Argentinian artist Estela Cuadro’s artwork invites the viewer in with it’s explosion of color and surreal dream like atmosphere. Where do these gorgeous renditions initiate from? We had the opportunity to ask Estela about her inspirations and workflow in this Artist Spotlight.

Where in Argentina where you born? Where do you live now?

I born in Buenos Aires, were I live nowadays

When did you realize you wanted to be an artist?

I began to connect with art when I was five years old. But I really want to be and dedicate myself to the art from fourteen years ago.

Since then I try and spend time learning and doing art works.

Did you have any formal art training?

When I was five years old I started drawing in a ordinary place where I took my first steps and I learned there technical knowledge.

Everything was constructed there. I had to use millimeter grids and I had to made copies.

I remember I was very young then and that was pleasant for me at that moment. While I did not realize I was not doing the best I could there, I was not using all my imagination.

They give us copies which were made in a laser photocopier. Then, a grid is placed over and I had to fill boxes in other scale. This experience proved me something very important which is that my parents always take me where I could learn what I want. When I was four years old I left classical dance classes and my mother took me to this studio. Although it was very hermetic, I could introduce myself in the art world since I was young and I learned a lot of things from different painters, from books of art and in other ways. I consider that it is very important to help children to continue doing activities they like. You will have positive results later because you will get many tools for your work.

I met Silvia Mato’s studio. She was an important guide for me. She drives me to recall my sensorial side from places I had never worked before. Silvia Mato also helps me to understand my body language, the energy and many other things. Turning all that into my drawings.

Cascabel

If you weren’t an artist what do you think you’d be doing instead?

I love art in general, not only painting, also music, dance, theater, writers.

How would you describe your style of artwork?

If I had to define myself as an art style, I find it difficult. Perhaps I associate more with the surreal art, my characters, settings and everything I create has nothing to do with reality, but its the distortion that I love do.

The reality is part of my inspiration, my contact and experience with her too. But their difference attracts me to paint it into a game.

My artworks are based on the unconscious and then generate relationships and things not thought so far.  They are associated with my dreams, relationships, life itself.

Hipnosis 

What medium do you use to paint / illustrate?

I used a lot of techniques, like pencil, small coal, oil. Specially when I was young. Nowadays I like to use more than one techniques at the same time, and make a different result. I use India ink with salt, and I let them act freely on the support. I use other things to generate texture, and I use oil painting, pencils and pens to realize details.

How do you begin work on a new piece of artwork? What inspires you?

When I start a new art work, I used to use an special cardboard that allows the pigments and water act in a special way. Giving textures, shapes, deformations and then let my imagination act freely. One of the things that inspire me is music. It always transpose me and my sensory part takes me to an inside world, introspective. It nourishes my imagination, it motivates me. Constantly leads me to paint many of my painting and I feel pleasure of that. I feel like I never want to stop doing this. It’s part of my lifetime.

Lúdico y Compañero

Many of your pieces could be categorized as exotic and primitive…examples being Encantamiento, El banquete and Magnético. Can you share with us the meanings behind these pieces of art in particular.

I think each work’s have something especial, they are part of my “games”, my pleasure. I feel that the important is feel total freedom without restriction and without much precise meaning. I like to leave the interpretation of each piece to each person, you can get carried away like I do in every piece of art.

El banquete

Have you exhibited your artwork before? Where?

I did several exhibitions in Argentina and New York.

Do you have any upcoming exhibitions? Where?

My next exhibition would be in Buenos Aires, Casa Nogal.

Magnético

Nirvana

Serie Fela Kuti Tribute

Super Galáctico

If you were having a dinner party and could invite 3 people living or deceased, who would they be and why?

I´ll invite my grandmother, she taught me a lot about many things about life. In her way and how she could. She was a person full of love and happiness and my passion for plants today, I associate with her.  And from them my creations, that have contact with organic forms, patterns with flowers.

Luis Alberto Spinetta, I love his music, his poem, and he was a great person with all the people and his family. He had something especial, his compositions, the lyrics to his songs, his unique poetry, his voice and his ability of expression makes me feel a great love for him.

Jean-Michel Basquiat, because his beautiful madness.

Who are your favorite artists? Why?

I love the art works of Frida Kahlo. She is an artist who I admire. She had a strong personality, her passions, her ideology and her deep love for Diego Rivera. All her art works were about her life and her pains. Her pain and her suffered was a big fighter in her life. She was very sensitive and despite of this she could do a lot of art works full of colors. Pablo Picasso, my admiration for him by his versatility. It’s amazing the amount of art works that came to do in his life, in my opinion I consider him as a genius. I love watching his videos and how he could turn an art work in other constantly. This is an example of I want to tell about his art:

Picasso´s art are in transformation constantly. In this videos you can see how his imagination can create from a flower, a fish and then a cock. Is great to me can learn about him and his form of changes. I love his work and admire him.

Amy Cutler, I like her imagination to tell things and levels of details. She creates characters completely, from their clothes, their expressions, their hairstyles , animals and landscapes.Paul Klee, the use of color palettes, his compositions, his details.Egon Schiele, his contact with the human body. His obsession for the expressions, postures, sexuality. He try to capture the sensuality of the women and men. Jean-Michel Basquiat, his expressiveness, his loose strokes, his liberty.

Estela in the studio

Do you have any advice for budding new artists in the world?

I would say that the passion about art, is to feel free, to have your mind open to all the things new that can appear.  Every crisis is a new starting point and always the beginning of something new and not something that ends.

Please visit Estela Cuadro’s webpage to see more of her gorgeous artwork. You can also follow Estela on Facebook.

Which is your favorite?

Credits:

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Saul Bass revolutionized film title and credit sequence design. He had the ability to grasp the very essence of a film and present it in such a way that in an opening sequence lasting just a few minutes he could convey the atmosphere and premise of the film to come. Under his influence the title sequence became an extension of the film, as well as an art form in its own right, with the capacity to symbolize and summarize what the audience was about to experience.

Read more about Saul Bass here.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Here is the full film listing from the video:

Carmen Jones (1954)
The Big Knife (1955)
The Seven Year Itch (1955)
The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)
Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)
Vertigo (1958)
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
North by Northwest (1959)
Spartacus (1960)
Psycho (1960)
Ocean’s Eleven (1960)
West Side Story (1961)
Walk on the Wild Side (1962)
Nine Hours to Rama (1963)
It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963)
Bunny Lake is Missing (1965)
Seconds (1966)
Not with My Wife, You Don’t! (1966)
Grand Prix (1966)
That’s Entertainment, Part II (1976)
The War of the Roses (1989)
Goodfellas (1990)
Cape Fear (1991)
The Age of Innocence (1993)
Casino (1995)

Credits: Editor: Ian Albinson (artofthetitle.com)

Here are three new Godzilla 2014 movie posters…

Notice how Godzilla is no where to be seen. Great marketing, as it keeps the audience guessing.

Older domestic and international Godzilla movie posters:

 1985 movie poster

 Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla 1993

Mechagodzilla Polish Film Poster circa 1970′s

1974 Godzilla vs Cosmic Monster Film Poster

2000 Movie Poster

1954 Godzilla Film Poster

Original Cover Art for Godzilla Save the Earth via

Now onto the fan artwork…

by Genzoman 

by olivier2046

Starry Godzilla by leggedfish

by audiobraniac

Mecha Godzilla by Chris Quilliams

by Dylan Griffin

Godzilla vs Mecha Godzilla IV by Taka-F

Gojia by Virus-91

by Aaron J Gregory

by Aaron J Gregory

The Crownless Again Shall Be King by kaijukid

Godzilla and Jet Jaguar vs Megalon by Larry Quach

There Can Be Only One by TPoperator

The Legend of the Big G by kaijukid

The new Godzilla movie will start showing in theaters today, May 16, 2014.

See how shape and form affect you in every possible way, everyday.

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Credits: Designed & Directed by Johnny Kelly. Written by Scott Burnett.

The funniest by far is Miley’s. Take a look.

Which one do you like best?

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Chief Creative Officer: Guy Bar
Creative Directors: Dror Nachumi, Moshe Saikevich
Art Director: Shay Israel
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Green

John

Lupita

March

Orange

Vivi

Visit Cheng on Behance to see more artwork.

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Stay tuned for more next week.

9 Souls

2013

Beyond God

Last Moments in the Dark

Roots

Self Search

Devil’s Got a Brand New Dance

You can see more of these fantastic paintings on Odelia Toder’s deviantart page

Caleb set out drawing columns of free hand animation directly onto the gallery wall at Prøve Gallery in Duluth, Minnesota.

“I am interested in seeing to what degree people think its normal, or odd trite, to be alive.”

Here is a look at some of his delightfully twisted artwork that is akin to works of Francis Bacon, like Figure with Meat.

 Check out Olivier’s TRANSfiGURATion video (link below) to see the artist performance…

TRANSfiGURATion video: http://vimeo.com/8623092

Visit the artists website to see more of his work.

Here are samples of some of the various artists work:

Leilani Bustamante

JOEMUR – ‘The Candidate’

Derrick Scocchera – ‘On a Pedalstal’

Marie-Eve Proteau – ‘Sainte Rose’

J.A.W. Cooper

Lindsey Millikan – ‘Going Full Circle’

The Grotesque exhibit features works by: Leilani Bustamante, MANDEM, Laura Buss, JOEMUR, Catherine Moore, Ransom & Mitchell, Jeremy Wilson, Lacey Bryant, Brenton Bostwick, Yvette Endrijautzki, Derrick Scocchera, Jon Weiss, Wesley T. Wright, Jessica Ward, Jenifer J. Renzel, Jaclyn Alderete, David Richardson, Michael Cuffe, Lara Dann, EC Steiner, Terry Ribera, Benjamin A. Vierling, Ronnie Ray Mendez, J.A.W. Cooper, Caitlin McCormack, Tim Lane, Lindsey Millikan, Corey Urlacher, 100Taur, Christopher Burch, Marie-Eve Proteau, Ryan Gannon, Erica Calardo, Akira Beard, Jessica L.L Dalva, Avery Palmer, and Matthew Robertson

The exhibition will be on display through Saturday, March 22, 2014 and is free and open to the public.

Letter A: upper part composed of three figures around a fire at the edge of a slope to small pond, forming the lower part of the letter; outline by trees.

Letter B: a vista on level country, outlined by trees and branches and the edge of a rise with two figures as the bottom part of the letter.

Letter C: a castle on cliffs on the left; waves of the sea shaping the lower curve, clouds the upper one.

Letter D: a semi-circular landscape scene with mountains in right distance; a crag with trees shaping the left outline of the letter.

Letter E: a ruinous gate, the right part of its arch broken, a tree on the left stretching to the right and two men standing on the right pointing at the ruin.

Letter F: a tree trunk and two branches stretching to the right at the top and in the middle.

See the rest of the collection at The British Museum online archive.

Pug by Phoebe Johnson

Pugs were brought from China to Europe in the seventeenth century and were popularized in Western Europe by the House of Orange of the Netherlands, founded by William I of Orange (William the Silent) in 1544, and the House of Stuart,  founded by Robert II of Scotland during the late 14th century.

 Pug Spectrum by The Sixth Leaf Clover

Snort by juhoham

Pugs Have Taken Over by Paint201

Pugs by krystylillustrates

 Backyard Fireflies by HanKai

Pugs by pocketowl

Toxic Pugs by reninjart

Buns and Wurst by Hankai

Pug Colored by Sergio Curiel

Scary Movie Pug by Guy Ghuilchrist

Pug by Lilium89

Which is your favorite rendition?

Gary Taxali – Yucky Heart 2010

Jimmy Turrell – Heart 2013

Jimmy Turrell – Glance 2013

London based Francesca Gavin is Visual Arts Editor of Dazed & Confused and Editor at Artsy andHarper’s Bazaar (France). She has authored 100 New Artists, Creative Space and Hell Bound: New Gothic Art, and her curatorial work includes ‘The Dark Cube’ at the Palais de Tokyo.

You can purchase The Book of Hearts here.

The actual Valentine didn’t have it so good. Here are what some of the legends and history tell us…

• Three hundred years after the death of Jesus Christ, the Roman emperors still demanded that everyone believe in the Roman gods. Valentine, a Christian priest, had been thrown in prison for his teachings. On February 14, Valentine was beheaded, not only because he was a Christian, but also because he had performed a miracle. He supposedly cured the jailer’s daughter of her blindness. The night before he was executed, he wrote the jailer’s daughter a farewell letter, signing it “From Your Valentine.”

• Another Valentine legend was of an Italian bishop who lived at about the same time, AD 200. He was imprisoned because he secretly married couples, contrary to the laws of the Roman emperor. Some legends say he was burned at the stake.

• The Christians had come to celebrate February 14 as the saint day that celebrated the several early Christian martyrs named Valentine.

Not quite all glitter and rainbows by far.

For those who are anti-establishment here is the best ‘Valentine’s Day Sucks’ card for all your single friends, whether they are from the male or female persuasion.

You can buy this being single on Valentine’s Day Sucks card on Etsy.

History of Valentine via

We’ll take one of each in poster format please!

To see more wonderful typography works visit Jessica Hische’s website.

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Fun fact: the Australian singer-songwriter Sally Seltmann is known for having co-written Feist’s hit “1,2,3,4″.

Check out the official video…

Beginning of Spring

Conversation

The Big Screen

The Red Reading Woman

Three Portraits in Different Space

Visit Nilüfer Usta’s website to see more of her artwork.

Roulette describes his process:

“Through painting, I depict fictional and occasionally fantastic scenes that explore the blurred sense of time and place within memories. The dreamlike landscapes incorporate familiar elements of suburban life that both stylistically and symbolically represent a quasi-nostalgic ordinariness. The isolation and dislocation of cars, houses, and figures, and the exploration of subtle spatial relationships, recall the hazy state of dreams in which certain details fall into place while others fade away into the unconscious.”

Waiting, Oil on Panel

Roulette states “I meticulously photograph environments and collect found images such as vintage postcards. In constructing the painting, I use combinations of these reference images, to fabricate an open-ended narrative with the emotion of a memory.”

Smoke Bomb, Oil on Panel

A Small Good Thing, Oil on Panel

Backdrop, Oil on Panel

Grove, Oil on Panel

Hedges, Oil on Panel

Roulette, who currently resides in New York, had his first solo exhibition ‘Paintings’ in 2008 at MICA Meyerhoff Piano Gallery in Baltimore, Maryland. You can visit Alex Roulette’s website to see more of his paintings.