Month: April 2017

Markus Reugels

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Photography of Markus Reugels; Paint Splash Series

German artist Markus Reugels specializes in high-speed and macro photography. By isolating the basslines from techno tracks, Markus captured these incredible and brief moments of explosive colour.

He placed a transparent scrim over the diaphragm of a speaker. Then he chooses a song and cranks up the volume, making the splashes of colour jump to the beat of music, all the while capturing it on camera. His playlist varied from Miles Davis to Karlheinz Stockhausen to Kraftwerk.

Klimas spent around 6 months and 1,000 shots to finish the series in his studio in Dusseldorf, Germany. He says he owes his body of work to the influence of Hans Jenny, the father of Cymatics, the study of sound waves and vibration.

A Morning Refresher

Photographer Unknown, (A Morning Refresher)

“It was the hour in which objects lose the consistency of shadow that accompanies them during the night and gradually reacquire colors, but seem to cross meanwhile an uncertain limbo, faintly touched, just breathed on by light; the hour in which one is least certain of the world’s existence.”
― Italo Calvino, The Nonexistent Knight and the Cloven Viscount 

Lucian Freud

Lucian Freud, “Man with a Feather (Self-Portrait)”, 1943

Lucian Michael Freud was a British painter and draftsman, specialising in figurative art, and is known as one of the foremost 20th-century portraitists. He was born in Berlin, the son of a Jewish architect and the grandson of Sigmund Freud. His family moved to Britain in 1933 to escape the rise of Nazism. He attended Goldsmiths College, London, from 1942-1943..

His early career as a painter was influenced by surrealism, but by the early 1950s his often stark and alienated paintings tended towards realism. Freud was an intensely private and guarded man, and his paintings, completed over a 60-year career, are mostly of friends and family. They are generally somber and thickly impastoed, often set in unsettling interiors and city scapes.

The works are noted for their psychological penetration and often discomforting examination of the relationship between artist and model. Freud worked from life studies, and was known for asking for extended and punishing sittings from his models.

David Sarazhin

Denis Sarazhin, “Pantomine 3″, Oil on Canvas

Denis Sarazhin was born in Nikopol, Ukraine in 1982 . He attended the Kharkov Art and Design Academy, graduating in 2008. He specialized in painting and was a pupil of Ganozkiy V. L., Chaus V. N., and Vintayev V. N.. Sarazhin was awarded with the 1st Degree Diploma Award for Excellence in Painting from the Ukrainian Art Academy. Since 2007 he has been a member of Kharkov’s section of the association of Ukraine’s Artists’ Alliance.