Month: September 2016

Juliusz Martwy

Juliusz Martwy, ‘Self-Portrait with Alex”’, Acrylic on Linen Canvas, 2014

Juliusz Martwy, born Juliusz Lewandowski, is a self-taught artist who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1977. He began his career with illustrations for an edition of French writer Isidore Lucien Ducasse’s “The Songs of Maldoror”, written under his nom de plume Comte de Lautréamont,  and illustrations for the works of Marquis de Sade. Martwy draws inspiration for his work from the figurative styles of expressionism, cubism, the New Objectivity, and Russian traditional painting.

An important part of Juliusz Martwy’s collective works are the autobiographical threads, through which he presents the universal problems of human nature. He deals with social, political and moral issues in his paintings, both historical and contemporary, such as the past civil war in Spain and the current political situation in Poland. Apart from multi-faceted genre scenes, Martwy paints intimate figurative portraits within spaces that depict small narrative, often erotic, incidents.

More of Juliusz Martwy’s work and contact information may be found at the artist’s Behance site:  https://www.behance.net/juliuszlewandowski

Penny Dreadful

Penny Dreadful

Cast: Eva Green, Josh Hartnett, Timothy Dalton, Reeve Carney, Billie Piper, Harry Treadaway, Rory Kinnear,

Originally a Showtime series, available in its entirety now on Netflix Streaming. A great three season series with witches, werewolves, demons, Dorian Gray, Victor Frankenstein, and of course Dracula. Great acting, suspense, great story with increasing horror and anxiety, and some hot actors. Watch it if you get a chance.

London Spy

Artist Unknown, (Ben Whishaw and Edward Holcroft), “London Spy”, Computer Graphics, Gay Film Gifs

“London Spy” is a British-American five part television series created and written by Tom Rob Smith that aired on BBC Two from November 9 until December 7 in 2015. It was also aired on Netflix in 2018.

The series begins as the story of two young men: Danny (Ben Whishaw)—gregarious, hedonistic, and romantic—falls in love with Alex (Edward Holcroft)—asocial, enigmatic, and brilliant. Just as they discover how perfect they are for each other, Alex disappears. Danny finds Alex’s body. They lived very different lives: Danny is from a world of clubbing and youthful excess; Alex, it turns out, worked for the Secret Intelligence service.  Although utterly ill-equipped to take on the world of espionage, Danny decides to fight for the truth about Alex’s death.

Ben Whishaw played Daniel “Danny” Edward Holt; Edward Holcroft played Alistair “Alex” Turner

 

Matthew William Robinson

Matthew William Robinson, Three Untitled Paintings, Mixed Media, 2011

Robinson grew up in a small town in northern Connecticut, the area was affected by the housing boom of the 1990’s. He spent his early college years in Johnstown/Gloversville,ny, and New Britain Connecticut. Both areas were post industrial cities, now depressed areas that displayed elaborate and beautiful city structure but left to waste away. Later, Robinson moved to Brooklyn where he became interested in gentrification, historical architecture and surrounding topics of urban living. “My work is a thought process, study of man made worlds and study of formal painting.”

Nicholas Christopher: “It Was a Riveting Face”

The Faces of Man: Photo Set Three

“After seeing it on the street, I was afraid I had only imagined it: a still, luminous face with a silvery sheen. Finely hewn, with a long, straight nose and a wide mouth, it was nearly identical to another face, which I had photographed years before. Not on a person, bu on the fragment of a frieze I found in some ruins near Verona, The frieze, which depicted a band of musicians, had once been shadowed beneath a cornice high on the temple of Mercury, god of magic. Belonging to one of the musicians, it was a riveting face – like a puzzle that could not be solved.”

― Nicholas Christopher