Only the New (art)

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Bamalam:

Hema Upadhyay
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/hema_upadhyay.htm?section_name=new_india

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You can't stop the art:

Heather Tweed
http://heathertweed.blogspot.com/

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has she seen Inland Empire?

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Stuart Brisley - not sure why i like this but i do   

Cf. Francis Bacon's famous study after Velazquez



(Which, incidentally, inspired classical composer Mark-Anthony Turnage's "Three Screaming Popes")

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Anish Kapoor:

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Eric Joisel origami

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Thanks Grazioso:

Can't get enough:

Svetlana K-Lie
http://en.artoffer.com/Svetlana-K-lie/

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Paul Flora

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Thanks Grazioso:

Can't get enough:

Svetlana K-Lie
http://en.artoffer.com/Svetlana-K-lie/

That reminds me of the intricate mechanical beast sculptures by Jessica Joslin:
http://jessicajoslin.com/jessica/

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There are a lot of things about this world that i don't really wish to see. Art for me is a way to escape some of the ugliness of reality by losing my consciousness into something greater, something eternal. I remember the first day i read Kafka, i mean really it, with real understanding, i was just taken back by how sadistic it really was. That was the day i sort ran afoul with modernity in art, literature and to some extended music.

At any rate, here's a few paintings by illustrator Norman Rockwell. Not genius, but he has one of the best techniques i've ever seen:





I think it was Nabokov who said Rockwell's great technique was wasted on such light subject matters, but i find his work enjoyable nonetheless. Amusing that he suddenly became a "serious" artist when he chose to paint on the subject of racial segregation:



Really tells you how superficial the modern mindset really is.

Rockwell's works lost a great deal by being mass reproduced as covers for the Saturday Evening Post. If you have a chance to see some of his originals, some of them are much more subtle than might appear from the reproductions. Can't provide specific examples here, but when I saw a show of about 40 of his works at the Nassau County Museum here on Long Island, I was really blown away by the man's technique.
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I'm a big fan of the intricate ink drawings by Daniel Zeller, which have been likened to topographic maps and have some of the improvisatory qualities of jazz:
http://www.madeinslant.com/2010/10/daniel-zeller-draws/

The first piece on that page is in my collection, and so is the top center piece by Shane Hope shown here:
http://shanehope.info/?paged=5
Hope's work has to be seen up close, however, because a miniature reproduction of this 24"x18" piece (many of his works are a lot larger, but consequently much more expensive) completely fails to capture its incredible detail. As the dealer who sold me the piece insisted, his work must be seen with a magnifying glass. These are all computer-generated images, with a hard surface lamination, and I've likened his work to a digital Jackson Pollock.

More figurative, if you saw the Bravo show Work of Art, was the work of Ryan Schultz, who works very painstakingly and slowly, and thus couldn't complete a work within the tight time frames of the realtiy show. I think he was the most talented person there, however, and his portraits - always of strung-out young people, addicts, junkies, losers - are handled with a spectacular eye for color and composition that reminds me, as in this one, of Ingres:
http://ryanshultz.com/slideshow/16.html

I didn't buy that one (it was very expensive), but it was quite impressive when I saw it at a Brooklyn gallery.

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Paul Flora

Not the most complex stuff in the world, but I really like these. The mood or vibe of these is really nice.

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Not the most complex stuff in the world, but I really like these. The mood or vibe of these is really nice.

You might also like these fine detailed drawings of half-animate, half-mechnical beasts by Duane Hosein:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/duanehosein/2061350969/in/set-72157603901108378/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/duanehosein/2151788021/in/set-72157603907158213/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/duanehosein/2236513656/in/set-72157603901622724/

I was lucky to pick up the first two of these when he was selling them on etsy for almost nothing; he's gotten rather more expensive now. But I especially like the Poseidon piece, which I think is one of his most successful.

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You might also like these fine detailed drawings of half-animate, half-mechnical beasts by Duane Hosein:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/duanehosein/2061350969/in/set-72157603901108378/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/duanehosein/2151788021/in/set-72157603907158213/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/duanehosein/2236513656/in/set-72157603901622724/

I was lucky to pick up the first two of these when he was selling them on etsy for almost nothing; he's gotten rather more expensive now. But I especially like the Poseidon piece, which I think is one of his most successful.

Cool! I like those, too! 
It seems like some type of style, but without a name. Just black and white, and with an austere mood, but not deliberately so- the pictures are almost humorous-looking.

I look at these and they remind me of something, but I'm not sure what. Maybe movies I've seen when I was kid, but those movies were in color, so it's hard to figure out what they remind me of.

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Cool! I like those, too! 
It seems like some type of style, but without a name. Just black and white, and with an austere mood, but not deliberately so- the pictures are almost humorous-looking.

I look at these and they remind me of something, but I'm not sure what. Maybe movies I've seen when I was kid, but those movies were in color, so it's hard to figure out what they remind me of.

Possibly some of the drawings of Edward Gorey.

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Thanks a bunch Taxes and Poco.

For the morning: Asencio
http://henryasencio.net/

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For the morning: Melanie Yazzie
http://www.glenngreengalleries.com/Artists/myazzie/index.html

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Duane Hanson..............

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Thanks for the contribution offbeat!

For the evening: Robert Hudson
http://www.franklloyd.com/dynamic/artist.asp?ArtistID=9

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Zhang Xiaogang



http://www.artnet.com/artists/zhang%20xiaogang/