Nicola Samori (b. 1977). Italian.
Neo-Baroque??
Nicola Samori is fucking incredible. He works out of Italy, and he’s managed to nail the style of the Old Masters: his exhibitions contain everything from beautiful Baroque saints to Flemish still lifes — all painted now, in the modern era, in his studio. And that would be amazing in and of itself, but his work is so much more than simple reproduction. See, once he’s finished with a painting, or once he’s adapted one that’s been previously created, he takes a scalpel to it, a spatula, or a square of sandpaper, and begins to peel it apart. He flays painted skin right off his subjects’ bones.
Sometimes the “destruction” of the images asks the audience to think about what, exactly, the painting communicates when it’s whole. Other times it adds a strange level of corporeality to religious works, or gives portraits a darkly spiritual dimention they never had before.
He’s said in interviews that he views the layers of paint on the canvas as analogous to the muscle and tissue of the human body, and that by wearing it away, he changes the identity of the paintings themselves.
Dark and sometimes chilling as it is, I think his work is genuinely brilliant, and he’s one of my favorite living artists.
(Long story short, here’s his website, go check it out!)
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So gorgeous
Dude. DUDE!!! HOLY— IDEAS IDEAS IDEAAAS!!!
Oh, these are marvelousbrilliant!
These are stunning. I think it’s wonderful that the artificial limbs can be accessorised like this. Awesome idea.
The Alternative Limb Project offers a personal and friendly bespoke service, which provides unique prosthetics to blend in with the body or stand out as a unique piece of art, reflecting the wearer’s imagination, personality and interests.
We will involve the wearer in all stages of the process from conception of ideas to the final work.
oh god
it’s a 40s style cover of Macklemore’s thrift shop
I’ve found my new theme song
MOTHER OF GOD YES
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Mesmerizing
Shamsia Hassani - An Afghan Street Artist
“If you have an exhibition, most uneducated people won’t even know about it. But if you have art like graffiti in the street, everyone can see that … If we can do graffiti all over the city, there will be nobody who doesn’t know about art.”
Afghan street artist Shamsia, 24, paints on the street walls in Kabul, Afghanistan. The young artist says she hopes her public art can have a positive effect in Afghanistan. A contemporary art painter, she took to graffiti easily despite the restrictions imposed by her gender.
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Asako Narahashi - Half Awake and Half Asleep in the Water (2008)
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Here are a few More Vivian Maier self portraits. Go to her website for more of her amazing photos vivianmaier.com
Reblogging because HOLY SHIT.
i love everything you choose to be
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Essays On Reality is an ongoing series of short video art installations, influenced by the existentialist and surrealist movement, and inspired by socio-political and economic events from around the world.
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The thing I love about NASA is that if something doesn’t work or doesn’t exist, THEY BUILD A NEW THING, on a relatively small budget
and then they don’t bogart the technology with copyright stuff
NASA’s inventions absolutely are protected by patents (they have thousands), but they’re pretty generous about licensing cool stuff out to other companies and organizations.
I think the real strength NASA has is that it invents things that aren’t strictly “necessary.” Engineers in a lot of fields are constrained by “we need to makes something immediately useful and marketable.” NASA engineers get opportunities to design things that don’t always have obvious “we can sell 20 million units by next year” applications, and thus get to think further out of the box.
Also, frankly, I’d want to fund NASA even if it were completely useless, because with all the useless things our government spends money on, at least this one is awesome.
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