Monochrome monday #7
Paul Laurent Hughes is an amateur photographer that works in predominately black and white. His pictures range from the close subject profile to abstract long-exposure pictures of roads, and buildings, creating perspective and vanishing points within his abstractions. His sense of composition and geometry is absolutely stunning, and his [...]
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Now normally I wouldn’t focus on something so abstract, in the “high art” realm, but Mats Bergquist‘s work is really something I may one day like to own for a living area, or workspace. It’s geometrical, simple, modern, and clean. I think the fact that it is so non-invasive but high-contrast, is one of the aspects [...]
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Artist Rowan Mersh is a textile-based sculptor from Europe who explores a range of different textures and patterning with his work. He utilizes fabric to wrap the forms in the compositions, and creating mystical and organic shapes juxtaposed with geometric patterns. His work unites the worlds of high fashion and sculpture, with a hint [...]
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Kazaki Takamatsu is an artist that works strictly in 2 tones. His work is characterized by the posterized effect that he paints with Gouache. It is as if he’s worked backwards and taken photography run through a photoshop filter, and painted it. His surreal paintings leave a lot to be interpreted, in both subject and form, however, [...]
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s promised monday is a day for predominately monochromatic designs. Last week I was referred to an artist I had never heard of, Oleg Dou. He’s a Russian born young gun photographer with an insanely sophisticated style. His photo illustrative art is high fashion meets science experiment. The vacant expressions, yet piercing stares [...]
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I’ve decided to begin a series of posts based on art, video, and design, each day of the week with different themes. Mondays will be all monochromatic all the time. I’ve got a special place in my heart for black and white design, as most good design works in both color and black and white. I, however, think my love of monochromatic [...]
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