Hyper-realistic portraits of dogs: fantastic embroidery
To create a picture in Emilli takes about 13-18 hours, the works she calls "drawings threads" as it uses this material instead of the usual paints or crayons. The artist creates portraits of pet dogs and cats with hyper-realistic precision, so that they, in fact, are not inferior images.
Passion for embroidery two years began in Emilli ago, the first experiments were so successful that she decided to improve your skills. This work is relaxing, although it does require diligence. The most difficult part in the selection process becomes a thread for a picture. In the case of all colors easier, enough to mix basic colors in the correct proportions, and has been ready palette. When it comes to floss, then we have to look for or yarn suitable colors, or use different colors side by side, then, too, can achieve the desired effect.
Getting a new embroidery Emilli selects a suitable photograph of a dog or cat, most often it is accessed owners of pets. Price of the product is estimated at an average of $ 350, and customers have a lot of skilled workers.
CURSE Bill Stoneham
Painting «The Hands Resist Him» ( «Hands oppose him") by American artist Bill Stoneham (Bill Stoneham) or also known as "damn picture". And to be precise, one of hundreds of people walking on the informative spaces of the paintings with the stigma.
Since we are not the yellow press and do not like to speculate crook - all the stories we will deliver their assessment. And so as not to confuse you some hypotheses, conduct not just a brief overview of the myths and legends, and try to find the root of the fear caused by this painting.
Thus, according to official sources, the history of the painting begins in 1972, in fact when it created. Billy claims that it was drawing here with this picture, found in an old attic, which shows he and some mileyshaya girl from a neighboring house. In general, even the blind will determine the obvious differences of the original version and that that happened, the only thing that unites them, so this is a no compositional relationship.
In fact, immediately after its creation, begin fictions and stories - first she visited the various exhibitions, which by its type of stirred up the audience and they fell into a cultural hibernation. Then she wandered from hand to hand, was the owner of the collection "Los Angeles Times," then the actor John Marley, after whose death it seems thrown relatives. And yes, of course, death was only due to the fact that there was this unfortunate leaf in his life, or else, according to the judges of this masterpiece, people do not die, ever.
And if the first path through the thorns can still with grief in half, but believe that in the coming ordeal to believe not only to work, but only under some strong medicine. For the story goes that in the garbage this picture found any married couple, dragged it home and drumming - hung in the nursery. The child began neuroses and hallucinations, the children in the picture according to one version called her to him, on the other fought for the third, apparently, generally called Satan. The upshot is that this far-fetched story was just gorgeous promo action, contributed sales of paintings on eBay, so that the dog was buried in the marketing success and not otherwise. The subsequent history is not so tragicomic and funny - it just bought, and the owner of uncounted suffering from marasmus, podveyannyh fables visionaries.
Although if you think about it, definitely, in this picture there is something. First and foremost it is worth noting the style surreal image - close to a realistic form, but a deliberate distortion of perspective, light and shade, and other "natural" elements in the picture. We can see in the reflection on the door that appears in the sky the new moon, but, judging by the shadows - lights front and quite bright as the sun at midday. At the same time rule out the possibility of any artificial light, such as light source, according to the laws of nature, should also be reflected from the mirror surface, and it is not there. The light is like from both sides, because the shadows on the clothes the doll and the boy dropped in different directions, as if in front of each of them WWTP spotlights. This snag, almost imperceptible, influence our subconscious, making a dissonance between the familiar and seen.
The intrigue lies in the location and appearance of the characters, ie, a boy and a doll. Although the question is, who is more alive than dead. Due to the successful games with the light, the boy's eyes are invisible to us, we can not determine whether its full of apple eyes bright eyes and empty, like standing next to a doll. The facial expression is also very uncertain and not entirely clear. He is on the brink of calm and tension, posture is static, even relaxed, but sometimes slips some anxiety in his eyes. Guards and unusual view of the direct, some puppet legs. Not clear is the purpose for which it stands at that door - he protects us from these evil hands, or he guards them as Cerberus from prying eyes. Who is he - the victim, the hero or guardian - that's the question.
Pictures are often attributed to the effect of "uncanny valley" - a phenomenon in psychology, first discovered scientist Masahiro Mori. Based on his research, every object, about looking or acting like a man, with a minimum of deviation is enmity and aversion observers. There are suggestions that our subconscious mind is notorious these small discrepancies, such as symmetry, unusual for ordinary people, and classifies them into categories of "abnormality", and why there is a protective feeling of disgust and apprehension. This is often used by film footage, from time to time in their films podsovuya killer robots, dolls and other, human-vermin.
The well-known street artist Shepard Fairey
Shepard Fairey became interested in art since childhood. In his youth, he was fond of skateboarding, he painted planks of his friends, as well as drawing on t-shirts. Later, when the world was struck by a wave of street art, graffiti under the name, he began to try myself in this genre. Soon, his work began to notice and distinguish from other graffiti artists.
However, it's worth knowing that Shepard Fairey is not just a bully who paints cans nothing better to do. He is a real professional artist. He graduated from the School of Fine Arts with a bachelor's degree. It is generally recognized talent, both among street artists, who are in the underground, and among mass connoisseur of fine arts. Museum of Modern Art and the Smithsonian keep his work and exhibited as objects of fine art.
Shepard Fairey in his work often uses pop art, which plays well-known media images. The first such painting was a portrait of Andre "The Giant" Russimoffa - French fighter, which was written in 1986. Under one version of this portrait was Obey inscription, ie "Obey", which later became his nickname. It creates social work, which are devoted to politics, religion, ecology and others. Often, the use of media images led him to the dock for the use of copyright. The most famous work of Shepard Fairey was the painting "Hope" written in 2008, which depicts US President Barack Obama.
Art festival, entertainment and anarchism
"Dismaland" (from a dismal - "depressing, gloomy") - established as an antagonist of the popular Disneyland with toy castles, colorful rides, cotton candy and joyful children. The park is located on the territory of an abandoned swimming pool "Tropicana" in Weston-super-Mare, close to Bristol.
The exhibition was prepared anonymously. City officials cheated local residents, saying that construction work around the old pool - is the construction of scenery for the film. films on IMDb page was even created. Everything was kept entirely secret until the opening.
In "Dismaland" exhibits works by 58 artists who took Banksy, including the creation of Damien Hirst and Jenny Holzer. The works on display are traditional amusement theme parks, satirically reinterpreted through the prism of contemporary artists.
In the center, as befits a classic Disneyland Park, is a Cinderella princess castle. It is dilapidated and abandoned. There herself a princess, but dead. Pumpkin carriage-inverted and hung limply from her Cinderella, immersed in an ocean of flashbulbs - a direct reference to the death of Princess Diana.
"Dead Princess is complete only when it is surrounded by staring at her wide-eyed crowds with cameras. Or you can take a picture of her surprised expression on his face when jumping from bowl orca"
Also, as in the traditional parks, visitors are offered, such as a fishing rod to catch a floating rubber ducks, ducklings only smeared with black paint (oil). During the capture of the prize - fish cakes in a plastic bag.
As a reminder of the crisis of migrants - the boat with dolls, some of them fell into the water ... There is still a sculpture of the Little Mermaid glitch and graffiti Mickey Mouse, declaring that "life is not always a fairy tale."
These are some of the exhibits.
Media: Scientists have identified the British artist Banksy
Make it to experts from Queen Mary College, University of London helped so-called geographic profiling - technology that analyzes the place where they were committed "crimes".
A study by researchers affirmed put forward back in 2008 version, under the pseudonym of Banksy hides graduate public school in Bristol Robin Cunningham.
The study authors chose 140 works by the artist anticipated on the streets of London and Bristol and identified clusters of "hot spots" for further study. It turned out that these places are located in close proximity to bars, soccer fields, and home address, where he lived or frequently visited Cunningham.
Banksy is one of the brightest representatives of the world of street art. He did not announce the appearance of his work and is best known for the fact that very few people know his face, but his identity has not been established. Although since 2013 the artist has repeatedly held "exhibition" of his work on the streets of London and New York.
Parody of Banksy graffiti from Butcher Billy
Banksy - the most famous street artist of our time. His graffiti have become the property of art. Some of his works are worth hundreds of thousands of dollars and are protected as objects of fine art. Banksy graffiti that appear on the walls, immediately become a city landmark and protected by the State, not less than the paintings of the Renaissance. Banksy has become a true legend. In addition to his talent, provocative art, which has always expressed a kind of symbolic component, and simply put, is created "on the topic of the day", Banksy became famous for his mysterious and more person. For several decades, the British artist Banksy leaves his paintings all over the world and still no one knows his real name or even how it looks. Banksy - a real mystery, a great artist who has always remained in the shadows.
Butcher Billy, apparently with great respect to the related art of his British colleagues, decided to make a series of graffiti, which parodied Banksy graffiti in a very ridiculous and funny form. Instead, the protagonists Banksy graffiti he painted various cartoon characters that are familiar to all of us since childhood. Politically and socially-oriented work of the British street art artist, with the help of the creative talent of the Brazilian graffiti artist turned into a funny image, which, in addition, cause a slight sense of nostalgia retro cartoons of the past.
Street art in the streets of our cities
Painter street art should feel the line between bullying and self-expression, art and vandalism, as well as to understand what could lead to penetration of his works at the exhibition gallery or on the pages of magazines, and that - to a fine or prison sentence. Street art is often disagrees with the way of life, racial and class inequality, rising unemployment. Street art can carry a political message, instantly responding to the current events of the country and the world. The most famous street artist Banksy modernity says that street art - one of the few means of expression that you can afford, even if you do not have anything.
Street art for the gray and monotonous urban fringe becomes a real salvation. Abandoned building, faceless gray fences, destroyed buildings - suitable facilities for the paintings in the style of street art. Colorful fantasy graffiti, bright colors, a positive story should improve mood thousands of spectators passing by.
Street art - multi-genre art, it determines the design of modern life, which is in most cases not made by professionals and anonymous self-taught. Artists street art raid facilities of urban space at night and create their works under the cover of darkness, they determine whether their protest scene mode or entertainment.
The history of street art began with the fact that back in the 60s of the last century on the streets of Philadelphia buildings began to appear intricate inscription, later known as "tags". Tags do not have nothing to do with art, they had to write as much as possible and in the most unusual places. By the end of the decade tags have appeared in New York, they filled every possible surface of the walls of buildings, subway cars, billboards. Street gangs using tags labeled with their territory of influence.
In 1973, there was the most common direction of street art - graffiti, providing more opportunities to express themselves, rather than tags. The scale of street art through graffiti greatly increased, writers artistic sketches adorn the walls and all kinds of slogans, but soon their activities were equated to vandalism and is prohibited. Street art at some time left the street and was on the verge of extinction.
In the 1990s in the street art became more symbols, images, paintings. At the same time he gained fame Shepard Fairey, who did not paint and graffiti tags, and putting up posters with the image of the iconic fighter of the 1970s - Andre the Giant with the signature «Obey» - «Obey." By 2000, Shepard was plastered over a million portraits of Andre all over the world, for that Fairey was recognized as the most active artists of street art around the world.
In France in the 1990s, the most prominent representative of street art has become an artist Space Invander (Invader). He created a mosaic composition in the form of figures of aliens from Space Invaders arcade video games and posted them in public places all over the world.
At the same time, his stencils, stencil, or, in street art Banksy became famous, he made millions on the street art. The cost of the works of Banksy increased from 50-150 pounds to 80 000-150 000 pounds for ten years. His reproductions of the originals sold at exhibitions in galleries all over the world. In 2009, the year of Banksy with Steve Lazarides opened firm, engaged in examining the authenticity of the works of the English stars of street art.
Street art combines different techniques, flow, forms, it is difficult to classify or tied to any previous tradition. Despite the differences of social, political and artistic views, all the artists of street art combined city walls and sidewalks as objects of future work, gratuitous creativity and refusal to cooperate with law enforcement. Street art, no matter what genre chose stritrayter, trying to undermine the existing order and social space. No wonder the famous documentary about street art, shot by George. Rice in 2007, called "The Bomb!".
