FLYING HOUSES

How cool are these pictures by the young French photographer Laurente Chehere!!

CLOUDS

BICYCLE PATTERN

Fine bicycle pattern by Rafa Jenn

LINK: RAFA JENN

ANDERS ZORN

I just recently discovered the late Swedish artist Anders Zorn (1860-1920). 
I really like his work, what an impressive 'eye' for details and colors. 


LINK: ANDERS ZORN

GHOST

Venom Yum is the creative brain behind these delicate handmade ceramic 'ghosts'. 
Based on the ideas of the Japanese Shinto religion believing that everything in nature has a soul -a mountain rock, a plant, a pebble on the beach -a wide range of ceramic figures was designed, and life was blown into the little creatures.
The small Ghost inhabit your living space and are useful for many things -paper weights, door stop or as company on a lonely night with no friends around to talk to.
Every ghost is unique, hand thrown in clay and stoneware, hand glaze and hand decorated and burned in the kiln three times.


Soon available in the HAY interior shops across Denmark 


LINK: Hay

MAGDALENA ABAKANOWICZ

Magdalena Abakanowicz was born in an aristocratic Polish-Russian family on her parent’s estate in Poland. The war broke out when she was nine years old. Then came the revolution imposed by Russia and the forty-five years of Soviet domination.
Poland was a politically volatile country where instability was a permanent state. 
She has learned to escape to her corner, to make the best of things, to use whatever was viable and even to make gigantic works in a tiny studio.
Magdalena Abakanowicz for many years has dealt with the issue of "the countless". 

She says: "I feel overwhelmed by quantity where counting no longer makes sense. By unrepeatability within such quantity. A crowd of people or birds, insect or leaves, is a mysterious assemblage of variants of a certain prototype, a riddle of nature abhorrent to exact repetition or inability to produce it, just as a human hand can not repeat its own gesture".
Her art has always addressed the problems of dignity and courage. This dignity resistance and will of survival conceal her individual personal affinities to the culture of Poland, the country where she has grown up, to this country’s political situation, and to the realities of existence of an artist, an intellectual.
Abakanowicz creates ambiguous images with many sizes, shapes and meanings.

LINK: Magdalena Abakanowicz

ALI CAVANAUGH

My dependence on the visual world began when I lost much of my hearing through spinal meningitis at 2 years of age. This loss was a blessing in disguise as I learned to depend on body language and reading lips to communicate. So, from my youngest days, I became sensitive to the people around me and the unspoken language revealed through compositions of the body.” Ali Cavanaugh

The figurative artist Ali Cavanaugh is constantly in a state of awareness about the world taking in the imagery and colors. The intention is to paint not only the delicate features of the external but to capture the tender unseen, hoping that her work depicting the complexity within thought and emotion, people might find inspiration to look at one another in new ways and grow in sincere appreciation for each other.

Beautiful work in my opinion!

LINK: Ali Cavanaugh

JAPANESE ART

How I would love to have a piece of Yoshitomo Nara's amazing pieces of art.


LINK: Yoshitomo Nara

MARK ROTHKO

Mark Rothko (1903-1970) in my opinion one of the greatest abstract expressionists of all times.
In 1936, Rothko began writing a book (never completed) about similarities in the art of children and the work of modern painters. According to Rothko, the work of modernists, influenced by primitive art, could be compared to that of children in that "child art transforms itself into primitivism, which is only the child producing a mimicry of himself." In this manuscript, he observed that "the fact that one usually begins with drawing is already academic. We start with color." It is a physical and emotional, non-intellectual experience. Rothko was using fields of color in his work and his subject matter and form at this time had become non-intellectual.


Tate Modern in London has a huge room decorated with the most amazing large scale paintings by Mark Rothko, do see this room full of Rothko's masterpieces if you get the chance.

LINK: Tate Modern

COMPOSITION OF STICKS

This is clever!!
A lot of sticks neatly put together to create a 'painting'.
The American artist Matt Bilfield has made quite a big collection of this type of art.

LINK: Matt Bilfield

MISSEMAI LOVES BANKSY

Before I got familiar with the artist known as Banksy I used to notice these extremely well made stencil graffiti pieces all over London. When riding the bus or going from one place to another you will see his provocative pieces on walls, houses, bridges ect as a constant reminder and prove of the
underground street art community. His identity is for obvious reasons secret but a lot of material has been made about him.
I can highly recommend the book 'Wall and Piece -Banksy'
and the street art movie 'Exit through the gift shop'

DARING GRAPHIC

The master of erotic art Tom Poulton (1897-1963) was a keen observer of human nature and of sexuality. Poulton mainly provided illustrations for 'The British Journal of Surgery' and was not known for his erotic drawings until after his death. The beautiful and sensitive graphite sketches, always drawn with soft pencil onto a very lightweight paper, of men and women proudly and exuberantly displaying themselves, making love in public, in groups, in every situation where all amazingly well drawn and very explicit. To purchase his work click here

HAPPY FACES

(via)

COOKIEBOY

Beautiful cookies by Cookieboy

MATCH STICK LOVE

2500 matches glued together by Pei-San Ng

(via)

VIBRANT ART

VERY COOL paintings by Francoise Nielly
(via)

BALLOONS ON A BUILDING

Beautiful work by Anne Sofie Madsen on the corner of Odinsgade and Jagtvej in Copenhagen

CLOWNS ON STILTS

Clowns on Stilts by Amy Borrell

GENIUS PAPER ART

Fascinating work by artist Jeff Nishinaka

SAD TREES