I found this guys work whilst looking into Outsider Art. I’m not one for labels and putting things in boxes and Outsider art is one of those labels I find unnecessary, but I understand. Brady is a brilliant artist, regardless of anything else.
The colours and tones he uses are telling of the way he sees the world and evocative of the way his brain works as well as the places he paints.
As far as I can tell, the difference between Outsider art and mainstream art, is that somehow, mainstream artists managed to stick it through years of education. They are no more sane, healthy, reasonable or talented than the uneducated, but they could probably write you an essay about why Van Gogh was great. I personally dont need to know that about artists I admire, anymore than I need to know whether they can fix a car or ride a unicycle. If a person is talented, and this man obviously is, then it is enough. His work is beautiful, and a little scary.
I keep finding a favourite, only to find another 3 seconds later.
Stationery includes materials such as paper, office supplies, writing tools, glue, and pencil cases.
Stationery has taken many turns in the last decade. With shops such as Smiggle and Kikki K opening in Australia, stationery has now become a fashionable collectable item, far from the traditional BIC ball point pens. A lot of stationery has become more artistic in design and colour.
This guy is a God of just about every creative genre there is. As he says
“…..mainly working as a film director in media such as video, 8 to 35mm film, 2D and 3D animation, Stop Motion, photography, illustration, painting, screen printing, sculpture, collage, knitting, holograms, and more… I’m a very curious person, constantly looking for avenues of expression that combine those different mediums.
Call me a do-it-yourselfer.”
I ran across his work first when I saw his filmclip for ‘Iron’. For this song/filmclip Lemoine sings, plays, directs, produces and is probably the owl too. As a musician, he goes by the name Woodkid. It is one of the best filmclips I have seen in a while. The song is pretty fantastic too. When watching this clip, I advise bigify and loudify.
Lemoine has won awards all over for lots of stuff, the list is impressive for such a small time scale but I’m not going to go through it all – for details go here http://www.yoannlemoine.com/?page_id=13
Other film clips he has done are ‘Evergreen’- Axelle Renoir, ‘Mistake’-Moby, ‘Teenage Dream’-Katy Perry, ‘Back to Decemaber’-Taylor Swift. As I am not a fan of the last 2, you can go watch them yourself, the clips are great, thats all I can say. ‘Evergreen’, on the other hand, is a beautiful song and a beautiful fimclip. As this one was created using aniboom.com and I am not particularly knowledgeable about this site/company, I have been unable to find out who, exactly the artist/s are. But it was directed by Lemoine.
For those of us who are hardcore internet followers, Lemoine’s film for the AIDS Awareness campaign, GRAFFITI, has been seen more than 10 million times on Youtube. This is one he won lots of awards for. It is probably not good for under 18′s though.
There is bucketloads of photography too, if you’re interested. Check out his site, its chock full of goodies. This is one guy worth keeping an eye on.
So, I like fractals, always have. Whats worse is that I like the mathematical part too. Yes, nerd here. I have played with fractal generators for hours, probably all up, days. But I have never created something I would consider a piece of Art. I have used Fractals in design work, really helpful for some lightly textured abstract background.
Seed Magazine
The first instance I saw of brilliantly applied fractal in design was a fellow student who used one in some work for a medical imaging company. It was perfect. I have yet to make up my mind on this one. See what you think.
'Serpentes' Alan Beck
"Chou Romanesco" cauliflower - natural fractals
“The connection between mathematics and art goes back thousands of years. Mathematics has been used in the design of Gothic cathedrals, Rose windows, oriental rugs, mosaics and tilings. Geometric forms were fundamental to the cubists and many abstract expressionists, and award-winning sculptors have used topology as the basis for their pieces. Dutch artist M.C. Escher represented infinity, Möbius bands, tessellations, deformations, reflections, Platonic solids, spirals, symmetry, and the hyperbolic plane in his works.”
Now, I’m not suggesting that the design on this card is brilliant, I am showing as an example of the commoness of fractals in modern design. What I have chosen not to show are the myriad of brilliant art/design works which use fractals as a base. They are brilliant and used in all sorts of advertising, but everyone else has blogged them by the bucketload, so I will leave them alone.
This site (yes it is IBM) has a great section on fractals and an article on one of the more famous of the fathers of fractals Benoit Mandlebrot http://www.ibm.com/ibm100/us/en/icons/fractal/
For a brilliant talk by the man himself and to gain a better understanding of fractals from a base level we thank TED.
And for those who want a mathematics lesson or for those who want to look at pretty fractals with the volume down:
Shana James is West Australian Artist; I specify place as there are many people who do not realise that Australia has a West, nor that it is actually inhabitable and inhabited. That said; her work is beautiful. I have had a thing for prints and linocuts since high school, where we were forced to hack out these goofy pictures on wobbly tiles with blunt-clay filled tools. There is something odd about a print, the reverse of what you wish to show, blocky and ungainly, yet precise and often detailed. It is an earthy process, painstaking and gritty. The finished product showing little of the process or effort.
Growing Girl (With Trees)
Shana James’ work is, I guess, all of this plus the ethereal adjectives of innocence and beauty. I first came across her work whilst looking for examples of artist’s books, the books instantly grabbed me.
Thinking Differently
In the morass of complex and technical, James’ work shone through with simplicity and character. There is so much personality in these books, knowing little of James herself I can not tell if it is her personality or that of her characters, but the peace and calm emanating from each page makes me want one. And one for everyone I know.
Paper is an incredible material. Undervalued in Western society, unfortunately. There are so many different was of using it, as a material to design on to a material to design with.
I love this work, so much motion in so little detail.
I find it fascinating the styles that lend themselves to street art. Who would have thought of an earthy toned narwhal on a brick wall? But it works and its beautiful. The colours in this guys work are suggestive of a kids playroom, i dont think I would put them there myself, there is something un-kid-like about the work, it could be the blank white eyes or the fact that not one of the animals is happy. Nevertheless, I would hang it on my wall.
I will definately keep my eye out for more work from this guy, intriguing. I cant fathom the brain behind the work, though I love it, I would like to know more.
