Posts Tagged ‘human’

Iconoclast Series by Erin Mulvehill

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In her first two series, Human, Being and Iconoclast, Erin Mulvehill’s great interest in the forms of earthly and transcendental life were already expressing themselves. These images have a quiet strength and a true concern for the world expressed through beauty and iconography in context.

The Best Photographs by Greg Williams

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Greg’s photographic style merges reportage together with cinematic lighting and composition. As a photojournalist Greg shot news features in such trouble spots as Burma, Chechnya and Sierra Leone in the 1990′s. He also worked on in-depth photo essays that tackled such issues as CJD (the human strain of Mad Cow Disease), Thalidomide’s second generation of […]

Extra-Ordinary Realistic Sculptures

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Ron Mueck art is about love, loneliness, family, relationships. It can be understood by anyone. It has nothing to do with what’s in vogue in metropolitan London (which makes it great for Edinburgh). And although Mueck’s technique is of our time: – he trained in puppetry, including at Jim Henson’s Creature Shop, and has taken […]

Unbelievable Body Painting by Joanne Gair

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It dawned on me that I really couldn’t mention the talented work of Joanne Gair in the context of a post about body painting without showing you some of her amazing work, so now I’ve decided to do just that. Joanne’s work is especially attractive in addition to being impressively detailed. She’s done the body […]

Delirious or Delusional? Garden of Earthly Delights

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The Garden of Earthly Delights is a triptych painted by the early Netherlandish master Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450–1516). The center image depicts the expansive “garden” landscape which gives the triptych its name. The garden is teeming with male and female figures, together with a variety of animals, plants and fruit.  Fantastic creatures mingle with the […]

Graffiti Animals in Street Life

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Roa lives and works in Ghent, Belgium. Roa’s fine draftsmanship sets him above other street artists and I particularly admire the vivid sense of life that he imparts to his creatures, which transfix you with their wide eyes. The anatomical detail of these animals is lovingly achieved, yet they are unsentimental portraits of feral beasts […]

Birds or Human House? Guess Again

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Birds house or Human house? Answer is The Froschkönig Treehouse by Baumraum. In a small private garden in Münster this space hovers above a flat pool, framed by high bamboo stilts. The visitors reach the staircase across 3 natural-stone steps between water-lilies. The terrace, made of tatajuba-wood, rests on four stainless-steel stilts and is big […]