PAINTING &amp; ILLUSTRATION

February 23, 2019

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A look at today’s landscape of the arts will soon draw you to the conclusion that artistic creation is more protean than ever. Art is not only limited to a canvas, a culture nor one idea of what beauty is. The ...

High Art 2019: Welcome to the year of Technology

Natalia Joruk

February 16, 2019

ART, COLLAGE, LATEST POSTS, PAINTING & ILLUSTRATION

Have you ever created art when you’re high? High on life, happiness, excitement or cannabis, all of these feelings open up the imagination and senses. For special moments in time, you are freed from constraints limiting your capacity to push the boundaries of ...

Reflexive Vision: An Interview With Zara Monet Feeney

Jennifer Susan Jones

February 12, 2019

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Los Angeles-based painter, Zara Monet Feeney, is changing the way we look at figurative art. The artist, who received a BA from UCLA and an MFA from the Laguna College of Art and Design, sets aside traditional ...

Ebb and Flow with Marc Scheff

January 16, 2019

Along with time and skill, there is also an energy that brings an artist's piece to life. We often don’t get to see these early beginnings as a viewer but they are the soul of the work we see. The studios i...

Disrupted Realism: An Interview With Meredith Marsone

Jackie Lemmon

January 10, 2019

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Realistic portraits abstracted by streaks of oil paint, colors pulled through the paintings, blurring through arms, torsos, faces. The emotive figures are portrayed in a way for open interpretation by the viewer. These pastel tones on panels describe the work ...

Your Favorite Instagram Posts of 2018

January 8, 2019

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The New Year is a wonderful opportunity to look back at the previous year and count the blessings we received. The Beautiful Bizarre Magazine Instagram account has reached half a million followers in the last 1...

Creation Process: The Visual Language of Stuart Holland

January 5, 2019

"I work in very subtle layers when beginning my figures, slowly building up nuanced values to match the lighting I’m trying to achieve." ~ Stuart Holland There is nothing more exciting than taking a look into a...

The Whimsical Paintings of Robert Page

December 27, 2018

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A look at the portfolio of Austin based artist Robert Page will remind you of novel ‘Animal Farm’ by George Orwell, and a lot of literary references on the animals we raise and the animals we are. But if his work is certainly thought-provoking, there is also a...

Chris Rivers: Mountains We Climb

December 22, 2018

Bringing a piece to life encompasses so many different skills. A thought provoking journey with colour and rituals that take place to help the artist bring their own unique vision to the canvas. There is so muc...

Loving Humanity: The American Realism of Leigh Bongiorno

December 20, 2018

There are many ways to perceive art: it can be a mean to escape reality or to embellish it. But some artists prefer to see it as a tool to reflect their contemporary society. It is the case of Cleveland based p...

Interview: The Feminine, Symbol-Filled Pop Surrealism of Dawn Cooke

December 12, 2018

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Bodies. They are at the center of art. First, because artists are using their own to create their artworks. And, of course, the body is one of the most favorite themes in art history. Female bodies, animals bodies, they help artists question their relationship...

Journey Into The Archetype: An Interview With Hannah Yata