Visual Art – Page 17

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Korin Faught

Taking cues from classical art (she is a self-confessed devotee of Vermeer), Korin Faught paints beautifully realistic portraits of women, in white dresses and Dutch caps, often in groups of enigmatic or symbolic meaning; a striking blend of the modern and the traditional, the surreal and the lifelike, a balance between a crisp and precise style and an expressive, imaginative quality.

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Fernando Vicente

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Una Burke’s META.MORPH

Úna Burke’s beautiful A/W 2011 collection of armor/medical-inspired sculptural fashion, META.MORPH, is complemented by stunning wet-plate collodion photography from Andreas Waldschütz and Stefan Sappert.

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Brooke Shaden

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Agostino Arrivabene

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Cephalopod Love: The Photography of Daikichi Amano

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Andrea Galluzzo

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The Art of Blackdante

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Margriet Smulders’ Exquisite, Paradisaical Flower Photography

These are just gorgeous. Violent and serene-looking at once, extremely vivid as well as unreal.

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Poor Little Dears: The Sinister and Mysterious Childhood Depictions of Hikari Shimoda

Hikari Shimoda’s creepy paintings of children are simultaneously sweet and uncanny. The eerie mouths, asymmetrical, strange little faces and one-eyed appearance (often one milky eye, one bruised and bloody-looking) of these alien but painfully familiar little beings, rendered in bright or pastel, almost child-friendly, but also quite subtly mixed and delicate, colors, all serve to give an unsettling sense of the corruption of innocence, an inversion of the saccharine bliss associated with little children.

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