Art with a sense of humour that works is a rare breed, and Brandon Bird\’s work really hits the nail on the head. Check it out here.
Category: take art
I know very little of this artist – I have this firefox plug-in that throws up sometimes seemingly random wikipedia entries at the side of my searches and this was one of those serendipitous discoveries. I was immediately struck by Read more…
The very thing which Tracey Emin is celebrated for in some circles is the same thing for which she is crucified in others – the fact that she has the artistic integrity or pig-headedness to plough her own furrow is Read more…
Eric Gill is one of those artists where you have to divorce your feelings about the art from your feelings about the person – that is if you think the art merits such an effort. I have to admit that Read more…
I think, probably like a lot of people, I came to Giger through Alien and the amazing creature designs which he did for that movie. How much less of a movie would that have been without the aesthetic that he Read more…
I think I found Fernando Chamarelli using stumbleupon to browse Flickr so it was one of those wonderful fortuitous moments that occasionally lead us somewhere that we are going to enjoy visiting many times. His profile describes the influence of Read more…
It may strike some people as strange if I admit that I know very little about the artist himself and that I was never overly bothered to find out about him. In the same way that I can watch an Read more…
I actually think I became aware of Egon Schiele at the same time that I became aware of Gustav Klimt and I wouldn\’t be surprised if this was a common pairing. Stylistically you can definitely see some grounds for comparison Read more…
I think as much as anything that Jamie McKelvie writes it is his design work which I find so fascinating and compelling — it is not something that everyone who puts comics together pays much attention to. I think it Read more…
Talking of the wondrous hyperlink bounce — the internet led me here from, of all place, facebook. Metatextual reading, the idea that you read books in an associative web of links set up by references and influences, obviously takes on Read more…