Designs by Japanese graphic artist Tadanori Yokoo. Amaze.     Train design Hyogo prefecture, Japan. More Japanese train designs here...virtualfunzone.com/decorated-trains-in-japan.html  Model train w/eye graphic. Hello, Santa? Add Comment  Los Angeles artist Aaron Smith paints portraits with a nod to the past. He then moves his work beyond historical allegory through his use of bright oil paints often thickly applied to the canvas-the effect of which are lush contemporary portraits. The men depicted in the pictures generally have old fashioned styles of facial hair and prominent noses. A man who paints after my own heart! The artist is seen above with his 2011 piece, Zhooshy. Catch Aaron's newest show at Sloan Fine Art, NYC through June 26 2011 http://sloanfineart.com/ Visit the artist here http://www.aaronsmithart.com/ Aaron's blog featuring bearded blokes http://beardedblokes.blogspot.com/ I love a little Manet on a Spring day, dont you?  Boating 1874 Metropolitan Museum of Art  Plum 1878 National Gallery of Art  In the Conservatory 1879 National Gallery Berlin Working on a series of paper collages for a show at Glama-rama! Gallery in San Francisco this spring with my bud Mona Superhero. We are seeking collective inspiration through our Mamas and Papas records. Mona is a duct tape artist-and just get the notion of duct tape wallets out of your head. Mona's pieces are portraits of fantastical landscapes rendered from many colors of tape. Think Captain Kirk wearing shoe skates while listening to the Tom Tom Club out of a 1980's ghetto blaster. More of Ms Mona here... http://monasuperhero.com/ Here are some of her duct tape pictures...see and wonder...    And here she is being interviewed by the world art press...  and here, "being expresssive after being pensive" in a Portland dive bar.  Some pieces I have been working on.        The last two shots I took at the MOMUK in Vienna last December. They are a collaboration with Lady Pink from 1983/4. The exhibition was chronicling the development of hip hop and street art in NYC in the 1970's and 80's. Fucking cool show.  These two panels are about five by six feet and feature people on the subway who appear to be spontaneously combusting. The spraypaint effect of the people etherizing is perfectly executed. The lettering overhead reads, "I'm not free beacause I can be exploded at anytime."  Mr. Sonny Rollins is an 80 year old jazz legend. He recorded his first album in 1949 at the age of 19. He went on to play with Thelonious Monk, Max Roach, and Miles Davis, as well as forming several of his own heralded bands. The current issue of NY Magazine has an interview with him that I found particularly inspiring as an artist-especially this quote..."Any serious real artist does'nt have a high opinion of his work, I feel that I am just learning." I am very inspired by his ability to be a self critic and to keep improving his craft, which comes from daily practice...and obviously, humility, a characteristic some artists replace with overinflated ideas about their work. I have read a similar quote from David Hockney, which I cant find now, but the gist was about always making new works and not getting hung up on older ones-keep making, keep moving, delve deeper into your craft. Making art is not static, it's dynamic. | AuthorFilling your prescription  ArchivesMay 2012  My Parent's bathroom circa 1984 CategoriesAll   |
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