❤ Favorite Song

What a feeling... riding your bicycle, carefree... over the hill. ;-)

❤ Favorite Song

Because it's Spring and Love is in the air! ;-)

Tareq feat. Marietta Fafouti - Cin Cin (Official Music Video)

❤ Favorite Artist

This week's ❤ Favorite Artist is:
Γι'αυτήν την εβδομάδα
❤ Αγαπημένος Καλλιτέχνης είναι:

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Photograph by www.cutting.com

Mark Ryden was born in Medford Oregon. He received a BFA in 1987 from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles where he paints slowly and happily amidst his countless collections of trinkets, statues, skeletons, books, paintings and antique toys.

Upon first glance Ryden’s work seems to mirror the Surrealists’ fascination with the subconscious and collective memories. However, Ryden transcends the initial Surrealists’ strategies by consciously choosing subject matter loaded with cultural connotation. His dewy vixens, cuddly plush pets, alchemical symbols, religious emblems, primordial landscapes and slabs of meat challenge his audience not necessarily with their own oddity but with the introduction of their soothing cultural familiarity into unsettling circumstances.

Blending themes of pop culture with techniques reminiscent of the old masters, Mark Ryden has created a singular style that blurs the traditional boundaries between high and low art. His work first garnered attention in the 1990s when he ushered in a new genre of painting, "Pop Surrealism", dragging a host of followers in his wake. Ryden has trumped the initial surrealist strategies by choosing subject matter loaded with cultural connotation. Ryden’s vocabulary ranges from cryptic to cute, treading a fine line between nostalgic cliché and disturbing archetype. Seduced by his infinitely detailed and meticulously glazed surfaces, the viewer is confronted with the juxtaposition of the childhood innocence and the mysterious recesses of the soul. A subtle disquiet inhabits his paintings; the work is achingly beautiful as it hints at darker psychic stuff beneath the surface of cultural kitsch. In Ryden's world cherubic girls rub elbows with strange and mysterious figures. Ornately carved frames lend the paintings a baroque exuberance that adds gravity to their enigmatic themes.  

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Maybe Lady Gaga has been inspired by this?

Ίσως η Lady Gaga να εμπνεύστηκε από αυτό;

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Yes she DID! And not only by this painting!

ΝΑΙ! Και όχι μόνο από αυτόν τον πίνακα!

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His work has something innocent, childish, almost like a fairytale but yet sad, aggressive or even cruel.

I think he is brilliant!

Η δουλειά του έχει κάτι το αθώο, παιδικό, σχεδόν παραμυθένιο αλλά παρόλα αυτά στενάχωρο, επιθετικό ή ακόμα και σκληρό.

Πιστεύω ότι είναι υπέροχος!

Check the previous here.

Μπορείτε να δείτε το προηγούμενο εδώ.

❤ Favorite Artist

Another new feature. Once a week I'll be sharing a favorite artist of mine,

in no particular order or art.

Ακόμη ένα νέο στοιχείο. Μια φορά την εβδομάδα θα μοιράζομαι μαζί σας έναν αγαπημένο μου καλλιτέχνη, χωρίς ιδιαίτερη σειρά ή αντικείμενο τέχνης.

So, this week's ❤ Favorite Artist is:
Έτσι, γι'αυτήν την εβδομάδα
❤ Αγαπημένος Καλλιτέχνης είναι:

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What can I say? She is absolutely AMAZING!

I love everything about her work!

It's dreamy!

She uses oil and graphite on wooden panels.

Τι μπορώ να πω; Είναι πραγματικά ΑΠΙΣΤΕΥΤΗ!
Λατρεύω τα πάντα στη δουλειά της!
Είναι ονειρική!
Χρησιμοποιεί λάδι και γραφίτη πάνω σε ξύλινους πίνακες.

"The themes in Audrey Kawasaki's work are contradictions within themselves. Her work is both innocent and erotic. Each subject is attractive yet disturbing. Audrey's precise technical style is at once influenced by both manga comics and Art Nouveau. Her sharp graphic imagery is combined with the natural grain of the wood panels she paints on, bringing an unexpected warmth to enigmatic subject matter."

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