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Interview: Leigh Bongiorno And The Importance Of Portraits In Our Digital Age

April 2, 2019

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In our digital age, we are surrounded with more and more faces than ever. Every social media you open will instantly project selfies and pictures of people, friends or strangers in front of your eyes. But, unfo...

Primal Impulses & Curious Beauty: is 2019 the Year of the Dark Art Movement?

Natalia Joruk

March 28, 2019

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To both repulse and enchant, art can bind you within a paradoxical state of emotion. For some this uneasiness is preferably avoided, yet there are many instances over the centuries which example humanity's lust...

Feminine Ethos: An Interview with Natalia Berglund

Bella Harris

March 26, 2019

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Indeed, there is no shortage of creativity and inspiration when looking upon the mixed media portraiture of Natalia Berglund. There is intensity and empowerment, a pensive sight even while her subject’s vision is often shielded, and a compositional elegance in...

Kazuhiro Hori: Something Is Troubling in The State of Dessert

Jennifer Gori

March 21, 2019

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It can be odd to link the line spoken by Marcellus in Hamlet with the surrealistic, hyper-realistic paintings by Japanese artist Kazuhiro Hori aka Chardin Chardin (a 2018 Beautiful Bizarre Magazine Art Prize Wi...

Facing Dualities: An Interview with Horacio Quiroz

Haley Peters

March 19, 2019

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Horacio Quiroz is a pop surrealist artist who lives in Mexico City, Mexico. Despite working as a Creative Art Director for twelve years, Horacio perpetually was tugged by the pull and craving for visual arts. A...

Breaking Records with High Art 2019

Natalia Joruk

March 19, 2019

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Sometimes, you just need to start the party early. Before this year’s High Art contest is even over, The Natural Cannabis Company is already celebrating. Not only have over 1,800 entries been submitted to them over the past three weeks, but NCC have broken ...

All is illusionary, a dream or a feeling: An Interview with Tanya Shatseva

Natalia Joruk

March 13, 2019

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When I last spoke with Tanya Shatseva back in 2015, she was a young woman exploding onto the art scene, as vibrant and full of life as the paintings she created. Not much has changed on that front; though it’s ...

Drawing on Reality: The Fashion Photography of Miles Aldridge

Sarah Claire Picton

March 12, 2019

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The year is 1964: Dr Martin Luther King, Jr receives the Nobel Peace Prize; Beatlemania travels to the US; Andy Warhol’s Shot Marilyns are produced; Bob Dylan releases 'The Times They Are a-Changin'; and, in Lo...

Yanni Floros: Life is not a plot; it’s in the imperceptible details

Lee Tudor

March 5, 2019

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Growing up, Yanni Floros discovered he was better at drawing than painting. He opted for charcoal as his medium because it had, in his eyes, a misnomer that needed challenging; he wanted to prove that charcoal was a forgiving medium. And honestly, I’m in awe o...

The Playful Humour of Ben Frost

Christopher R. Inwood

March 2, 2019

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The Australian artist Ben Frost's work is fun, colorful and provocative. To achieve this, he twists the sharp graphics of pop cultural icons and brands by imposing a cartoon, anime, comic character or pharmaceu...

Exploring Dualities: The Art of Lisa Yuskavage

Between Dualities: The Art of Lisa Yuskavage

Jennifer Rizzo

March 1, 2019

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American painter Lisa Yuskavage’s figures reside in a world of in-betweens. Associated with the re-emergence of the figure in contemporary paintings, the artist cites Giovanni Bellini, Johannes Vermeer and Edga...

Claire Courdavault: Pleasure Is In The Detail

Jennifer Gori

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 work of French artist Claire Courdavault is also p...

High Art 2019: Welcome to the year of Technology

Natalia Joruk

February 16, 2019

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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...

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

Kylie Dexter

January 16, 2019

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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 in which the pieces are brought to life, the artist...

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 viewe...

Your Favorite Instagram Posts of 2018

Jennifer Gori

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

Kylie Dexter

January 5, 2019

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"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 an artist's world and their process. How does one g...

The Whimsical Paintings of Robert Page

Jennifer Gori

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 wo...

Chris Rivers: Mountains We Climb

Kylie Dexter

December 22, 2018

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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...

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