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zeroing:

Harry Ally

Figure #24
72 x 48”
mixed media on canvas on panel
2005

A simplistic painting, a neutral colour scheme with only hins of what lurks among the beige and brown.

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cavetocanvas:

L’Equilibriste - Kees van Dongen, c. 1907

Oil on canvas
130 cm (51.18 in.), Width: 97 cm (38.19 in.)

A childlike depiction of a dancer/acrobat.
The artists use of simple lines and block colours along side an abstractly drawn figure shows the artists fast pace and want for a simple image.
Thick, bold lines and the painters use of impasto brings some life in to an other wise dull figure depiction.

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Jenny Saville
Prop, 1993
Oil on canvas
213.5 x 183 cm

Her large scale works, often depicting larger human forms in distorted or exaggerated conditions was of a great interest to my own work and a huge inspiration for the style in which I completed my painting final piece.
Her use of thick paint and heave strokes adds an imperfection to the figures skin. The subtle lines and shading used to create rolls of skin and flesh almost disappear in to the background in parts, this creates a lack of definition between the figure and background which in turn leaves the viewer wondering just how large this figure is. This is added to by her use of the same painting style and very similar palette being used to create both the background and foreground figure.
Saville  immediately bring’s the viewers attention to the lower section of the piece by setting her focal point on the figure’s knee. Enlarging the lower section of the figure and dropping the artist view point adds an other level of curiosity to the viewers experience.

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artandopinion:

Profumo

1910

Luigi Russolo

Oil on canvas, 64.5 x 65.5 cm

A simple but appealing painting, made up by small, quick brush strokes in a wave like motion, sweeping around the central figure. The colour scheme of subtly changing blues over the warm yellows, reds and greens creates a feeling of comfort and of winding down next to a heat. The content gaze on the figure’s face leans towards this same analogy. The same could be said for the swaying movement made by the brush strokes and angle of the figure’s hair. 

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dopeart:

by Herakut

“Herakut is a collaboration of the aliases Hera and Akut, two graffiti artists from Frankfurt and Erfurt, who have been working together since they met in 2004.”

Very stylized pieces of work varying in detail, precision and technique as your eye is lead through the piece.
Often working in standard graffiti environments they create incredible yet slightly schizophrenic-esk final products.
They tend to swing from realistic areas of focus to scribbled, heavily graffiti influenced scrawl and portraits.
The use of spray paint along side traditional painting techniques creates a very smoky, dream like quality to this piece which ties in well with the disconnected figure and purely line work horse.
It gives the viewer a feeling of disappearance, that if they were to exhale too heavily the entire piece might disperse and merge in to a mass of orange twinged grey. 

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esobvio:

Milan Nenezic

I’m so beautiful(27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 in)
&
The moment after(55.1 x 39.4 x 1.2 in)

Serbian Artist, Nenezic, creates hyper realistic pieces in oils depicting some pretty miserable looking scenes.
His work revolves around a very dark and muted palette but manages to bring brightness in to gloom with splashes of vibrant colour in small doses.
His incredible attention to detail and dark tones give a very morbid atmosphere to his works no matter the content. This is aided by his sparse use of greens and blues in shaded areas. In my opinion this gives the pieces a moldy quality that adds to the dank and morose tone.

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gaksdesigns:

Audrey Kawasaki

My Dishonest Heart
Mixed media on wood 10”x12”
2008

Her use of delicate and wash like colours along side strong, bold line work creates a very illustrated final product. Her work holds a similar style to that used during the Art Nouveau movement. But contradicting that style is her obvious link to manga art. The combined styles, along with her paled out colour schemes all work together to create soft, delicate looking characters with a sinister but innocent air.
By using wood boards as her canvas she adds more to the whispy but linear quality that defines her work.

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Simon Birch

Broken Wristwatches
Simon Birch
oil on canvas
100x100cm

Simon Birch is a UK born artist, of Armenian descent, who is a permanent resident of Hong Kong, China. The majority of his work is done on a large scale and in oils.

The blotchy, patchwork look to his work comes from his method of building up multiple layers of oils, all with a different scheme of colours and ones to the layer beneath and on top.
Despite the technique used to create the shapes and general mass in the piece, it has a very realistic end result which, to myself at least, looks as though someone has manipulated an image in photoshop or perhaps drawn/painted on top of a photograph rather than an image done in oils.
The use of a cold but harmonizing colour in the background brings out the red and orange tones in the skin and emphasizes the darker areas around the on show palm, neck and stomach.