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Paintings by Konstantin Lupanov
Born in 1977, Konstantin Lupanov studied at the Krasnodar State University of Culture and Art. He lives and works in Krasnodar, Russia. This talented artist calls his paintings “fun and irresponsible garbage.” Konstantin Lupanov paints what he loves. The primary subjects of his paintings are his friends, acquaintances, relatives, and his beloved cat, Philip. “The simpler the subject”, says the artist, “the truer the painting”.
Photographer Unknown, (Black Straps and Birds Flying)
“It would have been hard for Fat Charlie to say exactly when the accumulation of birds on the wire mesh moved from interesting to terrifying. It was somewhere in the first hundred or so, anyway. And it was in the way they didn’t coo, or caw, or trill, or song. They simply landed on the wire, and they watched him.”
Photography by Aurelio Monge
Born in Andalucia, Spain, Aurelio Monge is a versatile visual artist whose portfolio is inspired deeply by Baroque painters and other Old Masters of Romanticism, Academism, and Symbolism especially Caravaggio, Ribera, Velazquez, David, Gericauld and Bouguereau.
His work also focuses on the human figure impregnated by his enthusiasm for Greco-Roman culture and Classical sculpture particularly Phidias, Lysippus, Michelangelo, Cellini and Giambologna.
He likes to take care of the composition and framing. Taking advantage of natural light and grain textures at high sensibilities. Capturing the motion. Playing with the expressive possibilities of the models or the sculptural artworks.
Influenced by his own experience with death and the work of Duane Michals and Bill Viola, he is developing several series into the world of videoart that he reserves for future exhibits. Narrative sequences without beginning or end, back and forward in a loop, proposing different logical interpretations and allowing the viewer a sense of recognition and draw their own conclutions. Simple ideas whose theme revolves around concepts of life and death, body and soul, despair and calm, visible and unvisible, nothingness and eternity.
Wallace and Gromit, “The Wrong Trousers”, 1993
“The Wrong Trousers” is a 1993 stop-motion animated short film directed by Nick Park at Aardman Animations, featuring his characters Wallace and Gromit. It was his second half-hour short featuring the eccentric inventor Wallace (voiced by Peter Sallis) and his silent but intelligent dog Gromit, following 1989’s “A Grand Day Out”, and preceding 1995’s “A Close Shave”.
As in “A Grand Day Out”, the thirty-minute film uses sight gags and exaggerated physical comedy and quiet moments, as well as a few subtle film parodies. The film premièred in the United States on 17 December 1993, and the United Kingdom on 26 December 1993. It won the 1993 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.
The Aardman animations are some of the funniest films out there. Wallace and Gromit films are my favorites. “Chicken Run”, another film from Aardman Animations, is a great film about chicken escaping their coop (with references to Steve McQueen’s “The Great Escape”) and loaded with lots of sly humor. Lots of work and time go into making these films; worth seeing them all.
Photographer Unknown, (Fallen Tree with Moss)
Deborah Roffel, Untitled, (Man and Horse)
Deborah Roffel is a photographer living and working in Leek, The Netherlands.
Photographer Unknown, (The Young Stag), Photo Shoot
“Your growing antlers,’ Bambi continued, ‘are proof of your intimate place in the forest, for of all the things that live and grow only the trees and the deer shed their foliage each year and replace it more strongly, more magnificently, in the spring. Each year the trees grow larger and put on more leaves. And so you too increase in size and wear a larger, stronger crown.”
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Photographer Unknown, (Wilderness Road)
Illustration by Andrew Davidson
Andrew Timothy Davidson, born on the 13th of May 1958, is a British artist. He has illustrated two novels by Ted Hughes: the 1985 edition of “The Iron Man” and the 1993 “The Iron Woman”. Davidson also illustrated the 2002 edition of Jack London’s “The Call of the Wild”.
Hughes and Davidson won the 1985 Kurt Maschler Award for “The Iron Man”. The British award annually recognised one “work of imagination for children, in which text and illustration are integrated so that each enhances and balances the other.”
Kyle Thompson, Untitled, (Black Smoke)
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Illustrations by Nicolas Delort
Nicolas Delort is an award-winning illustrator currently living in the grey suburbs of Paris. Gathering inspiration in the daily and mundane as well as books and any kind of narrative medium, Nicolas endeavors to tell stories, big and small, by working on strong, evocative and intricate black and white compositions.
His work has received the Gold Medal from The Society of Illustrators, and has been recognized by American Illustration, 3×3, Juxtapoz, Supersonic Electronic and This Is Colossal. Some of his clients include Blizzard Entertainment, Games Workshop/The Black Library, Quirk Books, Tor.com and Solaris Books.
Photographer Unknown, Model Unknown, (Black Knit Hat), Photo Shoot
Photographer Unknown, (The Abandoned Truck)
“There must be different kinds of loneliness, or at least different degrees of loneliness, but the most terrifying loneliness is not experienced by everyone and can be understood by only a few. I compare the panic in this kind of loneliness to the dog we see running frantically down the road pursuing the family car. He is not really being left behind, for the family knows it is to return, but for that moment in his limited understanding, he is being left alone forever, and he has to run and run to survive.”
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Tyler Bollman, Untitled, (Staircase), Date Unknown, Gelatin Silver Print