Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Monday, November 28, 2011
Saturday, October 8, 2011
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Saturday, July 30, 2011
Thursday, June 30, 2011
C.R.E.A.M ~Cash Rules Everything Around Me
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| Cash rules everything around me C.R.E.A.M Get the money Dollar, dollar bill y'all |
Friday, June 24, 2011
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Friday, January 28, 2011
Sunday, January 23, 2011
The Beekeepers
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| Pieter Bruegel the Elder The Beekeepers pen and brown ink on paper 8 x 12 1/8 in Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany |
German TV
This just blew my mind... I was watching a Documentary on German TV last night via the Internet. The documentary was about the Night Guard at Berlin's Neues Museum. How he walks around, making sure all the doors are locked, that nobody is hiding in the bathrooms, supervising the cleaning crews. It sounds boring but was an interesting insight how a Museum is run. And then they showed a couple of minutes of the sun rising over the museum. It was beautiful... here are some screen grabs.
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Picasso sees the Light
Renowned LIFE photographer Gjon Mili, a technical genius and lighting innovator extraordinaire, visited Pablo Picasso in the South of France in 1949.
Mili showed the artist some of his photographs of ice skaters with tiny lights affixed to their skates, jumping in the dark -- and Picasso's lively mind began to race.
This series of photographs, since known as Picasso's "light drawings," were made with a small flashlight or "light pencil" in a dark room; the images vanished almost as soon as they were created. However, while the "Picasso draws a centaur in the air" photo is rightly celebrated and famous, many of the images in this gallery are far less well-known -- and equally thrilling.
via Life Magazine
pictures by Gjon Mili for Life Magazine
Monday, January 17, 2011
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Friday, November 26, 2010
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Vanitas by Guido Mocafico
I am obsessed by Guido Mocafico’s painstaking still life photographs in homage to the 17th Century French and Dutch painters – vanitas kings like Pieter Claesz and Jacques de Gheyn and Philippe de Champaigne and trompe-l’Å“il masters such as Chardin and Bruegel.
Mocafico says of his work ‘The day someone looking at my pictures asked me why I had photographed paintings, I knew my goal – illusion – had been achieved’.
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| Le cabinet de l'astronome, 2007, Guido Mocafico |
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Corbeille de fleurs, 2006, Guido Mocafico |
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| Nature morte à la vanité, 2007, Guido Mocafico |
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| Omnia vanitas, 2007, Guido Mocafico |
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| Bouquet de fleurs dans un vase de verre, 2006, Guido Mocafico |
via wallpaper.com:
Mocafico, however, takes it one step further, creating the illusion of painting through photography – the ultimate expression of hyper-reality.
Still-life paintings, or Vanitas, were born of the Rococo obsession with artifice and the superficial. With his photographs not only has Mocafico managed to duplicate the technique, he’s managed to do it twice in one sitting. His photographs confront us with a double image of reality, an illusion of a painting and in turn an illusion of the real.
Mocafico’s opulent sets, filled with skulls, flowers, meat and other symbols of decay are disconcerting and alluring at the same time. He plays with his viewers, drawing us into a world of shadows, light, colour and texture, then throws us into confusion whilst we attempt to make sense of the illusion. However it’s the sublime beauty of the finished works that’s truly captivating and whether or not you allow Mocafico’s artifice to tie you in knots, you’d be mad to look away.
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| Nature morte au gibier Ă plumes, 2004, Guido Mocafico |
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Bouquet de fleurs, 2005, Guido Mocafico |
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Bouquet de fleurs avec tĂªte de mort, 2006, Guido Mocafico |
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| Allégorie de la caducité, 2007, Guido Mocafico |
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| Vanitas, 2007, Guido Mocafico |
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| Vanité et objets de musique, 2007, Guido Mocafico |
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Nature morte au cochon, 2004, Guido Mocafico |
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| Nature morte Ă¥ la grenade, 2005, Guido Mocafico |
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| Bouquet of Flowers in a Niche chromogenic print by Guido Mocafico (2006) |
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