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Hi-Fructose has a great round-up of surreal sculptures by Emil Alzamora. This one is "Afterlife Afterthought" from 2006.
San Diego-based artist Seyo Cizmic works largely within the realm of the surreal. From hammers that droop to knock nails into their own bodies to wooden pencils with thorns built into them, many of th
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Ecuadorian artist Beto Val alchemizes vintage illustrations into bizarre compositions that blend fruits with fowl and aquatic life with land animals. Using imagery available through the public domain, Val cuts and repositions fins, wings, and scaly talons into surreal creatures: round owl faces peer out from pineapples, autumn leaves sprout from tropical birds, and a rendering evocative of a biological chart displays fish with bodies made of strawberries, brains, and an early, industrial locomotive. More
There is a time and place for doing more than what is asked of you in order to get ahead. But it’s also so vital to give ourselves permission to simply show up as is.
In 2013, Bruno Catalano created bronze sculptures along the waterfront commemorating Marseille’s status as the European Capital of Culture.
Les plus chanceux seront allés voir sa création Baitogogo au Palais de Tokyo, exposée en tant qu’œuvre in situ pendant trois ans de 2013 à 2016. Oliveira a aussi exposé une édition de la FIAC, ainsi que dans des galeries et autres espaces culturels français, américains et brésiliens. Son impressionnant CV confirme son statut : Oliveira fait partie des artistes les plus influents de sa génération. Ses « univers », comme il appelle ses créations, véritables cosmogonies à elles seules, sont ancrés au plus profond de son être. Car son matériau de prédilection reste le bois de « tapumes », un bois qui provient de palissades de chantiers et qui est récupéré à São Paulo, sa ville natale.
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Spanish sculptor Isabel Miramontes creates figural bronze sculptures that bring a visual movement to ordinary silhouettes. Her works provide unusual shapes within the body of her subjects, opening up torsos to reveal elongated spirals and horizontal bars that seem to reveal an inner turmoil. Often the faces of her sculptures have blank or passive expressions, unknowing participants to the tangle of bronze that twists below. Miramontes is represented by Canfin Gallery in New York and Lucy B Campbell Gallery in London, where you can see more of her works. More
New series of the talented Luca Izzo: Oceani mentali. Introspection, 1/8 copies. Resin, steel and varnish. Work composed of two pieces. Real size of head., Introspection, Luca Izzo
Naum Gabo 'Constructed Head #2', 1916, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas
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Two/Three week project Week 1 DISCUSSION: Pattern What is pattern? What do we need to create pattern? repetition Where do we see patterns in everyday life? clothing, wallpaper Look at the Matisse work: Odalisque in Red Trousers what do you see in this piece is there pattern, how many? can we create a story for what is happening? Did he use live model for this work? or is this a still life? what do her face and arm say about her mood? Now look at Goldfish from 1911 what do you see in the piece do you like the colors? are there complementary colors? do you see a pattern let's make up a story about what might be happening in the piece. ARTIST: Henri Matisse 1869-1954 French Painter, Studied law until he was 21 Mother gave him a paint box after surgery and he discovered painting In 1891 set off for Paris. Matisse began his journey of studies which ultimately lead him to his love of line, shape and color. Matisse felt that his greatest influence had been the work of the artist Cezanne (1839 – 1906, French). In the 1950‘s, Matisse began creating paintings using paint and paper cut outs. In his last years, as he aged and fell ill, Matisse continued to paint, this time on the walls of his room, using a piece of charcoal attached to the end of a bamboo pole. He painted until his death in 1954. Matisse had strong feelings about only one thing, the act of painting. The purpose of these pictures, he always asserted, was to give pleasure. For Matisse, painting was the rhythmic arrangement of line and color on a flat plane. Light was expressed, not in the method of the Impressionists, but with a harmony of intensely covered surfaces. For additional information please visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Matisse PROJECT: step 1: grab one piece of tag board from the materials table step2: with a pencil draw the shape of each side of your vase, from top to bottom on each side do not draw along the top or the bottom. not too skinny, but fill your page DO NOT CUT THE TOP OR THE BOTTOM OF THE PAPER. THEY MUST REMAIN STRAIGHT IN ORDER FOR THE VASE TO STAND. Step3: Let’s work together now to recreate the fish bowl Step1: draw an oval in the middle of your vase Step2: now draw two lines down either side of that oval Step3: Now draw a curved line at the bottom of those two lines connecting them creating your fish bowl Step4: Now add your fish inside the bowl Step5: draw a circle under your bowl for a table top that the bowl is sitting on add legs at the bottom Step6: add a pattern behind your bowl: polka dots, stripes, etc. Step7: You can also add plants if you like like matisse Step8: now that you have drawn all the details spend the rest of your time coloring them in. Remember the lessons in color you have learned. Step9: fill in the first vase with pattern: stripes, dots, zig zags TAKE YOUR TIME. MATERIALS: tag board, oil pastels, Pencils, Scissors WEEK 2 Wild Fauves: (French for "the wild beasts"), a short-lived and loose group of early twentieth-century Modern artists whose works emphasized painterly qualities and strong colour over the representational or realistic values retained by Impressionism. While Fauvism as a style began around 1900 and continued beyond 1910, the movement as such lasted only a few years, 1904–1908, and had three exhibitions.[1][2] The leaders of the movement were Henri Matisse and André Derain.[1] for additional information, please visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fauvism Discussion: Collage Matisse called Collage Painting with scissors when he was 72 he was so ill he could not stand up to paint He would paint paper with paint gouache (gwash) (heavy watercolor) and then cut shapes from them He then had assistants help to place the shapes on the walls of his studio He called this last 14 years of his career his second life. Let’s take a look: Icarus, 1947 What do you see? What colors did he use? and what does that help tell you about the subject? what is the dominant color? and positive space? What is happening in the positive space? second piece: what is happening in this work Very simple: what color does he choose, why? what do the shapes tell you? PROJECT: RECREATE matisse’s Icarus Step1: using your vase from last week cut out a second vase from tag board Step2: choose a background color in construction paper and cut a third vase Step3: glue this vase onto the first vase creating a full color background like matisse. Step4: begin to cut a shape from the black construction paper that resembles Icarus, This is where you paint with scissors. Step5: Glue your icarus onto you vase Step7: Cut out the stars like matisse, think about your color choices Step8: add the little heart accent on the chest of your Icarus Step9: on the back Cut and glue a pattern from construction paper. Could be circles, squares, lines. Materials: Construction paper in all colors Scissors Glue ALL PHOTOS ARE OF ONE FINISHED VASE: I adapted this project from one I found on Dick Blick. for additional information and many awesome lesson plans, please visit: www.dickblick.com.
[tabby title=”English”] Cartons is an ensemble of 50 cardboard cutout boxes. Each square cardboard is cut on 4 faces, each with a different freehand drawing cut with a large blade knife. The boxes can be disposed in different ways depending of the space. The piece has been shown previously …Read more
