Palla was saved by volunteers and taken to the clinic, a nylon strap at the neck that nearly decapitated and perhaps wore since she was a puppy. This prevented the blood to flow properly, bringing the head to swell dramatically. But it is fine now, even if his head is not completely deflated, is beautiful all the same.
CAROLINA MONACO
David LaChapelle is an American commercial photographer, fine-art photographer, music video director, film director, and artist.
He is best known for his photography, which often references art history and sometimes conveys social messages. His photographic style has been described as “hyper-real and slyly subversive” and as “kitsch pop surrealism”
LaChapelle created this series of six photographs entitled Jesus Is My Homeboy, he said that through this series, he wanted to “rescue the teachings of Christ” from the fundamentalists, who use Jesus’ words to judge and condemn rather than uplift. Unlike a lot of contemporary Jesus art, he said, Jesus Is My Homeboy is not meant to be ironic or shocking, but to convey a beautiful sentiment, and the sincerity of his own faith.
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Maryam Marvi
Daniel Martin Dutch artist and illustrator, creates portraits from the sinister glamor and looking ominous. The faces portraits are intentionally damaged after the realization, highlighting a broader concept of beauty, which encloses also the existence imperfection and therefore error.
His brushstrokes aware and at the same time instinctive and spontaneous conquer the spectator, who remains totally enraptured by the sense of chaos and order that emerges from the work of this sensitive artist.
Luca Malafarina
Arte Povera is a modern art movement. The term was coined by Italian art critic Germano Celant and introduced in Italy during the period of upheaval at the end of the 1960s, when artists were taking a radical stance. Artists began attacking the values of established institutions of government, industry, and culture.
Michelangelo Pistoletto, Venere degli stracci, 1967
Eleonora Formiconi
In the 1980s, Burri created a form of land art project on the town of Gibellina in Sicily. The town was abandoned following the1968 Belice earthquake, with the inhabitants being rehoused in a newly built town 18 km away. Burri covered an area of over 120,000 square metres (1,300,000 sq ft), most of the old town, and an area roughly 300 metres by 400 metres with white concrete. He called this the Grande Cretto.
Eleonora Formiconi
Personal project where I face the theme of the nude in photography showing my grandmother and grandfather’s bodies instead of the bodies of young people as it’s usually done.
Eleonora Formiconi
What, exactly, is beauty? This question has been occupying the minds of philosophers, anthropologists, art critics and ordinary people alike for centuries of human history. Denis Laurence Dutton (1944 – 2010) was a philosopher of art, web entrepreneur, and media activist presenting a provocative Darwinian theory of beauty in his excellent TED talk ,In his book The Art Instinct (2010) Dutton opposes the view that art appreciation is culturally learned, claiming instead that art appreciation stems from evolutionary adaptions made during the Pleistocene.
So the next time you shout Wow! For seeing something lets say beautifull! don’t be so sure it’s just your culture or mass media influencing you. perhaps our gaze is layered with a kind of ancestral remembrance.
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The photographer Anna Volpi has created a photography project on menstruation. See it on: annavolpi.com
Eleonora Formiconi
The Lane Bryant #IMNOANGEL initiative celebrates women of all shapes and sizes by redefining society’s traditional notion of sexy with a powerful core message: ALL women are sexy,” the brand says.
It’s a direct dig at Victoria’s Secret, and social media is loving it. Women have jumped on the trending hashtag, posting their own photos and declarations with #ImNoAngel.
Ashley Graham, one of the stars of the Lane Bryant campaign (she was also in that Swimsuits for All ad in the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue), posted a fun photo to Instagram yesterday, writing: “On the F train, literally. Can’t hide these curves!!!”.
Source: http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/lane-bryant-bashes-victorias-secret-im-no-angel-campaign-163944
The American feminist artist Cindy Sherman (1954) “emerged onto the New York art scene in the early 1980s as part of a new generatio
n of artists concerned with the codes of representation in a media-saturated era” .
She posed in different stereotypical female roles, she’s got plenty of subjective emotions she can exploit through the media: In photograph after photograph, Sherman was ever present with different costumes. She wants to overturn the trend of the american society based on appearence and consumption,ready to celebrate the product and not its producer.
“Throughout her career, Sherman has appropriated numerous visual genres—including the film still, centerfold, fashion photograph, historical portrait, and soft-core sex image—while disrupting the operations that work to define and maintain their respective codes of representation.[…]
Cindy Sherman’s Untitled Film Stills (1977–80) have been canonized as a hallmark of postmodernist art, which frequently utilized mass-media codes and techniques of representation in order to comment on contemporary society.[…] Sherman’s stills have an artifice that is heightened by the often visible camera cord, slightly eccentric props, unusual camera angles, and by the fact that each image includes the artist, rather than a recognizable actress or model.”
From: http://www.guggenheim.org/
Portraits
Chromogenic color print, 30 x 20″ (76.2 x 50.8 cm). Courtesy the artist and Metro Pictures, New York. © 2012 Cindy Sherman
Chromogenic color print, 30 x 20″ (76.2 x 50.8 cm). Stefan T. Edlis Collection.
© 2012 Cindy Sherman
Chromogenic color print, 54 x 36″ (137.2 x 91.4 cm). Collection of Melva Bucksbaum and Raymond J. Learsy. © 2012 Cindy Sherman
Chromogenic color print, 67 x 47″ (170.2 x 199.4 cm). Collection of John Cheim.
© 2012 Cindy Sherman
With bright light and high-contrast color, Sherman focuses on the consequences of society’s stereotyped roles for women — in this case as a victim of fashion — rather than upon the roles themselves.
Giada Semeraro
Em Ford is a make up artist and beauty blogger. She has a huge acne problem on her face and suddenly decided to post some photos of her face without make up, receiving millions of insults from her followers, especially from women. So she decided to record a video in which she showed all the comments she received, as social denounce.
Watch the video here.
Dear Phillips , original artist of Detroit and active environment of Brooklyn, has emerged on the international scene with a series of projects, including the very special ultraviolet portraits born of his research on beauty. The Beauties Ultraviolet UV photographs that are inspired by dermatologists and beauty experts use to show customers and patients as will their skin in the future: the ultraviolet technology shows, in fact, all those defects hidden beneath the surface that may occur with aging. Dear Phillips decided to use the same technology , combined with black and white, to create entirely new portraits: no more perfect faces and fake , more or less heavily modified, but a set of imperfections that create real beauty. This project promotes the acceptance of oneself , testifying as the show itself for what it really is more effective than a representation artificially perfect.
Fonte: http://www.vogliadiscrivere.it/i-ritratti-ultravioletti-di-cara-phillips/
CAROLINA MONACO
Shirin Neshat is an iranian artist of contemporary visual art, known for her work in film, video and photography.
Shirin looks beyond the role of the women, she wants to branch off in the pure identity of each people. The heart of her artistic search see the body as a way to communicate a social condition, the contrasts between Islam and the West, femininity and masculinity, public life and private life, antiquity and modernity..
She is able to shake us with mute stories.
From:
Gladstone gallery
Zarin Series, 2005 ; C-print 47 1/2 x 60 inches (120.7 x 152.4 cm)
Nida (Patriots), from The Book of Kings series, 2012 ; Ink on LE silver gelatin print 60 x 45 inches (152.4 x 114.3 cm)
Muhammed (Patriots), from The Book of Kings series, 2012
Ink on LE silver gelatin print 60 x 45 inches (152.4 x 114.3 cm)
Bahram (Villians), from The Book of Kings series, 2012 ; Ink on LE silver gelatin print 99 x 49 1/2 inches (251.5 x 125.7 cm)
Untitled, 1996 ; RC print & ink (photo taken by Larry Barns)
Giada Semeraro
Ode to Andy . Plastic Bricks. 30 x 22 inches
Nathan Sawaya is an award-winning artist who creates awe-inspiring works of art out of some of the most unlikely things. His global touring exhibitions, THE ART OF THE BRICK, feature large-scale sculptures using only toy building blocks: LEGO® bricks to be exact. His work is obsessively and painstakingly crafted and is both beautiful and playful.
Previously a NYC corporate lawyer, Sawaya is the first artist to ever take LEGO into the art world and is the author of two best selling books. His unique exhibition is the first of its kind to focus exclusively on LEGO as an art medium and has broken attendance records around the globe. The creations, constructed from countless individual LEGO pieces, were built from standard bricks beginning as early as 2002.
Sawaya is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, recognizing his artwork and cultural achievements. In 2014, with the belief that “art is not optional,” Sawaya founded The Art Revolution Foundation for the purpose of making art a priority in our schools and our homes. He has been a speaker at Google Zeitgeist, TEDx, Yahoo! and at the Clinton Library.
Nathan Sawaya has earned a top position in the world of contemporary art and has created a new dimension by merging Pop Art and Surrealism in awe inspiring and ground breaking ways. His art consists of playing with the material, color, movement, light and perspective.
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Human expression and Human condition show a collection of sculptures made with a brilliant technical quality, in which all the bricks used by Nathan, blend together pop art and surrealism. Human figures ascend to heaven, rip open walls, or despair : He built the emotions, brick by brick; the creations, constructed from individual LEGO pieces has led to something incredible.
Everlasting. Plastic Bricks. 42 x 34 x 12 inches
Kiss. Plastic Bricks. 27 x 21 x 20 inches
Yellow. Plastic Bricks. 28 x 35 x 19 inches. Plastic Bricks. 45 x 15 x 11 inches
Yellow Courtney. Plastic Bricks. 30 x 45 inches
Hugman, Street Art Installation – New York City | Image Courtesy of Nathan Sawaya
Faberge,The Big Egg Hunt – New York City, 2014 | Image Courtesy of Nathan Sawaya