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Where Photography meets Illustration
by Dmitry Maksimov
Source: tebe-interesno.livejournal.com
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I hope that the meanings of my pictures are never too limited, are open in some way, each viewer can transform them into a personal aspect.
by Sarolta Bán
Source: saroltaban.com
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Rob Tarbell has a very unique talent. By burning everyday objects under a paper canvas fixed on the ceiling of his studio, he is able to control the rising flow of smoke and create incredible works of art.
The artist first got the idea of using smoke as a medium for his art in 2007, and he quickly realized that in order to make it work, he needed to control the smoke, while letting it do what it does naturally. To him, that sounded a lot like what circus trainers do with wild animals, so this inspired him to use circus performances as the main subjects of his beautiful smoke paintings. Masterfully channeling the flow of smoke, Tarbell creates ghost-like figures, both animal and human performing circus acts, in a series entitled Smoke Rings.
”The performing animal images in the Smokes parallel the drawing process,” Rob says. “The trainer must recognize and respect the innate nature of an animal when trying to modify its behavior to achieve a desired outcome: e.g. training a bear to dance or training a horse to walk upright. The same is true in working with smoke. The inherent properties of smoke must be respected, then permitted to – and yet discouraged from – acting naturally.”
Photos © Rob Tarbell
Source: robtarbell.com
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This is one of the many paintings Bacon made of his friend, the artist Isabel Rawsthorne. He preferred to base such works on photographs of the subject rather than work from life. Intimate knowledge of the sitter was also essential. ‘What I want to do is to distort the thing far beyond the appearance, but in the distortion to bring it back to a recording of the appearance’, he said.
Portrait of Isabel Rawsthorne 1966
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Interesting, incredible use of shadow, colour, and composition; often the scariest thing is what we don’t know… on the other hand, sometimes presenting something shocking forces us to face something confronting… this is all amazing art.
My images are not photoshop collages. I use photoshop to finesse details and to adjust color and contrast for printing. I use friends and family members as actors and crew. Everyone works for free. We do it for fun.
by Joshua Hoffine
Source: joshuahoffine.com
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