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Yasuhiko Hayashi and Yusuke Nakano
Blue lines covering everything from the floor to the walls and all over the ceiling. If you look close enough at these gigantic blue roots, you realize that it’s all made of plastic rails, more precisely, of blue plastic toy rails we used to play with...
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Ink Blot Collection by Sandra Backlund
I have always had a passion for fashion design and here I have found a desinger that has also found inspiration from ink blots! Swedish fashion designer Sandra Backlund has sent us photos of her Ink Blot Collection, which won the top prize at the international...
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About this painting – “Baptism of Fire”
"Baptism of Fire" My experience with this painting has been quite interesting. When I finished the painting I looked at it and thought to myself: “It just seems like such a spiritual painting.” Maybe because of the elements in the painting. The flames,...
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Abstract Expressionism
Abstract expressionism was an specifically American post-World War II art movement. It was the first American movement to achieve worldwide influence and also the one that put New York City at the center of the art world, a role formerly filled by Paris....
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"A wolf in sheep's clothing"
I use colour and texture to interpret emotional energy. I used blue in this painting because it is a calm and relaxing colour. Like the same as some people’s exterior personality. I softened the edges of the white over the black to put emphasis on the...
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Salvador Dali
The painter had an older brother who died 9 months before Salvador Dali's own birth, and his parents treated him very much as a reincarnation of the first, dressing him in the dead brother's clothes, etc. This may well have helped from certain aspects...
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Pablo Picasso's Full Name
Picasso's name - Pablo Diego Jose Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Maria de los Remodios Cipriano de la Santisima Trinidad - honours various godparents, relatives and Saints. At the end of this string of names, came Ruiz and Picasso the first, as is...
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Wassily Kandinsky
“Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult. It demands that you know how to draw well, that you have a heightened sensitivity for composition and for colours, and that you be a true poet. This last is essential.” Wassily Kandinsky: One...
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Diana Cooper
Diana Cooper - Mechanical Cloud 2004-05 [plastic, photo, paper, foam core, acetate, vinyl, felt, neopreme foam, Velcro, map pins] “Sometimes I feel as though I am making flowcharts for an imaginary world.” Her mind is like a filter constantly translating...
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Ian Francis
Ian Francis was born in 1979 in Bristol, England, and graduated from the University of the West of England with a degree in Illustration. His work concentrates on the particulars of modern experiences — things like television, world events, celebrities,...
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My Technique
Surrealism in art utilizes numerous unique techniques to provide inspiration. Many of these are said to free imagination by producing a creative process free of conscious control. The importance of the sub conscious as a source of inspiration is central...
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About Abstract Art
Abstract art is difficult. It is difficult in the sense that it requires artistic discipline, knowledge and a certain amount of expertise in painting techniques, usually acquired through training in more formal aspects of art. Abstract art does promise...
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Glenn Brown
Glenn Brown was born in Northumberland, England in 1966. He studied at Norwich School of Art, the Bath College of Higher Education, then Goldsmith's College, London. He was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2000. His work has been the subject of numerous...
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A Sadistic Salvador Dali in Alessandro Bavari
Bavari is what happens when Sodom and Gomorrah mixes with a surrealist modern Europe. He is a classically-trained painter who habitually photographs images from museums and on the street in Europe, intertwining them with concepts straight from ancient...
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My Next Series
An idea I’ve been playing around with for my next series is adding anatomy sketches of insects, lizards & humans to my abstract art. The technique I’m going to use will let the sketches become part of the abstract shapes and colours of the painting! They...
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About the artist
My name is Adri Botha and I’m based in Cape Town, South Africa. My art is a true extension of myself a free flowing energy within ever changing and moving forward. An emotional landscape captured on canvas using rich colours, texture and shape. I find...
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Byroglyphics
I found this amazing artist Russ Mills, I absolutely love the movement and energy in his work. A wonderful collection of urban art images with a creative abstract twist. link
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Michelangelo
“A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it."