Tania Blanco is a modern artist who shares her time in France and Spain. She says of her collection
Sleepdrunk Vademecum, "The body is made up of a large set of rounded painting formats. Medical instruments, high precision technology, scientific devices, anatomical models, clandestine laboratories and human representation become the object of study and thought. The bizarre represented objects reflect a mixture of past and future, and an ambiguous
clinical atmosphere flows in them. On many of these painted surfaces, a soft cool-cold gradient isolates the represented elements and gives a
non-gravitational character to the compositions." [
via]
posted by netbros
on Sep 11, 2011 -
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"These paintings became a way to explore how driving in weather shifts and changes the views outside the car as well how the driving experience informs our basic interpretation of environment." The work of artist Gregory Thielker.
posted by fantodstic
on Oct 16, 2010 -
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The Images of Eyes Gallery exhibits images and paintings of eyes by international artists, featuring work from about 200 artists from Algeria to Zimbabwe.
Gallery I contains figurative paintings, oil and watercolor paintings, portraits, charcoal and ink drawings, lithographs, sculpture, digital, and other fine art content.
Gallery II exhibits nude paintings, so may be NSFW.
posted by netbros
on Oct 11, 2009 -
10 comments
Zoom in to brush-stroke level detail of the masters at the
World's First HD Online Art Exhibition.
At SXSW 2009, France's
Zoomorama showed off its latest collaboration with
Bridgeman Art Library. So far the collection features the work of only three artists, but for those of us who like to make museum security nervous by getting really close, the results are pretty amazing, and the implications for future exhibitions are exciting.
[Flash]
posted by Rykey
on Apr 25, 2009 -
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Elphenden — elphen things from Sergei Tretiakov, 1967-2003. In between there were big cities, isolated islands, cannabis, oceans, pain and love...
posted by netbros
on Apr 23, 2009 -
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Boy in the Water ― The website of artist Miran Kim. Her art is characterized by an eerie, gruesome quality, which she achieves without the use of computer effects.
[more inside]
posted by netbros
on Dec 17, 2008 -
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Hilda Magazine ― prose, poetry, illustrations, photography, video, and music from a wide assortment contemporary artists.
[contains some nude art images] [more inside]
posted by netbros
on Oct 29, 2008 -
3 comments
The young people that have volunteered for this series have all endured physical pain and personal tragedy. They have developed a strong sense of 'self ' at an early age in order to survive public alienation due to their appearance.
Doug Auld's
State of Grace - Paintings of Burn Survivors.
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posted by dobbs
on Jun 21, 2006 -
26 comments
When Henri met Pablo. Wandering through the rue des Martyrs in 1908, Picasso stopped beside an upholstery shop. "A head peered out, the face of a woman, hard eyes, a penetrating look, decisiveness and clarity. The canvas was huge. I enquired about the price. 'A hundred sous,' replied the dealer. 'You can paint over it.' It was one of the truest portraits ever of the French psyche."
Henri Rousseau's five-franc, life-size woman in Van Dyck black stayed at Picasso's side until his death, longer than any flesh-and-blood muse.
A century later, she towers over us at
Tate Modern's Rousseau retrospective as imperiously as a Velázquez monarch. More inside.
posted by matteo
on Nov 5, 2005 -
21 comments
Artocracy is aiming to use the net to democratize yet another expensive thing in the world: the sale and distribution of art works. While the first works offered aren't that impressive and having to use your own inkjet is a limiting factor, I like the direction this is going in. From
their Gallery, you can purchase prints from a dozen or so artists, in the range of $20-50, and then print as many as you wish at home.
The Seattle PI has a full story. Perhaps this will spark a "
long tail" of small change art sales from folks used to getting several thousand per canvas sold, while at the same time allowing any Tom, Dick, or Harry to have some nice looking apartment walls at home.
posted by mathowie
on Jan 11, 2005 -
16 comments
The artist Gustav Klimt began his
career by creating classical realist murals for public buildings in Vienna. Soon, his innovations and experiments became too controversial for further government-commissioned work, illustrating the
changes in society taking place around him. Klimt’s sensual paintings (which sometimes included nudity) shocked some, as did his experiments in form. Since his father was an engraver, Klimt took to using gold in his work, creating a distinct style. You’ve probably seen at least his most famous work,
The Kiss.
People can see Klimt’s work in person, including the spectacular “
Beethoven Frieze” wall cycle, at the
Secession Museum in
Vienna.
On-line, there’s
this database of about 100 works, searchable by title, year, theme and technique. Another gallery of 114 works is
here, and for landscapes, try
these.
posted by jeffmshaw
on Dec 8, 2004 -
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"Time passes, or rather doesn't pass. It is just there,
solid as a coffee mug on the
diner's counter. Time
hangs like the reek of old tobacco
in the hotel furniture". We all think we know
Edward Hopper's images, even if we've never
seen his paintings. Somehow
the solidity of the world -- even
the sky is like a wall -- is at odds with the
transience of the
people in it, however long they
sit and
stand and
wait. Hopper's people, like
Manet's
figures, often appear consumed by
the irreducible business of being.
Hopper, too,
would descend into his own silences, would delay himself in self-doubt...
(more inside)
posted by matteo
on May 25, 2004 -
19 comments
Seeing the World Sideways: Prunella Clough. 'A private individual who chose to remain out of the limelight and yet was admired so highly by her peers, Prunella Clough, like Edward Burra, lived to paint. Her technique is masterly, her subject matter everyday in origin, her method idiosyncratic, the results atmospheric. She worked with her skill, not her ego, saying: "I like to
paint a small thing edgily." '
Online gallery
here.
posted by plep
on Mar 1, 2004 -
6 comments
Mark Ryden is to the iconic
saucer-eyed urchins of the '60s as Salvador Dali is to Hickory Dickory Dock. His delicate palette, fine details and classical references offer compelling counterpoint to the deliciously disturbing imagery of
les tykes terrible in collections such as "Blood: Miniature Paintings of Sorrow & Fear"; "Bunnies and Bees: Paintings Created to Illustrate DIVINE TRUTH in Accordance with the Secret Principles of SCIENCE AND SOUL"; and "The Meat Show: Paintings about Childen, God, and USDA Grade A Beef". Plus, they're kids - with
big eyes!
posted by taz
on Sep 8, 2003 -
25 comments
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