"It’s not necessary to go into detail describing Mati Klarwein’s work when you can go to the web gallery maintained by his family and feast your eyes there. Klarwein is one of the few 20th century artists to have taken Salvador Dalí’s photo-realist painting style and make of it something unique to himself; his work is always immediately recognisable. That this work is still known mainly for its illustrative connections tells you more about the iniquities of the art world than it does about the value of the paintings as works of art." - Cee Bee
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one of my favourite visionary artists. his stuff outside the whole album artwork thing is amazing. his body of work is incredible. totally on a different plane - Cee Bee
Faile is an international artist collective formed in 1999 and based in Brooklyn, New York. They are recognised as some of the pioneers of global contemporary street art. The three founding members are Patrick McNeil (Canada), Patrick Miller (U.S.), and Aiko Nakagawa (Japan). From initially wheatpasting screen printed posters on the streets of New York and major world cities, they progressed to the more permanent medium of stencil graffiti. Their instantly recognisable pop culture images in posters and stencils have allowed Faile to diversify into other areas encompassing fine art, sculpture, design, fashion, music, and housewares. Despite this, the core of their work remains printmaking, stencilling, and painting. - Cee Bee
The intersection of the fashion and art worlds has become an increasingly trafficked corridor of late, and the show “Christian Dior and Chinese Artists,” that opened at Beijing’s ULLENS CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART last week, seeks to satiate China’s seemingly endless appetite for both Western fashion and modern art. - Cee Bee
Postmodern neoclassical painter KEHINDE WILEY wears his vintage European aesthetic influences on his sleeve, and in “Fallen,” Wiley’s new show of massive-scale (up to 25 feet!) oil paintings at downtown NYC’s DEITCH PROJECTS, his inspiration has never been more literal. Based directly on a wide variety of classical European paintings and sculptures by old masters like Diego Velasquez, Jean-Antoine Houdon, Auguste Falguiere, and Stefano Maderno, the “fallen” heroes of Wiley’s new series mimic their source poses almost exactly albeit in the ultramodern context of the urban hip-hop vernacular of urban Manhattan. Wiley’s own explanation for the series is really quite simple: “Down is an answer to the negative views of young black men in American society. It recognizes an idiom that can be seen from a distance as a negative form transformed into something more fabulous and joyful.” - Cee Bee
Discovered Sas Christian the other day... love her stuff... sorta feels like a sexier, more contemporary, much edgier Margaret Keane.... - Anthony Citrano
My art comes from an urge to explore. I like the countryside. I like a good view. And once I’m face to face with a lovely scenery, I feel immediately tempted to find out what it’s concealing. The dark goings-on behind the façade of nature, you might say, or the hidden machinations of the animal kingdom. To imagine and express this, I usually tap the lines linking religious icon art, renaissance painting and comic culture. I am particularly thrilled by the kind of spiritual terror you find expressed in the paintings of the old Flemish masters, and I’m trying to find out what happens when you apply that mood to the serene and harmless world of rural folk art. - Cee Bee
"Chiharu Shiota was born in Osaka in 1972 and began her studies in Kyoto. She began with painting, but at present paints only ´"in the air" with her threads. An exchange-semester took her to Canberra in Australia, then she came in 1996 to Germany. Here she studied under the performance-artists Marina Abramovic and Rebecca Horn, who encouraged her in her way of working with perceptions of the body and its experiences in space." - Live4SoccerVacations
"In Germany she gained recognition already as an art-student through taking part in group and solo exhibitions, leading her within two years from the fringe to the centre. Exhibitions in the Ludwig-Forum in Aachen, the House of World Cultures in Berlin and the Queensland Art Museum in New York, as also her taking part in the Triennial of Modern Art in Yokohama, have put her on the best path to international recognition." - Live4SoccerVacations
"'What´s under my feet, what I eat, whom I meet - all that influences my art', says Chiharu Shiota, who after four and a half years in Germany is gradually feeling surer of "putting out roots and leaves" in Berlin. But despite the meteoric rise of her career, she has the feeling that her surroundings are changing even faster. The resulting discrepancies provide her with even more material for her evolution." - Live4SoccerVacations
"The ancient Greeks certainly knew how to appreciate the male form, so no doubt they would have approved wholeheartedly of Anthony Gayton's homoerotic homage to several of their mythological tales. Replete with pretty-boy faces, toned torsos and shapely bottoms, a roster of famous Adonises are represented, languid and bronzed, in this series of rich, classical, art-inspired tableaux. There's the self-loving Narcissus, fatally transfixed by his own reflection; and Ganymede, a boy so gorgeous he was stolen away by Zeus himself, disguised as an eagle." - Anna Haro
"The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams." -Simone de Beauvoir http://manymuses.exposuremanag... - Anna Haro
LOVE the one with the prominent lips and the ghostly suggestion of a woman's face. - Abby Martin
