In this series, Artsy’s Curatorial team features emerging and noteworthy artists who are working in a similar style or spirit as a well-known artist.
One of my goals this year was to have my students really understand the artistic behaviors. I thought last year the students were looking at them only on the surface. I want a deeper understandin…
Rhode Island #artist Tom Deininger creates large-scale #collages from found objects. http://t.co/88y7DlnrIP
When we first laid eyes on John Kenn's amazing post-it note art, we instantly fell in love. Not only are each of his pieces extremely creative, Kenn's art
The West Hollywood neighborhood is becoming a new gallery hub.
From hillside yoni to grass extensions. Jeanne combines nature and female into brilliant designs. Be inspired by the beautiful, thought-provoking land art of Jeanne Simmons.
Hello! This is Corey Corcoran and first off, I'd like to say how cool it is to be guest blogging here for the next couple of days. Although I do a fair share of internet art gazing, having to sit...
"On a secret Passage", 2017 de Aya TAKANO - Courtesy Galerie Perrotin © Photo Éric Simon Du 16 mars au 13 mai 2017 L’artiste y expose une séléction de 26 peintures et plusieurs dessins sur celluloïd, œuvres préparatoires à un manga de 186 pages, dévoilé...
Thomas Ascott is a painter based in South Florida. Thomas explains his work by saying, “Inspiration, for me, is just my accumulated experiences, things I’ve seen, heard, touched and felt through my life, jumbled about in my mind and abused by time until they show up on a piece of paper. I would love to point to a sketchbook of ordered images that would tell this story, but, as often as not, the images are spit out on scraps of envelopes near a computer or a convenient napkin ringed with coffee. Growing up in East Tennessee, I spent a great deal of my childhood wandering through the Smokies, especially the Chimneys Picnic Grounds on the Little Pigeon River. I passed many hours of many summers scrambling over rocks in the middle of streams and exploring caves and trails. The Smoky Mountains and the Little Pigeon River are the internal background to almost all of my work. No matter what the central element of a piece may be, the natural flora and fauna of the Smokies creeps in, whether in the obvious form of a Smoky Mountain songbird or salamander, or in the less obvious form of rhododendron leaves and lichen-covered boulders.”
Surrealistic 70's serigraphies by Yugoslavian born Russian artist Nikolai Lutohin. Many of these illustrations appeared on the Sci-fi magazine Galaksija. Related: Yugodrom, a tumblr focused on "graphic aesthetics from ex Yugoslavia" Via: 50 Watts
En la mitad del siglo XIX, 1845, un grupo de pintores decide reunirse en el pueblito francés de Barbizon, cerca al bosque de Fontainebleau, para formar la “Escuela de Barbizon”. Este movimiento a…
Giovanni Maisto is a Venice-based concept artist who experiments with the feminine body in surreal, sci-fi worlds. With the rate of modern technological advancements and the possibilities of bio-engineering, our future is often represented as sterile, unnatural, and devoid of history and meaning—but Maisto’s cyborg bodies are different. Infused with mythology, classical architecture, robotic components,...
Surrealistic 70's serigraphies by Yugoslavian born Russian artist Nikolai Lutohin. Many of these illustrations appeared on the Sci-fi magazine Galaksija. Related: Yugodrom, a tumblr focused on "graphic aesthetics from ex Yugoslavia" Via: 50 Watts
Esta es una pintora china contemporánea que acabo de conocer y me ha gustado mucho.
frrmsd: Illustrator: Willian Santiago “Kalemba”
Hieronymus Bosch, a Surrealist centuries before Surrealism.
Slovakian artist Terézia Krnáčová produced a series of toast slices called "Everyday Bread," in which each slice is embroidered in a different pattern. My concept is expression of my personal…
A painting by Alex Colville shattered the artist's previous auction record at a sale held Wednesday in Toronto.
Aboriginal artist Loongkoonan is proving that age is just a number by creating award-winning art well into her 100s.
L’enfance chaotique de Graziano Locatelli a développé chez l’artiste une fascination troublante et intense pour les objets brisés. Dans ses oeuvres,
Artist Dasha Plesen combines molds, bacteria, spores, and other objects in petri dishes to create these colorful abstract
Holy moly, I’m obsessed with South African artist Kurt Pio‘s larger than life diamond paintings. Many moons ago, while enrolled in the jewelry design program at FIT, I spent hours upon hours learning how to paint diamonds using gouache…
South Korea-based artist Seung-Hwan Oh creates some truly unusual portraits by unleashing little microbes and letting them eat away at his medium for
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Felice Casorati was an Italian painter, sculptor, and printmaker. The paintings for which he is most noted include figure compositions, portraits and still lifes, which are often distinguished by unusual perspective effects. Born in Novara he showed an early interest in music and art. To please his parents he studied law at the University of Padua until 1906, but his ambition to be a painter was confirmed in 1907 when a painting of his was shown in the Venice Biennale. The works he produced in the early years of his career are naturalistic in style, but after 1910 the influence of the symbolists and particularly of Gustav Klimt turned him toward a more visionary approach. In 1915 he had a solo exhibition at the Rome Secession III, where he showed several paintings and the first of his sculptures. His military service in World War I began that year and lasted until his discharge in 1917. In 1918, "intrigued by the decadent atmosphere of Turin with its sinister views", he settled there with his mother and two sisters. His works of the next decade typify, in their emphasis on geometry and formal clarity, the "return to order" then prevalent in the arts as a reaction to the war. Although many critics found his work cold, cerebral, and academic, Casorati achieved international recognition as a leading figure in this movement. Often working in tempera, Casorati drew inspiration from his study of Renaissance masters, especially Piero della Francesca, as in his 1922 portrait entitled Silvana Cenni. This symmetrical composition of a seated woman in a white dress is perhaps the best-known of the artist's works. In it, the careful rendering of volumes results paradoxically in a sense of unreality which is characteristic of Casorati's art. In 1925, Rafaello Giolli summarized the disconcerting aspects of Casorati's art—"The volumes have no weight in them, and the colors no body. Everything is fictitious: even the living lack all nervous vitality. The sun seems to be the moon ... nothing is fixed or definite"—and argued that these very qualities give his work its originality, and connect him to the metaphysical painters. Casorati himself wrote, in 1931: "In taking up, against me, the old polemic of classicism and romanticism, people rail against intellectualized and scholastic order, accuse my art of being insincere, and willfully academic—in a word, of being neoclassical. ... since my art is born, so to speak, from within, and never has its source in changing "impressions", it is quite natural that ... static forms, and not the fluid images of passion, should be reflected in my works". Briefly arrested in 1923 for his involvement with an anti-Fascist group, Casorati subsequently avoided antagonizing the regime. Beginning in 1923, he opened his studio to the young art students of Turin. One of his famous students was the Italian painter Enrico Accatino. After 1930 the severity of Casorati's earlier style softened somewhat and his palette brightened. He continued to exhibit widely, winning many awards, including the First Prize at the Venice Biennale of 1938. He was also involved in stage design. He died in Turin in 1963.
Memento Mori — Looking at Death in Art and Illustration at the Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery considers death's role in society over the past 500 years.
Everything is possible in the world of Christian Schloe. Surreal art is the best way to define the work of this talented Austrian artist whose work includes digital art, painting, illustration, and…
Maurizio Anzeri is known for his series of eerie portraits or photo-sculptures, a term used by himself to describe his portraits, Maurizio’s work will be p
Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 – February 6, 1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement.
The youtube clip below contains the introduction to a very interesting documentary called The Power Of Nightmares that was on British television a couple of years back. It deals with the rise of th…
As an exhibition of work by "accidental artists" opens in London, Izabella Scott goes in search of naive art from around the world.
Koichi Yamamoto, Associate Professor of Art is one of only three artists working in the United States selected for Premio Leonardo Sciascia E’stampes, an international exhibition of intaglio prints…
Alphonse Mucha was one of the crucial figures in the Art Nouveau movement, and he left a wonderful legacy in the form of highly aestheticized prints, drawings and paintings.
