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Challis’ Friday favorites for 09/02/11

Here is a weekly feature called ‘Friday favorites’ where we highlight some of our favorite inspirations from this last week, enjoy.

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Challis’ Friday favorites for 06/03/11

Here is a weekly feature called ‘Friday favorites’ where we highlight some of our favorite inspirations from this last week, enjoy.

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Artist: Mark Ryden, oil painting

Blending themes of pop culture with techniques reminiscent of the old masters, Mark Ryden has created a singular style that blurs the traditional boundaries between high and low art. His work first garnered attention in the 1990s when he ushered in a new genre of painting, “Pop Surrealism”, dragging a host of followers in his wake. Ryden has trumped the initial surrealist strategies by choosing subject matter loaded with cultural connotation.

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Artist: David Platt, acrylic painting

David Platt is an emerging New York artist with a singular vision and a matching style of painting. In 2006, he cultivated a palette of contrasts, and developed the staccato line technique that would eventually become his signature. In his current work, David attempts to reconcile opposites. His work depicts a psychological landscape where inner and outer space converge; where construction and destruction are indistinguishable; where microorganisms fuse to become macro-organisms ad infinitum. Out of the abstract soup emerges corporeality, whose forms and contours are undifferentiated, existing for a timeless instant before death and reintegration.

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Artist: Ian Francis, multimedia painting

Ian Francis was born in 1979 in Bristol, England, and graduated from the University of the West of England with a degree in Illustration. His work concentrates on modern experiences: things like television, world events, celebrities, and day-to-day living. His mediums generally include oil, acrylic, ink, charcoal and graphite on canvas.

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Masakatsu Sashie’s “orb” cities float our way

Masakatsu Sashie’s fantastic “orb” paintings depict large, city-like spheres that float gently above the remains of a failed civilization. Here are some of his alluring images.

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Artist: Francoise Nielly, painting

Françoise Nielly’s painting is expressive, exhibiting a brute force, a fascinating vital energy. Oil and knife combine tsculpt her images from a material that is , at the same time, biting and incisive, charnel and sensual. Whether she paints the human body or portraits, the artist takes a risk : her painting is sexual, her colors free, exuberant, surprising, even explosive, the cut of her knife incisive, her color pallet dazzling.

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Artist: Andrew Hem, painting

Andrew Hem‘s introspective, otherworldly paintings explore realities one step away from our everyday waking life. Working in gouache, oil and acrylic, he weaves atmospheric, richly textured narratives in a vivid palette of twilight blues enlivened by swaths of deep red and splashes of golden light.

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Ryan’s Friday Favorites for 08/13/10

Friday the 13th! Omg! Sorry, no freaky Friday favorites or anything, just some more sweet art to add to the Friday Favorites collection. As always, enjoy and be inspiried!

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Ryan’s Friday favorites for 07/23/10

Friday favorites it is! Enjoy today’s images and have yourself a wonderful weekend!

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Artist: Eric Drooker, painting

Eric Drooker is a native New Yorker, born and raised on Manhattan Island. He’s the award-winning author of several books, including “Flood! A Novel in Pictures” and “Blood Song: A Silent Ballad.” He’s the Animation Designer on the new feature film, “Howl.” His paintings appear frequently on covers of The New Yorker, and hang in numerous collections. Drooker gives frequent slide lectures at colleges and universities.

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