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Joie de Vivre
Monday, 31 March 2008 12:57Based in Paris, France, Marguerite Sauvage has worked since 2001 as an illustrator, artist, and animator creating chic modern illustrations that capture the lifestyle of today’s trendsetters. Her eye-catching work is soft yet powerful, combining sophisticated European sensibilities with line work inspired by both traditional art and contemporary culture. Marguerite Sauvage Marguerite Sauvage, Exqyuise […]
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Kim Dorland
Friday, 28 March 2008 11:29I’ve been turning the word “North” over in my mind a lot lately, especially in the studio. The word means a lot of different things depending on where you live, but up here in Canada it forms a huge chunk of our identity. We are of the North, closer to nature, perpetually buried in snow […]
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NECROMANTISCH DarkArt Made in Switzerland
Friday, 28 March 2008 11:20Through my art I express my inner self. It is art that allows me to combine the surreal world with reality. Like a mirror, NECROMANTISCH sculptures and paintings instantly confront the spectator. Michel Teuber is a Swiss artist and musician. Michel Teuber, Alien Elite, 2004. Courtesy of the artist. NECROMATISCH plays with different conceptions […]
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Laurie Lipton
Thursday, 27 March 2008 12:52I think in images. My work is inspired by strong emotions. I have been drawing since the age of four. I was a perfect, polite, cute little girl in a perfect, polite, cute little suburb of New York. One day, while I was out playing, a mental patient escaped from a nearby hospital and sexually […]
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Su Cheng
Thursday, 27 March 2008 12:41I am sensitive to everything visual. When I was young, I was a shy little boy. I always looked out the window, especially when I was on the train. I could stare outside the window the whole day and not get tired. Now I like road trips. Driving long hours is fun for me because […]
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Wang Nian-Dong
Wednesday, 26 March 2008 16:57I went to college in 1998 at the oil painting department of Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts. I had more time to concentrate on the history and techniques of Western oil painting. I learned about art from the Middle Ages and subject matters like religion. Wang Nian-Dong is a Chongqing-based artist in China. Wang […]
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Emilio Vedova, the ââ¬ÅCivil Barbarianââ¬Â of Abstract Art
Wednesday, 26 March 2008 16:52They had re-baptized him the “civil barbarian,” a little for his powerful physical aspect and his long raven-black beard, a little for the independent attitude he has always shown in the face of the art world. A little less than a year since the disappearance of Emilio Vedova (1916-2006) the National Gallery of Modern Art […]
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Melanie Prapopoulos
Tuesday, 25 March 2008 15:43"As well as the meta-physical, which is so often the retreat of the artist, there is color and movement, warmth, humor, and a kind of illustrative conformity that references both the past and present trends of the visual arts." Melanie Prapopoulos Jill Smith Melanie Prapopoulos’ work was on view at Broadway Gallery in December 2007 […]
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Boom! Explosiones en Secuencia: Art in Colombia
Tuesday, 25 March 2008 14:36The Happy Planet Index realized by the British organization, the New Economics Foundation, places Colombia in second place of the happiest countries of the world, only surpassed by the Pacific island, Vanuatu. In contrast, another British organization, The Economist Intelligence Unit, gave our country the position number of 116 in the Global Index of Tranquility, […]
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Rebecca Loyche
Tuesday, 25 March 2008 13:35All’s Fair in Love and War is a three-channel video installation that was on view at Exit Art’s Show, Love/War/Sex in January. The title of this piece comes from a proverb that claims that people in love and soldiers in wartime are not bound by the rules of fair play. Yet, it seems highly ironic […]