Carl Oxley III

Carl Oxley (the third) is one of the most positive artist I have stumbled upon - not only are his works bright, colourful and funny but his mission is to make his art available to everyone who likes it. For me - totally worth looking at!

Source: http://www.popartmonkey.com/gallery/gallerymain.html

Classic Artist of the Week #6 - Aubrey Beardsley

What can someone living only a quarter of a century achieve? The most hardly graduate and start their careers serving burgers. Others, like Aubrey Beardsley, start a new movement in art, befriend the most influential writers of his times and become one of the most renown artist of late XIX century.

Beardsley was born in 1872 in England. After leaving school, he worked in an architect's office until he decided that a career in art is something worth pursuing - and he began working on it furiously. In the six remaining years of his life the son of an English noble went through various stages, different stylistically from each other and illustrated a lot of books.

Influenced by Matisse and Japanese prints, Beardsley's drawings were often innovative, expressive, erotic, grotesque and most of the time, shocking to the audience. Using only ink and only one colour he contrasted black and white, details and plainness, bright and dark. His works can be felt and understood at the same time.

Aubrey Beardsley died of tuberculosis at 25 years old.

Amy Crehore - Paintings

I've always been curious about mixing sources of inspiration - in fact, living in post-modern era, taking from the past and forging it into something new is pretty much the only option. The works we feature today resemble styles of Cezanne, Léger and Dali at the same time. No wonder that Amy Crehore is one of the most popular illustrator today.

Source: http://www.amycrehore.com/

Weekly Interview #6 - Kimberly Brooks

Tell us about yourself and your work.

I am a painter who blends figuration and abstraction to convey certain ideas.  I keep a studio in Venice, California.

 

 

 

What got you started? What keeps you in?

I don't remember a time when I didn't identify with being an artist, but as a child I worked in pencil and pen.  I would make fantastical drawings and as a child I would make everyone sit for me so I could draw there portrait.  My journal was a sketch pad and it was filled with pictures and words in equal parts.  Then when I was eighteen, I started buying tubes of paint.  I just wanted to hold a tube of cadmium red or cerulean blue.  It took me a few years to actually use the paint.  It was like I was harboring a secret.  Once I started, I couldn't stop and I never will.

What/who inspires you? In what way?

I am inspired by people who are fearless. I am inspired by so many other things -- religious art, Indian Miniatures, great literature and fashion.  But in the end, it's always people.  

What is art for you? Examples of "real art"?

Real art is art that inspires me, moves me or tilts my view of the world in a different way.

 

 

 

The most powerful/your favourite medium: picture, words, sounds? Anything else?

 

For receiving, I have no favorite medium.  For giving, I favor painting and occasionally words.

 

 

 

Plans for future (of your work)?

 

I'm unspooling like a long thread from figuration and leaning towards abstraction.  I'm interested in that middle place where it's neither here nor there and both at once.

 

 

 

Anything you'd like to add? Maybe a song, a picture, hello to friends and family?

 

Thank you, Simon, for helping me share my work.  In the end, art is all about sharing.

Dan Lyndersen

Dan Lyndersen mixes classic Renaissance masterpieces with modern themes and pop culture. Fast-paced, surrealistic and visually rich works take us into a land where we see, that, after all, regardless of times and culture, we are all human.

Source: http://www.danlydersen.com

Chris Hagerty - painting

You can see colour screaming from Hagerty's works - but this time, the works are not about the colour itself, but it is rather a medium to draw attention and symbolize the fall of contemporary culture. The culture where shopping malls mix with bombed Baghdad, where killing people is displayed in TV just like another form of entertainment.

Source: http://chrishagerty.com

Kiwilicious Jewelry #6 - Elsa Peretti

Besides being famously beautiful, Elsa Peretti, ex-model from Florence is also one of the best, world-famous jewelry designer. During her extended work for Tiffany & Co. she has created many well-known collections, the dreams of American teenage girls (I want them too - S., the regular witer). These designs are mostly soft, lustrous and minimalist hearts, rings, little drops, stars or apples/After Mrs. Peretti's retirement at the age of 72, the income of Tiffany & Co. dropped by 10 percent.