Art by Alexandra Rubinstein
An Artist Painted A Bunch Of Famous Celeb Men Going Down On Women. Yes that’s him!
Her name is Alexandra Rubinstine and this is A Dream Come True (Celebrity Cunnilingus) - a series of verrrrry NSFW paintings featuring a bunch of celebrity men going down on women. The series, "was a response to the lack of heterosexual female perspective in representation of sexuality in mainstream media and pornography, which reflect as well as shape the way we interact in real life. I wanted to explore fantasy from women’s point of view," Rubinstein told BuzzFeed.
Rubinstein says she focused on cunnilingus because it's so underrepresented in porn, "which reiterates to the viewer that sex is about men and their pleasure," she said.
And that's the point for Rubinstein. So much visual culture eroticizes and objectifies the female body, she wanted to create something that "draws attention to and eroticizes men, making them the objects of desire, not the women." Rubinstein hopes that people will think a bit differently about female sexuality after viewing her works.
"it's about reframing the way we see female desire and sexuality," she told BuzzFeed. "Sexuality is just another extension of the behavior we expect of women; I think it’s important to recognize that it’s not innately timid, selfless, or non-existent."
DAN STOCKHOLM CLAY BRICKS
Giving architecture sense
Sculpturer Dan Stockholm explores the process of making an object by capturing its performative actions within the work. Just look at this work of Art. By Hand is one of several pieces by the artist. For this installation Stockholm placed negative plaster casts of his cupped hands into a series of red clay bricks.. Some objects showcase both hands and others only hint to a sliver of a finger or palm.
The work was exhibited at Künstlerhaus Bethanien last spring for his solo exhibition HOUSE. You can view more of Stockholm’s sculptural works on his website.
Dan Stockholm (b. 1982) lives and works in Copenhagen and Aarhus. He studied at the Funen Art Academy, Odense DK, Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Frankfurt am Main, and Institut für Raumexperimente, Berlin. Dan Stockholm primarily works with sculpture and objects. His working method involves equal parts: studio work, field praxis and research. He is interested in sitespecificity and in his works he investigates if the site specific can come into existence as something new between site and object. Often different localities are physically present in the works – in a material sense or existing of references. In his latest works he has been working with what he calls Performative Process: A performative execution of his works adding a narrative layer. Activation reactivation and transformation of material is often a part of his working method. His sometimes complicated processes cannot be accessed by viewing the work; but rather through narratives that can be activated in retrospect. This mirrors another interest of Stockholm's, namely that which happens when works oscillate between the seeing act and the imagination.
Dr. Cuerda - Visual Storyteller
Story teller. Photography maker. Geometry seeker. Architecture lover. World explorer.
From the Artist
"I am, above all, an architect. Restless and curious. Ambitious and patient; risky, but coherent. Rated with honors in different subjects of projects along my whole career. Architectural photographer with years of experience and author of short stories and architectural literature, awarded with several prizes in both fields. Interested in audiovisual design and new technologies with an innate facility for learning. Self taught. Energetic, conceived eager for knowledge and designed with an urgent need to work...
I love what I do."
Cal Redback Art
Nature and Individual
Surreal photographs of French artist Cal Redback, based in Paris, explore the relationship between nature and individual, but also the fragility of the human body and spirit through poetic compositions and montages.
Provocative Chinese Photographer Ren Hang Dead at 30
The news comes from friends and collaborators of the artist
Chinese photographer and poet, Ren Hang, has died at the age of 30 of suicide. Ren Hang was born in 1987 in Jilin, China. His unique arrangements of nude models, usually his friends, conveyed a casual eroticism that often earned him censure from the Chinese government, including his arrest. Many people from the art world responded with expressions of sorrow for the loss of this talented young photographer and poet, who was only 30 years old.
Ren’s work has been included in group exhibitions worldwide, and has been beloved by fashion magazines. His work was featured on the cover of Aperture magazine in spring 2015, in its queer-themed issue. On January 27, Ren wrote a few words on Weibo which directly indicated his state of mind. “Wish for every year is the same: to die sooner,” he wrote, later adding, “Hope it can be realized this year.”
"Today we mourn the loss of Ren Hang, a talented and rising young photographer who passed away well before his time," Eli Klein of Klein Sun Gallery wrote on Instagram this morning. "@kleinsungallery was honored to host his solo exhibition last year and send our heartfelt condolences to all of his loved ones."
FAMOUS ARTISTS AT WORK
Less seen images of famous and somewhat less popular painters, sculptors, architects at work.
Small collection of the great artists in the habitat. It is one thing to see their work in museums and completely different angle when seeing them in the process. All these photos are intentionally mixed up – you will find both very famous and somewhat less popular painters, sculptors, architects and even their Muses.
JENNY SAVILLE
SALVADOR DALI
RON MUECK
PABLO PICASSO
MARKUS LUPERTZ
YUE MINJUN
JACKSON POLLOCK
FRANCIS BACON
EDVARD MUNCH
DAVID LYNCH
GUSTAVE CLARENCE RODOLPHE BOULANGER
FRIDAY KHALO
HANS HARTUNG
CLAUDE MONET
ALEXANDER CALDER
MARK CHAGALL
YANNIMA PIKARLI TOMMY WATSON
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE
ANDY WARHOL
Inside Cate Blanchett's and Julian Rosefeldt collaboration in “Manifesto”
Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination
Artist and filmmaker Julian Rosefeldt in his creation of “Manifesto” presents a collage of 20th-century artistic pronouncements, reinterpreted as poetic monologues on screen by Ms. Blanchett. Its North American premiere debuted at the Park Avenue Armory on Dec. 7.
“My idea was to free all the text from the sources, from the dust of art history,” Mr. Rosefeldt said in a telephone interview with NY Times, “to make them perceivable again as fresh and eternally actual.”
The official synopsis reads: “Can history’s art manifestos apply to contemporary society? An homage to the twentieth century’s most impassioned artistic statements and innovators, from Futurists and Dadaists to Pop Art, Fluxus, Lars von Trier and Jim Jarmusch, this series of reenactments performed by Cate Blanchett explores these declarations’ performative components and political significance.”
The project premiered as a multi-screen visual installation at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image in March 2015 Ms. Blanchett appears as 13 characters.
Rosefeldt and Blanchett met in Berlin during the 2010 opening of an exhibition of his work in the Berlinische Galerie.
“I like working with people that I find interesting, whatever their discipline,” Ms. Blanchett said in a telephone interview with NY Times. “I’m very visually inspired, so I’m constantly looking to artists, whether they’re working in film or paper or clay.”
AYA TAKANO ART #ART
AYA TAKANO
Born in 1976 in Saitama, Japan Lives and works in Japan
Artist was born in Saitama, Japan. She grew up reading her father's library of books about natural sciences and science fiction. Takano says she was always fascinated by the unusual forms of nature and animal life and prefers to represent these shapes in her work. Exotic animals and landforms combined with an urban city are common themes in Aya's work. The intention is to show juxtaposition between future and fantasy.
"Floating in a Field of Primitive Life" 2014
Oil on canvas / Huile sur toile
35 3/4 x 46 inches / 91 x 116,7 cm
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"All Was Light" 2012
Oil on canvas / Huile sur toile
6.4 feet x 51 inches / 194 x 130,3 cm
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"The ideal future: bristling water columns connect clouds and ocean" 2011
Acrylic on canvas / Acrylique sur toile
70 1/2 inches x 11.8 feet / 179 x 357,6 cm
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"Present" 2011
Acrylic on canvas / Acrylique sur toile
59 inches x 8.6 feet / 150 x 260 cm
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"On a Moonlight, Their Teeth Painted Black" 2004
Acrylic on canvas / Acrylique sur toile
63 3/4 x 51 1/4 Inches / 162 x 130 cm
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"On the night of departure, black hair flows" 2003
Acrylic on canvas / Acrylique sur toile
7.11 feet x 63 3/4 inches / 242,3 x 162 cm
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dall’abito all’habitat, inspired by Elsa Schiaparelli #Art
Artist statement: I don’t want to put my clothes on someone. I want to put them in her/his mind. For more of her work please visit Mahnaz Ekhtiary
Surreal Fine Art - Tracy Williams #FineArt
An Australian photographer and digital artist, Tracy Williams started in 2011 as a serious hobby photographer, She combines portraiture and photographs of random things and scenery to digitally create magical surreal worlds.
“My journey of learning and discovering has instilled an unquenchable passion for capturing the beauty in the smallest and most ordinary things. I have then adapted my abilities to create magical fine art full of excitement, drama and impossibilities. Creating stories through digital photography prints that are open to interpretation, that connect and have a different impact on each person. Creative portraiture is a great focus of my fine art work and photography; people are so complex and expressive and every person I meet and photograph brings something special to my life. Being able to capture people and create imaginary worlds continues to shape me personally, and as an artist. ”
Images via TracyWilliams.com.au
Somewhere over the rainbow is a Mexican village with an astounding colorful mural #GermenCrew
As Street Art group, Germen Crew and the government of Mexico joined forces to beautify the district of Palmitas in Pachuca in Mexico. The painting aims to unify the community, extending over 200,000 square feet and connecting more than 200 houses. According to the site, “El Macro Mural Barrio de Palmitas” created jobs and helped reduce youth violence during its construction. What do you think about that?
The Germen Crew wanted to bring beauty to an area that was lacking color, and show how public art can make a positive social impact.
Text by JOLIEGAZETTE writing staff
3CM Yung Cheng Lin #Art
Human art illusions address female body modification,artist yung cheng lin, commonly known as 3CM, visualizes themes of women’s issues, social standards, and body modification through a photographic lens. the artist interprets these subjects through simple tools and materials that interact with a human body to reveal a message and convey an idea. red string, push pins and roses literally intersect the female figures in the photographs, creating striking and somewhat alarming visual compositions that come to life through digital manipulation.(via designboom)
Guido Prussia Art #Art
Guido Prussia was born in Genoa 50 years ago. He wanted to become a singer, poet or musician but a twisted fate led him to become a journalist. In a quest to find the better side of this profession, he started to shoot documentaries between the U.S.A. and Australia. He worked in Italy for 20 years, until he decided to move to the United States. His most successful TV program was “Hotel California”; he won't tell you what his least successful one was, but it was the only program abruptly terminated during a commercial break. It was back in the days when a sadomasochist spanking filmed in a shady night club in Berlin could still create a scandal. He wrote several books, but the one he believes to be his best is kept in a drawer; he wants to ensure he has a chance for a posthumous success. His last documentary is called Road to Hollywood and tells the story of a coast to coast trip, from New York to Los Angeles, together with his two best friends: his dogs Baby and Jack. His latest idea has been to dedicate himself to art, ignoring his father's advice from way back when. He likes to play with reality, mixing sacred with profane, old and new, farce and tragedy. For more of Guido's work, visit his website http://www.saatchiart.com/prussia
Azzedine Alaia exhibit at the Galleria Borghese #AzzedineAlaia #Art #Fashion
When it comes to feminine and sexy, no one nails it quite like Azzedine Alaïa. Fashion designer of the ’80s opened Couture/ Sculpture: Azzedine Alaia in the History of Fashion exhibit. It is filled with 65 of his designs on display, including his famous body-con dresses.
Photos by Malina Joseph Gilchrist
Alaïa’s dresses are displayed next to stunning and classic works of art like Caravaggio paintings, Bernini’s “David,” Canova sculptures, and other that make up part of Galleria Borghese’s permanent collection.
Text by Miles Socho
Mario Testino's #TowelSeries
If you’re one of Mario Testino's 1.1 million followers on Instagram, you already know about the famed fashion photographer’s #TowelSeries. If not, you’re missing out on a lot of hot people wearing towels—and nothing else. Mario Testino's Towel Series began when he noticed Kate Moss sat in a white robe with a towel wrapped high around her head on the set of a shoot. She became the muse for the #TowelSeries. Who is your best?
Vogue like a painting at Museo Thyssen Bornemisza #PeterLindbergh
This exhibition encompasses sixty fashion photographs that take their inspiration from classical painting, housed in the archives of Vogue magazine and taken by eminent photographers of the last three decades. Exhibition brings together names from classic photography with talented photographers from new generations, such as: Irving Penn, Annie Leibovitz, Tim Walker, Paolo Roversi, Steven Meisel, Steven Klein, David Sims, Erwin Olaf, Mario Sorrenti, Michael Thompson and Peter Lindbegh, to name a few.
Images courtesy Peter Lindbergh
Oleg Oprisco Fine Art Photography #Art #Photography
It all began at a photolab in a little city called Lvov. He was sixteen and mastered all the stage of printing film and digital photography and all the details of working with color. In 2009 he got his hands on a medium format film camera called Kiev 6C. Perhaps it was then when Oleg knew this is a direction, in which he works to this day.
SUSAN CUTTS arbs PAPER SCULPTURE #PaperDress
Paper is said to have a memory, the creases, wrinkles and folds hold words unspoken or forgotten. In 'who knows where the time goes' the absence of the dancer gives the paper the power to evoke physical and emotional memories.
Jana Pijak Fine Art on Collar
Whether a fan of classic art work or high fashion, one will look elegant when sporting Fine Art on Collar custom piece by Jana Pijak.
Originally from former Yugoslavia Jana Pijak has a background in interior design and like many of us loves fashion, media and popular culture. Her interests lie in art direction, photography and editorial work. Jana loves mystery novels, bad reality television and hip-hop.
Fusion Frames by Darryl Cox
People forget that the frame is part of the art and it does a lot for the canvas. We discovered this artist and fell in love. To purchase his art, please visit http://www.fusionframesnw.com/
“I enjoy constructing Fusion Frames. Seeking out a unique frame and then spending a day in the Central Oregon forest searching for a just right piece of Manzanita wood to blend with the frame is enjoyable in and of itself. Then, each project involves woodworking, painting, a bit of sculpting, and sometimes metal or glasswork. Dedicating the hours of time fashioning a frame that seamlessly incorporates man-made as well as natural elements into a single piece of art that captures so much imagination, is truly rewarding. Tailoring a frame with special, sentimental objects for someone is even more rewarding — it captures so much life!”
Murder can be most foul, but that doesn't mean it can't also be thoroughly fabulous. We talk to Plum Sykes, the Author behind Party Girls Die in Pearls.