5…4…3…2…1981 (by lapiccolafuggitiva)
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Alice Duke. Twelve Brothers. Pencil and photoshop.
Based on the folk tale about twelve brothers who are accidentally turned into crows by their sister.
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Francis Alÿs
The Nightwatch
Surveillance cameras observe a fox exploring the Tudor and Georgian rooms of the National Portrait Gallery at night.
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Illustrations by Louis Wain, English artist and cartoonist who’s mind succumbed to acute schizophrenia in later life and inspired these images.
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12th May 2012
Expressionism
Identified by distortion and exaggeration to relay emotional overtones and message rather than realistic spacial depiction. Formal elements such proportion, depth, colour and brush strokes can be both jarring and evocative. Personal and highly-subjective communication is the foremost goal; the subject matter can be very dream-like hence why expressionism was considered the forerunner to surrealism. Quite unlike Impressionism whereby the objective was to capture the essence of the surrounding world, expressionism is about channelling inner feelings. Greatly inspired by the huge senseless loss of life following the first World War and philosophies of great sceptic thinkers like Nietzche, the result was a great angst and sense of hopelessness amongst artists who looked inwards to draw out their emotional reactions to such hopeless post-war world.
This movement has a relevance to my project and emerging style as I often use my own mental state to shape the forms I create from my subjects. By simplifying images and skewing them mirror their effect on our own psyches it is possible to convey much more than what we merely see with our eyes. Properly executed, such a style should aid in instant comprehending on behalf of the viewer. I will attempt to focus more upon my mental perceptions and translate that into a meaningful and relevant style through my use of application, colour, shape and space.
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A Koala eating an apple for lunch, in Perth, Western Australia. [x]
This Koala is clearly too fucking cool. Look at this motherfucker.
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