Jakub Kujawa

Jakub Kujawa jakub kujawa! jakub kujawa! I wish I could post every picture he has ever created.


Jakub is a brilliant painter/illustrator from Poland.

His illustrations are mostly digital art scifi or fantasy.

He does very loose oil paintings of portraits, hands, feet, bodies with a strong emotion running through.




His oil is so loose that it almost looks like the painting cannot hold itself togther.
And his painting style suits the cold, clamy dispair
this oil sketch to the right, 'Marta sketch'.
I love how he paints with cool grays, blue, purple, pink
while still making the skin very flesh like.

Another thing he likes to do is extreme poses that distort the body. Like hands pressing hard against the face, hands clasping each other behind the back and all kinds of scrunched up positions.

His paintings are not comforing or plesent, but they are raw. raw emotion, raw oil. It sounds cliche, but I could look at them for hours.



Jakub's website: http://kujawa-art.carbonmade.com/


Nailone, Jakub's dA account: http://nailone.deviantart.com/

Paolo Domeniconi

Fratello Krishna - Perle Indiane - Satyagraha Onlus

Storie dei cieli del mondo.

Paolo Domeniconi is an Italian illustrator. But beyond that, I do not know much about him, because his website is written in italian.

All I know is that I deeply appriciate his style in drawing people, his bright contrasting hues, and his really gorgeous fuzziness to his illustrations.

He paints digitally, but imitates real canvas.

Website: http://www.domeniconi.it/
Blogspot: http://paolodomeniconi.blogspot.com/

Sil van der Woerd and Lolly Blue Jane

A surreal filmmaker.

Above are screenshots of Sil's White Swan

Sil is a director from the Netherlands.

He has studied at Artez Institute of the arts in Arnhem, Netherlands and Gnomon, School of Visual Effects in Hollywood.

Since his making of the short, Worms, and collaberation with the singer, Lolly Blue Jane he started making very visual films around song. Basically music videos. His vidoes utilize many different disciplines across the art spectrum including: music, dance, fashion, animation, computer generated images, and more I'm probably forgeting. There are so many layers of richness that you can't help but watch them till the end.

The stories are deceptively simple. 'Duet' is about a dragonfly flying around a dancing woman. Sil's discription of his work on Youtube: "Modern and classical merge in a sky-blue scenery at the first peep of dawn..." How in the world this is ment to be interpreted is based on the viewer.

There was one interpretation I was not aware of untill I read the comment of a user by the name

FooYouAnastasis82:

". . . the girl is making the dance choreograpnhy look beautiful because it's a result of her trying to avoid the getting stung by the fly, however in the fly's perspective, he can't touch her because she is dancing. But her perspective is "avoidance". She the question is, who's the master of their art? the girl or the fly?"

Conversations about Sil's work could go on and on and that is what I really like about it. His visuals are phenomenal and well coupled with the music. And no matter what story he is telling it has you pondering the meaning and psychology of it long after watching.

Sil's website: http://www.silvanderwoerd.com/

Sil's Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/microbiaNL

Lolly Jane Blue is the singer/actress/character in 'Worms' and 'White Swan'

Lolly's MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/lollyjaneblue

Edward Gorey

Edward Gorey. 1925-2000. Illustrator

It's kind of hard to find complete galleries of his work online, but I found the picture 'Painted Devils' here: http://www.goreybibliography.com/galleryframeset.html

Gwen John

Gwen John. Top picture: 'A Corner of the Artist's Room in Parix.' Bottom picture: 'La Chambre sur la Cour.'

Element of her work that I like include texture, mood and her composition.

Tom Friedman

A conceptual sculptor. The piece above: 'there' 2001 paper cube splat.

Franz Kline

Franz Kline, an Abstract Empressionist. My favorite AE artist. His black and white paintings are visually pleasing. I find them very relaxing like the color green. Surprising, because his compostions are dramatic, with severe contrast between the hard black strokes and blocky white negative space.

Here is an excerpt from Stella Paul's essay on Abstract Expressionism on Metmuseum.org, explaining 'gesture' in a way I couldn't convey in my own terms:

" . . . Other colleagues, including Krasner and Kline, were equally engaged in creating an art of dynamic gesture in which every inch of a picture is fully charged. For Abstract Expressionists, the authenticity or value of a work lay in its directness and immediacy of expression. A painting is meant to be a revelation of the artist's authentic identity. The gesture, the artist's "signature," is evidence of the actual process of the work's creation. It is in reference to this aspect of the work that critic Harold Rosenberg coined the term "action painting" in 1952: "At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act—rather than as a space in which to reproduce, re-design, analyze, or 'express' an object, actual or imagined. What was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event." "

Paul, Stella. "Abstract Expressionism". In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/abex/hd_abex.htm (October 2004)

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/abex/hd_abex.htm

Kline's paintings: events, not pictures. I couldn't put my finger on what I liked about AE before researching it. But when I was first introduced to action paintings from the movement I just got a feeling 'this is meaningful' and I didn't know where it came from.
Kline's giant brush strokes
The areas of smoothness, the dry hairs scratching the canvas, the muddy white from painting white over black in a purposfully translucent way. His work is not a spoon-fed transaction from eye to brain. It is something more than the image itself, it's an expression that everyone can read differently.





Franz Kline on Artchive: http://www.artchive.com/artchive/K/kline.html