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Buck: Animation in 2d and 3D  (via)

Illustrations and paintings by Collin van der Sluijs more works on flickr

Juan Burgos expands the urban apocalyptic events of inattentive daily life. His inspiration is an innocent children’s storybook, out of which emerges a delirious collage. (read more) via we make money not art

Click on image to see it in high resolution

monkeymen.tv

.excuse the poor youtube quality.

While Gropper is most closely associated with the artistic movement known as social realism, he himself eschewed labels: “I don’t like labels. I am interested in mankind. People create the “landscape” in my paintings. I fight wrongs. I fight in a creative sense. I am not fighting myself and I have no emotional conflicts. All my stuff is myself, passionately myself. I am involved with ideas and concepts. I am not trying to indoctrinate, I am trying to express my thoughts”

Visit the People are my Landscape exhibition to read more about William Gropper and see all the works in high resolution.

League of Nations, 1919

Taking the News at Face Value, 1926

A depressed animator. Is there any other kind?

Dont forget to check out Dieter VDO’s fantastic comic’s and paintings

Artist Kevin Dart invites you to discover his favorite featuring swinging 60’s spy girl, Yuki 7. To promote his new book Seductive Espionage Kevin Dart invents a hypothetical film. A collaborative effort between Dart, animator Stepahne Coedel and composer Cyrille Marchesseau.
The following tralier is an intro to his book, don’t wait for the movie-release

Takahito Iguchi

Japanese Entrepreneur and Artist
TonchiDot CEO & Photographer

[ Planet of the blythe ]
No man’s planet of the Blythe dolls. It is very peaceful and lovely.

[ Ultrart ]
Ultraman + art = ultrart.

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Jeremy Geddes spends his days trying to get some painting done, in between jumping around with his air guitar, drinking coffee and playing video games. When he puts down the controller, sighs heavily and mutters ‘Right, i’ve got to get some work done.’ His dog Colin usually wants to go for a walk.

Read 2 interviews with the Melbourne based painter, at beinart
and a special about his comic cover Doomed at australianedge

David Cooper published several graphic novels at Fantagraphics. He also works as a commercial illustrator and a designer, creator and producer in the field of animation. Dave Cooper gradually became more known as a fine art oil painter, and some of his work was collected in the books ‘Underbelly’ and ‘Overbite’.

Art Stinks

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more work by Bogaert (don’t miss the Musicseries!)

Tadashi Moriyama (b.1979) raised in Japan and moved to the United States.

The stories behind each series are based on themes of creation and subsequent destruction of cities, memories, space and time. The artist uses inspirations and influences from Indian miniature painting, Buddhist and Hindu paintings, 15-16th century Italian painting and Alchemist paintings as well experiences in Tokyo and
New York to build these non-sustainable systems of structures and memory. (via)

Tadashi Moriyama will have a solo show opening October 3rd at
Bonelli Arte Contemporanea, Italy.

Amnesia, Download in High Res

Fernando Gutierrez, aka Huanchaco, develops the story of Superchaco, a decadent Peruvian superhero trying to get to grips with the Chaotic City, Lima. Influenced by comics and pop culture, Huanchaco embodies the worst aspects of the Chaotic City. Devoid of any qualm, he is lazy, obnoxious and vulgar. Superchaco doesn’t have any particular talent nor superpower. Yet, authorities call him, children look up to him and women fall for him. (via sweet station)

also take a look at Superchacos fabulous oil painted stories:

Download in High Resolution at Likeloveblog

“My work vacillates in between various different modes, some days I address extreme states of psychopathology other days politics, history or beauty. I don’t have a standard modus operandi, but rather address any subject that moves me; I paint my concerns.”

funny contest at heroprotagonist.livejournal, me at age 100.

Mike Diana’s Website

“Very Early Pictures” responds in part to an increasing number of recent projects and exhibitions by contemporary artists that incorporate or refer explicitly to their own childhood production. Some of the earliest examples in the exhibition reflect the formal ingenuity and expressive, performative spontaneity that inspired classic modernists such as Miro, Picasso, and Klee, who most famously collected and studied his own childhood drawings. On the other hand, the searching, self-conscious images by some teenagers seem to mirror the hybrid conditions of postmodernism. In many cases, the links between an artist’s childhood work in the exhibition and his or her adult practice seems arbitrary or nonexistent. Several examples, however, stand out as evidence of surprising artistic prescience while others offer a fascinating glimpse at the way current events and popular culture have increasingly captivated children as subject matter. Regardless of any possible affinities these early drawings may possess with mature works by the same individual, each piece hints at an idealized engagement with art-making that remains a goal for artists of any age. (via)

Participating artists: Polly Apfelbaum, Kjetil Berge, Rachel Bliss, Shannon Bowser, Elizabeth Bryant, Charles Burns, Mason Cooley, Patricia Cronin, Dorothy Cross, Russell Crotty, Tony de los Reyes, Tacita Dean, Thomas Demand, Wim Delvoye, Daniel Douke, Anda Dubinskis, Marlene Dumas, Tim Ebner, Joy Feasley, Jim Shaw, Chris Finley, Mathew Hale, Steve Hanson, Doug Harvey, Mona Hatoum, Jim Hinz, Julian Hoeber, Jim Houser, Martin Honert, Tehching Hsieh, Yvonne Jacquette, Kim Jones, Alex Kanevsky, Deborah Kass, Glenn Ligon, Tristin Lowe, Christopher Knowles, Kerry James Marshall, Virgil Marti, Sarah McEneaney, Gerald Nichols, David Reed, Marco Rios, Kay Rosen, Adam Ross, Ed Ruscha, Hinrich Sachs, Judith Schaechter, Carolee Schneemann, Anne Seidman, Randall Sellers, Shelley Spector, Paul Swenbeck, Jude Tallichet, Dani Tull, Jeffrey Vallance, Marnie Weber, Olav Westphalen, Fred Wilson, Barbara Woodall, and Andrew Jeffrey Wright. 

I have selected 5 of the participating artists, to present their “Very Early Pictures” and to introduce you to their current work.

Marnie Weber (age 3)

Randall Sellers (age 4)

Julian Hoeber (age 5) 

Charles Burns (age 8)

Jim Shaw, (age 15)

Also take a look at the book:  The Innocent Eye by Jonathan David Fineberg

“The idea that modern art looks like something a child can do is a long-standing cliche. For some modernists, however, the connection between their work and children’s art was direct and explicit. This groundbreaking and heretical book, centered on such modern masters as Klee, Kandinsky, Picasso, and Miro, presents for the first time material from the collections of child art that these artists actually possessed as they undertook some of the greatest masterworks of their careers.” (more)