Marcelo Daldoce started painting at 16. Three years later he dropped out of school to as he simply puts, “stay home to paint by myself.” “I always liked to draw when I was a kid, but I never really thought about pursuing it,” the artist explains. “In high school, a friend suggested I apply to a Magnet School for the arts. I guess when I actually got accepted I realized I could make a living with art.”
Lady Aiko might just be a pin-up herself. The artist launched her solo career in 2006 with works on canvas that incorporate collage, stenciling, brushwork, spray paint, and serigraphs. This bricolage technique perfectly suits AIKO’s eclectic practice of voracious mash-up of Japanese and American pop culture, soft-corn porn and erotic art.
It’s officially spring. The birds are chirping. Pimps and players are flirting. And the girls? Well depending on who you ask, they run the world. It wouldn’t be spring without a tribute to the girls, girls, girls.
Atlanta based, SoCal born artist Chris Hobe recently sent me these images of his latest work. His mixed media work finds the artist giving 70′s and 80′s pin up and commercial art a fresh take. The artist tells me he’s involved in the design and branding of an artistic movement called ARTISTIC REVOLUTIONARY THREAD (A.R.T). Check out more of his work after the jump.
After his participation in The Art of Porn exhibition held in Switzerland in 1997, Brian M. Viveros has seen his stock in the contemporary art world rise. Brian M. Viveros is Art Nouveau Magazine's Artist of the Week.
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