Picture a figure, half flesh hammering out of half fossil, in a dim, in quiet room, its form falling apart, but into something other than dust. In place of that, it’s shimmering crystals like something secreted beneath layers of time. Daniel Arsham’s Hiding Figure a sculpture, feels ancient and futuristic, but vulnerable and always timeless. First off, Arsham has quite…
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Known as the architect of peculiar universes in which strange becomes beautiful, Tim Burton has been a long-time friend of the weird. Burton’s beats, as well as his films, include Beetlejuice and The Nightmare Before Christmas, the last of which embodies not just Burton the artist, but Burton the storyteller and, most importantly, Burton the weird. The Melancholy Death of…
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Wassily Kandinsky’s Yellow-Red-Blue is a busy talk between color, form, and emotion. Have you ever looked at a painting that puts you in the middle of a jazz concert? This is it. It was created in 1925 and radiates the type of energy that halts your steps. The talking is done by yellow, red, and blue Kandinsky, was famous for…
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Wassily Kandinsky is an artist that makes you rethink what a painting can and should be. His work isn’t only about what you see, but about what you feel; what you are moved by. If there’s one painting that captures this picture perfectly, it’s Composition VII. This 1913 masterpiece is a visual explosion of color and shape, a maniacally ordered…
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Imagine walking into a place where sports fuse with pop culture, where the everyday is transformed into bold colors and dynamic shapes. When you pick up Foul Ball by Andrew Scott, that’s what happens. It doesn’t stop you in your tracks. It invites you to wander, to feel the movement, and even to breathe with the crowd during that baseball…
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Wassily Kandinsky’s Composition VIII is a symphony of shapes and colors that this canvas sings with energy and abstraction. This bit of jazz is a masterpiece created in 1923, which means it invites you to step into a world of lines bashing into each other and curves flying with circles and triangles zigging and zagging to a hypnotic finish. But…
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Have you ever been in a tug-of-war? It’s intense, right? It’s both sides, each taking great pains to see who will give first. Well, now think of it: how about something similar in art—a painting, a marvelous artwork that gives you the sensation that it’s just one footstep away from balance and tension? That is exactly what Andrew Scott captures…
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Known for his contrarian life choices, revolutionary music, and ever-profound lyrics, Bob Dylan is, to say the least, a man of many talents. Through the years Dylan has migrated from being merely a musician to a complete creative. In addition to his amazing songs and voice, Dylan’s creativity has done time in visual arts. A good example goes to Mondo…
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Tim Burton is not a regular artist. He’s the king of quirky and the master of odd and curious. Burton’s offbeat imagination has created eerie and enchanting worlds, skeletons sing, and lonely misfits find beauty in their weirdness. If you haven’t met Stain Boy, you don’t know what you’ve been missing. We’re going to walk through the insane world of…
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Picture this: An oversized-eyed, pale blue-skinned girl holding a glass of wine, hardly smiling. So imagine that image with Tim Burton’s bizarre and whimsical sense of eccentric eccentricity. Sounds intriguing, right? That is Blue Girl with Wine. If you are into Tim Burton’s masterpieces Edward Scissorhands and The Nightmare Before Christmas, you know full well that Tim Burton is not…
