DNA Art
Hey, people, with Valentine’s Day coming up, DNA crew hope you check out their KISS Portrait and Mini DNA Portrait that are cool, stylish, personal, and a cross between art and technology.
Semperopernball – Putin Love
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Semperopernball 2009 in Dresden, Germany where Wladimir Putin arrived. Art avtivists promoting Putin in the crowd.
As you may know the ‘Semperopernball” happened at the 16th of januar 2009 in Dresdens famous “Semperoper”. The prices for a card went up to 44000 euros a table, so it was hardly suprising that only the higher class could participate in this event.
While everyone was freezing outside the building, the so called elite was having a nice party. Wladimir Putin was the guest of honour this evening and he should get a medal for his “great” cultural work in russia and germany.
The laudatory speech ended up in an embarrassing listing of what he does for the “great” relationship between germany and russia, the main reasons the moderator gave were the following: “Your daugther was born in Dresden” and ” Your german is really good”… nothing about wars, his engagement against the us terrorism or even the pieces of art he finally gave back to germany after World War 2.
What a great theatrical performance…. Continue reading »
Tierney Gearon.
In “Explosure”, a new exhibition by acclaimed photographer Tierney Gearon, she uses the old skool device of double exposure to create haunting, complex images evoking themes of voyeurism, sexuality, coming of age, body image, and more.
Via shape+colour
Bio-Cycle
“Bio-Cycle” is a metal sculpture by Jud Turner. I think if this actually rode as a bicycle, you’d get a lot of attention riding it down your neighborhood.
Link via Scene 360 Illusion
Vladimir Putin’s Art Was Sold for More Than $1,200,000
«The Christmas Alphabet» is a charity auction that was held in St. Petersburg. Devoted to 200 anniversary of the birth of Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol. Every day many famous people of St. Petersburg Fair drew illustrations for the Russian alphabet letters for the story called «The Night Before Christmas». There were created 28 paintings, which were put up for sale on Saturday.
The most expensive lot at the auction was the picture of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin called «Pattern for rimy box», which was sold for 37 million rubles (more than $1,200,000 !).
Michael Ifland
Michael Ifland, based in San Fransisco, has some beautiful work in his Behance portfolio.
www.behance.net/the_ifman
