Tag: Paintings
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Undulating Coasters and Slide Complexes Loom in Alex Hutton's Paintings
Considering Alex Hutton’s fascination with rollercoasters and monumental waterslides, he doesn’t actually ever climb aboard. “Heights and the sinking feeling during free-fall bother me too much to enjoy them,” he tells Colossal. In a way, that adds even further dimension to the enigmatic, unpeopled atmosphere of his meticulous oil paintings, which focus on rollercoasters, waterslides, read more
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Dóra Maurer, Artist Beloved for Heady Films and Exuberantly Colored Paintings, Dies at 88
Dóra Maurer, a Hungarian conceptual artist whose output in multiple mediums explored how meaning shifts across time and space, has died at 88. The Art Newspaper reported that the Széchenyi Academy of Literature and Arts, where Maurer served as president, confirmed her passing. Maurer was one of the most important contemporary artists in Hungary. She read more
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Sometimes You Just Have To Hug That Walrus: The Humorously Surreal Paintings of Bruno Pontiroli Twist Our Relationship with the Animal World – Hi-Fructose Magazine
One of the surest sources of fun in Pontiroli’s oeuvre is the massive cast of characters who make guest appearances throughout his more recent work. A depiction of Christ is usually around somewhere, typically attached to the cross of his crucifixion, but usually having a good time while flying across the sky like an airplane read more
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Bruno Pontiroli Tests the Boundaries of Familiarity in His Uncanny Wildlife Paintings
“Imagine a world based on a different logic; a universe comprised of the absurd and paradoxes,” prompts Bruno Pontiroli, whose paintings explore the sometimes grotesque tension between the familiar and the uncanny. The artist is known for his absurdist paintings of animals with overly long legs, contorted bodies, or myriad mutant-like heads or limbs. They’re read more
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'Sarah Stone’s Unseen World' Highlights Avian Paintings by an 18th-Century Talent
Decades before the advent of photography, when European scientists and explorers were undertaking global expeditions and collecting flora and fauna from around the world, art and science converged in fields of medicine, anthropology, and natural history. During the Enlightenment, artists like Elizabeth Blackwell, John Gould, and Elizabeth Gould—among many, many others—documented botanicals, avians, insects, marine read more
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Ashes To Ashes: The Paintings of Fulvio Di Piazza – Hi-Fructose Magazine
From funeral services to the famed David Bowie song to a British sci-fi series, the phrase “ashes to ashes” takes on a new strain of meaning with every use. With Fulvio di Piazza’s recent show at Jonathan LeVine Gallery in New York, this metaphoric 360-degree view of life is reimagined once again. Ashes to Ashes read more
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Personal Identities Pair with Sartorial Expression in Paintings by Glenn Hardy Jr.
In his forthcoming solo exhibition, Building Identities Through Style, Glenn Hardy Jr. excavates the strata of fashion, especially how identities are shaped and perceived through appearance. Based in Washington, D.C., Hardy is a self-taught painter whose bold portraits emphasize Black life “liberated from the burdens of racial stereotypes and conflict,” says Charlie James Gallery, which read more
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How Larry Gagosian Pulled Off a Standout Show of Jasper Johns’s Crosshatch Paintings
Why did Larry Gagosian want to stage a just-opened blockbuster exhibition of Jasper Johns‘s paintings at his Upper East Side gallery in New York? “First of all, because I want to look at them,” he told Alison McDonald in a soon-to-be-published Gagosian Quarterly interview. It’s not an especially lofty justification, but it’s at least an read more
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Financially Strapped Met Opera May Sell its Prized Marc Chagall Paintings (But Keep Them in Place)
New York’s Metropolitan Opera is facing a serious financial crunch, and may sell two beloved Marc Chagall murals to help fill the gap—but if it does, it will leave them in place. Sotheby’s valued the artworks at a total of $55 million, reports the New York Times. Unveiled in 1966, The Sources of Music and read more
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Pennsylvania Man Who Stole Warhol and Pollock Paintings in Museum Theft Ring Sentenced to 4 Years in Prison
Joseph Atsus, a 51-year-old Pennsylvania man, was sentenced on Tuesday to 48 months in prison, a term of supervised release, and $1 million in restitution for several charges related to his participation in a notorious museum theft ring, the Department of Justice announced earlier this week. Atsus was part of a eight-person ring that stole read more
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Something In The Air: The Paintings of Casey Weldon – Hi-Fructose Magazine
Casey Weldon’s work is like the house of mirrors at a carnival. Instead of stretching and distorting the human patrons that stumble into the labyrinthine funhouse, though, Weldon’s work entraps American culture itself, reflecting images that amplify, twist, and invert the dynamics we otherwise inherently accept in our society and its rituals. His paintings feature read more
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Ángela Ferrari's Dramatic Paintings Tease Out a Passionate Play for Power
Aggression and struggles for power abound in the vivid paintings of Ángela Ferrari. The Argentinian artist is keen to explore the limits and consequences of control through scenes rife with antagonism: dogs nip at each other, horses buck and bare their teeth, and birds lie lifeless. Evoking hunting paintings and masculine displays of pride for read more
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Macro Verse: The Paintings of Cinta Vidal Allow us To Become Gravity-Defying Voyeurs – Hi-Fructose Magazine
Vidal, as such, hopes that her paintings have the opportunity to hang in every possible alignment so that viewers have the chance to see the perspective of every figure. This total devotion to breeding empathy is the foundation of her art. Her prime directive is not creating versatile art, though that is a by-product. The read more
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Of Place & Time: The Narrative Paintings of Andrew Hem – Hi-Fructose Magazine
The paintings of Andrew Hem linger just left of reality. With his instantly recognizable style, Hem blends figurative painting and atmospheric landscapes, echoes of graffiti art and a deep understanding of color harmony. Rendering scenes both urban and rural, modern yet outside of time, he creates works that are a mix of realism and surrealism, read more
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Scratching the Surface: The Cinematic Paintings of Anna Weyant – Hi-Fructose Magazine
IT’S A SUBTLE MERGER OF REAL LIFE AND FICTION IMBUED WITH A DOSE OF SATIRE AND ABSURDIST HUMOR. In the press surrounding Weyant’s work, there’s often mention of similarities to artists of the Dutch Golden Age or contemporary artists like John Currin, but that seems to be scratching the surface of possible influences or visual read more
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The Peripheral Path: Paintings By Jean-Pierre Roy – Hi-Fructose Magazine
“I grew up with film, video games, and comic books as the primary source of my visual memory. While some of them have stood the test of time and have been considered classics of the genre or the medium, a lot of it was really just capital L Low art. It wasn’t until I started 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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Organized Chaos: The Paintings of Joseph Lee – Hi-Fructose Magazine
“When it goes away, I have to hop on to something else so that at any point, I’m working on four or five paintings at a time bouncing around the studio.” While painting became a major part of Lee’s life, he didn’t leave acting. Most recently, he appeared in the film Searching and the Korean read more
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