Artist: 鱼彡山

I’ve been illustrating covers for major science fiction, fantasy, and horror publishers for two decades, but after I won my first Hugo Award in 2012, I decided to start creating my own worlds and stories. In between cover jobs, something was building—I was inspired by the icons of the classic Mexican game of chance, Loteria, […]

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Adam Lupton holds his Bachelors of Communication Design from Emily Carr University or Art and Design, having graduated in May 2010. As a Vancouverite, Lupton draws his interest from that which he has known his entire life: the vast austerity of the matrix through the city. Lupton’s broad and wide-ranging interests provides the root of his visually artistic ideation. Having a keen interest in sociology and psychology, he combines his passion for popular culture, typography, philosophy, science/religion, and society to form the basis of his descriptive works. Lupton’s gaze explores psychological and sociological struggles in modern society. Painting in oil, blurring lines between realism and expressionism helps Lupton probe the internal and external dialogue faced in his multi-directional narratives. His recent series, “What’s In Store for me in the Direction I Don’t Take?”, pits moments of choice against the visualization of their outcomes: temporal planes coexisting on a singular surface. With the notion of quantum mechanics having every possible outcome to a situation realized in splintered universes, he paints figures with varied levels of connection to reality. When every single direction exists in varying parallel lives, our process of free will as well as concepts of space, time, fate, and self come into question.

Marianne Stokes [Austrian born, British Pre-Raphaelite painter, 1855-1927] This painting is of the 1893 Symbolist play "Pelléas and Mélisande" by Maurice Maeterlinck. In this scene Melisande' is by a stream in the woods where she has lost her crown in the water, but does not wish to retrieve it; there she is discovered by her future husband Golaud. Biography and other paintings: www.artmagick.com/pictures/artist.aspx?artist=marianne-st... More on the play: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pell%C3%A9as_and_M%C3%A9lisande Museum Wallraf-Richartz. Köln _______ Slight touch up by plumleaves

Michael Kerbow is an artist based in San Francisco who works in a variety of mediums including painting, assemblage, drawing and digital photography. Of particular note are his large oil and acrylic paintings that depict surreal and at times nightmarish visions of the future, where industry and human development has grown without regulation or care for the environment. Kerbow shares via email: My work explores the way in which we engage with our surroundings and the possible consequences our actions have upon the world in which we live. More

Swedish illustrator Simon Stålenhag (previously) depicts a uncomfortable collision of present and future where people much like us seem to confront a brave new technological reality. In his digital paintings children throw spears at terrifying drones, and people wander aimlessly in their yards while fully engrossed inside virtual reality helmets strapped to their heads, and sometimes there’s even a giant alien caterpillar. Each bleak snapshot is seemingly unconnected to the last but suggests a provocative story—for some reason I’m reminded of my favorite children’s picture book, Chris van Allsburg’s The Mysteries of Harris Burdick. More

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“Some Like it Hot.” A painting by London-based artist Xue Wang. “My take on ghosts is perhaps a little tinged with lightheartedness. These are not demons who threaten us mortals. But their merry mischief undoes our sense of everyday security. They rummage in our larders, shin their way up our drainpipes and play havoc with domestic bliss. As these spooks creep among us, we needn’t shrink from them but welcome their witty messages from the other side!” —artist Xue Wang, September 2013 After moving from China to London while she was in her early 20s, future artist Xue Wang worked in the world of fashion. Armed with a BA in Fashion Design from Lu Xun Academy of Fine Art in Shenyang when she arrived in the UK, she would go on to complete her Masters in the same field in London. Despite her academic achievements, Wang’s original career of choice didn’t stick, and she soon found herself painting to better feed her creative instincts. Wang cites the work of many impactful artists as sources for her inspiration such as outsider hero Henry Darger, Frida Kahlo and unsurprisingly American pop surrealist Mark Ryden. If you are at all...

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Many of the sci-fi artists that we love deserve a second view these days, especially in light of the complete overhaul of our daily lives over the pas...

Alexey Kondakov, the Ukrainian artist whom we covered before, is back with new images of figures from classical paintings photoshopped into modern locations. The ongoing series, titled The Daily Life Of Gods, features images such as William-Adolphe Bouguereau’s Nymphs and Satyr, or Cesar van Everdingen’s Bacchus.

Set of creative digital artworks of Evgeny Kazantsev , an artist from Anapa, Russia, that will blow your mind.

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Selected pieces of sculptures and installations by Norwegian artist May Von Krogh. May Von Krogh was born in 1977. The Norwegian artist and sculptor lives

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Painting by Jessie Willcox Smith

I'm republising today a feature I did for another publication about a retrospective at Tokyo’s Mori Art Museum celebrating one of the most vital and visionary Korean women artists, Lee Bul. Lee Bul is among the most important Korean women...

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Maria Jose Cristerna is a mother of four, tattoo artist and former lawyer. 90 percent of Maria's body is tattooed and modified with subcutaneous implants and therefor she is also called Vampire Woman. Her tattooed skin, body piercings and transformations make her look stunning, even to persons who are familiar with extreme body modifications. She is famous and a regular on television shows and events.

You step into a dark room. You try to go back, but the path behind you has disappeared. You can only move forward. Before diving into the unknown, you try to

Girl Boxer - Women of the Future (1925), Ernesto “El Chango” García Cabral docarelle

With its giant strawberries and nudity, Hieronymus Bosch’s painting has been seen as a celebration and warning about sin – but it’s really about a Renaissance-era curiosity that helped better explain the world

[...] I have faced many challenges in running a creative business, which has led to my growth and an improved sense of problem-solving.