Thursday, February 9, 2012
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Os Gemeos ‘Fermata’
Otávio and Gustavo Pandolfo are always changing it up.. really taking on a space, pushing their paintings to another level. I came across their new installation 'Fermata' via AO, 'their latest exhibition in Vila Velha, Brazil, is a graffiti-minded colorful world of both fantasy and reality.'
Sunday, February 5, 2012
Caitriona Sweeney
I'm loving the pattern, delicacy and otherworldly quality of Irish Illustrator Caitriona Sweeney's watercolours. They are so beautiful.
Friday, February 3, 2012
Nicholas Lockyer
I love this artists work, I found it through his Flickr page. Nicholas Lockyers Collection of collages deals with themes of society, horror and the abstract. You can buy his prints here, how amazing are these............
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Cy Twombly
Edwin Parker , Cy Twombly Jr. (April 25, 1928 – July 5, 2011) was an American artist well known for his large-scale, freely scribbled, calligraphic-style graffiti paintings, on solid fields of mostly gray, tan, or off-white colors. He exhibited his paintings worldwide.
Twombly used the nickname "Cy", after his father (also nicknamed Cy, who was briefly a pitcher in Major League Baseball) and the star baseball pitcher Cy Young. Twombly's paintings blur the line between drawing and painting. Many of his best-known paintings of the late 1960s are reminiscent of a school blackboard on which someone has practiced cursive "e"s. Twombly had at this point discarded painting figurative, representational subject-matter, citing the line or smudge – each mark with its own history as its proper subject.
Tate's Director Nicholas Serota gives us a behind the scenes tour of the Cy Twombly exhibition (2008) as he makes the final adjustments to the hang just before opening. A long-standing fan, Serota talks about Twombly's technique, his relationship to Turner, and how the artist, in his eighties, was still producing at the time.
Twombly used the nickname "Cy", after his father (also nicknamed Cy, who was briefly a pitcher in Major League Baseball) and the star baseball pitcher Cy Young. Twombly's paintings blur the line between drawing and painting. Many of his best-known paintings of the late 1960s are reminiscent of a school blackboard on which someone has practiced cursive "e"s. Twombly had at this point discarded painting figurative, representational subject-matter, citing the line or smudge – each mark with its own history as its proper subject.
Tate's Director Nicholas Serota gives us a behind the scenes tour of the Cy Twombly exhibition (2008) as he makes the final adjustments to the hang just before opening. A long-standing fan, Serota talks about Twombly's technique, his relationship to Turner, and how the artist, in his eighties, was still producing at the time.
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Camile&Henry
Taking inspiration from 'The Secret History', the 1992 debut novel by Mississippi-born writer Donna Tartt , I made this new painting.
Entitled 'The secret History'
Oil and acrylic on wood
24x30cms
The Secret History is set at a fictional college and concerns a close-knit group of six students and their professor of classics. The students embark upon a secretive plan to stage a bacchanal. The narrator reflects on a variety of circumstances that lead ultimately to murder within the group.
Entitled 'The secret History'
Oil and acrylic on wood
24x30cms
The Secret History is set at a fictional college and concerns a close-knit group of six students and their professor of classics. The students embark upon a secretive plan to stage a bacchanal. The narrator reflects on a variety of circumstances that lead ultimately to murder within the group.
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