Olivier Umhauer - HOMMAGE à SEURAT

Olivier Umhauer - HOMMAGE à SEURAT
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Olivier Umhauer - HOMMAGE à SEURAT
Digital Art meets pointillism...

http://www.cultureinside.com/homeen/artists-espace/gallery.aspx/viewgallery/8621/89419/

Digital technique meets pointillism. Essentially, the digital tool is used by Oliver to demonstrates that the pointillism, intensively used by Seurat (i.e. La grande Jette), is still living. Here the pixelate technique is carefully used to give to the image this "pointillism" touch of Seurat.

The reference to Seurat in particular, outside "pointillism", is difficult to find. Olivier is definitively not an impressionist and its color palette far away from the pastels of Seurat.
Anyway, the most important is the demonstration that the Digital Tools are used to produce artworks of high quality level.

Too many peoples still believe that digital tools are just toys usd by amateur that pretends to be "artists".


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christine petrou - summer 2010

Christine Petrou - summer 2010
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Christine Petrou
Greece, Photography
Photography taken in Summer 2010

From the artist:

"I am basically self-taught in the sense that I have not studied art formally or professionally, only participated in various workshops throughout the years. At the same time I have spent many hours reading on the history of Art and looking at pictures of great masters, hoping that some of their spirit may shine on me. In this sense I am not completely an autodidact. Art is a form of self-knowledge, for individuals who feel the urge to practice it and for society as whole when reflecting upon its own culture and institutions. As such, the process is never-ending."

The ocean, the water, one of the primitive elements which fascinates everyone. In this photo, Christine Petrou captures the beauty, the movement and the dance of the water. It looks so simple, but...

Brian D. Morrison - Gold Billy

Brian D. Morrison - Gold Billy
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From the artist:

This is a series I call "capillary", because here I exploited the remarkable phenomenon of capillary attraction. This demonstrates the effects of using a soft brush and varying pressure to encourage Indian ink to disperse in sandwich with diverse kinds of Japanese papers"

Well explained ans so simple (?). Again, Brian demonstrates that mastering simple techniques can produce remarkable results.

Anne-Laure Fleur hamon - océan de sensualité

Anne-Laure Fleur hamon - océan de sensualité
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"Dreamlightguide: "l'Artiste du corps à l'Âme" Créations intuitives"
Que dire de plus. Une technique digitale simple mais bien maîtrisée, un sujet trop souvent encore tabou pour donner une image superbe.

emmanuel jahan - berlin in motion - the woman and art

emmanuel jahan - berlin in motion - the woman and art
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"Berlin in motion : a city seen otherwise"

A perfect precision and mastering of the camera. In terms of focal, we don't know which elements had the main focus.
A kind of double attraction?

Technology meets arts - Fractals

The term “Fractal” was coined by Benoit Mandelbrot (a French mathematician) in 1975 when he was working since 1952 at the IBM research center.

Mandelbrot is not the only mathematician having worked in specific fields of Chaos Theory, Dynamic System and Fractal Geometry.

For instance, Iterated functions in the complex plane were investigated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by Henri Poincaré, Felix Klein, Pierre Fatou and Gaston Julia.

However, without the aid of modern computer graphics, they lacked the means to visualize the beauty of many of the objects that they had discovered.

It is quite unusual that simple mathematic functions visualized using computer programs generates so incredible images as demonstrated in the following movie, knowing that the mathematical formula in itself is as simple as that:

x_n+1 = x_n² + c (where x is in the Complex Set)

Fractals and Arts

Fractal patterns have been found in the paintings of American artist Jackson Pollock. While Pollock's paintings appear to be composed of chaotic dripping and splattering, computer analysis has found fractal patterns in his work.see: Fractal expressionism

Fractals are also prevalent in African art and architecture. Circular houses appear in circles of circles, rectangular houses in rectangles of rectangles, and so on. Such scaling patterns can also be found in African textiles, sculpture, and even cornrow hairstyles TO LEARN MORE: RECOMMENDED VIDEO

To conclude as usual: Science meets technology meets art.

Voila.

Reference: wikipedia.org

juliette gribnau - mist at sea

juliette gribnau - mist at sea
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Juliette Gribnau is fascinated by fractals. A large collection of her work is around those recursive patterns that drive you into the infinitesimal.

My next post will dig into this fascinating subject: Fractals