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Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Saturday
Kurt Wenner - 3-D street painting
Kurt Wenner began street painting in Rome in 1982, and by 1984 was one of a few recognised Master Street Painters.
Inspired by anamorphism, a technique used in frescoed ceilings to create the illusion of height, he devised a unique geometry that enabled him to bring his illusions to the horizontal surface of the street. The new art form, known as anamorphic, illusionistic, or simply 3-D street painting has become a worldwide phenomenon.
Wenner’s development of this technique is featured in the National Geographic documentary Masterpieces in Chalk. Artists using this technique today can trace it back to Wenner’s invention in the early 1980’s. His three-dimensional images have inspired festivals and public events throughout the world, as well as others to continue the practice of bringing images of icons and popular culture to an ever changing public. While the art form continues to develop one thing has remained unchanged, madonnari and their paintings continue to vanish after a festival, or with the first rains.
Find more, visit: http://www.kurtwenner.com/gallery/Street_gallery/index.htm
Inspired by anamorphism, a technique used in frescoed ceilings to create the illusion of height, he devised a unique geometry that enabled him to bring his illusions to the horizontal surface of the street. The new art form, known as anamorphic, illusionistic, or simply 3-D street painting has become a worldwide phenomenon.
Wenner’s development of this technique is featured in the National Geographic documentary Masterpieces in Chalk. Artists using this technique today can trace it back to Wenner’s invention in the early 1980’s. His three-dimensional images have inspired festivals and public events throughout the world, as well as others to continue the practice of bringing images of icons and popular culture to an ever changing public. While the art form continues to develop one thing has remained unchanged, madonnari and their paintings continue to vanish after a festival, or with the first rains.
Find more, visit: http://www.kurtwenner.com/gallery/Street_gallery/index.htm
Kim Joon Art
After the seduction by colour, first things to see in Kim Joon's Party pictures at TOUCHART gallery are bodies: scores in a vibrant acchanal. Then bits of bodies:Vishnu arms sproutig from backs; legs plus an arse for an erect penis. Jungles of embryonic limbs poking from torsos stood and supine. Then tattoos, serpentine and elegant, licking at the surface of each body, adjoining patterns echoing Prada, Levi's and Dior. All this before noticing, each body has skin, pocked like a Google-Earth desert.
Party - Kim Joon
After the seduction by colour, first things to see in Kim Joon's Party pictures at TOUCHART gallery are bodies: scores in a vibrant acchanal. Then bits of bodies:Vishnu arms sproutig from backs; legs plus an arse for an erect penis. Jungles of embryonic limbs poking from torsos stood and supine. Then tattoos, serpentine and elegant, licking at the surface of each body, adjoining patterns echoing Prada, Levi's and Dior. All this before noticing, each body has skin, pocked like a Google-Earth desert.
Party is a pulsating range of colourful stories, with their condensed componentry skilfully composed at the picture plane. To talk therefore of skin, tattoo, or pattern disjointedly as independent is to overlook Party's central power to conflate and intensify. Talk that would miss the whole, unabbreviated tragedy: The maelstrom of pictures where Party works to compress and reinvigorate those nearby will ultimately prove its relevance, by consuming it.
Party is a pulsating range of colourful stories, with their condensed componentry skilfully composed at the picture plane. To talk therefore of skin, tattoo, or pattern disjointedly as independent is to overlook Party's central power to conflate and intensify. Talk that would miss the whole, unabbreviated tragedy: The maelstrom of pictures where Party works to compress and reinvigorate those nearby will ultimately prove its relevance, by consuming it.
Tuesday
Erik Johansson Digital Photography
Erik Johansson may only be 24 years old, but he's already a master at digital photography and manipulation.
Living and studying in Gothenburg, Sweden, Erik creates startling original images, inviting the viewer to enter strange new worlds where nothing is as it first seems. We've chosen our favourite images from his stunning portfolio of work...
Monday
Bread Art...goes gruesome
This brings weird to a whole new level. Thai Fine Art student and artist Kittiwat Unarrom is the son of a baker. All that baking exposure growing up has been a clear influence, but his artistic need to see things a little differently definitely flared up as he created the tacitly named “Body Bakery” – brutally, gruesomely, almost unbelievably realistic looking sculptures of dismembered human body parts sculpted entirely from bread.
Here’s the real kicker – they’re packaged like food and up for sale at his showroom / gallery / exhibition / bakery / torture-chamber / oddity / tourist attraction in Ratchaburi, Thailand.
Unarrom himself is almost charmingly candid about his art…
“Of course, people were shocked and thought that I was mad when they saw the works. But once they knew the idea behind it, they understood and became interested in the work itself, instead of thinking that I am crazy.”
Here’s the real kicker – they’re packaged like food and up for sale at his showroom / gallery / exhibition / bakery / torture-chamber / oddity / tourist attraction in Ratchaburi, Thailand.
Unarrom himself is almost charmingly candid about his art…
“Of course, people were shocked and thought that I was mad when they saw the works. But once they knew the idea behind it, they understood and became interested in the work itself, instead of thinking that I am crazy.”
3D metal sculptures
Bathsheba Grossman is an artist based in Santa Cruz, California.
She creates sculptures using computer aided design and rapid prototyping using metal printing technology. The sculptures explore mathematical forms and patterns and are made from materials like bronze and stainless steel.
She creates sculptures using computer aided design and rapid prototyping using metal printing technology. The sculptures explore mathematical forms and patterns and are made from materials like bronze and stainless steel.
Friday
Body paint parade in Barcelona
A participant takes part during a body paint parade in Barcelona, Spain
Coffee Mona Lisa
A picture of the Mona Lisa, made up of 3604 cups of coffee is created outside the Overseas Passengers Terminal to promote this year's Sydney Aroma Festival on Sunday 19th in The Rocks. The festival offers a chance to taste coffee, spices, teas and chocolate from around the world.
Picture: Charlie Brewer
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