Belgian artist ROA creates black and white mural centered in Eurasia, Africa and America. His main purpose of his artwork is inspired by the anatomy of animals, and attempts to increase the empathy of them. This public artwork reminded me of project 5.
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Glowing Sculptural Illuminations
This sculpture is a reflection of the theme “DISRUPT”- and it attempts to show pieces that illustrate climate change and technology. It reminded me of the public artwork that we did in project 5
Wildlife and Mythology
Lauren Marx is an artist who resides in Saint Louis, Missouri and she focuses on creating illustrations with watercolor, ink, pen, and colored pencils. In this series of works, she places her animals in an abstract background, intertwining images of the living and the dead. She creates a “mythological world,” inspired from North American flora…
Fantasy and Reality Illustration
David Alvarez is a Mexico-based artist who worked with a muted color palette. He focuses on creating illusions from simple graphite and charcoal, and he depicts creatures of myth and fantasy. Usually, they contain messages regarding the “social pressures and search for freedom.” He creates a fantasy world that seems odd and out of place,…
Battleship Constructions by Atsushi
Atsushi Adachi is a Japanese visual artist that creates miniature replicas of objects using newspapers and article clippings. By choosing to work with old newspapers from the past, he attempts to embody the society’s values at that time period, connecting the past and the present to an object.
Nocturnal Photographs of Kyoto
Richard Kagan is a photographer who created a series of capturing Kyoto temples and shrines at night. It is comprised of 25 photographs, hwich he composes by “moving his camera through long exposures” to create this blurry and hazy composition of temples and the nature surrounding it. By making the picture blurry, he is attempting…
Re-imagined Fashion
Noel Puello is a fabric arts graduate of Tyler School of Art. She focuses on inter-disciplinarian approach to garment making in which she tries to blur the boundary between women and men-wear. She designed unisex work clothing based on found or donated fabrics. She tries to mix luxury with accessibility–for example, she would take two…
Toys that help cope with emotions
Yaara Nusboim, an israeli designer created a set of six figurines made from wood and silicone that are designed to help children cope with difficult emotions or memories. Each of the dolls represent fear, pain, emptiness, love, anger, and safety. The different textures and colors engage with the children in different ways, and they can…
‘The Full Story’ by Daisy Jacobs and Chris Wilder
Daisy Jacobs the filmmaker and animator Chris Wilder collaborated on a project that used live action, sculptural animation, and painting merge to create a short film “The Full Story.” The animation makes use of paintings of figures as well as real life figures, and merges them together throughout the animation in a subtle way. The…
France Haszard’s Surreal Animation
France Haszard is an artist born in New Zealand who creates animations combining digital and analogue techniques. Her animations are surreal and dreamlike, using techniques including pastel colors, weird combination of objects and movements, mimicking “classic camera techniques with cheap animation tricks.” There’s techniques that we learned in class that are incorporated in the animation,…