WILLIAM WETMORE STORY (FEBRUARY 12, 1819 – OCTOBER 7, 1895) WAS AN AMERICAN SCULPTOR, ART CRITIC, POET, AND EDITOR. William Wetmore Story was the son of jurist Joseph Story and Sarah Waldo (Wetmore) Story. He graduated at Harvard College in 1838 and at the Harvard Law School in 1840, continued his law studies under his…
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Kayoumarth Kiasat | illustration
KAYOUMARTH KIASAT( KYOUMARS KYASAT) WAS BORN : 1948 TABRIZ – IRAN KAYOUMARTH KIASAT IS ONE OF THE GREATEST IRANIAN CARICATURISTS SINCE 70’S . HIS WORKS ARE MOSTLY IN BLACK AND WHITE AS THE ARTIST CLAIMS ABOUT HIS LIVE TO THIS TO BASIC COLORS. BELOW YOU CAN SEE SOME IMAGES OF HIS WORKS. Kyoumarth Kiasat mostly art…
Tree Sculptures | Jorge Mayet
TREE AND WALL SCULPTURES BY JORGE MAYET Jorge Mayet is a Cuban expatriate artist , Born in 1962 in La Havana living and working in Mallorca, Spain. Devoided of political connotation Mayet’s work is a reminiscence of his native Cuba as well as a personal metaphor about exile and liberation. After graduating from San Alejandro’s National School of…
To Bloom Not Bleed | The White Deer
“TO BLOOM NOT BLEED” IS A SERIES THAT TRIES TO PORTRAY THE FINE LINE BETWEEN THE GROTESQUE AND BEAUTY OF DEATH. Death is always thought of as a negative thing, especially the method, the process or the reason behind dying. Therefore, this small series is to try and lighten that thought so people won’t have to…
Eric van Straaten 3D sculptures design
Eric van Straaten : “I believe there is no other technique that can achieve the level of hypersurrealism made possible in 3D computer modelling. Industrial 3D printing is the only technique that can be used to make full color digital models tangible, close to the original design. I aim for physical expressiveness in my sculptures,…
Chiharu Shiota Installation | The Key in the Hand
CHIHARU SHIOTA with these thoughts in mind, in this new installation I would like to use keys provided by the general public that are imbued with various recollections and memories that have accumulated over a long period of daily use. as I create the work in the space, the memories of everyone who provides me…
Contemporary Abstract Art of Rimi Yang
Rimi Yang ’s paintings -mostly figurative, but with a playful approach to abstraction- reveal an intuitive, contrast-rich take on Eastern and Western art history. It is as though they are struggling to make sense of dualities which simultaneously inspire and confuse us in their attempts to structure the world. Pleasantly suspended between familiar polarities like…