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Digital collages by Robert Alan

05.08.201426.03.2019

Digital collages by Robert Alan
American conceptual artist Robert Alan has created a stunning gallery of paper art, digital collages and photo-manipulated works. His collages start off as a traditional paper collage (magazines, etc.), some get painted over with water color, then they get scanned and photo shopped. If the artist finds them too dull (which he does very often) then he might just print them out again cut them up and repeat the process. Some of these are 10 years old, scanned altered cut and colorized many many times. According to Robert Alan, he creates his art through the medium of madness. That madness lives in a box in his mind “feeding on dreams and nightmares and occasionally gummy bears too.”
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Painting

Swedish abstract painter Hilma af Klint

05.08.201417.12.2023

Swedish abstract painter Hilma af Klint (1862-1944)
Hilma af Klint created her art five years before Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian and Kazimir Malevich, before the images of Carl Jung and Rudolf Steiner. She was the first purely abstract painter to produce non-objective works in the early 1900s.
She belonged to a group called “The Five” (a circle of women who shared their belief in the importance of trying to make contact with the so-called ‘high masters’ – often by way of seances). Her paintings sometimes resembled diagrams, were a visual representation of complex spiritual ideas. Even in childhood Hilma af Klint exhibited ability of a spirit-medium.
Between 1879 and 1882, she regularly took part in seances of a Christian-oriented occult groups. Later, she created her own spiritualistic “female circle”, and from 1896 to 1902 carefully took notes received “from the world”. Hilma af Klint and her soulmates came into contact with spirits of Gregor, Clement, Amaliel and Anand.
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Sculpture

Floating sculpture by Neil Dawson

05.08.201402.07.2015

Floating sculpture by Neil Dawson is unique and easy to recognize for its transparency and escape from the conventions of earthbound pedestal-based display. Prominent New Zealand sculptor Neil Dawson was born in 1948. He graduated from the Ilam School of Art, Canterbury University, and the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne. Neil Dawson has created large-scale sculptures from aluminum and stainless steel for the Main Entry at the Australian Stadium for the 2000 Olympic Games. Among his best known works is also installed Fanfare on the Sydney Harbor Bridge for New Year 2004/05. Within NZ his major public works include Chalice in Cathedral Square, Christchurch, and Ferns in Civic Square, Wellington.
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Painting

South Korean hyper realist artist JW-Jeong

05.08.201402.07.2015

Sigmund Freud. Acrylic on Canvas. Painting by South Korean artist hyper realist Joongwon Charles Jeong

South Korean hyper realist artist JW-Jeong (full name Joongwon Charles Jeong) graduated from Hongik University in Seoul, specializing in Visual Communication Design / Illustration. The main inspiration for historical portraits by JW-Jeong is a person making this history. The art of a young and talented South Korean artist hyper realist Joongwon Charles Jeong has been featured at numerous solo and group art exhibitions, starting from 2008 in South Korea and Japan. In 2012 he was awarded 1st Prize in Painting at Beaux-Art.
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Photoart

Photo art by Oleg Oprisco

05.08.201411.11.2015

Ukrainian photographer Oleg Oprisco — Photo art by Oleg Oprisco

Photo art by Oleg Oprisco, a self-taught photographer, is iconic ethereal, fairytale images, which have inspired many photographers. Oleg Oprisco was born in the Ukrainian city of Lvov. After finishing school, 16-year-old photographer moved to Kiev and shortly worked in a photo lab as an assistant to an advertising photographer. Oleg was not satisfied with his work, as taking pictures of wedding ceremonies, birthday parties, or any other special occasions was more about earning money, rather than creativity. His life has changed only when he began shooting on medium format film. He experimented with colors, brightness and contrast, enjoying the ability to stop time and create his version of reality.
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Photoart

Pablo Picasso photo project

04.08.201402.07.2015

Photo project 'Pablo Picasso' inspired by cubist paintings. Moldovan photographers Irina Lesik and Andrei Shushvalyuk — Photo project ‘Pablo Picasso’ inspired by cubist paintings. Moldovan photographers Irina Lesik and Andrei Shushvalyuk

Pablo Picasso photo project. Spanish painter Pablo Picasso certainly would have been pleased by such “reproductions” of his paintings. Project by Irina Lesik and Andrei Shushvalyuk is called “Paintings by Pablo Picasso.” On the photograph are real people theatrically dressed and painted in bright colors, exactly like the cubist paintings of the great Spanish artist. The art works by the talented photographers from Moldovan city of Kishinev were performed without the use of a graphical editor, or Photoshop.
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Applied Art Nature

Hand embroidery by Martha Fieber

04.08.201414.08.2015

Hand embroidery by Martha Fieber at first glance may look like an oil painting. But if you come closer, you will see the thin stitches of detailed embroidery. Sitting in her living room Martha Fieber turns strands of ribbons and threads into a forest scene. She uses the lake and forest outside their Schoolcraft County home for inspiration in her artwork. American self-taught artist of applied art and former engineer Martha Fieber creates fiber landscape art that she sells at art shows and galleries for her business, Landscape in Thread. Her husband Leonard constructs unique pieces of furniture made from wood cut by beavers for his business Beawer Chew Furniture. Their artwork evolved out of a need to make a living after leaving their job in 1999 in Wisconsin and returning to the Upper Peninsula to be near Martha’s family.
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