Take Art: Jean Michel Basquiat

The film by Julian Schnabel delivered the tragic yet charming story of Basquiat to me before I found it, which I eventually would have through my exploration of Warhol and the world of The Factory.
His art is unlike anything else that I have seen before or since — it has a musical quality to [...]

Take Art: John Karlo Karger

Well, maybe I am some kind of retard but this picture is about the only information that I could find on this guy. I’ve seen similar images to the above one but I think it was the colouring in this one that particularly caught my eye. I found it in http://www.ideafixa.com/ and that is probably [...]

Take Art: Jason Lavesque

If you haven’t heard of this guy or checked out his site, where he has prints of his amazing art on sale, then you really need to head on over there and check him out. With some of the pieces you can see what some of his influences might be, purely in regards to subject [...]

Take Art: Rhoda Yanow

Whilst I was traveling around the US I stayed in Ohio, and while I was in Youngstown, Ohio I went to the Butler Institute for art. One of the exhibitions that I went to when we were walking around the Butler was a portrait exhibition by Rhoda Yanow. Her paintings were vibrant and full of [...]

Take Art: Marcus Harvey’s Myra Hindley Painting: Genius

I think, to a degree, being part of an exhibition called Sensation damaged this painting and limited its impact. I really wish that I had got to see at the gallery — that long walk that they had designed towards that iconic image: a child killer recreated from children’s hands. A lot of the Young [...]

take art: jenny saville

Thank you Manic Street Preachers for introducing me to the work of Jenny Saville. Saville’s work adorned the cover of the Manic’s masterpiece — The Holy Bible and it was the perfect compliment to the music that was contained within that cover — visceral and obsessed in so many ways by the human body. [...]

take art: an enduring image: the island of death

The first version of this painting that I saw was actually the Giger one — it has been in my life for a long time: ever since I bought the Giger Taschen poster book after becoming interested in him through his work on Alien. From reading the poster books descriptions of the poster I [...]

Tristan Henry-Wilson

http://thewhiteleaf.com/
This guy is amazing — I recently came across him in a thread on the Whitechapel Forum run by Mr Warren Ellis. His work is amazing and I just wanted to share it with everyone. A talent to be jealous of.