Though I prefer dogs, I cannot help but love Louis Wain’s cats—those beautiful playful paintings of wide-eyed felines that slowly evolve (disintegrate?) into psychedelic creatures of the electric night. Wain’s strange and wonderful paintings have led to considerable speculation over their genesis—with the oft-cited suggestion these pictures show Wain’s gradual psychosis and descent into schizophrenia. Louis Wain was born into a working class family in Victorian England in 1860. He was born with a cleft palate which meant he was kept off school for a considerable part of his childhood. When he did eventually go to school, he spent most of his time playing truant wandering the city people watching. He graduated from the West London School of Art and became a teacher. When his father died, Louis became the family’s chief breadwinner. He decided to make his living as an illustrator—winning commissions from some of the most popular of London’s magazines. He had his own style and wit. He produced satirical cartoons and illustrations of cats in various human situations: playing golf, singing opera, having a tea party, singing carols, eating cake. He explained the inspiration for his work: I take...
digital art surrealism
Not Dead Yet is a column dedicated to finding experimental, funny, and out-of-this-world artists.
"There is no man alone, because every man is a Microcosm , and carries the whole world about him... There is all Africa , and her prodigie...
Philippe Verheyen (1648-1711) Dissecting His Amputated Limb By an anonymous artist, ca. 1715. Postmortem painting in honor of a famous Dutch anatomist and surgeon. Medium: Oil on Panel. Size: 16.3”X16.5” From the collection of Pieter Deheijde.Image and text via 100% Spleen.
To celebrate the Hammer Museum's "Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985", we are featuring nine out of the 116 radical and downright badass Latinas exhibited at this monumental show.
Naoto Hattori - Nothing but perception - Dorothy Circus Gallery, Roma. Il suo stile è caratterizzati da intense suggestioni surrealiste. Riesce ad esplorare il mondo segreto della sua mente, riuscendo a dipingerlo e a dargli vita.
This is an optical illusion.
Roberta Ubaldi was born in Terni and lives and works in Narni, a small city rich in history in the region of Umbria. In 1984 she obtained a diploma as Fine Arts Teacher. The curiosity and the desire to grow, led her to experiment and so,after studying and applying various classical techniques, she gradually developed a well-defined style of her own, characterized by extreme painting techniques and colours reduced to the bone.
Architects love LEGOs, this is a well-known fact. So what could be better than a real-life bridge made out of the colorful toys themselves? ...
Hand with Billet Doux ●
"i've seen the meanness of humans till i don't know why God ain't put out the sun and gone away." - cormac mccarthy, outer dark
Hint: The great Italian artist was interested in everything.
Kiki Smith, Wolf Girl Sebastiano recently gave me for my birthday the beautiful catalog of the 2005 Mart exhibition Il Bello e le bestie (Beauty and the beasts). The volume displays a varied collection of art exploring the contamination of human and animal forms in imagery ranging from early mythical monsters to contemporary social satire. A fascinating selection, including the stunning Daniel Lee photograph below, which has inspired me to restore to life Animalarium's long-dormant homage to woman-animal hybrids with this proud pack of wintery creatures. Daniel Lee, Juror no. 4 (Fox Spirit) Nicole Claveloux, La femme loup Xiaoqing DIng, Fox and Girl Jennybird Alcantara, Hiding Place Julianna Swaney, Wolfgirl Sandra Dieckmann, Fox and Half Human Kelly Louise Judd, Wilhelmine Wolf in the Snow Ryan McGinley at Designaside Eugène Grasset, Three Women and Three Wolves, thanks to sealmaiden Felipe Prado, thanks to Baubauhaus Delphine Lebourgeois
El neozelandés Kevin Best (no confundir con el pintor australiano) es, en parte, un singular coleccionista. Copas de cristal Roemer, cuchillos de ágata y plata, delicada porcelana kraak, jarras de Westerwald, antiguos candelabros de bronce, instrumentos barrocos, copas de plata... que se suman a los demás objetos de joyería o carpintería que él mismo ha ido realizando. Su afán coleccionista no es un fin en sí mismo. Está supeditado a una afición mayor. Su admiración por la Edad de Oro del Barroco holandés. Pero esta afición no hallaría espacio en este blog si, finalmente, no estuviera volcada en un arte que desarrolla como nadie: la fotografía. Extremadamente meticuloso en la composición, capta con fidelidad la luz de los lienzos originales y da un resultado absolutamente asombroso. Os dejo con esta serie de vanidades, que datan de 2008 hasta hoy, en los que muchos reconoceréis guiños a originales flamencos, como el autorretrato que emula al que hizo David Bailly en el siglo XVII, entre otros. Self Portrait with vanitas symbols (after David Bailly) ...to a flame A Pair of Candlesticks Vanitas Dome with Snails Coral Reef Vanitas Globe Global Warming Vanitas Global Warming Vanitas 2 Fallen - dutch still life Insurance Policy Requiem Still Life Musical Vanitas (after Pieter Claesz) Violin Vanitas Skull and wattle Burning candle and books (after Pieter Claesz) Candle mirror still life Vanitas (after Pieter Claesz) Skull ruff still life . Vanitas compendious Vanitas still life Vanitas Still Life with Pochette Vanitas with hourglass Vanitas Still Life in the style of Cornelius Gijsbrechts Vanitas Niche Triple Self Portrait Tools of the Trade Smoke Vanitas Specimen Still Life - Infinite Vanitas The Future Eaters Still Life with Capstan Candlestick and Baroque Violin The Seven Ages of Man - Still Life Still Life Vanitas Framed Self Portrait (after Dirck Jacobsz - Pompeius Occo) What if it ends in a draw? Do-it-yourself Still Life Kit Perfil en Flickr Página web En: Fotografía
Автор - Nostalgia_1957 . Это цитата этого сообщения Модный современный художник Станислав Плутенко. «Увидеть необычное и сделать необычнее» Попутчица Сенсационный, потрясающий, ужасный, удивительный - вот далеко не полный перечень…
A primer on the Belgian artist described as ’a creator of fantastical sights, sometimes horrible, sometimes burlesque’
Mr. Zero is the coolest (by wackystuff)
These Victorian photographic portraits show the deranged killers, such as murdering artist Richard Dadd, who were among the first patients at Broadmoor, which opened 150 years ago.
Leo Lionni (1910-1999) is best known as the author and illustrator of forty children's picture books including the Caldecott Honor recipients Inch By Inch (1961), Swimmy (1964), Frederick (1968), and Alexander And The Wind-Up Mouse (1970). In addition to his children's work, Lionni worked in advertising, was the art director of Fortune magazine for twelve years, and was a well regarded painter and sculptor. Parallel Botany (1977) is his only book length fiction for adults. For more information on Parallel Botany, see my blog post at: wetoowerechildren.blogspot.com/2011/01/good-night-wendy-l... All images are copyrighted © and owned by their respective holders.
Many Christian artists live between two worlds. Their faith seems odd to many in the artistic community, almost as odd as their calling seems to the church.
