Some cool visual art images:
A series of landscapes Winter 2010-11
Image by Martin Beek
Pen and ink with charcoal and graphite , sketchbook pages from late December 2010-February 2011.
The winter landscapes commenced in late October 2010 , they are often based around Ipsden or Oxfordshire locations close to the path or roads; most were drawn in or near to my car on the way to work. They often depict bleak open places, influenced by Graham Sutherland’s etchings or Rembrandt’s small landscapes, all are bisected by the page divide. Landscapes have always been an important aspect of my work, 1980-96 these were often American landscapes , both real and Imaginary, culminating in the Heartlands series of 1997-2000. In recent years I’ve worked from places I know, places that often feature in my photographic stream here on Flickr, although the drawn landscapes are not dependent upon photography.
Pen and ink pages from my current sketchbook. I drew these with Faber Castell artist’s pens, mostly SX S and Fine, black and sepia on trav.e.logue hand book manufactured by Global art materials Kansas City.
Following my copies after Cezanne last year, I have gone on to work at drawings almost every day throughout 2010 and into 2011, they form a visual diary and also fit in well with themes and earlier drawings over the years. I have a selection of pages from my sketchbooks since 1980 on Flickr.
Pixelated by light
Image by -hndrk-
TodaysArt Festival 2007 The Hague
(TRIPTYCH of United Visual Artists)
Best seen large: View On White
Les brouillages / Scrambled – 16
Image by jlndrr
This series is part of an ongoing research on visual ways to dissolve pornographic imagery in abstraction and absurd.
For the Scrambled series, using video footage downloaded from Internet, I exploit the artifacts, errors, blurs inherent to heavy digital compression and incomplete files.
Dozens of snapshots are generated. Here, the creative process in itself rely on selecting the right images : identifiable as pornographic, but somehow deactivated.