Thursday 30 April 2009

nice girl with Sparrow Tattoos

Sparrow Tattoos
Sparrow tattoos get confused with swallow tattoos all the time. You should know the difference and conduct good research before you decide to get one inked. A sparrow is a small brownish grey bird. Sparrow tattoos have nothing to do with sailors. I'll tell you how you can get both good sparrow and swallow tattoos.

Sparrow tattoos do symbolize freedom, similar to swallow tattoos. You might see several sparrow tattoos in jail or on people just released from jail. Although sparrow tattoos are not just on convicted criminals. There is religious symbolism to sparrow tattoos. In scripture we read that God would not forget even the smallest sparrow so how could he forget you.

The sparrow tattoo became very famous with the popularity of the Johnny Depp's Pirates of the Caribbean series. Johnny's character Jack Sparrow had a sparrow tattoo on his arm. Many people have copied this tattoo. Johnny Depp actually had a real tattoo inked of a sparrow with Jack underneath it for his son, Jack. On his real tattoo, the bird is flipped around and looking inside, toward the body.

To get unique sparrow tattoos you should check out the bird in nature. If you don't know much about birds and don't know if you have any sparrows around, that's okay. Look online for pictures of sparrows. If it's blue, you got the wrong one. Once you see a sparrow and what its habitat is you can think of some things that will make your tattoo unique.

You can always add other animals into sparrow tattoos to change them up a bit. You can also have the sparrow doing something like flying and picking up something or landing on something that is personal to you. Remember your tattoo needs to be personal to you. A good online tattoo gallery will give you lots of information about tattooing and give you plenty of ideas on how your sparrow tattoo can look. A good thing about online galleries is that some charge a membership and then you get unlimited tattoo design downloads. Other sites make you pay as you see a design.


popular Moon Star Fairy Tattoos


Moon Star Fairy Tattoos
Moon star fairy tattoos are a wonderfully unique combination. This is a great example of how you can combine more than one image to get a great tattoo design. If you use your imagination you can come up with an almost infinite number of ways to combine these designs. I'll give you some ideas and tell you where you can go to get more ideas and great professional designs to use.

Fairies represent youthfulness and playfulness. Some are cute and fun, others are mischievous. If you feel that your personality is like a fairy, this is a good design for you. Many women get moon star fairy tattoos because there is a lot of symbolism in them. A tattoo is personal; it is your statement to the world. By having moon star fairy tattoos you are expressing a side of yourself that many people may not get to see often.

As I said there are many ways you can combine these images to have a fun, unique design. You can have your fairy sleeping on a crescent moon with stars twinkling up above. Usually fairies are portrayed as only coming out at night so you can have your fairy playing among the stars and swinging on the moon. These are just a few ideas for moon star fairy tattoos, I'm sure if you used your imagination, you could come up with many more.

If you go to a good online tattoo gallery, you have a chance to let your imagination run wild. The good galleries have thousands of tattoo designs to browse through. If you have an idea of where you want to get your tattoo inked, you can do a search on that body part and see images of moon star fairy tattoos on real people. A membership online tattoo gallery allows you to download as many tattoo designs as you want. You can print out some that you like and pick parts to put together to make your perfect design.


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Belief on My TattoosTattoos are very popular that why everybody needs it on its body, it gives discompose in tattooing process but tattoo lovers take discompose for tattooing, it’s a craze of tattoos wager how much peoples love tattoos.
Belief on My TattoosMainly tattoos increases the beauty of our body by its beautiful designs any you are looking different from others, it is the important reason that people loves tattoos as much comparability to others.

Nude tattoos are rattling popular now days; a mortal make tattoos on their sexual areas and feels rattling sexy internally, the craze to make tattoos on sexual parts of body is now in the top position of tattooing. If you feel richness and sexual according to these tattoos than its ok, it’s your body and make tattoos where you want.
Belief on My TattoosWhat are tattoos I conceive tattoos are the symbolisation of latest fashion and have been going at the top of fashion from past years. Every tattoo says something the design tells everything about itself and what it says depends on you and on your opinion what you conceive about this body art.
Belief on My Tattoos

Body Painting insurance Tattoos

Body Painting Gallery Tattoos for WomenBody Painting Tattoos

A tattoo is more an accessory to women than men and women's clothing designs have extreme variables that could be well accessorized by a it or detracted from. It is this reason a woman should carefully give thought to the placement of it.An example of such a placement is the sporting of a large shoulder tattoo.

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It would look great with a halter or tube top but when you place a bare shoulder sporting the same tattoo with your body in an elaborate evening gown the entire image changes. Tattoo placement, size, ink color and design should be well thought out in both positive and negatives of your current lifestyle and that of your future lifestyle.

Body Painting Gallery Tattoos for Women

Popular tattoo designs for women are: stars, moon crescents, moon and stars combined, nautical stars, shooting stars, zodiac signs, floral designs, hearts, Script designs, symbols, script in foreign language, lips, Celtic knot, ribbon, rainbows', crosses, a tear drop for a passed love one, harps, birds (particularly Swallows and humming birds) and tribal art from a palate of color. Refrain from name scripts unless they are a parent or child as anyone else's name is subject to change. Popular tattoo designs can be used alone or in combination which means there is no cap on the possibilities.

Chest signature Tattoo Designs

Chest Tattoo Designs PictureThis dresser tattoo brings a dark image together with light colours and flowers. The colours use in this dresser tattoos design are blue, green, pink, orange, white, tan, gold, purple, and black tattoo subject and all the colours are mix actual well. The skulls in this dresser tattoos are Grey with sign of albescent about the edges and the teeth. One tooth on each skull is gold. The eye sockets on every skull begin off a very light pink tattoo designs on the limits and fade to a black near to the outer edge of the sockets.

Chest Tattoo Designs PictureThe same goes for the nose of each cranial and pink nearby the back, black nearby the outmost rim. Green vines line through the nose and eye sockets of each skull. Dissimilar colored flowers, variety from pink to green, and blue to orange, acquire on the vines growing from out of the skulls.

Chest Tattoo Designs PictureThis chest tattoo is distinct and novel because it mixes a morbid image like a skull and the gorgeous colors of flowers all in digit tattoo. This is digit chest tattoo that anybody could be paying attention in, because it mixes so some dissimilar styles of art into digit example of artwork.

Chest Tattoo Designs PictureThis is a great characterisation of what a usual mortal crapper do with a dresser tattoo. Chest tattoos crapper be concealed or revealed at shall, so you crapper put meet about some design there. The body art and best of dresser tattoos crapper climb some cute large designs with a ordered of assorted elements in them. The dresser tattoos in the represent is a lot referred to as a dresser piece, because it wrap from accept to shoulder like an armors dresser piece.

Friday 24 April 2009

Interesting design: Pagos de la Sonsierra, DavidDelfin2006

I really like David Delfin, fashion designer and designer in a general way, contemporary dancer.
Here is the new design he came up with for Caldo Riojano. I find it very "Damien Hirst".

Una imagen atrevida y nunca antes vista para un vino es la enseña de este nuevo caldo riojano en el que el diseñador de moda Davidelfin ha volcado toda su creatividad. La imagen de Pagos de la Sonsierra está unida a los valores saludables y terapéuticos del vino que el diseñador ha plasmado de manera original para presentar este nuevo producto enmarcado en la iniciativa- La Rioja Estilo. Los aficionados al mundo del vino podrán disfrutar de esta Edición Limitada de 7.947 botellas para el año 2009 y que podrán encontrar en tiendas especializadas, alta restauración y vinotecas de toda España. El packaging que ha diseñado Davidelfin para presentar este vino es fruto de los valores saludables y terapéuticos que el diseñador atribuye a un vino de alta expresión como Pagos de la Sonsierra-Davidelfin 2006.

De esta manera, Pagos de la Sonsierra viene envasado en una botella como si fuera la de un jarabe curativo, la caja en la que se presenta como la de una medicina, y el prospecto de las instrucciones de uso una ficha técnica de cata y algunos consejos del diseñador para disfrutar al máximo del caldo. La imagen de Pagos de la Sonsierra-Davidelfin 2006, nunca antes pensada para un vino de tanta calidad, evoca los efectos beneficiosos del vino y la preocupación por un estilo y hábitos de vida saludables vinculados a la cultura del vino.

From actitudesonblog.com



To learn more: http://www.daviddelfin.com y www.espacioactitudes.com

David Hockney at the Kunsthalle Würth


David Hockney. Just Nature
Kunsthalle Würth, Schwäbisch HallApr. 27, 2009 – Sep. 27, 2009

The British artist David Hockney (b. 1937), celebrated for decades as the “painter laureate of Southern California,” is doubtless one of the most interesting and important painters in contemporary art. Yet anyone who believes they are entirely familiar with Hockney’s art will be forced to reconsider in light of his recent work. Contrary to his earlier assertions, he has returned to his native Yorkshire and rediscovered the beauty of his home county’s landscapes, which held little inspiration for him as a young artist. Since then, he has been creating precisely observed, magically glowing natural scenes in which his new enthusiasm combines with his many experiences gained over a lifetime of experimental painting. Hockney’s broad interests and his knowledge of artistic techniques lend these works a special character – seemingly naturalistic, they nonetheless continually question the potential of painting. It is perhaps this masterful mixture of apparent simplicity and great conceptuality that makes Hockney’s art so popular, and at the same time manifests the aesthetic demands he places upon himself.


Hockney’s somewhat unreal-looking version of “realism” arises from the combination of emotion and perspective in his painting. In order to capture a motif as a whole, he not only relies on continual shifts from close-up to distant viewpoints but on a gradual development of the picture, which often consists of several equal-sized canvases. In this way, he creates extended formats that enable the viewer to virtually roam through the picture. The eye is drawn so close to the visual scenes that we have the feeling of actually standing inside the unframed views. In addition, there are entire series of works in which the artist observes selected landscape motifs at different times of day or different seasons and depicts his impressions with great precision. The colours, that change with the intensity of the sunlight, are translated into colourful, energetic images that reflect the immediacy of natural light. Yet here, too, it is not a faithful recording of actual appearances that is foremost but the subjectivity of human vision, an artistic transformation that always contains something unspoken and wonderful.

Over 70 large-format paintings, drawings and inkjet printed computer drawings of landscapes, selected by David Hockney especially for the Kunsthalle Würth, are on view here for the first time in such a comprehensive exhibition.

The exhibition is accompanied by a 232 page fully illustrated hardback catalogue with essays by Christoph Becker, Richard Cork, and Marco Livingstone, published by Swiridoff Verlag.

Wednesday 22 April 2009

Haunch of Venison in London

I just wanted to come back in time and flag up the opening of the beautiful space of gallery Haunch of Venison at 6 Burlington Gardens, in London.


Haunch of Venison launched its new London exhibition programme with a group exhibition acknowledging the building’s previous role as the Museum of Mankind.

Turning the 21,500ft² gallery into a giant cabinet of curiosities, Mythologies, which is the first exhibition, features work by over 40 international artists, including major figures such as Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Sophie Calle, Christian Boltanski, Tony Cragg, Kiki Smith, Cai Guo Qiang, Bill Viola, Keith Tyson and Damien Hirst, alongside emerging talents such as Carlos Amorales, Jamie Shovlin and Nicholas Hlobo.

© Polly Morgan 2. Photo. Peter Mallet, courtesy Haunch of Venison

Evoking the uncanny and extraordinary, as seen in historic anthropological and archaeological collections such as the Pitt Rivers, Hunterian, Petrie, Horniman and Sir John Soane’s Museums,
Mythologies traces a labyrinthine journey of discovery whilst invoking a sense of wonder and mystery in one of the most ambitious group exhibitions ever mounted in London by a private gallery.

Bill ViolaSmall Saints, 2008Colour High-Definition video polyptych on six OLED flat panels mounted on shelf15 Inch Screen(HV22671)

Between 1970 and 1998, 6 Burlington Gardens housed the British museum’s ethnographic collections and staged exhibitions on subjects ranging from the Mexican Day of the Dead to Japanese Kites. With exhibiting artists from Europe, North and South America, Asia, India, Africa and the Middle East, Mythologies reflects upon the original ambition of the Museum of Mankind to explain the world and its myriad cultures.

The Haunch of Venison London exhibition programme at Burlington Gardens will focus on both newly commissioned and historically important work from gallery artists, alongside shows from younger, emerging artists largely unseen in London. The exhibitions will be part of the gallery’s broader international programme in London, Zürich, Berlin and New York. Further details on the exhibition programmes are to be announced later in the year.


The launch party was well attended by a crowd made of Ron Arad, Tim Noble and Sue Webster, Matthew Williamson, Jude Law and I really enjoyed it etc... Bill Viola's artworks were amazing but that's only my opinion...

Tuesday 21 April 2009

Rencontres Internationales in Madrid

© William Wegman: Around the Park

MADRID—Established in 1997, the Paris-based organization Recontres Internationales holds annual festivals in Paris, Berlin, and (since 2003) Madrid to introduce to the public works that merge contemporary art with cinema. A lively series of cutting-edge films, art exhibits, exploratory workshops, and stimulating discussions, the festival emphasizes the links between all audiovisual practices. Its goal: to draw a wide audience, inspire new types of artistic creation, and spark interaction between artists and their audiences. Fresh from its success in Paris in November, the 2008–09 edition hits Madrid April 16–25, before traveling to Berlin from June 30 through July 5. The program is more or less the same in each of the three cities.

With support from the respective governments and national cultural institutions, the festival plans events in major venues in each of the cities, for instance, in Paris at the Centre Pompidou and Jeu de Paume, in Berlin at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, and upcoming in Madrid at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, the auditorium of the Ministry of Culture, the Spanish Cinematheque, and the Tabacalera — Future National Centre for Visual Art. Featured artists and filmmakers participate in the workshops and debates, giving those who attend an inside look into their creative processes and an opportunity to personally engage with them. This year, promoters promise that at least 150 established artists and filmmakers will be in Madrid.

Under the directorship of French curators Nathalie Hénon and Jean-François Rettig, whose backgrounds span art, music, and philosophy, the festival has attracted such esteemed filmmakers as Alexandre Sokurov, Jean-Luc Godard, and Pedro Costa, but it also plays a pioneering role. This year in Madrid, 200 works from 65 countries — selected from 6,500 submissions — will be exhibited; the only criterion for inclusion is excellence. The works have been arranged in the various venues by themes such as "War and Family" and "Society" to encourage discussion of topical subjects. Visitors are invited to multimedia concerts and a video library as well.

From artinfo.com

To learn more: www.art-action.org

Quote of the day

"Bad artists copy. Good artists steal. "
Pablo Picasso

Marc Jacobs in Le Printemps Haussman in Paris


From the 6 May to 20 June, Marc Jacobs will invest Le Printemps Haussman in Paris with new windows setting and various events. Miss Marc biscuits will be available in the Accesories boutique, a new bottle for Daisy will be sold at Le Printemps Beauté, giant statues of fluo rabbits in the windows... the New York designer will transform the Parisian temple of shopping in a flashy and cartoonesque environment. Until the 16 May a temporary workshop will be organised in Printemps Luxe where the creative team of Marc Jacobs will unveil a new accessory:
"a personnalised leather-charm" made by contemporary artist Sharon Marshall.

Tuesday 7 April 2009

Warhol in Paris: Exclusive interview with Judith Benhamou-Huet


Andy Warhol is still alive, and fully present in Paris with two major exhibitions: Warhol TV until May 3th 2009 at Maison Rouge and "Le Grand Monde d'Andy Warhol"until 17 July 2009 at Le Grand Palais.


While Warhol TV explores the relationship between the artist and Television, "Le Grand Monde d'Ady Warhol" reveals 250 portraits of celebrities, and anonymous clients. “The faces are ugly and a shade stoned, if not actually repulsive and grotesque,” wrote The New York Times in 1979 about the Whitney Museum's first exhibition of portraits by the master. Warhol responded only that the canvases were the same size “so they’ll all fit together and make one big painting called Portraits of Society. This is a brilliant answer to face easy criticism. 30 years later this exhibition celebrates Warhol as a portraitist which shows that he was not grotesque.

Judith Benhamou-Huet, French freelance journalist and curator of Warhol TV agreed to answer Art is Alive questions :


How is this exhibition born ? Can you explain us what the leitmotiv of this exhibition was ?
I've been interested in Warhol for a long time. It's the only area of the artist that hasn't really been explored and that's what I was interested in. The leitmotiv behind the exhibition is the fact that this side of the artist wasn't really known before.

There is a second big exhibition of Warhol at Le Grand Palais ? Is it on purpose or is it a coincidence ?
Not at all. It's the Pittsburgh's Warhol Museum who asked us to organize joint exhibitions.

This exhibition follows an exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in London, which took place last year; is it the same exhibition ?
This is a totally different exhibition.

To finish with, what do you wish to this blog ?
Art is Alive will help to get more and more people interested in art. It's a good sign for the world. I just created my own blog too : http://blogs.lesechos.fr/, check it out !

Thanks Judith for your time.

To learn more: http://www.lamaisonrouge.org/ and http://www.grandpalais.fr/

Thursday 2 April 2009

Jean-Charles de Castelbajac in London


Jean-Charles de Castelbajac
Triumph of the Sign

3rd Apr - 2nd May 2009

Paradise Row presents the first solo show of Jean Charles de Castelbajac. Throughout his ground breaking career as a fashion designer, Castelbajac has employed a strategy of 'cultural hijacking'- the appropriation, recycling and synthesis of images, signs, symbols and styles from both popular culture and high art to create still newer designs and visions. In keeping with his openness to the ever-shifting world of contemporary visual culture, Castelbajac has collaborated with artists including Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol, Bettina Rheims and Loulou Picasso.

In Triumph of the Sign, Castelbajac presents a series of paintings that articulate his fascination with, broadly, the tensions and synergies between high art and consumer culture, and most specifically that defining element of contemporary visual culture - the brand logo. In a process that mirrors the production of mass-consumer goods, Castelbajac commissioned painters in China to perfectly reproduce a series of Western masterpieces, from Bronzino to Manet, and another group to paint logos on the surfaces of the copied masterpieces. The resulting works ironically embrace a flattening of hierarchies, a breakdown of distinctions and an evacuation of content.

The works, therefore, are themselves perfect signs of the present moment.
PARADISE ROW
17 Hereford St, (off Cheshire St)
London, E2 6EX