The work of Frank Kunert is a kind of photographic satire. The "miniature worlds" photographic series are a compositions of ideas, models of sets which he
artist catherine nelson creates miniature 'worlds' painstakingly pieced together from hundreds of individual photographs shot across the world.
Handcrafted miniature scenes bring alternate realities to life.
These Compact Worlds by Kendal Murray are charming, mixed media miniature narratives created. literally, within mirrored compacts.
I'd been promised “enchanted landscapes, fantastic worlds, and strange encounters” and had already voyaged through wartime Italy, haunted hallways, Chuck Close's art studio, and a seedy peepshow. Then I collided with all three at once. A sedentary carousel of animals and imps suddenly spun into a 3D zoetrope where the fiendish tiny people tried to stab giant snails and jumping fish and smash a bird's eggs, while butterflies thrashed away to escape their missiles. A strange whirring, creaking noise accompanied the primal scene. It was perfectly otherworldly.
Hotels on stilts, cribs on wheels and staircases through windows make up German photographer Frank Kunert’s playful microcosms
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THE GENRE Of all the forms known to Arabic literature in al-Andalus, only strophic poetry is known to have originated on the peninsula. Despite certain characteristic thematic features, the Andalusian qasida and maqama remained principally products of the Muslim East, but strophic poetry is a quintessentially Andalusian creation and the most complete literary embodiment of the multiethnic and multilingual fabric of Andalusian society. The pride that Andalusians and Maghribis took in these genres is echoed well into the fourteenth century by Ibn Khaldūn, whose survey of Arabic literature culminates in an account of Andalusian strophic poetry. In both its varieties, the muwashshah – the prosodically more complicated form, employing classical language in all but its concluding couplet – and the zajal – which is simpler in form and vernacular throughout – Andalusian strophic poetry is indeed the most distinguished contribution of the Muslim West to the history of Arabic poetry, and its forms are most explicitly involved with the universe of incipient Romance lyrics. The muwashshah is written in Classical Arabic, and its subjects are those of Classical Arabic poetry —love, wine, court figures. It sharply differs in form, however, from classical poetry, in which each verse is divided into two metric halves and a single rhyme recurs at the end of each verse. The muwashshah is usually divided into five strophes, or stanzas, each numbering four, five, or six lines. A master rhyme appears at the beginning of the poem and at the end of the strophes, somewhat like a refrain; it is interrupted by subordinate rhymes. A possible scheme is ABcdcdABefefABghghABijijABklklAB. The last AB, called kharjah, or markaz, is usually written in vernacular Arabic or in the Spanish Mozarabic dialect; it is normally rendered in the voice of a girl and expresses her longing for her absent lover. Such verses make it probable that the muwashshah was influenced by some kind of European Romance oral poetry or song. Jewish poets of Spain also wrote muwashshahs in Hebrew, with kharjahs in Arabic and Spanish. FAMOUS EXAMPLE Lamma Bada Yatathanna (trad. Arab-Andalusian, from the 12th century) This well beloved piece, a muwashah , is in a 10/8 rhythmic mode called sama'i thaqil which originated in Al-Andalus. Arabic: Lamma bada Yatathanna Hubbi jamalu fatanna Aman' Aman' Aman' Aman Aw ma bi LaHzu asarna Ghusnu thana Hinamal Lamma bada yatathanna Hubbi jamalu fatanna Waadi wa ya Hirati Man li shafeeashak wati Illa maleekul jamal Fil hubbi min lawaati Lamma bada yatathanna Hubbi jamalu fatanna English: She walked with a swaying gait her beauty amazed me Her eyes have taken me prisoner Her stem folded as she bent over Oh, my promise, oh, my perplexity Who can answer my lament of love and distress but the graceful one, the queen of beauty? Know more about: http://www.sharjahart.org/programmes/web-radio1/episode-3-al-muwashshah
The overall winners of the 2019 Sony World Photography Awards have been announced featuring a provocative array of images. The impressive assortment of winners in one of the world’s largest photo competitions cover everything from moving photojournalism to impressionistic underwater photography.
Sydney-based artist Catherine Nelson refers to herself as a painter with a camera, in that she doesn’t see the world as a photographer does but instead uses photos as a medium with which she creates these fantastic miniature worlds. Each work is comprised of hundreds of photographs which she digitally stitches together, drawing from an extensive background in visual special effects having worked on such films as Moulin Rouge, Harry Potter and 300. Of her work Nelson says: When I embraced the medium of photography, I felt that taking a picture that represented only what was within the frame of the lens wasn’t expressing my personal and inner experience of the world around me. More
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German photographer Frank Kunert builds miniature scenes that at first glance appear like mundane depictions of everyday domestic and urban settings. However after glancing at the photographs longer, one is able to dissect the strange anomalies found in his playgrounds, kitchens, and parks, noticing that his half pipe has the markings of a tennis court and his children’s slide leads straight onto a busy highway. “On the surface, these photographs confront us with all of the hollow words, catchphrases and banalities we encounter in our daily lives,” says Dr. More
If you’re an art fanatic, then maybe you nurture a dream of one day seeing a piece of your own displayed and admired in a famous art gallery. Tezi
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Photographer Lori Nix says she steps behind the camera only about three times a year. The rest of the time is spent building miniature dioramas of the apocalypse.
The artist Lori Nix, who considers herself a “faux landscape photographer,” spends months constructing tiny dioramas out of cardboard, glue, and point—only to destroy them. Collected in The City, a recently published book, her photographs of these crumbling miniature buildings imagine a post-apocalypic future, room by room. All images courtesy of Decode Books.Beauty ShopC...
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Frank Kunert, 54, is an incredible artist from Frankfurt, Germany. After graduating from high school, he became a professional photographer’s apprentice and later - a freelance photographer. Over the past few years, he has been working on a photo series with a twist called "Small Worlds."
The incredible winners from this year's Nikon Small World photo awards strike a unique balance between art and science, offering everything from a surreal close-up of the grooves in an old vinyl record to a stunning image of hippocampal neurons firing.
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