Posts Tagged ‘contemporary art’
Handsome Devils: Alessandro Tomassetti on Painting the Sensual Man
There is something to be gained from straight men being able to see the beauty in another man and in women being able to see the beauty in a man outside the masculine norm.
Read MoreThe New Year and the Self-Portrait as Self-Reflection: Interview with Jaakko Savolainen, Finland
“Making a self-portrait is a very emotional and impulsive process.”
Read MoreBeauty Lies In Our Ability to Abandon Ourselves: Interview with Muralist Dante Horoiwa
“After a mural is finished, people will begin to picnic in front of the painting. It is almost impossible not to look at it.”
Read MoreRussian-born Maria Kreyn: Artwork focal point in new television drama series “The Catch”
“When you work on something for a long time, magic happens, beauty happens.”~ Maria Kreyn INTERVIEW WITH MARIA KREYN, FIGURATIVE PAINTER New York City: Deanna Phoenix Selene: Do you think we are afraid to find ourselves beautiful? To find life beautiful? Is it your sense that we tend to put more trust in ugliness? Maria…
Read MoreThrough Beseeching Eyes and Beautiful Bodies
Stories told through beseeching eyes and beautiful bodies working to free themselves from physical and emotional strain and constraints.
Read MoreWhy Create Art? Or, Wrestling the Muse
“Maybe it was the mysterious disappearance of my mother that even now leads me to scan the sky.”
~Agostino Arrivabene, painter; Milano, Italy
Contemporary Beijing Artist, Li Wei: “I’m like a meteorite, unstable and dangerous. This is the status of the globalized world”
“I’m like a meteorite, unstable and dangerous. This is the status of the globalized world”
~contemporary Beijing artist, Li Wei
Jason Bard Yarmosky’s Hyper-Realistic Oil Paintings Challenge Notions of Aging Gracefully
By playfully depicting the elderly in humorous, even mischievous scenarios, Jason Bard Yarmosky’s hyper realistic paintings challenge ideas of aging gracefully.
Read MoreRose Freymuth-Frazier, neo-realism painter, New York City
“My paintings are allegorical, but I expect each viewer will bring their own interpretation to a piece. The question one asks depends on the individual interpretation. If it’s a superficial read of literal abuse or abasement, then that is the subject being addressed within the viewer. If there is a more complex interpretation stemming from one’s life experiences, then the piece becomes personal, and asks questions the viewer is interested in answering.”
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