Art
May 15, 2013

Powerful Contemporary Oil Portraits by Mark Demsteader

Looking at these paintings is like staring through a foggy window on a rainy day. Soft emotion in blurry form pours out of these feminine portraits by artist Mark Demsteader. The Manchester-based contemporary figurative artist is a self-taught master of the human form. His oil on canvas pieces feature pale figures set against a dark background. The dramatic contrast produces an elegant beauty that has captivated his audience in recent years.

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Art
May 14, 2013

Color Saturated Beauty by Neil Krug

Neil Krug blurs the line between art and photography with his latest series “The Young One.” LoveCat Magazine paired the Los Angeles-based photographer with gorgeous model Lauren Marie Young for an editorial that will soon be released. The photos shown here are the outtakes that Krug did not submit to the magazine because he ended up shooting more than he needed for the spread. In Krug's words, “the best is yet to come.

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Art
May 11, 2013

Soothing Audiovisual Installation of Waterfalls

Berlin-based Japanese artist Ryoichi Kurokawa creates a unique audiovisual experience of standing in a waterfall indoors with his installation titled Octfalls. By placing eight suspended panels, each featuring an HD video of water refreshingly cascading down a cliff, and accompanying them with the relaxing sounds of water streaming across rocks, Kurokawa simulates an immersive experience that is “one of a thousand ways to defeat entropy.

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