Is it Art or Art??

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Has someone seen the "SEPTEMBER ISSUE" in cinema? great great graet- and of course it is art to produce a photo fashion theme like THIS u can see above. Fashion photography is a great media to show the contemporary mood of the society; including the artsy scene.

happy stalker

Anywhere I go in melbourne- on nearly each corner a "Mr. Happy"- Stencil looks on me. It´s like a little yellow stalker- or- well... a creative little guardian angel. I´ve remembered on my childhood when I see Mr. Happy on the wall- because it´s a famous childbook- character...cute

Animationed Walls

How crazy and assiduously you must be, if you starting do animations on walls? What a obsessioned project- think it has taked decades to finish it. But thats beside- its so full of creative energy- and tells a true story behind the phantastic figures. I like street art going on new, evolutionary pathways!

Yes, Sir!

Wow, what great pictures between surrealism and postmodern graphic-art! With some stilistic elements from Magritte and Dalí. Sir Sidney Nolans pictures fascinating me- and I just saw them on replicqes. I´ll have to go to a place where I can view them in the original.

catch some street art

I found some look-a-million-dollar-like pictures in the streets of Melbourne- or with better words: I found some frames on the wall! Surprise surprise- I don´t have had to go the far way up to Brunswick- I found the street installations directly at the Melbourne Central, in a few dark alleyways near by the Collins Street. There are some old frames added on the wall of the backyards- with pictures inside or without. The pictures shows some popular work from traditional, famous artists like Vermeer or Rembrandt. It looks like if the street artist, who had made the installations on the wall want to bring the art directly on the street close to the public- and don´t want to cover them in big museums like elitist way. To escalate the status of interpretionism- I like the empty frames, just overlayed from some graffittis... awesome!

the surrealistic stuff

Its not surprising, that the "Lobster Telephone" inspires people... see example!



There is an artist from Australia; Sir Sidney Nolan. His work is very similar to the work from Dalí, and I want to learn more about the australian art-history. I will watch out for some facts and pictures about him- there must be a lot of his work in the melbournian museums, caus he was borne and raised in Melbourne. But first- today I wented to Brunswick- wow wow- there is a lot of delicate street art in the alleyways. Next time I´ll have to bring my camera with me to make some pictures from it!

The Dalí exhibition was so... unbelievable!

Of course, it has to been unbelievable- how you should believe that what your eyes seen when you join into a surrealistic exhibition? A few days ago I went to the Dalí "LIQUID DESIRE" at the National Gallery of Victoria / Melbourne.
It is impressive, to see the cronical development of the painters style in a big collection of his lifework. I found a special favourite in Dalís magnum opus- the LOBSTER TELEPHONE. It wasn´t a picture what I´ve seen there, it was a small sculpture from a lobster, added on a old fashioned (the sculpture was made in 1936 from the master of surrealism) black telephone. I´ve got so impressed from the deep bizzarre idea which includes the sculpture, from Dalís ironic way to communicate to the public. I asked myself, if I would answer, when the telephone starts ringing? - no, of course not. Because I was scared from big lobsters scissors and don´t want to place them near my ear. But otherwise- the ready cooked lobster looks appetizingly- and totaly poor and helpless, fixed on top of a telephone. What a catch-22



Dalí just remove the standard funktion of the telephone- not with deleting some parts of the machine, he added a lobster on it additionally- and change the telephone from a machine made for communication to a machine which sends just questions into the surrounding. Even though it looks like a easy, childish installation on first view, exactly this is the art behind the surrealistic, provocant art- looking so easymade that they provocate the viewer, because he can´t understand how a big issue could be so simple and kind of infantile.
I sketched the sculpture near the end of the exhibition odyssee and I am still impressed from such a small thing which is transport such a big impression and a big bunch of questions to visitors.

Dalí, amigo mio!

I plan to go to a great exhibition of Salvador Dalí. I look up to him cause he always surprises me again, when I see some of Dalís pictures. Eminently when I see the pictures live in front of me, when I can change the ankle of view and my own position to the picture. A few years ago I saw some of the most popular pictures from Dalí at the MOMA exhibition in Berlin- and was so impressed by him. He is the base of a new kind of excentric in the art. Hope I´ll found some space at the National Gallery of Victoria to made a few sketches from his exponates.



Sometimes its just inspires me, especially the way of thinking from Dalí. The way to find new solutions and answers of open questions. How he presented it to the society- just without beeing afraid what the public will think about him. But sometimes he scares me, because he goes the way of excentric and egocentric further and further- other people just would to burn up in the spotlight when they comes so close to the big star of self-manifestation.

When I see the Aubrey Beardsley stuff I´m drowning...

The artist Vania Zouravliov rememberes me at Aubrey Beardsley, one of my favourite artists of the art nouveau decade. I think, Vania founds a lot of inspiration in the work from Beardsley. Or, I think he goes the way further- Beardsley died very young, and he had just a few years, to develop his drawing style. Vania adapted a few parts of Beardsleys style and develop it further in his own way- a great way to work. With great results. In the pictures from Beardsley I found lots of inspirations for my own work- I like the way, how Beardsley shows his meaning of opulence. In clear, well composited black-white illustrations, which gives enough space to the message to work. How can I transport my message of a whole undercovered world in just one jacket? Goes on....

Please dont forget to breathe....

In the bookshop arround the corner from my guestuniversity I fuond a really impressive book, which shows the DEuvre of a russian illustrator and artist. His work is on the first view in a classic, black/white dominated style and from traditional technics made. But when the contemplator gets closer and notice, how darkminded, cruel and unsetteling the motives are- it feels like kind of a personally provocation- cause the work goes close to the viewer, because he thought it is a technically brillant and in the topic harmless work. If the contemplator stays close to the nice girls on the canvas- they convay a new, dark and dangerous message. If the viewer don´t get scared from the second, dark impression of the pictures- he will found a subtile, romantic message may in the background of the composition.
I like this way of "double-layered" -subtile and nonsubtile- provocation, which coveres a deeper message in the work.



But...Who is Vania Zouravliov??

Russian-born Vania Zouravliov was inspired from an early age by influences as diverse as The Bible, Dante’s Divine Comedy, early Disney animation and North American Indians. Something of a child prodigy in his homeland, he was championed by many influential classical musicians including Ashkenazi, Spivakov and Menuhin. He even had television programs made about him and was introduced to famous communist artists, godfathers of social realism, who told him that his work was from the Devil.

By the age of 13, Vania Zouravliov was exhibiting internationally, visited Canterbury several times as well as Paris, Colmar and Berlin. He subsequently studied in the UK, and during this time began creating illustrations for The Scotsman and comics for Fantagraphics and Dark Horse in the US. His most recent projects have been for Beck's The Information and National Geographic.

(Biography from http://www.bigactive.com/)