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‘Zachariah Johnsen is a young artist concentrating in watercolor, pen & ink,
and mixed media works on paper. His medium of choice is the micron pen and he uses them exhaustively to describe a world of ghouls, monsters, and misfits – the shady characters in everyday life, but just hidden from normal view.’ Illustrations of Johnsen depicting a mixture of fantasy and ordinary life, put forward young and creative imagination of the artist/alice-like ambiances with flowing freely creatures and globular colorful monsters within an atmosphere adorned with liveliness.
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one of the best short animated films i’ve ever seen. quite simple and intense both from a perspective towards the technique and the content.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: austria, burroughs, drawing, helnwein, hyper realism, mixed media, photography, subtlety, surprised recognition, watercolor
well i don’t think it’s possible to describe helnwein/his works/his vision with ordinary words. so i keep myself away from an introduction text that i usually would like to put in the beginning of a post. but this time i feel like i’m not gonna be able to make a proper impression of helnwein, so i leave this to you. he’s one of the most inspirational artists(maybe the most) to me and i think william s. burroughs found a pretty good way to talk about him so i don’t have anything to do with it:
“it is the function of the artist to evoke the experience of the surprised recognition: to show the viewer what he knows but does not know that he knows. helnwein is the master of the surprised recognition”.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: christopher wool, coppola, new york, painting, photography, skateboard design, stencile, text paintig, typography
christopher wool is a contemporary american artist/born in 1955, in Chicago. He began and sustained his career in New York. The works of Wool, basicly his black and white paintings, have distinctive features in many ways. Besides his abstract works, the artist prefers to work with the text. These stenciled text paintings are decomposed and put forward a certain statement of the artist. According to Ellen S. Wilson,”Wool did not simply stencil the words—he broke them up so that reading the text in the usual way is an effort. You can’t scan it, you have to decipher it” and Francis Ford Coppola states that “It’s not just a statement, it’s a painting.” So it seems reasonable to say that Wool’s works stand on a highly delicate point that the viewer needs to distinguish their artistic and typographic aspects. Also his artistic productions spreads within a wide domain from photography to skateboard design.
