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Palette knife and oils

03/28/2013 by chicquero

Leonid Afremov (born 12 July 1955 in Vitebsk, Belarus) is a Russian–Israeli modern impressionistic artist who works mainly with a palette knife and oils. He developed his own unique technique and style which is unmistakable and cannot be confused with other artists. Afremov is mainly known as being a self-representing artist who promotes and sells his work exclusively over the internet with very little exhibitions and involvement of dealers and galleries. The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. Friedrich Nietzsche […]

Categories: Artsy • Tags: art, artist, arts, artsy, beautiful, colorful, illustration, impressionism, knife, Leonid Afremov, modern, oil, paint, paintings

Hand Lettering Quotes

11/29/2012 by chicquero

Sean McCabe Co-founder of Bold Perspective, a San Antonio based design firm. Sean is a Hand Lettering Artist, Type Designer, Illustrator, Interface Crafter, Musician, Christian, Husband, and Coffee Lover. “As a kid I thought I was pretty strange. I always found myself drawing letter forms throughout middle school and high school. My homework was littered with typographic illustrations. The artistic friends I had all seemed to draw cartoons, or paint still life, but for some odd reason I was drawn […]

Categories: Artsy, Design • Tags: artist, arts, cool, hand lettering, illustration, inspirational, letter, quotation, quotes, Sean McCabe, type, typo, typographic, typography, words

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Beautiful and repulsive portraits

10/23/2012 by chicquero

Photo artist Oleg Dou is a multi award-winning based in Moscow. He is celebrated internationally for his staggeringly unique vision. His focus on artistry and craft is transformative. Oleg was born in Moscow on 19th of August 1983. His mother was a painter, and I he spent a lot of time among artists, though not particularly interested in their activities. “I felt an urge for arts and creation some time ago, when I was working as a web designer, which pushed me to study […]

Categories: Artsy, Photography • Tags: artist, arts, beautiful, beauty, creepy, digital, graphic design, kids, Oleg Dou, photography, photoshop, portraits, repulsive, young

Past present paper origamis

09/12/2012 by chicquero

For this work, artist Marc Fichou had the intention to create a piece where the image cannot be separated from its referent, thus creating a visual link between past and present. This concept naturally led him towards origami because of the reversible character of its folding process: each can be unfolded back to its creases. In his series, the sheet of paper contains both the photographic and the material memories of its past origami form. Origami and paper are one […]

Categories: Artsy • Tags: animal portraits, artist, fold paper, Marc Fichou, origami, paper, past, present, shapes

Minimalist art movements

09/02/2012 by chicquero

French Graphic designer, Outmane Amahou has created a series of minimalistic posters for your viewing pleasure, in which he pays tribute to major art movements, and iconic painters throughout history. Instead of focusing on the work of individual artists, Amahou decided to tackle entire movements in his very ambitious series. Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. Pablo Picasso >>>YOU MAY ALSO LIKE<<< Coolest minimal movie posters Dissected artists My face is a […]

Categories: Artsy, Design • Tags: art, art movement, artist, arts, cool, graphic design, illustration, minimal, minimalist, outmane amahou, painters, paintings, poster

Spitting on Capitalism!

08/06/2012 by chicquero

Tom Sachs is a sculptor, probably best known for his elaborate recreations of various Modern icons, all of them masterpieces of engineering and design of one kind or another. A lot has been made of the conceptual underpinnings of these sculptures: how Sachs’ sampling capitalist culture, remixing, dubbing and spitting it back out again, so that the results are transformed and transforming. Equally, if not more important, is his total embrace of “showing his work.” All the steps that led […]

Categories: Artsy • Tags: art, artist, brands, capitalism, capitalist, contemporary, culture, Fashion, modern, sculpture, tom sachs, weapon

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Biologic consciousness

05/16/2012 by chicquero

Meredith Dittmar is an artist living and playing in Portland OR. Born near Boston Mass, she grew up in a world of pet pigs, horses, hay-forts and spy games . Follow this with an education in computer science, a career in interactive design, a compulsive need to create, and a drive to Seek and you get the major elements of her person and work. Dittmars human-animal-plant-energy amalgams contain threads of common elements and colors to express deep levels of union […]

Categories: Artsy • Tags: artist, arts, characters, cool, creative, Design, energy, meredith dittmar, reality, surreal, surrealism

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Sleep Elevations

05/09/2012 by chicquero

Sleep Elevations French artist Maia Flore in a cool series entitled “Sleep Elevations”. A very feminine, surreal, sort of romantic artwork. Her subjects are young women being levitated by objects. Flore wishes to emphasize the attraction the girls feel towards their new, boundless surrounding, and the lightness of the reality they are entering into. Their contorted movements is meant to articulate a contrast between physical limitation and the limitlessness of imagination. Maia Flore was born in 1988 and educated at l’Ecole des Gobelins, Paris. […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: artist, cool, elevation, fly, flying, girl, imagination, maia flore, photography, sky, sleep

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Art and Needle – Fashion embroidery

04/27/2012 by chicquero

Fabulous artist Izziyana Suhaimi, her work primarily involves the use of embroidery. She is interested in collapsing the boundaries between traditional and popular cultures and exploring the links that exist between these two. Her work examines how this particular mishmash manifests itself in modern times, especially concerning modern youths. Preferring to work with craft-based techniques, she is attracted to the evidence of the hand and its time-consuming aspect, which runs counter to the instant gratification and mass-production centred age of today. The […]

Categories: Artsy • Tags: art, artist, cool, crafts, embroidery, Fashion, Izziyana Suhaimi, needles, pencil, thread, yarn

Your body is a fragile ego

04/05/2012 by chicquero

Kim Joon – Born in Seoul, South Korea, 1966 “Korean artist Kim Joon has an enduring interest in hidden desires. Using animation photography Kim makes templates of three-dimensional human figures, which he then embellishes with bright tattoo designs. There is a striking visual quality to Kim’s work that owes a great debt to his training as a painter.” “Common clay must go through the heat and fire of the furnace to become porcelain. But once porcelain , it can never […]

Categories: Artsy, Design • Tags: 3D, art, artist, dolls, figures, graphic design, human, kim joon, porcelain, tattoos

Shock me to impress me

02/24/2012 by chicquero

Robert Gligorov was born in 1959 in Kriva Palanca, Macedonia. He lives and works in Milan, Italy. Gligorov‘s work attempts to shock the viewer. Each piece tantalizes the imagination, awakening it from a state of lethargy. Confronting a society accustomed to sophisticated and extreme forms of visual communication, Gligorov amplifies the shock value of his work in order to compete with the deluge of images that cloud our visual field. Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries. […]

Categories: Artsy, Laugh, Photography • Tags: artist, arts, contemporary, photography, robert gligorov, shock, shocking, society

Feather invasion

02/18/2012 by chicquero

Kate MccGire is an extreme talented artist based in London. Her practice probes the beauty inherent in duality, exploring the play of opposites – at an aesthetic, intellectual and visceral level – that characterises the way we conceive the world. She does this by appealing to our essential duality as human beings, to our senses and our reason, and by drawing on materials capable of embodying a dichotomous way of seeing, feeling and thinking. The finished work has a consistent […]

Categories: Artsy • Tags: aesthetic, artist, feather sculpture, gallery, Kate MccGire, london, photograph

Vintage Miniature City!

02/01/2012 by chicquero

Miniature series entitled “The City” by Lori Nix I’m a little obsessed with the idea of this equation: miniature + city + abandoned + vintage + photography = Awesomeness Lori Nix is often asked questions about the inspiration for her work as well as her working process. “I have been building dioramas and photographing the results since the early 1990s. As I’ve working through various bodies of work my fabrication skills have improved and my subject matter has become more […]

Categories: Artsy, Photography • Tags: abandoned, art, artist, cool, interiors, lori nix, mini, miniature, photography, the city, vintage

Anything is inspiration

02/01/2012 by chicquero

OMG… such a prodigious talent! 22-year-old, Tasmanian artist Hilton Owen had his first solo show at age 17 and has kept his momentum going with many more solo shows under his belt over the 5 last years. His very distinct abstract figurative style sets him apart and makes him a definite “one to watch”. He paints oil, acrylic and also does mixed media on canvas! Brilliant! “I paint what I see around me. The physical union of individuals with objects […]

Categories: Artsy • Tags: acrylic on canvas, artist, Google, Hilton Owen, ipod, mixed media, objects, oil on canvas, paintings, prodigious, Tasmania, young painter

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Modern Camouflage!

01/31/2012 by chicquero

Cecilia Paredes was born in Lima, Peru. The photography of Paredes constitutes and attempts to demonstrate that the body of the women – her own body – is a sacred zone, not profane, to restore its perception as something miraculous amidst the technological chaos that currently surrounds us. Cecilia is interested in using art to explore the boundaries of nature. As a photographer, she often uses her own body as a medium for presenting a dialog between the spirit and […]

Categories: Artsy • Tags: art, artist, background, blend, body, body paint, camouflage, cecilia paredes, cool, make-up, paint, painted, photography, prints, wall, wallpaper

Pop interiors

01/11/2012 by chicquero

I’m sure you are familiar with Roy Lichtenstein’s work, he is one of my favorite pop artists, very influential and unique. His comic book-inspired style, during the 1990′s, rendered his famous trademark. The works are focusing on modern furniture and architecture, highlighting the simple forms and atmosphere of decorative apartment life during this time period. Some of the artwork depicted on the walls of the interiors even seems to be in the vain of Lichtenstein’s work, which is inevitable, as anything rendered […]

Categories: Design • Tags: artist, colours, furniture, interiors, modern, pop, pop art, roy lichtenstein

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Thinking on paper

12/08/2011 by chicquero

Framed Paper, Paper art Peter Callesen has been working almost exclusively with white paper in different objects, paper cuts, installations and performances. A large part of his work is made from A4 sheets of paper. It is probably the most common and consumed media used for carrying information today. This is why we rarely notice the actual materiality of the A4 paper. By taking away all the information and starting from scratch using the blank white A4 paper sheet for his creations. […]

Categories: Artsy • Tags: A4, art, artist, cuts, Design, paper, peter callesen, sheets

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Poetry Scarf

11/28/2011 by chicquero

Scarf for solidarity! The amazing artist Catalina Estrada, created this illustrations to make products that would help collect funds for Rural NGO Laboratorio del Espíritu (Library and Comunity Center). Their aim is to promote local development with activities focused on the value and strength of the rural areas with special dedication to Arts and Crafts. They are located at Vereda Pantanillo (Municipio de El Retiro – Antioquia, Colombia). The illustrations are inspired in the poetry written by the kids attending to the […]

Categories: Fashion • Tags: artist, arts, catalina estrada, children, Fashion, kids, poetry, scarf, solidarity

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Clown pencil portrait

11/10/2011 by chicquero

Denis Braguini Bevacqua, pencil, 2 3/8″ x 2 5/8″ Today I´ve got an e-mail from Scott Hamilton, saying that he ”art spammed” me. (at first, I thought WTF?) So I went to check it out his post.. and I was thrilled, he made my portrait as shown in my twitter profile picture, I definitely look way better in the portrait, good job Scotty. In his project, he will be making miniature portraits in pencil & coloured pencil, based on public profile […]

Categories: Artsy • Tags: art, arte, artist, clown, costume, culture, Design, draw, drawings, face, fotografia, pencil, photographer, photography, portrait, portraits, scott hamilton

Phantoms and strange beings from a poetic universe.

11/05/2011 by chicquero

Objects such as brooms, cleavers, knives, brushes and scissors are simply so quotidians but not for creative New York based artist Thierry Despont. He has the talent of transforming this objects into these kinda mysterious sculptures featured in Masks. Thierry describes his work as: “As I wonder the streets of our cities I keep stumbling across weird and discarded objects, old tools aban- doned in the dark corners of foreign shops, he?te?roclite bric-a-brac, wondrous rejects of our blind civiliza- tion. […]

Categories: Design • Tags: acrylic, alumichrom, animal sculptures, art, arte, artist, artistic, artwork, asphaltum, birdish, birds, brooms, brushes, cleavers, daily objects, enamel, epoxy resin, flies, glue, ink, knives, mysterious, New York art, oil stick, paper, phantoms, quotidian objects, rustic, rustic art, scissors, sculptures, strange beings, Thierry Despont, wood, wood panel

My art is trying to escape

10/29/2011 by chicquero

Yuki Matsueda 3-D Art Work Japan-based designer Yuki Matsueda, managed to let some elements escape from his art pieces. The result seems quite interesting, super cool vivid 3D art pieces, successfully created and all the elements are believed to be more real than those stay still on a boring flat paper. Really original, and I can’t figure out how Yuki made them, and what materials he used to create such a fantastic pieces. It’s one thing to perhaps know how it may […]

Categories: Artsy, Design • Tags: 3D, art, arte, artist, cards, chic, culture, Design, designer, dice, egg, photo, photography, stylish, trends, wall, yuki matsueda

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