Having to chose between posters and expensive art for your walls, is now over. The Poster club has announced its collaboration with the danish former fashion designer Malene Birger. The result of this collaboration are six monochrome paintings that can be sold as art prints and you can find them here. Her work is very…
One of my personal favorites, Yannis Moralis was an important Greek painter and part of the so-called “Generation of the ’30s”. He is a well establish artist in Greece famous for his abstract formulation of the human body, especially the female one. Rhythm, order, an absence of detail and description, and the simple palette which he gradually imposed in…
Sebastiao Salgado is a Brazilian social documentary photographer and a photo journalist. His work is dedicated to the awareness of conditions of both wild life and humans. Can someone find pure beauty in poverty and harsh exploitation of human lives? Well Salgado did, in his monochromatic photojournalistic approach of his subjects through his career. If…
….You, always the little star and I the dark vessel You, always the port and I the lighthouse on the right The wet pier and the shine on the paddles High up at the house with the trailing vines The tied roses, the freezing water You, always the stone statue; I, always the shadow that…
It is officially the first day of the summer and nobody can concentrate on work properly (at least I can’t). So, today’s journey is all about dreaming through Gao Xingjian‘s paintings. Gao Xingjian has won a Nobel prize in literature in 2000 and although he is the only Chinese born writer who have won a…
It is Saturday -finally! Today the link for art is a project of Mark Power that I first saw it through Magnum Photos site. The shipping forecast project of Mark Power began almost three decades ago and it is based on the forecast (of British institution) that broadcasts four times a day on BBC Radio 4. It splits the waters of…
Summer is around the corner and the weather helps a lot to think about relaxed summer evenings. All I can think about is those summer day naps when I see the Safari day bed from Danish architect Ole Gjerløv-Knudsen designed in 1962. Incredible hats and bags for the summer by Blanc …
It doesn’t come as a shock, to all those people who really know me, that I am posting photographers in weekend’s art link. I have a thing about photography and especially black and white. So, today I have chosen show you a small sample of the work of André Kertész, a Hungarian born photographer that is…
I am not a film expert but I am a film lover. Cinema defines me in some way. And I cannot help thinking of film directors when I think about art. Akira Kurosawa is one of them because of the impact it had on me, pretty early in my life, one of his latest film…
Today I am introducing a new category for the blog and that is Art. I will try to share with you links, pictures, or just thoughts about art once a week mostly on weekends. Weekends are all about relaxing and enjoying life and for me art works that way… So, today I am posting a…
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