I LOVE BRUSSE

  

 

     

  

 

To broadly continue along the line of street art, here is an excellent  Belgian artist (btw, born in -77). And as you can see his work is all about love. Which is absolutely the best subject for art and that definitely shows in his work. The pictures are from his projects called Streetlove and  Love Injections and also from some canvas work. I don't really know what to say about him, since his work obviously speaks for everything I want to say. Thus, I would encourage you to read his bio, because it's simply fucking funny! In the words of Wooster Collective, every girl should have a romantic guy like him. Lucky me. Enjoy this little dose of lovely street art.

Streetlove is about creating and interaction between people and love represented by objects, words or paintings on the streets, in order to make people think and rethink their relationships, their own situation and love itself.

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Максим Емельянов

Looking again, after such a long break, to good, ol' Dazed&Confused makes me feel good because it is simply impossible to go to their site and not find something intriguing, beautiful, experimental.

And here we go with this Russian photographer. I don't know how to approach these photographs from his project titled Crimea Burning. They are absolutely stunning and there is something, I would say magical if that wouldn't be such a vague word, but spiritual would come a bit closer. One can almost read that spirituality between the lines of Maxim's interview. This is obviously my first impression of this artist but I instantly felt like there is much more layers to his work than the ones our eyes are able to capture. I like the concept of connecting individual things with a bigger something.

"It just happens. Or not happens.

I like long processes with surprising results.

Jump in your hollow, my friend. Show

me your waste. Hold on. Take time.

You can't waste it, just be focused.

You can't stop - all you got is now."

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Storm Thorgerson art

Here's some art by Storm Thorgerson, a British graphic designer and probably a lot of other stuff but I managed to rape my sleeping rhythm good enough this weekend to be unable to go deeper into it. If you like his stuff, I personally think he's really worth checking out because of his artwork for bands like Alan Parsons Project, Peter Gabriel, Led Zeppelin, Mike Oldfield, Pink Floyd (Pink Floyd!!!!)... I guess my dad was a big fan of his work since today I found out I inherited about 40 vinyl records with his artwork on the sleeve and they all look amazing. While browsing through and drooling on them I noticed his name returned a couple of times so I googled the guy and liked what I saw.

I like vinyl a lot. I can't really put my finger on why, I'd like to be able to say I started my collection before it became popular again but that sounds hipster-ish and I don't want to be a fucking hipster. To be perfectly honest I found my dad's old vinyl collection a couple of years ago and that was both the day I decided that my dad actually was a pretty cool guy at some point. Somewhere in the 70's but still.
There's also this great discussion about 'the sound of vinyl' that I don't really feel like going into today (let's blame my laziness on a mix of tiredness and cheap whiskey with the amazing name 'Old Smuggler' - came with a free whiskey glass - the combination makes sound a bit arrogant while the only thing it actually does is making me not care that mu

Blah, I'm not making sense. Let me just close the parentheses because I seem to have a slight OCD with opening/closing those fuckers:
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And show you the artwork before I forget. Damn I fail at blogging properly.

K

And one of my all time favorite album covers:

(Pink Floyd - The Delicate Sound of Thunder)

OLD POST // A Lyric A Day... Beeeeeautiful!

Here is an excellent artist. I really liked his whole idea for this project so make sure you'll check it out. This was a project for 2010 but looks like it might be finally finished, haha.

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I stumbled upon something quite beautiful in my opinion. An everyday project called A Lyric A Day by Luke Beard. He is a 22-year old (I think, at least used to be) Graphic and Web designer from England, so it's really nice to see there's some hope left in that country... JUST kidding!


Anyway, in his own words "This is my everyday project for 2010. Taking one lyric from a song every day and creating art or taking a photo inspired from that lyric."


Very beautiful and clever idea, although it sounds like a lot of work, haha. But it's a beautiful and genius way to combine music with pictures or with something else. This stuff really got to me and I'm sure I'm going to be enjoying it. Check out more of his work!


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OLD POST // WASSILY KANDINSKY

Grouping 1937

The Great Gate of Kiev 1928

Moscow 1 1916

Fugue 1914

Composition IV 1914

Group In Crinolines 1909

Autumn Landscape With Boats 1908

So, I used to write this other blog in the previous chapter of my life but I stopped. The thing is though that I have there some posts that I would want to share here, so in case you're wondering "WTF IS THIS?", that's exactly what it is and the 'old post' in the title will always make it clear that I used to be awesome and blog about awesome stuff but now all I can think of is lolpics... Heh. Enjoy.

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Wassily Wasilyevich Kandinsky, born on 4^th December in 1866, was a Russian painter and a graphic artist. He is considered to be one of the first creators of pure abstraction in modern art. It seems like he travelled a lot as a kid, since young age he played the cello and the piano and also drew with a coach. But it was not only until he was 30, after his law and economics studies, that he decided to actually become an artist.

Well, thank god he did because his work is absolutely amazing in my opinion.

In general colours are very close to my heart (for some odd reason), and his paintings... They just fill me and make me feel satisfied. The tone of the used colours is just perfect, it is strong but not annoying.

I think one could just keep looking at his work, in a way the eye rests on the paintings, makes one feel very satisfied, calm. I simply love the feeling it brings.

Besides painting he also wrote three books concerning the subject; Concerning the Spiritual in Art, Rückblicke, Point and Line to Plane.

"Colour is the key. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano with its many chords. The artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically."

- Wassily Kandinsky

"The true work of art is born from the 'artist': a mysterious, enigmatic, and mystical creation. It detaches itself from him, it acquires an autonomous life, becomes a personality, an independent subject, animated with a spiritual breath, the living subject of a real existence of being."

- Wassily Kandinsky

"Color provokes a psychic vibration. Color hides a power still unknown but real, which acts on every part of the human body."

- Wassily Kandinsky

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