Pop Surrealism’s – Michelle “Mia” Araujo Paintings

Anatomy of a Somnambulist
12” x 16” Acrylic on wood

What more can i say about this brilliant artwork?. Her artworks paint heavily upon children’s stories, characters with much fantastically imaginative stories that depict the qualities that make people unique.

Visit her site at : Art-by-Mia

“Eye Has Not Seen, Nor Ear Has Heard…”

The art of Graphic image Sampler from Sam Van Olffen. The graphic composition is the result of various pictorial elements removed from their original context, which are then combined with one another to create something…. different.

Sam’s influences include literature, palmiped and… cathedrals. Enjoy!

source image and part of words  from: dark roasted blend | Sam Van Olffen

Creepy Art by Martyn Cross

Raglan Twins (Giete Heads)

Nice artwork by Martyn Cross.  Enjoy at this link.

Post-it (Stop motion Art) 2009

Amazing video. And this is note from Bang-Yao Liu in Youtube:

This is my senior project at Savannah College of Art and Design. Where my idea comes from is that every time when I am busy, I feel that I am not fighting with my works, I am fighting with those post-it notes and deadline. I manipulating the post-it notes to do pixel-like stop motion and there are some interactions between real actor and post-its.

Directed by Bang-yao Liu
Music by Röyksopp (http://royksopp.com)
Sound design by Shaun Burdick
Actor: Chun-yao Huang

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Manipulation Object by Kevin Van Aelst

Kevin was born in Elmira, New York and did most of his growing up in central Pennsylvania. His color photographs consist of common artifacts and scenes from everyday life, which have been rearranged, assembled, and constructed into various forms, patterns, and illustrations.

The images aim to examine the distance between the ‘big picture’ and the ‘little things’ in life—the banalities of our daily lives, and the sublime notions of identity and existence.  His work is about creating order where we expect to find randomness, and also hints that the minutiae all around us is capable of communicating much larger ideas.

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Barack Obama: Made in Motor Oil (2008)

Warrior Politics (2008). 22 x 30in (56 x 76cm). Used motor oil mixed media on paper

David Macaluso has been utilizing used motor oil into paintings as his personal brand of recycling since 2005.

This on going art project is currently part of an exhibition exploring fossil fuel addiction at Athens Institute for Contemporary art and focuses on the critical environmental and energy issues of our time.

visit: http://www.davidmacaluso.com/

Sanctuary of the Bewildered (2009)

Lagi dan lagi, Kris Kuksi mengeluarkan karya terbarunya. Orang ini tak berhenti membuat saya kagum.
At lastly…a new multi-dimensional sculpture featured below…

Sanctuary of the Bewildered
mixed media assemblage
38″ h x 36″ w x 16″ d 2009
www.kuksi.com

Imminent Utopia (2008)

I’ve got this from the email, that was Kris sent to me;

Hello my friends,

I’ve just completed my largest sculpture to date titled “Imminent Utopia”. Nearly 11 feet long and six feet in height, this was the most profound experience for myself as an artist and I am sharing it with you. Many months have gone into this piece and I have to admit that these photos won’t give it justice. This work of art will be the major attraction at my solo exhibition in NYC in November at the Joshua Liner Gallery.

Please contact the Joshua Liner Gallery for more information.

Enjoy!

Kris

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Karyanya yang terakhir ini, membuat saya terdiam. Saya makin kagum akan konsistensi kekaryaanya. Bukan dari sisi teknis saja. Terbayang bagaimana dia mengkombinasi founding object, toys dan benda-benda figuratif yang mini, dirangkai dan dikolasekan menjadi satu karya yang besar dan ribet.

Masih senada dengan karya-karya sebelumnya, salah satunya yang terakhir saya dapatkan gambarnya : Afterworld Transporter.

Damn …he’s a devil in details.

klik tiap gambar untuk melihat lebih detail.

Dangerous Reality of Li Wei

Li Wei states that these images are not computer montages and works with the help of props such as mirror, metal wires, scaffolding and acrobatics. (source)

Beyond the Valley of Micro-Bops (Richard Edson)

Seniman fotografi yang juga seorang musisi dan aktor. Richard Edson. Beliau saya ketahui adalah founding member dari sebuah band Noise Rock cukup terkenal akan idealisme dan konsistensinya, Sonic Youth. Namun kali ini saya tidak akan membahas musikalitas dan filmography-nya yang udah karatan, tetapi saya tertarik dengan eksplorasi lensa makro dari kamera yang digunakannya untuk menghasilkan karya-karya yang menarik dan unik. Dengan menggunakan objek mainan mini dan ketelatenan tinggi, dirinya menghasilkan karya-karya seni fotografi yang bisa dibilang detail dan fokus.

Richard Edson’s pictures are close-ups of toys, shot with incredible attention to lighting, background, color, context, and focal points (boingboing.net)

Dalam pameran yang diselenggarakan sekitar 2 minggu lalu (14 Maret 2008), karya-karyanya memamerkan foto-foto yang kontekstual. Ketelatenan cahaya, background dan pemfokusan dengan upaya berkali-kali dalam satu objek dalam satu frame tema gambar dan saya pikir, dia sangat fokus. Tak mudah menghasilkan karya seperti ini, kecuali sabar dalam setiap memotret objek mini yang diinginkan sesuai dengan tema yang diusung. Terutama sekali pencahayaan.

Here’s Edson discussing the exhibit:
“When I looked at these simple figures through the macro lens I was impressed by the seeming depth and humanity. It didn’t seem possible, but the more I looked the greater the illusion became. They seem like repositories of secret emotion and feelings. But then the more I thought about it the more sense it made. They were imagined and created and worked on by human beings and something remarkable and human was transferred.” (Blog LA Weekly)

Kalau saya pikir saya bisa berkarya seperti dia (dengan teknik sama) dan dengan objek yang ada, apakah saya bisa konsisten dengan teknis seperti ini ?

Check out this link :
mark weston, LA weekly