Take Art: Fernando Chamarelli

I think I found Fernando Chamarelli using stumbleupon to browse Flickr so it was one of those wonderful fortuitous moments that occasionally lead us somewhere that we are going to enjoy visiting many times.
His profile describes the influence of Brazilian and Pre-Columbian art upon his work but as well as seeing that I see many [...]

take art: alberto giacometti

alberto giacometti & sculptures
It may strike some people as strange if I admit that I know very little about the artist himself and that I was never overly bothered to find out about him. In the same way that I can watch an actor’s films and never need to know who he is screwing, I [...]

Take Art: Egon Schiele

I actually think I became aware of Egon Schiele at the same time that I became aware of Gustav Klimt and I wouldn’t be surprised if this was a common pairing. Stylistically you can definitely see some grounds for comparison in their work, though Schiele seems a lot less palatable to the majority than Klimt [...]

Comicsphere: Jamie McKelvie

I think as much as anything that Jamie McKelvie writes it is his design work which I find so fascinating and compelling — it is not something that everyone who puts comics together pays much attention to. I think it is something that is in a state of improvement but there are not many who [...]

culture vulture: carmine magazine

Thankfully there are more and more entry points becoming available into different areas of the creative sphere — every single time you make one discovery there are a thousand more in attendance — all hyperlinked and convenient for you. To claim these days that you cannot find inspiration is a pretty lame thing to say. [...]

take art: bryan charnley

I have my wife to thank for finding this artist, and is often the case nowadays it was an accidental stumbling across him while looking for something else online. I looked over and there he was, or rather there his work was on the screen and it was instantly eye-catching and the stories behind each [...]

Take Art: Mike Padilla

the (r)evolution of modern expression: it is a phrase that captures so much of the spirit of mike’s work, whether it is his art or his writing. the pieces are alive with process, with thought, with meaning — like the best art they don’t remain a fixed idea from one viewing to the next — [...]

Take Art: Ziga Sparovec

To complete the trilogy of talented artists from Whitechapel that I wanted to draw people’s attention to comes Zira Sparovec. I have had the pleasure, as have the other members of Warren Ellis’s extended online community, to see some of the process involved in creating these two particular pieces. they are the tip of the [...]

Take Art: Jessica Wagar

I seem to be spotlighting people that I have found through Whitechapel, Warren Ellis’s online community today. The number of people on that site with real creative talent is staggering and some of the work that you are privileged to look at is astounding. Check out Jessica Wagar’s artwork and you can’t be anything but [...]

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 [...]