Posts Tagged ‘art’
Ice Cream and Flowers
Artist, Parker Fitzgerald’s icecream and flower collaboration.
Warning: Don’t eat the hydrangeas in the ice cream cone! Twenty-nine year old artist Parker Fitzgerald is a photographer from Portland, Oregon. These photographs were published in Kinfolk Vol. 7. Along with artist Amy Merrick, he has combined two of our favorite summer treats; flowers and ice cream. How perfect? [ Images via ] Related PostsTop Five Polka Dots on Etsy Ryan Everson’s Light... More...
By Casey • May 17th, 2013 • Category: Art, BEAUTY, ENTERTAINMENT
Olaf Brzeski
Poland’s contemporary artist, Olaf Brzeski.
Olaf Brzeski is a Polish contemporary artist whose work spans in many different mediums. The black cloud sculpture called “Dream – Spontaneous Combustion” was inspired by Olaf trying to clean out a stuffed chimney in his apartment, and ending up with a house covered in soot. To me it looks like something out of a Harry Potter film, still pretty haunting and beautiful though. Brzeski’s work ... More...
By Casey • May 9th, 2013 • Category: Art, BEAUTY, ENTERTAINMENT
The Hidden Garden of Oz, Hollywood
Tweet Exploring tourist destinations is fun, but every time I visit a new place, I like to detour from the [...]
Exploring tourist destinations is fun, but every time I visit a new place, I like to detour from the beaten path and discover some of the city’s secrets and local legends. The Garden of Oz in Hollywood is a hidden community garden created to pay homage to The Wizard of Oz story. Located somewhere in the hills of the old Hollywoodland development, the garden was created in the 1990′s by th... More...
By Gary • May 6th, 2013 • Category: Cities, FOOD AND TRAVEL, Vacations
Powder by Marcel Christ
Colorful powder photographed as a still-life by Marcel Christ.
Dutch, Marcel Christ is a noted still-life photographer who has captured the beauty in destruction and color of the substance powder. Everything moves, jumps, flies, as if it were beging watched as a movie. Marcel Christ seems to be fascinated with the lively beauty of the destruction combined with a tangible frozen energy. To view more of his work visit his website here. Related PostsWays to We... More...
By Casey • May 3rd, 2013 • Category: Art, ENTERTAINMENT
Jeff Koons: A Picture and a Poem
Jeff Koons illustrates a poem by Matthea Harvey on the pleasure and peril of opening up.
A picture is worth a thousand words right? Not to artists Jeff Koons. He has recently drawn an image to reflect a poem by Matthea Harvey on the pleasure and peril of opening up. The poem is called “The Inside Out Mermaid.” Have a read at the brief and beautiful poem. In a few words it’s a physical exploration about a lover’s love to try to get the women of his infatuation to op... More...
By Casey • May 2nd, 2013 • Category: Art, ENTERTAINMENT
Jean-Gabriel Domergue’s Paintings
Jean-Gabriel Domergue’s paintings of Parisian Women
Jean-Gabriel Domergue (1889– 1962) was a French painter specializing in portraits of Parisian women. He was an extremely talented and precise painter whose subjects were female, and female’s bodies. Domergue invented a new type of woman : thin, airy, elegant, with a swanlike neck and wide seductive eyes which gaze upon the world with longing. ”I invented the pin-up” he la... More...
By Casey • Apr 26th, 2013 • Category: Art, BEAUTY, ENTERTAINMENT
Jeff Koons’ Sculptures
Jeff Koons’ Sculptures
Jeff Koons is an American artist known for his large balloon animals produced with stainless steel and mirror finish surfaces. His works have been on display in some of the most famous museums all over the world. Koons’ work has been sold for astronomically substantial prices including at least one world record auction price for a work by a living artist. The largest sum known to be paid ... More...
By Casey • Apr 19th, 2013 • Category: Art, BEAUTY, ENTERTAINMENT
Rijksmuseum, the Largest Museum in Amsterdam
Rijksmuseum the Largest Museum in Amsterdam
I am thoroughly impressed by a museum, in which the architecture in and of itself is noteworthy enough to draw the attention of art enthusiasts. The Rijksmuseum is a Dutch national museum dedicated to arts and history in Amsterdam. The collection of the Rijksmuseum consists of 1 million objects and is dedicated to arts, crafts, and history from the years 1200 to 2000. The museum holds paint... More...
By Casey • Apr 18th, 2013 • Category: Art, ENTERTAINMENT
Wayne Thiebaud’s Paintings
Wayne Thiebaud’s Paintings
Wayne Thiebaud is an American painter whose most famous works are of cakes, pastries, toys and lipstick. Technically, Thiebaud is associated with the Pop art movement because of his interest in objects of mass culture. Although his works, executed during the fifties and sixties, slightly predate the works of the classic pop artists and contain more detailed oriented strokes and atten... More...
By Casey • Apr 12th, 2013 • Category: Art, ENTERTAINMENT
Ann Hamilton Body Object Series
Ann Hamilton Body Object Series
Combining performance, video, music, photographs, and textiles into a single installation, Ann Hamilton (born 1956) seeks to explore the relationship between visual, verbal, and written language. A native of Ohio, she earned degrees in sculpture and fine arts from the University of Kansas and Yale University. Haunting yet playful, the photographs depict Hamilton interacting with objects and w... More...
By Casey • Apr 11th, 2013 • Category: Art, ENTERTAINMENT
