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Artistic Alchemy: Lila Frenopoulou’s Fusion of Photography and Digital Manipulation
Source Design You Trust Lila Frenopoulou, a professional photographer and digital artist hailing from the vibrant city of Athens, Greece, is making waves in the art world with her mesmerizing creations. Through her unique blend of photography and digital manipulation using Adobe Photoshop, she transports viewers into surreal scenes that challenge conventional perspectives. Lila’s artistic…
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Jean Baptiste Vérany’s Wildly Influential Cephalopod Chromolithographs Depict Sea Creatures in Stunning Opalescent Color
Source Colossal All images via The Biodiversity Heritage Library In 1851, French pharmacist-turned-naturalist Jean Baptiste Vérany (1800–1865) published a collection of illustrations that captured the subtle colors and tonal variances of cephalopods. A class of mollusks that includes squid, octopus, cuttlefish, and nautilus, cephalopods have pronounced, often bulbous heads, symmetric bodies, and arms and tentacles…
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A Pair of Contrasting Prints by Seb Lester Gilds Popular Aphorisms in Elegant Lettering
Source Colossal All images © Seb Lester, shared with permission Lewes-based artist Seb Lester (previously) vacillates between the maximal and minimal in a new pair of aphoristic prints. Die-stamped in gold ink, the calligraphic works are studies of the relationship between medium and message, all filtered through elegantly gilded lettering. “Carpe Diem,” the popular Latin maxim…
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Artist Showcase, Late Spring 2023
Source Artsy Shark Enjoy our current Artist Showcase featuring the work of amazing creatives working in different mediums and styles. Click on each name to visit their website. Niyati Jiwani My compositions consist of vibrant and subtle colors which create an everlasting impact on the viewers, making them feel positive, pure and blissful.…
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Leon Xu’s Empty Orchestra
Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home I wish I could explain my fascination with Leon Xu’s paintings by referring to the great, bygone masters of light and shadow, only I know very little about art history. My obsession with Leon’s work grows out of how it makes me feel, and I can only describe that in…
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Agnieszka Nienartowicz’ Sweet Burden
Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home Nicodim will inaugurate its new annex gallery with Agnieszka Nienartowicz: Sweet Burden, the artist’s first solo show in the United States. Nienartowicz’s hyper-realistic oil paintings recontextualize Old Master, Renaissance, and Catholic interpretations of bible scenes and religious tales, in many instances layering them directly onto female bodies and faces.…
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Mike Lee’s “Homecoming” Creates a Distance
Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home In the past few years, Mike Lee has let us in more than ever. When we first began writing about the Brooklyn-based artist’s work, there was a technical quality to the work that mimicked his work in animation. It was near digital in its execution, but in…
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A Portfolio: Nik Christensen