Sculpture - Roxy Paine

Maelstrom

I love these crazy tree sculptures created by Roxy Pain. They really capture the controlled tangle that makes up tree branches. Also, the interest and tension that he puts into the poses gives each piece its own individuality.

Inversion

Also, check out these videos about his work.

Wheel Thrown Porcelain - Jennifer McCurdy

YIN YANG EGG #1

"Emotion fills me when I see perfect forms in nature, from the cracked conch shell on the beach revealing its perfect spiral, to the milkweed pod burst in the field, its brilliant airborne seeds streaming into the sunlight. The ordered symmetry and asymmetry of nature’s forms reveal the growth of life, the movement of life." -- Jennifer McCurdy

CONTOUR VESSEL #1

"As a potter, I strive to make my work reflect the balance of life around me. It is important that the patterns I see around me are integrated into my forms." -- Jennifer McCurdy

Sculptor - Magdalena Abakanowicz

Agora

"Art needs somebody to listen to its message, somebody to desire it, somebody to drink it, to use it like wine - otherwise it makes no sense." -- Magdalena Abakanowicz

Seated Figures

"I feel overwhelmed by quantity where counting no longer makes sense. By unrepeatability within such quantity. A crowd of people or birds, insect or leaves, is a mysterious assemblage of variants of a certain prototype, a riddle of nature abhorrent to exact repetition or inability to produce it, just as a human hand can not repeat its own gesture." -- Magdalena Abakanowicz

Sculptor - Anish Kapoor

Cloud Gate

Anish Kappor is a contemporary sculptor that I found out about recently while browsing wikipedia. Check out his online gallery.

As if to Celebrate I Discovered ...

His work is almost always monochromatic and is often brightly colored. He has also done several large scale pieces such as "Cloud Gate" and "Taratantara".

Geometric Abstractionist - Nadir Afonso

Deux Styles

"Searching for the absolute, for an art language in which shapes possess a mathematical rigorousness, where nothing needs to be added nor removed. The feeling of total exactitude." -- Nadir Afonso

"I start with shapes, still arbitrary. I put ten shapes on the frame; I look at it and suddenly a sort of spark ignites. Then the form appears. Color is secondary, used to accentuate the intensity of the form." -- Nadir Afonso

Moscow

I don't feel smart enough to write any actual content...

Commercials - Sony Bravia

Sony Bravia made a stop-motion commercial in 2007 featuring 190 brightly colored plasticine rabbits. Produced by Fallon and Passion Pictures, this is probably the best advertisement I have ever seen and if you haven't watched it (or any of their other videos) you should.

While watching, keep in mind that they do not use any computer animations!

Hooray for short Friday posts!

Canadian Painter - Gloria Blatt

Going On Forever

Gloria Blatt is a contemporary artist whose work is characterized by bold brush strokes and vivid color choices (as you can see above and below). A native of Toronto, Canada she began studying art in her home town. After studying in Toronto she completed her art degree at the Ontario College of Art and Design. Now Ms Blatt is able to work as a full time artist, with her pieces spreading overseas.

What I really find fun to look at are her abstracts and cityscapes, especially "Going On Forever", "Night Vision", "First Snow", and "Look Both Ways".

Look Both Ways

This is one I would really love to own...