The ultimate sacrifice.
Cahilj99 writes:
‘This is a picture I painted depicting the shear madness, destruction and insanity of WW2.’
Mmmf.
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Products from wordbird.ie a new wall space filling design house by Co Cavan based husbadn and wife design team Ronan and Orla Ward.
Cavan Cola anyone?
Of these frankly superb Communist era Czech posters for Hollywood films (the top one, believe it or not, is for Ghostbusters [1984]), Jason Pirodsky of Expats.cz explains:
Some writers attribute the bizarre nature of Czech (and Polish) movie posters from the 1960s through the 1980s to “an artistic alternative to banned U.S. publicity material” (what, the posters were banned, but the movies weren’t?), but the actual story is much more interesting. While artists behind promotional material elsewhere needed to be able to sell their product in the most effective (read: least imaginative) way possible, the communist regime inadvertently created a unique environment for this particular form. Free from most commercial interests, the artists behind these posters were given an incredible amount of free reign over their design – an artistic freedom even the filmmakers behind the movies didn’t enjoy.
MORE: Top 25 Czechoslovak Movie Posters (*for US Films) (Expat.cz)
(All images: Terry Ponozky)
(H/T: Qzak)
Free tonight?
Jonathan Lynn writes:
Our annual street art and print pop up opens today Thursday December 4 at 6pm at Indigo & Cloth. 9 Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2. (Next door to Garage Bar) The pop up runs from the 4th – 24th of December and we will updates on our twitter with new stock. The store will be open from 10am to 6pm everyday.
A recent iteration of the long, long tradition of extrapolated album cover art – this time by UK-based web designers Aptitude.
A superbly edited video for Mayokero by Roy Kafri, directed by Vanya Heymann, featuring animated ‘cameos’ by the album cover art of Dylan, The Smiths, The Beatles and others.
From artist Joe Forkan’s ‘series…
‘…of paintings and drawings exploring layered narratives, using masterpieces of Western art and the Coen Brother’s film The Big Lebowski as a starting point.’
Now that’s an artist’s statement.
Above: paintings based on The Incredulity of St Thomas (Caravaggio, 1602) (1,2); Wanderer Above the Sea Of Fog (Caspar David Friedrich, 1818); Supper at Emmaus (Caravaggio, 1601); Oath of The Horatii (Jacques-Louis David, 1784); The Lamentation (Peter Paul Rubens, 1614) and Portrait of Pablo de Valladolid (Diego Velázquez, 1637).
Original artworks here.
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Photographs, album covers and street art animated by video capturer and gif creator A.L. Crego.
More here.
‘sup?
Sheila Larkin writes:
“Remember that empty lot on the corner of Richmond Street South and Harcourt Road [Dublin]? It’s being used for art installations. Here is today’s live art installation. Mad Ted.”