La femme au guéridon et au fer à cheval via Le Corbusier
La femme au guéridon et au fer à cheval via Le Corbusier
100 GRAFFITI ARTISTS CREATE STUNNING PIECES OF ART ON DORM BEFORE ITS RENOVATION
A Hundred artists banded together to breathe some life into the mundane walls of a dormitory in Paris, making them reek of creativity and inspiration.
The white, uninspiring walls of school at most have scribblings on them, words etched by students whose efforts do not go unpunished.
This changed when a dynamic team of artists spent three weeks painting the interior of a student residence at the Cité Internationale Universitaire in Paris.
The artists were invited there to take part in an urban festival called Rehab 2, to be held for a month, from 16 June to 16 July and they did an amazing job, playing with colors in various visual tales etched on each of the walls.
Because each artist has their own distinct style and flair with their own selection of color palettes and visual elements, the entire exhibit is a collection of fantasy worlds colliding, the one where art enthusiasts would love to get lost in.
The school will undergo renovation before which they are hosting the show, making these graffiti works transient in nature.
While they will be wiped off before the official renovation, photographers have captured their beauty, documenting their artistic efforts, freezing these mesmerizing murals forever.
VACLAV CHOCHOLA, Slepej, Prague 1971
VACLAV CHOCHOLA, (Czech, 1923-2005)
Slepej, Prague 1971
Gelatin silver print
Gianni Bertini Stilmec – Le amiche, 1967
Gianni Bertini
Stilmec – Le amiche, 1967
Toro y Torero by Óscar Domínguez
oro y Torero by Óscar Domínguez, c. 1934-35. Oil on canvas, 106.8 x 77.5 cm.
Book Covers by Janusz Stanny
Janusz Stanny's book designs for the publishing house Wydawnictwo Iskry
(Poland, 1954–1963)
Janusz Stanny (born 1932) died in February of this year. He was one of the titans of Polish illustration and design, serving as director of The Studio of Illustration at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw for twenty-five years, beginning in 1971. He designed and illustrated countless books.
The scans here come from publisher Iskry's Pinterest page.
Max Ernst – Study for A Tissue of Lies, 1957
Max Ernst – Study for A Tissue of Lies, 1957
Bas Alberts: Cover for House of Leaves
The cover design is based on one of my favorite books House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski. The book is not your typical haunted house horror story. It's layered with secrets, codes (Morse) and mystery. It’s a labyrinth in itself, written in a maze-like way. I tried to create a simple, striking image in red, black, and white. A house with an enormous lock to contain all its secrets, surrounded by leaf-like shapes that form a pattern similar to that of a labyrinth. Underneath the book title is Morse code which is a reference to a chapter in the book where some of the main characters hear a knocking from somewhere deep inside the house, a knocking patterned after the Morse code emergency signal SOS (save our souls). Considering the book isn't your ordinary horror novel, I tried not to make it too 'dark' but kind of left it open to the viewer's interpretation as to which genre it actually is. The design was mainly hand drawn and then run through illustrator and photoshop. All in all I'm very pleased with the end result and hope other people will like it too.
Sergej Sartakov, 1963
Sergej Sartakov, 1963, cover for Nedaj si kráľovnú
Jan Lukas 500-Tubas
Jan Lukas
500-Tubas, Rockefeller Center,1976
New York City - gelatin silver print
Fortunato Depero- I and My Wife (Io e Mia Moglie)
Fortunato Depero (Italian, 1892 - 1960)
I and My Wife (Io e Mia Moglie), 1940
Oil on canvas
