Painting

June 12, 2016

Exquisite Paintings Render the Beauty of Nature in Drips, Dots, and Dazzling Color

In the Yarra Valley, east of Melbourne, Australia, artist Clair Bremner lives surrounded by what she calls a “natural tangle of vegetation.” In her dazzling paintings, she portrays the lush and labyrinthine landscape in a way both whimsical and reminiscent of reality, conveying the shape-shifting, shade-changing textures of the natural world. Bremner wields her brush with both loose intuition and delicate intention.

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March 12, 2016

Andrew Salgado’s Intense Eye Paintings Extract Order from Chaotic Colors and Forms

Andrew Salgado continues to develop his artistic talents, effortlessly producing multi-faceted, vibrant paintings on a regular basis. He has a unique eye for blending unexpected splashes of colour with reduced forms to create a relationship between his audience and painted models. With bold brush strokes and geometric shapes, Salgado extracts order from chaos to create his characteristic, emotionally charged portraits. Salgado's painted eyes impress an awareness of the infinite.

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December 9, 2015

Photorealistic Paintings of Complex Architecture Meticulously Capture Depth and Detail

British painter Ben Johnson takes architectural realism to the next level. The London-based artist is best known for his large-scale and intricately detailed cityscapes, but his more recent foray into the world of architectural space has yielded some incredibly accurate representations that evoke feelings of past traditional painters. Each piece is focused on realistic precision, with an intense attention to detail that creates an artwork that appears more photograph than painting.

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November 8, 2015

Characters from Classic Paintings Are Inserted into the Modern World

Ukrainian artist Alexey Kondakov unites the past and present by giving characters from classic paintings the chance to explore our modern world. The artist skillfully utilizes Photoshop to insert vintage muses in stores, on buses, on stairwells, and in the midst of urban alleyways for his ongoing series titled The Daily Life of Gods. Each image perfectly juxtaposes the paintings' soft lines and subtle coloring with the harsh, blunt elements of urban locations.

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My Modern Met

Celebrating creativity and promoting a positive culture by spotlighting the best sides of humanity—from the lighthearted and fun to the thought-provoking and enlightening.