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James Bond: Kills and Kisses by Arina Orlova
“Kills and Kisses” project by Arina Orlova introduces six incarnations of James Bond as a movie character in chronological order: Connery, Lazenby, Moore, Dalton, Brosnan, Craig. Each image is accompanied ...

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Photorealistic Fashion Spread Paintings
The enlarged fashion pages by Italian artist Stefania Fersini bring back to real scale the characters and the scene in the foreground, creating a parallel world made of models, scenarios, ...

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Andy Denzler’s Paintings
Written by Guest Blogger Margherita Visentini The first impression of Andy Denzler’s paintings is a weird optical effect, like staring at a photo with something wrong. What he created is the so called “disturbed screen effect”, a sort of stroke in the middle of the painting. Denzler past as photographer and graphic designer has lead [...]

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Adam S. Doyle’s Birds
Artist Adam S. Doyle is interested in what’s not there, he uses long swift brushstrokes, calligraphic in style, to create his images, bold and simple, yet infused with the essence of the subject.  Using eastern art as a foundation, Doyle manages to find a balance between the elegance of form and a representation of ‘energy within’. [...]

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Vesna Bursich’s Hyperrealism Paintings
I am a fan of hyperealism paintings, the fact that artists are able to paint so perfectly that it looks like a picture, it’s pretty amazing. And that goes for ...

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Dean Crouser’s Animals
This is such a lovely work. Sunny summers camping and fishing outdoors up the foothills, rivers and lakes of Oregon, brought Dean Cruser to like nature so much. His watercolor animals of style  “loose, simple and spontaneous” are just amazing: an explosion of color to enjoy.

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Panni Malekzadeh: Love Me Till It Hurts
Panni Malekzadeh‘s beautiful portraits of contemporary women take us back to that magical time in our life when we realized we were completely in the midst of womanhood, yet still felt young and girly at heart.  For some reason, taking on the world with limited experience, but an eagerness and willingness to try anything, felt [...]

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Adam Shirley: Still Life
Adam Shirley is an artist living and working in Detroit. Trained as a metal smith, his work seeks to investigate the relationship between two and three dimensional objects, material and scale. Citing Italian painter Giorgio Morandi as inspiration, Shirley’s latest work is Still Life, a series of compositions referencing traditional still life paintings while focusing [...]

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Yayoi Kusama at Whitney Museum through September 30, 2012
Yayoi Kusama is trending in a big way this year, but if you follow Trendland you were onto it earlier than most.  We have already posted on our calendar the dates of her retrospective at The Whitney  this month but  because I am such a fan and  think her work is so relevant and important [...]