What’s art to an architect? Better yet, is an architect an artist? Does the matter of functionality pose an obstacle for creativity or does it simplify the process by sculpting necessary guidelines? Can a craft so technically inclined coincide with the limitless imagination?
What’s pretty in 2011? In a time where there is just as much hate and backlash for every chime of ‘love yourself, you were born this way’, I’ve asked this question myself. So, what is pretty in 2011? It might look something like a walking billboard if you ask me. But Los Angeles based artist Erik Mark Sandberg has a brighter vision.
When a married Arlene Groden (Joan Allen) tells her house guest, William Gibbs (Jim True-Frost), that although it’s nice he’s expressed his love for her, it can be accounted for by the power of New Mexico, I knew I would express my love for this understated, eccentric, and satisfying film. While the two male heroes, Gibbs and Arlene’s husband, Charley (Sam Neill), are both depressed in the clinical sense, the film is not about depression but rather the forces of devotion and simplicity that keep these retro-hippies functioning in a remote world somewhere around Santa Fe, Taos, and El Paso.
Justin Blyth has been working in design, motion graphics, print, advertising, art direction and film for the good part of 10 years. It’s no wonder the Los Angeles born, Amsterdam based designer’s style is so strong, even when bouncing from clients as diverse as Nike, Playstation, and Flaunt Magazine, he still manages to maintain his signature aesthetic.
Aakash Nihalani‘s street art work consists of mostly isometric rectangles and squares. The Brooklyn based artist selecticly places these graphics around New York to highlight the unexpected contours and elegant geometry of the city itself. For however brief, the artist is offering viewrs a chance to step into a different New York than they are used to seeing. This momentary escape from routine is needed. “People need to understand that how it is isn’t how it has to be,” the artist explains in his artist statement. Take a closer look at Aakash’s work below.
Every now and then I stumble upon a piece of art that stops me dead in my tracks. That happened during my recent trip to Atlanta. While walking downtown, I came across this piece by an artist who’s still unknown to me. Needless to say, I was dumbfounded. I stopped for at least ten minutes to marvel and take photos at the massive piece. This is what Street Art is about.
From the creative mind behind Art Nouveau, comes a new art statement. But this time its wearable. GREATeclectic embarks upon another adventure that will appeal to the artist in you. There’s nothing cooler than being cool, and now you can become an art collector.
Observe a crisp delicacy in the act of isolationism.
Listen to the cunning precision in an absence of sound.
Pause where desolation of space coincides with character lost.
And whatever you do… do not disrupt the quiet.
Mike Reedy takes the artist’s anatomical study to the next dimension; literally. Exploring from the inside out, he has strung together a collection portraying man at his very core and sculpted an evolution of the overlooked naked state of mind. Dissecting what he identifies to be the admittance of his subject’s being and leaving no room for glorification, Reedy twists the triviality of this traditional art.
Artist and llustrator Neža Agnes Momirski explores the process of a repetitive thought in her latest project Indefinite Heroes. The body of work which includes four fashion illustrations, is according to the artist, “about reducing a collective meaning of an image to a singular one, by contrasting personal symbolism to fashion industry.” In four illustrations, she has destroyed the notion of perfection. “The narrative is build on a thin line between the inner and the public world, with a consistent use of an invented symbol, which is veiling the faces of the models,” she later adds.
Star Trak taught Marcus Johnson. It’s apparent when browsing through the 27-year-old artist’s portfolio which is filled with awesome renderings of Pharrell Williams, N*E*R*D, The Clipse and Fam Lay. Marcus isn’t solely biased to the Star Trak camp, with a pencil and paper as his weapon he releases an arsenal of images of other notable Hip-Hop figures such as Jay-Z, Big Sean & Drake. Take a closer look at Marcus’ work after the jump.
Artist Appreciation
Talent is an art that only the chosen few possess, whether it’s writing, singing, playing an instrument or being able to bend your legs behind your back. Having a certain talent separates you from others who may or may not possess it in the same way that you do, so when a person decides to capitalize on their ability, it is something to be admired.
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