Author: ultrawolvesunderthefullmoon

https://www.instagram.com/wolvesofgray This blog is a refugee and a survivor of the Great Tumblr Inquisition of December 17th, 2018. I am gay artist, who received training at the Rhode Island School of Design, and now, a retired high-end fine art framer living in Maryland, USA. My interests and studies in life run a wide gamut from art to history and from the scientific to the esoteric. I have been building this blog of images and texts for the last eight years. My wish is that my posts pique the interest of viewers and encourage them to experience more.

Peter Samuels

Animal Photography by Peter Samuels

Photographer Peter Samuels is based in San Francisco. He was a commercial photographer and now photographs woodland creatures and animals.

“…animals have been evolving as the strongest body of my work with lots of press, accolades and a growing amount of fine art print sales. So finally at the start of this year, I called it and owned up to the animal genre. As someone whose prior focus was product, people and animals, deciding to specialize has been ironically liberating, allowing me to hone my skill set and continually strengthen my work.”        – Peter Samuels

Bertrand Russell: “We Think the Grass is Green”

Photographer Unknown, (The Green at the Center)

“We all start from “naive realism,” i.e., the doctrine that things
are what they seem. We think that grass is green, that stones
are hard, and that snow is cold. But physics assures us that the
greenness of grass, the hardness of stones, and the coldness of
snow are not the greenness of grass, the hardness of stones, and
the coldness of snow that we know in our own experience, but
something very different.”

-Bertrand Russell

Mariano Vivanco, “James Franco”

James Franco by Mariano Vivanco, Photo Shoot

Mariano Vivanco is a Peruvian fashion and portrait photographer whose photography was inspired by the works of Steichen and Horst. He moved to London in 2000 to pursue his career as a fashion photographer. Since then he has become a leading editorial phototgrapher, shooting for such magazines as Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Numero Homme, GQ, and Muse Magazine.

His portraits, nudes, and editorial work are often in black and white using the simplicity of light and shading to form examples of pure photography. The above images are taken from Mariano Vivanco”s tribute to Robert Mapplethorpe with the cover story for the Spring/Summer 2012 issue of GQ Style Germany starring actor James Franco.

Emanuele Roncov

Paintings by Emanuele Ronco (Rems 182)

Italian artist Emanuele Ronco (better known as Rems 182) of Truly Design produces graffiti works that blur the line between reality and surrealism. His latest creations include portraits that present multiple perspectives of a person’s face and hands that tend to blend into one another. There’s a softness to each image that allows the various expressions to complement each other while revealing the complexities of human emotion.

Rems 182’s murals are highly symbolic. They offer thought-provoking visuals that push the viewer to wonder which face is any given person’s real one. Is it just one of them or are they all real? The artist also includes images of skulls in his collection, symbolizing both death and rebirth.

Phil Greenwood

Phil Greenwood, “Morning Moon”, 1973, Lithograph, 40 x 47 cm, Private Collection

Phil Greenwood was born in Dolgellau, Wales, and studied at the Hornsey and Harrow Colleges of Art. He was taught by some of Britain’s finest contemporary artists – Ken Howard RA, Charles Bartlett RE, RWS and the late Christopher Saunders RA. After an initial career in teaching he became a full time printmaker in 1971 and has been exhibiting both nationally and internationally for the past forty years. He is widely acknowledged as one of the countries leading printmakers.

Phil’s extraordinary ability to capture and convey the atmosphere of a landscape is fundamental to his work. His economical use of colour is heavily belied by rich and vibrant pieces that are exquisitely designed. With quiet mystery he is able to portray both the complexity and simplicity of natures double-edged personality and beauty.

With work hanging in many private and public collections through out the world Phil regularly exhibits at the Royal Academy and the Bankside Gallery. He has also exhibited work at the British Embassy in Brussels, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Tate Gallery, London.

Fabien Mrelle

Fabien Mrelle, “Pentateuque”, Fiberglass Resin Sculpture, 2013

The work of French artist Fabien Mrelle involves creative combinations of dreams, experiences, and his early childhood imagination. He blurs the line between reality and fiction. In his biography, Mrelle states: “Following the unrolling of a dream, playing with the free association of shapes and ideas, he seems to say that everything is transforming, metamorphing, opening itself to the most diverse interpretations.”

The life-size version of Fabien Mérelle’s “Pentateuque” was exhibited in Hong Kong’s Statue Square Garden from May 21 to July 6 in 2013. Presented by Edouard Malingue Gallery, the five-meter-tall statue made of resin and fiberglass depicts an elephant balanced on the back of a man. The male figure was cast from the body of the artist himself, while the elephant is modeled after one at the Singapore zoo.

“The work brings to real life Mérelle’s imaginary world, which lies between a dream and the existent,” says Jennifer Caroline Ellis from Edouard Malingue Gallery. “It’s implausible, yet, one comes to question whether it’s conceivable.”

“Pentateuque” refers to the first five books of the bible and the sculpture humorously alludes to the human propensity for carrying the weight of the world on one’s shoulders, metaphorically bending over under the burden of religion, culture, and society’s expectations.