During her studies at the academy, Yu has always been commended by teachers like Tang Hui and Cao Li on her works. She took pleasure in exploring various artistic styles, especially in the world of portraits. She admires Rembrandt, Ingres, and Durer, whose portraits are exemplary for their detail and precision. On the other hand, […]

There has been a public debate—at times a very heated and rancorous debate—between contingents of the Catholic Church and the arts community of Cologne, Germany. The community that commissioned and installed Gerhard Richter’s radiant stained glass windows in the Cologne Cathedral, commissioned architect Peter Zumthor’s scrupulously designed, meditative masterpiece, the Kolumba Museum, and have now […]

The nude is an art, an expressive form, a cry of freedom, a call to beauty. The nudes of Luccia Lignan talk to us about sensuality. Her women are sensitive and relaxed. They are grateful to be alive, and they demonstrate this gratitude in their body language. Despite being very conscious of their charms—their voluptuous […]

Every work of art embodies the worldview of its creator and simultaneously reveals a facet of the collective mind. As Marcuse said, "Art is a metaphysics in a moment." Considering Modernism and Post-Modernism, the importance of mystic and visionary states of consciousness have been downplayed or ignored by most artists, critics, and curators. Picasso’s Cubism […]

Gao Shan and I both tend to believe life itself is far more important than art. But it’s getting clearer that life is oftentimes not the way we’d like it to be. We don’t have too much of a choice in life and the infinity of the universe is just a delusion. We choose to […]

Taiwanese painter Yang Chi-Hung’s deeply intricate abstractions offer up a hint of figuration that compel the viewer to attempt to find structure in his perfectly static fields of chaos seemingly frozen in time.  Having painted for over four decades, Yang, who was born in Taiwan in 1947 and graduated from the prestigious National Taiwan College […]

The drawings of Huston Ripley can undoubtedly be labeled “Visionary.” Firmly rooted in deep levels of collective imagery, they bubble up insistently from the artist’s unconscious. For viewers they conjure windows onto a singular world crowded with imagery, action, and aura. They are also obsessive-compulsive, in the best sense of the term—a relentless and recursive […]

I’m Nora Ness, life scientist and self-taught photo artist with an eye for the beauty of the female body. Since I can remember I’ve been attracted to the beauty of the naked female body. My erotic self-performance in front of the mirror, showing true erotic moments and passion, catches the eye of anybody who isn’t […]

The Days was inspired by photographs randomly taken in my daily life, which are kept on my computer as part of an electronic album. When you see these images, you go on a trip down memory lane. Memories are triggered by personal experience. While some of the memories are re-enhanced, others are gradually forgotten. The […]

The answer to this question depends on society’s current moral compass. In times gone by the flash of a lady’s ankle was enough to deprave a nation. Now we live in a time—at least in the western world—where the bikini is de rigeur for the public beach. On every music channel semi-clad men and women […]