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A fresh new artist : Thona

“My name is Thona Samba. I am a fresh new painter from Paris, now living in London.
I always wanted to do something creative.....
At the age of 16 i was in a theatre troupe for two years.
Since then I've always tried to do something in the art.....
My paintings are very colourful. I like colours very much...........
Thona Samba can be described as a Conceptual Art Brut or Outsider painter. His paintings are colourful explosions that express complex philosophical ideas in a crude and naïve style. You either hate or love Samba’s work.

Define Sensuality

I paint from what I have seen and perhaps think.Know. Am struck by. Provoked by. One very valued friend remarked," I love ur work.. but miss your sensuality .." I began to worry : told him I would try. Just that there was a whole neighbourhood breathing down my neck... a few minutes later, there was this from another Friend..." Love the sensuality in your work ..." The painting in question is Woman at Well, the Story of a Biblical bad Girl, living with five, wife to none... The theme always intrigued me with its unwhispered secrets, acceptance and new beginnings.. The woman I have painted here wears the single wrapped clothing of Khujang tribals, deep Orissa... Sensual in the Read more..

new member of the artvibrations site

Nicolas Rilliet became recently a new member of the site www.artvibrations.com . There are new works unseen until now.

Youth Violence in London Exhibition by young artist Pomichal

Opening night Game or Quarry Exhibition by Miroslav Pomichal Monday 22nd June 2009, 7 – 10 pm Czech and Slovak Club, 74 West End Lane, Hampstead, London NW6 2LX Miroslav Pomichal is a young London painter. His subjects are always drawn from current political and social issues. The ‘Game or Quarry’ project is an exposition of youth violence in London, and the almost unreal quality of the suffering that it inflicts on the most young and the most vulnerable groups in our society. Pomichal’s inks and watercolours speak with incredible power and force about a social problem that is impossible to grasp with photography. The desperation of the scenes is played out in a wor Read more..

A bird’s view of contemporary art concerns on art and artistic merit

A bird’s view of contemporary concerns on art and artistic merit “In 2003, under the title A Dead Shark Isn't Art, the Stuckism (1) international gallery exhibited Eddie Saunders’ shark(2), which had first been put on public display two years before Hirst's 1991, the physical impossibility of death in the mind of someone living, (3)in his Shore ditch shop, JD Electrical Supplies, and asked, "If Hirst’s shark is recognized as great art, then how come Eddie’s, which was on exhibition for two years beforehand, isn’t? Do we perhaps have here an undiscovered artist of genius, who got there first, or is it that a dead shark isn’t art at all?" The Stuckists suggested that Hirs Read more..

Exhibition announcement: The dramaturgy of the subject

° The dramaturgy of the subject, 10 June - 3 July 2009 Opening: 9 June, 19.00 – 21.30 Project curator: Zeigam Azizov Participating contributors: Noah Angell Nick Gee Mattin Talk: 9 June, 17.00 – 18.30 Christian Kravagna and Zeigam Azizov with Gülsen Bal This project is intended to address the crisis of the subject of art and the way of dealing with this crisis in the contemporary art world. The project aims to bring together three artists working in photography, video and sound in order to question one of the aspect of this crisis emerged from the collapse of the spectacle with the resistance. In the age Read more..

New art show for F. Neslihan Oner

F. Neslihan Oner has a new art show beginning the 8 of June and ending the 30th of June 2009 in the Tatbiki Sanatlar Gallery-Istanbul, TURKEY, Bahariye Street 3 1st floor Kadikoy-Istanbul, Turkey
F. Neslihan Oner's web address: www.neslihanoner.com

Brigitta Kocsis: Secret Mechanisms

Campbell River Public Art Gallery is presenting a solo exhibition by Brigitta Kocsis entitled Secret Mechanisms. Kocsis' new project will be shown at the Main Gallery and the Discovery Gallery.

Secret Mechanisms explores how technology can alter perception by interacting with the methods and processes involved in how the human body works. The tension contained within the bodies of the characters, due to the pervasive technologies, communicates a sense of contemporary environment in its fractured state.

Campbell River Public Art Gallery
July 3 - August 7, 2009
For more information please visit Brigitta's website.

correction about Nicolas Rilliet

Nicolas Rilliet won't exhibit at the 2009 juried Spring Juried Exhibition in Fayetteville next 22nd of May 2009.

new art show for Nicolas Rilliet

Nicolas Rilliet has a new art show beginning the 22nd of May and ending the 20th of June 2009 in the Arts Council, 301 Hay Street in Fayetteville in North Carolina, USA.
His exibition the AIT building is ending this week.
Here is the link where you can vote for Nicolas Rilliet in this week's Showdown: http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/showdown/index.php?showpic=211749
Nicolas Rilliet's blog address: nicolasrilliet.blogspot.com

Setting myself in the sun.

Why not:

In Norway we have a law called Jante law.... some of the rouls goes like this: You should not think you are somthing.
You should not think that you are better then me..
en so on.

My word are ; Why not. Like the singer sings

you simple the best. better then anyone..... better then all the rest..

Rebecca Geldard Top Ten Shows in May/June

Yeh Rebecca some cool shows there for sure. I went to see Tobias Rehberger and Matthew Burrows myself on Saturday and thought they were quite good. One criticism I would make thought would be(can we criticise) the chipboard used as support/surround for the wall mounted pieces and in Matthew Burrows I found the paint a touch on the thin side although the paintings were better than expected. I'll be keeping an eye open for more work from this artist. I'll go and see the others this week, particularly looking forward to that one at the Hayward Gallery. I love that colourful cartoony stuff that the japanese seem to specialise in.

Strange double Chilan painting -率性nature, the spirit of doing so

陈奇先生,旅居新加坡华裔著名油画家,双栖绘画理论创始人。 陈奇先生在长期艺术创作实践中,积累经验，勇于探索。从研究光和色的有机结合切入,深刻分析了西方不同时期、不同风格的近百名绘画大师的绘画作品,研究他们采用的材料和绘画技法,从理论上、观念上领悟他们的绘画精髓,从而创立了古典主义、印象派和现代派三者不等结合的绘画理论,这就是对当今世界油画领域产生巨大冲击和影响力的新光色绘画概念——双栖绘画理论。 奇特双栖绘画——率性自然、气韵丰盈 画家陈奇高度的知识修养、明确的审美角度、� Read more..

Do you know how to decode modernist literature and art?

Do you know how to decode modernist literature and art? Artist, writer, art historian Dr Jan Maureen White, has a Winston Churchill Fellowship to research in America 2009: novelist Janet Frame’s life in the USA; New Yorker Len Lye, innovator in film and kinetics, and NZ painter using Hans Hofmann’s techniques Colin McCahon’s visit to America. Dr White decodes the layered symbolic motifs in these artists’ works. Dr White will interview Professor Karl Kasten, Berkeley University, research the Special Collections Library, Pennsylvania State and the Jewish Museum, NYC. Frame was a resident writer at Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony and her works were published by George Braziller and Ca Read more..

Nicolas Rilliet in different art shows

Nicolas Rilliet is exhibiting two oil paintings on canvas at the art show "United we stand". It is a collective art show from the 24th of Apil to the 22nd of May at the Advanced Internet Technology (AIT) building, 421 Maiden Lane in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Private view Friday the 24th of April between 7 pm to 9 pm. Nicolas Rilliet will show two acrylic paintings on paper during the exhibition "Public works" between the 24th of April to the 16th of May. This art show will be at the Arts Council of Fayetteville at 301, Hay street. Private show the 24th of April between 7 pm to 9 pm. Nicolas Rilliet is still exhibiting one oil painting on canvas at the art show "Creating/making" gal Read more..

Utterly new perspective to get an insight into the human soul

There is an utterly new perspective to get an insight into the human soul. These painted "Dreams and Nightmares" are not typical in a naturalistic sense. There are deep symbols and a rich sea of colours that show a way to reach into the unconscious mind that is very vital. The symbols are highly concentrated and therefore are not to be interpretated in a near sense but give way to sophisticated interpretation. Nevertheless this interpretation may be adequately brought to the point and show more from you, your own soul or the artists soul as an e.g. naturalistic picture or naturalistic dream, because there swing with so much connotations that are taken into account now and find a way Read more..

Art and Modern Art works of Yucel Donmez

Duygu Yasam Yucel Donmez exhibited 11 sculptures in a harmony which he made in Quartat Valley of Altıparmak Mountains on the east of Turkey on the August of 1974. According to Donmez big stones that were shaped in centenarian cascading Quartat stream are already natural miracle sculptures. Donmez took the stones from the stream with the help of village people, he made studies on them and he applied placing in the valley (placing art is also known as Installation in art). Yucel Donmez made a painting on 300 meter snow in Uludag- Bursa on February 1975 and he was given the title as a first artist in the world that makes painting on the snow. Both of his works were documented on art revie Read more..

沉沦与超越

沉沦与超越 邹跃进 孟小为笔下的风景，题材并不复杂。往往以田地、房屋，院落为主。按海德格尔的说法，这些形象都可以视为人类在大地上的“居所”。这些“居所”，因为有了人的劳作，也就摆脱了单纯的物质性，获得了精神上的意义。孟小为似乎就是从这一方面来理解风景的，所以在画面上并不描写通常意义上的自然风景，而只是提取自然风景中一些较为完整的形象，赋予它们一种庄严、宁静的氛围和凝重、内省的情感基调，甚至具有一种宗教的意味。 整个画面的透视并不一致，例如，院落与地面的关系、屋顶� Read more..

Stars for Freedom

"No more war" a dream ? A message for all people of the world. "No more war" - "Welcome freedom"
Vote your stars and send this message around the world.

In Year 2009 a new chance


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ARTIST

Watercolor painting - Computer art - Oil painting. Slånbergsgården 4 77140 Ludvika, DALARNA - Sweden E-Mail Gallery www.artkg.com/ Gallery Specialties: paintings digital art Country: Sweden 2007 Palm Art Award, Certificate of Excellence .www.art-domain.com/paa-winners2007.html www.art-domain.com/gustafsson.html www.art-domain.com Based on the jury's selection, we have pleasure to announce the winners of our 2007 art competition. Congratulations to all winners! Prize-Giving Ceremony: Art Domain Gallery, Leipzig, February 22, 2008, 7 p.m. All Pictures are protected according to BUS in Sweden. Contact Artist or BUS if you want to use the pictures in any fo Read more..

""Creating/making", an art show with Nicolas Rilliet

Nicolas Rilliet is participating in a collective art show beginning today Friday the 27th of March until the 27th of April at the gallery one13, 113 Gilespie Street in Fayetteville in North Carolina. The private view begins at 6 p.m. until 9p.m.
You can read Nicolas Rilliet's blog in: www.nicolasrilliet.blogspot.com . And don't forget to vote for Nicolas Rilliet in "Showdown". Here is the link where you can vote: http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/showdown/index.php?showpic=202592

4x4 art show continues in april

The exhibition in Cartel Coffe Lab in Tempe where Nicolas Rilliet has two artworks made with the medium used in the rubric "Your studio" from the Saatchi website ends today. But the same two pieces will be shown at the Conspire Art Gallery in Phoenix, Arizona from the 1st of April until the end of the month of April.
Nicolas Rilliet is a member of the Art Guild of Fayetteville in North Carolina since the 21st of march 2009.
Don't forgewt to vote for Nicolas Rilliet in "Showdown". Here is the link where you can vote for him: http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/showdown/index.php?showpic=202592

art exhibiton in Fort Bragg by Nicolas Rilliet

Today, wednesday 25th of march, two oil paintings on canvas made by Nicolas Rilliet will be shown in the Throckmorton library in Fort Bragg in North Carolina. It is part of a collective exhibition called "Reaching out". This show will be there until the 15th of may.
Don't forget to watch and vote for Nicolas Rilliet's art work on Showdown. Here is the link to it: http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/showdown/index.php?showpic=202592

Via Crucis watercolors

Abbazia di Vallombrosa
Firenze

show and concert from 5 April to 13 April 2009

several exhibitions made by Nicolas Rilliet

Nicolas Rilliet has several exhibitions in which he will show some of his paintings. Here they are: Mini Mini Art Show -Cartel Coffee Lab Until Thu Mar 26 2009 12:00 AM 225 W University Dr Tempe, Arizona 85281 "Reaching out" march 25 through may15th Throckmorton library Renem Street building 1-3346 Fort Bragg, North Carolina “Creating/Making” Gallery one13 March 27 thru April 27, 2009 113 Gillespie Street Fayetteville, NC -Conspire Art Gallery 1st of april 2009 until the end of the month Downtown Phoenix (5th and Garfield) in Arizona -27th annual juried spring art show and sale 3-5 april 2009 313 Dock Stret Perry hall of St James church W Read more..

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Series MODELLAND

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*expurgate*

This one is the series *expurgate*, the look into the toilet. Clean and weed out offensive with a blue oceanic freshness culture.

Making visible the invisible...Mahirwan Mamtani

MAKING VISIBLE THE INVISIBLE….Mahirwan Mamtani The 1935-born Mahirwan Mamtani migrated to live in Delhi post Partition, acquiring his diploma in art from the Delhi Polytechnic after a BA in political science. Mamtani lives and works from Munich. The artist has exhibited in India with artists like Biren De, GR Santosh, Om Prakash Sharma, Sohan Qadri, Profulla Mohanti, Haridasan and Viswanathan. Showing at the Dhoomimal Art Centre, Mamtani explains his art. He has been painting the four-faced geometric Mandala faces for the last four years. Way back in the sixties, he was influenced by constructivism, and with his Indian background, by Tantra art. Out of these origins arose his `C Read more..

Nicolas Rilliet has created his own blog

Nicolas Rilliet has created his own blog where he shows his art works and writes about movies he watched and books he read. He continues to be an active member of the Saatchi gallery website.
Here is his blog web address: www.nicolasrilliet.blogspot.com
Nicolas Rilliet hopes that Dave the flick will be interrested.

Artur Barrio

Artur Barrio shows in its blog the trajectory of its work in years 70.

Intentism- The Reurrection of the Author

Since the 1920s, a certain view regarding meaning in art has dominated the Anglo-American universities and became almost dogma. This viewpoint insists that works of art should primarily be understood by how minds receive them rather than by the psychology that created them. Such an understanding of meaning in art essentially relegates the artist to just another interpreter of his or her own artwork. For this reason Roland Barthes famously proclaimed ‘the death of the author’. To refer to the artist’s intention was to naively refer to the unknowable and to place unnecessary limitations on the wealth of possible readings of the artwork. Intention was seen to stifle the work. Adrian Se Read more..

Homecoming with tantra......Mahirwan Mamtani

Germany-based Indian artist Mahirwan Mamtani’s tantra art works, now exhibited at New Delhi’s Dhoomimal Art Centre, exudes eclecticism. As a 12-year-old when Mahirwan Mamtani came to Delhi from Sind in Pakistan during Partition, little did he know that loneliness triggered by his rootlessness would find a friend in art, that too in German art. Though years later, Mamtani found a new home in Germany, he still represents India, rather Indian art, at various art festivals across the world, particularly in California and Moscow. Mamtani’s specialisation is tantra art of the 1960s, an exhibition of which is on at New Delhi’s Dhoomimal Art Centre till this coming Tuesday. His work Read more..

Home coming with tantra....Mahirwan Mamtani

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7 Artists

For those interested in abstract painters and paintings and artists who use paint, here are seven artists who I think fall into that category. Three youll probably know and four you might so far be unfamilliar with. The three are easy and they are Christopher Wool, Cy Twombly whose recent paintings were I think shown at White Cube in London. Were they cabbages or flowers, anyway not bad for an artist pushing four score years. The four are, in no particular order, Andy Stewart at Sarah Myerscough, Ville Valtteri Lehtinen at Saatchi gallery/your gallery and Catrine Bodum and Francisco Ortega at the Lloyd Gill Gallery.

Art by native Iraqi artist

My Art, My People. Paul Batou My journey as an artist started during my academic study in pharmacy school. At that time, religion, the gypsy culture, writing poems, painting, and playing classical guitar become my passions and my escape from the radical society. Those hobbies provided me with the ideals that I live by and the freedom to express my self among people who fears God and pray all day. The turning point in my search for that freedom was when I start reading and painting the Epic of Gilgamesh. That story had a major impact in my thinking as a human and as an artist. Gilgamesh, and his long journey and search for life, love, and freedom opened my mind and caused me to look ba Read more..

Universal World Flag

®A HumanBeingFlag I have never really seen anyone that looks like these colors,, however I am just using them as symbols, of the 4 colors we have ALL come from. The purpose of this Flag, is to go Beyond, Color, Prejudice, Inhumanity and Injustice to All Human Beings. We are All Human Beings. We are All connected. Our Soul, Spirit, is either All colors, or no color, or both. I cannot debate that issue. The flag has the four Human Being colors,,, White, Yellow, Red, and Black. The triangle in each color represents our connection with the other Human Beings. All pointing to the Centre, The Circle of Life. The Centre represents Our Soul, Spirit, also the Circle of Life. The symbol Read more..

Underground Artist in Ukraine

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen!
I am Ukrainian artist and my art is forbidden (underground) in Ukraine. I would like to invite you to my exhibition on the Internet: www.kolyada.com! You could see that I have very original style and technique as well (ball-point pen).
Thank you!
With kind regards,
Serhiy Kolyada

Back To Beauty – The painter ZARUM leading the way to higher standards

By Ruth Martina ruth.martina@hotmail.com In this age of multimedia and endless technical gadgets designed to create any imaginable effect and arouse any desired emotion, it is fabulous and truly refreshing to find an artist who is able to ignite passion, to inspire sensuality and stimulate self awareness by the simple means of paint on canvas. In an abundance of clear, clean colors he surprises us with unplugged truths of our human emotions and relationships and touches us with the surprisingly simple mysteries that they harbor. We find ourselves reflected, our secrets revealed and exposed, yet dealt with in a remarkably tender and harmonic fashion. A celebration of color and passion Read more..

Magic of Supersymmetry

Die Magie der Supersymmetrie Die Alten Ägypten Die Alten Ägypter waren sich durchaus bewusst, in ein Universum eingebunden und diesem gegenüber verantwortlich zu sein.. In ihrer Kunst spiegelt sich eine Energie ritueller Ordnungen, die im Willen zur Stilisierung ihren formalen Ausdruck findet. Dieser Wille verbindet die Peripherie mit dem Zentrum: es ist der Wille zur „ritualisierten Synthese“. Er folgt gleichsam den Gesetzen der Natur, nämlich der Notwendigkeit, sich geordnet, ja rhythmisch zu manifestieren. Die religiöse Kunst jener Zeit zielte auf das Erschaffen von Schönheit und Rhythmus als Ordnung. Ihre Meister wussten um die gemeinsame Grundlage der Gesetze der Natur, Read more..

Photography and Contemporary Influences

Edward Weston’s creative philosophy seems to be about internalising the camera process so that what the artist envisions and what the camera produces are as closely aligned as possible. Unlike pictorialists who personalise the photos after they are taken by applying craft and classically ‘artistic’ effects, Weston in a sense melds the man and machine into one – he talks of “seeing photographically” – learning to see the subject matter in terms of the tools and processes of the medium, and then use it to portray his personal, subjective view. As such, the photo doesn’t need to be touched up or changed, because it is in itself a faithful representation of the artist’s vision Read more..

Photography and Contemporary Influences

Edward Weston’s creative philosophy seems to be about internalising the camera process so that what the artist envisions and what the camera produces are as closely aligned as possible. Unlike pictorialists who personalise the photos after they are taken by applying craft and classically ‘artistic’ effects, Weston in a sense melds the man and machine into one – he talks of “seeing photographically” – learning to see the subject matter in terms of the tools and processes of the medium, and then use it to portray his personal, subjective view. As such, the photo doesn’t need to be touched up or changed, because it is in itself a faithful representation of the artist’s vision Read more..

Artist unknown to you

Look at my painting. Art of my days. I have many ideas that are developed every day.

ART: ADULT PLAYGROUND, PLAYING ON A HIGHER LEVEL

ART: ADULT PLAYGROUND, PLAYING ON A HIGHER LEVEL My fascination with cartoon heroes and children’s toys began afresh as an adult because they are the tools we use to teach children how to grow up and live in the real world, but because they are for children, who use them in conjunction with imagination, I also sense the potential in them that is never realised... Toys refer subconsciously to archetypes - they reflect our landscape and our dreamscape both as children and as adults. I like to create new perspectives by using toys in conjunction with both pop culture and universal symbols. The toys are chosen by me spontaneously and allow me to express my ideas and observations in a socia Read more..

Melting Human

“A small country has fewer people. Though there are machines that can work ten to hundred times faster than man, they are not needed. The people take death seriously and do not travel far. Though they have boats and carriages, no one uses them. Though they have armour and weapons, no one displays them. Men return to the knotting of rope in place of writing. Their food is plain and good, their clothes fine but simple, their homes secure; they are happy in their ways. Though they live within sight of their neighbours, and crowing roosters and barking dogs are heard across the way, yet they never visit each other till death.” This quotation is from ancient “Tao Te Ching” of Lao Tsu. Its Read more..

Madrid here we come!

My first trip to Madrid. I am excited. It is my first trip to Madrid. It is my first time on the Ave high speed train. We leave Fuengirola station at 08:45 and one hour later we arrive in Malaga to catch the 09.00 high speed train to Madrid. There is security and x-raying of bags. I find this a bit unexpected for a train. However, calmly and unrushed we took our pre-booked seats and sat back. We were off smoothly. An attendant came round with a set of headphones. By 09.10 we are passing mountains on our left and agricultural land on our right. The area is dotted with houses and the occasional white pueblo. We are travelling at 186 km hr. The temperature is 14 degrees. A mo Read more..

Erotic vision of the Genesis

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What is Performance art installation

Performing art installation: Blurring the boundary is a necessity: There was a time when the industrial revolution reduced human ability to mere operations and now with the emergence of nano- tech, on one side, posing a big logical problem for the “presence of human existence” in material world by going zero size, where even the operations are also getting separated from human ability. At the same time, on the other side with technological innovations, tvs, cell phones, digital cameras, computers and printing are flooding us with millions of visual images and communication as big installed object. Under this circumstance, it is become very important for art to define its Read more..

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