oliphillips: There is Nothing to Fear by Brian Dettmer
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devidsketchbook: American Light Artist James Turrell - Pool |...
American Light Artist James Turrell - Pool | Installation
James Turrell, one of the nation’s great artists, creates installations that combine art and science and are at once both secular and spiritual. Building on his studies of psychology and mathematics, and his experiences as a pilot, Turrell’s works are explorations in light and space that speak to viewers without words, impacting the eye, body, and mind with the force of a spiritual awakening.
James Turrell [Interview]
[Photo Via Giffen Clark Ott]
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samaralex: “Would you like a ‘throne’ of your own, or perhaps a...
“Would you like a ‘throne’ of your own, or perhaps a fluffy picnic space? Lichtbed is an experimental project by architecture practice 51n4e and textile designers Chevalier-Masson and Julie Vandenbroucke. The oversized daybed that explores social relations and the boundaries between openness and privacy allowing sitters to chose the size of their own personal space.”
(via inhabitat)
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themissionvision: Uniquely edgy style by Aske, graffiti writer...
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myedol: Living Portrait by Mosstika
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tripudios: Mayumi, originally from Tokyo, Japan now living in...
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staceythinx: Photographer Edmondo Senatore captures the...
Photographer Edmondo Senatore captures the beautiful interplay of light and atmosphere in the Tuscan countryside.
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Alexandra Eldridge
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Alexandra Eldridge
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Alexandra Eldridge
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Francisco Benitez, Encaustics I did my first encaustic painting...
Francisco Benitez, Encaustics
I did my first encaustic painting in the fall of 2005, after years of being fascinated with the medium, but never daring to paint figuratively in it. In the 1990’s, when I lived in France, I discovered a book called the Mysterious Fayum Portraits, by Euphrosyne Doxiadis. I was mesmerized by these ancient portraits, but could not imagine how to paint with heated wax in such a way. I began experimenting with the ancient tools, called “cauteria”, and the four-color palette of the ancient Greeks. I was hooked. The medium took some practice but I have developed a whole body of work in the technique, and as I have worked with it, more and more secrets are revealed. It is a medium of utter beauty, elasticity, and depth.
Encaustic is a particularly challenging, yet beautiful medium, in which to paint. As encaustic is the technique of fused wax, it is one of the most permanent mediums known to us. The funerary portraits of Ancient Egypt are oftentimes better preserved than many works from three centuries ago. I have used the four-color palette of Apelles, which at first was daunting, but later revealed itself to be very suitable for rendering flesh tones. I have been inspired by the numerous encaustic funerary portraits which have turned up in the Fayum district in Egypt. They attest to the Greek training many of the local artists received, and are unprecedented in their psychological depth, realism, and evocation of that remote period in time. I have sought to create a number of portrait heads in the spirit of the Fayum works, of contemporary sitters.
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Francisco Benitez, Encaustics I did my first encaustic painting...
Francisco Benitez, Encaustics
I did my first encaustic painting in the fall of 2005, after years of being fascinated with the medium, but never daring to paint figuratively in it. In the 1990’s, when I lived in France, I discovered a book called the Mysterious Fayum Portraits, by Euphrosyne Doxiadis. I was mesmerized by these ancient portraits, but could not imagine how to paint with heated wax in such a way. I began experimenting with the ancient tools, called “cauteria”, and the four-color palette of the ancient Greeks. I was hooked. The medium took some practice but I have developed a whole body of work in the technique, and as I have worked with it, more and more secrets are revealed. It is a medium of utter beauty, elasticity, and depth.
Encaustic is a particularly challenging, yet beautiful medium, in which to paint. As encaustic is the technique of fused wax, it is one of the most permanent mediums known to us. The funerary portraits of Ancient Egypt are oftentimes better preserved than many works from three centuries ago. I have used the four-color palette of Apelles, which at first was daunting, but later revealed itself to be very suitable for rendering flesh tones. I have been inspired by the numerous encaustic funerary portraits which have turned up in the Fayum district in Egypt. They attest to the Greek training many of the local artists received, and are unprecedented in their psychological depth, realism, and evocation of that remote period in time. I have sought to create a number of portrait heads in the spirit of the Fayum works, of contemporary sitters.
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Francisco Benitez
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danceabletragedy: Encirclement, Installation by Beili...
Encirclement, Installation by Beili Liu
Encirclement is created with hundreds of thistle plants, stemming perpendicularly from the wall, outlining two silhouettes of a standing and a bending figure. The performer then positions herself inside the thistle field, disguised/ camouflaged with thistledown. The beautiful plants surround the body as if protecting her, while she is in fact being embraced by the countless thorns of the plants.
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danceabletragedy: Origin, Chinese Spirit Money by Beili...
Origin, Chinese Spirit Money by Beili Liu
In Chinese tradition, spirit money is burnt for ancestors and spirits in the afterworld as an offering. Origin is made from hundreds of rolls of spirit money; half of these rolls are with the rich and warm texture of the spirit money, shimmers of silver and gold, the other half charred black. The circle brings together the solid and the void, the present and the absent into one complete whole, and alludes to the balance and linkage between the current world and the afterworld.
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tacticalshoyu: Betsy Walton’s illustrations
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fairytalemood: “White Knight of Bright Morning” and “Black...
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darksilenceinsuburbia: Redgella. Burning. Deer...
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showslow: Old, dilapidated buildings are usually an unsightly...
Old, dilapidated buildings are usually an unsightly scene. In this case, however, miniature broken down houses are appreciated for being wonderful works of art. The series itself is based on photographs of abandoned structures neglected by man and destroyed by the weather. The photographs were taken by an amateur photographer from North Dakota, Ofra Lapid. They were then used to create small scale models.
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Charlotte’s Web, Alice in Wonderland and The Wizard of Oz....
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