Stuff I really dig And you all really should see ♥
Lazy Sunday, nursing a cup of coffee and doodling Jason Todd on every surface available, The Neme felt inspired for some RECs.
I want to share here the works, and also some words, of two artists that more often than not leave me staring and breathless with their stuff. Let's start with the most modern of the two: Alexander Korzer Robinson [gallery]. My sources will have it that Mr Korzer Robinson used to express his art in a different way, before. But the reason why I LOVE him, are his book sculptures.
As per his own statement: "I am an artist from Berlin now living in Bristol. Drawing from a background in psychology, my art practice focuses on the notion of the “inner landscape”. Using generally discarded materials, I make objects as an invitation to the viewer to engage her/his own inner life in order to assign meaning to the artwork.
The cut book art has been made by working through the books, page by page, cutting around some of the illustrations while removing others. The images seen in the finished work, are left standing in the place where they would appear in the complete book. As a final step the book is sealed around the cut, and can no longer be opened."
Guuuuuuuuuh. *_*
Another artist I feel the need to advertise, is Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema. [on Wikipedia]
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema was born "Laurens Tadema" in 1836 in Holland. He began his career as a painter when his health declined so drastically, it prompted Doctors to predict his death to be imminent. Moved by his son's fate, Laurens's mother allowed him to drop his studies (he was studying to become a lawyer, as per his parents' wish) and focus on what he loved most: painting.
Contrary to what doctors and family thought, Laurens didn't die, and his talent was such, he becameone of the most popular and well paid artists of the XIX Century. Yet a few years after his death he was all but forgotten.
I can't begin to explain how much I love this artist's style, the brushstrokes, the way he uses light. How everything in his paintings looks so beautiful and smooth, so luminous and soft to the touch, both achingly real and dream-like at once. So, I'll let the pictures speak for themselves. ♥