Holy god… my favorite photographer ever? Maybe…
Just how great are these two images? I don’t care if they’re staged. I don’t care if they’re handpainted and not photographs at all. These are a couple of magnificent pieces. If I were this artist, I could die completely happy after creating these.
Bunnies in Blood. That’s what the middle image is called.
OK, then. My work here is done.
Aside from Food Network cake decorating-type shows, I can honestly say I have never seen art done with candy before. Three points for originality.
NoXizMaD is primarily a concept artist but he’s done a few art and illustration pieces. Spare a moment and take in what’s going on in the pic above.
You know, you can’t help but love an painter who quotes Rambo in her artist profile.
”Sometimes I wake up and I don’t know where I am.”
After that, I don’t care what you paint, you’ve got my attention. Thankfully, the work of multidisciplinary artist Geraldine Swayne is well worth checking out.
I’m a sucker for trompe l’oeil art, and the added kick of photographic images just ups the ante. Tons more on her site, all of them pretty darn good.
I get the impression this is lady does mostly poster art, but hey, who knows. Beautiful stuff. Very structured, photo-melded paintings, it looks like.
Thank god there are artists and photographers out there who continue to appreciate the techniques of yestercentury. As Chesterton said, "Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere." His punnish wit says much about the value of what’s excluded versus what’s included in a piece, and nothing brings that dynamic to the fore better than being limited by a rule or a tool.
Anyway, sorry, I’ll shut up now. That first pic makes me crazed with appreciation. No, more than that. It’s a friggin transcendental longing. That moment is captured so perfectly it hardly seems real, and indeed, the longing is somekind of deep regret that that moment in time is gone forever. Killer piece.
There are probably not too many commercial photography studios out there that have been approached to create a series called, "Golden Pig and Bitches". But hey, knowing how dark eastern European art can get, this is likely one of the tame ones in Romania.
Their Website (which has one of the clumsiest navigation interfaces I’ve ever seen)
This is an excellent example of what I call gallery art. It’s rife with stylistic and thematic elements ripped from other painting traditions and is cool (in the frigid sense of the word) enough to suit the walls of any well-heeled dealer.
Don’t get me wrong. I freaking love this guy’s work. Too bad it isn’t the least bit dangerous.
