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Alphastructaesthetitologist: Jon Contino
While many would call him a typographer, an illustrator or, simply, an artist, Jon Contino calls himself a Alphastructaesthetitologist. Don’t bother looking it up on Wikipedia, you won’t find anything....
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A Compassionate Lens: Pierre Gonnord
Based in Spain, French photographer Pierre Gonnord takes a slightly different approach to his wonderful large-scale portraits. While his aesthetic borrows from old world master painters, his subjects...
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In His Own Backyard: Joshua Davis
I’ve been a fan of Joshua Davis for more than a decade. Back then, he was one of several developers, like Hillman Curtis, Brendan Dawes and a few others making their mark creating amazing Flash...
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Pictures of Magazine: Vik Muniz
Artist and photographer, Vik Muniz, has made a career out of creating amazing pieces of art from what others discard. In the documentary Waste Land, filmmakers followed Muniz from his home in New York...
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Inside The Painter’s Studio: Joe Fig
Very few get the privilege of seeing an artist at work. The labor-intensive struggle that ensues during the creative process can be such a private and personal activity. We are usually only given...
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Five For Friday #55 [Paintings]
“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” – Henry David Thoreau We’ve talked about expanding what we cover on Faded + Blurred to include things like art, dance and literature and I’m...
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The Ripening: Artists In Their 80s
There’s a fantastic article up on LightBox right now that begins: “Time is rough on a lot of life pursuits. Athletes dwindle. Dancers pull tendons. Politicians? It varies. But artists, if they work it...
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Our Spiritual Senses: Brad Kunkle
When I first saw the paintings of Brad Kunkle, I thought they were photographs that had somehow been altered or augmented. They’re not. His gorgeous brushwork is at once dream-like and photorealistic...
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Armchair Exploration: Google Cultural Institute
When most people think of Google, they probably think of two things: mail and maps. While they are doing some incredible things with maps, such as the Galápagos Project we posted about a few weeks ago,...
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Saving Grace: Dennis Hopper
While there’s no shortage of celebrities who also fancy themselves photographers (amateur or otherwise), few have engaged the craft with as much passion and with such a creative eye as the late actor...
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Sublimely Mundane: Uta Barth
At first glance, the photographs of Uta Barth may not make much of an impact on you – then again, you may find them to be utterly compelling abstractions of color, form and texture. Since first...
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Wired: Intricate Portraits By Charis Tsevis
I’ve been putting my own computers together since I was in college and over the course of several decades of building and upgrading, have accumulated a massive cache of spare parts – most of which are...
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Five For Friday #48
“Life is not a dress rehearsal. Stop practicing what you’re going to do and just go do it. In one bold stroke you can transform today.” – Marilyn Grey Tom Carter spent two years traveling through all...
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Five For Friday #74
“Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.” – Jack Canfield A small tribe of fishermen have existed for many years on the shores of Lake Turkana in Kenya....
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Lost Era, Lost Art: Hand-Embroidered Vintage Photographs
I don’t know what to say about these fabulous pieces by Hinke Schreuders, other than I can’t stop looking at them, one after another, thinking ‘this is just too cool.’ I majored in Technical Theatre in...
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Brilliant Currency Collages By Mark Wagner
“The dollar bill is ostensibly the most successful publication ever printed.” – Mark Wagner The moment I saw this post on Elusive Muse – especially the video – I knew I would love the work and want to...
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Dripped: An Homage To Jackson Pollock
I was never really a Jackson Pollock fan before seeing the Ed Harris film about his life. I just never understood what the work meant or what Pollock was trying to say. Even after seeing the film, it...
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Gorgeous Woven Portraits By David Samuel Stern
While completing a residency in Vermont in 2011, photographer David Samuel Stern began experimenting with literally weaving two different photographs of the same location taken at different times of...
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“A brush is technology. A brush. The first technology is brushes, pencils, pens. Things like that are technology of course.” – David Hockney The global multidisciplinary cultural organization,...
View ArticleL’enfant Terrible: Robert Rauschenberg
After World War II, the center of the Modern art world began to shift away from Paris and towards New York, due in large part to a small group of painters who were evolving beyond pre-war Surrealism...
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