Working with a large palette knife and thick globs of oil paint, Tehran-based artist Salman Khoshroo creates large-scale figures and portraits that practically drip from the canvas!
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For the New Torch Bearers
by Millard Lowe They voyaged over many tempestuous oceans and seas; They were pursued in woods by vicious dogs—dogs Salivating stale slave smells of strange fruits In hanging trees. They were hunted, trapped and penned like slimed Wild hogs. They waded rivers—buoyed by the bodies of their ancestors; Footprints left in caked blood on river banks in the golden dawn. Now here we are; standing in the mist of our debtors: flaming spirits from the black phoenix’s spawn. We’re now on the everlasting arm of which the ancestors leaned upon. We are those of which the ancestors long ago spoke; We are the dream that sustained them during their bloody ‘buke and lashing scorn; We are the moored vision and anchor that strengthen them with audacious hope. So come chosen children, everybody gather here around; Let us sit together—talk and pray for just a little while. Like papa, keep your eyes on the prize—not on the ground; Walk well down the blood stained path of freedom’s aisle. Listen children, the battle is not yet won; there’s still much work left for us to get done. Girdle yourselves with that ebony pilgrim’s pride—facing the rising sun of a new day begun. Rise up little children and give rebirth to the words the ancestors said! Rise up little children and cover yourself with the blood they have shed! Rise up little children and rip apart the new veiled shackles and hidden yoke! Rise up little children—raising your torches higher than everlasting hope! You are the new torch bearers of the dream; You are today’s Martin Luther King.
This is the penning titles sequence for the Style Frames Design Conference held last November in New York. Tel Aviv-based artist and animator Eran Hilleli short three-minute video of converging characters is almost too wonderful to describe!
The full trailer for Loving Vincent a film examining the life of Vincent van Gogh, has finally been released after nearly six years of creative development! Each of the 62,450 frames for the feature-length film were hand-painted by 115 professional oil painters, and will integrate 94 of Van Gogh’s paintings into the animation. Unbelievable!!!
Claude-Olivier Guay's sculptures appear like a jumble of wire and feathers folded into a heap, but each hides a remarkable secret. Working only with a pair of pliers, Guay folds, bends, and twists an inner framework of hidden creatures that dramatically transform with a bit of manual manipulation.
From her Website - Rise + Wander: Aftyn Shah is the self-taught artist behind the prints and papercuttings. Although always a compulsive doodler through high school and novice painter in college, she ultimately went into government work and then strategy consulting in Washington, DC. It wasn’t until she moved with her husband and son to St. Louis, MO for a year that she decided to chart a more creative path. Rise + Wander started as a personal reminder to get up and get out, but the hope is to create beautiful and whimsical images that inspire others to do the same. She's fueled by homemade lattés and Thai food, and spends much of her time away from Rise + Wander exploring local parks with her son and husband. She pretty much wants to be Leslie Knope when she grows up. Rise + Wander is definitely a family effort, with lots of support and help behind the scenes. Holly Lucero's art renders wild depictions of doglike animals overgrown with foliage and colorful parasites...they almost seem alive!
There's a patch of old snow in a corner
That I should have guessed Was a blow-away paper the rain Had brought to rest. It is speckled with grime as if Small print overspread it, The news of a day I've forgotten -- If I ever read it. - Robert Frost |
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