Wordless poetry. The art of mime is the poetry of silence. The mimodrama is the narrative that the silence speaks, unfolding through the mime artist as a channel or medium to reflect, a mood, a character, a story expressed through the minimalist forms of facial expression and dance like movement.Unlike other visual artists, the mimeist [...]
Conrad Black has become a media and literary phenomenon since his incarceration in 2008 on financial swindling related charges.More specifically, for obstruction of justice and diverting funds for personal benefit.Ultimately, errand money for a wallet of such Zeusian dimensions. Reasonable doubt or not, and whether justice was served or merely a breach of Kafkian logic [...]
”… the overall effect is one of a primordial stew- a miasma of mythological archetypes from the shared human unconscious, played against a barren American landscape”. Don Van Vliet, aka Captain Beefheart, an icon of experimental music has followed the same aesthetic in his post-modern painting and drawing. As a visual artist, Vliet has also [...]
Fernando Jaramillo is a visual artist who lives and works in Bogota, Colombia. Jaramillo has a very fluid organic style characterized by intense saturated colors. He has done some interesting work with mixed media on photography, oil and acid on metal, oil on wood as well as oils on canvas. His art reflects the ethnically [...]
$99 for hand painted replicas of original art work. Painter, designer and illustrator Cal Schenkel has been offering reproductions of his iconic album cover of Captain Beefheart’s Trout Mask Replica. Both absurd and surreal, the imagery of Trout Mask leaves no-one indifferent. Schenkel is testament to the importance in the music industry to have a [...]
You could make an argument that his death came with a sigh of relief. Robert Capa stepped on land mine in Vietnam in 1954, that put an end to his corporeal and legal life on this earth. He was a romantic,charismatic, a gentleman and deeply saddened, a sorrow and anguish he carried his whole life [...]
Butt Johnson, is a Brooklyn based artist at the forefront of artwork executed in ballpoint pen. His elaborate drawings recall the painstaking work of Baroque and Renaissance artists who worked in metal point. Johnson is inspired by the iconography and visual leitmotifs of the past which serve as a juxtaposition of pop culture overlaying these [...]
George Barr is a master of illustration mainly in the realm of science fiction and fantasy. His original technique involved using ballpoint pen and often multiple colors of ballpoint to create ”inklings” to achieve a mixing of tone. Since the mid-70′s Barr has drawn in single color ballpoint with overlays of watercolor paint to achieve [...]
Ballpoint pen drawings based on photographs ten feet high by three feet wide ? Spanish artist Juan Francisco Cassas has been getting alot of virtual ink for his artwork which are blue ballpoint pen reproductions of photographs he has taken. The draughtsmanship is exemplary but the question of artistic merit has been put into question [...]
”…he never discussed his deepest affections. He suffered behind the scenes from loneliness, insecurity, heartbreak. He died with a camera in his left hand, his story unexpectedly finished. He left behind a thermos of cognac, a few good suits, a bereaved world, and his pictures, among some of the greatest recorded moments of modern history. [...]
