Recent art that you liked

[brianvds]

Perhaps time to restart this thread on the new forum? By "recent art" I mean not only recently completed art, but anything you recently saw. I'll start off with one of my favorite living artists, Aron Wiesenfeld, who seems to have developed a new way of working with pen.

 

[snoball]

Love that Brian, "the Devil is in the details".

 

[Artyczar]

This is not recent, but Weisenfeld image, for whatever reason, reminded me of another favorite artist of mine, Neil Farber.

 

[snoball]

Probably the similarities of the wormy strips and the grass.

 

[brianvds]

Eugene Speicher - Portrait of Pattie.

Speicher is today perhaps best known for an incident that happened in his youth. He was a fellow student of Georgia O'Keeffe, and he badgered her to sit for him. She kept on refusing, saying she was too busy with her own work. Speicher then made a statement that would come back to haunt him: "What does it matter? I'm going to be a famous artist, and you'll end up teaching art at some girls' school."

Well, I'll leave it to members here to debate the merits of the two artists, but I rather liked this portrait.

 

[joe1It]

Brianvds


how wonderful the pen work of Aron Wiesenfeld is absurd, fantastic.
thank you for publishing this image I had never seen it before.
looking for more of him he impressed me a lot among other things, he works with the boy who has a Batman costume
(that work is in another medium I think).

thanks also for the other images, for other artists mentioned in the discussion


I take this opportunity to publish this image of Miles Johnston

http://designcrushblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Miles-Johnston-1-Design-Crush.jpg

in fact I could not think of a single name, in the last 2 years especially for joining the 2 forums my favorite artists are many many more so I would not know how to choose, I like many works, many artists in the same way anyway I quote Miles Johnston , also in this case a few months ago I saw his works for the first time and he doesn't know just one

https://www.collater.al/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/thought_loops_by_miles_johnston-daj6v3m.jpg

https://www.collater.al/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/simpler.jpg

 

[Artyczar]

Joe, the color image is by Neil Farber.

Thanks for sharing the images in the links by Miles Johnston. Really nice! Sometimes I don't like surreal work, but I love these well rendered pieces.

 

[stlukesguild]

That Johnston work could pass as a work by Aron Wiesenfeld... if not for the Surreal element.

 

[stlukesguild]

I like this funky ceramic piece by the Russian artist, Inna Olshansky:

I stumbled on this work, Eve, while I was looking through the internet for artworks on the theme of "Eve and the Serpent".

 

[Artyczar]

I really like it too.

 

[brianvds]

Posting that painting by Georgia O'Keeffe's nemesis put in my mind to go look over the web for some of her work, which brought me to this lesser known one, which I'll post here for no other reason than to irritate StLukes:

Georgia O'Keeffe - Black_lava_bridge Hana coast no 1

 

[brianvds]

The local artist Roelof Rossouw mostly paints fairly standard if very well executed impressionist pictures for the popular market. Now and then he comes up with something "deeper," like this one he painted during the hard lockdown:

Roelof Rossouw - EXIT - Don't Do It. Oil on acrylic on canvas, 56 x 76 cm

 

[Roni]

like this one

I somehow like it, but think the existentialist-feel came stronger, if there was no door at all near the EXIT-sign. Or the door covered with planks of wood. You get my drift.

 

[Artyczar]

I really like the mystery of it, and the colors too.

 

[stlukesguild]

Yes for all the bright patterns, colors, and light... this is even creepier:

 

[brianvds]

Yes for all the bright patterns, colors, and light... this is even creepier:

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It's somehow not the same without the Bartok.

 

[brianvds]

Here I go again - a sucker for juicy brush strokes:

Edward Cucuel - An Evening Ride [c1920], oil on cardboard, 60 x 50 cm

And a detail to really show what I mean:

 

[stlukesguild]

I recently stumbled upon this cute portrait entitled, The Familiar Birds by Émile Friant, 1921:

 

[laf.art]

I like this cheeky little number, the details are yum

 

[stlukesguild]

-Anthony van Dyck: Study Head of a Young Woman

In no way is Anthony van Dyck "new" to me... but I can honestly say that this beautiful and emotionally charged portrait is. I might also state that the very idea that this painting is merely a "study" is truly disconcerting.