Dream Sequence, again!

10/07/2013 by chicquero

Madame Peripetie explores the boundaries between fashion, sculpture and the human body, experimenting with various fabrics and patterns; whilst infusing high-fashion elements with abstract and conceptual ideas, creating an eccentric escapade of color and texture. In her work she is focusing mainly on the interaction between body, language and new media. Her inspirations include surrealism, dadaism as well as the new wave era of the 80s, British post punk scene and the avantgarde theater of Robert Wilson. Check it out the other Dream Sequence!! “All that we […]

Categories: Artsy, Fashion • Tags: art, avant garde, cool, dream, Fashion, Madame Peripetie, photography, surreal

Ashes to Dust!

10/03/2013 by chicquero

I am Dust + Time of War by Olivier Valsecchi (2009-2012) Inspired by Ovid’s definition of Chaos – a confused mass of liquid and fog, order and disorder, light and darkness – the “Dust” (2009) and “Time of War” (2012) series, part of the “I am dust” project, are about incarnation, resurrection, rebuild what was destroyed, struggling for life. Olivier Valsecchi was born in Paris in 1979. Revealed to the public eye in 2010 by  DUST,  this series earned him the prestigious Hasselblad […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: art, ashes, body, cool, dust, human, naked, Olivier Valsecchi, people, photo, photography

Funny vector art!

09/25/2013 by chicquero

Nabhan Abdullatif is an omani graphic artist and illustrator, mainly into conceptual illustration and vector art. He’s currently working for a media and advertising agency. Nowadays, his artwork has become so popular in internet world and he generously shares his portfolio with us via his deviantart page. Enjoy! “The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation” Hilton Kramer YOU MAY ALSO LIKE Cute, clever and quite bitter Stuff no one told us Want VS Need Perfect minimal world Bubble Talk

Categories: Laugh • Tags: art, cool, Design, funny, geek, illustration, laugh, minimalist, nabhan abdullatif, vector art

Palette knife and oils

03/28/2013 by chicquero

Leonid Afremov (born 12 July 1955 in Vitebsk, Belarus) is a Russian–Israeli modern impressionistic artist who works mainly with a palette knife and oils. He developed his own unique technique and style which is unmistakable and cannot be confused with other artists. Afremov is mainly known as being a self-representing artist who promotes and sells his work exclusively over the internet with very little exhibitions and involvement of dealers and galleries. The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. Friedrich Nietzsche […]

Categories: Artsy • Tags: art, artist, arts, artsy, beautiful, colorful, illustration, impressionism, knife, Leonid Afremov, modern, oil, paint, paintings

Artistic street murals

02/14/2013 by chicquero

Sao Paulo-based street artist Eduardo Kobra creates fantastic large scale murals that are filled with vibrant color and life. Below, we’ve also included a few more select murals that the artist has completed over his career.   “Art is an evolutionary act. The shape of art and its role in society is constantly changing. At no point is art static. There are no rules.” Raymond Salvatore Harmon, BOMB: A Manifesto of Art Terrorism YOU MAY ALSO LIKE Cool strokes Maps and Illustrations […]

Categories: Artsy • Tags: art, arts, artsy, brazil, colorful, Eduardo Kobra, illustration, large art, murals, painter, sao paulo, street, street art, street artist, urban, vibrant

Dancers among us!

01/23/2013 by chicquero

“The inspiration for this book came to me one afternoon as I watched my son, Hudson, playing with his toy bus. I was trying to keep pace with his three-year-old mind as he got deeper and deeper into a fantasy involving nothing more than a yellow plastic box and armless figurines. At least that’s what I saw. He saw frantic commuters rushing to catch the 77 local bus to Australia. He jumped in place, mouth open and slapping his knees, joyously reacting to […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: art, arts, ballet, beautiful, city, contemporary, cool, dance, dancers, dancers among us, dancing, movement, people, photo, photography, urban

My body is a landscape

12/04/2012 by chicquero

Californian photographer Jean Paul Bourdier creates haunting photo graphics that show his viewers the environment from inside out by painting the bodies of the models, which makes them look like one with the desert landscape. Bourdier is the author of Bodyscapes (introduction and dvd by Trinh T. Minh-ha), co-author with Trinh Minh-ha of Vernacular Architecture of West Africa, Habiter un monde, African Spaces and Drawn from African Dwellings. Production designer of seven films and co-director of two films directed by Trinh T. […]

Categories: Artsy, Photography • Tags: abstract, art, arts, artsy, beautiful, body, colorful, desert landscape, Jean Paul Bourdier, landscape, modern, painted, paintings, people, photography

Burning Matcheads!

11/26/2012 by chicquero

David Mach studied at the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee from 1974 to 1979 and subsequently at the Royal College of Art, London from 1979 to 1982. Mach is a Scottish sculptor and installation artist. David’s artistic style is based on flowing assemblages of mass-produced objects. These impressive works of art are the result of meticulous work with thousands of tiny, colourful, Japanese matches which have been used to portray famous faces and recreate legendary artworks. However, despite his hard work […]

Categories: Artsy • Tags: art, arts, artsy, burn, cool, David Mach, fire, head, match, matches, matchsticks, sculptures

Hyperphotos

11/14/2012 by chicquero

Jean-François Rauzier, French artist, born 1952. Fascinated by photography from an early age, Jean-François Rauzier graduated from the School Louis Lumière in 1976. He has since been working as a professional photographer, while developing a personal creative work. J.F Rauzier was immediately captivated by numerical photography when it penetrated the professional market 15 years ago. He has been exploring the multiple opportunities offered by computer’s retouching since then, turning himself into a “virtual” painter. In 2002, he created the “Hyperphoto”, a concept […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: architecture, art, arts, artsy, city, cool, Design, digital, Europe, hyperphoto, Jean François Rauzier, manipulation, photo, photography, photoshop, retouching

Pencil Shavings

11/12/2012 by chicquero

Marta Altés (Barcelona, 1982), studied graphic design in Barcelona and after working there as a graphic designer for almost five years, Altés decided to pursue her interest for illustration. The artist moved to England and joined the MA in Children’s Book Illustration at the Cambridge School of Art. Such a simple idea, but illustrator Marta Altes has made it into an artsy series of work, pencil shavings at its finest. “The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser – in case you […]

Categories: Artsy • Tags: art, arts, artsy, book illustration, cool, illustration, Marta Altes, pencil, pencil shavings

Photo impressionism

11/07/2012 by chicquero

Josh Adamski has captured stunning images and turned them into works of fine art with his keen eye. He was born and raised in the UK and is now based in Israel. Much of Adamski’s work is focused around water as he lives near the beach and draws inspiration from the sea. After a photograph is taken, editing takes place to make the image more abstract and turn it into something even more powerful. The colors that Adamski brings out […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: abstract, art, artsy, beach, colors, fine art, images, impressionism, josh adamski, ladscape, nature, people, photo, photography, stunning, sunset

Girls, tattoos and attitude!

10/10/2012 by chicquero

Source: Tattoo Style pinterest.  Check it out: Guys, Tattoos and attitude! “I am a canvas of my experiences, my story is etched in lines and shading, and you can read it on my arms, my legs, my shoulders, and my stomach.” Kat Von D >>>YOU MAY ALSO LIKE<<< Guys, Tattoos and attitude! 4th of july girls Leather Fetish Eternal Instinct  Do what you want Tattoed temptress

Categories: Artsy, Fashion • Tags: art, beauty, body modification, cool, Fashion, girls, girly, idea, ink, inked, photography, skin, style, tats, tattoo, tattoos, woman

Flesh and acrylic

10/08/2012 by chicquero

“Flesh and Acrylic” is Ben Heine’s latest project (started in 2011). Ben creates abstract acrylic paintings on large wooden panels. The main idea is to create a surface blending the model with the background. Indeed, the particularity of the project resides in the fact that a living person is integrated in the artwork and is part of the whole composition. The end result is often wild and very colorful. Once the painting is finished, Ben takes pictures of it. The photos […]

Categories: Artsy • Tags: abstract, acrylic, acrylic paint, art, arts, artsy, Ben Heine, blending, body, colorful, flesh, large, modern, paintings, panels, people

Virgin POP Mary!

10/05/2012 by chicquero

French artist / sculptor Soasig Chamaillard created a polemic series of pop culture characters, from found or damaged miniature statues of the iconic Virgin Mary. “I grew up in a Christian Western society. My perspective on life has been a result of my environment and background. The playful interaction of society’s many icons, physical transformations, and the resulting improbable combinations, have culminated in my vision of a woman’s role and place in our society. This inner questioning of a woman’s role, has led me to use […]

Categories: Artsy • Tags: art, artist sculptor, characters, christian, controversy, critics, faith, polemic, pop culture, sacred icon, sacred icons, saint mary, sculpture, Soasig Chamaillard, virgin Mary

Fallout of urban sprawl

09/18/2012 by chicquero

Daniel Danger is an illustrator and printmaker working out of New England. Amidst old houses dead from the fallout of urban sprawl, railway bridges asleep from neglect, and trees that engulf everything; his work attempts to remind you of something you may have said to someone, or something someone may have said to you; back in that time period thats just too far away to remember clearly, but not so long ago you forgot about it completely. His memories and many […]

Categories: Artsy • Tags: abandoned, art, arts, artsy, daniel danger, dark, fallout, ghosts, illustration, old houses, printmaker, urban

Sexual and playful posters

09/07/2012 by chicquero

. Pablo Alfieri is an Art Director and Graphic Designer from Buenos Aires Argentina. After working as an art director in local studios he decided to create his own place “Playful” where he dedicates all his passion for graphic design illustration and typography.  In his “Insert Coin Poster series”, the sexual connotation and his love for playful moods and colorful pieces are screaming out loud. Love his creativity and the use of signs to promote the Brazilian event, the last […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: art, brazil, colorful, graphic design, insert coin, pablo alfieri, photography, playful, posters, sex, sexual, sexual connotation, sexy

Minimalist art movements

09/02/2012 by chicquero

French Graphic designer, Outmane Amahou has created a series of minimalistic posters for your viewing pleasure, in which he pays tribute to major art movements, and iconic painters throughout history. Instead of focusing on the work of individual artists, Amahou decided to tackle entire movements in his very ambitious series. Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. Pablo Picasso >>>YOU MAY ALSO LIKE<<< Coolest minimal movie posters Dissected artists My face is a […]

Categories: Artsy, Design • Tags: art, art movement, artist, arts, cool, graphic design, illustration, minimal, minimalist, outmane amahou, painters, paintings, poster

Leather kids

08/31/2012 by chicquero

Sabi van Hemert, lives and works in Rotterdam. Hemert creates sculptures that are a fusion between child and animals. Her sculptures have a quality of alternately denying and confirming what you think you see in them and what feeling they give you. Because it is not immediately clear what you are seeing, the relation between viewer and sculpture is more complex. “I create images that evoke associations with people and animals. I imagine the balance between the many conflicting feelings and thoughts […]

Categories: Artsy • Tags: art, arts, artsy, child, cool, kids, leather, sabi van hemert, sculptures

Bubble Talk

08/28/2012 by chicquero

Cool drawings about talking by the artist Tang Yau Hoong. Speech bubbles are graphic convention used most commonly in comics, cartoons or illustrations. Instead of putting words into it to represent speech or thoughts of a character, what if the speech bubble itself has its own expression and characteristic? In this series of illustrations Tang wanted to explore the possibilities of telling a story/ message by speech bubbles graphically, without words or as least words as possible. Life is far too important a […]

Categories: Design, Laugh • Tags: art, bubble, cool, drawing, fun, funny, graphic design, humor, illustration, speech, speech bubbles, talk, tang yau hoong

Spitting on Capitalism!

08/06/2012 by chicquero

Tom Sachs is a sculptor, probably best known for his elaborate recreations of various Modern icons, all of them masterpieces of engineering and design of one kind or another. A lot has been made of the conceptual underpinnings of these sculptures: how Sachs’ sampling capitalist culture, remixing, dubbing and spitting it back out again, so that the results are transformed and transforming. Equally, if not more important, is his total embrace of “showing his work.” All the steps that led […]

Categories: Artsy • Tags: art, artist, brands, capitalism, capitalist, contemporary, culture, Fashion, modern, sculpture, tom sachs, weapon

Guys, fashion and graphic design!

08/04/2012 by chicquero

. MJXMB is a creative collaboration between photographer Monsieur Jerome and Design Studio Manhattan Born. Can’t wait to see what’s coming, I’m in love with their artwork! Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. Mark Twain >>>YOU MAY ALSO LIKE<<< Guys, TATTOOS and attitude! Photography and illustration Fashion Photo manipulation Food and fashion Mash-ups Leather Fetish Mustache Monday

Categories: Design, Fashion • Tags: art, clothing, design studio, Fashion, graphic design, guys, illustration, manhattan born, men, MJXMB, Moda, monsieur jerome, street style