Suzan Schuttelaar is a Dutch portrait painter who’s seemingly unfinished portraits are simply stunning.
Suzan Schuttelaar’s unfinished portraits
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Category Archives: Painting, drawing & mixed media
Patricia March’s perception of time
Spanish artist Patricia March was trained in Fine Arts and Cinematography, hence her interest in movement and time. She aims to incorporate a cinematic style in her drawings and captures movement in terms of her own time perception, which is something like water; it erodes and destroys forms while building new ones.
Clara Lieu’s Falling
‘Falling’, a series of sculptures and drawings, visualises Clara Lieu’s personal experience with depression and anxiety. Unable to “release” herself from these episodes, she waited for the physical limitations of her body to end them.
Nicola Samori’s destruction
Italian artist, Nicola Samori intensely disfigures his Renaissance influenced paintings using a palette knife, a scalpel, paint or his hands.
“I like taking the image to a breaking point, putting its form into danger. My work stems from fear: fear of the body, of death, of men. I think my nature as an artist is something like feeling hopeless. Works are just temporary shelters and painting is a leisure place where you can conceal yourself.” Quote via Huffington post
© Nicola Samori
Pedro Batista’s evasion
Evasion is a series of large-format paintings by Portuguese artist Pedro Batista. His figures fade into motion seemingly captured for just a moment in time.
© Pedro Batista
Spring
Today it’s Spring yet still seemingly winterish here at 52.2066° N, 5.6422° E; somewhat like Egon Schiele’s “Early Spring”.
Egon Schiele, Early Spring, 1913, Oil on canvas
Kunsthaus Zug , Sammlung Kamm via PaintingDb
Domenico Grenci’s “ukiyo-e” portraits
Italian artist Domenico Grenci is heavily influenced by Japanese art and portrays Western women in “ukiyo-e” (literally translated: floating world); impermanent, fleeting beauty divorced from the responsibilities of the mundane, everyday world.
© Domenico Grenci
Francis Bacon’s triggers of ideas
Taka Ishii Gallery Photography / Film in Tokyo will present an exhibition of works by Francis Bacon opening today to April 6. The exhibition will include 11 contact sheets, which were used as important image sources in his production process.
It is well known that Bacon worked from photographs rather than live models. While he hired John Deakin and other established photographers to make some of the photographs, he also frequently hired unknown photographers who were active in New York at the time. Some of the contact sheets show sequential photographs, which evoke Eadweard Muybridge’s works, but they also betray his idiosyncratic perspective on the human figure. In 1974, Bacon explained, “I want to isolate the image much further and take it very much further away from the photograph. I only use photographs as I would use a dictionary in a foreign language.” He wrote directly onto some of the photographs to formulate ideas for his works.
Contact sheet of female nudes from the floor of Bacon’s Studio, ca. 1975, Prov. The Robertson Collection, vintage gelatin silver print, paper size: 41.9 x 50.8 cm, Courtesy of Michael Hoppen Gallery, London
Contact sheet of two men wrestling in a studio from the floor of Bacon’s Studio, ca. 1975, Prov. The Robertson Collection, vintage gelatin silver print, paper size: 41.9 x 50.8 cm, Courtesy of Michael Hoppen Gallery, London
Miseon Yoon’s thought-provoking textile portraits
Inspired by unstable human emotions, Korean artist Miseon Yoon‘s makes thought-provoking textile portraits that are the result of a compulsive process of cutting and attaching hand-painted fabrics. Via Saatchi Online.
© Miseon Yoon
Werner Knaupp’s savage seas
German artist Werner Knaupp‘s (1936) thick layered acrylics turn into dark, savage seas – statuesque and gorgeous.
Benjamin Carbonne’s tenderly torn subjects
For French artist Benjamin Carbonne (1970), painting primarily provides him with a means to express his sometimes violent, yet always tenderly torn subjects without using words.
Tiina Heiska’s lovely lost woman
Tiina Heiska‘s paintings are stories about both the process of painting and about subjects of the paintings. Considered individually, they are separate fragments, but joined together they become series whose elements dovetail in a temporal or thematic continuum.
“A recurring theme in my paintings is a woman who is constantly changing her form. She is like the main character in a play, the script of which she has misplaced. She changes roles along with the scenery, yet she is always feeling a bit lost and off-course. It is uncertain even to me who she ultimately is, although she has her origins in photographs I took of myself in staged situations that were based on my fantasies or fears. The woman is therefore not a self-portrait, she is a fantasy.
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Ina Hjort Jacobsen
Ina Hjorth Jacobsen graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of
Architecture in 2012. She loves land art, drawing maps, sculptures and
graphic novels. Above all I am passionate about architecture, scenography and illustration.
Her graduate work had been featured in Wallpaper magazine.
© Ina Hjort Jacobsen
Chen Chun-Hao’s nail landscapes
Taiwanese artist Chen Chun-Hao had been using thumbtacks as his medium of choice in creating sculptures, wall pieces and installations for over a decade. In the past couple of years he departed from thumbtacks and shifted to nails. More specifically “mosquito nails”— small headless pins about a third the size of a toothpick. Using a nail gun, Chen nails these small pins into canvas-covered wood, creating reproductions of traditional Chinese ink landscape paintings.
Via CollabCubed
Alex Simpson personal narratives
Alex Simpson is a multi-disciplinary artist based in London who works intuitively across painting, sculpture, and printmaking. Her work centres around personal narratives that are played out in worlds of melancholic children and strange creatures exploring their relationships with loss, fear and the unknown. At the core of her practice is painting – a dialogue between artist and medium – in which she invites spontaneity to bleed out her delicate figures into washes of ink.
Cross, 2010
The watcher, 2011
Patch him up, 2011
Birthdays, 2011
© Alex Simpson
Louis Boudreault’s ‘Destiny’
Louis Boudreault’s Destiny project is a series of mixed media childhood portraits of such greats as Picasso, Warhol and van Gogh. Via The jealous curator
Andy Warhol
Pablo Picasso
Edith Piaf
Albert Einstein
Annie Kevans’s Ship of fools
English artist Annie Kevans created the series “Ship of fools”, addressing her interest in the changing perception of madness and its relationship with societal notions of success and achievement, in 2009. The fact that 1 in 4 people experiences some kind of mental health problem in the course of a year and is still stigmatised, was the conceptual inspiration behind the exhibition. Her examples include Winston Churchill, Michael Jackson, Kirsten Dunst, Jackson Pollock, Drew Barrymore, Charles Dickens, Yves Saint Laurent, Albert Camus, Beyonce Knowles, Ewan McGregor, and Mark Twain.
Kevans’ semi-translucent style possesses a slightly melancholy quality. It is interesting that her paintings are achieved not by using watercolour as one might expect, but thinned oil paint on canvas paper. Via Artnet
Pier Angeli
Diana Spencer
Beethoven
Patty Duke
© Annie Kevans
Henrik Aarrestad Uldalen’s dreamy paintings
Henrik Aarrestad Uldalen (1986) is a self-taught artist whose creative production revolves around classic figurative painting, presented in a contemporary manner. The atmosphere in his subject matter is often depict in a limbo or dream-like state. Despite his realistic approach, photographic accuracy is not what he seeks to achieve.
Guy Denning’s exaggeration and editing of a suggestion of reality
Guy Denning (born 1965) is a self taught English contemporary artist and painter based in France. He is the founder of the Neomodern group and part of the urban art scene in Bristol.
Denning’s early work included an interest in the work of Franz Kline and was characterised by powerful, expressive brushstrokes in mainly abstract paintings. More recently he has combined earlier influences with an increasingly figurative style of painting. The human figure features strongly in his latest work and he uses this subject matter to convey powerful emotions.
“Painting is a focusing; a process of exaggeration and editing of a suggestion of reality. I can start with a skeleton, like a foundation illustration, perhaps taken from a life study or a photograph and then I start to manipulate that framework. All the time I am hoping for accidents with the paint as the accidents are usually the source of greatest productivity. Perhaps the accidents of paint give me a similar perspective as the viewer to the finished painting: the surprise at something fresh or something that is not immediately understood in its construction. This aspect of painting is like, perhaps, finding the uncontrolled intention.
I know when it’s right or, at least, tending towards right but I don’t know how to do it. If I knew how to do it, that there was a predetermined and guaranteed method, then it wouldn’t be the challenge that forces me to paint continually.”
Source: Wikipedia
© Guy Denning
The onion’s great escape
Sara Fanelli’s activity book asks young readers to help the onion break free by answering thought-provoking questions and completing the activities within, finally pressing a three-dimensional character right out of the pages. The book encourages young children to be imaginative and think about complex issues in unexpected ways.
Nick Lepard’s pervading portraits
Nick Lepard’s richly layered portraits are truly pervading.
“Through colour, scale and gesture my work celebrates painting’s physicality, both in terms of its application and its dependence on space in the real world. The images are bright and playful, but also macabre and grotesque.”
Paintings by Nick Lepard
Paul Cadden’s emotional hyperrealism
Paul Cadden (1964) is a Scottish-born hyperrealist artist who creates intimidatingly realistic artworks using only graphite and chalk. He has been drawing since the age of six and has always been fascinated with emotion portrayed through literal illustrations of a particular scene or subject.
“Although the drawings and paintings I make are based upon a series of photographs, video stills etc, the art created from the photo is used to create a softer and much more complex focus on the subject depicted, presenting it as a living tangible object. These objects and scenes in my drawings create the illusion of a new reality not seen in the original photo.”
Works by Paul Cadden
Maria Kahn’s delightful deformities
Maria Khan completed her Masters with Honors in Visual Arts from NCA, Lahore. Her work revolves around deformity and celebrates the idea of being who you are. It is about a woman’s inner nature and visualizing the more disturbing aspects of the self, which are normally kept locked in our heads away from public scrutiny. “I paint women in savage forms”.
Source: Asia Society
Works by Maria Kahn
Xia Xiao Wan’s shifting distorted figures
Chinese painter Xia Xiao Wan transforms flat images into spatial ones by using sequenced layers of glass. His intriguing, distorted figures are drawn per individual layer using colored pencil on tinted glass and only together create the hologram like effect that is subject to change dependent on the viewers position.
Xiao Wan graduated from the Third Studio of Oil Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing in 1982 and currently works as a professor in the stagecraft department of the Central Academy of Drama in Beijing.
Works by Xia Xiao Wan
Luigi Benedicenti’s mouthwatering realism
Since a certain age, it’s only during the December/January festive season I indulge my craving for many otherwise forbidden foods. As such, featuring Luigi Benedicenti’s work seems the most appropriate thing to do for a first post this year as well as a farewell to enticing deliciousness for yet another.
Luigi Benedicenti is an eminent photorealistic artist from Italy. His oil paintings are rooted deeply into the old still-life values of Europe, but he developed his own unique style which is referred to as extreme realism. His oil paintings are the actual representation of contemporary Italian patisserie, drinks and ice creams. Source: www.eexploria.com
Enjoy…
Oil paintings by Luigi Benedicenti
