MOON RIVER

Fuel your imagination

noreply@blogger.com (Moon River) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:51:00 +0000

via http://kathrynrodrigues.blogspot.com/

Skull Flower

noreply@blogger.com (Moon River) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:46:00 +0000

Portia Munson Skull Flower 2008, pigmented ink on rag paper, 61 x 43 inches

Dream catcher

noreply@blogger.com (Moon River) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:10:00 +0000

Nick Fox, Dreamcatcher, 2008 Cut out acrylic paint and ink 35 x 27 cm

Dreamcatcher 1 Chrysanthemum flower cut from acrylic paint 2008

Vinyl Killers

noreply@blogger.com (Moon River) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:26:00 +0000

Vinyl Killers 7 - 1964 World's Fair Part 1, originally uploaded by Simon Milligan.

V

noreply@blogger.com (Moon River) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:47:00 +0000

Avi Sabah. V, 2008 Oil on Paper, 75x110 cms

The Power of Ornament

noreply@blogger.com (Moon River) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:25:00 +0000

An exhibition that took place at the Orangery, Lower Belvedere. ..."ornamentation is something that cannot be pushed aside....the ornament is a readable expression of social structures and should be understood as an opportunity to identify patterns in modern society and face the consequences of what may have gone awry...."

Stay Out of the Rose Garden

noreply@blogger.com (Moon River) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:18:00 +0000

Forest scene

Matthew Palladino Stay Out of the Rose Garden, (Body pile), 2008 – 15”x19”, via and: fecalface

matryoshka

noreply@blogger.com (Moon River) — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:12:00 +0000

one of my earliest childhood memories are the Matryoshka dolls (we were calling them back then, babushka ), me playing with them, the matryoshka is a set of dolls of decreasing sizes placed one inside the other, each is delicately painted in a similar way usually as the bigger doll...this sensation of opening one doll and finding a beautiful crafted similar yet smaller doll inside was a constant experience of happiness and wonder for me.

image source:colourlovers The first Russian matryoshka was turned and painted - according to a sample brought from Japan - in a Moscow toy workshop only in the 90s of the XIXth century. The Japanese original was manufactured with a great sense of humor. It consisted of a number of figurines stacking one inside the other and representing the Japanese Wiseman Fukuruma, a bold-headed old man with an oval-shaped head - the consequence of his deep meditations. As a rule, Russian matryoshkas depicted young ladies in Russian sarafans [peasant woman's dress] and shawls, holding baskets, flowers, bread-and-salt [traditional Russian sign of hospitality], etc.

Birth of a Slugger

noreply@blogger.com (Moon River) — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:37:00 +0000

Hiro Kurata. Birth of a Slugger, 2008 24 x 36 Inches oil, acrylic and ink on panel

Street Art in NYC

noreply@blogger.com (Moon River) — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 07:40:00 +0000

this google map allows to explore New York City's street-art scene, from works by Banksy, Keith Haring, Swoon, Shepard Fairey, Os Gemeos, Invader, Dash Snow, and others. the project was made by ArtWeLove.

via http://www.artwelove.com/. and via briansholis and 16miles

Roadshow

noreply@blogger.com (Moon River) — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 09:05:00 +0000

hubert blanz

Roadshow, 02, c-print, diasec on aluminium, 80 x 120 cm, Hubert Blanz, 2007

via bibliodyssey and polarinertia

Solaris

noreply@blogger.com (Moon River) — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:18:00 +0000

Christiane Baumgartner, Solaris II, Original woodcut printed on kozo paper, based on a video-still, 140 x 240 cm

noreply@blogger.com (Moon River) — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:55:00 +0000

Collages of Wilfried "Sätty" Podriech

via ephemera assemblyman and blood milk jewelry

A Family In Disguise

noreply@blogger.com (Moon River) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:51:00 +0000

Yu Jinyoung A Family In Disguise A family in disguise (Child 1), 2008pvc, mixed media100 x 20 x 23 cm via notcot

Birdies

noreply@blogger.com (Moon River) — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:36:00 +0000

heidi anderson, Birdies Acrylic on panel36” x 30”2008

Over the Rhine - "Desperate for Love"

noreply@blogger.com (Moon River) — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:48:00 +0000

Tracing the Origin

noreply@blogger.com (Moon River) — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:29:00 +0000

Chinese Artist Cui Fei working in New York, who uses natural elements to evoke calligraphy.

Cui Fei Tracing the Origin V_III Photo-lithograph on papyrus, Varied Editions of 25 2008 35.5" x 25" via buro-gds inspirations

Look at the World

noreply@blogger.com (Moon River) — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 07:04:00 +0000

from FORTUNE magazine archive - MAPS, beautiful collection of maps dated from the 2ed world war period till the 60's

SYNTHETICA an invented land, October 1940 the relationship between the synthetic substances

THE LAND AS WE USE IT , June 1943 Richard Lindner

a great section for illustrations such as this via strangemaps and portent

skull

noreply@blogger.com (Moon River) — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 07:43:00 +0000

Ken Kelly

"Skull" 2003 acrylic, enamel and oil on panel 90" x 144"

IRAN

noreply@blogger.com (Moon River) — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:14:00 +0000

Riccardo Zipoli from his Iran series

solitery trees via bldgblog

eclipse

noreply@blogger.com (Moon River) — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 21:41:00 +0000

eclipse3, originally uploaded by justine ashbee.

by Justine Ashbee

Earthly Delights

noreply@blogger.com (Moon River) — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:52:00 +0000

Mark Flood lace paintings. The paintings are created by tearing, shredding, or otherwise torturing the lace, soaking it in paint, and carefully arranging it across the canvas.

MARK FLOOD Paradisal Fragment, 2006 Acrylic on canvas 53.3 x 40.6 cm

marginalize spaces

noreply@blogger.com (Moon River) — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:40:00 +0000

RICHARD WRIGHT Untitled (3.3.2009), 2009 Gold leaf on paper 83 x 116.5 cm .

Wright's primary manner of working consists of installations or interventions, often placed in unconventional or marginalized spaces of a site—ceilings, cornices, windowpanes, or the edges of a wall. Using simply a brush and paint, the artist creates his wall drawings on site in a time-consuming and laborious process. The results are improvisational yet precise paintings with designs ranging from organic, tattoo-like forms to geometric line drawings to cosmological sunbursts or constellations.

Presidential Doily

noreply@blogger.com (Moon River) — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:58:00 +0000

Presidential Doily, 2001 prints by Ray Beldner

Gabo's Butterflies

noreply@blogger.com (Moon River) — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:33:00 +0000

Scott Hunt Pursuit (Gabo's Butterflies), 2007 Charcoal on paper, 116 x 93 cms