Modern Art
Professional photographer and a digital painting artist, Efrat Kuper of Art2Get, has an eye for capturing the delicate details and creating her beautiful imagery from them. As a photography veteran of the fashion world in Milan, she has now moved into creating her own collection of artistic pieces. She has an expansive range of work including architecture & essential nature, bold and beautiful contemporary digital painting pieces and gorgeous wall decor for children. She has now made her work available to the masses, at very affordable prices through her online etsy store.
Posted by KarenShearer at 17 January, 2013
Jo Woffinden, through her work, has declared herself a promising new talent in the world of contemporary design. As a recent graduate from Royal College of Art in the UK, she works with a variety of materials including porcelain, stoneware, bone china, concrete, plaster and even paper. Her Baroque line of sculptural objects is a juxtaposition of geometric curves, lines and planes. While the interior of these pieces form an almost continuous space, the exterior creates quite the opposite affect with its lovely misalignment of height and depth. Ms. Woffinden’s creations manage texture and color in a very natural way, so that one has the urge to reach out to feel their surfaces. I, personally, am so excited to see concrete worked in a way that breathes new life into such an often overlooked medium. Clearly, it has extraordinary potential when placed in the right hands.
Posted by KarenShearer at 21 December, 2012
I recently visited our local YellowKorner. I can never go there without finding at least a dozen photos I would love to have in my home. The company was founded in 2006 by Alexandre de Metz and Paul-Antoine Briat, two young friends who both have had a life long love of photography. Their galleries are located throughout Europe and the United States. They offer contemporary photography from all over the world. As a company YellowKorner strives to maintain high artistic standards, while allowing for upcoming contemporary artists to occupy space alongside the big names. To make prices more affordable, they offer their exclusive, top quality photographic prints in larger quantities so that many, rather then a few, have the ability to enjoy the beautiful creations.
Posted by Michelle Lesser at 3 December, 2012
Brett Amory is a contemporary artist born in Chesapeake, Virginia in 1975. He lived in Bay Area, California for 15 years and moved to San Francisco where he lived another 15 years. Currently, he is living in Oakland since 2009. The modern painter has experienced doing solo shows in London, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco and San Jose.
His current work involved the “Waiting” series, which he began in 2001. The modern painting series depicts commuter subjects who seemed to be isolated and detached from other commuters as well as their environment. The series is inspired by public transit and the residents of Tenderloin neighborhood located specifically in San Francisco.
The modern artist based his works on photographs that he took on his experience of the ordinary city architecture and random subjects on a daily basis. These people or subjects are neither known to him nor speak to them.
The amazing art captures the ideas of those who seem lost, awkward or lonely as they are in public territory as if they don’t fit socially. The series speaks of reality especially in our inability to live in the “now.” It is titled as such because we always wait for whatever comes next – always moving forward, not thinking about now or still thinking about what has already passed.
The contemporary art that Brett Amory has presented speaks about the fact that we are living in an era of distraction where thinking about the present is hard to achieve without meditation. His paintings visually represent this very thought or concept in order to remind us that it living in the now is as important as thinking positive for the future. This is something that I am guilty of – and I think I am not alone in this line of thinking.
Posted by JackieAzuela at 14 November, 2012
If you’re looking to add some interest to your walls without making a large investment, you might want to check out Outline Editions. They offer high quality, limited edition prints from Britian’s most influential graphic artists.
“We believe graphic art is a uniquely friendly art form – made for sharing – and that’s why we are trying to get brilliant work out there to be enjoyed by as wide an audience as possible through temporary pop up exhibitions, Design festivals, events and our website. Our roster of artists include Noma Bar, Anthony Burrill, Marion Deuchars, Kristjana S Williams, Kate Moross, Patrick Thomas, James Joyce, Hellovon and Claire Scully”.
I have to admit that I really enjoy these designs. I love it when art allows me to see in different ways and some of these designs, just make me smile…and we should all do as much of that as we can.
Posted by Michelle Lesser at 16 October, 2012
A modern art is perceived and felt not thought – or so I would like to say. Looking at the contemporary art of Tzviatko Kinchev has brought hundreds to thousands of thoughts – inspiring thoughts – into me, almost suffocating and poetic. This is what this modern artist made me feel through his paintings.
Tzviatko Kinchev is born in Sofia, Bulgaria and a very extraordinarily talented man – at least that’s how I perceive his work. He is studying in The National Academy of Arts but at the same time works as a 2D artist in Haemimont Games. You can check out his work and I’m sure you would agree if I will tell you how good he is in using colorful palette of warm colors that almost burn me with passionate desire to create paintings if words were enough.
This contemporary artist bring inspiration to others through the beauty he creates and what most would probably notice – and for the lack of description – he is using palette knife and it shows well execution on the artist’s part. I may be wrong on this though but the texture of the modern painting speaks to me in this sense. In addition, the use of warm colors is particularly exceptional. Despite the fact that his paintings suffered the brunt of people’s criticism – I don’t really care because it is easy to really recognize art when you see one.
I have once heard it from a relative – “there is no right or wrong in art as long as you express your thoughts and feelings with honesty then that’s art right there.” This modern painter has painted simply wonderful and delightful images that could drive others to do the same.
So, art is art no matter how it is done as long as it speaks of honest imagination and creativity that goes beyond what others think. I think his paintings are pieces of beautiful art no matter how he did it.
Posted by JackieAzuela at 22 September, 2012
When I first saw his work on design42days I immediately fell in love with Florian Nicolle ‘s remarkable illustrations. His work employs fast and spontaneous sketching which leaves his drawings with an enticing degree of randomness. His work is a combination of physical art- pens, ink brushes, and watercolor- and digital effects in which he uses a computer to fine tune and add surprising twists and turns. His illustrations transcend artwork into a ‘found objects’ category. He is a highly skilled artist and we want his artwork on our walls!
Posted by Michelle Lesser at 5 September, 2012
