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Recent Posts
- Fictitious Realities are No Hi-Jinks
- Old Spoke – For Oksep Pokes
- All the Camp Dogs Sing This Song
- Suggett | I’m Going Down the Corridor via an Ex-Goods Repository
- A Swine Young Family
- Maersk | Warning: May Contain Traces of Smart Art
- Compare the Pair #19 | This is Wild Man
- Can We Can Do It? | Yes We Can
- The Art of UNICEF Never Gives Up
- The Hallstatt Karner
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Fictitious Realities are No Hi-Jinks
Above: Untitled “Babies” (2012), silicone, pigment, resin and human hair. (36 cm x 36 cm x1 8 cm) Courtesy of artist and Sullivan + Strumpf, Sydney. Also: “The Hanging Man” (2005), silicone, fibreglass, aluminium, human hair, pigments (140 cm x … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Gallery Art
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Old Spoke – For Oksep Pokes
OKSEP street art may still be found around Melbourne’s streets and lane-ways. His work is extremely dark and somewhat disturbing. He has borrowed upon Wild Man and has re-imagined it with one of his dark and ghostly characters, grasping him … Continue reading
Posted in SprayCanArt, Street Artists A-Z, StreetArt, Wheat-pastes
Tagged Oksep, street art, street artists
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All the Camp Dogs Sing This Song
Ku (2012) [Natural ochres with acrylic binder on milkwood] by Garry Namponan; and Ku (2012) [Natural ochres and charcoal with acrylic binder on milkwood] by Roderick Yunkaporta. Garry Namponan (born 1960+) is a Ku (camp dog) sculpture artist, home is … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Gallery Art, Sculpture, Textiles
Tagged #Indigenous artists, a, Camp dogs, Garry Namponan, Indigenous art, Jamu, Ku, Lena Yarinkura, Roderick Yunkporta
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Suggett | I’m Going Down the Corridor via an Ex-Goods Repository
Colin Suggett (Born 1945 in Warrnambool) is a mixed media artist who manipulates perceptions of reality with his miniaturized mixed-media models and tableaux that epitomize and parody contemporary technology and its intrusion into modern culture. Working since the 197os, Suggett … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Gallery Art, Performing Art
Tagged Animations, Corridor, Ex Goods Repository, Fictitious Realities, Going Down, Kinetic art
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A Swine Young Family
“The Young Family” (silicone, acrylic, human hair, leather and timber) by Patricia Piccinini. (Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria.) “The Young Family” features an aged, sow-like mother laying on her side with a litter of suckling pups; as an archetypal maternal scene. … Continue reading
Maersk | Warning: May Contain Traces of Smart Art
The cargo painting by artist Jeff Smart is called Study for Containers and Silos at Zivorno (1990), oil on board (41 cm x 53 cm). Jeff Smart (Full name: Frank Jeffrey Edson Smart), was born in Adelaide on 26 July 1921. … Continue reading
Compare the Pair #19 | This is Wild Man
Australian sculptor Ronald “Ron” Mueck (born 1958, in Melbourne) grew up in the family business of puppetry and doll-making. After spending time working in the family industry, Mueck turned to sculpture. He first came to public attention with his sculpture … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Artists A-Z, Gallery Art, Sculpture, Street Artists A-Z, StreetArt, StreetArtists
Tagged #Melbourne, Hyperrealism, Oksep, Ron Mueck, street art, street artists, Wild Man
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Can We Can Do It? | Yes We Can
The Infamous “We Can Do It!” poster which has become a symbol of women’s empowerment has remained popular since its inception in 1942. The original depicts a 17 year old WW2 factory worker who modeled for the poster which was … Continue reading
Posted in Illustrations, StreetArt
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The Art of UNICEF Never Gives Up
[Above: Nicolas Fimbari – The Procession – Italy] The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) provides emergency food and healthcare to children and women in countries that have been devastated by war or other significant emergencies. UNICEF was created by … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Artists A-Z, Cards, GreetingCards, Illustrations
Tagged #Christmas, Greeting cards, Unicef, worldwide charities
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The Hallstatt Karner
Hallstatt is a small village situated in the Salzkammergut region of Upper Austria on the south-western shore of the Hallstätter See (lake). It is home to an extraordinary karner (charnel house) also known as a beinhaus (bone house) which hosts … Continue reading
Posted in Cemetries & Churches, DarkArt, QuestionableArt
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keiichi tanaami
Keiichi Tanaami (b. Tokyo, 1936) has been an active artist, illustrator and graphic designer since the 1960’s. He refers himself to an Edokko (a person born and raised in Tokyo). Tanaami’s early career took him to San Francisco in 1968, … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Illustrations, Oriental Art
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Un-Ironed T-Shirt | I’ve Got One of These Too
[Greg Warburton Self-portrait in Da Vinci T-shirt (2003) acrylic and charcoal and conte on paper on timber 180 x 120 cm.] Greg Warburton (born 1952), trained at Hornsby Technical College and Alexander Mackie College in the 1970s. From 1974 to … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Artists A-Z, Gallery Art, StillLife
Tagged Archibald finalists, Australian artists, Da Vinci, Greg Warburton
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Adelaide’s Landmark Car Park | For Member’s Only
[Car Park: Members Only by Matej Andraž Vogrinčič 22m wide and 22m high was created and commissioned for the Telstra Adelaide Festival of Arts in 2000.] This public installation comprises 15,000 Matchbox toy cars stuck to a brick wall close … Continue reading
Diamonds Are Forever
[Above: The Schomberg Diamond Ring (ca 1855) contains a Brazilian cut diamond (sometimes called cushion cut or old mine cut) of just under 1 carat, set in high carat yellow gold (not hallmarked). It is set in four claws within … Continue reading
Like A Bridge Over Ponded Waters, I Will Lily You Down
Claude Monet is the original artist of the great masterpiece painting Bridge Over a Pond of Water Lillies (1899) oil on canvas 90 cm x 100 cm (Musee Marmottan Monet, Paris) Born Oscar-Claude Monet in France, on 14 November 1840, Monet … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Artists A-Z, OilPainting, Paintings, StreetArt, Watercolours
Tagged Banksy, Claude Monet, Giverney, Monet's waterlillies, Sally Swain
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