TheLatvian

Few Afghan families have books in their homes, let alone children’s books.  

All of the students I have photographed have a hunger for reading, and they treasure the books they are given.

http://www.imagine-asia.net

Hermitage Museum

http://goo.gl/29RWzY

Palace Square, 2,

St Petersburg, Russia, 190000

September 30 - November 21, 2015

Museum für Gestaltung

Ausstellungsstrasse 60
8005

Zürich, Switzerland

www.museum-gestaltung.ch/en/

July 3 - October 18, 2015

CerModern

Art by Sicioldr. Nero Gallery presents group exhibition “Nymphosis” now on our blog:

Photographer Flora Borsi ( tumblr / facebook / behance ) - “In this series called ”IRÉEL” I mixed photographic elements with painting techniques. A hyperrealist painter aims to achieve a result which looks like a real photographic picture. A pictorialist photographer’s desired result is visually equivalent to a painting. The photographs are real, I’ve just applied some color/toning effects, adjusted the contrast and a few skin retouch.”

[ previously here ]

Classic/Modern Fantasy Worlds to Explore

Julie Heffernan is an American painter whose work has been described by the writer Rebecca Solnit as “a new kind of history painting.”

In a world often obsessed with minimalism, Julie Heffernan gives us the fantastic gift of intricate masterpieces – in the form of surreal paintings that harken back to the masters of old. Her work, which is often influenced by the heavily ornamented and ornate Baroque period, is a collection of fanciful environments filled with carefully arranged elements from roses and temples, to skyscrapers and power lines. These later, modern elements of society are easily overlooked on first glance – the classic form and execution of the paintings taking precedence. On closer inspection (a must with these explorable works), we are treated to the realization that these paintings are far more recent than it first seemed

These juxtapositions of different ages and genres are perhaps the reward for exploring her images closely, but from afar the works evoke just as much. Heffernan perfectly matches classic figurative compositions, creating balanced works which please the eye with measured arrangements, while simultaneously surprising us as they break out of those boundaries.