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The graphic arts are all about mixing disjointed elements, which is what French artist Julien Salaud did with his Grotte Stelaire installation for the recently renovated Palais de Tokyo in Paris. The artist created a light installation for the Triennale of Contemporary Art, open in the French capital until August 6th. The precise, 3D mural inspired by primitive cave drawings is on [...]
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In today’s day and age there is no limit to the media artists will use in the graphic arts, and this certainly applies to Matthew Cusick’s map work collages. The New York-based artist is actually renowned for his rendition of landscapes, humans and animals via recycled maps. He intersperses his road map and atlas fragments with cut-outs from old encyclopedias and textbooks, [...]
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Graphic arts aren’t all about graphic design, as Chaos Crew’s tattooed poster goes to show – they’re also about “getting history under your skin.” That’s the motto under which the crew operates, and what better way for the Munich tattoo studio to advertise itself than with a massive calfskin poster displaying all the major historic events that took place in 2011. “Just [...]
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Australia’s Louise Saxton proves once more that the graphic arts have no limits when it comes to the medium, through her collection of birds, trees and leaves made out of fabric – “Sanctuary”. The series is currently exhibited at the Heide Museum of Modern Art in Melbourne, from March 24 until July 29. According to the artist herself, “this body of work [...]
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The graphic arts needn’t always be pompous and ironic, says Australian designer Bec Winnel through her series of suave female portraits. Winnel renders seductive, ultra-feminine, delicate faces into drawings. She almost exclusively uses pastel colors, yet the nearly fragile-looking characters are counterbalanced by her precise use of color and line. Her characters smile, look straight ahead or cast a sideways glance over [...]
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Dutch artist Nick Meeuws seems hell-bent on proving that there is no limit to innovative media in the visual and graphic arts. He has constructed an entire 3D environment out of what started out as a relatively simple project, yet turned out infinitely more complex than the artist ever thought it would. According to the visual artist, “this is a huge project,” [...]
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Tunisian painter Othman Babba doesn’t offer us much info on his biography, but he does manage to aptly bring to life the Colors of the Golden Route. That is the title of his featured series of paintings, which superbly blends strong, vivid colors, surreal imagery and Oriental symbolism. It’s all about sunsets, travels across the sea and majestic birds, such as swans [...]
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You are probably familiar with the awesomely useful tool that is Google Earth – but did you know you can create art with it? Chinese visual artist Lu Xinjian does, and that is exactly what he did, with his City DNA series. We are always happy to feature work from such a fascinating corner of the world, where totalitarianism meets economic prosperity, [...]
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We fell in love with Carla Raadsveld’s paintings the instant we first saw them, and our motives are quite simple. The artwork is brightly colored without being gaudy. It has a distinctly vintage flair to it – a sort of Cubist touch, which reminds us of Picasso’s portraits of women. Raadsveld’s women are plump and fleshy, yet not in an ostentatious or [...]
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We’re not big fans of photorealism in the visual arts, but Gregory Thielke’s body of work managed to debunk our misconceived preconception (or preconceived misconception). The New Delhi-based visual artist achieved something as wonderful as it is amazing. Through his paintings, he managed to tame the untamable and conquer the unconquerable. He managed to make water stand still—be it rivulets, drops, droplets, [...]
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What we love about Victor Ostrovsky’s paintings is the way in which they brashly defy the classical conception on fine art. They are, indeed, paintings and fine art—not illustrations to pulp novels, nor comic book panels. They do, admittedly, bear resemblance to both categories mentioned above, and they tell a wonderfully dramatic story of a sexy spy. She appears to be caught [...]
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Japanese graphic artist Keita Sagaki draws upon concepts of Mandara, an ancient form of religious Zen painting, as well as upon the age-old concept, which says that each molecule and constitutive element of a whole is just as important as the whole itself. His portfolio is comprised of incredibly complex comic-like drawings, which integrate multi-layered, complex and thoroughly detailed elements. The artist [...]
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Seattle-based illustrator Dain Fagerholm has a rich imagination, a skilled hand at design and a knack for putting together animated GIFs of his hand-drawn monsters, universes and other creations. His three-dimensional GIFs are based on a technique he reminds us has been around for centuries, namely ‘stereographic drawing’. The method, based on the propensity of the human brain for visual trickery, shows [...]
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It’s not entirely uncommon for the artist’s story to often be more fascinating (or equally so) than the art itself. This is very much the case with American oil painter Peregrine Heathcote. Heathcote is famous for his unruly biography, so to speak. He started out by garnering the title of youngest-ever student at London’s Heatherly College of Art, at the tender age [...]
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Visual artist Rob Tarbell creates images in a medium that is entirely his own. His visuals of women performing balancing acts atop horses and other circus-specific activities, are achieved through controlling smoke and directing it onto the surface of paper. The American artist showcases a very varied portfolio, which combines traditional forms such as painting and macro photography, with more unusual media, [...]
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We love Argentinian artist Estela Cuadro’s illustration work because it displays a type of serenity and positive energy we haven’t come across in a long time. It’s child-like, fairytale like and nearly naïve, yet soothing and beautiful. It must be the splashes of pastel color that we love most about her work, or her crafty displays of fairy princesses in flight—we’re not [...]
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Chinese artist Qian Yi has created a series of illustrations which blend two cultural traditions: that of the ethereal Orient, with that of the dynamic, action-focused West. The result: a combination of digital painting elements with a traditional, somewhat watered-down style—which works perfectly! The artist has created a young male character, whom he portrays traveling the world, from one end to the [...]
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Oil painter Brendan Monroe recently revealed his latest series of thought-provoking work at the Cooper Cole gallery in Toronto, Ontario, under the title of Observations of Light and Matter. On first glance, the works could be deemed naïve at best. They are dominated by big brush strokes and basic colors, collected to outline human shapes and other basic visual representations of forms [...]
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Reinterpreting classical art in a contemporary aesthetic frame is by no means a new concept, as it has been around for decades, yet the series curated by art director Irene Gallo from Tor.com sure is innovative. Gallo brought together several talented photographers, among whom John Mattos, Tim O’Brien, Greg Manchess, and Michael Whelan. She allowed them to essentially run wild with some [...]
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Austrian visual artist Anatol Knotek brings together two forms of art which often touch and gloss by one another, yet rarely are they brought together in such a powerful combo. Essentially, he creates textual portraits by blending actual text, scribbles, composition, portraiture and color. In his series of portraits he put Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Bob Dylan and illustriously unknown regular [...]
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Chris Buzelli’s artwork manages to be at once playful, childlike, serious, allegoric and metaphoric, as proven by his series of oil paintings, Strength in Numbers. The first featured oil painting was commissioned by the PLANSPONSOR magazine, for an article discussing the capacities of businesses coming together to form a network of cooperation for better communities. Nothing, we believe, could have been more [...]
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It might be that she’s compensating the drudgery of her day job, but office clerk-by day turned freelance illustrator by night Rola Cheng creates some emotionally powerful art. The Taiwan-based artist who also goes by the screen name of Jungshan, draws only in flowing Chinese ink, in order to lend a nearly poetic quality to her art. She dots the drawings with [...]
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