ANIMALISM “There is no beauty without some strangeness” ― Edgar Allan Poe Satirical portraits, flies and pigs – this could be a brief summary of what Frank Hoppmann, portraitist, cartoonist and illustrator, shows. In his portraits, Frank Hoppmann makes the animal visible in humans, his pigs and flies reflect people. In many cases, it’s fun, […]
A GALLERY OF DEVIANT PORTRAITS After studying at University for long years and a brief career in underground music, now Amandine Urruty spreads her gallery of weird characters on all kind of mediums, on paper as on walls. As she masters techniques of traditional drawing, Amandine Urruty offers us a cheerful gallery of deviant portraits, […]
MEDICINAL FLORA AND FAUNA Working exclusively with colored pencils, Marco Mazzoni makes highly intricate drawings of flora and fauna that pertain to the ancient art of healing. Inspired by the matriarchal culture of Sardinia, Mazzoni depicts female herbalists and midwives from the 16th to 18th centuries, often framing their faces with the medicinal plants. The […]
VISIONS OF AN OPHTHALMOLOGIST For 35 years, Aleks Klepnev worked as chief ophthalmologist at Ophthalmological Centre of the Ministry of Health of North Ossetia – Alania, a republic of Russia : “I fell in love with drawing as a child, although no one at home drew. My inspiration was rock music, mainly art rock. Then […]
THE ACCIDENTS OF WATERCOLOR FLUIDITY Madeline Berger aka MadB: “My painting is often figurative but I try to enrich it with accidents. The technique of watercolor allows me precision but also a kind of abstraction thanks to the fluidity of this medium. I have a hard time translating my approach knowing that it evolves very […]
EROTICISM, BRUTALITY, AND ETHEREALITY Vania Zouravliov grew up in an artistic family. His mother was an art teacher and so his picked up painting from a very young age. His adolescent influences were both typical and unusual: The Bible, Dante’s Divine Comedy, early Disney animation and North American Indians, included among them. Soon enough, he […]
