Battle of big cities
“A friendly visual match between two cities told by a lover of Paris wandering
through New York” it is written in the profile of Vahram Muratyan, who founded the project “Paris vs. New York“.
Month: April 2017
We present: We heart it
How often does it happen that we stumble upon pictures we like while aimlessly browsing around the web? Quickly the virtual eyecandy is saved in one of those numerous inspiration folders on your pc – without a source. It is not unusual that you want to share one of the finds later on, but don’t know where it came from. And posting a picture on your blog or website without telling the source is not allowed.
This is why we love We heart it, the virtual picture box for all your virtual finds. After registration every user can copy the “I heart it”-button in their browserbar and click on it, whenever he finds a picture he likes. The picture is then saved in an own gallery and can traced back to its source via a link.
Who does not like to collect pictures themselves can easily spend hours and hours and hours on the plattform itself, browsing around all the galleries – the amount of users is increasing daily…
Top 5 Blogs: Contemporary Art
“Is this art or can we throw it away?” – an often quoted (and so matching!) saying. To understand and like contemporary art is not very easy, we admit. Because often you cannot really see whether we’re talking a plain object or an artwork with a sophisticated theoretical background here.
Who would like to get into the topic without being stressed with high-flown scientifical analyses should take a look at the Top 5 Blogs about contemporary art we have chosen for you:
Interview with Katogi Mari
Had the Brothers Grimm published their fairy tales these days, surely they would have asked Japan based artist Katogi Mari to do all of the illustrations. I guess there is nobody who is more skilled to create precise and wonderful fairy tale like illustrations with brush and paint.
For our series of interviews she, who is fascinated by nature, animals and of course the romantic stories from Germany, answered some questions about herself.
Lifelike acrylic pictures
Wonderfully detailed acrylic pictures are what 29 year old artist Alexa Meade produces. Wait: paintings that move when you touch them – because they’re mad out of real people!
With her new Trompe-L’Oeil technique the american girl has succeeded in making three dimensional objects look like two dimensional pictures on paper. Only if you take a closer look (or walk around the object, if possible) you can see that the models where give a kind of second skin with a brush, that gives them a completely new look and identity.
It is worth having a peek at her gallery on Flickr, where the process of development of the artworks has been documented.
Looking into the past: Our find of the week
Foto: Flickr / squirrel brand
Is there anyone among us who is not a little bit nostalgic sometimes, looking back at those “good, old times”? On Flickr we recently stumbled upon a group that loves to indulge in this looking back: Looking into the past.
They do this by taking old photographies back to the place they were taken and precisely insert them into a new picture. Thus we get an impressive impression of how the world we live in has changed during years or decades – or not.
Now we feel like taking out those old boxes from dusty racks and go on a picture tour with the pictures from uncle Hermann and aunt Trudi, don’t we?
Artwork pick of the week: Wiesenglück
“Wiesenglück” – a wonderful and appropriate word for beginning spring. The picture that we have chosen as artwork pick of the week today depicts a perfect day in late summer: butterflies fluttering around, bees humming, clouds floating past and the freshly cut field is smelling softly. It’s quiet.
Whoever happens to have a car breakdown in this surrounding probably doesn’t mind being stuck there for a while, photographer Max Nemo Mertens has written as a description of his artwork, which you can buy as a framed art print among others. It would even be a pity to have to leave this place when the yellow ADAC car is coming down the street in order to destroy the idyllic scene…
Eyecandy: John Stezaker
©John Stezaker
At first sight the work of John Stezaker look like classic and old pictures. But who risks a closer look will see that the artist has mixed several pictures into collage, who often contain a deeper meaning.
Gender stereotypes are mingled and exposed: The face of the net looking man is marked by a deep cut – that is filled with the face of a woman. And the face of the beauty from the 150s is hidden behind a postcard showing a tunnel: A hint to her state of mind? Mainly a hint to the artists’ passion for surrealism!