Sasha Kurmaz, Ukrainian, photographer .
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mercredi photographie: Sasha Kurmaz
Mercredi 4 avril 2012mardi de jérôme: Willem de Kooning
Mardi 3 avril 2012Willem de Kooning is one of my favorite painter. I know that I have been writing that statement many times and, in all honesty, I probably will be declaring it again. I have always been intrigued and mystify by the macho/badass painters, particularly de Kooning and Pollock. Their lives were fueled by hard-drinking and their action paintings feels like all the anger in the world was thrown on the canvases. De Kooning mastery resides in his way of creating gestural figures that might look abstracts, but they are asking you to make an effort, to take your time and look closely, then slowly you discover his lifelong affection for body, most importantly the woman’s body, as well as landscape and city scenes. Everything in the image seems to be merging and constantly moving. He pushed Picasso’s idea that we can possibly experience a figure in many different viewpoints, into something clearly expressionistic and surrealistic.
jeudi suggestion
Jeudi 29 mars 2012
Purienne
Mercredi 28 mars 2012South African Henrick Purienne is the founder of Mirage Magazine. You might also recognize his work from several campaigns he did for American Apparel. Not that I am totally fond of the AA aesthetics, I believe that Purienne’s images are really interesting for their vintage sexiness.
Davis Rhodes
Mardi 27 mars 2012“ Rhodes’ artistic practice connects with the tradition of abstract painting review, carried out primarily by Blinky Palermo: as Palermo, Rhodes also explores the conflict between autonomy and heteronomy of the work and tries to update the mystical and utopian scope of the radical abstract painting of prewar avant-garde.”
Michelle D’Aurizio, The End Magazine, #17.
Terroir
Lundi 26 mars 2012Terroir is a bespoke bi-annual magazine that seeks to collaborate with and showcase Singaporean perspectives on travel and what various places meant to them.
jeudi suggestion
Jeudi 22 mars 2012
Elena Kholkina
Mercredi 21 mars 2012
Vincent van Gogh
Mardi 20 mars 2012Vincent van Gogh only lived to be thirty-seven. We all know him as the mystical figure, the suffering artist that only reached fame after his controversial death. While reading the Van Gogh’s Letters, The Mind of the Artist in Paintings, Drawings, and words, 1875-1890, I found myself deeply moved by van Gogh’s will to constantly improve himself as an artist. This correspondence between him and his brother Theo lays all the foundations of his vision about art and life. It is a very interesting document for all of you that are interesting in getting a little insight into the mind of a genius and a visionary.
The Surfer’s Journal
Lundi 19 mars 2012The Surfer’s Journal has nothing to do with any other types of surfing publication. It is a high quality magazine that refuse to promote the corporate brand-driven aspect that is now way to present in surf culture. Instead, they focus on all aspects of wave riding, all surfing art forms, personalities, profiles and the past, the present and the future of the sport. They also make surf books; Masters of Surf Photography Series with books on Art Brewer, Tom Servais, Jeff Divine, Warren Bolster and Ted Grambeau. Other books include the Pioneer Series, with books on the surf photography of Leroy Grannis, John Severson, and Ron Church. They describe their layout and graphics as timeless and elegant, putting all of the emphasis on content, rather than on flashy trendy designs. The Surfer’s Journal is one of the rare sports publication that is run on authenticity, passion for the surfing culture and values that are going against commercialism.
