Keith Haring died at age 31 from AIDS. His legacy includes not only his art but the Keith Haring Foundation; “to assist AIDS-related and children’s charities”. Below: a brief letter of advice he wrote to an aspiring artist and fan of Haring’s work, circa-1987. (Letters of Note)
Michael -
Thanks for your letter. I draw everyday. When I was 15, I wanted to be an artist so I drew all the time. It was my only visible talent.
Whatever you do, the only secret is to believe in it and satisfy yourself. Don’t do it for anyone else.
Good luck,
Keith
John Singer Sargent
Recycling Clothing Art by Guerra de la Paz
Thread and nail portraits by Pamela Campagna
‘Calamita Cosmica’ (Cosmic Magnet in English) is a 28 meter long sculpture of a human skeleton created by Italian artist Gino De Dominicis and is on display at the Museo Nazionale della Arti del XXI Secolo – MAXXI museum of contemporary art in Rome, Italy. Except for the strange long nose, is a perfect scaled model of the human skeleton.
Stunning Pour Paintings by Holton Rower [VIDEO]
Head on over to The Hole in New York right now (until May 26) and you’ll be able to experience an amazingly colorful exhibit by Holton Rower. The first New York solo exhibition for the artist, “Pour Paintings” is just that, they’re paintings created by carefully pouring paint over plywood. The result is incredible color combinations that are stunningly psychedelic. Make sure to watch the video at the end of this post to see how this type of beautiful art form takes shape.
[Via mymodernmet]
Photos via [The Hole] and [Scott Lynch]
I think this is really cool!
Baptiste DeBombourg - Turbo, 2008-2009
Dissected - Dali, Van Gogh and Picasso
by DDB Brazil for the Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP) Art School
Henrique Oliveira, the Brazilian emerging artist known for his spatial wooden pieces whose irregular forms devour large spaces which give you the sense that you are actually inhabiting someone’s body
”I believe that the message is never art itself, but instead, the lack of a message is a characteristic that makes some creations interesting to me…my works may propose a spatial experience, an aesthetic feeling, a language development and many more nominations to refer to the relation it establishes with the viewer. But, any attempt to find a message would fail.”. - Henrique Oliveira
Pol Ubeda - I’m not here
Shattered 1, 2 and 3
by Sarah Harvey
TYPOE | Fountain, 2011| Confetti Death Series
mireia ◊
