TexniArts

(Slightly Off-)Center for the Particularly Fascinating, Obscure, and Aesthetic Arts

[boredpanda]

Self-Taught Polish Artist Uses Fallen Autumn Leaves As Canvases For Her Paintings

[crossconnectmag]

John Salminen born 1945, is an American watercolor painter who is well known for his realistic urban landscapes. Salmien earned his Bachelor’s Degree and Master’s Degree from the University of Minnesota. He teaches workshops, makes presentations and participates in painting events around the world. 

John has won more than 230 major awards in national and international exhibitions, including the American Watercolor Society Gold Medal twice, the National Watercolor Society Silver Star First Place Award twice, the Transparent Watercolor Society of America Skyledge First Place Award three times and the Allied Artist Silver and Gold Medals of Honor. He is represented by the Stremmel Gallery in Reno, Nevada.

Spice up your timeline. Like us on Facebook!

posted by Margaret.

[archatlas]

20th Century European Battlefields Peter Hebeisen

"In the aftermath of the conflicts in ex-Yugoslavia, after having been confronted on a daily basis with harrowing images of heinous acts, genocide and indescribable grief conveyed to him via mass media, Peter Hebeisen took it upon himself to visit the European battlefields of the twentieth century in an act of remembrance and compassion. Having done extensive research on each of the battles and prompted by artistic and historical associations, Hebeisen focused his lens on the epicenter of each drama. Over seven years he covered over 40,000 kilometers by car. His approach was strategic and scientific carrying military maps with him to each location. He found nature in many cases had vanquished tragedy with beauty and a sense of peace."

From the top:

The Battle of Piz Lagazuoi, Dolomites II, Italy

The Blitz, London, Great Britain

Landing at Anzio Beach, Italy

The Siege of Sarajevo, Bosnia

The Battle of Kursk, Prochorovka, Russia

Battle of Leningrad, St.Petersburg

The Battle of Berlin, Germany

The Crimean Offensive, Sevastopol, Ukraine

Battle of Gallipoli, Anzac, Turkey

Bombing of Guernica, Spain

[artchipel]

If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.

Émile Zola (1840–1902, French)

[from89]

Powerful Storms by Mike Olbinski

[from89]

You Can Also Find Me -:

Skumar’s :- Twitter | Facebook | We Heart It | Pinterest | Subscribe

Other Blog :- India Incredible | Facebook

[archatlas]

[archatlas]

One Day Ken Kitano 

“One Day” is an amazing art photography project by Ken Kitano that uses long exposures to create one (amazing) image of a place from sunrise to sunset.

[crossconnectmag]

Levi van Veluw born in the Dutch town of Hoevelaken in 1985 and studied at the ArtEZ Institute of the Arts in Arnhem is known for his drawings, impressive videos, photographs, sculptures and installations. 

Posted to Cross Connect by Margaret

[archatlas]

London Laurent Dequick 

[opticallyaddicted]

Generative Sculptures from Giuseppe Randazzo

novastructura is maintained by Giuseppe Randazzo, a designer from Turin (Italy). This site wants to be an open and evolving place where to share my works and experiments as well interests on several topics, ranging from generative art, new-media art and contemporary art, to architecture, coding, science, tech, and so on. The meaning and the reason of novastructura may be seen as the need to explore the blurred boundary between art and science. The site for this purpose is splitted in two parts, the personal work database (generative related) and a blog where I try to collect – through my personal point of view – the most meaningful suggestions coming from the net about the above topics

[likeafieldmouse-deactivated2015]

Luo Changwei - Dislocation (2011)

[archatlas]

[archatlas]

Imaginary Francesco Sambo

[yourtasteofsea-deactivated20150]

[north-dragon-cave-deactivated20]

Perfect

[architecturesketch]

Submission

[abandonedography]

There’s something particularly eerie about an abandoned shopping mall. Perhaps it’s the stark contrast from its intended purpose: to see such a sterile place once designed to entice throngs of shoppers into its doors, now so completely devoid of any human life, dilapidated and darkened with time. It’s basically the very definition of post-apocalyptic. But in the case of the (now ironically named) New World shopping mall in Bangkok, Thailand, abandonment by humans doesn’t equate with lifelessness. The mall, which reportedly caught fire in 1999 (rumored to be arson by a competitor), has since flooded with several feet of water and become a paradise for koi and catfish.

As seen in these photos from chef / travel writer Jesse Rockwell, the resulting “urban aquarium” is at once delightful and surreal. Rockwell writes on his travel, photography, and food blog A Taste of The Road that someone deliberately introduced the fish (to probably reduce mosquitoes) into the vacant mall, but that locals in Bangkok’s old town “discourage people from visiting it.” He says he had to wait for a policeman to leave before entering, which makes his resulting images all the more breathtaking. (via The Verge)

[archatlas]

[archatlas]

Jad Hak

I need to correct something, I had planned to do a set of Jad’s work a while ago and I got distracted. So, here it is, a small sampling of some of the amazing work by Jad. 

Check out this tumblr!

[olechka]

Skull Watercolor Painting - OlechkaDesign

[washingtonpost]

A storm strikes the Nation’s Capital.