Gushing Over Weekly Art Inspo

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Judy Chicago.

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Maurice Denis. He claimed to be against realism in painting as it was prose and he wanted music.

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Édouard Vuillard (1868-1940) was a French painter, printmaker, and decorator.

He was one of the founders of the Nabi group, emphasizing emotional, expressive, and intimate art that departed from colour blocking and involved some kooky mysticism and code names.

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Keiichi Tanaami 1936-2024 is a Japanese artist known for his surreal and psychedelic works.

He created vibrant, dreamlike paintings and prints, often featuring skulls, snakes, and other symbols, reflecting his interest in psychedelia and counterculture. He also drew on his own memories of war from childhood and his brush with death after recovering from life threatening illness.

Tanaami explored various media, including animation, film, and sculpture, and collaborated with artists like Andy Warhol and Robert Rauschenberg. He joined progressive artistic movements in Japan and enjoyed bringing his experience in graphic design into his work.

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Maria Izquierdo (1902-1955) was a Mexican painter and one of the first women to study at the San Carlos Academy of Fine Arts in Mexico City

Her paintings blended folk art, surrealism, and realism to depict vibrant, intimate scenes of everyday life, particularly focusing on women, children, and domesticity

She is a lesser-known contemporary and friend of prominent Mexican artists like Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera.

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Ivan Bilibin (1876-1942) was a Russian illustrator and stage designer, known for his style blending folk art, Art Nouveau, and Russian medieval influences

Blibin emigrating to Egypt and later Paris after the Russian Revolution and continued to work on illustration and design projects until his death in 1942

Bilibin's work is celebrated for its intricate detail, rich colors, and sense of mysticism, and has had a lasting impact on the world of illustration and design.

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Ryan Mosley. British painter born 1980.

Surrealism, figurative abstraction, very dreamy and somewhat sinister. Strong, experimental and unique style for exploring human condition.

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Domenico Morelli (1826-1901) was an Italian painter, primarily known for his historical and literary subjects.

Very romantic, dramatic and with incredible technical realism achieved with unique ideas for composition.

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Lunita-July Dorn is a contemporary German painter. Large canvases of women (alternative-self portraits) with some hint of everydayness with a dark edges. The figures blend into their surrounds, almost swallowed by them.

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Lauren Quin is an abstract painter known for her vibrant, layered and multistage works . She has been praised for her unique style and has had her work featured in various galleries and exhibitions. She is also known for her experimental approach to painting, often incorporating different techniques and materials into her work

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Zeinab Saleh. B 1996 Kenya, currently practicing in London.

Mixed media paintings, evoking intimacy, tenderness and contemplation.

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Duncan Grant. Scottish b. 1885-1978. Spent his childhood in Burma. He was a leading figure in the Bloomsbury Group, a loosely-knit circle of artists, writers (Virginia Wolf) and intellectuals, resident in the Bloomsbury area of London in the years before the First World War. Grant's painting was strongly influenced by the intense colours of French Post-Impressionism.

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Agnese Guido. Contemporary Italian artist.

Guido on her identifying with the surrealist movement; “I definitely have a predisposition to puns, to wander into the unconscious and to play with the hidden links between ideas and things…I love to explore human drives and play with desires, together with a little black humour.”

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Obrahim El Salahi. b 1930, Sudan.

Spent six months wrongfully imprisoned and valued the scraps of drawings he buried on small pieces of paper to keep up a practice he wasn’t entitled to hold on jail. These small sketches represented segments of ideas, which has informed his creative process since being released from prison.

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Blair Saxon-Hill. Contemporary North American artist from Portland, OR.

Makes amazing collages from discarded materials- often fabrics salvaged from op shop bins. She describes having a large library of these fabrics but really creating from the fact that there is a limited quantity with no ability to order more of a material she’s using.

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Dulcie Sharpe b1957.

“I was born at Hamilton Downs. My father and mother been leave me to stay with my sister Trudy. Then we came back to Jay Creek for school. Everyday after school we used to go swimming at Jay Creek. My grandmother taught me everything about culture; how to find honey ants, bush tucker, dancing, language. This made me strong.”

Dulcie helped establish and has attended Yarrenyty Art Centre of Alice Springs and has attended for 15 years. Drawn to create exurbs and bird soft sculpture and images.