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- Framing Heck | The Hijinks of skr3am and Jinks1
- A Backview of Caspar Friedrich’s Art
- This is why Maka’s is so popular…
- When Art Begins to Imitate Art
- Born Free | To Be Free
- Suki’s Anything But Kookie
- They Are Redheads | Not Deadheads!
- Pop Art | Dot Art | Appears to Tear the Heart
- On the Street Man with Beastman
- The Glorio of Loureiro | In the Springtime of His New Moon
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Framing Heck | The Hijinks of skr3am and Jinks1
skr3am and Jinks1 of Redlight Studio have created a number of framed street art images across Melbourne, using pictures of famous icons. So far, the likenesses of ’60s fashion icons such as Twiggy and Jean Shrimpton have graced the … Continue reading
A Backview of Caspar Friedrich’s Art
[Image One: Sunset – The Brothers (1835) The Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Image Two: The Wanderer Above the Sea of Clouds (1831) Hamburg Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany.] Caspar David Friedrich studied drawing in Greifswold before going to the Copenhagen Academy between 1794-1798. … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Artists A-Z, Gallery Art, Paintings
Tagged German artists, Romanticism movement, Scandinavian art
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This is why Maka’s is so popular…
Mike Maka or Makatron (born 1979) is a well known Australian street artist and painter easily recognised by his large scale murals inspired by mechanical machinery, flora and fauna. Maka uses a mix of aerosol and acrylic water-based paints, whilst … Continue reading
When Art Begins to Imitate Art
Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) was a famous Dutch Baroque period artist who died at a veritable young age of 43 years; but managed to produce 34 quality paintings during his short career. Vermeer was known to paint slowly, touching and polishing … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Artists A-Z, ChalkArt, Gallery Art, Paintings, StreetArt
Tagged chalk art, Girl With a Pearl Earring, Vermeer
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Born Free | To Be Free
Be Free is a street artist who began her street art in September, 2010. She uses stencils and free flowing acrylics for installations and street painting and pasting adventures around Melbourne; which she is slowly introducing around the world. … Continue reading
Posted in Stencils, stickers, Stickers&Slaps, Street Artists A-Z, StreetArt, StreetArtists, Wheat-pastes
Tagged Be Free, female street artist, street artist
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Suki’s Anything But Kookie
Suki moved to Melbourne starting out in street art with small lino print paste-ups and then progressing to bigger pieces. Suki is inspired by traditional Asian wood block prints, brown-paper fabric and yarn. Suki is a street artist from Melbourne … Continue reading
Posted in SprayCanArt, Stencils, Street Artists A-Z, StreetArt, Wheat-pastes
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They Are Redheads | Not Deadheads!
Redheads is an iconic Australian top-selling brand of matches originally manufactured in Victoria by Bryant & May match factory at Church Street, Richmond. The factory was opened in 1909 by The Honourable Alfred Deakin, Prime Minister of Australia. The Redhead … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Cover Art, nostalgia, Urban Art
Tagged Bryant & May, match box covers, Pop Art, Redheads matches
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Pop Art | Dot Art | Appears to Tear the Heart
American pop art artist Roy Fox Lichtenstein was born on October 27, 1923 in New York, into an upper-middle-class Jewish family. He is known as a leading figure in the pop-art movement which focussed on parody; where his work was … Continue reading
On the Street Man with Beastman
Sydney based prolific street artist Beastman (Bradley Eastman) is influenced by beauty and symbolism behind nature’s repetitive geometric and symmetrical repetitions, glyphs and tribal images. Beastman’s instantly-recognisable style has graced walls throughout Australia including a commission to paint the frontage … Continue reading
Posted in SprayCanArt, Street Artists A-Z, StreetArt, StreetArtists
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The Glorio of Loureiro | In the Springtime of His New Moon
[Images: The Spirit of the New Moon (1888), The Spirit of the Southern Cross (1888) and Spring (1891) by Artur Loureiro.] Portuguese painter, Artur José de Sousa Loureiro was born on 11 February 1853, in Porto, Portugal. Lourerio attended the … Continue reading
These models knelt for Albert Edelfelt
Finnish artist Albert Gustaf Aristides Edelfelt was born on 21 July 1854 in Porvoo, Finland. He began his formal studies of art in 1869 at the Drawing School of the Finnish Art Society; and continued as a student of Adolf … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Artists A-Z, Gallery Art, Paintings
Tagged Finnish art, Finnish artists, Realist art movement
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Btoy Will Never Be Coy
Born in Barcelona, Spain in 1977, Andrea Michaelsson (aka Btoy) is a female street artist known for creating extremely fine and detailed stencils. Michaelsson studied law for four years before realising it was not the career she wanted and began … Continue reading
Posted in SprayCanArt, Stencils, Street Artists A-Z, StreetArt, StreetArtists
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Mister Lister | What a Twister
Brisbane born street artist, contemporary Australian painter and installation artist Anthony Lister (born 1979+) lives in Sydney but his work can be found worldwide on streets, in galleries and decorating high-end shops and businesses. As a 17 year old teenager, … Continue reading
Posted in SprayCanArt, Stencils, Street Artists A-Z, StreetArt
Tagged Lowbrow (art movement)
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Greer Honeywill | Architecture of the Heart
[Above images: Architecture of the Heart #1 and #2 (2008-2012) Duratran, powder coated light box 96 cm x 62 cm] Australian conceptual artist, Greer Honeywill (born 1945 in Adelaide, South Australia), studied art at the South Australian School of Art … Continue reading
Posted in Art, StillLife
Tagged #Installations, conceptual art, conceptual artist, Installation art, large-scale installation art
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