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This year's series of sexy Disney princess pinups by artist J. Scott Campbell is back at it, this time with a full 2012 calendar of scantily clad cartoon ladies. Granted they're not all Disney princesses, but who cares? Gorgeous animated vixens from your nostalgic past is never a bad thing.
p.s. Campbell ROCKS - talented -funny -just good.
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http://www.juxtapoz.com/Gallery/jscottcampbell/jscottcampbell23-19110#joomimgThis year's series of sexy Disney princess pinups by artist J. Scott Campbell is... more
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Aside from its rain and coffee, Seattle, Washington is known for many things subversive, from Grunge music to the activist driven WTO riots. This region of America raised the likes of Jimi Hendrix and Bruce Lee. Today, there is a culture here that is only represented anonymously in the reclaimed public spaces of the city. Images dot the urban landscape in the typical street mediums that are used across the globe; spray paint, stickers, paste-ups, stencils, wheatpasting, posters, video projection, art intervention, guerrilla art, flash mobbing, installations, post-graffiti, mosaic tiling, murals, wood-blocking, LED art, reverse-graffiti and yard bombing.
You will see that these are not commercial enterprises or vandalism graffiti, but individual creative statements... something we can all relate to. Street art as a medium has been popularized internationally by the likes of Shepard Fairey, Banksy, D*Face, Paul Insect, Swoon, Twist, Neck face, Faile, Space Invader and WK Interact. It can take on many purposes and sometimes involves activism, phenomenology, repetition, attention capture, culture jamming, direct action, guerrilla messaging, propaganda, subvertising, decoration and territory claiming.
The following is a small window into this temporary world that's constantly being revised in a flux of new symbols. It's a snapshot of work on the Seattle streets over about a 3 year period, a visual capsule in time, not a comprehensive representation of Seattle street art and the people involved over the years. Some of the work only existed for a day before it was written over by other artists or removed by the city... a reminder that nothing is permanent, and control is an illusion in the chaos of a city. Enjoy.
http://seattlestreetart.com/Aside from its rain and coffee, Seattle, Washington is known for many things... more
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In most ways, Todd Schorr is living every artist's dream: His beastly cartoon paintings are plastered throughout the Internet, where they are studied, discussed and analyzed for meaning on hundreds of art blogs.
Hollywood celebrities like Leonardo DiCaprio and David Arquette collect his massive canvases. Tycoons, such as Mark Parker, the CEO of Nike, commission his work, while less well-to-do devotees settle for covering their bodies with tattooed replicas of his iconographic images.
So why haven't you heard of him?
Probably because up to now Schorr has never had a major museum exhibition. That's all about to change with the new retrospective of his work at the San Jose Museum of Art, through Sept. 16.
Schorr is a seminal figure in what's known as the lowbrow school of art, an underground movement centered in Los Angeles that draws on an iconography of cartoon characters and baby boomer images from TV and pop culture. Other artists in the movement, which is also known as pop surrealism, include Camille Rose Garcia, Gary Baseman and Mark Ryden.
Since 1994, they have been steadfastly promoted in the pages of Juxtapoz Arts & Culture Magazine, a pop surrealist San Francisco-based publication.
Since his San Jose show opened June 20, aficionados online have been breathless with anticipation about a July 16 party at the museum, at which Schorr himself will join a panel discussion of his work and sign copies of his new book, "Todd Schorr: American Surreal."In most ways, Todd Schorr is living every artist's dream: His beastly cartoon... more
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Cyndee San Luis at the ‘i am 8-bit‘ third annual art show tribute to retrogaming. Interviews with artists Greg Simkpins, Carlos Ramos, Plasticgod and Atari’s founder Nolan Bushnell!Cyndee San Luis at the ‘i am 8-bit‘ third annual art show tribute to... more
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