Originally from Poland, Beata Chrzanowska has lived most of her life in Chicago. She got her BFA at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design where she studied Integrated Studio Arts with a focus in painting and drawing the human form. Since then she has migrated to New York where she continues an active career in the arts painting from her studio in Queens.
Beata’s works are compositionally, chromatically and geometrically conscious. They are puzzles that she builds from a single figurative line drawing. Once the first colors are placed, every additional color is affected until a compositional balance is created. The work exists to demonstrate a non-traditional execution of the flesh and sexuality, arising attention to the moments she finds most intriguing and inviting the audience to experience that same driven thrill through the femme.Don’t forget our FACEBOOK
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Seen From Above - The Art of Besty Hale BannenBetsy Hale Bannen...
Seen From Above - The Art of Besty Hale Bannen
Betsy Hale Bannen is an artist and an instructor in drawing and painting at the School of Visual Arts Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. Her art focuses on landscapes: specifically landscapes viewed from the air or from an orbital perspective. From this view it is possible to see agricultural areas around the world and the way modern farming has transformed the landscapes.
Betsy writes on her website:
The experience of flying and the views from satellites gives a clear view of the changes humans have imposed on the planet-an impact that to me is both beautiful and disturbing at the same time. And yet there are terrains that defy transformation and it is the meeting point of the man-made and the untamable that is the most fascinating to me-where cultivated land hits desert, where cities meet rivers, and where highways meet mountains. The irregular shapes of the overall paintings reflect that. The specific imagery for the large, multi-paneled paintings is the agricultural lands covering much of the middle US with center pivot irrigation circles and contour farming playing a major role. The circles make a particularly graphic design that both imposes on and is constrained by the land while the contours reveal patterns of a rolling, undulating landscape.
To me, there is a strange intimacy from afar in these views, a sort of voyeurism made possible by the relatively new ability to see our home from that point of view-the gravity-defying sciences of flight and satellite technology have given us an unexpectedly poetic view of where we live. Driving through the seemingly endless fields of crops gives one sense of the magnitude of the human effects on the land, the view from above, quite another.
Her paintings of this landscape are very powerful in revealing all the changes in landscape - the beauty of the patterns created by modern agricultural processes, as well as the moment of realization that this is a painting that closely reflects reality, a reality that is not a painting but resembles a painting that has been mass created out of wild land. She also has lovely black and white graphite drawings that appear to wisps of smoke, but are loosely based on river courses seen from above. Water, so nebulous even seen from above. See more of Betsy Hale Bannen’s work on her Tumblr and her Facebook Page.
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Works from the talented motion designer Igor Piwowarczyk from...
Works from the talented motion designer Igor Piwowarczyk from Poland.
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Colourful Liquid Splashes Captured at 1/3500th of a Second Look...
Colourful Liquid Splashes Captured at 1/3500th of a Second Look Like Floating Sculptures
Cassandra Warner and Jeremy Floto of Floto+Warner Studio recently produced this beautiful series of photos titled Clourant that seemingly turns large splashes of colorful liquid into glistening sculptures that hover in midair. The photos were shot at a speed of 1/3,500th of a second, taking special care to disguise the origin of each burst making images appear almost digital in nature (the duo assures no Photoshop was used). They share about the project:
Colourant is a series of events that pass you by as an imperceptible flash. A fleeting moment, that blocks and obscures the landscape, a momentary graffiti of air and space. Creating shapes of nature not experienced by the human eye, these short-lived anomalies are frozen for us to view at 3500th of a second. Transforming the non-discernible and ephemeral to the eternal. The essence of photography—immortalize the transitory.
You can see several additional shots from the series on their website and prints are available through Vaughan Hannigan. If you liked this you can check out similar high-speed liquid works by Manon Wethly, Fabian Oefner, and Shinichi Maruyama. Thanks Colossal