Amazingly talented illustrator Ricardo Cavolo has shared a drawn interview on his site. Using just two colors, he illustrated his love for Mexico, his favorite quote, his passion for illustration (without it, he’d be a cadaver), and how he thinks that art makes the world prettier. All beautifully done!
Make sure to check his site for more of his interesting art, he’s got a distinctive style filled with symbolism and that’s very colorful and rich in details.
French street artist JR, the 2011 TED Prize winner has made good use of his wish of making a global art project that would turn the world inside out. Indeed, since then, the site for the project has been launched and anyone can upload their portraits and receive a print that they can paste up around the city.
“INSIDE OUT is a large-scale participatory art project that transforms messages of personal identity into pieces of artistic work. Upload a portrait. Receive a poster. Paste it for the world to see.”
Besides the obvious message of empowerment of Inside Out, the artist’s first destination was quite symbolic too given that it was Tunisia after the massive manifestations that led to Ben Ali’s fall. Portraits of Tunisian people were plastered over the same walls that used to feature the dictator’s portraits.
It’s a testament to the power of art helping people re-appropriate the city and regain control over symbolic public places. Find below the first episode documenting the project (we’re promised many upcoming episodes), and some pics of Inside Out in Tunisia. Beautiful and inspiring project!
Based in Bangkok, photographer Cedric Arnold has worked for many famous clients like The New York Times and The National Geographic Channel, not to mention portraits of many celebrities. He uses many photographic mediums, which make his portfolio of work very rich, and I particularly liked his documentary pictures as they are quite intense.
His photographic installation “Sacred Ink” features black & white photographs, as well as sound and video projections, that look into Thailand’s tattoo culture, the rituals attached to it and the people taking part in it. Powerful photographs with an extremely beautiful use of light and composition.
“Known in Thai as “Sak Yant”, the tattoos are a testament to the complex spiritual makeup of Thai society, incorporating elements of Buddhism, Animism, Brahmanism and Hinduism.”
(via Ink Butter)
Lora Zombie is a graffiti artist and painter who masters an amazing illustration style. She uses mostly ink and watercolor with a beautiful treatment of the lines and colors. The subjects depicted look like they came out of fantastical twisted fairytales, and her artworks are often witty and stark commentaries, with some humor. Check out her site here, and below are some of her work and a video of the artist at work, which gives a bit more insight on how her pieces come together.
Mike Guppy‘s Selected is a series of animated gifs, kidnapping the subjects of famous paintings and replacing them with the “marching ants” line used in softwares like Photoshop to signal a selection of pixels or part of a picture.
“Examining the relationships we have with images online by revealing how easily images can be changed with technology. History could essentially be altered if the reproduction of images lose information as they are endlessly copied.”
(via Notcot)
Amazing photographer Cindy Sherman has collaborated with MAC on their new limited-edition line, which will be available in stores in September. She has produced 3 different color photographs for them. I have always loved her work, and I think that she is a true master of her art whether that is photography or playing the personas that she poses as.
From the press release for the collection:
“With the help of props, makeup, prosthetics, wigs and sets, artist Cindy Sherman embodies this Power of Transformation—from off-kilter Hitchcock heroine to fresh corpse, Caravaggio Portrait to Park Avenue Plastic Surgery Maven—all elaborate exercises in trying on different personas.
In the campaign we’ve longed forever to conceive, Cindy Sherman for M·A·C created three characters using three different colour stories. We’re living in a time when people of all persuasions have become bolder than ever about the ways they choose to express themselves: with a colourful palette of possibilities, You are the Artist, You are your own Subject, and no matter how fearfully you begin, you become fearless in the process.”
(via Flavorwire)
Stellar is a very interesting and beautiful project by Ignacio Torres using gif animations, go here for the full set.
“This project began from the theory that humans are made of cosmic matter as a result of a stars death. I created imagery that showcased this cosmic birth through the use of dust and reflective confetti to create galaxies. The models organic bodily expressions as they are frozen in time between the particles suggest their celestial creation. In addition, space and time is heightened by the use of three-dimensional animated gifs. Their movement serves as a visual metaphor to the spatial link we share with stars as well as their separateness through time.”
(via Notcot)
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