carbon tattoos consisting of simple dots and lines on various parts of his body. These tattoos were thought to be a form of healing because of their placement which resembles acupuncture. Other mummies bearing tattoos and dating from the end of the second millennium BC have been discovered, such as the Mummy of Amunet from ancient Egypt and the mummies at Pazyryk on the Ukok Plateau. (wikipedia)

4. Decoupage is the art of decorating an object by gluing colored paper cutouts onto it in combination with special paint effects, gold leaf and so on. Commonly an object like a small box or an item of furniture is covered by cutouts from magazines or from purpose-manufactured papers. Each layer is sealed with varnishes (often multiple coats) until the “stuck on” appearance disappears and the result looks like painting or inlay work. The traditional technique used 30–40 layers of varnish which were then sanded to a polished finish. This was known in 18th century England as the art of Japanning (Asian lacquer work) after its presumed origins. (wikipedia)

5. Corbis Corporation, privately owned by Bill Gates, was founded in 1989 and owns the licensing rights to over 100 million digital images and 500,000 video clips. Gates started the company with the belief that people would someday decorate their homes with a revolving display of digital artwork using digital frames. Corbis’s collections include historical and editorial images from photojournalists, museums, and cultural institutions including Andy Warhol Foundation, Ansel Adams, The Smithsonian Institution, The National Gallery, London, The State Hermitage Museum, Christie’s Images, and the Bettmann, Hulton-Deutsch, Sygma and Brett Weston collections, and others. (Wikipedia, New York Times)

Filed Under: ART, Art History, Body Art, Collage, Digital, Photography, Sculpture Tagged With: Bill Gates, Corbis, Decoupage, Michelangelo, Olympics, Pieta, Tattoing

DAF Group Feature: Vol. 26

October 11, 2010 By Wendy Campbell

Your Monday Mixx! Happy Thanksgiving to all you Canadians out there!

Alexa Meade



Filed Under: ART, Body Art, Digital, Drawing, Group Feature, Illustration, Photography, Sculpture Tagged With: Alexa Meade, Bryan Pickens, Cassie Lawn Quillen, Léopold Rabus, Matt Hebermehl, Nik Ainley, Tom Hoops, Vivien Muller, Yago Hortal

DAF Group Feature: Vol. 19

August 23, 2010 By Wendy Campbell

You Monday Mixx!  Enjoy!




Filed Under: ART, Body Art, Digital, Group Feature, Photography, Sculpture Tagged With: Carole A. Feuerman, Emma Hack, Kalle Gustafsson, Kwon Kyung yup, Laimonas Smergelis, Lindsey Carr, Murat Suyur, WanKok Leong, Waver H

DAF Group Feature: Vol 4

May 10, 2010 By Wendy Campbell

Your Monday Mix.  Enjoy!




Filed Under: ART, Body Art, Group Feature, Illustration, Mixed Media, Photography, Sculpture Tagged With: Alison Coulthurstart, Ana Bagayan, Geoffrey Gorman, Jon Todd, Juan Carlos Bravo, Kim Joon, Michael Oswald, Vadim Gannenko, Waldo Lee

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