Pascal Dombis

Even though they kind of remind me of Windows screen savers, the works of Pascal Dombis are pretty cool. Nice use of color and symmetry that give a sort of optical illusion. They evoke strong feelings when seen and the bottom picture really makes me think that if one walked by it would be really jarring to the senses.

Valerie Boy

Artist and sculptor Valerie Boy has created many amazing, award winning lighted installation art pieces. They make me feel warm just looking at them. Any of her works are available on her website and would make a lovely and very artistic addition to any home. I would rush to buy them for myself if I didn't know that they would be outta my budget. 

Gregg Toland

Few people these days think of movies and film as art when the objective has always seemed to be about entertainment. Some people, some artists that is, are intent on using the medium as an artistic outlet and wish to make every scene a piece of artwork. Gregg Toland was the cinematographer for Citizen Kane and Wuthering Heights, as well as a few other movies. He was not around for very long, but the few works he did complete were very highly noted, such as Citizen Kane. This movie is famous for its use of the camera and its other worldly quality that is brought in to a very earthly story about a man who loses his money and his younger lover. 

Tex Avery

For this post I wanted to honor an animator that brought us famous characters like Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, as well as many other Looney Toons. Animation is another type of art that is not always as appreciated as it should be. Everyone knows the face of Bugs Bunny and yet I'm sure very few people ever, or will ever know the people behind these popular characters. They created pop culture icons and yet they probably got very little credit and were usually paid very little as well. 

Stephen Wiltshire

This artist is truly a remarkable human being. Stephen Wiltshire is an autistic man who has a photographic memory. He flys over a city and is able to remember an astonishing amount of detail and is able to depict it with amazing accuracy. This is someone who shows us what talent is capable of.

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George B. Post

For this post, I wanted to share the work of an architect as they are sometimes forgotten as artists. Sometimes it is easy to forget that buildings can be a form of art, a lot of them seem plain and boring in fact. However, some architects take things to a higher level and bless the city skylines with something different and beautiful. The pictures below depict some greco-roman and gothic like architecture from the artist George B.Post. 

Donatello

For his time Donatello seemed to have been able to very accurately sculpt the human form. His works are very elaborate and detailed, as well as vast and impressive. Sculpting can be complicated and the mistakes are at times harder to fix than paintings or drawings, which makes the feat of creating such pieces even more impressive. 

Rembrandt

Rembrandt is a very interesting artist that I feel really deserves his fame. He is very famed for his depictions of scenes from the Bible. The way he works with minimal light makes the scenes darker and more interesting, especially in the first painting. This makes the presence of the light more powerful and gives a very intense display. 

Gustavo Aguerre

This photographer seems to take a whimsical view of his art. He pieces together these pieces to interesting effects with a lot of nice earth tones. These make perfect conversational art works to have in places of business or homes that would really draw the eye.

Laurence Aberhart

Laurence Aberhart is a famouse photographer who seems to gravitate towards works of a religious nature. The way the camera angles, the sky looks intense and intimidating, making the statues and cross look bigger and more central and grand. They almost look as though they are older photographs and set in older areas. 

Devin Schoeffler

An almost forgotten type of artist is the graphic designer or users of photoshop. They are masters of creating artwork with the computer and while there may be some that protest the idea that they are indeed artist and that is art, I offer no such arguments. Not everyone can do this or at least not with this kind of skill and creativity. Devin Schoeffler's work here is a great example of what can be done with photoshop.  

Jose Ignacio Romussi Murphy

This artist specializes in creating embroidered patterns over photographs. This seems to me a very novel idea and would never have occurred to me as a type of artwork had I not accidentally discovered while searching for artists for this blog. These are very elegant and feminine pieces that are only strengthened in that notion due to the subject matter of ballerinas. 

Cecelia Webber

Cecilia Webber has created very intriguing art work that upon first look isn't what it seems. These flowers are actually people sitting and standing in different positions. Not sure what the symbolism is, or why you wanna make people flowers, but it is neat.

Luke Jerram

Luke Jerram has an interesting style of art. He creates glass works which resemble germs and viruses. Not really sure why, but they look cool. Modern art is weird and sometimes I don't get it, however these really do look cool. If I didn't know any better I would think that these were real germs floating around. 

American Comics

Like anime I wonder how anyone can not consider the work in graphic novels to be worthy. They are no easy thing to make and while they may overemphasize certain features of human anatomy they are still impressively drawn. Below I have the works of the artist Jim Lee who started his career with Marvel Comics and the X men, before moving to Dc Comics. 

Spirited Away

It's amazing to me how anyone could believe anything about anime not being a legitimate art. It has come along way in America, but there are still naysayers. This is why when showing someone unfamiliar with anime works I skip to the best possible thing to show them, Spirited Away by Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli. So popular are the movies created by them, they are released by Disney in the United States. If anyone ever has doubts about the anime style they need only take a look at this movie. The scenery and background are not just there in the back as a thing to anchor the character they have an undeniable presence all their own. They are almost photo realistic, but unmistakably still has touches of anime. The pictures below really don't do justice to the amazing artwork in the movie and it can not be described how breathtaking it was to watch this for the first time. Not only for the art, but the wonderful fantastical story line as well.