Sometimes a well written press release sums it up better than i ever could. And sometimes i just get lazy.
Sarah Harvey’s figure portraits are the fruit of an unusual technique. Often seeking out a third person to photograph her bathing in emerald waters, she then pieces together the underwater images to build pictures of herself [...]
posted: February 1st, 2010 |
by: tomagotchi |
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| tags: painting, portraits, sarah harvey, sesame art gallery, swimming, underwater
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I love a bit of bacon in the morning.
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posted: December 29th, 2009 |
by: tomagotchi |
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| tags: francis bacon, painting, triptych
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I know we’ve been though this, but I do really like stuff that looks like one thing but is actually another. I hope it’s not some kinda self-deception fetish that Ive stumbled upon.
Nevertheless, bathe in these wonderous oil paintings by jameschronister. I love the way they feel like ye-olde sepia photographs, plucked from the 1800’s. [...]
posted: December 16th, 2009 |
by: tomagotchi |
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| tags: james chronister, monochrome, oil painting, painting, photography, sepia
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Sophia Hewson is a Melbourne based artist who makes the most incredibly beautiful, unsettling and emotive paintings with a deep theatrical feel. After graduating from The Victorian College of the Arts in 2007 was signed to Lindberg Contemporary Gallery in Melbourne which is where she recently opened her first major solo exhibition entitled ‘Solstice-City of [...]
posted: December 7th, 2009 |
by: tomagotchi |
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| tags: art, lindberg contemporary gallery, melbourne art, painting, solstice city of the godless, sophia hewson, sophie hewson, VCA
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I was lucky enough to be able to play the flaneur yesterday (half day at work) and as such I took myself to the Wallace collection to see No Love Lost, Blue Paintings by Damien Hirst.
For better or worse, I like Damien Hirst. I like the audacity of his business acumen and the way he [...]
posted: November 24th, 2009 |
by: tomagotchi |
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| tags: art, blue paintings, damien hirst, francis bacon, no love lost, painting, wallace collection
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when we were walking through hyde park on sunday afternoon towards the serpentine gallery, lady worthington confessed. she admitted that she didn’t quite get jeff koons’ work. and whilst i didn’t express it at the time, neither did i.
take the below piece (let’s call it ‘doggy paddle’). on first glance, or when viewing online you [...]
posted: September 9th, 2009 |
by: tomagotchi |
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| tags: art, collage, jeff koons, painting, plastic, pop art, popeye, serpentine gallery
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“every picture tells a story. but not every story has a point to it.”
sage words by UK painter charming baker.
he also professes to have the art worlds shonkiest website, which lists these as his influences:
[ Cheap books, heroes, girls, Zulus, odd-looking women, suburbia, da riddum, family, stories, horses, dogs, packaging, summer holidays, the smell of [...]
posted: June 5th, 2009 |
by: tomagotchi |
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| tags: charming baker, odd, painting, rough
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british artist, charlie mackesy has found that etching his way through life has helped bring some sort of metaphysical clarity.
charlie says: “if you look at the paintings, a fair proportion seem to have some kind of angel or spiritual thing going on. I’m aware that this may seem a little odd . . . I’m [...]
posted: March 26th, 2009 |
by: lady worthington |
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| tags: angels, art, charlie mackesy, drawing, life, london, painting, questions of life, religion, spirituality
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annie has created a series of painted artworks titled “vamps & innocents”. her little lightly executed ditties of various old fashioned beauties are instantly gratifying to look at and quaint, but what lies beneath these portraits is quite heavy subject matter. annie explains:
“My paintings reflect my [...]
posted: March 9th, 2009 |
by: lady worthington |
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| tags: annie kevans, art, fine art society, foucault, painting, portraits
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the female form… what more can be said, painted, or sung? artists always have been and always will be fascinated by the “pinnacle of creation” herself.
in dylan’s words: “With the aid of life models I am able to explore my interests in anatomy. The poses are normally based around particular physical dynamics such has the [...]
posted: February 19th, 2009 |
by: lady worthington |
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| tags: art, artist, baroque, caravaggio, dylan lisle, female, london, painting, red, rembrandt
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Moscow dweller Vika Prokopaviciute likes to play with her food. painting a post-mortum of sorts, she takes her part-consumed meals, paints them and distorts them to truly reflect their vulgar state. in her own words: “I am intoxicated by unconscious colours now”.
I think this is one of the best things ever written on a web [...]
posted: February 9th, 2009 |
by: tomagotchi |
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| tags: distortion, drips, fast food, mcdonalds, painting, wet
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astronaut dinosaur is the website of painter/artist Scott Listfield. It also adequately sums up the two elements of his work. dinosaurs and astronauts.
his work is genius, elements of the past and of the future, awkwardly poised in the present.
In his own words: “i paint astronauts, and sometimes dinosaurs. the astronaut in my paintings is here [...]
posted: February 1st, 2009 |
by: tomagotchi |
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| tags: 2001, astronaut, coke, dinosaur, future, hal, painting, present, scott listfield, space
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this week i went to see the rothko exhibition at london’s tate modern. to me, rothko was the inspiration for fabric patterns favoured in the 80’s as seen on ties, carpets and over-sized shirts with shoulder pads, his framed A3 prints in dull offices and 3 star hotels. block colours? i just didn’t get it. [...]
posted: January 3rd, 2009 |
by: lady worthington |
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| tags: abtstract, art, colour, expressionism, gallery, painting, rothko, tate modern
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“some of the new paintings I am working on titled “Guardian”, are branching along the idea of stewardship and conscious action. They are both a self portrait and are also intended to be a portrait of human action. Each one of us can have a positive or negative indirect effect on preserving the worlds fragile [...]
posted: November 22nd, 2008 |
by: tomagotchi |
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| tags: contemporary art, painting, totem
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