huguette caland

i can't imagine why i'm not tripping over images from huguette caland everywhere. it's easy to lose a few hours just dipping a toe into what she's done. sublime

paddy steer

dj richard

fabienne verdier

fabienne verdier serves up a slab of geological red. i can't resist....

nancy eckels

nancy eckels - couldn't see past this colour

gilbert bécaud

arvo part

francisco tarrega

ana vidovic

francoise hardy

gabriele meyer

gabriele meyer is a professor of mathematics who likes to crochet hyperbolic forms in her down time. if that's not art i don't know what is!

laserkraft 3d

mr oizo

isao tomoda

really quite taken by the portrait work of isao tomoda. his pictures of cats maybe not so much but where the internet goes....

michalis shammas

this is just sublimely beautiful. i could listen all day. michael shammis

detroit grand pubahs

fai baba

talon abraxas

browsing through talon abraxas' i', reminded of that phrase from miss jean brodie that 'for those who like that sort of thing that is the sort of thing they like'. so while i may not be taken with some of his iamges i did like this.

shomei tomatsu

shomei tomatsu - like getting a glimpse into a time capsule

alt-j

hiroshi senju

hiroshi senju - sublime

arne svenson

if someone was to ask me how photography fitted into the canon of western art i could do worse than direct them to arne svenson. i could look at these all day. interesting contrast/comparison to the previous post on miroslac tichy

mouse & the traps

coccolino deep

miroslav tichy

miroslav tichy - problematic in so many ways but his images are so arresting. you be the judge. that's what art's all about maybe?

irving penn

the classics. yes, i look at them too

dub garden

antonio palmerini

it may seem as if antonio palmerini has one subject but even so i can't look past these blurry double exposures (and all the other work he has going on) ....

vivian maier

what can creativity look like when it's outside sales, galleries and academia? like vivian maier that's what. i love the lack of biography for her, i love the fact she most likely wouldn't be happy about the attention she's getting now. and i love that because all it does is focus attention onto the images.

international dub ambassadors meet gomba jahbari

ajate

moriyamo daido

i can't find anything to say about moriyamo daido's work except to say i can't say anything about it because it's just so wide in scope

eikoh hosoe

welcome to the world of eikoh hosoe

night cleaner

michelangelo di battista

michelangelo di battista works in fashion photography so his work is inevitably infected by that state of mind, i liked this tho. google for more. think michael bay movies and you won't be too far away.

leila abdul-rauf

olden yolk

special interest

arslan ahmedov

yeah i'm a sucker for scratchy blurred image. here's arslan ahmedov

ed ross

got to love an old school image. no specific site for ed ross but a bit of care with your googling. there's a healthy dose of male gaze here and the results will almost certainly will contain content that's nsfw

marley muerto

lloyd kwila

i couldn't find any information on lloyd kwila. likewise i don't really have the lexicon to discuss it. but here it is, whatever it is, and i'm glad to have come across it....

akira kusaka

i'll tell you one thing - doing this blog has definitely pushed me more towards the figurative and illustrative end of the spectrum. so here's akira kusaka who i like for many of the reasons i like shaun tan but also just to remind myself that's there's whole different strands of illustrtation in japan

a001

so, yes, i breathed

and i kind of missed doing all of this. definitely check out that matthew herbert sequence in the actual film. i love the soundtrack but the sequence itself is beautiful and transformative.

so, a kind of a start (again). maybe there'll be a bit less text - i don't want to just get caught up in a mess of superlatives! or maybe i'll get more verbal. who knows. enjoy

matthew herbert

and breathe....

and that, for the time being, may well be that. i've got house moves, new jobs and all manner of other upheaval going on so a post a day just isn't feasible any longer! that said i'd only intended to do it for a year so it's surpassed the time i'd anticipated for it!

so thanks for coming along for the ride. doubtless there'll be other posts but maybe just not as frequently! watch this space....

jakub rozalski

there's something about jakub rozalski's game based steampunk realism that makes me feel all is right with the world. visual art can often take itself way too seriously. for me rozalski defines that combination of skill, application, a sense of play and just having a laugh

lee bontecou

where has lee bontecou been hiding all my life? if this is your thing you're in for a proper treat!

edie nadelhaft

i'm not normally a fan of hyperrealism even if i can admire the technique. macro-hyperrealism tho - edie nadelhaft blows it out of the water!

malgorzata stanielewicz

i'm delighted that not only can you see malgorzata stanielewicz's graphic work she does costume also. excellent!

erik gonzales

i was taken by this image by erik gonzales because of how much it reminded me of a grain of pollen or a butterfly egg.

janko nilovic

elias rabhani

nava lubelski

big splashes of paint, bold use of thread. nava lubelski - what's not to like?

zao wou-ki

i thought zao wou-ki would be some young lad but that couldn't be further from the truth. ahead of his time and no mistake!

heather murray

yes, it's pictures on sticks. but i've really fallen for these by heather murray. there's something sad and whimsical...

nightmares on wax

jean noviel

 i can't find any details on jean noviel so i'm not sure if these are paintings or photographs that have been worked on. whichever, if there's a time when i'm stuck for some narrative it's here i'll be looking!

we will fail

iona fortune

nicola samori

nicola samori - neo baroque i think they describe her as. i don't much care for that term. what she does do is play with the classics in such a way as not to seem over artificial but engages the viewer both in her perspective but also the originals she works from

ela orleans

veronique vandevoorde

virtually no details online for veronique vandevoorde. an image search more than makes up for that!

c.o.w.

france jodoin

maybe just a bit too representative for me but you can't argue that france jodoin's works aren't just lovely

aerate sound

disco puppet

ruth rae

 i look at ruth rae's work and i fell, yes! more of of this sort of thing!

young fathers

sarrita king

more from south of the hemisphere, this time sarrita king. i'm really taken by this image, surprsingly maybe given how much she does in blue - absolutely be doing an image search!

paul klee

it's paul klee. i don't have to say more! weirdly, when i was young i wasn't much for klee. these days i could spend the whole day browsing his images

ouzo kim

these images by ouzo kim are described as a renaissance collages. but kim does loads more....

little simz

yugen blakrok

richard burlet

richard burlet's work is not what i'd maybe think that i'd be taken with, but the colours! the textures! i love these

mira schendel

i'm having a blue end of week, not least because of this by mira schendel. i'll be getting my paint out shortly and trying to achieve something like this! luminous!

leston japaljarri spencer

this is called warnu jukurrpa (snake dreaming). i have no idea what it symbolizes to leston japaljarri spencer but it's so similar, yet at the same time different, to some of my own drawings i couldn't look past it. if i had this on my wall i'd hypnotize myself!

planningtorock

tetsuo aoki

i like tetsuo aoki's figures but i particularly like this image because, for me at any rate, getting these circular things balanced and looking natural is always tricky

sharhabeel ahmed

jalil bennis and the golden hands

fadoul

jiyoung chung

i've only recently come across jiyoung chung and opened up to myself a new world of korean paper and paper art. loving it!

erling gustaffson

i can't remember how i stumbled across erling gustaffson but i'm glad i did as i find his work uniformly lovely. i also admire his commitment to handcrafting his materials both in paper and textile

scott andresen

 i don't know how scott andresen made this image but it's no surprise he started off years ago in quilting. his website is worth checking out just to see how he's progressed and developed as an artists. in addition the work is rather good!

dorothy robinson napangardi

it's difficult to make any comment on an image that comes from a culture so different from your own so it's best to say nothing and just look. this from dorothy robinson napangardi

nabihah iqbal

shitkid

chin h shin

it's that big street of colour chin h shin uses here that's a winner for me

cody hooper

not as swirly or as splashy of colour as some on his website but i'm still loving the rush red panels on this by cody hooper

hayvanlar alemi

bell's roar

berlinde de bruyckere

there's something about berlinde de bruyckere's sculpture that's both disturbing and magnetic at the same time. plus as someone who deals with bodies professionally there's a veracity here that's compelling

mint field

erdve

sabatina leccia

you've got to love the embroidery of sabatina leccia - there's also a nice wee vid in the link about her process

bichkraft

anne tholstrup

i know why i'm here and you know why i'm here - dots and lines. anne tholstrup, i thank you

ulrike wathling

i look at ulrike wathling's work and i'm filled with the sense of possibility. time to pick up a pen!