Guillem Mari is an illustrator whose distinct watercolor style has gotten a lot of attention.
After working in the animation industry, Guillem became a freelancer in comics and illustration, working for Marvel and Image Comics.
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Guillem Mari is an illustrator whose distinct watercolor style has gotten a lot of attention.
After working in the animation industry, Guillem became a freelancer in comics and illustration, working for Marvel and Image Comics.
An artist who paints with a combination of metaphysical, spiritual, and music themes, Tokio Aoyama hails from a tiny town in the north of Japan.
Tokio has painted murals and has done commission work for clients all over the world. He has designed art for record labels Epistrophik Peach Sound, Mello Music, Moamoo, and Jazzy Sport.
Tokio has done many private commissions for domestic and international clients. He has also done many live paintings at Music events such as Appi Jazzy Sport, Japan.
Tokio Aoyama’s trippy art has a hip hop feel with psychedelic undertones. Enjoy this collection of his fine work.
Official Website | Tokio Aoyama
In this amazing animation by Rino Stefano Tagliafierro, the beauty of classical paintings is brought to life from the immobility of canvas, using the 2.5D effect; creating a sentiment lost to the masterpieces.
Over Beauty, there has always hung the cloud of destiny and all-devouring time.
Beauty has been invoked, re-figured and described since antiquity as a fleeting moment of happiness and the inexhaustible fullness of life, doomed from the start to a redemptive yet tragic end.
Its as though these images which the history of art has consigned to us as frozen movement can today come back to life thanks to the fire of digital invention.
A series of well selected images from the tradition of pictorial beauty are appropriated, (from the renaissance to the symbolism of the late 1800s, through Mannerism, Pastoralism, Romanticism and Neo-classicism) with the intention of retracing the sentiment beneath the veil of appearance.
They are, from the inception of a romantic sunrise in which big black birds fly to the final sunset beyond gothic ruins that complete the piece, a work of fleeting time. – The Enigma of Beauty
Thomas Hill – Emerald Bay, Lake Tahoe
Albert Bierstadt – Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains
Ivan Shishkin – Forest edge
James Sant – Frau und Tochter
William Adolphe Bouguereau – L’Innocence
William Adolphe Bouguereau – Song of the Angels
Ivan Shishkin – Bach im Birkenwald
William Adolphe Bouguereau – Le Baiser
William Adolphe Bouguereau – Nature’s Fan- Girl with a Child
William Adolphe Bouguereau – The Motherland
Ivan Shishkin – Morning in a Pine Forest
William Adolphe Bouguereau – The Nut Gatherers
William Adolphe Bouguereau – Two Sisters
William Adolphe Bouguereau – Not too Much to Carry
Thomas Cole – The Course of Empire: Desolation
Martinus Rørbye – Entrance to an Inn in the Praestegarden at Hillested
William Adolphe Bouguereau – Sewing
William Adolphe Bouguereau – The Difficult Lesson
William Adolphe Bouguereau – The Curtsey
William Adolphe Bouguereau – Little Girl with a Bouquet
Claude Lorrain – Pastoral Landscape
William Adolphe Bouguereau – Cupidon
William Adolphe Bouguereau – Admiration
William Adolphe Bouguereau – A Young Girl Defending Herself Against Eros
William Adolphe Bouguereau – Dawn
William Adolphe Bouguereau – L’Amour et Psych
William Adolphe Bouguereau – Spring Breeze
William Adolphe Bouguereau – The Invation
William Adolphe Bouguereau – Nymphs and Satyr
William Adolphe Bouguereau – The Youth of Bacchus
William Adolphe Bouguereau – The Birth of Venus
William Adolphe Bouguereau – The Nymphaeum
Gioacchino Pagliei – Le Naiadi
Luis Ricardo Falero – Faust’s Dream
Luis Ricardo Falero – Reclining Nude
Jules Joseph Lefebvre – La Cigale
John William Godward – Tarot of Delphi
Jan van Huysum – Bouquet of Flowers in an Urn
Adrien Henri Tanoux – Salammbo
Guillaume Seignac – Reclining Nude
Tiziano – Venere di Urbino
Louis Jean François Lagrenée – Amor and Psyche
Correggio – Giove e Io
François Gérard – Psyché et l’Amour
John William Godward – Contemplatio
John William Godward – Far Away Thought
John William Godward – An Auburn Beauty
William Adolphe Bouguereau – Flora And Zephy
Louis Jean François Lagrenée – Mars and Venus, Allegory of Peace
Fritz Zuber-Bühle – A Reclining Beauty
Paul Peel – The Rest
Guillaume Seignac – L’Abandon
Victor Karlovich Shtemberg – Nu à la peau de bete
Pierre Auguste Cot – Portrait Of Young Woman
Ivan Shishkin – Mast Tree Grove
Ivan Shishkin – Rain in an oak forest
William Adolphe Bouguereau – Biblis
William Adolphe Bouguereau – Elegy
Marcus Stone – Loves Daydream End
William Adolphe Bouguereau – Head Of A Young Girl
Hugues Merle – Mary Magdalene in the Cave
Andrea Vaccaro – Sant’Agata
Jacques-Luois David – Accademia (o Patroclo)
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio – San Giovanni Battista
Roberto Ferri – In Nomine Deus
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio – Cristo alla colonna
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio – Incoronazione di spine
Paul Delaroche – L’Exécution de lady Jane Grey en la tour de Londres, l’an 1554
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio – Decollazione di San Giovanni Battista
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio – Sacrificio di Isacco
Guido Reni – Davide e Golia
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio – Giuditta e Oloferne
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio – Davide e Golia
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio – Salomè con la testa del Battista
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio – Davide con la testa di Golia
Jakub Schikaneder – All Soul’s Day
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio – San Gerolamo scrivente
Guido Reni – San Gerolamo
Pieter Claesz – Vanitas
Gabriel von Max – The Ecstatic Virgin Anna Katharina Emmerich
William Adolphe Bouguereau – Portrait of Miss Elizabeth Gardner
Jan Lievens – A young girl
Johannes Vermeer – Portrait of a Young Girl
Luis Ricardo Falero – Moonlit Beauties
Joseph Rebell – Burrasca al chiaro di luna nel golfo di Napoli
Luis Ricardo Falero – Witches going to their Sabbath
William Adolphe Bouguereau – Dante And Virgil In Hell
Théodore Géricault – Cheval arabe gris-blanc
Peter Paul Rubens – Satiro
Felice Boselli – Skinned Head of a Young Bull
Gabriel Cornelius von Max – Monkeys as Judges of Art
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio – Medusa
Luca Giordano – San Michele
Théodore Géricault – Study of Feet and Hands
Peter Paul Rubens – Saturn Devouring His Son
Ilya Repin – Ivan il Terribile e suo figlio Ivan
Franz von Stuck – Lucifero Moderno
Gustave Doré – Enigma
Arnold Böcklin – Die Toteninsel (III)
Sophie Gengembre Anderson – Elaine
John Everett Millais – Ophelia
Paul Delaroche – Jeune Martyre
Herbert Draper – The Lament for Icarus
Martin Johnson Heade – Twilight on the St. Johns River
Gabriel Cornelius von Max – Der Anatom
Enrique Simonet – Anatomía del corazón
Thomas Eakins – Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross (The Gross Clinic)
Rembrandt – Lezione di anatomia del dottor Tulp
Peter Paul Rubens – Die Beweinung Christi
Paul Hippolyte Delaroche – Die Frau des Künstlers Louise Vernet auf ihrem Totenbett
Elizabeth Jane Gardner Bouguereau – Too Imprudent
William-Adolphe Bouguereau – The Prayer
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio – Amorino dormiente
Augustin Théodule Ribot – St. Vincent (of Saragossa)
Caspar David Friedrich – Abtei im eichwald
After success as a sneaker artist, TTK shifted his focus to evolving the collections of his surreal canvas-based paintings. As a collector of vinyl records, his love for hip hop music has led him to pen “Crates to Canvas” a monthly column that discusses the relationship and inspiration various album art has had on his own paintings.
Paul Kuczynski uses his paintings to convey concerns about social issues. Paul’s approach puts a focus on the parts of our society that are ripe for satire. His illustrations make you wonder about what is really going on in the world.
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Justin Reed doesn’t just create paintings of awesome movies, he brings them to life. The characters in Reed’s movie paintings are composed in a style that matches the tone of the film.
Known for his monumental portraits, street artist El Mac has painted faces on walls, buildings, and canvases all over the world.
Mac was inspired at a young age by classic European painters such as Caravaggio, Vermeer and Art Nouveau titans such as Klimt and Mucha. The classic European art style is combined with contemporary graffiti and photorealism, mixed with the Chicano & Mexican culture he grew up around.
Pavel Tchelitchew was a Russian-born surrealist painter, set designer and costume designer. Tchelitchew continuously experimented with new styles, eventually incorporating multiple perspectives and elements of surrealism and fantasy into his paintings. His body of work was an exceptionally and hauntingly beautiful contribution to mid-20th-century art.
In Hide and Seek (1940–42), Tchelitchew’s most celebrated canvas, he related the seasons to procreation and growth, showing plant and human forms to be similar in their physical structures and purposes.
Combining an interest in alchemy with the anatomical illustrations of the Flemish anatomist and physician Andreas Vesalius (1514–64), he showed the human body, with its veins and arteries, as transparent, in order to suggest the transcendence of the spirit over material substance.
Tchelitchew’s process of reduction from material to spirit was completed in a series of heads, which he regarded as the spiritual centre of human beings, precisely drawn in light colours on dark grounds.
Frida Kahlo lived a life full of sorrow and pain. However, instead of succumbing to her demons and allowing them to crush her spirit, she sprang up and decided to share herself with the world. Her paintings, many of them self-portraits due to her isolation, gained recognition after her death.
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. – Frida Kahlo
I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration. – Frida Kahlo
I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best. – Frida Kahlo
Painting completed my life. – Frida Kahlo
My painting carries with it the message of pain. – Frida Kahlo
A new scientific paper on the origin of cave paintings suggests that humanity’s earliest artists deliberately sought out psychedelic states to create visionary art.
Prehistoric cave paintings across the continents have similar geometric patterns not because early humans were learning to draw like Paleolithic pre-schoolers, but because they were using psychedelics, and their brains—like ours—have a biological predisposition to “see” certain patterns, especially during consciousness altering states.
At its core, this proposed theory challenges the long-held notion that the earliest art and atrists were merely trying to draw the external world. Instead, it sees cave art as a deliberate mix of rituals inducing altered states for participants, coupled with brain chemistry that elicits certain visual patterns for humanity’s early chroniclers.
The cave painters had rituals that involved taking drugs (undoubtedly plants) that they consumed in a frenzy to get to this creative state. This behavior and the same results were noted by 1960s-era academics studying the effects of peyote, a hallucinogenic cactus found in North America.
The non-ordinary visual experiences were often characterized by similar kinds of abstract geometric patterns, which he classified into four categories of form constants:
(1) gratings, lattices, fretworks, filigrees, honeycombs, and checkerboards
(2) cobwebs
(3) tunnels and funnels, alleys, cones,and vessels
(4) spirals
“Intriguingly, these form constants turned out to resemble many of the abstract motifs that are often associated with prehistoric art from around the world, including Paleolithic cave art in Europe.”
A BBC Documentary How Art Made the World suggested that art was originally an exclusive domain of spiritualists – these images were what the “Shaman” saw in trance. Terence Mckenna’s Stoned Ape Theory goes even deeper by suggesting that the ingestion of shrooms by early primates was the starting point of human evolution.
But why would people across continents and cultures be drawn to record the same shapes?
The paper states the images generated by specific neural centers do resemble the templates for lots of 1960s psychedelic artists.
Why did they early humans gravitate to these patterns? Because the imagery was seen or sensed while having a super-sensory experience and therefore seemed to be imbued with cosmic significance. Put another way, people who explore their consciousness with psychedelics tend to find magic in simple details.
Alex Grey’s paintings can be described as a blend of sacred, visionary art and psychedelic art.
He is best known for his paintings of glowing anatomical human bodies, images that “x-ray” the multiple layers of reality. His art is a complex integration of body, mind, and spirit.
Vladimir Kush was born in Moscow, Russia. His father was a scientist and other members of his family were artists. With Kush’s surreal paintings nothing is what it seems at first sight. If you look closely enough you will see reality distorted in awesome ways.