Keng Lye - Alive without Breath (2013) - Hyperrealistic sea animals created using acrylics and epoxy resin, layer by layer
St.Sebastian - Louvre Paris.
Egon Schiele, Selbstportrait nach St. Sebastian, Plakat. 1914
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Wang Yue, a senior at Dalian Industry University, uses her paintbrush to turn ugly tree holes into lovely views in Shijiazhuang, capital city of Hebei Province.
Wang Yue calls the tree-hole paintings “meitu” which means “beautiful journey.” The paintings on the trees have brightened the city during the dull, grey winter.
“Thieves Identified in Gardner Museum Theft of Rembrandt and Vermeer Paintings” via The Boston Globe
FBI & Gardner Museum offer $5 million reward for information leading to the paintings’ recovery.
The works were stolen in an early morning theft reminiscent of a movie plot exactly 23 years ago today in 1990. The statute of limitations has run out for the thieves - unnamed members of a “criminal organization with a base in the mid-Atlantic states and New England”- but the FBI are reaching out to the public to assist in bringing a close to this “final chapter” of the still-unsolved case.
(That aside, though, the FBI reaaaaally needs to reconsider hiring whoever did the sound for that video…)
To achieve the look, Nares suspends himself over the canvas in a selfmade harness, and paints one continuous stroke using large brushes he developed himself. “I found that brushes are like characters in a way: Each one does a different dance.”
Ran Ortner
In this work Swell by Ran Ortner, the artist has created the illusion of water coming out of the walls. It’s almost impossible to not be fooled by this illusion and, no matter how many times I try to see a 2D surface, I can only ever see the sea. Ortner’s fascination with water began during his romantic childhood in Alaska. As his portfolio describes his unlikely beginnings,
“He and his family lived in an isolated log cabin, with no running water, a wood fire for heat and a grass airstrip for a driveway. To escape the brutal winters, Ran and his family would take their single engine Cessna “Ragwing” on 3-4 month adventures from Alaska to South America. On these expeditions, Ran would turn to the open expanse of the sea to escape the confines of his unconventional childhood. When Ran was eighteen, he left home and began surfing the waves off the coasts of California and Mexico. While surfing he was able to consider both the wondrous and perilous conditions of life. Overwhelmed by what he saw and felt, he turned to art as a form of exploration.”
Ortner describes his works as a collision of opposing forces. “Every day I enter my studio, prepare my materials and, as James Joyce said, “go for the millionth time to encounter the reality of the experience.”I attempt through painting to sustain my encounter with life’s biting reality.” For more information on Ortner’s works, click here.
Body Paintings by Alessio Federico and Barbara Pichiecchio
(Source: unicorn-meat-is-too-mainstream)
Adam McEwen
Erfurt, 2010, acrylic and chewing gum on canvas, 90 x 70 inches
New York, New York, 2008, acrylic and chewing gum on canvas, 65 x 52 inches
New York, New York, 2011, chewing gum on linen, 90 x 130 inches
Chemnitz, 2011, acrylic and chewing gum on canvas, 90 x 70 inches
Frankfurt, 2011, acrylic and chewing gum on canvas, 90 x 70 inches
Portrait of Mike Kelley by Peter Daverington for Tom Sanford’s 100 Little Deaths @BravinLee
