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Design, FIne Arts, Graphic Arts, Illustration, Painting, Print, Puppies and Flowers, Typography, Vintage, Vintage Prints 1920s, art deco periodicals, art deco style covers, Art Magazine, Avant Garde, Broom, Cover Art, Dadaism, Enrico Prampolini, surrealist art, Vintage Magazine Covers, Woodcuts
Broom Magazine was a revolutionary publication that changed the art world in the early 1920s. It provided an outlet for avant-garde art movements and helped to spread their ideas across Europe. The magazine was founded by Enrico Prampolini, who wanted to create a platform for artists to share their work […]
Arts, Design, Graphic Arts, Illustration, Painting, Print, Vintage, Vintage Posters Colors, Elisha Brown Bird, Lithographs, Make vector art from rasters, Miss Art, Miss Litho, Vector Art, Vectorizing Posters, Vintage Posters
I was working on vectorizing this lovely poster when I went down a rabbit hole of color variations. Most worthy of Alice in Wonderland! “The Poster: Miss Art and Miss Litho” by Elisha Brown Bird, March 1896.
Arts, Asia, Europe, FIne Arts, Painting, Print, Vintage Anna Ostroumova Lebedeva, Art Nouveau, Benois, Block Prints, Ilya Repin, Petersburg, Russia, Tolstoy, Vasily Mate, Woodcuts
Anna Ostroumova Lebedeva’s work rekindled an artistic interest in woodcuts—other than for print production. Lovely stuff. Check out 95 more pieces of her art on wikiart. I couldn’t help but notice the similarity between her monogram and the anarchist ‘logo’, coincidence? 😉 From Wikipedia article: Anna Petrovna Ostroumova-Lebedeva (Russian: Анна […]
Arts, Fashion, Illustration, Painting Adobe Inc., Audrey Hepburn, Covaid19+, Downtime, Illustration
I say dancing but it was actually more like tripping or flirting. I’ve been working on this illustration of Audrey Hepburn over the last week.
Creative, Design, Film, History, Illustration, Painting Alphaville, Criterion, Film Posters, Illustration, Midnight Marauder, painting, Re-imaginings, Robert Altman, Tony Stella
In the early 2010’s Midnight Marauders art blew up when he began posting his criterion style film posters on his tumblr account. Soon people were asking where they could their hands on them and a new career got off the ground. Today he runs Alphaville Design with partner Tony Stella, […]
FIne Arts, NSFW, Painting, Sex, Skills China, Gustav Klimt, Hangzhou, Modigliani, Moscow Academy of Fine Arts, National Academy of Fine Arts, Oil Paint, painting, Schiele, Shanghai, Xi Pan
Here is a small selection of my favorite Xi Pan paintings. And they are lovely. Without meaning to denigrate her, I used the word reminiscent in the title to describe the work. Actually it’s far more complimentary knowing the reminiscences are of Klimt, Schiele and Modigliani. You can read more […]
Creative, Painting, Sculpture 007, Amy Winehouse, Bernard Pras, Bowie, Collages, Keith Richard, Portraits, Sean Connery, Tin Tin
Assemblage artist Bernard Pras creates incredible 3D installation portraits from plastic tchotchkes.
Americas, FIne Arts, Painting, Sculpture Broken Things, Ceramics, Chile, Livia Marín, Nomad Patterns, Plaster, Resin, Sculpture, Silk Screen, Transfers
Livia Marín is a London-based Chilean artist. The Broken Things series began in 2009 and Nomad Patterns in 2012. Livia describes her work: My artistic practice has been characterized by large-scale installations and the appropriation of mass-produced and consumer objects. I employ techniques and strategies that are characteristic of […]
Arts, Creative, FIne Arts, Painting, Print, Skills 1906, Bauhaus, Chicago Sunday Tribune, Comic Strip, Cubism, Dada, Kin-Der Kids
Expressionist, Cartoonist, Caricaturist, Cubist Painter, Dadaist, Composer, Bauhaus Master Printer and Degenerate Artist to list just a few of Lyonel Feininger‘s creative talents. Lyonel Feininger is best known as a painter and a founder of the famous Bauhaus school of art and architecture, he was also a pioneer of the […]
FIne Arts, History, Illustration, Painting, Print, Vintage 1890's, Alfons Mucha, Alphonse Mucha, Art Nouveau, Belle Époque, Champenois, Gismonda, Lithographs, Nymphs, Poster Art, Sarah Bernhardt, The Seasons, Vintage Posters
The Czech artist Alfons Mucha is synonymous with the Art Nouveau movement. After being launched to fame in Paris creating a poster for Gismonda, a play starring actress Sarah Bernhardt, Mucha was flooded with commissions. One of these was The Seasons, a set of four painted decorative panels which became his most popular […]