Category: Art & Design
Mosh pit paintings by Dan Witz
Applying old master techniques, (Witz) achieves impressively convincing trompe l’oeil illusions of light, shadow and depth in his finely rendered portraits, landscapes and still lifes. The artist recently added digital media tools to his process (having previously used traditional projection methods). Combining old master techniques and digital technology, he photographs his subjects, composes in photoshop, prints an a-chromatic underpainting on canvas then glazes and scumbles over this foundation using traditional representational painting…
Jerry Saltz on Why the Work of Today’s Well-Educated Artists Lacks Content — New York Magazine
There’s always conformity in art—fashions come in and out—but such obsessive devotion to a previous generation’s ideals and ideas is very wrong. It suggests these artists are too much in thrall to their elders, excessively satisfied with an insider’s game of art, not really making their own work. That they are becoming a Lost Generation.
Link: Jerry Saltz on Why the Work of Today’s Well-Educated Artists Lacks Content — New York Magazine
Very bad late '90s hip-hop cover art
Bad Art of The Rapture
Link: Bad Art of The Rapture
The Graffiti of War
From war, art. This is the basic premise of The Graffiti of War , a project from two combat veterans that features the unconventional military art that soldiers, seamen, marines, and airmen (and women) create during deployments. From tanks spray painted with “I love u baby” to memorials for the dead to enemy jets covered in graffiti, every art work tells a story. It’s the alternative, unauthorized history of war from those who fought it.
US Soldier-Taggers: Afghanistan as Fight Club
Here we’re introduced to the artist ZEROSIX, whose imagery is characterized by quirky and deadpan quotation, in both image and text. Who, by the judgement of his colleagues, is truly badass.
Miniature Town Brings Its Creator a New Life
In a documentary released last year and out this week on DVD, entitled Marwencol, Malmberg takes audiences inside Hogancamp’s fictional city, his real life and his struggle with public recognition after his photographs started appearing in New York galleries.
Link: Miniature Town Brings Its Creator a New Life | Raw File
D*Face Comes to L.A.: British Street Artist Talks Advertising, Skating and Punk Rock
It’s not so much important that you don’t know who I am. I don’t find that it’s necessarily relevant that you know who I am regarding my work. The work speaks for itself and if it doesn’t speak for itself, then I like people to reinterpret it for their own views. I don’t know that knowing what I look like is relevant to what I do. I think people can be a little hung up on what the artist looks like. What are you doing? Are you looking at what they are doing or are you looking at them? Since I play that out in my work, it seems a little pointless to be like, “Hey, here I am. Am I cool? Do you think I’m cool? I’m not?”
