Source Colossal   “Ball Track Venus Italica” (2023), patinated bronze, 173 centimeters in height. All images © Wim Delvoy, courtesy of Musée d’art et d’histoire, Geneva, shared with permission In 1802, Italian sculptor Antonio Canova produced a marble sculpture known as “Venus Italica,” notably commissioned by Napoléon Bonaparte and intended to replace another Venus statue at…

Source Artsy Shark  Enjoy the paintings of artist Chuck Middlekauff, who expresses the heart and culture of the West with a contemporary twist. The post Featured Artist Chuck Middlekauff appeared first on Artsy Shark.

Source Colossal   Beatrice Murphy, IED Firenze Master Student Amidst the cobblestone streets of Chinatown in Prato, Italy, typography has become a bridge between worlds. Beatrice Murphy, a student in the Master’s Course in Graphic Design at Istituto Europeo di Design (IED) Firenze, developed her thesis project by examining and dissecting the bilingual signage of Prato’s…

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  It was as a result of the election of Barack Obama in 2008 that Kehinde Wiley began to ponder the question of presidential leadership. In 2012, the American artist, whose work reinterprets representations of power and prestige in the history of portrait painting, imagined an original series…

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  “Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole.” —Sister Corita Kent

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  We continue the artist previews for 2024’s Nuart Aberdeen in A Portfolio with a fan favorite and staff favorite, Italian street artist Francesco Camillo Giorgino, known to us as Millo. The artist is known for his multi-storied, animation-like murals that work within the city’s architecture. 

Source Design You Trust  New Orleans-based artist Magda Boreysza draws inspiration from nature, mythology, folk tales, and medieval painting. Her drawings and poetic comic strips express innocence and transformation with a precise yet free tenderness of style. The intertwining of lost children and vulpine beasts, trees and comets, hair and sea creates an atmosphere of…

Source Design You Trust  Alan Riddell’s Typewriter Art (1975) features 119 typographical artworks by 65 artists from 18 countries, spanning from the 1890s to the 1970s. Riddell links this medium to the concrete poetry movement, emphasizing the importance of typographical effects over verbal meaning. Barrie Tullett’s Typewriter Art: A Modern Anthology mentions the first commercial…