Bill Mayer is a well-known artist currently based in Decatur, Georgia, whose curious creatures have been widely featured on magazines, ads, stamps, posters, and more. Since an early age, Mayer has been attracted to things that are strange; this leaning towards oddity is evident in the selection of gouache paintings shown here, which include anthropomorphic...
John Singer Sargent, Simplon. Lesson, 1911 John Singer Sargent rose to fame for his finely rendered oil portraits. At his peak, he was one of the most sought-after artists for portrait commissions. But, he was also a remarkable watercolorist. I cover the following in the post: Watercolors brought out a different side to Sargent's work.
We take plenty of photos but for most of us, it's pretty difficult to get good at it. No matter how hard we're trying. Others, however, can produce a spectacular image even when they're not.
Mariusz Lewandowski is a polish painter, lives and work in a small town in the north of Poland - Górowo Iławeckie.… by alejandrodmarco
Whether or not you know it, you’ve probably seen Danish illustrator Kay Nielsen’s work before.
Nhu Xuan Hua - fotografa Nhu Xuan Hua è una fotografa parigina che attualmente vive e lavora a Londra. Ha studiato Arte,Cinema e Fotografia a Parigi prima di iniziare a lavorare per l’industria della fotografia.
Hu Jundi (胡钧涤) was born in the Jilin province in Northern China. He moved with his family at the height of the Cultural Revolution to the city of Chongqing where he was able to secretly study painting at 9 under a renowned Chinese instructor who has trained some of modern China's most celebrated artists.
Design made in Germany
Auguste Toulmouche’s 1866 painting “The Hesitant Fiancée” is making the rounds on TikTok FYPs across the globe, inviting women of all ages to not only marvel at and meme-ify the bride’s pissed off scowl, but see themselves in it, too.
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
German painter Otto Eduard Pippel (1878-1960) was one of the most important Impressionists in Southern Germany. As the son of German parents who had emigrated to Lodz, Pippel enrolled at the School of Applied Arts in Straßburg in 1896 with the express wish to become an interior decorator and a decorative painter.
Hans Zatzka
Sascha Schneider’s artwork is timeless! When looking at his images, I think to myself that he must have been listening to some insane Black Metal when creating some of these paintings. His mind was plugged into another part of the dark side that many of us will never know. This work speaks for itself… […]
Today, certainly, it would be hard to imagine a friendship such as that between Carol Ann Lowry and her famous namesake, a painter 57 years her senior.
Ferdinand Keller was a German history painter concerned with genre and symbolism. His work is richly textured, atmospheric, and at times masterfully dark. His ode to Swiss symbolist Böcklin
I started the day off in the printshop, printing what I think are going to be my final three monotypes for a while. These monotypes were a good way for me to jumpstart this project, but I think tha…
Welcome to the rich and dark world of Helen Sobiralski. Just last year, the Berlin, Germany-based photographer won several awards for her original series
German painter Ludwig Gschossmann [1894-1988] lived his life in a remote lake area in Germany by the name of Tegernsee. There have been no records of Gschossmann’s birth in the Munich archives in Germany. Some historians believe that Gschossmann was born as early as 1894. Other dates of birth in research books range from 1901-1913 and 1914.
Lucius Rossi - In the Boudoir (detail)
Il y a eu dans la grande épopée Humaine, de nombreuses femmes qui ont radicalement changé le cours de l'Histoire. Il serait sans doute impossible de faire...
From song titles to BDSM dating apps to erotica with sexy and dangerous billionaires waiting to be tamed,it is safe to say the term “dark romance” has changed meaning since its inception. In fact, …
More than $850 million — that's the estimated value of the legendary Mona Lisa painting. Nevertheless, one of the most famous paintings and an iconic Renaissance art piece is not for sale. Under French heritage law, an artwork declared priceless is prohibited from being bought or sold. Although you might not be able to take the painting home, you can still take a glimpse at the iconic smiling lady in the Louvre for less than the cost of a meal at Mickey D's.
Walk into the Oval Room at the Frick to experience the shock of the uncanny—Girl With a Pearl Earring, Johannes Vermeer’s 1665 painting, is that familiar. You know this face, the blond girl’s bird-…
On my Instagram profile a puddle reflects a painting by Van Gogh, the girl with a pearl earring replaces Uma Thurman in Kill Bill, and so forth.
Life’s not easy for a fantasy fan nowadays. Where a few decades ago there wasn’t a lot of great material around you now have a choice in thousands of books, films and series being released each year. With the arrival of the internet, the supply only grew, making it almost too hard to choose what to read or see next. With the huge range of great fiction available came a wave of talented fantasy inspired artists as well. Watercolor works, digital drawings or stunning oil paintings, there’s something to love for everyone. One artist that stands out in that massive amount of fantasy-inspired art is illustrator Rebecca Yanovskaya. Rebecca Yanovskaya is an illustration graduate living and working in Toronto, Canada. If you’ve come across her work before you’ll immediately recognize her unique style. All of her
