Contemporary Art

I’m studying in SPb Academy of arts and prefer figurative paintings with traditional effects of lights and textures. I like to paint my models in real situation without any idealistic. I like hyper realism and naturalism art styles. - Lethe Bashar

"( ˇ~ˇ ) visual chinatown of davidope" - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet

http://www.flickr.com/people... "Sono Cristina, vivo a Roma. Idealista a tratti. I'm Cristina, I'm from Rome. Idealist not continuously. Soy Cristina. Vivo en Roma. Idealista no siempre. zerua@tiscali.it" http://3expressioni.blogspot.com/ - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet

"At 52, Mr. Ai, a beefy, bearded man with an air of almost monastic composure, is an international figure in the art world, successful beyond what anyone might have predicted even a decade ago. He is a celebrated architect, a co-designer of Beijing’s landmark Bird’s Nest Olympic stadium, an installation artist and a documentary filmmaker with a 100-member staff. Artistically, he can do almost anything he wishes, like personally shipping 16 40-foot containers, including 9,000 custom-made children’s backpacks, from Beijing for his recent exhibition in Munich. Yet clearly, all is not rosy in Mr. Ai’s world. In one of his early acclaimed works, a series of three photographs called “Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn,” he dispassionately shatters a priceless ancient Chinese vase, striking a theme — destruction and recreation — that runs through much of his art." - Derrick from Bookmarklet

OMG, I'm not sure I could watch him breaking that urn, but it is interesting the feelings that it would call up. - Ayşe E.

"Triptych. A kinetic sculpture composed of metal, string, electric motors, and 300 wooden ball. Joe Gilbertson a Minneapolis artist studying at the university of minnesota." - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet

NE ME PLAIT PAS.................... - KOUAK

Génial, merci KOUAK un com suant d'une telle jalousie c'est très flatteur… - Laniez

Vilain petit canard.. normal quand on s'appelle Kouak... :p Pourquoi perdre du temps ici...? Alors? - WingsOfFlo

"For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either Photographs by Patricia Thompson Atley  filed under patricia thompson, photography, pascal" - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet

"Everyone wants to understand painting. Why don’t they try to understand the song of the birds? Paintings by Luke Rudolf Found at voodoovoodoo Folkert  filed under luke rudolf, painting, picasso" - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet

"2007 // 80 x 40 cm // crucifix, lc-display, microcontroller, java application, Internet connection // shows actual stock exchange prices of the shares, the Vatican owns // for more information about this artwork see: www.markuskison.de/Ticker_Cross/" - 'Like' robot (frɐnc) from Bookmarklet

"Soundsuits. Cave is a graduate of the Kansas City Art Institute with a MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He joined The School of the Art Institute, Chicago, in 1990 and now serves as Chair of the Department of Fashion and Design. Cave designed and marketed his own line of men’s and women’s clothing and ran a successful retail clothing company, ROBAVE, in Chicago for 10 years and sold to 200 retailers nationally and internationally before turning exclusively to his artistic and teaching practice. Cave is represented by Jack Shainman Gallery in New York. He has exhibited in various museums and galleries and it has been featured in such publications as Art News, Art in America, Sculpture magazine and The New York Times.—source Cave, a black man, describes the suits as protection against prejudice. They also resemble ceremonial costume. Cave creates these wearable sculptures from a wide variety of throw away materials like twigs and bottle caps and garbage ties, making reference to... more... - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet

via deborah hustic http://friendfeed.com/wearabl... - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

"Découverte du travail de l’artiste anglais Chris Gilmour âgé de 35 ans. Il crée tous ses objets à l’échelle réelle en utilisant du carton et de la colle, sans aucune structure de soutien. De nombreuses réalisations très détaillées à découvrir dans la suite de l’article." - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet

via Üstün Üzüm http://friendfeed.com/creativ... - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

. "The Kitchen, Homage To Saint Therese consists mainly of portraits, some of which reference Caravaggio and Zurbarán paintings, shot by Italian photographer Marco Anelli. In them, the so-called "grandmother of performance art" can be seen cooking, meditating and levitating (thanks to a pulley system) in the former orphanage kitchens of La Laboral, a sprawling arts complex in Gijón, Spain. The writings of Saint Therese of Ávila – a 16th century nun who was said to have levitated in church and once – to her annoyance - in her kitchen while making soup – inspired the work." About her childhood... My theory was always that if you have a really tragic childhood, the better the artist you become – if you´re really happy it's different, nothing comes out of happiness. - 'Like' robot (frɐnc)

Marina Abramović was born in 1946 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Since the beginning of her career, during the early 1970s where she attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade, Abramović has pioneered the use of performance as a visual art form. The body has been both her subject and medium. Exploring the physical and mental limits of her being, she has withstood pain, exhaustion and... more... - 'Like' robot (frɐnc)

Most wonderful. Shared: http://friendfeed.com/smlphot... - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

I was born and raised in Utah, enduring weekly earthquake drills at school and lessons about the apocalypse and the “evils of the world” on Sundays. I felt somewhat safe and protected, surrounded by Mormons and the Rocky Mountains, but as I grew older, I got a bit of courage and ventured out of my hometown. I lived in Germany, England, Taiwan, Seattle and New England. I was reshaped by my travels and embraced many types of people and new ways of thinking. During my time in New England, my wife and I had two children. I received a BFA from MassArt and an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design. We now live in Tornado Alley in Kansas City, Missouri where I teach painting and drawing at UMKC. (20×200) - Lethe Bashar

nice - Cagdas Seichter

NE ME PLAIT PAS.................... - KOUAK

Gorgeous. - © b e e n s w a n k from iPhone

"Folkert (49,030 views) Filed under Katsumi Hayakawa, painting, William Gibson" - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet

ME PLAIT.................... - KOUAK

GRRRRRRRRRRRR n°2 - WingsOfFlo

this one needs a roar. - Mycaptain

At list yes!... - WingsOfFlo

Ah oui, il faut ajouter @ devant... pardon :) - WingsOfFlo

ben on n'est pas rendus :D - WingsOfFlo

"Pop Up, 2009, cardboard, tape, 94 x 275 x 200 cm, by Liddy Scheffknecht and Armin B. Wagner" - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet

via Cagdas Seichter http://friendfeed.com/cagdass... - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

"The act of imagining something makes it real Drawings by Kim Sin Hye, a.k.a. SSIN Folkert (141,755 views) Filed under Kim Sin Hye, Ssin, drawing, brian eno" - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet

Très belles photos! - WingsOfFlo

Merci pour elle - Laniez

Je marquerai bien un truc mais, je suis intimidée... me demande pas pourquoi.. :) - WingsOfFlo

Ton travail? - WingsOfFlo

J'aime bien.. on ne voit pas tt de suite le petit personnage.... et pourtant il est là... et il a vraiment sa place.. - WingsOfFlo

le personnage qui fait pipi ? hasard pur de projection, incroyable n'est-ce pas ? quasi impossible à shooter, trop de peinture dorée… jamais réussi à refaire ça … - Laniez

"toby ziegler at galerie max hetzler berlin from 20 november 2009-30 january 2010 Labels: contemporary art | exhibitions | exhibitions berlin | galerie max hetzler | painting | toby ziegler | uk" - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet

"norbert schwontkowski: ångstrœm at mitchell-innes and nash from 19 november 2009-9 january 2010 Labels: contemporary art | exhibitions | exhibitions new york | germany | mitchell innes nash | norbert schwontkowski | painting" - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet

"With her husband, Christo, Jeanne-Claude was part of an inseparable artistic duo that produced some of the world's most well-known and monumental works of art. Jeanne-Claude, who died Nov. 18 in New York City at age 74 after suffering a brain aneurysm, created landmark public displays using textiles, including the 18-foot-high, 24-mile-long "Running Fence" in California and "Surrounded Islands" in which the couple installed giant lily pad-like structures in Florida's Biscayne Bay with 6.4 million square feet of bright-pink fabric. Their 2005 creation, "The Gates," a series of 7,503 orange nylon panels erected for 16 days in New York's Central Park, drew crowds in the middle of winter. One of their most notable works was the 1995 wrapping of the Reichstag, the seat of the German Parliament in Berlin, in silvery fabric, a project the couple had contemplated for more than two decades. The logistical headaches were so large, Jeanne-Claude once said, that it turned her husband's hair gray and hers red." http://online.wsj.com/article... - Adriano from Bookmarklet