post artwork that I find interesting

the drunkeness of noah

“Have you really the courage to go into the wide world with me? asked the chimney sweep.”
illustration for Hans Christian Anderson book, 1916.

Almond Branches in Bloom, San Remy, 1890.

Trinidad Fernandez, 1907, Oil on Canvas

Illustrator

Norval Morrisseau, also known as Copper Thunderbird, is an Aboriginal Canadian artist.

Shaman Artist

Statement: With the creation of hundreds of drawings, Zsako’s Heads project viscerally investigates how far away from a literal representation of a human head an image can get while still preserving the presence of a recognizably human form. People have a natural ability to distill human features from the most unlikely sources; clouds or driftwood can suggest the most believable likeness to a face. Zsako attempts to use the language of painting to play with this ability of human perception. With a few brushstrokes of paint, some stains and a few scribbles, he can evoke not only a human presence but also a unique personality.

Passage Study, Blue, 2005
Acrylic on canvas, 36” x 24”

http://www.matsuokastudios.com/index.html

Moses, 1945

“In the extraordinarily detailed painting Moses, 1945, the sun is presented as ‘the centre of all religions’. The composition is divided into three registers, which consist of images of gods in the upper section and portraits of ‘heroes’ below, including Alexander the Great, Martin Luther, Napoleon and Hitler, whom she called ‘the lost child’. At the bottom are the masses, and scenes relating to the process of evolution. The painting was inspired by an essay by Sigmund Freud that made a link between Ancient Egyptian beliefs, Moses and the origins of monotheistic religion. The infant Moses has been given the third eye of wisdom, a device Kahlo sometimes used in her portraits of Rivera.”

http://www.fridakahlofans.com/index.html