artchipel:

Yang Yongliang - Heavenly City Series | Untitled 5. Ink-jet print on Epson fine art paper, 76x128cm (2008)

Yang Yongliang is a Chinese photographer and painter from Shanghai. He originally studied traditional art at a young age and this training has greatly informed his current practice. The images above come from a series based on Shan shui paintings. These type of paintings stem from a history that goes back more than 1,500 years ago and the images often depict scenes of natural landscapes and beautiful scenery. It’s a tradition that demands a rigorous set of requirements in the hopes of creating the perfect combination of balance, composition, and form.

Yang Yongliang’s work takes these requirements and then turns them on their head – tranquil surroundings become chaotic landscapes as old trees become large skyscrapers and gentle mists become billowing smoke. The finished result creates powerful and contemporary images that speak of the modern world and the concerns of our time. More of his work can be seen online here (written by Philip Kennedy)

[found at darksilenceinsuburbia]

Rafiq by Michael Cina. Michael makes me insanely envious of his painting skills. Using simple color palettes, he creates remarkable abstract paintings, many of which  resemble explosions. Just added him to my people-to-meet-before-I-die list. It needs to happen.

Title: Abyss (1/4)
Size: 8x8
Medium: Acrylic paint
©2012 - Roque Alan Deleon

Paintings by Chrissy Angliker. These paintings remind me of what I see when I look through a car window during a night of heavy rain,

Check out more at http://www.booooooom.com/2012/03/09/artist-painter-chrissy-angliker-4/#more-35116!

Faces painstakingly scratched into the surfaces of walls in Shanghai, by Vhils.

Extracted from his website:
“Our youngest artist, the already prolific Portuguese-born Alexandre Farto’s range spans from collage to portraiture. Of late he’s taken to creating works purely from in situ materials, taking Vandalism as art to its logico ad absurdum conclusion. Advertising hoardings are torn to make fresh images, and plaster drilled away at until the remaining relief forms the work. He is, at the time of writing, experimenting with a cocktail of Quink ink and household bleach. But this is a long way from brutalism. Vhils art is poetic, complex, and ambitious, often focusing on the needs we have abandoned in favour of our wants, and the realisation that trading pleasure back in for happiness will be a less than straightforward exchange.”

Check out some of his murals on http://www.lazinc.com/artists/vhils/!

michaelswaney:

Hugh Scott-Douglas, untitled, 2012, dye-jet on canvas, 101.6 x 76.2 cm each

“Painting, is a painting, is a painting”
Nicolas Deshayes, Roman Liška, Oliver Osborne, Oliver Perkins, Dan Rees, Hugh Scott-Douglas
26th January - 26th February, 2012 
Cul De Sac, 65-69 County Street, London SE1
curated by Rod Barton Gallery

pulmonaire:

Deidre But-Husaim’s tattooed model paintings.

jennymorganart:

“Further”
Oil on canvas, 2010. 36” x 29”

We Will All Be Changed (by Michael Cina)

Another classic abstract painting by Michael Cina. There’s just something mysteriously beautiful about this piece- how it appears as if we, the viewers are looking down from an airplane tens of thousands of feet above ground, observing conflict between the waves and rocks.

Check out more of Cina’s works on his flickr stream at http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikecina/!

Hong Kong- based artist Simon Birch started off a new piece around half a year ago at our school, and it’s still left untouched. It’s tempting to just bring it home, but it isn’t exactly a portable size.

artchipel:

Hong Chun Zhang - Life Strands. Charcoal on paper (2009)

[found at alecshao]

Beautiful paintings by Cuban artist Alexi Torres.

“My works are an answer to my own appreciation of Earth’s needs. I reconstruct iconic images that represent both classic and modern times from all branches of human development, including the arts, politics, science, education and military. I create this by changing the context of the initial forms into ecological, fragile, ephemeral and natural elements; leaves, weaving, feathers and other elements formed in nature. With each element carefully constructed, I create an image.” -Alexi Torres