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Ignacio Uriarte’s Office ArtBY Ani Tzenkova / Dec 19 11 @ 12:10 PM
I came across Berlin-based artist Ignacio Uriarte’s work at Art Basel and quickly became fascinated by the story behind the work and the artist. Before quitting his day job to become ...
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Cats in Clothes by Heather MattoonBY Cyril Foiret / Nov 25 11 @ 10:05 AM
You really enjoyed Noah Sheldon’s cats wearing clothes, so you will love Heather Mattoon’s adorably styled fur ball paintings. All these kittens have names, occupations and wear cool clothes just ...
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Tjalf Sparnaay Photorealistic Food PaintingsBY Cyril Foiret / Nov 15 11 @ 9:20 AM
Since 1987, Dutch Photo-realistic artist Tjalf Sparnaay has been working on his imposing oeuvre, constantly seeking new images that have never been painted before (mostly painting food). What he calls Megarealism is part of the contemporary global art movement of Hyperrealism, and with prices of original oil paintings between 10.000 and 45.000 €, Sparnaay is [...]
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Marco Reichert ‘Magic Mountains’ PaintingsBY Cyril Foiret / Nov 14 11 @ 8:47 AM
In his newest series “Magic Mountains” German hyperrealist painter Marco Reichert revives the references to classical landscape paintings but again based in his own constructed world. Psychedelic shapes and a type of Pop-art complexion brings the observer into an environment that has to be
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Mélanie Authier Surrealist PaintingsBY Cyril Foiret / Oct 05 11 @ 9:24 AM
The Canadian artist Melanie Authier‘s paintings bring together visual contradictions into one imaginary space. By drawing upon the histories of abstraction and the strategies of representation, she presents improbable environments. ...
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3D Paintings by Stefan Da Costa GomezBY Cyril Foiret / Oct 03 11 @ 9:09 AM
Amsterdam based artist Stefan Da Costa Gomez aka Phyntasize had the idea to combine the classic analog craft of painting with the contemporary technology and today’s hype of digital 3D film to create a new way of viewing and experiencing a painting.
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Kelly Reemtsen PaintingsBY Anna Katharina / Sep 10 11 @ 9:27 AM
I’m in love with these amazing paintings by American artist Kelly Reemtsen. The unexpected combinations of anonymous headless figures in beautiful vintage frocks holding simple tools like axes, gardening sheers, bolt cutters, chainsaws and crowbars also have great names, like “Heavy Handed”, “Axe” or “Character Assassination”. I really like the way the artist captured the combination [...]
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Re-imagining Kenzo by Miss MossBY Cyril Foiret / Oct 18 11 @ 10:47 AM
South African blogger Miss Moss took her favorite Spring 2012 collection, Kenzo (recently taken over by creative directors Humberto Leon and Carol Lim of Opening Ceremony) and re-imagined the best looks into a completely different scenery. A clever idea that I could have seen as their look book!
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Dani Marti’s Tactile PaintingsBY Ani Tzenkova / Sep 06 11 @ 10:48 AM
Dani Marti is a Spanish-Australian contemporary visual artist based between Scotland and Australia. He is a trained painter and though he refers to these works as paintings they seem more like sculptures to me. Using rope as his rope he creates large-scale woven art. He describes his tactile abstract works as