Category: Painting
James Jean ‘Lotus War’
February 7, 2012 | posted in Art, Graphics, Illustration, Painting | by Ilja Keizer | Leave a comment
James Jean is a busy award-winning artist born in Taipei, Taiwan and living and working in Los Angeles. Apart from his commercial works for clients like Prada, Time Magazine and Playboy and working as a cover artist for DC Comics he’s doing many other things, like making these lovely colorful and psychedelic paintings. This series[...]
Erin Cone’s acrylic paintings
January 27, 2012 | posted in Art, Painting | by Ilja Keizer | Leave a comment
Very nice and simple acrylic paintings, based on her own image, by American painter Erin Cone. ‘I emphasize visual impact over narrative context, focusing on the subtle orchestration of my subject within a framework of design. I create a deliberate push-and-pull between near-photorealistic detail and my own vocabulary of visual glitches that challenge that very[...]
Martin Wittfooth ‘The Passions’
January 12, 2012 | posted in Art, Painting | by Ilja Keizer | Leave a comment
Beautiful paintings by Brooklyn based painter Martin Wittfooth. The works, rich with ancient symbolism, feature animals in scenes of mayhem, scenes where the end of the world is near, scenes with punishment and doom galore. There’s more on his website and there’s nice short interview here with a lot more info. _ _ Tweet
Mario Wagner ‘Aim For The Heart Of The Sun’
January 10, 2012 | posted in Art, Graphics, Painting | by Ilja Keizer | Leave a comment
San Francisco based designer / illustrator Mario Wagner makes the greatest artworks by layering acrylic paint and paper collage on canvas resulting in colorful futuristic strange landscapes and situations, inhabited by mysterious people with black faces. Like? Buy some of his prints here. Want more info, read this nice interview that Juxtapoz did a little[...]
Nan Goldin ‘Scopophilia’
December 12, 2011 | posted in Art, Nudity, Painting, Photography, Sculptures | by Ilja Keizer | Leave a comment
‘Scopophilia’ (the love of looking) is an interesting series of works by Nan Goldin, presented in the typical Nan Goldin way, using slideshows, diptychs and collages. For the project she was given the possibility to capture the works in the Louvre museum Paris where she wanted to try and bring the paintings and sculptures to life.[...]
De Toekomst: Daan Roukens
December 7, 2011 | posted in Art, Contributors, Fashion, Painting, Talent, interviews | by Ilja Keizer | Leave a comment
In samenwerking met PUP Amsterdam, een creatief collectief dat een platform biedt aan de creatieven en artiesten van de toekomst, en daarnaast allerlei andere interessante activiteiten initieert, doen we interviews met talenten die op het punt staan om de wereld te veroveren. In deze eerste aflevering: Daan Roukens! Wat doe je? Onder de naam NO REST FOR[...]
Drawings by Moonassi
November 14, 2011 | posted in Art, Drawing, Illustration, Painting | by Stefan de Haan | Leave a comment
Currently I’m in love with the amazing drawings made by Korean artist Daehyun Kim, also known as Moonassi. In 2010 he published an art book with his forty-eight drawings by the design studio, fnt where he is used to cooperate with. Do visit his site for more works. Tweet
Senseless Drawing Bot
November 9, 2011 | posted in Painting | by Stefan de Haan | 1 Comment
Japanese artists So Kanno and Takahiro Yamaguchi came up with the “Senseless Drawing Bot”. Using a double pendulum being wheeled around on a skateboard across a stretch of white wall, the robot creates a series of organic, abstract linear drawings that appear quite similar to graffiti. Check the video below, funny to see it in action.[...]