Dirk Skreber on Wikipedia
Same Hill, Different Day
Paul Octavious says, “For the past 2 years I have visited a beautiful mound of earth that I have come to call “the hill.” Each time I have come to the hill a new story is told to me as if the hill is my stage and the locals are the actors in this daily play.”
Paint in Action
Recommended short videos by the artist Jacqueline Humphries Click Here
A long interview with the artist on Bombsite.com Click Here
Guess the Modernist
A. Le Corbusier
B. Walter Gropius
C. Vassily Kandinsky
D. Ludwig Mies van der Rhoe
E. Paul Klee
The Magical World of Daniel Egnéus
Daniel Egnéus is a Swedish born illustrator who creates dreamy images touched with watercolor. His beautiful contemporary imagery pushes beyond illustration into fine art.
Jenny Saville via Larysa Myers
My friend Larysa Myers introduced me to the paintings of artist Jenny Saville. I’m blown away by her work!
Saville quotes from a Suzi Mackenzie interview for the Guardian:
“I am not interested in portraits as such. I am not interested in the outward personality. I don’t use the anatomy of my face because I like it, not at all. I use it because it brings out something from inside, a neurosis.”
“As a child I’d look through art books and there were no women artists. Of course, you start to ask why not. Could I make a painting of a nude in my own voice? It’s such a male-laden art, so historically weighted. The way women were depicted didn’t feel like mine, too cute. I wasn’t interested in admired or idealised beauty.”
“There was ‘immense conviction’ in making these pictures and an element of self-loathing. There is in everybody. We are taught to judge ourselves from a very young age, to groom ourselves. And this creates a neurosis for women. You see this dichotomy in women’s magazines all the time: an article on breast cancer – empowering; an article on skin products that make you look younger – neurotic.”
In reference to a painting of a transsexual: “It is a dramatic confrontation with the body as artificial construct. It is like a modern architecture of the body. Penis and breasts all at the same time. It’s electric, it’s like wow! To see something in a way you have not looked at it before.”
FYI, Larysa also does amazing portraits. Check out her paintings: www.larysamyers.com