Tag: Depict
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The Drawings of Femke Hiemestra Depict Fairy Tales with Looming Consequences – Hi-Fructose Magazine
Animals are the primary subjects of Hiemstra’s works, with dogs and cats slated as her favorites and thus reoccurring most often. In art, like literature, animals can challenge perceptions of reality exhibiting an uncanny resemblance to the behaviors of their human counterparts. Hiemstra explains, “I find animals with all their different shapes and forms very read more
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Aunia Kahn's Lush Portraits Depict a Playful Inner Landscape
“For me, it always starts with joy,” explains Aunia Kahn. The Detroit-based artist uses a handful of materials—gouache, pastels, pencils, and gold ink—to create rich, velvety portraits that evoke folk art patterns, surrealist themes, and celestial iconography. Reclaiming the importance of play in the creative process has been a powerful catalyst for Kahn, who had read more
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We Must Do More Than Simply Depict Our Lives
In the lobby of the Bronx Museum of the Arts, right before the entrance to Forms of Connection, the seventh edition of the institution’s biennial exhibition, there’s a clutch of three men facing each other, engaged in animated conversation. They don’t move or shift their focus when I approach. They won’t, because they’re life-size figures read more
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Does This Restored Roman Fresco Depict Italy’s Prime Minister?
News The recent restoration, which bears an uncanny resemblance to far-right leader Giorgia Meloni, is currently under investigation. A fresco of an angel in the Lucina Basilica in Rome, Italy, allegedly resembles Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni. (left: photo by Riccardo De Luca/Anadolu via Getty Images; right: photo by Marco Iacobucci/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Italian read more
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The Violence of Man: Cleon Peterson’s Bold & Brutal Paintings Depict Humanity’s Struggle For Power – Hi-Fructose Magazine
They would come to a show, turn around, and walk out, just completely offended.” When Peterson went to the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, he was still in his teens. Myrtle Avenue was a pretty dark place—Peterson recalls, early on, seeing a man sitting in his car with his head blown off—but the darkness resonated with read more
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