Tom Munro
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Showing posts with label for art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label for art. Show all posts
Monday, 2 April 2012
Wednesday, 15 February 2012
Daily Delight ~ Ekaterina Zakharova
Ekaterina Zakharova ~ My soul gone ...
Russian Photographer
Russian Photographer
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Sunday, 12 February 2012
Reuben Negron
US traditional painter & friend Reuben Negron's new series "The House of Glass" is a voyeuristic view into the lives of ordinary individuals. He captures private moments in time creating a connection between viewer and subject through deep a sense of intimacy and shared experience. I hope you enjoy my favourites from his current body of work.
Evolving from the journalistic sensibilities of Dirty Dirty Love, This House of Glass is an intimate exposé on what we keep hidden from others - and in many cases, what we hide from ourselves. Working with volunteers, I interviewed each model about their lives, personalities and history; specifically focusing on sensitive and vulnerable details they normally keep veiled. Through this process their personal narratives were dismantled and reconstructed into the watercolors seen here. Staged in the model’s own home or place of special interest, each painting is a cumulative experience not meant to document a singular instance but to illustrate the entirety of the model’s story. http://reubennegron.com/thishouseofglass.html
Evolving from the journalistic sensibilities of Dirty Dirty Love, This House of Glass is an intimate exposé on what we keep hidden from others - and in many cases, what we hide from ourselves. Working with volunteers, I interviewed each model about their lives, personalities and history; specifically focusing on sensitive and vulnerable details they normally keep veiled. Through this process their personal narratives were dismantled and reconstructed into the watercolors seen here. Staged in the model’s own home or place of special interest, each painting is a cumulative experience not meant to document a singular instance but to illustrate the entirety of the model’s story. http://reubennegron.com/thishouseofglass.html
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Wednesday, 8 February 2012
Tuesday, 7 February 2012
Daily Delight ~ Brian M Viveros
Brian M Viveros ~ Bullheaded
2011. Oil / Mixed Media on Maple Board, 16 x 20. 
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Graham Balchin's Solo Exhibition "Immaculate Perception" currently @ Soho Gallery, Sydney
The fabulous Australian artists (and good friend) Graeme Balchin's solo exhibition "Immaculate Perception" has opened at the Soho Gallery in Sydney. The opening was a huge success and Graeme's paintings look amazing in the space. As per my earlier post I strongly recommend you get to the Soho Gallery and see his work in the person - quick it ends on 24 Feb!!! I assure you these magnificent pieces would look amazing on your wall at home, so keep in mind they are all for sale (if not already sold). See below some photographs from the exhibition and my FAVs on show.
Graeme explains, "Art is something that lives inside me, a thing that is vital to my well-being. It is a huge part of my everyday life and to be without it is something I could not comprehend. A full time artist working mainly in oils and graphite, I choose the term “Imaginative Realist" to describe my style. I am mostly self taught but have learnt and studied in a great many places, so I am influenced by many but determined to stay true to my own style. I have found that I am a solitary person, not quit fitting in with mainstream demographics and therefore I live alone and am happy to do so; I feel most artists are this way. I often feel perhaps we are just a touch crazy. I constantly look for meaning in my work; a story that can hide inside the painting. I find it hard to paint just a portrait of someone.
I am fascinated by the changes in young women that have come about due to their freedom and equality, which I find an endless inspiration. Most of my figure work has come from this; the dawning of their own sensuality and how they work with it. The paintings I have created for this exhibition, "Immaculate Perception" are the culmination of a decade of working with two particular models, my stepdaughter Amy and her friend Alexandra. http://www.sohogalleries.net/exhibitions_detail/the_immaculate_perception_/975/1#
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Monday, 6 February 2012
Ellen Von Unwerth
German photographer, Ellen Von Unwerth has to be one of my all time favourites in her field. Her B&W photography is sublime, feminine, erotic, dark, provocative and playfully wicked. I do hope you enjoy my selection from her "Revenge" series. This perfectly describes her personality and the context of her work ~ "(Women) are not just there to be admired, they are there to be enjoyed."- Ellen Von Unwerth
By making her photographs less posed, Ellen Von Unwerth allows models to breathe, be themselves and ultimately feel sexier. The results are stunning and often stunningly sexual without exploiting or objectifying the models involved. For that, artists and admirers (i.e., any man with a pulse) owe Ellen Von Unwerth a multitude of thanks. They also need to thank her for launching the careers of modern beauties Claudia Schiffer, Estella Warren and Daniela Pestova among others. A glance through some of her raciest projects begs the question of whether Ellen Von Unwerth is as naughty as her photos. While she's something of an enigma, she does admit that some of her favorite photography sessions involve bondage and creating scenarios in which women dominate men. This goes back to her love of Bettie Page, a pinup icon that she paid tribute to in a 1998 Max photo shoot called "Back to Betty," featuring Eva Herzigova. An even kinkier side of Ellen Von Unwerth comes through in Revenge, her 2003 photo book featuring mud-covered women being flogged at a chateau before they turn the tables on the resident baroness and the chauffeur who brought them there. The domination themes might scare a few guys off (and turn a few others on), but Ellen Von Unwerth likes to reinforce that all of her photos are intended to be fun, not painful. http://au.askmen.com/celebs/women/model/ellen-von-unwerth/
By making her photographs less posed, Ellen Von Unwerth allows models to breathe, be themselves and ultimately feel sexier. The results are stunning and often stunningly sexual without exploiting or objectifying the models involved. For that, artists and admirers (i.e., any man with a pulse) owe Ellen Von Unwerth a multitude of thanks. They also need to thank her for launching the careers of modern beauties Claudia Schiffer, Estella Warren and Daniela Pestova among others. A glance through some of her raciest projects begs the question of whether Ellen Von Unwerth is as naughty as her photos. While she's something of an enigma, she does admit that some of her favorite photography sessions involve bondage and creating scenarios in which women dominate men. This goes back to her love of Bettie Page, a pinup icon that she paid tribute to in a 1998 Max photo shoot called "Back to Betty," featuring Eva Herzigova. An even kinkier side of Ellen Von Unwerth comes through in Revenge, her 2003 photo book featuring mud-covered women being flogged at a chateau before they turn the tables on the resident baroness and the chauffeur who brought them there. The domination themes might scare a few guys off (and turn a few others on), but Ellen Von Unwerth likes to reinforce that all of her photos are intended to be fun, not painful. http://au.askmen.com/celebs/women/model/ellen-von-unwerth/
See here a link to Ellen's photobook "Revenge" I would love to own this book and in fact there are still copies available from various sources, so I had better start saving...
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Sunday, 5 February 2012
David LaChapelle
Super famous US photographer, David LaChapelle's work makes me laugh and fills me with a sense of joy and wicked mischief. He has photographed almost everyone in the entertainment industry yet his work is always suprising and unique.
For the art world, the celebrated glamour photographer David LaChapelle
(b. 1969) is a guilty pleasure. His sex-soaked color photos of
celebrities and fashion models are just too high-key. Nothing is held
back. The lily is not only gilded, but drenched in rhinestones, draped
in haute couture and surrounded by the most exotic props imaginable. http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/features/barone/barone3-28-07.asp
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Daily Delight ~ Eric Fortune
Eric Fortune ~ A want to believe
Acrylic on watercolour paper, 20 x 14"
Thanks Sharon <3
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Antony Gormley
“British sculptor Antony Gormley (born 1950) uses the human form to explore man's existence in and relation to the world. Field is a series of installations made in collaboration with communities from across the globe.” (Liverpool Tate, 2004). He uses local people to create the individual sculptures thereby the community in which the work is being exhibited becomes directly and personally involved in the work. The work becomes “theirs” as well as Gormley’s. The participants that sculpt the clay figures are given just a few guidelines by the artist regarding size, eyes, proportion etc, when finished they are sun dried then kiln baked. The artists specific use of clay is symbolic of the earth itself and mankind's direct connection to nature and the planet.
Gormely’s work is visually fascinating. Even though the figures are not detailed, each one is different, enabling the viewer to look at the work for a long period, scrutinising each figure, each expression. Each glance revealing new detail and a new connection with this figure or this face. Gormely’s choice of figurative over abstract allows the viewer to connect to the work at a very personal, emotional level, allowing the viewer to see themselves, their loved ones, their neighbours in these figures, these faces.
There are thousands of individual sculptures in each installation (the number varies depending on the location) confined within a room, seen only from one defined view point, thereby forcing the direction of the focal point down over the sea of figures, creating a specific depth of field. The space is totally filled with the figures, giving the impression that the viewer is looking at a “field” of souls. They appear to be massing towards the viewer in a wave of humanity. The figures look back at us, giving the viewer a sense of responsibility and consequence, creating a sense that perhaps the viewer is part of the work itself. Antony Gormley describes his creation as "25 tons of clay energised by fire, sensitised by touch and made conscious by being given eyes ... a field of gazes which looks at the observer making him or her its subject". (Anthony Gormley. n.d.)
See Gormely's "Field" below along with more of his amazing public and gallery sculptures.
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